HORROR Fiction for Teens

Pet Shop of Horrors
Akino, Matsuri (YA GRAPHIC AKINO)
Everyone flocks to Count D’s pet shop, where love & dreams are sold in the form of mystical creatures—but there’s a catch!

Thirsty
Anderson, M.T. (YA ANDERSON)
From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

In the Forests of the Night
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia (YA ATWATER)
“I was transformed into what I am against my will.”

The Thief of Always
Barker, Clive (YA BARKER)
Harvey is sooo bored. But, he soon learns that the fun promised by a mysterious stranger has a high price.

Beast
Benchley, Peter (FIC BENCHLEY)
When boats disappear and empty life rafts wash up on shore, people soon realize that something is out there.

Bloodline
Cary, Kate (YA CARY)
John learns that his ferocious regiment commander is descended from Dracula...and has his sights set on the lovely Lily.

Fog (Losing Christina #1)
Cooney, Caroline (YA COONEY)
Something evil is happening at the Shevington’s house & Christina knows who’s behind it. Now they’re coming after her.

It Begins (The Unseen #1)
Cusick, Richie T. (YA CUSICK)
An encounter with...something...in an open grave leaves Lucy with terrifying visions & dreams. Why is this happening?

Mulengro
De Lint, Charles (FIC DE LINT)
Romany are being murdered one by one. The cops think the killer is human. The Romany know it is something much worse.

The Living Blood
Due, Tananarive (FIC DUE)
The fate of a young child with a unique, powerful gift will determine the future of the world.

Down a Dark Hall
Duncan, Lois (YA DUNCAN)
Kit knows that evil awaits her at Blackwood School for Girls. But who will believe her if he fears are real only when she sleeps?

Coraline
Gaiman, Neil (YA GAIMAN)
Coraline finds a mysterious door that leads to a world sort of like her own, but with sinister differences.

Neverwhere
Gaiman, Neil (YA GAIMAN)
One moment Richard stops to help a girl bleeding on the sidewalk. The next, he has been erased from this world & thrown into one of monsters & saints, murderers & angels.

Horseman (Hollow #1)
Golden, Christopher (YA GOLDEN)
Shane and Aimee arrive in Sleepy Hollow, the town infamous for its legendary headless horseman. When a curse is unleashed upon the town, they find the legend is more than myth.

Gothic!: 10 Original Dark Tales
Noyes, Deborah, ed. (YA GOTHIC)
You’ll find ghosts & vampires, ghouls & sorcerers, & horrific family secrets, in these terror-ific tales.

Hawkes Harbor
Hinton, S.E. (YA HINTON)
Jamie stumbles across a coffin he thinks might contain treasure. Don’t open it, Jamie! Oops, too late.

Raven’s Gate (Gatekeepers #1)
Horowitz, Anthony (YA HOROWITZ)
Why does everyone in this strange town who tries to help Matt end up missing...or dead? Matt’s the only one who can find out.

Sorcerers of the Nightwing
Huntington, Geoffrey (YA HUNTINGTON)
Devon discovers demons really exist. Yikes! Then he finds out he’s a sorcerer. Cool! Then he finds out there’s pretty much nothing between the Hellhole & the world...except him.

Carrie
King, Stephen (FIC KING)
And you thought YOUR prom was a nightmare!

The Long Walk
King, Stephen (YA KING)
The rules of the “race” are simple: walk—or die! And only one guy will make it to the finish line.

Blood and Chocolate
Klause, Annette Curtis (YA KLAUSE)
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf struggles with where she belongs and with whom.

Prodigal Son (Frankenstein #1)
Koontz, Dean (FIC KOONTZ)
A modern-day monster joins forces w/ 2 cops to track down a gruesome serial killer with shocking origins.

Watchers
Koontz, Dean (FIC KOONTZ)
Two altered life forms break free from a lab. One, a super-intelligent dog. The other….everyone’s worst nightmare.

Rosemary’s Baby
Levin, Ira (FIC LEVIN)
What if one day you discovered you were pregnant...and that your husband had apparently sold your soul to Satan?

The Descent
Long, Jeff (FIC KOONTZ)
One day the world discovers that the demons & devils of myth & religion really exist in the bowels of Earth. And they want out!

Killing Britney
Olin, Sean (YA OLIN)
Ever since Britney became the most popular girl at school, her life has been touched by tragedy. When the deaths continue to pile up, everyone fears for Britney. Sure she's popular, blond, and fabulous. But is that enough reason for someone to want to...kill her?

18 Best Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Poe, Edgar (YA POE)
18 terrifying tales by the classic master of horror.

Relic
Preston, Douglas (YA PRESTON)
When people go to New York's Museum of Natural History, they don’t really expect to get eaten!.

The Repentant
Thomsen, Brian, ed. (YA REPENTANT)
Werewolves, witches, vampires & demons abound in these 13 horror tales.

Queen of the Damned
Rice, Anne (FIC RICE)
The mother of all vampires wakes after a 6000 year sleep, ready to enact her plan to slaughter vampires & kill mortal men.

The Devil’s Footsteps
Richardson, E.E. (YA RICHARDSON)
Something is out there. And it all has something to do with a skipping rhyme & the Dark Man who haunts your worst nightmares--when you're awake.

Black Creek Crossing
Saul, John (FIC SAUL)
Angel’s family hopes to give her a fresh start by moving into a haunted house. Great idea!

A Living Nightmare (Cirque du Freak #1)
Shan, Darren (YA SHAN)
A visit to a freak show leads to a horrifying descent into the dark & bloody world of creatures best left undiscovered.

The Lord Loss (Demonata #1)
Shan, Darren (YA SHAN)
What happens when you try telling people that demons murdered your entire family? You still have to battle the demons...and outwit the people who now think you’re delusional.

Crawlers
Shirley, John (YA SHIRLEY)
The thing that drops from the sky one night seems harmless...until people & animals start sprouting machine parts & acting very strangely.

Dread Locks
Shusterman, Neal (YA SHUSTERMAN)
When Parker befriends Tara, he definitely doesn't like the strange quirks all her new "friends" develop. When he discovers what she’s is up to, he realizes it may be too late...for all of them.

Full Tilt
Shusterman, Neal (YA SHUSTERMAN)
Blake and his brother are thrust into the world of a bizarre phantom carnival--and their souls are the price of admission.

The Boy Who Couldn’t Die
Sleator, William (YA SLEATOR)
Ken makes a bargain so that he can’t die. But the price may be too much to pay.

Moonlight Secrets
Stine, R.L. (YA STINE)
“The horror started because of a kiss.”

Lost Boy, Lost Girl
Straub, Peter (FIC STRAUB)
Mark has disappeared. Was it a serial killer who has been preying on teenage boys, or a ghostly lost girl who lured him?

The Grounding of Group 6
Thompson, Julian F. (YA THOMPSON)
Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive school, five teens are unaware that they’ve been selected for extermination.

Peeps
Westerfeld, Scott (YA WESTERFELD)
Cal’s plans for college were partying & girls. But one fateful encounter means he spends his time hunting down vampires—before they can create even more of their kind.

The Keep
Wilson, F. Paul (YA WILSON)
The battle has begun: on one side, the ultimate man-created evil. On the other, the unthinkable, unstoppable terror that man has awakened.

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Wooding, Chris (YA WOODING)
A demon hunter discovers a possessed young woman who draws evil like a magnet, putting all of humanity in danger.

Reef of Death
Zindel, Paul (YA ZINDEL)
P.C.’s summer: A beautiful girl. A secret treasure. A horrifying monster.

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