Here are our favorite horror books for high schoolers. These titles are classified as Teen High School (TH) and can be found in the Teen section of the library, unless otherwise noted. |
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The Midnight Game
by Cynthia Murphy
When six strangers, who have only ever spoken on a creepy Deddit thread, meet in real life to play The Midnight Game and summon the Midnight Man, they soon discover that once the game is started, it must be finished.
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A Place for Vanishing
by Ann Fraistat
Moving into her mother's childhood home for a fresh start, Libby, recently diagnosed with bipolar III, discovers that the strangely beautiful house disguises a sinister past. As she searches for answers, something tells her that the key to unlocking the house's secrets may lie in the eerie, bug-shaped masks hidden throughout the property.
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The Black Girl Survives in This One
by Desiree S. Evans
Featuring contributions from best-selling and acclaimed authors, this thought-provoking collection of 15 terrifying tales centers around Black girls who slay monsters, battle spirits, and face down death.
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My Throat an Open Grave
by Tori Bovalino
When she wishes her baby brother Owen away to the Lord of the Wood, shame-filled Leah makes a deal with the devilish Lord to bring Owen back, a bargain that unearths her town's secrets and makes her question everything she's been taught to fear.
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The Bad Ones
by Melissa Albert
When her estranged best friend, Becca, goes missing, along with three other people, Nora follows coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local folklore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora and Becca’s own childhood games.
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Within These Wicked Walls
by Lauren Blackwood
As a debtera, nineteen-year-old Andromeda performs exorcisms to cleanse households of the Evil Eye. When she agrees to work for handsome young heir Magnus Rochester, her job becomes truly terrifying.
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Man Made Monsters
by Andrea L. Rogers
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across centuries as they encounter predators of all kinds.
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The Taking of Jake Livingston
by Ryan Douglass
When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
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Lakesedge
by Lyndall Clipstone
When Leta and her younger brother Arien arrive at the haunted Lakesedge estate, they expect to find a monster. Leta knows the terrifying rumors about Rowan Sylvanan, who drowned his entire family when he was a boy. As Leta falls for Rowan, she discovers he is bound to the Lord Under, the sinister death god lurking in the black waters of the lake. Now, to save Rowan—and herself—Leta must confront the darkness in her past.
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White Smoke
by Tiffany D. Jackson
Believing her new home to actually be alive after 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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The Weight of Blood
by Tiffany D. Jackson
While at Springville High's 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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The Getaway
by Lamar Giles
When Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts, suddenly offers the richest and most powerful families a safe haven from the nightmare outside its walls, Jay and his crew learn just how far they'll go to find out the truth and save themselves.
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Gallant
by Victoria Schwab
Invited to return to Gallant, Olivia Prior finds herself in a crumbling manor riddled with secrets about her family, forcing her to decide whether to protect our world against the Master of the House or take her place beside him.
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Lally's Game
by Scott Cawthon
A forbidden artifact from her fiancé's past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. In the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay.
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The Book of Living Secrets
by Madeleine Roux
Excited to enter the world of a gothic romance they have been obsessed with for years, best friends Adelle and Connie are instead faced with unspeakable horrors and must rewrite their own ending to survive this nightmare.
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Horror Hotel
by Victoria Fulton
Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it, he turned her affliction into an internet sensation, with the help of Emmaline, the technology expert and Kiki, the presenter. Now they are planning to film an episode in an infamously, haunted hotel in Los Angeles, but they may be tackling something really dangerous because Chrissy is seeing the terrifying shadow man who started appearing to her when her mother was dying of cancer.
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Raising the Horseman
by Serena Valentino
Wanting nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow's superstitious celebrations after receiving her ancestor's diary, Kat van Tassel must uncover a 200-year-old secret that is shockingly linked to her own life in time to protect what she truly loves.
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Harrow Lake
by Kat Ellis
Moving to her grandmother’s home in a small and secretive community where her father once filmed a celebrated horror movie, a fearless teen observes strange phenomena before discovering that she is being followed by an unknown being.
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Even If We Break
by Marieke Nijkamp
A group of friends, bound together by years of history, embark on a visit to a cabin before dangerous secrets and unknown threats reveal a sinister plot that compromises their safety.
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The Sacrifice Box
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Martin J. Stewart
Once united by a glorious summer spent together, five teenagers are haunted years later by a broken oath and an ancient ritual.
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