Allende, Isabel. City
of the Beasts. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
Imagine journeying into the Amazon jungle not for a vacation, but to squelch
supernatural forces and locate a human-like beast!
Alphin, Elaine Marie. Ghost
Soldier. New York: Henry Holt, 2001.
After moving to South Carolina, Alexander comes in contact with a Civil
War Confederate ghost who solves his questions surrounding his family’s
history.
Anderson, M.T.Thirsty.
Cambridge, MA: Candlewick Press, 1997.
Chris discovers his unrelenting thirst, hunger and moodiness are not just
typical teenage stuff. Can he try to remain human despite his body’s
desire to turn into a vampire?
Applegate, Katherine. Search
for Senna. New York: Scholastic, 1999.
David is desperate to find his girlfriend Senna who was snatched by a
creature into the Everworld. (Book 1 of Everworld series)
Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. In
the Forests of the Night. New York: Delacorte, 1999.
A teenage girl unearths the truth behind her origins of a vampire. Sequels
include Demon In My View, Shattered Mirror.
Bradbury, Ray. Something
Wicked This Way Comes. New York: Bantam Books, 1990, c. 1962.
It begins like your typical movie: two rambunctious teens in small town
Illinois discover a secret, mysterious carnival.
Cabot, Meg. Haunted:
A Tale of the Mediator. New York: Harpercollins, 2003.
Communicating with the dead and falling for one of its ghosts…what
could be more intriguing? Read others in The Mediator series by Jenny
Carroll.
Duncan, Lois. Summer
of Fear. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
Have you ever thought one of your family members was a little strange?
Julia meets her cousin and gets a hunch that she is really a witch! (other
titles by this author are scary too!)
Farmer, Nancy. Sea
of Trolls. New York: Atheneum, 2004
In 793 a brother and sister are captured by Vikings and try to escape
trolls, half-trolls, dragons and spiders that get in their way.
Fleischman, Paul. A
Fate Totally Worse Than Death. Cambridge, MA: Candlewick, 1995.
The popular kids suddenly begin to grow old and they think it’s
related to the arrival of an attractive new student.
Gaiman, Neil. Coraline.
New York: HarperCollins, 2002.
Coraline opens a door into a mysterious world filled with surprising disturbances
sure to frighten.
Griffin, Peni R. The
Ghost Sitter. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2001.
A haunted house doesn’t bother Charlotte, she is out to help the
ghost, a girl close in age to herself.
Hahn, Mary Downing. Look
For Me By Moonlight. New York: Clarion, 1995.
Sixteen year-old teen finds a new friend in a mysterious creature who
shows up at the Inn her father and stepmother own.
Hoffman, Nina Kiriki. A
Stir of Bones. New York: Viking, 2003.
While meandering through a haunted house, Susan finds a bone which allows
her to break free from her controlling father and unravel the house’s
secrets.
Jackson, Shirley.
Haunting of Hill House. New York: Penguin, 1984.
Another haunted house tale! This house is especially fierce, it victimizes
one of the local high school students.
King, Stephen. The
Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. New York: Scribner, 1999.
Trisha wanders away from her family while hiking the Appalachian Trail
and is soon lost. Her days and nights spent alone encompass pain, sadness
and hallucinations.
Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood
and Chocolate. New York: Laurel-Leaf Books, 1997.
A drop-dead gorgeous werewolf must choose between the human boy she loves
and her current life, friends and family.
Martin, Ann M. Missing
Since Monday. New York: Holiday House, 1986.
Go on a frantic search with Maggie as she searches for her kidnapped sister.
McNamee, Graham. Acceleration.
New York: Wendy Lamb Books, 2003.
Seventeen year-old Duncan finds a diary of a serial killer. Can Duncan
track him down without becoming the next victim?
Naifeh, Ted. Courtney
Crumrin and the Night Things. Portland, OR: ONI Press, 2003.
(Graphic Novel)
Courtney’s only friends in her new home are weird ghosts and goblins.
Noyes, Deborah, ed. Gothic!:
Ten Original Dark Tales. New York: Candlewick, 2004.
Ten of your favorite teen authors retell gothic, creepy, weird-you-out
tales.
Plum-Ucci, Carol. The
Body of Christopher Creed. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000.
A mystery to die for…a loser high school student disappears and
no one cares except for a junior who takes it upon himself to find the
one responsible.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The
Raven and Other Poems. New York: Scholastic, 1992.
Take a look at Poe’s most famous psychologically-dark poems.
Rees, Douglas. Vampire
High. New York: Delacorte, 2003.
Cody attends a new school in Massachusetts only to discover that many
of students are unusually pale or hairy…could they be…vampires
and werewolves?
Shan, Darren. Cirque
du Freak: a Living Nightmare. Boston: Little, Brown, 2001. (series)
Two friends visit a freak show, resulting in mind-boggling experiences
and chaotic adventures. Enjoy others in the series, they only get weirder.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
New York: Bantam Books, 1981.
A scientist uses corpse remains to create a monster. However, the monster
also obtains feelings and desires, and the scientist can not control him.
Sleator, William. The
Boy Who Couldn’t Die. New York: Amulet Books, 2004.
Sixteen year-old Ken thinks he did the right thing by giving his soul
for eternal life. What do you think?
Soto, Gary.
The Afterlife. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2003.
A boy is killed in the bathroom at his prom. He is able to view life on
earth; his family’s emotional upheaval and friends’ grief.
His ghost meets a friend who has already died and romance ensues.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Vampire Count Dracula vs. Van Helsing and his friends…who will triumph?
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Blue
is for Nightmares. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn, 2003.
Stacey is a witch, and when she dreams of death someone always dies. Recently,
her dreams have involved her roommate. How can she save her from a terrible
end?
Vande Velde, Vivian. Companions
of the Night. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995.
Kerry begins to have twinges of doubt once she helps a vampire escape
his captors.
Wallace, Barbara Brooks. Peppermints
in the Parlor. New York: Aladdin Books, 1993, c.1980.
Emily is forced to live with her aunt and uncle in a spooky house. In
the sequel, Perils of Peppermints (2003), she is forced to attend a foreign
boarding school and becomes involved in terror-filled adventures there
too.
Westerfeld, Scott. The
Secret Hour. New York: EOS, 2004.
Jessica moves to Oklahoma and learns that she belongs to tribe of people
that knows how to defend themselves against ancient evil beings.
Wooding, Chris.
The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. New York: Orchard Books, 2004.
Alaizabel and his friend track down evil creatures. However, one of the
creatures takes residence within him which puts London’s population
at the risk of destruction.
Vande Velde, Vivian. Being
Dead: Stories. San Diego: Harcourt, 2001.
Supernatural stories about death and the beyond.
Non-Fiction Cornwell, Patricia Daniel. Portrait
of a Killer: Jack the Ripper-Case Closed. New York: Putnam, 2002.
Who was Jack the Ripper, what was his real name? Follow this crime writer
as she tries to solve the mystery with current-day technology.
Miller, Hugh. What
the Corpse Revealed: Murder and the Science of Forensic Detection.
New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.
Forensic scientists focus on unsolved crimes such as an unidentifiable
victim with the skin of her fingers peeled away and a victim with a bullet
that seems to have vanished inside the body.
Roach, Mary.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. New York: W.W. Norton,
2003.
Bodies decomposing…what happens to the skulls versus the fingers?
Interesting information with photos to delight the curious.
