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Updated 3/13

Fear: 13 Stories of Suspense and Horror

(Find under “YA FIC FEAR”)

In 13 blood-chilling stories from such masters

of suspense as RL Stine, Meg Cabot, Heather

Graham, and Suzanne Weyn, nothing is what it

seems and no one is safe.

Rot & Ruin

by Jonathan Maberry

In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and

border patrols guard the few people left from

the zombies, 15-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced

that he must follow in his older brother’s footsteps and be-

come a bounty hunter.

The Devouring

by Simon Holt

The existence of Vours, supernatural creatures

who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the

winter solstice, becomes a terrigying reality for 15-year-old

Reggie when she begins to suspect her timid younger

brother might be one of their victims.

The Name of the Star

by Maureen Johnson

Rory is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.

Vampire Rising

by Jason Henderson

At a boarding school in Switzerland, 14-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since 1821.

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The Madman’s Daughter

by Megan Shepherd

Dr. Moreau’s daughter, Juliet, travels to her

estranged father’s island, only to encounter

murder, medical horrors, and a love triangle.

Long Lankin

by Lindsey Barraclough

When Cora and her younger sister Mimi are

sent to stay with their great Aunt Ida in an

isolated village in 1958, they discover that

they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and along with

village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horri-

fying truth before it is too late.

Anna Dressed in Blood

by Kenadre Blake

For three years, 17-year-old Cas Lowood has

carried on his father’s work of dispatching

the murderous dead, traveling with his

kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but

everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any

ghost he has faced before.

The Parliament of Blood

by Justin Richards

In Victorian London, after discovering that

vampires really do exist and plot to end the

human race, friends George, Liz, and Eddie

join Sir William Protheroe in an increasingly desperate

effort to find ways to stop them from overthrowing Par-

liament and eventually taking over the world.

Shadowlands

by Kate Brian

Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the

serial killer she turned in has found her and

is killing people around her. But as she inves-

tigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her

new hometown.

Monstrumologist

by Rick Yancey

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chroni-

cles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warhrop, a

scientist who hunts and studies real-life mon-

sters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of

Anthropophagi.

Ten

by Gretchen McNeil

Ten teens head to a house party at a remote

island mansion off the Washington coast . . .

Only for them to be picked off by a killer

one by one.

Hell Week

by Rosemary Clement-Moore

While working undercover on a series of

stories for her campus newspaper, college

freshman Maggie reluctantly endues mixers,

rites, and peculiar rules, but soon learns that members of

the society to which she has pledged have strange powers

and a terrible secret.

The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray

by Chris Wooding

In a world similar to Victorian London, Ta-

niel, a seventeen-year-old hunter of deadly,

demonic creatures called the wych-kin, takes

in a lost, possessed girl and becomes embroiled in a plot

to unleash evil on the world.

This is Not a Test

by Courtney Summers

Barricaded in Cortege High with five other

teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane

Price observes her fellow captives become

more unpredictable and violent as time passes, although

they each have much more reason to live than she has.

Lockdown: Escape from Furnace

by Alexander Gordon Smith

When 14-year-old Alex is framed for murder,

he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Peni-

tentiary, where brutal inmates and sadistic

guards reign, boys who disappear in the middle of the

night sometimes return weirdly altered and escape might

just be possible.

The Revealers

by Amanda Marrone

By night, four teen witches hunt and destroy

such monsters as vampires, werewolves, and

ghosts. By day, they must deal with high school cliques,

crushes, and the inner secrets of their own coven.