Horror and Ghosts (YA)

Boo! Everyone loves a good horror read. Here's a selection of some of our favourite horror and ghost stories for teens, including some classics!

Updated June 19, 2024
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Horror and Ghosts (YA)

Boo! Everyone loves a good horror read. Here's a selection of some of our favourite horror and ghost stories for teens, including some classics!

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The ghost bride
Choo, Yangsze
Paper Book
Now a Netflix Mandarin original drama premiering January 2020  From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Tiger, a Reese's Book Club pick, Yangsze Choo's stunning debut, The Ghost Bride, is a startlingly original novel infused with...
Took : a ghost story
Hahn, Mary Downing
Paper Book
"Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty years--then lets her go and takes another one."   Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones,...
Even if we break
Nijkamp, Marieke
Paper Book
A shocking thriller about a group of friends who go to a cabin to play a murder mystery game...only to have the game turned against them, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where It Ends. FIVE friends go to a cabin. FOUR of them are hiding secrets. THREE...
House of Hollow
Sutherland, Krystal
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller! A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night. Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they...
Camp Damascus
Tingle, Chuck
Audiobook
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