Horror for Teens
Searching for some thrills and chills? Look no further! MS = books for middle school readers (Updated May 2022)
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The Narrow
Eden starts her senior year at boarding school by braving the leap across a narrow ravine and a fatal fall into the river below. When she learns her parents can no longer afford tuition, she must pay her way by becoming the live-in companion to the only student who has fallen into the river and survived. MS
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Last One to Die
Niamh attends a drama school in London and finds her new roommate murdered the next day. In fact, a string of murders unfolds, and Niamh realizes all the victims look disturbingly like her. MS
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Night of the Living Queers
Thirteen queer authors of color tell tales of a Halloween night that changed the lives of their characters forever.
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Bittersweet in the Hollow
Linden disappeared in the woods a year ago and reappeared a few days later, remembering nothing but terror. Now, as the town celebrates the Moth-Winged Man, Linden’s friend Dahlia is found murdered in the same woods, and Linden decides she must face her fears and solve her murder.
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The Island
Six influencers with millions of followers are invited to an exclusive weekend at a Gothic-themed amusement park on a remote island, but their invitation doesn’t mention murder. MS
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The Hitherto Secret Experiments of Marie Curie
Twenty stories and poems that imagine if the great scientist Marie Curie had turned her research into radioactivity to the dark side. MS
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Gallant
All orphan Olivia has is her mother’s journal, which warns her to never go to Gallant, yet how can she pass up having a home and family at her uncle’s invitation? She soon learns the dark secrets at the family homestead that have led generations to madness and death.
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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
Perfectionist Laure will go to any length to become the top ballerina in her otherwise all-white dance group, including bathing in a river of blood belonging to an ancient god.
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Find Him Where You Left Him Dead
Four teens once played a card game that left their fifth friend dead. Now that his ghost is calling them to finish the game, they cannot resist, and are pulled into an underworld and given seven tasks to complete before morning, or spend eternity here.
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She Is A Haunting
Returning to Vietnam to visit her estranged father, Jade encounters a house that invades her dreams with ghosts from its colonial past.
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