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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan - Delacorte Press
Format: Book

In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands...
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The Monstrumologist

Richard Yancey - Simon & Schuster BFYR
Format: Hardcover

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
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The Dead House

Dawn Kurtagich - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book

Welcome to the Dead House. 
Three students: dead. 
Carly Johnson: vanished without a trace. 
Two decades have passed since an inferno swept through Elmbridge High, claiming the lives of three teenagers and causing one student, Carly Johnson, to disappear....
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House of Furies

MADELEINE ROUX - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

An all-new gothic horror series from the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum. After escaping a harsh school where punishment was the lesson of the day, seventeen-year-old Louisa Ditton is thrilled to find employment as a maid at a boarding house. But soon after her arrival at Coldthistle...
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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake - Tor Teen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback

The #1 New York Times best-selling series. Includes an excerpt from Hollow City and an interview with author Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss...
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Unwind

Neal Shusterman - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

In a society where unwanted teens are salvaged for their body parts, three runaways fight the system that would "unwind" them Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker. Risa has no parents and is being unwound to cut orphanage costs. Lev's unwinding...
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A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd

Patrick Ness - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

A #1 New York Times bestsellerAn unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor.At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't...
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The Girl from the Well

Rin Chupeco - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

"[A] Stephen Kinglike horror story...A chilling, bloody ghost story that resonates." - KirkusFrom the highly acclaimed author of the Bone Witch trilogy comes a chilling story of a Japanese ghost looking for vengeance and the boy who has no choice but to trust her, lauded as a "a...
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City of Bones: Movie Tie-in Edition

Cassandra Clare - Margaret K. McElderry Books; Media Tie-In edition
Format: Hardcover

Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, now a major motion picture. Discover this first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly).Enter the world of the Shadowhunters in this special...
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