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Horror Fiction for Teens

Chills and thrills fill these YA titles recommended by Sunnyvale Public Library staff.

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  • Determined to kill the monster under their town before anyone else gets hurt, Paz, along with inseparable friends bound by a childhood pact, discovers death is neither the beginning nor the end as she faces a greater force of evil than she ever…
    Book, 2024Toronto : Tundra, [2024] — Y CERILLI Matteo
  • Looking for a fresh start, sixteen-year-old Libby and her family return to her mother's childhood home only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past. Call Number: Y FRAISTAT or YP F
    Book, 2024New York : Delacorte Press, 2024. — Y FRAISTAT Ann
  • On a stormy Halloween weekend, Ray enlists his best friends Joaquin, Sofia, and Isabella to help him make a documentary of Malicia, the abandoned theme park off the coast of the Dominican Republic where his mother and brother died in a mass killing…
    Book, 2024Salem, Massachusetts : Page Street YA, 2024 — Y DOSSANTOS Steven
  • Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field,…
    Book, 2023New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — Y SHEA Jamison
  • After a shocking scandal that abruptly ended her teen pop-star career, eighteen-year-old Sunny Lee spends her days longing for her former life and cyberstalking her ex-BFF and groupmate Candie. The two were once inseparable, but that was then --…
    Book, 2023New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2023. — Y CHENG Linda
  • When sixteen-year-old Jo Lavoie arrives at the house she inherited from her grandmother, she begins unraveling dark family secrets and learns that the stories her late father told her are more real and dangerous than she ever imagined. Call Number:…
    Book, 2023New York : HarperTeen, [2023] — Y WARD Patricia
  • Determined to rescue Desmond from the Shadow Land, Evie and her friends investigate the ghosts of the past in order to stop a sinister entity who is haunting the people of Ravenglass. Call Number: Y CORPORA
    Book, 2024New York : Penguin Workshop, 2024. — Y CORPORA Michelle
  • Newly orphaned seventeen-year old Marin accepts a nanny position for an acclaimed horror writer and her mother's childhood friend, but she soon realizes all is not well at Lovelace House and must unravel its secrets before they consume her. Call…
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — Y MCCAULEY Kyrie
  • Five years after the disappearance of their friend Mallory and their memories of that fateful night, high school seniors Fern and Jaq encounter a vengeful spirit resembling Mallory, forcing them to confront their true identities and the dark secrets…
    Book, 2024New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2024. — Y PARKER Natalie
  • A collection of fiften horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, face down death, and survive Call Number: Y BLACK
    Book, 2024New York : Flatiron Books, 2024. — Y BLACK
  • The students in Corbin College's elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it all -- free tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. When first-gen college student Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she doesn't hesitate,…
    Book, 2023New York : Harperteen, [2023] — Y WATERS Erica
  • Wyatt Westlock has returned to her childhood home of Willow Heath, intending to burn it down--until she finds Peter hanging in the basement, a boy whom she considered a friend, semi-immortal and ritually sacrificed every year to keep the ancient…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, 2024. — Y ANDREW Kelly
  • Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island. Call Number: Y POWER or YP POWER
    Book, 2019New York : Delacorte Press, [2019] — YP POWER
  • All These Sunken Souls

    a Black Horror Anthology

    We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele,…
    Book, 2023Chicago, Illinois : Amberjack Publishing, 2023. — Y ALL
  • Following her father's sudden death, Jane North-Robinson and her mother are forced to move to the old North house in Maine, where Jane uncovers her family's disturbing secrets. Call Number: Y LENO
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — Y LENO
  • An undead teen must find the boy he loves before he loses his mind and body. Call Number: Y LEIF
    Book, 2024New York : Holiday House, [2024] — Y LEIF Natalie
  • Most schools are about being the best. This school? It's about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It…
    Book, 2024Shrewsbury, PA : Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC, 2024. — Y WOLFF Tracy
  • A gripping speculative thriller perfect for fans of Lauren Oliver and Ginny Myers Sain, about one girl with the power to see death before it happens--and the terrible consequences she faces when saving someone goes wrong. Call Number: Y STOKES
    Book, 2024New York : Viking, 2024. — Y STOKES Stacy
  • After a disastrous accident at her school's Midsummer Ball leads to Meg's suspension, she agrees to attend a Halloween party at her old friends' ancestral home in Ireland in order to make amends, only to discover that the estate has a sordid past of…
    Book, 2024New York : Delacorte Press, [2024] — Y GOLDSMITH Amy
  • Charlotte survived the car crash that killed her boyfriend Jerry, but that night, everything changed. Charlotte wants desperately to get back to "normal"--whatever that means now--and start reconnecting with friends she hasn't spoken to in months.…
    Book, 2024New York : Viking, 2024. — Y NEIHEISER Tyffany