RIYL Horror

Scare Up a Good Read! (High School)

The Horror, The Horror!

Author Title

Alender, Katie

• • Bad Girls Don't Die

  • Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer

  • Famous Last Words

  • From Bad to Cursed

  • The Dead Girls of Hysteria Hall

  • As Dead as it Gets

Anderson, M. T. Thirsty

Andrews, V. C. Flowers in the Attic (series)

Armstrong, Kelly The Awakening

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia In the Forests of the Night

Barker, Clive The Thief of Always

Bellairs, John The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring

Bird, Isobel Circle of Three Series

Blake, Kendare Anna Dressed in Blood (series)

Bradbury, Ray

• • Something Wicked this Way Comes

  • The Illustrated Man

Brewer, Heather (Zac) The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod

Buckingham, Royce Demonkeeper and Goblins

Burgess, Anthony A Clockwork Orange

Card, Orson Scott Lost Boys, Treasure Box, etc.

Carman, Patrick Thirteen Days to Midnight

Cassidy, Anne Looking for JJ

Cormier, Robert Fade

Cusick, Ritchie The Harvest (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Delaney, Joseph The Last Apprentice Series

Derting, Kimberly The Body Finder

Duncan, Lois

• I Know What You did Last Summer

• Killing Mr. Griffin

Duey, Kathleen Skin Hunger

Fahy, Thomas The Unspoken

Faring, Sara The Tenth Girl

Gaiman, Neil The Graveyard Book

Golden, Christopher Prowlers series

Gidwitz, Adam A Tale Dark and Grimm

Hahn, Mary Downing

• All the Lovely Bad Ones

• Look for Me by Moonlight

Grant, Michael Gone Series

Horowitz, Anthony Raven's Gate (The Gatekeeper's series)

Holt, Simon The Devouring and Soulstice

Jackson, Shirley The Haunting of Hill House

King, A.S. The Dust of 100 Dogs

King, Stephen

• The Shining

• the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

• Eyes of the Dragon

Klause, Annette Curtis Blood and Chocolate

Koontz, Dean A Voice in the Night

Kraus, Daniel Scowler

Lewis, Richard The Demon Queen

Maberry, Jonathan Rot and Ruin Series

• Rot and Ruin

• Dust and Decay

• Flesh and Bone

• Fire and Ash

MacHale, D.J The Light, The Dark

McMann, Lisa Wake

Mcnish, Cliff Breathe: a ghost story

McNammee, Graham Bonechiller

Morton-Shaw, Christine The Hunt for the Seventh

Myracle, Lauren Bliss

Nance, Andrew Daemon Hall

Petrucha, Stephen Crush (part of the Wicked Dead series)

Pike, Christopher The Last Vampire (series)

Poblocki, Dan

• The Haunting of Gabriel Ashe

• The Stone Child

• The Book of Bad Things

Rice, Anne Interview with a Vampire (series)

Pullman, Phillip Clockwork

Randall, Thomas The Waking: Dreams of the Dead

Richards, Justin The Parliament of Blood

Roux, Madeline Asylum (series)

Ryan, Carrie In the Forest of Hands and Teeth (series)

San Souci, Robert D. Haunted Houses

Scott, Michael October Moon

Simmons, Dan Summer of Night

Shan, Darren

• Cirque Du Freak (series)

• The Demonata (series)

• The Thin Executioner

Sleator, William The Spirit House

Smith, Alexander Gordon Escape from Furnace Series

Stine, R. L. Fear Street Series

Strasser, Todd Thrilogy Series

• Wish You Were Dead

• Blood on My Hands

• Kill You Last

Stolarz, Laurie Project 17

Taylor, Greg Killer Pizza

Vande Velde, Vivian Companions of the Night

Vega, Danielle The Haunted

Werlin, Nancy The Killer’s Cousin

Whinem, Reade Scott The Pricker Boy

Wooding, Chirs Malice

Yancey, Rick The Monstrumologist

Zindel, Paul The Doom Stone

Nonfiction:

• Beware: R. L. Stine Picks His Favorite Scary Stories ed. by R. L. Stine

Classics:

Dracula,

Frankenstein,

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde,

Edgar Allan Poe Ten Tales of Terror

Authors:

Katie Alender

John Bellairs

Stephen King

Dean Koontz

H.P. Lovecraft

Christopher Pike

Dan Poblocki

William Sleator

R. L. Stine

See Also:

• RIYL Goosebumps

• RIYL Scary Stories (MS)

• RIYL Vampires

• RIYL Werewolves

• RIYL Zombies