Horror Reads for Teens
Stories that'll give you chills & thrills.
FICTION
Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda (Gr. 10+)
Shutter* by Courtney Alameda (Gr. 8+)
Bad Girls Don't Die* (Bad Girls Don't Die, Book 1) by Katie Alender (Gr. 6+)
Alone by Cyn Balog (Gr. 9)
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror* (Short Stories) edited by Tori Bovalino (Gr. 7+)
Unspoken* (Lynburn Legacy, Book 1) by Sarah Rees Brennan (Gr. 7+)
The Silver Eyes* (Five Nights at Freddy's, Book 1) by Scott Cawthon
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare (Gr. 9+)
Revenge of the Witch*(The Last Apprentice, Book 1) by Joseph Delaney
Don't Let the Forest In by C. G. Drews (Gr. 9+)
The Getaway by Lamar Giles (Gr. 9+)
Ruin Road by Lamar Giles (Gr. 9+)
172 Hours on the Moon by Johan Harstad
Raven's Gate (Gatekeepers, Book 1) by Anthony Horowitz
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
White Smoke & The Weight of Blood by Tiffany Jackson
Carrie by Stephen King
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala (Gr. 9+)
The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones
Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall
#MurderTrending by Gretchen McNeil (Gr. 9+)
The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky
The Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Short Stories) by Edgar Allan Poe
The Island by Natasha Preston (Gr. 8+)
Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards (Gr. 9+)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Book 1) by Ransom Riggs
Man Made Monsters (Short Stories) by Andrea Rogers
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Streaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co., Book 1) by Jonathan Stroud
This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
How to Survive Your Murder by Danielle Valentine
Lock the Doors by Ralph Vincent (Gr. 8+)
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth & Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White
The 5th Wave (Thje 5th Wave, Book 1) by Rick Yancey
The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
GRAPHIC NOVELS & MANGA
JuJutsu Kaisen (manga) by Gege Akutami
Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
Through the Woods: Stories by Emily Carroll
Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Gr. 6+)
Poe: Stories and Poems, a Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds
D. Gray-M-man (manga) by Katsura Hoshino
The Crossroads at Midnight by Abby Howard
The Last Halloween: Vol. 1, Children by Abby Howard
Attack on Titan (manga) by Hajime Isayama
Tokyo Ghoul (manga) by Sui Ishida (Gr. 10+)
Shiver: Selected Stories by Junji Ito
The Walking Dead Compendium by Robert Kirkman
Monstress, Vol. 1, Awakening by Marjorie M. Liu
The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado (Gr. 10+)
The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1, Grace Field (manga) House by Kaiu Shirai
Swamp Thing, Vol. 1, Raise Them Bones by Scott Snyder
Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV
The Woods by James Tynion IV
Clementine by Tillie Walden
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Omnibus by Joss Whedon