HOrror

Cyn Balog

At first Seda, 16, enjoys exploring the cavernous Bismarck-Chisholm House, the remote mansion deep in the mountains, that her mom inherited. Once a murder mystery hotel, it's still decorated like a gothic horror film set. Months later, Seda has a bad feeling when a group of teens takes shelter at the mansion during a blizzard, and it's borne out when everyone agrees to play the macabre game her mother has designed.

Emma Berquist

Daisy "Willie" Wilcox and her family struggle to survive after the Civil War when a horrifying sickness in which infected people--shakes-- attack the living in West Texas, but when her good-for-nothing father steals a fortune from one of the shake hunters in town, Willie, with two hunters as guides, sets out across the desert to find her father.

Erin Bowman

After receiving a distress call from a drill team on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is sent into deep space to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. When they arrive, they find the planet littered with the remains of the project--including its members' dead bodies. As they try to piece together what could have possibly decimated an entire project, they discover that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready to awaken

John Darnielle

Jeremy's job at the local Video Hut is quiet and predictable. In late 1990s small town Nevada, quite and predictable are most likely what you'll encounter. But then customers start having odd complaints about random movies, saying that they're not defective, exactly, but altered somehow. Jeremy doesn't want to be curious, but he brings the movies home to take a look. And, indeed, in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movide is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video. These scenes are odd and sometimes violent, dark and deeply disquieting. But most unsettling of all, there are recognizable landmarks from just outside of town.

Stephen King

An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses.

Amy Lukavics

The five Cane sisters, Juliet, Taylor, Anya, Mona, and Rose, seem to have it all: big house, good looks, prestigious father. But there are fissures in the Cane house, which grow when the beloved youngest, Rose, is killed in a freak accident, and their erratic, alcoholic mother goes to unscrupulous lengths to bring her back to life. But there are consequences to their mother's decision to resurrect Rose-consequences that leave their basement bloodied and threaten to shatter the already tenuous relationship among the sisters.

Peadar O Guilin

Thousands of years ago, the Irish banished the Aes Sídhe (literally, "People of the Mounds") to the colorless Grey Land "for all eternity." For the past 25 years, the Sídhe have been exacting ruthless revenge through "the Call," the summoning of Irish teens to their hellish realm. Although 9 in 10 are simply slaughtered, a "lucky" few return markedly maimed-sometimes physically, always emotionally. Disabled by a childhood bout of polio, Nessa must work twice as hard to prove herself. Whether she's crafting crutches from broken branches, stifling romantic affections, or memorizing the History of the Sídhe in its entirety, Nessa is ready.

Shane Peacock

Edgar Brim is a sensitive orphan who, exposed to horror stories from his father as a young child, is afraid of almost everything and suffers from nightly terrors. His stern new guardian, Mr. Thorne, sends the boy to a gloomy school in Scotland where his dark demons only seem to worsen and he is bullied and ridiculed for his fears. But years later, when sixteen-year-old Edgar finds a journal belonging to his novelist father, he becomes determined to confront his nightmares and the bullies who taunt him. After the horrific death of a schoolmate, Edgar becomes involved with an eccentric society at the urging of a mysterious professor who believes that monsters from famous works of literature are real and whose mandate is to find and destroy these creatures.

Alexander Gordon Smith

Marlow Green is a high school boy in New York who is always in trouble for vandalism and acting out, until one day he stumbles into the middle of a battle with a demon, and learns about the Devil's Engine--an ancient machine which can grant anything you wish for, in exchange for your soul.

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.

Kali Wallace

After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to "free" them at any cost.

Kiersten White

Elizabeth Lavenza hasn't had a proper meal in weeks. Her thin arms are covered with bruises from her "caregiver," and she is on the verge of being thrown into the streets . . . until she is brought to the home of Victor Frankenstein, an unsmiling, solitary boy who has everything-except a friend.

Victor is her escape from misery. Elizabeth does everything she can to make herself indispensable-and it works. She is taken in by the Frankenstein family and rewarded with a warm bed, delicious food, and dresses of the finest silk. Soon she and Victor are inseparable.

But her new life comes at a price. As the years pass, Elizabeth's survival depends on managing Victor's dangerous temper and entertaining his every whim, no matter how depraved. Behind her blue eyes and sweet smile lies the calculating heart of a girl determined to stay alive no matter the cost . . . as the world she knows is consumed by darkness.