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Fog

Caroline B. Cooney · 218 pages

Christina comes from her island home to the mainland of Maine to go to school, never guessing at the evil waiting for her. The principal, Mr. Shevvington, is handsome and Mrs. Shevvington is a dedicated teacher, therefore making the school seem ideal. However when Anya begins to lose her mind, Christina knows the Shevvingtons are behind it. Suspicions are confirmed when the attention is on her whe

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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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Bad Dreams

R.L. Stine · 148 pages

Every night Maggie has the same horrible dream. Every night she is forced to watch the same murder. And every night the girl in her dream cries out for help. Maggie is afraid to go to sleep again, but when the terrifying dream starts to come true, staying awake is the real nightmare.

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The Bad Seed

William March · 247 pages

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Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin · 245 pages

She is a housewife—young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor—charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home—a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. . . . Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin—where terror is as near as your new neighbors . . . and where evil wears the most innocent face of all. . . . --front flap

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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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Scavenger Hunt

Christopher Pike · 215 pages

School was almost over. A secretive club on campus had organized a scavenger hunt for the entire senior class. In small groups, and with the help of cleverly planted clues, the kids are led throughout the city, and then deep into the nighttime desert. The sponsoring club has promised a wonderful prize for the first group to reach the goal of the hunt. But for Carl Timmons, a troubled young man

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We Used to Live Here

Marcus Kliewer · 320 pages

"As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with his family, claiming to have lived there years before and asking if it would be alright if he showed his kids around. People pleaser to a fault, Eve l

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Gerald's Game

Stephen King · 400 pages

An erotic game with handcuffs between husband and wife. One of them won't make it through the night. For the survivor, death would have been a blessing.

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Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl · 563 pages

In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.

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The Evolution of Mara Dyer

Michelle Hodkin

Mara Dyer knows she isn't crazy. She knows that she can kill with her mind, and that Noah can heal with his. Mara also knows that somehow, Jude is not a hallucination. He is alive. Unfortunately, convincing her family and doctors that she's not unstable and doesn't need to be hospitalised isn't easy. The only person who actually believes her is Noah. But being with Noah is dangerous and Mara is in

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The Forest Demands Its Due

Kosoko Jackson · 432 pages

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Dark Angel

L.J. Smith · 224 pages

Gillian Lennox almost dies and is saved by an angel but the angel begins to make bizarre demands.

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The Voice of the Night

Dean Koontz · 339 pages

No one could understand why Colin and Roy were best friends. They were complete opposites. Colin was fascinated by Roy--and Roy was fascinated by death. Then one day Roy asked: "You ever killed anything?" And from that moment on, the two were bound together in a game to terrifying to imagine.

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Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes

Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley · 224 pages

In this first ever official guide to the bestselling horror video game Five Night at Freddy's, fans and gamers alike can immerse themselves in the characters, locations, game play etc. and try to uncover the secrets and unlock the mysteries kept so hidden within the game itself.

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The Spook's Apprentice

Joseph Delaney · 340 pages

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The Forest of Hands and Teeth

Carrie Ryan · 310 pages

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Boy Nobody

Allen Zadoff · 337 pages

Sixteen-year-old Boy Nobody, an assassin controlled by a shadowy government organization, The Program, considers sabotaging his latest mission because his target reminds him of the normal life he craves.

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The Invited

Jennifer McMahon · 399 pages

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Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints

Cullen Bunn · 152 pages

Young Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters -- the countless haints of Harrow County. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures -- and to the land itself -- in ways she never could have imagined.

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A Sorceress Comes to Call

T. Kingfisher · 321 pages

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The Turn of the Key

Ruth Ware · 352 pages

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood, The Woman in Cabin 10, The Lying Game, and The Death of Mrs. Westaway comes Ruth Ware's highly anticipated fifth novel. When she stumbles across the ad, she's looking for something else completely. But it seems like too good an opportunity to miss--a live-in nannying post, with a staggeringly generous salary. And when Rowan Ca

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City of Glass

Cassandra Clare · 541 pages

To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters -- never mind that enter-ing the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can with

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Vampire

Richie Tankersley Cusick

HorrorEerieTense and SuspensefulTeen Protagonist

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