Selected Reading For Young Adults  

Horror Fiction

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Thirsty (M.T. Anderson)
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. (Teen Fiction)

In the Forests of the Night (Amelia Atwater-Rhodes)
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.(Teen Fiction)

Something Upstairs (Avi)
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders. (Teen Fiction)

Jaws (Peter Benchley)
A man-eating shark causes havoc off the Long Island coast and three men join together to hunt and destroy it. (Adult Fiction)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
Story of two young boys who begin to encounter evil secrets when a lightning rod salesman gives them one of his contraptions covered with mystical symbols. (Teen Fiction)

Tenderness (Robert Cormier)
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him. (Teen Fiction)

I Know What You Did Last Summer (Lois Duncan)
Four teen-agers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge. (Teen Fiction)

A Fate Totally Worse Than Death (Paul Fleischman)
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. (Teen Fiction)

Coraline (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. (Teen Fiction)

Tartabull's Throw (Henry Garfield)
In 1967 an encounter with a mysterious young woman from Maine involves a nineteen-year-old baseball player in an investigation of a vicious, murderous werewolf. (Teen Fiction)

Monster Island (Christopher Golden)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer and her gang of Scoobies head to Los Angeles to face a pure demon army that is set on destroying Angel as revenge for the death of Doyle. (Teen Fiction)

Dr. Franklin's Island (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. (Teen Fiction)

Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)
FBI trainee Clarice Starling is assigned to interview a brilliant, imprisoned psychopathic killer, but she must solve the puzzle of unspeakable murders yet to come. (Adult Fiction)

Sweetblood (Pete Hautman)
After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the "proto-vampires" she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes. (Teen Fiction)

A Stir of Bones (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. (Teen Fiction)

Funhouse (Diane Hoh)
Amusement park officials are certain that a fatal roller coaster derailment was merely an accident, but Tess, who saw someone tampering with the tracks, is certain that foul play is afoot. (Teen Fiction)

Shining (Stephen King)
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts. (Adult Fiction)

Blood and Chocolate (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. (Teen Fiction)

Jade Green (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor)
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings. (Teen Fiction)

The Haunting (Joan Lowery Nixon)
When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the Louisiana countryside, fifteen-year-old Lia seeks to rid it of the evil spirit that haunts it. (Teen Fiction)

Bury Me Deep (Christopher Pike)
On her way to Hawaii for a week of fun, Jean witnesses the death of Mike--the boy sitting beside her on the plane--and suffers a vacation of terror when his corpse continues to turn up on the Hawaiian islands. (Teen Fiction)

Interview with the Vampire (Anne Rice)
Nina and her mother move from place to place, never revealing anything of themselves, and causing Nina to wonder if they will ever stop hiding. (Adult Fiction)

Full Tilt (Neal Shusterman)
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra. (Teen Fiction)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)
The classic tale of the bizarre Carpathian count, who drinks human blood to stay alive, and the Englishman who knows his secret (Classics)

Companions of the Night (Vivian Vande Velde)
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. (Teen Fiction)

The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral (Robert Westall)
Soon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins work on one of the spires of Muncaster's medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire's gargoyle. (Teen Fiction)

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley Wollstonecraft)
A monster assembled by a scientist develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. (Classics)


ANTHOLOGIES AND COLLECTIONS

A Fit of Shivers:Tales for Late at Night (Joan Aiken)
Ten short stories with elements of horror or the supernatural, including "The L-shaped Grave," "The Shrieking Door," and "Watkyn, Comma." (Teen Fiction)

Night Terrors : Stories of Shadow and Substance (Lois Duncan ed.)
The monkey's wedding / Joan Aiken -- Satan's shadow / Alane Ferguson -- The chosen / Madge Harrah -- The bogey man / Annette Curtis Klause -- Bearing Paul / Chris Lynch -- The beautiful thing / Harry Mazer -- The house on Buffalo Street / Norma Fox Mazer -- The dark beast of death / Joan Lowery Nixon -- Girl at the window / Richard Peck -- The grind of an axe / Theodore Taylor -- Moon kill / Patricia Windsor. (Teen Fiction)

Venomous Tales of Villainy and Vengeance (Helen Hoke ed.)
John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- Skeleton / Ray Bradbury -- Bronze / W.M. Tidmarsh -- As is / Robert Silverberg -- Smell / Joan Aiken -- The hungry house / Robert Bloch -- Did you see the window-cleaner? / John Edgell -- The skylight / Penelope Mortimer. (Teen Fiction)

Death Walks Tonight (Anthony Horowitz, selector)
Secret terror / Pete Johnson -- Battleground / Stephen King -- The vacancy / Robert Westall -- The twitch / Guy de Maupassant -- Freebies / Laurence Staig -- Man from the South / Roald Dahl -- The werewolf mask / Kenneth Ireland -- Eels / John Gordon -- Jonathan Harker's journal from Dracula / Bram Stoker -- Bath night / Anthony Horowitz. (Teen Fiction)

The Chilling Hour : Tales of the Real and Unreal (Collin McDonald)
A collection of horror stories in which some strange occurrences happen in such otherwise ordinary settings as a ski vacation and a school field trip. (Teen Fiction)

Horror Stories (coll. by Susan Price)
A collection of horror stories by such noted authors as Joan Aiken, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, and Leon Garfield. (Teen Fiction)

Beware! : R.L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories (R.L. Stine)
A selection of unsettling stories--one in graphic form along with two poems--by such authors as Ray Bradbury, William Sleator, Robert Service, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Jane Yolen, and Mr. Stine himself. (Teen Fiction)


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Angel
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Charmed
Circle of Three
Cirque du Freak
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