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SHATTERED MIRROR
CORALINE
THE HOLLOW NUMBER 1: HORSEMAN
 

SHATTERED MIRROR
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
As seventeen-year-old Sarah, daughter of a powerful line of vampire-hunting witches, continues to pursue the ancient bloodsucker Nikolas, she finds herself in a dangerous friendship with two vampire siblings in her high school.

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.

GHOSTS OF ALBION: ACCURSED
by Amber Benson and Christopher Golden
As Protectors of Albion, brother and sister William and Tamara Swift have the duty to guard Britain against supernatural dangers. When London suffers a plague of monsters that attack the innocent and helpless, the sibling guardians call upon their ghostly allies—Queen Bodicca, Lord Byron and Admiral Lord Nelson—to help them track down and destroy its source.

THE COMPOUND
by S. A. Bodeen
After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.

WOUNDED
by Stephen Cole

Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family–and fight becoming werewolves themselves–by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure.

THE UNSEEN PART 1: IT BEGINS
by Richie Tankersley Cusick
After a horrifying encounter in a graveyard, Lucy cannot get over feeling that she is being watched, but is unwilling to trust the one person who might be able to help her.

I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER
by Lois Duncan
Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.

THE BLACK TATTOO
by Sam Enthoven
When his best friend, Charlie, is possessed by an ancient demon, fourteen-year-old Jack, accompanied by a girl with superhuman powers, battles all over London and into Hell to save him.

JESSICA'S GUIDE TO DATING ON THE DARK SIDE
by Beth Fantaskey
Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her.

THE UNSPOKEN
by Thomas Fahy
Six teens are drawn back to the small, North Carolina town where they once lived and, one by one, begin to die of their worst fears, as prophesied by the cult leader they killed five years earlier, and who they believe poisoned their parents.

CORALINE
by Neil Gaiman
Looking for excitement, 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.

THE HOLLOW NUMBER 1: HORSEMAN
by Christopher Golden & Ford Lytle Gilmore
When a string of grisly decapitation murders occurs in the famed village of Sleepy Hollow, newcomers Aimee and Shane Lancaster suspect a supernatural killer.

THE RAVENSCLIFF SERIES BOOK 1: SORCERERS OF THE NIGHTWING
BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE
30 DAYS OF NIGHT

 

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IN THE SMALL
by Michael Hague
When a mysterious cataclysmic event, "the blue flash," causes the population of the earth to shrink in size to six inches tall, suddenly humanity has the tables turned on itself: The very civilization it has created becomes its greatest obstacle to survival. Amid the confusion and turmoil, two strong teenagers, 18-year-old Mouse and his younger sister Beat, emerge as the most promising leaders, eventually setting out on a quest to discover the secret that could redeem this strange new world.

DR. FRANKLIN'S ISLAND
by Ann Halam
When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.

A STIR OF BONES
by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself.

NEWES FROM THE DEAD: BEING A TRUE STORY OF ANNE GREEN, HANGED FOR INFANTICIDE AT OXFORD ASSIZES IN 1650, RESTORED TO THE WORLD AND DIED AGAIN 1665
by Mary Hooper
In 1650, while Robert, a young medical student, steels himself to assist with her dissection, twenty-two-year-old housemaid Anne Green recalls her life as she lies in her coffin, presumed dead after being hanged for murdering her child.

THE RAVENSCLIFF SERIES BOOK 1: SORCERERS OF THE NIGHTWING
by Geoffrey Huntington
At fourteen, Devon is sent to live at Ravenscliff, a dark seaside mansion where secrets abound and the dead just won't stay that way. He learns that he is a sorcerer of the Order of the Nightwing, a three-thousand-year-old tradition of mysticism and magic. In a house of mysteries, he'll have to decide quickly who is friend and who is foe, because Ravenscliff's worst nightmare–the Madman–is coming back, and he's bringing Hell with him.

IT
by Stephen King
Seven men and women return to their hometown to face the horror they fled from when they were teenagers.

BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE
by Annette Curtis Klause

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.

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.

BLACK JUICE
by Margo Lanagan
Black Juice offers glimpses into familiar, shadowy worlds that push the boundaries of the spirit and leave the mind haunted with the knowledge that black juice runs through us all.

30 DAYS OF NIGHT
by Steve Niles
This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

SWEET MISS HONEYWELL'S REVENGE: A GHOST STORY
by Kathryn Reiss
Just before her mother is to remarry and her stepfamily is set to move in, twelve-year-old Zibby gradually realizes that her antique dollhouse is haunted by ghosts, one of whom is out for revenge.

MY SWORDHAND IS SINGING
by Marcus Sedgwick
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.

DEMONATA SERIES
TANTALIZE
PEEPS: A NOVEL

 

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DEMONATA SERIES
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.

CIRQUE DU FREAK SERIES
by Darren Shan
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.

UNWIND
by Neal Shusterman
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs–and, perhaps, save their own lives.

TANTALIZE
by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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.

BALEFIRE SERIES
by Cate Tiernan
Separated since birth, seventeen-year-old twins Thais and Clio unexpectedly meet in New Orleans where they seem to be pursued by a coven of witches who want to harness the twins' magical powers for its own ends.

BEING DEAD
by Vivian Vande Velde
Seven supernatural stories, all having something to do with death.

STORMWITCH
by Susan Vaught
In Pass Christian, Mississippi in 1969, sixteen-year-old Ruba, trained by her Haitian grandmother in both voodoo and Amazonian warrior tactics, uses her skills to fight against racism and the African witch Zashar, now coming ashore in the form of Hurricane Camille.

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

NIGHTWOOD
by Patricia Windsor
The lives of several teenagers intertwine and turn nightmarish as they flee from a hideous monster.

THE HAUNTING OF ALAIZABEL CRAY
by Chris Wooding
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.

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