Teen Horror

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Check out these YA books from the past few years, filled with serial killers, conspiracy, demons, and general creepiness!

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In the Catalog

Ace of Spades

Ace of Spades

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

In this social horror novel, the only two black teens at a prestigious prep school find themselves targeted by an anonymous texter who reveals their secrets to the whole school.

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The Blonde Dies First

The Blonde Dies First

Joelle Wellington

Seventeen-year-old Devon, her twin sister, and her friends face a demonic force who seemingly follows horror movie tropes, propelling the group to flip the script and use their horror movie knowledge in order to survive.

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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight

Kalynn Bayron

Charity gets a job as the final girl at a full-contact horror camp recreating scenes from a slasher film.

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The Last Girls Standing

The Last Girls Standing

Jennifer Dugan

Sloan and Cherry begin dating after they leave summer camp the only survivors of a massacre, and Sloan begins to suspect that Cherry might have been involved in the tragedy.

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Dead Girls Walking

Dead Girls Walking

Sami Ellis

The daughter of a serial killer returns to the site of her father’s murders, which has been turned into a camp for horror-obsessed queer teenage girls, in order to investigate her mother’s death.

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Don't Let the Forest in

Don’t Let the Forest in

C. G. Drews

Two teen boys attempt to stop terrifying creatures that seem to be coming to life from macabre drawings.

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White Smoke

White Smoke

Tiffany D. Jackson

Believing her new home to actually be alive, especially when her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won’t be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all.

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She Is A Haunting

She Is A Haunting

Trang Thanh Tran

Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.

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Burn Down, Rise up

Burn Down, Rise up

Vincent Tirado

When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city–and confront a dark episode in its history in the process.

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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White

Set in an alternate Victorian England where mediums control the dead, a sixteen-year-old autistic transgender boy must expose a power-hungry secret society while confined to a cruel finishing school designed to turn him into the perfect wife.

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A Place for Vanishing

A Place for Vanishing

Ann Fraistat

Looking for a fresh start, sixteen-year-old Libby and her family return to her mother’s childhood home only to discover that the house’s strange beauty may disguise a sinister past.

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The Weight of Blood

The Weight of Blood

Tiffany D. Jackson

While at Springville Highs first integrated prom, Maddie, a constantly bullied biracial teenager, is tormented by her classmates until her secret is revealed—one that will cost them their lives.

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