Horror Stories for Teens

 Halloween is quickly approaching.  So to get us in the mood, this week I'm share some horror novels for teens . . . .

Alone by Cyn Balog
Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.

Dreaming Darkly by Caitlin Kittredge

After her mother's death, Ivy is sent to live on an island with a rich uncle where she experiences nightmares and learns about her family's murderous past.

Fiendish by Brenna Yovanoff

Clementine DeVore, seventeen, is determined to learn what happened ten years ago that led to her magical imprisonment and problems in her town, but a dangerous attraction to Fisher, the boy who freed her, town politics, and the terrifying Hollow get in the way.

His Hideous Heart: Thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's Most Unsettling Tales Reimagined

Offers a collection of authors' reimaginings of Edgar Allan Poe's work, as well as the original Poe stories.

The Sacrifice Box by Martin J. Stewart

Five former friends must discover which of them broke the rules when objects they sealed in an ancient stone box come to life in twisted forms and dead things reanimate.

More Horror Stories --

As I Descended by Robin Talley

Asylum by Madeline Roux

Between the Devil and the Dark Blue Sea by April Genevieve Tucholke

Bonechiller by Graham McNamee
Burning by Danielle Rollins

The End Games by T. Michael Martin

The Fall by Bethany Griffin

The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan

The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco

The Glare by Margot Harrison

Haunted by Danielle Vega

The House by Christina Legrand

Lockdown: Escape from the Furnace by Alexander Gordon Smith

The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd

Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry

Teeth in the Mist by Dawn Kurtagich

There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins

The Wrong Train by Jeremy de Quidt

Check these books out on display at the Arnold Branch through October 31, 2020.

Crime Scene

This week, I am sharing crime stories for teens.  Here are a few of my favorites . . . .

The Leaving by Tara Altebrando
Eleven years after six kindergarteners were taken, five come back--with no idea of where they've been and no memory of the sixth victim, Max, but Avery, Max's sister, is determined to find her brother.

Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn
A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.

The Invisible by Mats Wahl
A Swedish teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.

Stolen by Lucy Christopher
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.

Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
Followed everywhere by the ghost of her recently deceased best friend, Hannah investigates the serial murders of young girls in her community.


More Teen Crime Stories --
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby
Forget Tomorrow by Pintip Dunn
Gentlemen by Michael Northrop
Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake
Jude by Kate Morgenroth
Kill the Boy Band by Goldy Moldavsky
The Lost Causes by Jessica Koosed Etting
The May Queen Murders by Sarah Jude
Mister Death's Blue-Eyed Girls by Mary Downing Hahn
The Murderer's Ape by Jakob Wegelius
Panic by Sharon M. Draper
Razorhurst by Justine Larbalestier
Ruthless by Carolyn Lee Adams
Shine by Lauren Myracle
There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
We Now Return to Our Regular Life by Martin Wilson
Who Killed Christopher Goodman? by Allan Wolf
Wild Blues by Beth Kephart

Check these books out at the Arnold Branch.