Teen Horror

Check out these YA books from the past few years, filled with serial killers, conspiracy, demons, and general creepiness!


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Ace of Spades

In this social horror novel, the only two black teens at a prestigious prep school find themselves targeted by an anonymous texter who reveals their secrets to the whole school. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on Libby and in eAudio on Hoopla 


The Blonde Dies FIrst

Seventeen-year-old Devon, her twin sister, and her friends face a demonic force who seemingly follows horror movie tropes, propelling the group to flip the script and use their horror movie knowledge in order to survive. 

This title is also available as an eBook and eAudio from Libby.



The Last Girls Standing

Sloan and Cherry begin dating after they leave summer camp the only survivors of a massacre, and Sloan begins to suspect that Cherry might have been involved in the tragedy.

This title is also available as an eBook and eAudio from Libby.


Dead Girls Walking

The daughter of a serial killer returns to the site of her father’s murders, which has been turned into a camp for horror-obsessed queer teenage girls, in order to investigate her mother’s death

This title is also available as an eAudio from Libby and as an eBook and eAudio from hoopla.


Don't Let the Forest In

Two teen boys attempt to stop terrifying creatures that seem to be coming to life from macabre drawings.

This title is also available as an eBook and eAudio from Libby.


White Smoke

This title is also available as an eBook and eAudio from Libby and as an eBook and eAudio from hoopla.


She Is a Haunting

Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans.

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on Libby.


Burn Down, Rise Up

When an urban legend rumored to trap people inside subway tunnels seems to be behind mysterious disappearances in the Bronx, sixteen-year-old Raquel and her friends team up to save their city—and confront a dark episode in its history in the process. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on Libby, and as an eBook and eAudio on Hoopla 


The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Set in an alternate Victorian England where mediums control the dead, a sixteen-year-old autistic transgender boy must expose a power-hungry secret society while confined to a cruel finishing school designed to turn him into the perfect wife. 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook and eAudio on Libby. 


A Place for Vanishing

Looking for a fresh start, sixteen-year-old Libby and her family return to her mother’s childhood home only to discover that the house’s strange beauty may disguise a sinister past.


The Weight of Blood

While at Springville Highs first integrated prom, Maddie, a constantly bullied biracial teenager, is tormented by her classmates until her secret is revealed—one that will cost them their lives.

You can also check out this title as eBook or as eAudio on Libby and as an eBook and eAudio on hoopla.