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...
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.

Extasia
Legrand, Claire
Paper Book
**One of BuzzFeed's Great LGBTQ+ YA novels to Warm up Your Winter * A Kid's Feb/March IndieNext pick** From New York Times bestselling author Claire Legrand comes a new, bone-chilling YA horror novel about a girl who joins a coven to root out a vicious evil that's stalking...
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,...
Horrid
Leno, Katrina
Paper Book
From the author of You Must Not Miss comes a haunting contemporary horror novel that explores themes of mental illness, rage, and grief, twisted with spine-chilling elements of Agatha Christie and Stephen King.   Following her father's death, Jane...
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
2024 Whippoorwill Award Honor Book 2025-2026 MASL Gateway Award Finalist From award-winning author Mindy McGinnis comes a thrilling and gripping YA mystery about a small town's past and the secrets unearthed by way of two teen girls--and a podcast. Perfect for...

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 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
Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly...
The weight of blood
Jackson, Tiffany D.
Paper Book
Standalone announcement advertising in key school & library media Teens' Top 10/YALSA mailing to 15 teen reading groups across the country Featured title at school & library conferences and preview events (virtual and in-person)  Update Author Study Guide<...

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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