Book that will keep you up at night...
Anderson, M.T. Thirsty
Are Chris' feelings of alienation, sleeplessness, and unquenchable thirst merely symptoms of a typical tortured adolescence. (Vampires)
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia In the Forests of the Night
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will. (Vampires)
Bradbury, Ray Something Wicked Comes This Way
Two boys--best friends Will and Jim are about to learn the secret of a traveling shows smoke, mazes and mirrors as they confront a nightmarish evil that will change their lives forever.
Carroll, Jenny The Mediator
What would you do if the ghost of a dead woman shows up at your bedside, screaming and begging you to find "Red" and tell him that he isn't responsible for her death? (Ghosts / YA Series)
De Lint, Charles Blue Girl
Imogene hopes to leave her bad reputation behind and start over with her move to Newford, but dreams don't always come true! (Ghosts)
Fleischman, Paul A Fate Totally Worse Than Death
An obnoxious trio of girls decide to teach a man-stealer a lesson. (Ghosts)
Gaiman, Neil Coraline
Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others. (Ghosts)
Hoffman, Nina A Stir of Bones
After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, 14-year-old Susan, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself. (Ghosts)
King, Stephen Carrie
It's never good to make fun of your classmates. (Psychological Thriller)
King, Stephen Christine
Arnie Cunningham is in love with his vintage car, Christine. So much so, that Christine has complete control over Arnie.
King, Stephen Pet Sematary
"Sometimes dead is better...". When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true, but the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth -- more terrifying than death itself...and hideously more powerful.
Klause, Annette Curtis Blood and Chocolate
Gabriel is raw and sharp like blood; Aiden is rich and smooth like chocolate. It's Aiden whom Vivian thinks she desires, but he is a "meat-boy," a human, and Vivian is a werewolf. (Werewolves)
Koontz, Dean Odd Thomas
Some might call communicating with the dead a gift, others would call it a curse. (Ghosts)
Nixon, Joan The Haunting
When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it.
Reiss, Kathryn Dreadful Sorry
After almost drowning, Molly is plagued by the memories of Clementine Horn who disappeared more than 80 years ago. (Ghosts)
Sedgewick, M. The Book of Dead Days
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.
Shan, Darren Cirque Du Freak
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. (Vampires/ YA Series)
Shusterman, Neal Full Tilt
When 16-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
Slade, Arthur. Dust
11-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when a mysterious stranger arrives, performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s.
Sleator, William. The Boy Who Couldnt Die
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away. (Zombies)
Vivelo, Jackie. Chills in the Night
A Chilling collection of Ghost Stories
Wallace, Rich Restless: a ghosts story
Frank, a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died. (Ghosts)
Wooding, Chris The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Wicked forces are invading the streets of London. With the rescue of a possessed girl, Alaizabel, the skilled wytch hunters Thaniel and Catherine know that something deeply bad is about to happen.
Classic Horror
Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The legend of the new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, the local bully, Brom Bones, and the ghost, the Headless Horseman.
Poe, Edgar Allan Edgar Allen Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness
The masque of the Red Death -- Hop Frog -- The black cat -- The fall of the house of Usher. (Graphic Novel)
Shelley, Mary Frankenstein
Monstrous beginnings.
Stoker, Bram Dracula
One of the first stories of a bloodsucker.
Updated January 2008
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