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She Is a Haunting

Trang Thanh Tran - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

This house eats and is eaten . . ."A riveting debut from a remarkable new voice! Trang Thanh Tran weaves an impressive gothic mystery in which Jade's father is determined to restore a decrepit home to its former glory and Jade is the only person who feels the soul-crushing devastation...
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The Forest Demands Its Due

Kosoko Jackson - Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023
Format: Book

Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious.

Seventeen-year-old Douglas Jones wants nothing to do with Regent's king-making;...

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All That Consumes Us

Erica Waters - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

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 Viri, have it all - free...
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Tender Beasts

Liselle Sambury - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Hardcover

After her private school is rocked by a gruesome murder, a teen tries to find the real killer and clear her brother's name in this psychological thriller perfect for fans of The Taking of Jake Livingston and Ace of Spades.. Sunny Behre has four siblings, but only one is a murderer....
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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

Kalynn Bayron - Bloomsbury YA
Format: Hardcover

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?. This heart-pounding slasher by New York Times bestselling author Kalynn Bayron is perfect for fans of Fear Street.. Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the "final girl"...
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What Stalks Among Us

Sarah Hollowell - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

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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Man Made Monsters: Man Made Monsters

ANDREA ROGERS - Levine Querido
Format: Hardcover

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade.Horror fans will...
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Burn Down, Rise Up

Vincent Tirado - ‎Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

Mysterious disappearances. An urban legend rumored to be responsible. And one group of friends determined to save their city at any cost. Stranger Things meets Jordan Peele in this utterly original debut from an incredible new voice.For over a year, the Bronx has been plagued by sudden...
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Howl

Shaun David Hutchinson - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Virgil Knox was attacked by a monster. Of course, no one in Merritt believes him. Not even after he stumbled into the busy town center, bleeding, battered, and bruised, for everyone to see. He'd been drinking, they said. He was hanging out where he wasn't supposed to, they said....
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Into the Sublime

KATE A BOORMAN - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

"Gripping and breathless, Into the Sublime is equal parts terrifying, claustrophobic, psychological, and cunning." -- Wendy Heard, author of She's Too Pretty to Burn and Dead End GirlsA new YA psychological thrillerfrom the author of What We Buried about four teenage girls...
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Blackwater

Jeannette Arroyo - Henry Holt and Co. BYR Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

Riverdale meets Stranger Things in this debut queer YA graphic novel, developed from a hit webcomic. Set in the haunted town of Blackwater, Maine, two boys fall for each other as they dig for clues to a paranormal mystery. Tony Price is a popular high school track star and occasional delinquent...
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Within These Wicked Walls: A Novel

Lauren Blackwood - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

Andromeda is a debtera -- an exorcist hired to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. She would be hired, that is, if her mentor hadn't thrown her out before she could earn her license. Now her only hope of steady work is to find a Patron -- a rich, well-connected individual who will vouch...
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Extasia

Claire Legrand - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Book

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The Restless Dark

ERICA WATERS - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

Enter Cloudkiss Canyon at your own risk. Sadie meets Wilder Girls in this unnerving tale about the struggle for survival, the twisted satisfaction of revenge, and the darkness hiding in all of us. From Erica Waters, the acclaimed author of Ghost Wood Song and The River Has Teeth,this mystery...
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Hell Followed with Us

Andrew Joseph White - Peachtree Teen
Format: Hardcover

A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation."A defining voice of our generation." -H.E. Edgmon, author of The Witch King"Hands down the best YA horror...
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Dead flip

Sara Farizan - Algonquin
Format: Hardcover

Edge-of-your-seat YA horror perfect for fans of Stranger Things   Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it's 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren't speaking...
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Lock the Doors

Vincent Ralph - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

Tom's family have moved into their dream home. But pretty soon he starts to notice that something is very wrong - there are strange messages written on the wall and locks on the bedroom doors. On the OUTSIDE.

The previous owners have moved just across the road and they...

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My Dearest Darkest

Kayla Cottingham - ‎Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

Wilder Girls meets The Craft in this Sapphic horror debut that asks: what price would you be willing to pay to achieve your deepest desires?Finch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy... but she's also not what she seems. Months before...

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The Honeys

RYAN LA SALA - PUSH
Format: Hardcover

From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror novel set amidst the bucolic splendor of a secluded summer retreat.Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific...
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How to Survive Your Murder

Danielle Valentine - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying stand-alone horror novel from YA scream queen Danielle Valentine.Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister's murder trial. And in the year since Claire's death, Alice's life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have...
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All These Bodies

Kendare Blake - Quill Tree Books
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen bloodless bodies. Two teenagers. One impossible explanation. In this edge-of-your-seat mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kendare Blake, the truth is as hard to believe as it is to find. Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies...
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The Last Halloween: Children

Abby Howard - Iron Circus Comics
Format: Paperback

The monster apocalypse is nigh, but never fear! Humanity is under the protection of . . . this crew? It's a lonely Halloween night for ten-year-old Mona. While everyone else is out having a ghoulishly good time, she's stuck inside without so much as a scary movie to watch. Just...
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The Dead and the Dark

Courtney Gould - Wednesday Books
Format: Hardcover

The Dark has been waiting -- and it won't stay hidden any longer. Something is wrong in Snakebite, Oregon. Teenagers are disappearing, some turning up dead, the weather isn't normal, and all fingers point to TV's most popular ghost hunters who have just come to town. Logan Ortiz-Woodley,...
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Squad

Maggie Tokuda-Hall - Greenwillow Books
Format: Paperback

An IndieBound Bestseller"Squad is a fast-paced and feminist horror story for every girl whos ever felt like prey, and asks how far a girl should go to hunt the hunters." - Laura Ruby, author of National Book Award Finalist Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All"Squad is a story...
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Dark and Shallow Lies

Ginny Myers Sain

La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World - and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six m
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The Perfect Place to Die

Bryce Moore - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Paperback

"Fans of true-crime murder mysteries won't want to miss this one." -- BOOKLIST , STARRED ReviewStalking Jack the Ripper meets Devil in the White City in this terrifying historical fiction debut about one of the world's most notorious serial killers.In order to save her sister,...
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The Mary Shelley Club

Goldy Moldavsky
Format: Book

New girl Rachel Chavez is eager to make a fresh start at Manchester Prep. But as one of the few scholarship kids, Rachel struggles to fit in, and when she gets caught up in a prank gone awry, she ends up with more enemies than friends.

To her surprise, however, the prank attracts...
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House of Hollow

Krystal Sutherland
Format: Hardcover

Iris Hollow and her two older sisters are unquestionably strange. Ever since they disappeared on a suburban street in Scotland as children only to return a month a later with no memory of what happened to them, odd, eerie occurrences seem to follow in their wake. And they're changing....
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Bad Witch Burning

Jessica Lewis - Delacorte Press
Format: Hardcover

Katrell can talk to the dead. And she wishes it made more money. She's been able to support her unemployed mother - and Mom's deadbeat-boyfriend-of-the-week - so far, but it isn't enough. Money's still tight, and to complicate things, Katrell has started to draw attention....
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Rules for Vanishing

Kate Alice Marshall - Viking Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

In the faux-documentary style of The Blair Witch Project comes the campfire story of a missing girl, a vengeful ghost, and the girl who is determined to find her sister--at all costs.Once a year, a road appears in the forest. And at the end of it, the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons....
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Vampires Never Get Old: Tales with Fresh Bite

Zoraida Cordova - Imprint
Format: Hardcover

In this delicious new collection, you'll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out -- and going out for their first kill -- and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful...
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Clown in a Cornfield

Adam Cesare - HarperTeen
Format: Hardcover

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 moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don'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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Not Even Bones

Rebecca Schaeffer - HMH Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover

Dexter meets This Savage Song in this dark fantasy about a girl who sells magical body parts on the black market - until she's betrayed. Nita doesn't murder supernatural beings and sell their body parts on the internet - her mother does that. Nita just dissects the bodies...
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Girls Save the World in This One

Ash Parsons - Philomel Books
Format: Hardcover

Shaun of the Dead meets Clueless in this hilarious YA horror comedy set at a local zombie convention--featuring a teenage girl gang that has to save the world from a horde of actual zombies. Perfect for fans of Geekerella, Undead Girl Gang, and Anna and the Apocalypse....
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