Supernatural Creepers
Here's where to find our list of recommended books that involve the supernatural - everything from ghosts to vampires to witches. 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.
| Supernatural Creepers | |
| 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. | |
| Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia | |
| Demon in My View. 2000 | |
| Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches. | |
| Butcher, Jim | |
| Storm Front. 2000 | |
Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what he does. So when the Chicago P.D. has a case that transcends mortal creativity or capability, they come to him for answers. For the "everyday" world is actually full of strange and magical things -- and most of them don't play well with humans. That's where Harry comes in. Takes a wizard to catch a -- well, whatever. |
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| Cary, Kate | |
| Bloodline. 2005 | |
| In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula. Sequels include Bloodline:Reckoning |
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| de la Cruz, Melissa | |
| Blue Bloods. 2006 | |
| Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines. Sequels include Masquerade |
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| Delaney, Joseph | |
| Revenge of the Witch. 2005 | |
| Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties." Capturing witches Binding boggarts Driving away ghosts For years, Old Gregory has been the Spook for the county, ridding the local villages of evil. Now his time is coming to an end. But who will take over for him? Twenty-nine apprentices have tried-some floundered, some fled, some failed to stay alive. Only Thomas Ward is left. He's the last hope; the last apprentice. Sequels include Curse of the Bane, Night of the Soul Stealer, Attack of the Fiend and Wrath of the Bloodeye |
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| Klause, Annette Curtis | |
| The Silver Kiss. 1990 | |
| A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother's terminal illness. | |
| 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. | |
| Marrone, Amanda | |
| Uninvited. 2007 | |
| Jordan's life sucks. Her boyfriend, Michael, dumped her, slept his way through half the student body, and then killed himself. But now, somehow, he appears at her window every night, begging her to let him in. Jordan can't understand why he wants her, but she feels her resistance wearing down. After all, her life - once a broken record of boring parties, meaningless hookups, and friend's she couldn't relate to - now consists of her drinking alone in her room as he waits for the sun to go down. | |
| Meyer, Stephanie | |
| Twilight. 2005 | |
| When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. Sequels include New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn |
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| 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. | |
| Ohba, Tsugumi | |
| Death Note (Graphic Novel). 2004 | |
| Light Yagami, son of a Japanese police chief, finds a death note dropped by a god of death, and decides to use it to rid the world of evil. When his murder spree catches the attention of the police, legendary detective L is assigned to the case and a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse begins. | |
| Price, Charlie | |
| Dead Connection. 2006 | |
| A loner who communes with the dead in the town cemetery hears the voice of a murdered cheerleader and tries to convince the adults that he knows what happened to her. | |
| Rees, Douglas | |
| Vampire High. 2003 | |
| 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. | |
| Sedgwick, Marcus | |
| My Swordhand is Singing. 2007 | |
| In the dangerous dark of winter in an Eastern European village during the early seventeenth century, Peter learns from a gypsy girl that the Shadow Queen is behind the recent murders and reanimations, and his father's secret past may hold the key to stopping her. | |
| Smith, Cynthia Leitich | |
| Tantalize. 2007 | |
| When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect. | |
| Somper, Justin | |
| Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean. 2006 | |
| When twins Connor and Grace's ship is wrecked in a storm and Connor is rescued by pirates, he believes that Grace has been taken aboard the mythical Vampirate's ship, and he is determined to find her. Sequels include Tide of Terror, and Blood Captain |
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| 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. | |
| Vande Velde, Vivian | |
| Companions of the Night. 1995 | |
| When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices. | |
| Westerfeld, Scott | |
| Peeps. 2005 | |
| Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. Sequels include The Last Days |
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| 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. | |
| Yoshida, Sunao | |
| Trinity Blood (Graphic Novel). 2004 | |
| In this comic adaptation of the Thores Shibamoto's novels, the very survival of the human race is at stake in a covert war which pits humans against vampires and the only hope for humanity may be a bumbling priest named Abel Nightroad. | |