| Alender, Katie |
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Bad Girls Don't Die. 2009 |
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When fifteen-year-old Lexi's younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts about previous occupants of the house, leading her to believe that many lives are in danger. |
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| Almond, David |
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Clay. 2006 |
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The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers. |
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| Anderson, M.T. |
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Thirsty. 1997 |
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From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human. |
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| Armstrong, Kelley |
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The Summoning. 2008 |
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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.
Sequels include The Awakening and The Reckoning |
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| Becker, Tom |
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Darkside. 2008 |
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Jonathan Starling's father is in an asylum and his home has been attacked - he's running for his life. Jonathan stumbles upon Darkside, a terrifying and hidden part of London ruled by the descendants of Jack the Ripper. Can he find the way out?
Sequels include Lifeblood. |
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The Plucker. 2005 |
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A shadowy land of make-believe where Jack and his box are stuck beneath the bed with the dust, spiders, and other castaway toys, forced to face a bitter truth: children grow up and toys are left behind. Jack believes this is the worst that can happen to a toy. But when the Plucker, a malevolent spirit, is set loose upon the world of make-believe and Jack is thrust into the unlikely role of defending Thomas, the very child who abandoned him, he finds out there is worse that can befall a toy-far worse. |
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| Carey, Janet Lee |
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The Beast of Noor. 2006 |
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Fifteen-year-old Miles Ferrell uses the rare and special gift he is given to break the curse of the Shriker, a murderous creature reportedly brought to Shalem Wood by his family's clan centuries before.
Sequels include Dragons of Noor |
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| de Lint, Charles |
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The Blue Girl. 2004 |
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New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy who haunts the school after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life. |
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| Duncan, Lois |
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Killing Mr. Griffin. 1978 |
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A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder? |
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| Fleischman, Paul |
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A Fate Totally Worse Than Death. 1995 |
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In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before. |
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| Gaiman, Neil |
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M is for Magic. 2007 |
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Eleven stories that involve strange and fantastical events. |
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| Gantos, Jack |
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The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs. 2006 |
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A young woman named Ivy, who made a shocking discovery in her small western Pennsylvania town when she was seven years old and learned a surprising secret nine years later, questions whether she has inherited the Rumbaugh curse of having excessive love for one's mother. |
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| Holt, Simon |
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The Devouring. 2008 |
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The existence of Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, becomes a terrifying reality for fifteen-year-old Reggie when she begins to suspect that her timid younger brother might be one of their victims.
Sequels include Soulstice and Fearscape |
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| Jenkins, A.M. |
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Repossessed. 2007 |
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A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaning job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's family and friends puzzle over his changed behavior. |
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| Klause, Annette Curtis |
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Blood and Chocolate. 1997 |
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Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom. |
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| Koontz, Dean |
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Odd Thomas. 2004 |
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"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. |
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| Kostova, Elizabeth |
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The Historian. 2005 |
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Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history. |
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| Nance, Andrew |
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Daemon Hall. 2007 |
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Famous horror story writer R. U. Tremblin comes to the town of Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying--and deadly--night with him in a haunted house. |
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| Plum-Ucci, Carol |
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The Body of Christopher Creed. 2000 |
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Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast. |
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| Randall, Thomas |
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The Waking : Dreams of the Dead. 2009 |
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After her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Kara and her father move to Japan, where he teaches and she attends school, but she is haunted by a series of frightening nightmares and deaths that might be revenge--or something worse. |
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| Ryan, Carrie |
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth. 2009 |
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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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| Sedgwick, Marcus |
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The Book of Dead Days. 2004 |
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With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil.
Sequels include The Dark Flight Down |
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| Sedgwick, Marcus |
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The Foreshadowing. 2006 |
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It is 1915, and seventeen-year-old Alexandra (Sasha) Fox is the privileged only daughter of a respected doctor living in the wealthy seaside town of Brighton. But her brothers, Edgar and Tom, have gone to war and Sasha has a terrible gift. She can see the future. |
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| Shan, Darren |
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Lord Loss. 2005 |
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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.
Sequels include Demon Thief, Slawter, Bec, Blood Beast, Demon Apocalypse, Wolf Island, Dark Calling and Hell's Heroes |
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| Shelley, Mary |
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Frankenstein. 1818 |
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The world's most famous monster comes to life in this 1818 novel, a tale that combines Gothic romance and science fiction to tell of a young doctor's attempts to breath life into an artificial man. Despite the doctor's best intentions, the experiment goes horribly wrong. |
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| Stoker, Bram |
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Dracula. 1897 |
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"Dracula" chronicles the vampire's journey from Transylvania to the nighttime streets of London. There, he searches for the blood of strong men and beautiful women while his enemies plot to rid the world of his frightful power. |
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| Stolarz, Laurie Faria |
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Project 17. 2007 |
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When six high school students sneak into an abandoned mental institution to make a film about their night there, they do not expect the inexplicable and terrifying events that keep occuring within the crumbling, maze-like building, causing them to question themselves and, ultimately, to make different choices about the course of their lives. |
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| Taylor, Greg |
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Killer Pizza. 2009 |
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While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters. |
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| Windsor, Patricia |
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Nightwood. 2006 |
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The lives of eleven teenagers intertwine and turn nightmarish as they flee from a hideous monster. |
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| Wooding, Chris |
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The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. 2004 |
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As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed. |
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| Yancy, Rick |
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The Monstrumologist. 2009 |
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In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Sequels include The Curse of the Wendigo |
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