Horror
Here's where to find our list of recommended books to creep you out in the dark of night. If you would like to help make new lists or add on to an existing list call Carly @ 262-0626 or email at crencsko@biblio.org.
| Horror | |
| Almond, David | |
| Clay. 2006 | |
| 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. | |
| Anderson, M.T. | |
| Thirsty. 1997 | |
| 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. | |
| Brom | |
| The Plucker. 2005 | |
| Carey, Janet Lee | |
| The Beast of Noor. 2006 | |
| 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. | |
| Cormier, Robert | |
| Tenderness. 1997 | |
| A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him. | |
| de Lint, Charles | |
| The Blue Girl. 2004 | |
| 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. | |
| Duncan, Lois | |
| Killing Mr. Griffin. 1978 | |
| A teenager casually suggests playing a cruel trick on the English teacher, but did he intend it to end with murder? | |
| Fleischman, Paul | |
| A Fate Totally Worse Than Death. 1995 | |
| 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. | |
| Gaiman, Neil | |
| M is for Magic. 2007 | |
| Eleven stories that involve strange and fantastical events. | |
| Klause, Annette Curtis | |
| Blood and Chocolate. 1997 | |
| 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. | |
| Koontz, Dean | |
| 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. |
| Kostova, Elizabeth | |
| The Historian. 2005 | |
| 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. | |
| Mignola, Mike | |
| Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire. 2007 | |
| After unwittingly awakening the wrath of a vampire on the World War I battlefields, Lord Henry Baltimore vows to vanquish the evil that he has unleashed on the world, in an illustrated tale of the paranormal that serves as an allegory for the nature of war. | |
| Nance, Andrew | |
| Daemon Hall. 2007 | |
| 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. | |
| Plum-Ucci, Carol | |
| 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. |
| Shan, Darren | |
| Lord Loss. 2005 | |
| 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, and Demon Apocalypse |
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| Shelley, Mary | |
| Frankenstein. 1831 | |
| 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. | |
| Stoker, Bram | |
| Dracula. 1897 | |
| "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. | |
| Wooding, Chris | |
| The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. 2004 | |
| 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. | |