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FIC POW
A suspenseful story about girls at a school on a remote island who were put under quarantine and left to fend for themselves. They don't know what's wrong with them and there is no cure. Each girl has a different reaction to the disease - one loses an eye, one has two spines, one has two hearts. Their symptoms come and go and they learn to care for one another, because no one else is - the teachers are gone. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie beyond the fence. And when she does, Hetty learns that there's more to their story, to their life at Raxter, than she could have ever thought true.
Horror and Suspense
Read this if you liked: The Grace Year, Sawkill Girls, Rules for Vanishing, Bunny, Where the World Ends
FIC HIL
When Vic was a little girl, she found that when she got on her bike and was looking for something that was lost, she could cross a covered bridge and she would be brought to the object. The bridge didn't exist, and Vic doubted her sanity. She made up excuses - she was dreaming, she had the object all along, anything to erase what was happening. Charlie Manx has a similar 'gift', but his involves taking children to Christmasland and killing their parents. When Vic tries to stop him, he nearly kidnaps her as well, but she gets aways and her 'visions' get worse. Fast forward years later - Vic has been in rehab, continues to doubt her sanity, and now has a son of her own that Manx is determined to take.
Horror
Read this if you liked: Anything by Stephen King, Imaginary Friend, Bird Box
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein by Kiersten White
FIC WHI
On the 100th Anniversary of the book Frankenstein, we have a YA look at Victor Frankenstein as a lonely child. He is lonely, and his family finds an orphan to be his friend. When Victor is older and goes to college, and she begins to worry that the family no longer has a use for her. She travels to find him but discovers he is experimenting and is worried he is losing his mind. She burns down his laboratory and in the process sees a monster - an abomination she fears will follow her and kill her and Victor. When her best friend is convicted of a murder and her body is taken, she discovers that Victor is once again experimenting. With the help of a friend, Elizabeth runs away, but finds that the monster is a kind soul who only wants a friend.
Horror
Read this if you liked: Frankenstein, Dracula, The Madman's Daughter, The Monstrumologist, This Dark Endeavor, Mary's Monster
Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis
FIC MCG
Told from three different perspectives - Alex, a loaner whose sister died and has no problem inflicting harm on those who are evil; Peekay, the Preacher's Kid, who is trying to make sure she not a stereotype who becomes friends with Alex; and Jack, who falls for Alex. The three become unlikely friends and Alex starts to wonder if she can be just like everyone else now that she has some friends. Her dark side comes out and she confesses to Jack who does not know how to handle it. When confronted once again with evil, everyone's lives change forever.
Realistic Fiction, Suspense
Read this if you liked: City of Saints and Thieves, I Hunt Killers, Panic, A Smaller Evil
Genius: The Game by Leopoldo Gout
FIC GOU
Three underprivileged young prodigies from across the world with incredible skills in technology and engineering team up to become the heroes the world never knew they could be. Written in three points of view, these teens are online friends who get the opportunity to meet IRL (in real life) for the first time when they’re invited to a competition. Winners will receive spots doing cutting-edge tech development.
Suspense, Adventure
Read this if you liked: Alex Rider books, Code Orange, Ready Player One, Panic
FIC KIR
Lisa is 16 and pregnant, and has been kidnapped. One would think that in that situation, she would be scared and begging to be let go. But not Lisa. She is methodical and calculating, and she'd bidding her time until she can get revenge on her kidnappers. She's almost robotic in her methods.
Psychological Suspense
Read this if you liked: Girl on the Train, In a Dark, Dark Wood, Gone Girl, Defending Jacob
Slasher Girls and Monster Boys
SC SLA
A host of the sharpest young adult authors come together in this collection of terrifying tales and psychological thrillers. Each story draws from a mix of literature, film, television, or even music to offer something new and fresh and unsettling. These are stories that will make you think even as they keep you on the edge of your seat. From bloody horror, to the supernatural, to unnerving, all-too-possible realism, this collection has something for anyone looking for an absolute thrill.
Horror, Short Stories
Read this if you liked: Scowler, The Marbury Lens, Monstrous Affections
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
FIC BLA
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.
Horror, Ghost
Read this if you liked: The Monstrumologist, Hold Me Closer, Necromancer, The Name of the Star
Thirteen Chairs by Dave Shelton
FIC SHE
In an abandoned house, the ghosts gather. They argue, they laugh, and they tell their stories. Some of them true, some of them not. Each tales draws you in. One by one, the storytellers depart, until suddently it's just you and the narrator, alone in the dark. -Goodreads
Horror, ghost stories
Read this if you liked: The Accident Season, any R.L. Stine
FIC HIG
After a disease turns everyone over sixteen into brainless, decomposing, flesh-eating creatures, a group of teenagers leave their shelter and set out of a harrowing journey across London to the safe haven of Buckingham Palace.
Horror, Suspense, Action
Read this if you liked: Plague, Enclave, Ashes, Dust and Decay, Marbury Lens
Scowler by Daniel Kraus
FIC KRA
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys--Mr. Furrington, Jesus Christ, and Scowler--to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
Horror
Read this if you liked: The Shining, Amity, The Twelve Fingered Boy, Season of the Witch, In Cold Blood
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
FIC NES
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
Horror, Paranormal
Read this if you liked: Monstrumologist, Last Summer of the Death Warriors, Far far away, This Dark Endeavor
The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancy
FIC YAN
In 1888 New England, monster-hunting doctor Pellinore Warthrop and his apprentice Will Henry encounter an Anthropophagus -- a headless, supposedly extinct monster that has teeth in its belly and feeds on humans -- and the two of them must track and kill an entire pod of the beasts. Alternately flowery and dripping with gore, the writing is lush and compelling and will scare your pants off. -- Description by Ellen Foreman.
Horror
Read this if you liked: The Name of the Star, The Knife of Never Letting Go, Anna Dressed in Blood
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