Spooky Reads: Teens

Powerful mediums Edie and Violet Bond are part of a Spiritualist show, a tight-knit group of young women who express unladylike talents and opinions under the guise of communing with spirits, but when the dark spirit responsible for their mother's death crosses into the land of the living, the twins must race against time to uncover a killer who will stop at nothing to cheat death.

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.

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.

Jay discovers that mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates.

The room is watching. But Mira and Layla don't know this yet. The two best friends are stranded at the Wildwood Motel, located in the middle of nowhere, Indiana. Mira can't shake the feeling that there is something wrong and rotten about their room. Inside, she's haunted by nightmares of her dead brother. When she wakes up, he's still there.

After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready to awaken.

November 1999. Nesbit Nuñez discovers the partially devoured body of Bastion Attia: star quarterback, secret witch, and Nesbit's even-more-secret boyfriend. Now the remaining members of their coven vow to get answers, but nothing can prepare them for what they uncover.

Jake is one of the few Black kids at St. Clair Prep. To make matters worse, he can see the dead. Most are harmless: stuck reliving their deaths over and over again, they don't interact often with people. But Sawyer was a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school last year before taking his own life. Now a powerful, vengeful ghost, he has plans for his afterlife- plans that include Jake.

When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation . . . Maddy did it.

After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.

When seventeen-year-old friends Liv and Will are accepted in a semester-at-sea program, they are excited to spend six weeks aboard the luxury cruise ship The Eos, but after Will disappears the first night, Liv grows suspicious that something sinister is lurking below deck.

Tasked with hunting down those whose soul the Devil has marked, seventeen-year-old Matthew begins to question everything when his first solo mission is sixteen-year-old Rae Winters, the girl he has fallen for.

Anna enters a surreal hotel where no one ever leaves, and when the clock strikes midnight, she will be trapped there forever, unless she decides to break all her rules to break free from its magic.

When Atia, a monster hunted by the Gods, and mortal Silas join forces to avenge her family and break his curse and restore his humanity, they discover that only together can they finally rewrite their destinies.

Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider. Jude Wolf may be the daughter of a billionaire, but she is also undeniably cursed. Emer Byrne is an orphaned witch with a dark past and a deadly power. When Emer's clients start turning up dead, the three girls strike a tenuous alliance to hunt a killer.

Evhen, Queen of Vodaeard, is on a revenge mission. After witnessing her parents' murder by the king of Marama and the horror of his undead army, she's vowed to kill his daughter. Princess Kalei of Marama is moon-blessed, allowing her to resurrect her kingdom's subjects. But when she's attacked in her safe lighthouse, her worldview is shattered once she learns what her power is really being used for.

Sadie and Logan ditch their end-of-year field trip in favor of exploring some old, forgotten backroads. The last thing they expect to come across is a giant, abandoned corn maze. When they stumble on the corpses in the maze, identical to them in every way, they quickly realize they've not only entered this maze before, they've died in it too. And they can't figure out what--or who--is hunting them.

In the course of a single winter's night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of the disappearances, she discovers a darkness in her town's past, connected to a piece of local lore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora's own childhood games. . . .

Jericka Walker finds herself spending her summer in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past. As she adjusts to life in a town where everything closes before dinner, she meets "ghost girl" Kat, a girl eager to leave Coldwater and more exciting than a person has any right to be. But Coldwater has a few unsettling secrets of its own. The more you try to leave, the stronger the town's hold.

In 1836 Wisconsin, Catalina's determination to keep her family alive is tested when a bark-covered man abducts her brother, prompting her to delve into a world of strange beasts and tormented spirits as she uncovers the deep-rooted connection between her fate and the Man of Sap.

A collection of spooky short stories, from a garbage disposal that feeds on flesh to roses that require human blood to bloom.

It's been one year since the death of her ex-best friend, Taylor, when Haley receives a disturbing video that raises questions about Taylor's death. As she digs into what really happened, her search keeps bringing her back to the Winter Girl, a spirit that haunts her prep school.

In Fall River, Massachusetts, home to New England's infamous Bridgewater Triangle, Tessa must prove her brother innocent of murdering his girlfriend's parents with an axe, a mystery that proves all too close to the Lizzie Borden murders one hundred years earlier.

Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.

Seventeen-year-old Hylee is mysteriously sucked back in time to the worst night of her life and must solve the mystery behind her brother Bubba's disappearance.

When a girl goes missing in her secluded Appalachian town, seventeen-year-old Linden, who can taste other people's emotions, recovers haunting memories of her own disappearance and explores the legend of the Moth-Wigned Man, leading her to wonder if there are some secrets best left buried.

The residents of a quiet Japanese neighborhood have slowly come to realize that inauspicious, paranormal forces are at play in the most unlikely of places: the local playground. Two friends, a young boy and girl, resolve to exorcise the evil that inhabit it, including a snaggle-toothed monster.

When a tragic accident takes the life of the only family she's ever known, 16-year-old Raven is sent to New Orleans to start over. She soon discovers that she can hear the thoughts of others around her ... and another, more disturbing, voice in her head.

When Abby's friend Noreen, the closest thing she has to a sister, disappears, Abby's search for answers leads her down a rabbit hole that uncovers more secrets than she can handle. As mounting evidence steers her toward the off-limits woods that surround her academy of witchcraft, she begins to see that Noreen's disappearance has a lot in common with another girl who went missing years ago...

Twelve years after a disastrous explosion, young Hailey is dropped off at a holiday camp in a dilapidated shopping mall. Alienated from the other kids, she connects with an eerie older teen named Jen but soon dark horrors awaken, and the two new friends are caught up in a cataclysmic battle between two terrifying creatures who have been lying dormant all this time.

When college freshman Kat receives a mysterious email urging her to visit a town with a history of witchcraft, she takes a solo road trip to investigate. Meanwhile, Marisol is headed for the same town to attend a family funeral. After a chance meeting, they decide to work together, and uncover the dark legacy that the town was built on.