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Bloodline

Kate Cary

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First Kill

Heather Brewer · 309 pages

The summer before ninth grade, when Joss sets off to meet his uncle and hunt down the beast that murdered his younger sister three years earlier, he learns he is destined to join the Slayer Society.

VampiresHorrorFather and SonYoung Adult
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The Shining

Stephen King · 464 pages

Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their young son Danny move into the Overlook Hotel, where Jack has been hired as the winter caretaker. Cut off from civilization for months, Jack hopes to battle alcoholism and uncontrolled rage while writing a play. Evil forces residing in the Overlook – which has a long and violent history – covet young Danny for his precognitive powers and exploit Jack’s weakn

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The Curse of the Wendigo

Rick Yancey · 444 pages

In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy the Wendigo, a creature that starves even as it gorges itself on human flesh.

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Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 224 pages

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Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist · 480 pages

Twelve-year-old Oskar is obsessed by the murder that's taken place in his neighborhood. Then he meets the new girl from next door. She's a bit weird, though. And she only comes out at night--Publisher's description.

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Blood and Ice

Robert Masello · 495 pages

In this haunting and suspenseful thriller, Robert Masello delivers an adventure that spans continents and centuries--a spellbinding story that ranges from Victorian England to a remote antarctic research station, where an ancient glacier yields a shocking prize it has held captive for nearly two hundred years....Journalist Michael Wilde--his world recently shattered by tragedy--hopes that a monthl

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Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury · 293 pages

Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury's unparalleled literary classic SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin. The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The

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The Silver Kiss

Annette Curtis Klause · 224 pages

A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother's terminal illness. Includes two accompanying short stories that reveal more of Simon's past and Zoë's future. A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.

VampiresAtmosphericHorrorYoung Adult
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The Terror

Dan Simmons · 784 pages

The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition – as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth – and theirs were t

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Traveling with the Dead

Barbara Hambly · 343 pages

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Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas · 371 pages

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Night of the Soul Stealer

Joseph Delaney · 512 pages

Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.

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The Stress of Her Regard

Tim Powers · 415 pages

When Michael Crawford discovers his bride brutally murdered in their wedding bed, he is forced to flee not only to prove his innocence, but to avoid the deadly embrace of a vampire who has claimed him as her true bridegroom. Joining forces with Byron, Keats, and Shelley in a desperate journey that crisscrosses Europe, Crawford desperately seeks his freedom from this vengeful lover who haunts his d

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Fevre Dream

George R.R. Martin · 352 pages

When struggling riverboat captain Abner Marsh receives an offer of partnership from a wealthy aristocrat, he suspects something's amiss. But when he meets the hauntingly pale, steely-eyed Joshua York, he is certain. For York doesn't care that the icy winter of 1857 has wiped out all but one of Marsh's dilapidated fleet. Nor does he care that he won't earn back his investment in a decade. York has

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The Society of S

Susan Hubbard · 304 pages

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Thirsty

M.T. Anderson · 249 pages

All Chris really wants is to be a normal kid, to hang out with his friends, avoid his parents, and get a date with Rebecca Schwartz. Unfortunately, Chris appears to be turning into a vampire. So while his hometown performs an ancient ritual that keeps Tch'muchgar, the Vampire Lord, locked in another world, Chris desperately tries to save himself from his own vampiric fate. He needs help, but whom

VampiresHorrorYoung AdultTeen Protagonist
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The Snow Spider

Jenny Nimmo · 160 pages

Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his tenth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.

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Cirque Du Freak The Lake of Souls, Vol. 10

Darren Shan, Takahiro Arai

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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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Soul Eater

Michelle Paver · 299 pages

When Wolf is taken by the Soul-Eaters, Torak must infiltrate their clan to bring him back.

Snow and IceAtmosphericTeen ProtagonistYoung Adult
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Vampire Knight, Vol. 5

Matsuri Hino

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the day class and the night class. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of the school, protecting the day class from the Academy's dark secret: the night class is full of vampires!

VampiresAtmosphericYoung AdultTeen Protagonist

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