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If You Like Cirque du Freak, Check Out these Scary Stories for Teens:

Pet Shop of Horrors

PET SHOP OF HORRORS (MANGA SERIES)
by Matsuri Akino
Stories of terror and wonder centering around Count D's Pet Shop, where the mysterious count sells magical creatures who come with a contract whose terms must not be broken.*

Abarat

ABARAT
by Clive Barker
Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, one day finds herself on the edge of a foreign world that is populated by strange creatures, and her life is forever changed.*

Sandman SANDMAN (GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES)
by Neil Gaiman
The Sandman and his siblings (embodiments of the dark forces of nature like Despair, Destiny, Delirium and Desire) have various adventures in the modern day world.
The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs

THE LOVE CURSE OF THE RUMBAUGHS
by Jack Gantos
A seven year-old girl is trapped in a small town and a victim of her family’s dark legacy.

Sorcerers of the Nightwing

SORCERERS OF THE NIGHTWING
by Geoffrey Huntington
Unaware of his sorcerer heritage and unable to explain his supernatural powers, fourteen-year-old Devon March is sent to live at Ravenscliff, where he must single-handedly fight off the evil forces of the Hellhole. Book 1 in the Ravnscliff series.*

Salem’s Lot

SALEM'S LOT
by Stephen King
People in a small Maine town band together to fight a vampire that is slowly taking over their town.

Freaks: Alive on the Inside

FREAKS: ALIVE ON THE INSIDE
by Annette Curtis Klause
After leaving home in search of adventure, romance, and riches, seventeen-year-old Abel, the "normal" son of freak show entertainers, is haunted by a mysterious spirit.*

Watchers

WATCHERS
by Dean Koontz
Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.*

Hellboy

HELLBOY (GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES)
by Mike Mignola
Hellboy is a demon who works for the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defense tracking down ghosts, poltergeists and other things that go bump in the night.

Clockwork: or All Wound Up

CLOCKWORK: OR ALL WOUND UP
by Phillip Pullman
Long ago in Germany, a storyteller's story and an apprentice clockwork-maker's nightmare meet in a menacing, lifelike figure created by the strange Dr. Kalmenius.*

Devil's Footsteps

DEVIL'S FOOTSTEPS
by E. E. Richardson
After the disappearance of his brother Adam, fifteen-year-old Bryan faces a shadowy, centuries-old evil presence known as the Dark Man that, taking the form of its victims' worst fears, stalks the town's children.*

Demonata Book 1: Lord Loss

DEMONATA BOOK 1: LORD LOSS
by Darren Shan
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.*

Hell Phone

HELL PHONE
by William Sleator
Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but strange and desperate people keep calling–one of them a denizen of Hell–begging for or demanding his help.*

Doppelganger

DOPPELGANGER
by Davis Stalhler, Jr.
When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.*

Peeps

PEEPS
by Scott Westerfield
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

Midnighters Volume 1: The Secret Hour

MIDNIGHTERS VOLUME 1: THE SECRET HOUR
by Scott Westerfield
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.*

 

*Summary from Novelist

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