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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake

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.

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1: The Crucible

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, young sorceress Sabrina Spellman finds herself at a crossroads, forced to choose between an unearthly destiny and her own mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But Madam Satan, a deadly foe from her family's past, has arrived in Greendale, and she has her sights set squarely on the young witch. Can Sabrina face the challenge, or will her witching career -- and high school

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Possessions

Nancy Holder

The It Girl meets The Exorcist in this chilling, haunted boarding school tale New-girl Lindsay discovers all is not right at the prestigious Marlwood Academy for Girls. Ethereal, popular Mandy and her clique are plotting something dangerous. Lindsay overhears them performing strange rituals, and sees their eyes turn black. It doesn't help that the school itself is totally eerie, with ancient, dila

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Possess

Gretchen McNeil · 379 pages

Enlisted to help in dangerous cases of demonic possession, a teenaged exorcist discovers a race of part-demons intent on raising their forefathers to the earth in human form.

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Midnight Alley

Rachel Caine · 245 pages

Claire Danvers's college town may be run by vampires but a truce between the living and the dead made things relatively safe. For a while. Now people are turning up dead, a psycho is stalking her, and an ancient bloodsucker has proposed private mentoring. To what end, Claire will find out. And it's giving night school a whole new meaning.

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Something Strange and Deadly

Susan Dennard

"In an alternate nineteenth-century Philadelphia, Eleanor Fitt sets out to rescue her brother, who seems to have been captured by an evil necromancer in control of an army of Undead"--

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Bad Taste in Boys

Carrie Harris · 208 pages

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Possessed

Kate Cann · 327 pages

Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.

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Bizenghast, Volume 1

M. Alice LeGrow

A young girl named Dinah has just moved to the forgotten town of Bizenghast following the deaths of her parents. There, she encounters the lost souls of the residents of Bizenghast. She and her new friend Vincent must help free these souls before time runs out or Dinah will die.

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The Other Life

Susanne Winnacker · 320 pages

More than three years after a rabies mutation drove survivors into underground bunkers, fifteen-year-old Sherry teams up with seventeen-year-old Joshua, who takes her to Safe Haven and helps rescue her family while fending off part-human, part-beast creatures known as Weepers.

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

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Monster

Christopher Pike · 229 pages

She said she killed them because they were monsters. Mary Blanc walked into the party with a loaded shotgun. In the blink of an eye she blew two people away. She wanted to kill more, but was stopped by her best friend, Angela Warner, and the police. The next day, when Angela visits Mary at the jail, she asks why she did it. Mary responds, "Because they were no longer human." Angela thinks she's cr

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The Empty Grave

Jonathan Stroud · 498 pages

"With the help of some unexpected, and rather ghostly, allies, Lockwood & Co. must battle their greatest enemy yet, as they move ever closer to the moment when the earth-shattering secret of 'the problem' will finally be revealed"--

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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

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The Black

D.J. MacHale · 405 pages

Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.

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Ashes

Ilsa J. Bick · 480 pages

Alex, a resourceful seventeen-year-old running from her incurable brain tumor, Tom, who has left the war in Afghanistan, and Ellie, an angry eight-year-old, join forces after an electromagnetic pulse sweeps through the sky and kills most of the world's population, turning some of those who remain into zombies and giving the others superhuman senses.

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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1

Sui Ishida · 224 pages

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Teacher's Pet

Richie Tankersley Cusick · 214 pages

Kate likes a little thrill. She likes a little scare. And she loves getting the chance to go to the exclusive week-long writing conference taught by the famous master of horror himself. He's so good at being so bad. With a teacher like that, you expect a little competition. With a teacher like that, you practically have to kill to get his attention. Does Kate have what it takes to be teacher's

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Zom-B Family

Darren Shan · 174 pages

"Now a prisoner of the most heinous survivors of the human race, B finds herself at the mercy of her enemies and discovers the fate of her parents and friend Vinyl, calling into question how much she is willing to sacrifice in the name of justice"--

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Piercing the Darkness

Frank E. Peretti · 448 pages

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 (ESV) It all begins in Bacon’s corner, a tiny farming community far from the interstate. An attempted murder, a suspicious case of mistaken identity, and a ruthless lawsuit against a struggling Christian school threaten the peace of the small town. Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, finds herself in the middle of even

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House of Furies

Madeleine Roux · 416 pages

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Lockdown

Alexander Gordon Smith

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.

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