Ghosts/Hauntings

Bunting, Eve - The Ghosts of Departure Point   
(113 pages) On a dangerous curve of road known as Departure Point, twelve people have lost their lives.  Vicki should know—she’s one of the dead, doomed to haunt Departure Point until she can somehow stop the carnage.  (K)

Bunting, Eve - The Presence    
(195 pages) While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible.  (N)

Hoffman, Nina Kiriki – A Stir of Bones   
(211 pages) Outwardly privileged, secretly abused, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom finds a strange solace in investigating a 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.  (N)

Jenkins, A.M. – Beating Heart: A Ghost Story   
(244 pages) When Evan moves into an old house with his newly divorced mother and emotionally needy little sister, he has no way of knowing that his new home is already occupied—by the ghost of a sixteen-year-old girl whose untimely death links her to the house, and to Evan.  As Evan’s relationship with his girlfriend progresses, he doesn’t realize that it begins to mirror the doomed relationship of the ghost. Nor does he realize he’s being watched, day and night, by a presence that believes he’s her long lost love.  (K)                                                                             

Levithan, David – Marly’s Ghost   
(163 pages) After his girlfriend, Marly, dies Ben wants nothing to do with love and romance.  Then on Valentine’s Day, Ben is visited by several ghosts who take him on a painful journey—through Valentines Day past, present and yet to come.  (K)

Nixon, Joan Lowery – The Haunting   
(184 pages) After inheriting a Civil War manor and reading the diary of Charlotte, a long dead resident of the plantation, teenaged Lia discovers a dark supernatural presence lingering in her family’s new estate.  (K)

Nixon, Joan Lowery – Whispers from the Dead  
(180 pages) After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.  (N)

Prince, Maggie – The House on Hound Hill  
(242 pages) Emily knows there’s something wrong with the dark and gloomy home she and her mother move into after the divorce.  Emily can see and hear things others can’t.  There is something coming into her home—something she can see and feel—and it brings with it a terrible legacy of pain, sickness, and death.  (K)

Reiss, Kathryn – Dreadful Sorry  
(340 pages) Seventeen-year-old Molly is plagued by nightmares and visions of a girl who died over eighty years ago.  (N)

Soto, Gary – Afterlife   
(161 pages) A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had gone to dance.  (N)

Wallace, Rich – Restless: A Ghost’s Story  
(167 pages) Frank, a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died.  (N)

Whitcomb, Laura – A Certain Slant of Light
(282 pages) After 130 years of never being seen, heard or able to touch the physical world beyond a whisper, a ghost named Helen becomes aware of another like herself.  This other—a young man named James—has managed to take over the body of a spiritless teenage boy, and with his guidance and love, Helen begins to experience the joy of life, even in death.   (K)

Just Plain Scary

Almond, David – Clay  
(247 pages) The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers.  (N)

Carter, Dean Vincent – The Hand of the Devil  
(271 pages) When journalist Ashley Reeves finds himself on an island to interview a reclusive insect collector, he soon realizes that he might be the hunted.  (N)

Duncan, Lois – Down a Dark Hall  
(181 pages) Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, 14-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.  (N)

Duncan, Lois – I Know What You Did Last Summer 
(199 pages) Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery person seeking revenge.  (N)

Duncan, Lois – Stranger with My Face  
(250 pages) A seventeen-year-old senses she is being spied on and probably impersonated, but when she discovers what actually is occurring, it is more unbelievable than she ever imagined.  (N)

Golden, Christopher – Straight on ‘Til Morning  
(336 pages) To rescue Nicole French, the young lady on whom he has a crush, from the enigmatic new boy in town, Pete Starling, Kevin Murphy and his friends must venture into a perilous, nightmarish world from which they may never escape. Original.  (N)

Gothic – Gothic: Ten Original Dark Tales   
(241 pages) Drawing on dark fantasy and the fairy tale as well as horror and wild humor, ten acclaimed authors pay homage to the gothic tale in wide-ranging stories of the supernatural and surreal.  (N)

Ito, Junji – Museum of Terror: Volume I  
(370 pages) Beautiful Tomie dies but won’t stay dead.  In this chilling graphic novel, Tomie rises from the dead again and again, only to be murdered at the hands of the men and boys she literally drives insane with her beauty.  (K)

Johnson, Maureen – Devilish  

(263 pages) Punk rock Jane doesn’t fit in at her Catholic school, but then again neither does her best friend . . . until the day a mysterious new student starts to change the social hierarchy—for a very dark price. Is it possible for pure evil to take the form of a teenage girl? Does Jane have the means to stop her and save her friend?  (K)

Night - Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow and Substance  
(175 pages) A collection of eleven original stories that deal with ghosts and gangs, murders and monsters  (N)  Edited by Lois Duncan.

Rees, Celia – Soul Taker  
(182 pages) The price for changing Lewis James’ unhappy life is his mortal soul.  Master puppet-maker, Viktor Ladslow is only too happy to take it, but can Lewis afford to pay the price?  (K)

Richards, Justin – The Death Collector 

(320 pages) Three teens and a curator of unclassified artifacts at the British Museum match wits with a madman determined to use unorthodox methods to reanimate the dead, both humans and dinosaurs.  (N)

Richardson, E.E. – Devils’ Footsteps  
(184 pages) After the disappearance of his brother Adam, fifteen-year-old Bryan faces a shadowy, centuries-old evil presence known as the Dark Man that, taking the form of its victims' worst fears, stalks the town's children.  (N)

Richardson, E. E. – The Intruders 
(196 pages) When soon-to-be stepbrothers, Joel and Tim, start having the same nightmare after moving into an old house, they decide to investigate its source and the many other strange occurrences in their new home.  (N)

Shan, Darren – Lord Loss 
(233 pages) Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.  (N) Book One of theDemonata series.

Sleator, William – The Boy Who Couldn’t Die  
(162 pages) When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.

Sleator, William – Hell Phone  
(237 pages) Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but strange and desperate people keep calling--one of them a denizen of Hell--begging for or demanding his help. (N)

Vande Velde, Vivian – All Hallow’s Eve: 13 Stories  
(225 pages) Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.  (N)

Wooding, Chris – The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray 
(292 pages) As Thaniel, a wych-hunter, and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London's Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with that of a woman who may be either mad or possessed.  (N)

Werewolves

Cole, Stephen – Wounded 
(264 pages) Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family--and fight becoming werewolves themselves--by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure. (N) Book One of The Wereling Series

DeLint, Charles – Wolf Moon
(245 pages) His name when he was human was Kern, and it seemed he had been running forever, for he had become the most feared of beings, a werewolf.  (LC)

Garfield, Henry – My Father, the Werewolf  
(228 pages) Teenagers Miranda and Danny move to Maine to be near a deserted island where their werewolf father can isolate himself during full moons, but when the ocean freezes and creates a path to the populated mainland, they resort to desperate measures to save the townspeople from their transformed parent.  (N)

Garfield, Henry – Tartabulls’ Throw 
(262 pages) 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. (N)

Golden, Christopher – Prowlers  
(290 pages) Nineteen-year-old Jack Dwyer is devastated when his best friend, Artie, is murdered, but his world is truly turned upside down when Artie's ghost appears to warn him about the deadly Prowlers—a gang of werewolves who prey on humans from city to city.  (N)

Jennings, Patrick – The Wolving Time  
(197 pages) In France during a time of witch-hunts, in a village with a corrupt priest, thirteen-year-old Lazlo longs to be able to turn into a wolf as his parents can, but also desires the friendship of a village girl.  (N)

Krause, Annette Curtis- Blood and Chocolate  
(264 pages) 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. (N)

MacCann, James – Rancour 
(240 pages) An ancient battle between werewolves and vampires affect the lives of several high school students, some victims, some werewolves and vampires themselves.  (K)

Windsor, Patricia – The Blooding  
(281 pages) While spending the summer working as an au pair girl for a couple in England, Maris discovers that the husband is a werewolf intent on blooding her and making her one too.  (N)

Witches

Duncan, Lois – Gallows Hill  
(229 pages) When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.  (N)

Duncan, Lois – Summer of Fear 
(217 pages) Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected.  (N)

Moon, Russell – Witch Boy 
(203 pages) Soon after his seventeenth birthday, Marcus begins to see a face other than his own in the mirror and discovers that he has the power to move objects with his mind, but only when he and his mother move to a new town does he begin to understand his destiny as the Prince of the Forest.  (N)

Myracle, Lauren – Rhymes with Witches 
(207 pages) High school freshman Jane believes that she would do anything to be popular until she is selected to be in the school's most exclusive clique and learns that popularity has a price.  (N)

Stolarz, Laurie Faria – Blue is For Nightmares  
(283 pages) Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magick will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.  (N)

Tiernan, Cate – Book of Shadows  
(187 pages)  A handsome new senior introduces plain, quiet Morgan to Wicca. It all comes to Morgan so naturally, so effortlessly. Could it be that she is a  “blood witch,” a member of one of the ancient seven clans of witches?  (K) Book one of the Sweepseries.

Vande Velde, Vivian – Witch Dreams 
(120 pages) Sixteen-year-old Nyssa uses her ability to see into people's dreams to discover who murdered her parents six years ago.  (N)

Vampires

Anderson, M.T. – Thirsty 
(249 pages) In Chris’s world witches and vampires really exist; magical charms and ceremonies keep the most evil vampire of all time imprisoned in another dimension.  But now that vampire’s followers intend to free him. And if things weren’t bad enough, Chris’s sudden thirst for blood can only mean that his worst fears are coming true—he’s  turning into a vampire.  (K)  

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia – Demon in My View 
(176 pages) Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.  (N)

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

Cary, Kate – Bloodline 
(324 pages) In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.  (N)

Collins, Nancy – Sunglasses After Dark  
(192 pages) Denise Thorne, an heiress and possibly a vampire, escapes from a mental hospital and begins tracking Catherine Wheele, a psychic evangelist.  (N) 

Conrad, Liza – High School Bites 
(228 pages)  Having learned on her sixteenth birthday that Count Dracula exists and lives in her hometown of Seattle, Lucy tries to save herself and her friends while wondering if her boyfriend is also a vampire.  (LC)

Cooney, Caroline B. – Deadly Offer   
(179 pages) Popularity-hungry Althea makes a deadly pact with a vampire, who promises her popularity and a spot on the school cheerleading squad if she will supply him with the victims whose blood he craves.  (N) Book One of The Vampire’s Promise.

De La Cruz, Melissa – Blue Bloods   
(298 pages) Rumor has it not all the original settlers of America were pure-hearted Pilgrims. Among those religious men and women a group of inhuman settlers, the Blue Bloods, hid.  They were the original vampires—and now, in present day New York, at an elite private school—their age-old secret is about to be revealed.  (K)  

Duval, Alex – Bloodlust  
(196 pages) At first Jason Freeman enjoys his new high school, but later he notices too many strange events there, which lead to a girl who washes up on the beach with a suspicious bite mark.  (LC)

Elrod, P. N. – Bloodlist  
(200 pages) Jack Fleming's thirst for beautiful women turns him into one of the undead and this vampire-newsman spends the rest of his days hunting down the person who tried to kill him.  (N)  Book one of The Vampire Diaries.

Hahn, Mary Downing – Look for Me By Moonlight  
(198 pages) While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.  (N) 

Hautman, Pete – Sweetblood   
(180 pages)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.  (N)  

Jablonski, Carla – Thicker Than Water  
(246 pages) Coping with her mother’s cancer makes seventeen-year-old Kia feel out of place everywhere until she is drawn into the goth-vampire club scene, where she finds acceptance and one gorgeous, popular guy  who might offer escape.  (LC)  

Klause, Annette Curtis – The Silver Kiss  
(168 pages) A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.  (N) 

Lutz, Hanna – Vlad the Undead  
(190 pages) When her uncle gives her a 100-year-old manuscript, Lucia has no idea that she is about to be swept into the history of Vlad Dracula—and that this “history” might be far more real than she knows.  (K)

Mancusi, Marianne – Boys That Bite  
(262 pages) Bitten by a vampire after being mistaken for her Goth twin sister, Rayne, sixteen-year-old Sunny is in a race against time as she tries to prevent herself from becoming a vampire permanently.  (N)

Maxwell, Katie – Got Fangs? Confessions of a Vampire’s Girlfriend  
(193 pages) Life can be complicated when your first love interest is one of the Undead.  (K) 

McCann, James – Rancour   
(237 pages) An age-old battle between werewolves and vampires has come to a small-town, putting the lives of high school students at risk.  (K)

Meyer, Stephanie – Twilight  
(498 pages) When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. (N) Sequel is: New Moon.

Pierce, Meredith Ann – The Darkangel  
(223 pages) The servant girl Aeriel must choose between destroying her vampire master for his evil deeds or saving him for the sake of his beauty and the spark of goodness she has seen in him.  (N)  Book One of The Darkangel Trilogy.

Pike, Christopher – The Last Vampire  
(193 pages) Suspecting the detective she killed in self-defense is stalking her, a vampire becomes a high-school student to befriend the detective's son, with whom she falls in love.  (N)  Book one of The Last Vampire series.

Rees, Douglas – Vampire High  
(226 pages) When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.  (N) 

Smith, L.J. – The Awakening  (311 pages) A high school girl reignites an ancient feud, and a twisted love triangle, between vampire brothers.  (K)

Stine, R. L. – Dangerous Girls  
(132 pages) After sixteen-year-old Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are turned into partial vampires at a summer camp, they try to find the "Restorer," someone who can return them to normal.  (N)

Stine, R. L. – Goodnight Kiss  
(216 pages) Matt and Billy have to contend with the vampires that prey on tourists in the resort town of Sandy Hollow, while Pete encounters vampires at his new school.  (N)

Westerfeld, Scott - Peeps 
(320 pages) Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.  (N)  Sequel is: The Last Days

Vande Velde, Vivian – Companions of the Night   
(212 pages) 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.  (N)

(N)= Synopsis by NoveList