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Thrills & Chills (YA)

Check out this list of a variety of YA horror books guaranteed to give you a good scare. *List created by Randi from the Withers Branch*

Mid-Continent Public Library

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  • This slasher is set in the small town of Kettle Springs, Missouri where the town's mascot is a clown named Frendo...but what happens when Frendo turns homicidial and starts murdering the teenagers of Kettle Springs?
    BookNew York : HarperCollins, [2020] — YF CESARE
  • Sofia is so excited to befriend three girls on her first day of school. When they ask her to hang out after school, she never imagined it would entail performing a horrific and twisted exorcism on their poor classmate.
    BookNew York, New York : Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC, [2014] — YF VEGA
  • Margot is an orphan after losing her family in a horrific car accident. A wealthy family take her and be a "companion" to their mentally unwell and mute daughter, Agatha. Things begin to take a turn when Margot starts to realize Agatha…
    BookNew York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020. — YF ALENDER
  • Makali is the new girl in town and just beginning to make friends when the students of her high school start showing up murdered in gruesome scenes.
    BookNew York, NY : Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017] — YF PERKINS
  • This graphic novel, written and illustrated by Emily Carroll, contains five short horror stories alongside beautifully chilling artwork.
    Graphic NovelNew York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2014] — YF CARROLL
  • Famous director Justin Blake hosts a contests for people to submit an essay of their worst nightmare to win a chance to get an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of his new movie. The seven winners are flown to the middle of nowhere where…
    BookNew York : Hyperion, [2014] — YF
  • Cas and his friends search for the ghost that haunts their hometown's Victorian mansion. Anna dressed in blood is local lore - tales say she walks around in a white dress covered in blood and kills anyone who nears her home.
    BookNew York : Tor Teen, 2011. — YF BLAKE
  • Described as The Grudge meets Dexter, this novel follows a dead girl that haunts a town and kills murderers.
    BookNaperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, 2014. — YF CHUPECO
  • Louisa gets a job as a live-in maid at a boarding house where she finds the characters of staff to be very strange. The house draws in evil people for their death, but Louisa feels the need to save a kind and charismatic boy named Lee.
    BookNew York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2017] — YF ROUX
  • Slasher Girls & Monster Boys is a collection of short stories by YA authors with all types of horror ranging from crazed killers to paranormal to zombies.
    BookNew York, New York : Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2015] — YF
  • Based on the popular TV show, the graphic novel adaptation of Sabrina follows the teenage witch's journey in her final year before leaving the mortal world behind.
    BookNew York, NY : Scholastic Inc., [2019] — YF BRENNAN
  • Anouk and other gifted teenagers from around the world are chosen to explore and aid in an excavation site hundreds of feet below Paris. They thought they were the first people down there in over 200 years, but what they find reveals…
    BookNew York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] — YF