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From the Shelf of Nightmares: Horror for Teens

Enter a realm where nightmares come alive and darkness lurks behind every word. These recently published haunting tales will grip your mind and refuse to let go long after the last page. 7/28/25

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  • Midsommar meets The Shadows Between Us in this ... mash-up of horror and fairy tale from ... Madeleine Roux, where a girl must embark on a harrowing journey through a deadly forest filled with otherworldly creatures, supernatural forces, and one…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — Fiction
  • Carina Marshall is looking to reinvent herself, and what better place to do it than Jamaica, her mother's alluring homeland where she conveniently has access to an au pair gig for the wealthy and powerful Hall family. After months of being the…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Zando - Sweet July Books, 2025. — Fiction
  • While scuba diving off the Australian coast, Phoebe "Phibs" Ray and her friends uncover a legendary underwater treasure, but as strange transformations begin to take hold, they must fight to protect each other from dangerous treasure hunters and a…
    Book, 2025New York : Wednesday Books, 2025. — Fiction
  • Seventeen-year-old Haitian American zombie Brielle seeks revenge on the wealthy elites responsible for her immigrant family's pain.
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2025. — Fiction
  • In Mercy, Louisiana, a town plagued by red algae and vanishing residents, Noon finds a reluctant ally in Covey and the two join forces to hunt a deadly creature in the dark waters as a storm looms.
    Book, 2025New York : Bloomsbury, 2025. — Fiction
  • Four unlikely allies in a small town investigate a local teen's disappearance, and what they discover festering at the core of their community is far more sinister and ancient than they could've ever imagined.
    Book, 2025New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2025. — Fiction
  • A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters--both human and supernatural--face down death, and survive.
    Book, 2024New York : Flatiron Books, 2024. — 813.0873 Bla
  • Five years after the disappearance of their friend Mallory and their memories of that fateful night, high school seniors Fern and Jaq encounter a vengeful spirit resembling Mallory, forcing them to confront their true identities and the dark secrets…
    Book, 2024New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2024. — Fiction
  • Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease—even before realizing she was bisexual. After two childhood friends died, the town felt suffocating. Isa left, abandoning everything, including Mason. Years later, her father's death brings her…
    Book, 2024New York : Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint, 2024. — Fiction
  • In this YA psychological horror, two teen boys attempt to stop terrifying creatures that seem to be coming to life from macabre drawings.
    Book, 2024New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2024. — Fiction
  • Plagued by a sinister voice urging him to commit violent acts, seventeen-year-old Warren tries to overcome these urges by investigating a string of disappearances, but when he faces unsettling encounters at an inn run by the Benders, he must…
    Paperback, 2024Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2024] — Fiction
  • Helga

    a Frankenstein Retelling

    Yu, Catherine,
    Helga is not the obedient science experiment her father intended. And though she has only just awoken, he leaves her in the care of his lab assistant Penny to go on a business trip.
    Book, 2024Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2024. — Fiction
  • The Deinhart Manor has been a looming shadow over town for as long as anyone can remember, and it's been abandoned for even longer. When the final Deinhart descendent passes, the huge gothic manor is up for sale for the first time ever. Which means…
    Book, 2024New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2024. — Fiction
  • "Sixteen-year-old Nate Campbell, haunted by the curse of Murder Road, relocates with his family to escape the vengeful spirit of the Hiding Boy, but when he joins his new friends' urban legend club, old ghost stories collide with new and Nate must…
    Book, 2024New York : Wednesday Books, 2024. — Fiction
  • Looking for a fresh start, sixteen-year-old Libby and her family return to her mother's childhood home only to discover that the house's strange beauty may disguise a sinister past.
    Book, 2024New York : Delacorte Press, [2024] — Fiction
  • High school football player Cade Webster buys a ring in a pawn shop, but when his wish that people stop acting scared of him seems to be coming true, he remembers the ring came with a warning--"When the strangeness begins, come back"--and suddenly…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, 2024. — Fiction
  • Most schools are about being the best. This school? It's about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It…
    Book, 2024Shrewsbury, PA : Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing, LLC, 2024. — Fiction
  • Two years ago, four friends went into the abandoned religious reform school Dominic House. Only three came out.
    Book, 2024New York, New York : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2024] — Fiction
  • When small-town athlete Avery's morning run leads her to a strange pond in the middle of the forest, she awakens a horror the townspeople of Crook's Falls have long forgotten. The black water has been waiting. Watching. Hungry for the souls it needs…
    Book, 2024New York : Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2024. — Fiction
  • The White Guy Dies First

    13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

    A collection of thirteen scary stories by authors of color.
    Book, 2024New York : Tor Teen, 2024. — 813.0873 Whi