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The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall

Katie Alender - Point
Format: Print book

In this asylum, your mind plays tricks on you all the time ... Delia's new house isn't just a house. Long ago, it was the Piven Institute for the Care and Correction of Troubled Females -- an insane asylum nicknamed "Hysteria Hall." However, many of the inmates were not insane,...
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The Infects

Sean Beaudoin - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover

A feast for the brain, this gory and genuinely hilarious take on zombie culture simultaneously skewers, pays tribute to, and elevates the horror genre.Seventeen-year-old Nero is stuck in the wilderness with a bunch of other juvenile delinquents on an Inward Trek. As if that werent bad enough,...
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H2O

Virginia Bergin - Sourcebooks Fire
Format: Hardcover

.27 is a number Ruby hates.It's a number that marks the percentage of the population that has survived. It's a number that means she's one of the "lucky" few still standing. And it's a number that says her father is probably dead. Against all odds, Ruby has survived...
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Chime

Franny Billingsley - Dial
Format: Hardcover

Before Brionys stepmother died, she made sure Briony blamed herself for all the familys hardships. Now Briony has worn her guilt for so long its become a second skin. She often escapes to the swamp, where she tells stories to the Old Ones, the spirits who haunt the marshes. But only witches...
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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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Skeleton Man

Joseph Bruchac - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover

Trust your dreams. Both my parents said that. That's our old way, our Mohawk way. The way of our ancestors. Trust the little voice that speaks to you. That is your speaking. But when those feelings, those dreams, those voices are so confusing, what do you do then? "Help,"...
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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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Something Strange and Deadly

Susan Dennard - HarperTeen; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Sixteen-year-old Eleanor Fitts brother is missing. And when she discovers that the Dead are rising in Philadelphia and wreaking havoc throughout the city, she knows that her brother is involved.So Eleanor enlists the help of the Spirit-Hunters. This motley crew, hired to protect the city...
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Took: A Ghost Story

Mary Downing Hahn - Clarion Books
Format: Hardcover

"Folks say Old Auntie takes a girl and keeps her fifty years - then lets her go and takes another one." Thirteen-year-old Daniel Anderson doesn't believe Brody Mason's crazy stories about the ghost witch who lives up on Brewster's Hill with Bloody Bones, her man-eating...
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Cuckoo Song

Frances Hardinge - Amulet Paperbacks
Format: Hardcover

A disturbing secret haunts two sisters in this spine-chilling YA historical thriller from award-winning author Frances Hardinge An ALA/ALSC Notable Childrens Book Following a mysterious accident that leaves her sopping wet, Triss awakens to a world thats eerily off-kilter. Her memories...
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Carrie

Stephen King
Format: Book

A modern classic, Carrie introduced a distinctive new voice in American fiction -- Stephen King. The story of misunderstood high school girl Carrie White, her extraordinary telekinetic powers, and her violent rampage of revenge, remains one of the most barrier-breaking a
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Scary out there

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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Bloody Mary, Book 2 Mary: Unleashed

Hillary Monahan - Disney-Hyperion
Format: Hardcover

Mary in the mirror. Mary in the glass. Mary in the water. Mary lurks in the emptiness, in the darkness . . . in the reflection. That is, until Jess unleashes her into the world. Now Mary Worth is out and her haunting is deadlier than ever. No one is safe. Shauna,...
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A Monster Calls

Patrick Ness
Format: Book

This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother sta
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs - Quirk Books
Format: Audiobook

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific...
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Burning

Danielle Rollins - Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2016.
Format: Print book

Tucked away, deep in the woods, Brunesfield Correctional Facility's cold walls and empty hallways keep dangerous girls away from the world . . . girls like Angela Davis, whose fate was determined by one bad decision. After a few years in juvie, Angela is finally close to her release,...
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Escape from asylum

Madeleine Roux
Format: Audiobook

In this terrifying prequel novel to the New York Times bestselling Asylum series, a teen is wrongfully committed to the Brookline psychiatric hospital and must find a way out - before he becomes the next victim of the evil warden's experiments. With the page-turning suspense and u
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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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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 subway tunnel....
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Peeps

Scott Westerfeld - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

A year ago, Cal Thompson was a college freshman more interested in meeting girls and partying than in attending biology class. Now, after a fateful encounter with a mysterious woman named Morgan, biology has become, literally, Cal's life.Cal was infected by a parasite that has a truly...
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The Well

A J Whitten

If Hamlet thought he had issues, he should have talked to Cooper Warner.His mother's normally sunny demeanor has turned into something - homicidal.And what's worse, she has help in her hunt for Cooper: A ravenous monster living at the bottom of the old well in the
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The Replacement

Brenna Yovanoff - Razorbill
Format: Hardcover

Mackie Doyle is The Replacement - left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. He has been raised among us. But he is not one of us. Now, he must face the dark creatures of the slag heaps from which he came and find his rightful place - in our world or theirs."Unsettling villains...
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