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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.

Ghosts & HauntingsHorrorTense and SuspensefulFirst Person Narrator
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Brother Odd

Dean Koontz · 417 pages

Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker natureThrough two New York Times b

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Shade

Jeri Smith-Ready · 309 pages

Death of a FriendGhosts & HauntingsYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Ghost in the Machine

Patrick Carman · 207 pages

Although forbidden to see each other, Ryan and Sarah continue their investigation of the mysterious happenings at the dredge by communicating through video clips, text messages, midnight meetings, and journaling. The reader may view videos on a website by using links and passwords found in the text.

Ghosts & HauntingsHorrorTense and SuspensefulYoung Adult
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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Michelle Hodkin · 464 pages

Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.

Death of a FriendTense and SuspensefulHorrorYoung Adult
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Phantom of the Auditorium

R.L. Stine · 126 pages

Hey, that's an awesome book. It talks about a girl and her best friend, who learn that there is a phantom haunting their school over the years and begin to explore that. R.L. Stine here, promises an amazing twist ending. What I liked the most about this book is that besides being spooky and extremely creepy, it is also interesting with small details. Thank God for its one of the best Goosebumps bo

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The Long Walk

Stephen King · 391 pages

The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback. Set in a future dystopian America, ruled by a totalitarian and militaristic dictator, the plot revolves around the contestants o

Death of a FriendTense and SuspensefulHorrorYoung Adult
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The Creeping Shadow

Jonathan Stroud · 445 pages

"A terrible crime forces Lockwood to turn to Lucy for help, setting them on the trail of dark secrets at the heart of London society. Both professionally and personally, their investigation stirs up forces they may not be able to control. . ."--

Ghosts & HauntingsTense and SuspensefulFirst Person NarratorYoung Adult
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The Ghost Files 2

Apryl Baker · 254 pages

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Cirque Du Freak

Darren Shan · 266 pages

As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.

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Remember Me

Christopher Pike · 238 pages

**SHE WON'T LET THEM FORGET.** Shari Cooper wakes up dead. The last thing she can remember is falling from a balcony during her friend's party. Her death has been ruled a suicide, but Shari knows she was murdered - and her closest friends are now suspects. As she tries to find her killer from the other side, she discovers her friends may not have been so loyal to her after all. Now Shari is not j

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The Crossroads

Chris Grabenstein · 336 pages

ZACK, HIS DAD, and new stepmother have just moved back to his father's hometown, not knowing that their new house has a dark history. Fifty years ago, a crazed killer caused an accident at the nearby crossroads that took 40 innocent lives. He died when his car hit a tree in a fiery crash, and his malevolent spirit has inhabited the tree ever since. During a huge storm, lightning hits the tree, rel

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Shadowlands

Kate Brian · 328 pages

Rory Miller had one chance to fight back and she took it. Rory survived and the serial killer who attacked her escaped. Now that the infamous Steven Nell is on the loose, Rory must enter the witness protection with her father and sister, Darcy, leaving their friends and family without so much as a goodbye. Starting over in a new town with only each other is unimaginable for Rory and Darcy. They

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Devoured

Amanda Marrone

Rising high school senior Megan has been haunted by her twin for ten years, but now Remy is trying to warn her about terrible danger surrounding Megan's summer job at an amusement park called the Land of Enchantment.

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Red Fox

Karina Halle · 265 pages

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Hemlock

Kathleen Peacock · 404 pages

High school senior Mackenzie attempts to solve the mystery of her best friend's murder in a town affected by the werewolf virus.

Death of a FriendTense and SuspensefulFirst Person NarratorYoung Adult
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The Gathering

Dan Poblocki · 219 pages

Some houses are more than just haunted . . . they're hungry. Dash, Dylan, Poppy, Marcus, and Azumi don't know this at first. They each think they've been summoned to Shadow House for innocent reasons. But there's nothing innocent about Shadow House. Something within its walls is wickedly wrong. Nothing--and nobody--can be trusted. Hallways move. Doors vanish. Ghosts appear. Children disappear.

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Evermore

Alyson Noel

Since the car accident that claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever can see auras and hear people's thoughts, and she goes out of her way to hide from other people until she meets Damen, another psychic teenager who is hiding even more mysteries.

Death of a FriendGhosts & HauntingsYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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A Stir of Echoes

Richard Matheson · 223 pages

Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the people around him-and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know. But as Tom's existence becomes a waking nightmare, even greater jolts are in store as he becomes the unwilling recipient of a compelling message from beyond the grave! Th

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Marly's Ghost

David Levithan · 167 pages

Two of children's literature's brightest stars present this compelling novel about loss that puts a modern twist on Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. When his girlfriend Marly dies, Ben takes a painful journey through Valentine's Days past, present, and future. Young Adult. The spirit of Ben's girlfriend Marly returns with three other ghosts to haunt him with a painful journey though Valentine'

Death of a FriendGhosts & HauntingsYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Another (light novel)

Yukito Ayatsuji · 496 pages

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Morning Star

Pierce Brown · 544 pages

Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to the treacherous Gold overlords. Vowing to fight for the future that his wife believed in, Darrow joins a secret revolutionary group and is remade into a Gold so that he can infiltrate the ruling class and bring them down from the inside. Now, after years of hiding amongst the Golds, Darrow is finally ready to declare open revol

Death of a FriendTense and SuspensefulFirst Person NarratorYoung Adult
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The Summoning

Kelley Armstrong · 396 pages

My name is Chloe Saunders and my life will never be the same again. All I wanted was to make friends, meet boys, and keep on being ordinary. I don't even know what that means anymore. It all started on the day that I saw my first ghost—and the ghost saw me. Now there are ghosts everywhere and they won't leave me alone. To top it all off, I somehow got myself locked up in Lyle House, a "special hom

Ghosts & HauntingsTense and SuspensefulYoung AdultFirst Person Narrator
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Ninth House

Leigh Bardugo · 480 pages

Galaxy “Alex” Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale’s freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. By age twenty, in fact, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she’s thrown her life away. But at her hospi

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