YA Horror

Love to stay up all night with the Final Survivor? These are for you.

Updated December 1, 2023
Southeastern Ohio Regional Library Chillicothe & Ross County Public Library
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All these bodies
Blake, Kendare
Paper Book
Big Mouth ARE mailing to curated list of influential librarians/educators Featured title/downloadable galley at virtual events Teens Top 10/YALSA ARE mailing to 15 reading groups across the country Featured title on Harperstacks ...
Clown in a Cornfield
Cesare, Adam.
Paper Book
Bram Stoker Award Winner for Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel In Adam Cesare's terrifying young adult debut, Quinn Maybrook finds herself caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress--that just may cost her life. Quinn Maybrook and her father have...
Dread nation
Ireland, Justina
Paper Book
* Promotion in the HarperCollins Children's Books Booth at major institutional conferences, including booth blow ups and extensive ARC distribution * YALSA galley mailing * School and Library social media outreach, including starred review brags and book talk written by a YA...

Perhaps more action than horror, but Dread Nation is an alternate history in which the Civil War dead rise as zombies.

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,...
The haunted
Vega, Danielle
Paper Book
Hendricks Becker-O'Malley is new in town, and she's bringing baggage with her. With a dark and wild past, Hendricks doesn't think the small town her parents moved her to has much to offer her in terms of excitement. She plans on laying low, but when she's suddenly welcomed into the popular crowd at...
His hideous heart : thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's most unsettling tales reimagined
Adler, Dahlia
Paper Book
Thirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation. Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young...
The Initial Insult
McGinnis, Mindy.
Paper Book
ARE distribution at school & library conferences and preview events  Targeted outreach to Baltimore Public Library system State and national award outreach
A long stretch of bad days
McGinnis, Mindy
Paper Book
Advertising in key school & library media  Lead Promotion at conferences and preview events  Teens' Top Ten/YALSA mailing to teen book groups at school and public libraries across the country  Social media awareness campaign through HarperStacks,...

Ohio author Mindy McGinnis has a special talent for all things gross and stressful. Also check out her Poe rewrites; the first one is titled The Initial Insult.

The Merciless The Merciless Series, Book 1
Vega, Danielle.
Ebook
"The Merciless is chilling. Think Mean Girls meets The Exorcist."--MTV.com  Danielle Vega delivers blood-curdling suspense and terror on every page of this thrilling debut novel. Fans of Asylum by Madeleine Roux and Miss...
The river has teeth
Waters, Erica
Paper Book
Featured title in Edelweiss Librarian Collection promoted at virtual conferences and preview events State and national award mailing
The taking of Jake Livingston
Douglass, Ryan
Paper Book
An Instant New York Times Bestseller! Get Out meets Holly Jackson in this YA social thriller where survival is not a guarantee. Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced...
There's Someone Inside Your House
Perkins, Stephanie.
Paper Book
Now a Netflix Feature Film! A NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller! "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 ...
We have always lived in the castle
Jackson, Shirley
Paper Book
Part of the Penguin Orange Collection, a limited-run series of twelve influential and beloved American classics in a bold series design offering a modern take on the iconic Penguin paperback Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition ...
The weight of blood
Jackson, Tiffany D.
Paper Book
* AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * INDIE BESTSELLER * JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION * KIDS' INDIE NEXT LIST PICK * NPR BEST PICK * KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR * New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's history and...

This is one of Melissa's all-time favorite YA Horror novels. If you like Jordan Peele's movies with their mix of creepy atmosphere and social commentary, you're going to love anything by Tiffany D. Jackson.


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