--• Horror Fiction •--

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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 the Demonata 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)

Key

(N)= Synopsis by NoveList
(K)= Synopsis by Librarian
(LC)= Synopsis taken from Library Catalog

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