Horror


Fiction
Title: A Certain Slant of Light
Author: Laura Whitcomb
Summary: After 130 lonely years as an invisible ghost haunting a series of people, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and who helps unravel the secrets of her past.


Title: All Hallows' Eve: 13 Stories
Author: Vivian Vande Velde
Summary: Chilling, suspenseful tales - all taking place on Halloween night - include a teen who finds himself trapped in a possessed car and a student on a field trip who gets pulled into a crypt.


Title: Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Summary: Secret cults, ancient curses, and hideous beasts from the deep dark sea-the horror that inspired generations of writers


Title: Black Tattoo
Author: Sam Enthoven
Summary: An ancient demon grows into a black tattoo on Charlie's back. Jack must come to the rescue and help his friend before Charlie's body is possessed!


Title: Blood and Chocolate
Author: Klause, Annette Curtis
Summary: Star-crossed lovers have nothing on Vivian Gandillon, a sexy teenage werewolf, and the 'meat-boy' (read: human) she loves. Vivian is ready to fight off fellow pack-members and angry mobs for her love.


Title: Blue Bloods
Author: Melissa De la Cruz
Summary: Schuyler must cope with the discovery that she is descended from a long line of vampires as well as face the everyday pressures of being a rich Manhattan socialite.


Title: Boy Who Couldn't Die
Author: William Sleator
Summary: For $50 Ken buys immortality from a voodoo priestess, but this gives him little peace as his terrible nightmares reveal that he’s sold his soul to evil.


Title: Carrie
Author: King, Stephen
Summary: Telekinetic powers, pig blood, and revenge make this a prom night to remember.


Title: City of Bones
Author: Cassandra Clare
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Clary has barely adjusted to the existence of Shadowhunters, those who stalk and kill demons, when her mother is kidnapped and Clary is drawn into an other-world fray filled with werewolves, vampires, fairies, angels, and demons.


Title: Coraline
Author: Neil Gaiman
Summary: When Coraline goes through a door in the drawing room of her new flat, she encounters a creepy alternative reality including a new mother with buttons for eyes.


Title: Dangerous Girls
Author: R. L. Stine
Summary: Sixteen-year-old Destiny and her twin sister, Livvy, search for a cure for the half-vampire state they find themselves in after they let a hunky co-counselor romance them at camp.


Title: Dracula
Author: Bram Stoker
Summary: Meet the original bloodsucking fiend.


Title: Dread Locks
Author: Neal Shusterman
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Parker befriends glamorous Tara, only to discover she may be the source of his family and friends' sudden development of a strange illness.


Title: Frankenstein
Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Summary: The death of Victor Frankenstein's mother triggers his obsession with restoring the dead to life. The monster he creates proves more frightening and more human than even Victor imagined.


Title: Full Tilt
Author: Neal Shusterman
Summary: Blake must endure seven rides and face seven of his greatest fears to save his brother from a possessed carnival.


Title: Gil's All Fright Diner
Author: A. Lee Martinez
Summary: Someone is trying to scare Loretta away from her all-night diner, so she hires Duke, a werewolf, and Earl, a vampire, to address her zombie problem.


Title: Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales
Author: Deborah Noyes
Summary: Ten well-known authors tell tales that will chill your bones.


Title: Haunting
Author: Joan Lowry Nixon
Summary: Lia's grandmother warned her about the evil in Graymoss, her family's ancestral home, but her parents are determined to open the plantation as a foster home and so Lia must discover the truth behind the ghosts at Graymoss.


Title: Haunting of Alaizabel Cray
Author: Chris Wooding
Summary: Thaniel Fox is working as a wych-kin hunter on the dark, foggy streets of London to rid the city of some troublesome ghouls when he encounters Alaizable Cray who has been possessed by one of these evil demons.


Title: Haunting of Hill House
Author: Shirley Jackson
Summary: Four people come to investigate the haunting within Hill House, an old mansion which holds a tragic past, while it gathers the strength to claim one of them as its own.


Title: House Next Door
Author: Cusick, Richie Tankersley
Summary: A bet with her twin brother, Charlie, forces Emma to stay an entire night by herself in the old abandoned house next door where she finds herself reliving a horrible night from the past.


Title: I Know What You Did Last Summer
Author: Duncan, Lois
Summary: You've seen the movie, now read the book. Find out what happens when four teens try to cover up when they hit a mysterious stranger with their car.


Title: In the Forests of the Night
Author: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Summary: Three hundred years ago in colonial America young Rachel Weatere was transformed into the vampire Risika. Now Risika’s vampire sire has re-entered her world and she wants vengeance for her lost life.


Title: Killing Britney
Author: Sean Olin
Summary: After her mother's death, Britney slims down, goes blonde, gets popular and lands the hockey team's captain as her boyfriend, but then someone starts killing off her family and friends.


Title: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Author: Irving, Washington
Summary: Geeky, superstitious schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, desperately loves Katrina, a wealthy farmer's daughter. Dancing seems the ideal way to win her heart, but the dark ride home from the dance may prove deadly.


Title: Lord Loss (Demonata Bk. 1)
Author: Darren Shan
Summary: Evil demons horrifically murder his family, but only Grubbs Grady can see them.


Title: Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
Author: Jack Gantos
Summary: The Rumbaugh twins love their mother enough to have her corpse stuffed so they can keep her with them forever.


Title: Lurker
Author: Stefan Petrucha
Summary: Terror strikes Mandy after one of her classmates is gruesomely murdered. Her on-line boyfriend isn't who he appears to be.


Title: My Swordhand is Singing
Author: Marcus Sedgwick
Summary: When the undead terrorize a remote village, Peter's father, Tomas, must reveal a secret about his past that not even his son knows in order to save their village.


Title: Odd Thomas
Author: Dean Koontz
Summary: Odd Thomas, a 20-year-old short-order cook, talks to ghosts and can also see a growing number of bodachs, evil beings who feast on violence and carnage.


Title: Presence
Author: Eve Bunting
Summary: After her best friend dies in a car accident for which she feels responsible, 17-year-old Catherine is approached by a stranger who claims he can contact her dead friend.


Title: Prom Nights from Hell
Author: Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe, Stephenie Meyer and Lauren Myracle
Summary: Prom nights can be horrific, especially in these tales featuring vampires, demons, zombies and other supernatural creatures.


Title: Raven's Gate: Book One of the Gatekeepers
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Summary: As an alternative to jail, Matt chooses a government program for wayward youth in the middle of nowhere, only to discover he is trapped by dangerous people and strange forces.


Title: Restless Dead: ten original stories of the supernatural
Author: edited by Deborah Noyes
Summary: M.T. Anderson, Libba Bray, Annette Curtis Klause, Holly Black, Marcus Sedgwick and others explore the world of the dead who AREN'T exactly dead, who are restless and awake and terrifying.


Title: Skeleton Man
Author: Joesph Bruchac
Summary: When Molly's parents disappear, her "great-uncle", a creepy, skeletal man who reminds her of some of the villains in her Mohawk father's stories, steps forward to claim her.


Title: Something Wicked This Way Comes
Author: Ray Bradbury
Summary: An evil traveling circus is destroying Jim and Will's town by feeding on the secret desires of its citizens.


Title: Tell Tale Heart and Other Writings
Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Summary: A heartbeat that only the murderer can hear, and other spooky stories by the master of creepy horror himself. Nevermore!


Title: Thirsty
Author: M.T. Anderson
Summary: Moodiness, insomnia, occasionally fading from mirrors and a terrible thirst all mean Chris, once a normal teen, is becoming a vampire and has some serious decisions to make.


Title: Twilight
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Summary: Bella moves to boring, rainy Forks, Washington after her parent's divorce and falls desperately in love with a gorgeous, alluring blood-sucking creature.


Non-Fiction
Title: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
Author: Truman Capote
Summary: Learn the grisly details surrounding the brutal murder of the entire Clutter family in 1959 through Capote's intimate connections with the killers as they awaited execution. 364.152309 CAP