Compiled by HSPLS Young Adult Librarians

Being Dead: Stories by Vivian Vande Veld 

“They may be dead, but they’re certainly not gone.  They dance with the living, sleep under your bed, and follow you home from school.”  Seven deliciously creepy stories having to do with death.       

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Klause

Vivian is 16 beautiful, strong and in love with Aiden, a human. He is kind, and gentle, and when Vivian shares her inner beauty, he is terrified. Vivian's cousins taunt her "didn't your mother ever teach you not to play with your food?" Gr. 9+

Carrie by Stephen King

Presents the unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young girl with supernatural powers of telekinesis.

Comes a Blind Fury by John Saul

Michelle has come from Boston to live in the big house on Paradise Point.  She is excited about her new life, ready to make new friends until a hand reaches out of the swirling mists the hand of a blind child.  She is asking for friendship, seeking revenge, whispering her name. Gr. 10+

Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe's tales of the macabre still thrill readers of all ages. YA 818 P

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

When Coraline steps through the locked door in her family's new apartment, she finds a “perfect mirror family” catering to her every whim. When she wants to leave, however, things rapidly change, and she must fight a battle of good and evil to save herself.

Dangerous Girls by R. L. Stine

Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are looking forward to their summer jobs as junior counselors at Camp Blue Moon. A darkness awaits the girls at the camp though, and by the end of the summer, the twins have an insatiable craving for blood.  If Destiny does not find a cure before the next full moon they could be condemned to endless life.

Dust by Arthur Slade

11-year-old Robert is the only one who can help when the stranger arrives, performing tricks and promising to bring rain, at the same time children begin to disappear from a dust bowl farm town in Saskatchewan in the 1930s.  Magic in the form of butterflies, frozen statues, the “dust”, and the villainous Abram Harsich must all be dealt with in order the solve the mystery of the missing children.

Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen by Adam Lukeman

Offers more than 100 reasons to look beyond the often ho-hum Hollywood hype fests… when you're really in the mood to feel your flesh crawl. YA 791.43616 LU

Full Tilt by Neil Shusterman

When 16 year-old Blake goes to a mysterious invitation-only carnival he somehow  knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

Hawaii's Best Spooky Tales 5:  More True Local Spine-Tinglers Collected by Rick Carroll

Includes 34 new stories by 28 authors who describe events they can't explain-hauntings and curses, eerie encounters under the full moon, unearthly companions, protective 'aumakua. YA H 398.2 HA

Haunted:  A Tale of the Mediator by Meg Cabot

High school junior Susannah Simon acts as a mediator between the living and the dead, but the pressures of dealing with the dead and the undead are beginning to overwhelm her as she tries to help ghosts resolve their fates in the afterlife.

Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray by Chris Wooding

As Thaniel a wych-hunter and Cathaline, his friend and mentor, try to rid the alleys of London’s Old Quarter of the terrible creatures that infest them, their lives become entwined with a woman who may be mad or possessed.

In the Candlelit Room by Thomas McKean

In a series of letters and diary entries, 5 young people describe their experiences with evil and the supernatural including encounters with a demon, a ghost, and a fortuneteller.

Meg: A novel of Deep Terror by Steve Alton

Terror surfaces from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharodon megalodon – a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be extinct- alive and well off the coast of Japan. Gr.10+

Mirror, Mirror: Twisted Tales by Silverman

A collection of twisted tales about mysterious worlds where blossoms have mysterious powers, strange creatures speak the truth, and magic is dangerously real.

Obake: Ghost Stories in Hawaii by Glenn Grant

Based on true stories from islanders of all backgrounds. YA H 398.2 G

Odder Than Ever by Bruce Coville

A collection on 9 short stories featuring a ghost, a goblin, a giant, and other unusual creatures.

Presence by Eve Bunting

While visiting her grandmother in California, 17 year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can contact a dead friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible.

Restless:  A Ghost’s Story by Rich Wallace

“I am a soul who is trapped without a body.  Herbie may be my only way to get free.”  Frank, a teenaged ghost, has not been able to move on to a higher realm in the afterlife, and tries to connect with his younger brother who is now a high school senior.

Saga of the Swamp Thing by Alan Moore

Graphic Novel. It breathes. It eats. And at night, beneath a crawling ground fog with the luster of vaporized pearl, it dreams. It has a soul. It has a face. Gr.10+              

She by Carol Plum-Ucci

On stormy nights, Evan and Grey can hear the shriek of the The She, a ship-eating Sea Hag who consumes her victims offshore. Out at sea to investigate the mysterious death of Evan's parents years before, they confront their personal monsters.

Story Time by Edward Bloor

George and Kate are promised the best education and instead face obsessed administrators , endless tests, and evil spirits when they are transferred to Whittaker Magnet School.

Thirsty by M. T. Anderson

From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

Vampire High by Douglas Reese

When his family moves from California to Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the supernaturally strong students, to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.

Yattering and Jack by Clive Barker adapted by Steven Niles

Graphic Novel. For more than 100 years, Ebenezer Scrooge was the most dreaded name in Christmas stories. But that was before the Yattering-a demon with a cause… Gr. 10+