Horror YA

Updated November 25, 2024
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Bad graces
McCauley, Kyrie
Paper Book
Yellowjackets meets House of Hollow in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley's gripping and magical YA thriller following a group of young women as they face the stress of harsh elements, a mysterious monster, and an unraveling of secrets after their yacht is wrecked off the coast of North America....
Our wicked histories
Goldsmith, Amy
Paper Book
A teen girl's attempt to make amends with her former friend group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown. There's something in the lake at Wren Hall. At...
Trespass against us
Kemp, Leon
Paper Book
Perfect for fans of Ace of Spades and The Taking of Jake Livingston, this young adult horror debut follows a group of teens as they visit an abandoned reform school--and then return two years later to confront the supernatural evil they awoke there.  ...
So witches we became
Baguchinsky, Jill
Paper Book
★ "Skillfully crafted and sharply descriptive with horrifying imagery to spare... Powerfully angry and vengeance-laden, with terrifying and very human monsters." -School Library Journal, starred review A queer, feminist spin on Stephen King's...
Now, conjurers
Kölsch, Freddie
Paper Book
Following the murder of their leader and friend, a tight-knit coven of queer teens takes on a wish-granting demon lurking in their town, weaving together murder mystery with the occult in this YA horror novel perfect for fans of V. E. Schwab and Leigh Bardugo books. ...
The blonde dies first
Wellington, Joelle
Paper Book
A group of friends fight to choose their own fates when faced with a demonic force that acts according to horror movie rules in this trope-savvy, "script-flipping hair-raiser" (Publishers Weekly) from the acclaimed author of Their Vicious Games. Devon is always...
The dark we know
Lee, Wen-Yi
Paper Book
A School Library Journal Best Young Adult Book of 2024 From Gillian Flynn Books, a lyrical young adult horror by debut author Wen-yi Lee that's perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting, Stephen King's IT, and The Haunting of Hill House. ...
The House Where Death Lives
Brown, Alex/ Suma, Nova Ren/ Chen, Gina/ Chee, Traci/ Miller, Linsey
Paper Book
A dance to the death. A girl who's just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that's constantly changing--and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place--within the frame of a particular house that isn't bound by the laws of time and space. Following in the footsteps of dark/horror-filled...
Six of sorrow
Linsmeier, Amanda
Paper Book
Sixteen years ago, six girls were born on the same day-and now, on their birthday, one of them is missing. From the author of Starlings comes a story about small-towns, friendships, and the terrifying things your parents don't tell you, that's perfect for fans of Yellowjackets....
The white guy dies first : 13 scary stories of fear and power
Benton-Walker, Terry J.
Paper Book
13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED... THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies First includes thirteen scary stories by all-star contributors and this time, the white guy dies first. Killer clowns, a hungry hedge maze, and...
The darkness rises
Stokes, Stacy
Paper Book
A gripping speculative thriller perfect for fans of Lauren Oliver and Ginny Myers Sain, about one girl with the power to see death before it happens-and the terrible consequences she faces when saving someone goes wrong. SOMEONE WANTS REVENGE... Whitney knows what...
It came from the trees
Russell, Ally
Paper Book
The wilderness is in Jenna's blood. Her Pap was the first Black park ranger at Sturbridge Reservation, and she practically knows the Owlet Survival Handbook by heart. But she's never encountered a creature like the one that took her best friend Reese. Her parents don't believe her; the police are...
Take all of us
Leif, Natalie
Paper Book
A YA unbury-your-gays horror in which an undead teen must find the boy he loves before he loses his mind and body. Five years ago, a parasite poisoned the water of Ian's West Virginia hometown, turning dozens of locals into dark-eyed, oil-dripping shells of their former selves....
The Black girl survives in this one : horror stories
Evans, Desiree S.
Paper Book
INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER! "This anthology makes a statement: Black women belong in horror...Projects like this -- brave, necessary -- celebrate Black women, and will hopefully inspire the future of the genre." --The New York Times Book Review A YA anthology of...
It watches in the dark
Strand, Jeff
Paper Book
"She glanced over her shoulder. Had the scarecrow moved? It stood there, smile stitched on its face, but now it felt like a smirk." Prepare to be scared silly in this creepy middle-grade novel! Twins seek medical help in a remote village after their father is in a canoeing accident...only...
Clever creatures of the night
Mabry, Samantha
Paper Book
In this gripping literary horror, Case's best friend goes missing, forcing her into a bizarre, cultlike--and possibly murderous--world, perfect for fans of The Honeys and Mexican Gothic. Something bad happened here. When Case arrives at a run...
A place for vanishing
Fraistat, Ann
Paper Book
A teen girl and her family return to her mother's childhood home, only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past, in this contemporary gothic horror from the author of What We Harvest. A BOOKPAGE AND KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST BOOK OF THE...
The bad ones
Albert, Melissa
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND INDIE BESTSELLER! Bestselling author Melissa Albert returns with The Bad Ones, a supernatural horror novel about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history Goddess, goddess,...
All these sunken souls : a black horror anthology
Moskowitz, Circe
Paper Book
Welcome to the Dark.   We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele,...
Dread detention
Killick, Jennifer
Paper Book
The Breakfast Club meets Stranger Things in this middle grade horror novel for fans of Goosebumps! Detention turns even scarier when a group of classmates discover dangers lurking in their school. When classmates Hallie, Angelo, Gustav and Naira are forced to come to...
Gorgeous gruesome faces
Cheng, Linda
Paper Book
A cutthroat K-pop competition leads to a dark obsession in this twisty sapphic horror-romance. Perfect for fans of She Is a Haunting and Yellowjackets. "A perfect blend of folk horror and dazzling showbiz that will grip you from page one." ―Trang Thanh Tran,...
Monstrous
Lewis, Jessica
Paper Book
Forced to spend her summer in her aunt's strange small town, a teen girl discovers dark secrets hidden in the woods. From the author of Bad Witch Burning comes another pulse-pounding novel perfect for fans of Supernatural and Lovecraft Country. Don't go...
All that consumes us
Waters, Erica
Paper Book
Ninth House meets The Dead and the Dark in this gothic dark academia novel that delves into the human capacity for great love, great art, and great evil.  Magni animi numquam moriuntur. Great minds never die.  The students in Corbin College's elite academic society, Magni...
House of ash and bone
Sutherland, Joel A.
Paper Book
Seventeen-year-old Josephine Jagger is a talented writer with special abilities she doesn't fully understand. Over the years she has developed methods to cope with the voices she hears in her head, but the old house her family has inherited in Vermont makes Josephine question what's real and what's...
Scarewaves
Henderson, Trevor (Comics artist)
Paper Book
Internet horror superstar Trevor Henderson is famous for his ghastly creations and hair-raising creepypastas. Now he brings that talent for the terrifying to this debut middle-grade thriller. You don't stay out after dark in Beacon Point... The small town of Beacon Point has always...
The changing man
Oyemakinde, Tomi
Paper Book
A teenage girl is pulled into investigating the truth behind her new boarding school's decades-old legend in The Changing Man, this debut Young Adult speculative mystery by Tomi Oyemakinde. Face front. Watch your back. BE BRAVE. Despite Ife Adebola...
We don't swim here
Tirado, Vincent
Paper Book
New from the 2023 Pura Belpré Award-winning author of Burn Down, Rise Up! She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Lamar Giles, and Ryan Douglass. Bronwyn is only supposed to be in rural Hillwoods...
Infested : an MTV fear novel
Colón, Angel Luis
Paper Book
"A thrilling, I-can't-stop-reading page-turner. If Infested doesn't make your skin crawl, check your pulse." --Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts There's something in the dark...watching.....
I feed her to the beast and the beast is me
Shea, Jamison
Paper Book
There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she...
What stalks among us
Hollowell, Sarah
Paper Book
From Sarah Hollowell, author of A Dark and Starless Forest, comes a spine-tingling, deliriously creepy YA speculative thriller about two best friends trapped in a corn maze with corpses that look just like them. Best friends and high school seniors Sadie and Logan make their first mistake...

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