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Young Adult Horror

From haunted houses to zombies, our favorite teen horror books have something for everyone.

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  • A House with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic . When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to…
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury, 2023. — Y FICTION TRAN
  • New York Times bestselling author Tiffany D. Jackson ramps up the horror and tackles America's history and legacy of racism in this suspenseful YA novel following a biracial teenager as her Georgia high school hosts its first integrated prom. When…
    Book, 2022New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2022] — Y FICTION JACKSON
  • Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field,…
    Book, 2023New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — Y FICTION SHEA
  • A spine-tingling, deliriously creepy speculative thriller about two best friends trapped in a corn maze with corpses that look just like them, if you can, you know, ignore the stab and gunshot wounds.
    Book, 2023New York : Clarion Books, [2023] — Y FICTION HOLLOWELL
  • Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania--derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018] — Y FICTION IRELAND
  • It's been almost a year since Makani Young came to live with her grandmother in landlocked Nebraska, and she's still adjusting to her new life. And still haunted by her past in Hawaii. Then, one by one, the students of her small town high school…
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Dutton Books, [2017] — Y FICTION PERKINS
  • For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any…
    Paperback, 2011New York : Tor, 2011 (Printed in the United States of America) — Y FICTION BLAKE
  • Will Henry is an orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. Will has grown accustomed to the doctor's late night callers and dangerous business. But when one visitor comes with the body of a young girl and the…
    Paperback, 2010New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2010, c2009. — Y FICTION YANCEY
  • Just back from rehab, Casey regrets letting her friends talk her into coming to Survive the Night, an all-night, underground rave in a New York City subway tunnel. Casey comes across Julie's mutilated body in a dank, black subway tunnel, red-eyed…
    Paperback, 2015New York, NY : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House, [2015?] — Y FICTION VEGA
  • Night of the Living Queers

    13 Tales of Terror & Delight

    A YA horror anthology that explores how Halloween can be more than just candies and frights, but a night where anything is possible.
    Book, 2023New York : Wednesday Books, 2023. — Y 808.83 NIGHT
  • Ten teens. Three days. One killer. It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives--an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie are looking forward to two days of boys, booze, and fun-filled luxury. But what starts out as…
    Paperback, 2013New York : Balzer + Bray, 2013. — Y FICTION MCNEIL
  • After a party, four teens are in a hit-and-run accident that results in a young boy's death. Unable to deal with the consequences, they leave the body behind and make an anonymous phone call to the police, tipping them off. The group makes a secret…
    Paperback, 2010New York : Little, Brown and Co. 2010, c1978. — Y FICTION DUNCAN
  • Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
    Paperback, 2015Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2015. — Y FICTION NESS
  • Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to "Our…
    Graphic Novel, 2014New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2014] — Y 741.5973 CARROLL
  • In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older…
    Book, 2010New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2010. — Y FICTION MABERRY
  • In the tradition of Paranormal Activity and The Exorcist , an ordinary girl with a strange illness that doctors can't seem to diagnose recounts her experience with the dark and ancient entity that's making her sick in this chilling diary that…
    Book, 2016New York : Simon Pulse, 2016. — Y FICTION VERANO
  • A new YA psychological thriller from Kate A. Boorman, author of What We Buried, about four teenage girls who descend into a dangerous underground cave system in search of a lake of local legend, said to reveal your deepest fears . When the cops…
    Book, 2022New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2022. — Y FICTION BOORMAN
  • Fences stand between the living and the Unconsecrated who hunger for them in the forest. The fences protect, but they also confine Mary and the other villagers. After the fence is breached, Mary and a few survivors go on the run hoping to find life…
    Book, 2009New York : Delacorte Press, c2009. — Y FICTION RYAN