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Jonathan Maberry - SSBFYR
Format: Print book

"Multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Jonathan Maberry compiles more than twenty stories and poems--written by members of the Horror Writers Association--in this terrifying collection about worst fears"--
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Ghostlight

Sonia Gensler - Knopf Books for Young Readers
Format: Print book

Things that go bump in the night are just the beginning when a summer film project becomes a real-life ghost story! Avery is looking forward to another summer at Grandma's farm, at least until her brother says he's too old for "Kingdom," the imaginary world they'd...
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And the Trees Crept In

Dawn Kurtagich - Little
Format: Print book

When Silla and Nori arrive at their aunt's home, it's immediately clear that the "blood manor" is cursed. The creaking of the house and the stillness of the woods surrounding them would be enough of a sign, but there are secrets too--the questions that Silla can't ignore: Who is the beautiful...
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What the Dead Want

Norah Olson - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book

Haunting photographs and dark family secrets make this second spine-tingling novel from Norah Olson the perfect read for fans of creepy, suspenseful teen fiction.A love of photography, an old camera, and countless questions - these are all that sixteen-year-old Gretchen has left of her mother,...
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Survive the Night

Danielle Vega - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Stephen King meets Pretty Little Liars in this pulse-pounding novel from the author of The Merciless Just back from rehab, Casey regrets letting her friends Shana, Julie, and Aya talk her into coming to Survive the Night, an all-night, underground rave in a New York City...
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The Haunting of Sunshine Girl: Book One

Paige McKenzie - Weinstein Books
Format: Book

Shortly after her sixteenth birthday, Sunshine Griffith and her mother Kat move from sunny Austin, Texas, to the rain-drenched town of Ridgemont, Washington. Though Sunshine is adopted, she and her mother have always been close, sharing a special bond filled with laughter and inside jokes....
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Fiendish

Brenna Yovanoff - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Clementine DeVore spent ten years trapped in a cellar, pinned down by willow roots, silenced and forgotten. Now she's out and determined to uncover who put her in that cellar and why. When Clementine was a child, dangerous and inexplicable things started happening in New South Bend....
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Amity

Micol Ostow - Egmontusa
Format: Hardcover

Here is a house of ruin and rage, of death and deliverance.Here is where I live, not living.Here is always mine.When Connor's family moves to Amity, a secluded house on the peaceful banks of New England's Concord River, his nights are plagued with gore-filled dreams of demons. destruction,...
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The End Games

T. Michael Martin - Balzer + Bray
Format: Hardcover

John Green meets Stephen King in this original take on the zombie apocalypse by author T. Michael Martin, which ALA Booklist called the best of the undead bunch in a starred review.Seventeen-year-old Michael and his five-year-old brother, Patrick, have been battling monsters in the Game...
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The Ghost of Graylock

Dan Poblocki - Scholastic Press
Format: Hardcover

Does an abandoned asylum hold the key to a frightful haunting?Everyone's heard the stories about Graylock Hall.It was meant to be a place of healing - a hospital where children and teenagers with mental disorders would be cared for and perhaps even cured. But something went wrong. Several...
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Alice in Zombieland

Gena Showalter - Harlequin
Format: Book

She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever.Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took....
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Fear, The

Charlie Higson - Hyperion Book CH; Reprint edition
Format: Hardcover

The sickness struck everyone sixteen and over. Mothers and fathers, older brothers, sisters, and best friends. No one escaped its touch. And now children across London are being hunted by ferocious grown-ups who are hungry, bloodthirsty, and not giving up. DogNut and the rest of his crew,...
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Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls

Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham's junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties - friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve...
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The Hunt

Andrew Fukuda - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Hardcover

Don't Sweat. Don't Laugh. Don't draw attention to yourself. And most of all, whatever you do, do not fall in love with one of them.Gene is different from everyone else around him. He can't run with lightning speed, sunlight doesn't hurt him and he doesn't have...
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Department 19

Will Hill - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Jamie Carpenter's life will never be the same. His father is dead, his mother is missing, and he was just rescued by an enormous man named Frankenstein. Jamie is brought to Department 19, where he is pulled into a secret organization responsible for policing the supernatural, founded more...
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Thirteen Days of Midnight

Leo Hunt - Candlewick Press
Format: Print book

In a devilishly dark and funny debut, a teen finds himself the unwitting beneficiary of eight enslaved and angry ghosts seeking bloody vengeance.When Luke Manchett's estranged father dies unexpectedly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance: a collection of eight restless spirits, known as his Host,...
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Harmony House

Nic Sheff - Harper Teen
Format: Print book

Carrie meets American Horror Story meets The Shining in this terrifying YA horror novel from the author of Tweak and Schizo.Something's not right in Beach Haven.Jen Noonan's father thinks a move to Harmony House is the key to salvation, but to everyone who has lived there before, it is a portal...
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The Devils You Know

M C Atwood - Soho Teen
Format: Hardcover

In this riveting debut, equal parts Cabin in the Woods and The Breakfast Club, five teens will discover what lies within a local, infamous house is darker, and more personal, than any urban legend.Plenty of legends surround the infamous Boulder House in Whispering Bluffs,...
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