Horror Books for Teens

Updated November 19, 2024
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The getaway
Giles, Lamar
Paper Book
"Timely, thrilling, and gripping from start to finish. An absolute page-turner." --Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family,...
Shutter
Alameda, Courtney
Paper Book
Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat -- a girl who sees the auras of the undead in a prismatic spectrum. As one of the last descendants of the Van Helsing lineage, she has trained since childhood to destroy monsters both corporeal and spiritual: the corporeal undead go down by the bullet, the...
The Special Ones
Bailey, Em
Paper Book
Esther is one of the Special Ones: four young spiritual guides who live in a remote farmhouse under the protection of a mysterious cult leader. He watches them around the clock, ready to punish them if they forget who they are--and all the while, broadcasting their lives to eager followers on...
Anna dressed in blood
Blake, Kendare.
Paper Book
From Kendare Blake, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Dark Crowns, a beautiful and haunting ghost story Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by...
The ghost prison
Delaney, Joseph
Ebook
Now in paperback, a first-rate horror story by the bestselling author of the Last Apprentice series Fifteen-year-old Billy guards a castle prison. But it isn't just criminals he's guarding--the ghosts of executed prisoners haunt the place. When Billy is given the task of feeding the...
Dread nation
Ireland, Justina
Paper Book
New York Times bestseller * Six starred reviews At once provocative, terrifying, and darkly subversive, Dread Nation is Justina Ireland's stunning vision of an America both foreign and familiar--a country on the brink, at the explosive crossroads where race, humanity, and survival meet.<...
Hellworld
Leveen, Tom
Paper Book
In an effort to put her family back together, a teen struggles to discover what happened to her mother who disappeared during a ghost hunt in this haunting novel from the author of Party, Sick, and Shackled. Five years ago, Abby Booth's mom, cohost of a ghost...
The last harvest
Liggett, Kim
Paper Book
Kim Liggett draws on her childhood during the Satanic Panic for a chilling tale of magic inThe Last Harvest,winner of the 2017 Bram Stoker Award. "I plead the blood." Those were the last words seventeen-year-old golden boy quarterback Clay Tate heard...
Camp So-and-So
McCoy, Mary
Paper Book
The letters went out in mid-February. Each letter invited its recipient to spend a week at Camp So-and-So, a lakeside retreat for girls nestled high in the Starveling Mountains. Each letter came with a glossy brochure with photographs of young women climbing rocks, performing Shakespearean...
Ten
McNeil, Gretchen
Paper Book
A smart and terrifying teen horror novel inspired by Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, from Get Even author Gretchen McNeil--now a Lifetime Original Movie! Ten teens. Three days. One killer. It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives--an exclusive house party on...
There's someone inside your house : a novel
Perkins, Stephanie
Paper Book
Now a Netflix Feature Film! "A heart-pounding page-turner with an outstanding cast of characters, a deliciously creepy setting, and an absolutely merciless body count." -Courtney Summers, New York Times bestselling author of Sadie and The Project A...
Dream fall
Plum, Amy
Paper Book
"Remarkable, riveting, disorienting and dark." --Madeleine Roux, New York Times bestselling author of the Asylum series A Nightmare on Elm Street meets Inception in this gripping psychological thriller from international bestselling author Amy Plum. Seven teenagers who...
House of furies
Roux, Madeleine
Paper Book
After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle House, Louisa begins to realize that the house's mysterious owner, Mr. Morningside, is...
Campfire
Sarles, Shawn
Paper Book
Fans of Scream and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children will devour this "wholly chilling and unputdownable" horror debut (Kerri Maniscalco, New York Times bestselling author). Be careful what stories you tell around the campfire . . . they...
The merciless
Vega, Danielle
Paper Book
"Page-to-page Stephen King-style terror..."-Booklist "The Mercilessis chilling...think 'Mean Girls' meets 'The Exorcist.'"-MTV.com "Pretty Little Liars fans, get a sneak peek at your new favorite bookThe Merciless....
Diary of a haunting
Verano, M.
Paper Book
In the tradition of Paranormal Activity and The Blair Witch Project, an American teen recounts the strange events that occur after she moves into a new--and very haunted--home with her family in this chilling diary that features photos and images of what she experienced. ...

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