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We have selected some of our favorite horror tales! Please note these titles can be found in both the Teen Middle and Teen High section of the library.
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Took : a ghost story
by Mary Downing Hahn
Dan's family moves next door to a woman called Old Auntie who claims she is a witch, and he finds he must take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years.
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Daughters unto devils
by Amy Lukavics
In this novel set in the 1800's, when her family moves from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, Amanda finds that the plains contain a horror all their own.
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Burning
by Danielle Rollins
Months away from her release from juvenile detention, Angela meets a 10-year-old newcomer and wonders about the crimes of such a young inmate before sinister events reveal that Angela and her friends are in terrible danger.
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The nest
by Kenneth Oppel
Agonizing over his sick baby brother's struggles to survive, Steve is visited in his dreams by a mysterious wasp queen who offers to save his brother at a formidable cost. Illustrated by the Caldecott Medal-winning artist of This Is Not My Hat.
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Asylum
by Madeleine Roux
A tale presented in the style of an integrated photo-novel finds intellectual misfit Dan arriving at a summer college prep program for gifted students and being required to sleep in a crumbling former psychiatric hospital, where he and his friends uncover disturbing secrets about the asylum's dark past.
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Welcome to the Dark House
by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Ivy, one of seven essay-contest winners who wrote about their worst nightmares to win a tour of a famous director's latest movie set, leans on sympathetic fellow winner Parker while struggling to outmaneuver a troublemaking horror-film fanatic. By the author of the Touch series.
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The Cemetery Boys
by Heather Brewer
When Stephen moves to the small, midwestern town where his father grew up, he quickly falls in with punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother, Devon; but the town has a dark secret, and the twins are caught in the middle of it.
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Shutter
by Courtney Alameda
Seventeen-year-old Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat, able to see ghosts in color and capture them on film, but when a routine hunt goes awry, Micheline is infected with a curse known as a soulchain and if she is unable to exorcise the entity in seven days, she will be destroyed, body and soul.
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Through the Woods
by Emily Carroll
Journey through the woods in this sinister collection of five spine-tingling short stories of fairy tales gone seriously wrong.
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The Madman's Daughter by Megan ShepherdDr. Moreau's 16-year-old daughter, Juliet, travels to her estranged father's island, only to encounter murder, medical horrors and a love triangle. Inspired by H. G. Wells' classic The Island of Dr. Moreau.
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Fugitives
by Alexander Gordon Smith
After achieving the impossible by escaping the laboratories and cells of Furnace Penitentiary, Alex, injected with superhuman abilities, must uncover the last of Furnace's secrets--the truth about the man who built the prison.
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Zom-B
by Darren Shan
Forced to tolerate his abusive father's racist views and venting his own frustrations by clashing with the kids at school, B wonders about a zombie outbreak in Ireland and finds himself struggling for survival while forging precarious alliances in the serpentine corridors of his high school.
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Doll Bones by Holly BlackPlaying an endless make-believe game about pirates, mermaids and warriors under the rule of a formidable Great Queen china doll, best friends Zach, Poppy and Alice find their bond tested when Zach is compelled to give up their shared adventures and Poppy begins having dreams about the doll. By the co-author of the best-selling Spiderwick Chronicles.
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Lord Loss
by Darren Shan
Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.
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Rotters
by Daniel Kraus
.Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
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The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly BlackLiving in a world of walled cities where quarantined monsters and humans endure dangerous predatory existences, Tana, one of three survivors of a horrifying massacre, safeguards their lives by visiting the evil heart of her city. By the best-selling co-author of The Spiderwick Chronicles.
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The Fury
by Alexander Gordon Smith
When everyone they know is suddenly transformed by a bizarre plague into bloodthirsty, mindless savages, survivors Cal, Brick and Daisy make shattering discoveries that pit them against an enemy of unimaginable power. By the creator of the Escape from Furnace series.
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Coraline
by Neil Gaiman
When Coraline attempts to leave her family's new flat, she discovers that she and her family are trapped by a dangerous presence, thus a battle between good and evil must take place in order to break out and set her loved ones free.
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The Screaming Staircase
by Jonathan Stroud
When London is overrun by malevolent spirits, a talented group of young psychic detectives compete against other ghostbusting agencies in the debut of a new series that finds three intrepid colleagues investigating one of England's most haunted houses.
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Anna Dressed in Blood
by Kendare Blake
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 ghost he has faced before.
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The Night Gardener
by Jonathan Auxier
Irish orphans Molly, 14, and Kip, 10, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and the secrets of the cursed house. By the author of Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes.
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