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YA Atwater-Rhodes            SNAKECHARM  (2004).  In this fast-paced second volume of The Kieshara series, Zane Cobriana and Danica Shardae are expecting their first child when Syfka, a dangerous Falcon, shows up to cause discord among the Avian and Serpiente people.

 

YAPB Cole               THE WERELING:  WOUNDED; PREY; RESSURECTION  (2005)  Teens Tom and Kate struggle to escape from Kate’s bloodthirsty werewolf family members who go to gruesome lengths to force both young people to live the deadly, violent life of the werewolf. 

 

YAPB Cooney                      NIGHT SCHOOL  (1995)  Enrolling in a mysterious night school course, four California teens encounter an evil instructor—and their own worst character defects.

 

YA Fic De Lint                     THE BLUE GIRL (2004)  When a ghost falls in love with Imogene, his attempts to make her see the other spirits around her causes her imaginary childhood friend to return and attracts the attention of dark, soul-eating creatures.

 

YA Fic Gothic                      GOTHIC! TEN ORIGINAL DARK TALES  (2004)  These sinister gothic tales that are divers, quirky, and ultimately terrifying are guaranteed to give readers the shivers and delight teen horror fans.

 

J Fic Gaiman            CORALINE  (2002)  Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar but disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

 

YA Fic Hahn             LOOK FOR ME BY MOONLIGHT  (1995)  Lonely and unsure of her place in her father’s new family, Cynda is responsive to the attentiveness of the mysterious and sophisticated Vincent Morthanos, who turns out to be a vampire.

 

YA Hautman             SWEET BLOOD (2003)  After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the “proto-vampires” she’s met online and in person…

 

YAPB Horror                       HORROR STORIES (1995)  There’s something for everyone, from the fainthearted to the hard-core genre fan, in these two dozen stories by the likes of Steinbeck and Poe as well as Joan Aiken, Stephen King, and Leon Garfield.

 

YA Fic Johnson                   A FAST AND BRUTAL WING (2004)  What happened to three teens in the woods on Halloween night?  Was it murder, shape-shifting, or overactive imaginations? 

 

YA & YAPB Klause             BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE (1997)  Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

 

YA Fic Night             NIGHT TERRORS (1996)  11 tales to tell after dark from some of the best of the mystery and horror writers. 

J Fic Paver               WOLF BROTHER (2004)  Twelve-year-old Torak must journey to the Mountain of the World Spirit with his animal guide, Wolf, bearing three talismans that will save the forest clans from a giant demon-possessed bear.

 

YA Shan                               CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE SAGA OF DARREN SHAN  (2001-2005)  A series dripping with vampires, that begins with two teenage boys at an illegal freak show.  Their encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. 

 

YA Fic Shusterman             FULL TILT (2003)  When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns there is much more at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

 

YA Sleator                THE BEASTIES (1997) When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.

 

YA Stine                               DANGEROUS GIRLS (2003) Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are beautiful, smart, and popular.   But after returning from a summer at Camp Blue Moon they begin to exhibit an inhuman craving for blood.

 

YA Stoker                             DRACULA (1992)  The classic blood-chilling tale of the Count from Transylvania.

 

YA Vande Velde                  COMPANIONS OF THE NIGHT (1995)  Sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki finds herself caught up in a life-and-death chase after she helps an injured young man escape from some men who claim that he is a vampire.  And that, it turns out, is exactly what he is.

 

YA Vande Velde                  BEING DEAD (2001)  Seven haunted souls return.  A collection of short stories sure to chill your bones!

 

YA Wooding             THE HAUNTING OF ALAZIABEL CRAY (2004)  In a gothic-style London straight from Jack the Ripper, Thaniel Fox hunts creatures of the night with his mentor, Catherine, in this rich and magical story that will appeal to fantasy and horror fans alike.

 

YA Zindel                  RATS (1999)  When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.

 

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