Just for Teens: Horror
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Bloodline : a novel

FIC CARY, K.

Cary, Kate
Mary Seward is a hospital nurse when she encounters the injured Lt. John Shaw. Through reading his diary, she makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.
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Blue is for Nightmares

YA FIC STOLARZ, L.

Stolarz, Laurie Fari
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Vol. 2

YA FIC VAUGHAN, B.

Vaughan, Brian K.
Ever wondered what happened in demon-plagued Sunnyvale after "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" ended? The butt-kicking continues in this graphic novel, which continues the story that the hit television series began.
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Bury Me Deep

FIC PIKE

Christopher Pike
Jean is on her way to Hawaii for a week of fun in the sun. But the vacation gets off to a gruesome start when the boy sitting beside her on the plane suddenly chokes and dies. Jean tries to push the incident out of her mind, but that's impossible. Because Mike keeps coming back to her in her dreams. Horrible dreams filled with cold blood.
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Death, Jr. Volume 1

YA FIC WHITTA

Whitta, Gary.
Death Jr. is an average kid whose father just happens to be The Grim Reaper. When he and his friends take a field trip to the Museum of Supernatural History, they find a box that Pandora just has to open. Little do they know that by indulging her obsession, they've released an ancient evil into the world that will cause DJ to test his skills as a young reaper.
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Glass houses

YA FIC CAINE, R.

Caine, Rachel.
In Morganville, Texas, a town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers discovers that her new roommates are vampires.
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Heck : where the bad kids go

J BASYE, D.

Basye, Dale E.
When timid Milton and his older sister Marlo die in a marshmallow bear explosion at Grizzly Mall, they are sent to Heck, an otherworldly reform school from which they are determined to escape.
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Lurker

YA FIC PETRUCHA, S.

Petrucha, Stefan
Four ghost girls, trapped in an abandoned orphanage, relate the story of high school student Mandy, who becomes caught up in a terrifying encounter after one of her classmates is tragically murdered.
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Marvel Zombies vs. Army of Darkness



Layman, John S.
The human race has a big problem—a virulent strain of zombie virus is attacking the local superheroes, turning them into predators who feed on the citizens they formerly protected. It’s up to Ash, a bumbling smart-mouth with a history of fighting the undead, to save the day.
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Night world. No. 1

YA FIC SMITH, L.

Smith, L. J.
Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the laws of the Night World.
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Pretty monsters : stories

YA FIC LINK, K.

Kelly Link
Not all monsters are ugly...this collection of short stories includes "The Wrong Grave," in which a boy digs up his girlfriend's corpse in order to retrieve the poems that he buried with her, and "Monster," in which a monster uses a cell phone to lure its prey.
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Pride and prejudice and zombies

FIC GRAHAME-SMITH, S.

Grahame-Smith, Seth
Everything you loved about the classic regency romance is here. Oh, but now there's zombies. And ninjas. And martial arts. A classic is reborn!
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Search for Senna

FIC APPLEGATE

Applegate, K. A.
When David's girlfriend, Senna, is abducted by a wolf-like thing, he and his classmates follow her into a frightening underworld.
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Spiral

YA FIC MIZUKI, S.

Sakura Mizuki
The Ring was a great novel and horror movie, but that's not where the story ends. In this adaptation of Suzuki's next novel Spiral (Rasen in Japanese), the legend of Sadako's evil takes a scientific turn, as Ryuji Takayama's old college friend, Mitsuo Ando, must investigate the strange virus that kills people after watching a video tape. Disbelief gives way to fear. Logic bends to survival. And human evolution changes drastically. What Sadako plans is not simply horror, but something much, much deeper.
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Tales of terror

FIC POE, E.

Poe, Edgar Allan
Do you know Poe? Check out these masterpieces by America's king of terror. He never runs out of ideas for hiding a body...
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The 13 best horror stories of all time

SS THIRTEEN

edited by Leslie Pockell
The title's no joke--this book contains a sampling of top horror masterpieces. Here you'll find tales of madness ("The Yellow Wallpaper") murder ("The Beckoning Fair One," "The Tell Tale Heart") and ancient evil ("Call of Cthulhu"). "Oh Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad," is perhaps the most frightening story ever written.
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The best friend

YA FIC STINE, R.

Stine, R.L.
Honey is turning into more of a stalker than a bff--she starts to move in on Becka's life, copying her in every way. But when Becka dares to have more than one "best friend," the horrible accidents begin.
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The Blooding

FIC WINDSOR

Windsor, Patricia
While spending the summer working as an au pair girl for a couple in England, Maris discovers that the husband is a werewolf intent on blooding her and making her one too.
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The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod

YA FIC BREWER, H.

Brewer, Heather.
For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed.
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

YA FIC RYAN, C.

Ryan, Carrie.
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
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The Graveyard Book

J GAIMAN, N.

Neil Gaiman
After his family is murdered by a mysterious assassin, an orphaned boy is raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard.
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The new annotated Dracula

FIC STOKER, B.

Stoker, Bram
The granddaddy of all vampire stories returns, with illustrations and bonechilling facts about bloodsucker lore.
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The Parliament of Blood

YA FIC RICHARDS, J.

Richards, Justin.
With an ancient race of vampires plotting to take over London's governing body and replace the queen with one of their kind, 19-year-old assistant museum curator George Archer and his friends Liz and Eddie have their hands full. Set in Victorian England, this gruesome adventure starts slowly but builds to a fevered pitch of action and suspense that will thrill fans of horror master Darren Shan.
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The Plucker

S BROM

Brom
Thomas doesn't know what to think when his father brings him a creepy soul-sucking spirit doll called "Plucker." It is up to Thomas' old Jack-in-the-box to defeat the toy from hell.
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The spell of the sorcerer

J BELLAIRS

John Bellairs
Johnny Dixon isn't looking for trouble--it just finds him. When he becomes obsessed with a tiny skull he found in a creepy dollhouse, he starts to fear that it is connected to his friend's disappearance, and the horrible things that seem to be stalking him...
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The summoning

YA FIC ARMSTRONG, K.

Armstrong, Kelley.
After fifteen-year-old Chloe starts seeing ghosts and is sent to Lyle House, a mysterious group home for mentally disturbed teenagers, she soon discovers that neither Lyle House nor its inhabitants are exactly what they seem, and that she and her new friends are in danger.
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Uncle Montague

J PRIESTLEY, C.

Priestley, Chris
During a visit to his eccentric Uncle Montague to hear several grisly tales behind the unique artifacts in his collection, Edgar discovers the truth about his uncle's past.
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Underworld

FIC MACPHAIL, C.

MacPhail, Catherine
Five Scottish teenagers must deal with their own fears and rivalries when they go on a class trip and find themselves trapped in a maze of dark caverns.
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Unwind

YA FIC SHUSTERMAN, N.

Shusterman, Neal.
Ever fought with your parents? Imagine what it would be like if they could legally have you killed when you turned 13? In this futuristic book, three teens go to extreme lengths to avoid being "unwound," a process which harvests their body parts for transplant.
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Vampire High

FIC REES, D.

Rees, Douglas
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.
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