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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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
by Jamison Shea
Dancer Laure makes a dark pact to achieve her dreams of Parisian ballet stardom, only to discover that even with her ambition and desires, she isn’t the only monster in the story.
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Welcome to Camp Killer
by Cynthia Murphy
When an American-style summer camp opens on the grounds of an English stately home, teenage instructors expect fun, but mysterious accidents and ghostly sightings hint that something far more sinister may be at work at Camp Miller.
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Ruin road
by Lamar Giles
High school football player Cade Webster buys a mysterious ring that grants his wish for people to stop fearing him, but when the world around him becomes strangely fearless, he realizes the ring’s warning may be more serious than he thought.
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They Bloom At Night
by Trang Thanh Tran
After a hurricane brings a red algae bloom to Mercy, Louisiana, Noon and her mom must track a deadly mutated creature in the waters, forcing Noon to confront the town’s dark past.
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If We Survive This
by Racquel Marie
After a global outbreak spawns zombie-like creatures, eighteen-year-old Flora Braddock Paz and her brother seek refuge in a remote Northern California cabin, where they face familiar faces, buried secrets, and the relentless presence of death.
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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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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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