Sporeville

Paul Marlowe

Sporeville is the first book of a series set in the late 19th century. Gothic fiction mixes with dark humour when 15-yr old Elliott Graven finds himself moving to a remote town where everyone sleepwalks.

 

Naughts and Crosses

Malorie Blackman

Naughts & Crosses is a head-spinning thriller filled with twists and turns. Picture a world where instead of white people being the dominant race, they were the ones with a history of slavery. In this world, white people are treated just as our society treats black people. They are immediately suspect, looked down upon, not credited with achievements, and not allowed in black schools. In this world live Callum and Sephy. Callum is a Naught or white and lives in a shack with his family. Sephy is a Cross or black and lives a priveleged life with her prominent father and family. But the two are drawn together from childhood and soon enter into a forbidden relationship.  For those who enjoy fast-moving thrillers, also science fiction and deep books that will make them think, this is the perfect book!

 

Twilight

Stephenie Meyer

Twilight was so erotic, scary, romantic and about vampires (which I am not interested in at all)and hooked me from the lst page. Stephenie Meyer has that unique ability to grip you with her descriptions of the tortuously beautiful Edward Cullen and his clutzy, human love Bella! I can't wait to go out and buy the sequel, New Moon!

 

Skellig

David Almond

Michael’s new house is a mess, his parents are distracted, his sister is seriously ill, and there’s a mysterious creature beneath the cob webs and dead flies in the garage. What could Skellig be?

 

Thirsty

M.T. Anderson

From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to stay human.

 

Demon in My View

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

17-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.

 

In the Forests of the Night

Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.

 

The Thief of Always: a Fable

Clive Barker

After a mysterious stranger promises to end his boredom with a trip to the magical Holiday House, 10-year-old Harvey learns that fun has a high price.

 

Jane-Emily

Patricia Clapp

While spending the summer in an old Massachusetts house, an 18-year-old girl and her niece become increasingly aware of the presence of a spirit that seems determined to harm them.

 

Locked in Time

Lois Duncan

Nore arrives at her stepmother’s Louisiana plantation to find her new family odd and an aura of evil and mystery about the place.

 

Please Do Not Touch: A Collection of Stories

Judith Gorog

A collection of ten spooky stories based on exhibits at a strange art gallery.

 

Carrie

Stephen King

Story of a misfit teenage girl with strange telekinetic powers who takes revenge on the people around her.

 

Blood and Chocolate

Annette Curtis Klause

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.

 

The Silver Kiss

Annette Curtis Klause

A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother’s terminal illness.

 

The Changeover: A Supernatural Romance

Margaret Mahy

Laura attempts to use her own latent supernatural powers to save her brother, Jocko, from an evil possession.

 

Jade Green: A Ghost Story

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

 

Spirit Seeker

Joan Lowry Nixon

To prove that her friend did not kill his parents, Holly enlists the help of a clairvoyant.

 

Thirteen: 13 Tales of Horror

T. Pines, editor

13 horrifying short stories by your favorite authors of horror including Christopher Pike, R.L. Stine, Caroline B. Cooney, A. Bates and more.

 

The Book of Shadows

Cate Tiernan

Morgan thinks witchcraft is laughable when her best friend Bree drags her to a meeting of the Cirrus Coven. But during a ceremony led by Cal, Morgan’s longtime crush, Morgan feels a shock. Is witchcraft taking hold? Book One of the Sweep series.

 

Companions of the Night

Vivian Vande Velde

When 16-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.

 

Never Trust a Dead Man

Vivian Vande Velde

Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with a dead man, 17-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.

 

The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

Robert Westall

Soon after steeplejack Joe Clarke begins work on one of the spires of Muncaster’s medieval cathedral, terrible things start to happen and Joe realizes that there is a malevolent force connected to the spire’s gargoyle.

 

The Blooding

Patricia Windsor

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.

 

Rats

Paul Zindel

When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, 14-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.

 

CLASSIC HORROR TALES

 

Great Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

A collection of stories and poems by one of literature’s great masters of horror.

 

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

 

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

A tale of a brilliant scientist who creates a potion that transforms him into an alter ego with disastrous results.

 

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Classic, hypnotic story of the undead creatures of the night—and the human lives the touch— as they relentlessly seek to satisfy an accursed craving for their only sustenance: human blood.