Horror for Teens | Indian Prairie Public Library District

1) White smoke: a novel

Author

Jackson, Tiffany D

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Pre-loaded Audio

Description

The phantoms of her old life keep haunting Marigold, but a move with her newly blended family from their California beach town to the Midwestern city of Cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house, one that Mari now has to share with her bratty ten-year-old stepsister, Piper. The renovated home on Maple Street has secrets. Household items vanish, doors open...

2) The taking of Jake Livingston

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Book, eAudiobook

Description

"When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game"--

3) The cheerleaders

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

"As a town prepares for the anniversary of the deaths of five cheerleaders who were killed in three separate, horrific accidents, two teens uncover long-buried truths about what really happened years ago"--

4) His hideous heart: thirteen of Edgar Allan Poe's most unsettling tales reimagined

Description

Offers a collection of authors' reimaginings of Edgar Allan Poe's work, as well as the original Poe stories.

5) Lockdown: escape from Furnace

Author

Smith, Alexander Gordon

Series

Escape from Furnace volume 1

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD

Description

When fourteen-year-old Alex is framed for murder, he becomes an inmate in the Furnace Penitentiary, 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.

6) Rules for vanishing

Author

Marshall, Kate Alice

Description

"Once a year, a road appears in the forest. And at the end of it, the ghost of Lucy Gallows beckons. Lucy's game isn't for the faint of heart. If you win, you escape with your life. But if you lose.... Sara's sister disappeared one year ago--and only Sara knows where she is. Becca went to find the ghost of Lucy Gallows and is trapped on the road that leads to her. In the sleepy town of Briar Glen, Lucy's road is nothing more than local lore. But Sara...

7) Sawkill Girls

Author

Legrand, Claire

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

"From the New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn comes a breathtaking and spine-tingling novel about three teenage girls who face off against an insidious monster that preys upon young women ..."--From publisher website.

8) The bone houses

Author

Lloyd-Jones, Emily

Formats:

Book, eAudiobook, Pre-loaded Audio

Description

"When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever"--

9) The sacrifice box

Author

Stewart, Martin J

Description

Five former friends must discover which of them broke the rules when objects they sealed in an ancient stone box come to life in twisted forms and dead things reanimate.

10) The dark descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein

Author

White, Kiersten

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Book, Audiobook CD

Description

The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankensteins as a companion for their volatile son Victor.

11) Through the woods

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Description

"A collection of five spine-tingling short stories"-- "It came from the woods. Most strange things do. Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow journeys into (and out of?) the eerie abyss. Come, take a walk in the woods, and see what awaits YOU there"--Front flap of book jacket.

12) There's someone inside your house: a novel

Author

Perkins, Stephanie

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

One year after moving to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, Makani Young is forced to confront dark secrets about her past in Hawaii when a serial killer begins to target her fellow high school students.

13) Harrow Lake

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Description

"Lola Nox is sent to live with her estranged maternal grandmother in the mining town where her horror movie director father's most iconic film was set, when paranormal incidents and whispers of a century-old monster make her question if she'll make it out alive"--

14) The dark beneath the ice

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Bérubé, Amelinda

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Description

Marianne has felt a supernatural presence since she stopped dancing, and is afraid that she is following her mother into mental illness until a new friend, Ron, helps her find the truth.

15) The Mary Shelley Club

Author

Moldavsky, Goldy

Description

Scholarship student Rachel keeps to herself at Manchester Prep, preferring the company of horror films to trust fund babies. When a prank puts her on the radar of a mysterious student society, "The Mary Shelley Club", they subject her to a number of escalating Fear Tests which eventually puts them on the radar of a serial killer.

16) Anna dressed in blood

Author

Series

Anna Korlov series volume 1

Formats:

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

Description

For three years, seventeen-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.

17) The merciless

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Series

The merciless volume 1

Formats:

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

In an effort to make friends at her new school, Sofia gets involved with a group of popular girls who dislike Brooklyn, a loner who they believe to be evil.