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Children’s / Teenage Fiction: Horror and Ghost Stories, Chillers, or Other Scary Supernatural Stories
Broken Dolls 2025
One. Two. Three. Are you ready to play?
Ever since Kaye's grandfather died, she's been obsessed with counting things: the steps to her bedroom, the dolls on her sister's bed, even the threads on her favorite blanket. It's arithmomania, and with the selective mutism that sometimes prevents her from...
At night, Roddie still dreams of sitting at his mother’s feet while she braids his Afro down. But that’s a memory from before. Before his mom died in a tragic accident. Before he was taken in by an aunt he barely knows. Before his aunt brought him to Dogwood House, the creepiest place Roddie has...
Frank Fernandez’s family never stays in one place for long. His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family moves—a lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends. So when his parents announce they’re moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, to live in a...
The Deep Well 2025
When April Fischer was five, the voice from the well told her to fly. Ever since, April survived the strange and brutal massacre at the Copperton mine twelve years ago, she has been in the spotlight. At first, as the subject of internet urban legend. Then, as a horror movie inspiration. And most...
The Devouring Light 2025
When Haden Romero and her rival, Deacon Rex—alongside their bands, including Haden’s ex, Cairo—are stranded on their way to a rock festival, she thinks missing the gig is the worst thing that could happen. She’s wrong.
Marooned in treacherous swamplands with no way out, the group stumbles upon an...
The House Next Door 2025
Home is where the sinister lives. Rory Parker knows not to step a foot in, on, or around the house next door. He’s seen things creeping in the shadows, has had encounters with spirits, and lost a best friend to the house’s malevolence.
But when his new neighbors, Jack and his lovable family, move...
Home is where the heart is. But can a house have a heart of its own? Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She’s lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent...
The Lake House 2023
Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s just how she’s wired—her worst-case scenarios never actually come true.
Until she arrives at an off-the-grid summer camp to find a blackened, burned husk instead of a lodge—and no survivors, except her...
Lockjaw 2027
Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's determined to kill it before anyone else gets hurt. She'll need the help of her crew — inseparable friends, bound by a childhood pact stronger than diamonds,...
Mercy 2025
Mercy was named for her mother’s hopes. Mercy, in the hope that the Sorrowing—the curse that Mercy and her family had lived with for generations—might take pity on them. But Mercy’s name never did her any good, and it certainly didn’t save her mother.
The Sorrowing ensures that Mercy, her family,...
Bee's mom has a job in New York City for the summer, so Bee is being sent to summer camp. She's not excited about it. Being around other people is hard for her, plus she knows nothing about campfires, she's not a good swimmer, and she's never even been in a canoe. When she first arrives, things go...
Not Quite a Ghost 2024
The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn’t fit among them. For Violet Hart—whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street—very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried...
Nox Winters Chronicles, Book 2
After Nox’s narrow escape from the Nightwood last fall, he had no intention of ever returning. It doesn’t matter that he’s a Keeper of Night, destined to guard and rule over the forest. He never wanted the title or the power; it wasn’t his choice, so as far as he’s concerned, it’s not his...
The Others 2025
The Unfinished, Book 2
Only weeks ago, Avery pulled her best friend, Key, from the deadly black water. The cycle from her family’s Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) stories is finally broken, the black water is now a harmless lake, and her problems are far from supernatural: all Avery wants is a normal summer with Key, her...
Roar of the Lambs 2025
Winnie Bray knows she is not the lamb she presents herself as - she is a liar. And she will continue to lie, because lying keeps her family smiling and safe, and it keeps her in business as a psychic where she tells people exactly what they want to hear.
But one vision sends her back to the family...
Rotters 2011
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in...
Scowler 2014
Imagine your father is a monster. Would that mean there are monsters inside you, too?
Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke, his mother, and little sister eke out a living on their dying family farm. Ry wishes for anything to distract him from the grim memories of his father’s physical and emotional abuse....
Stinetinglers 3 2025
Stinetinglers, Book 3
A boy thinks that a dream factory will help him make his slumber more fun... but what's the line between dream and nightmare?
Two kids find an abandoned shack on the side of the road and are determined to make it their new treehouse... but is it as abandoned as it seems?
A boy wants to impress at...
Stinetinglers 4 2025
Stinetinglers, Book 4
Tony has a love of old comics… but when he goes poking around where he doesn’t belong, will he find himself discontinued?
Kylie is thrilled to have a summer job at the local pet store… but will the store’s more gruesome creatures rub off on her?
Teddy knows his new substitute teacher has a...
Tales From Cabin 23 2024
Tales From Cabin 23, Book 1
The last thing Tasha Washington wants is to move from her home in Savannah to a trailer park in Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father—a man she’s never met, who abandoned her mom when Tasha was just a baby—she doesn’t have much of a choice. At...
Tales From Cabin 23 2024
Tales From Cabin 23, Book 2
Twelve-year-old Alia has always had the worst luck. Whether it’s her parents moving her all the way from Kuala Lumpur to a tiny village, or her shoes constantly coming untied, Alia can’t help but feel as if the universe has it out for her.
To top it all off, her estranged older sister, Ayu, has...
The Unfinished 2024
The Unfinished, Book 1
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 to survive. Avery can smell the water, see it...
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Lockjaw May 4, 2027
Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident — there's a monster under the town, and she's determined to kill it before anyone else gets hurt. She'll need the help of her crew — inseparable friends, bound by a childhood pact stronger than diamonds,...
The Mystery of the Haunted Dance Hall May 5, 2026
Bee's mom has a job in New York City for the summer, so Bee is being sent to summer camp. She's not excited about it. Being around other people is hard for her, plus she knows nothing about campfires, she's not a good swimmer, and she's never even been in a canoe. When she first arrives, things go...
Nox Winters and the Stygian Serpent October 21, 2025
Nox Winters Chronicles, Book 2
After Nox’s narrow escape from the Nightwood last fall, he had no intention of ever returning. It doesn’t matter that he’s a Keeper of Night, destined to guard and rule over the forest. He never wanted the title or the power; it wasn’t his choice, so as far as he’s concerned, it’s not his...
The Devouring Light October 7, 2025
When Haden Romero and her rival, Deacon Rex—alongside their bands, including Haden’s ex, Cairo—are stranded on their way to a rock festival, she thinks missing the gig is the worst thing that could happen. She’s wrong.
Marooned in treacherous swamplands with no way out, the group stumbles upon an...
Mercy October 7, 2025
Mercy was named for her mother’s hopes. Mercy, in the hope that the Sorrowing—the curse that Mercy and her family had lived with for generations—might take pity on them. But Mercy’s name never did her any good, and it certainly didn’t save her mother.
The Sorrowing ensures that Mercy, her family,...
The House Next Door September 30, 2025
Home is where the sinister lives. Rory Parker knows not to step a foot in, on, or around the house next door. He’s seen things creeping in the shadows, has had encounters with spirits, and lost a best friend to the house’s malevolence.
But when his new neighbors, Jack and his lovable family, move...
Broken Dolls September 30, 2025
One. Two. Three. Are you ready to play?
Ever since Kaye's grandfather died, she's been obsessed with counting things: the steps to her bedroom, the dolls on her sister's bed, even the threads on her favorite blanket. It's arithmomania, and with the selective mutism that sometimes prevents her from...
The Others September 16, 2025
The Unfinished, Book 2
Only weeks ago, Avery pulled her best friend, Key, from the deadly black water. The cycle from her family’s Kanyen’kehá:ka (Mohawk) stories is finally broken, the black water is now a harmless lake, and her problems are far from supernatural: all Avery wants is a normal summer with Key, her...
The Deep Well September 2, 2025
When April Fischer was five, the voice from the well told her to fly. Ever since, April survived the strange and brutal massacre at the Copperton mine twelve years ago, she has been in the spotlight. At first, as the subject of internet urban legend. Then, as a horror movie inspiration. And most...
Roar of the Lambs August 26, 2025
Winnie Bray knows she is not the lamb she presents herself as - she is a liar. And she will continue to lie, because lying keeps her family smiling and safe, and it keeps her in business as a psychic where she tells people exactly what they want to hear.
But one vision sends her back to the family...
Stinetinglers 4 August 26, 2025
Stinetinglers, Book 4
Tony has a love of old comics… but when he goes poking around where he doesn’t belong, will he find himself discontinued?
Kylie is thrilled to have a summer job at the local pet store… but will the store’s more gruesome creatures rub off on her?
Teddy knows his new substitute teacher has a...
Stinetinglers 3 August 26, 2025
Stinetinglers, Book 3
A boy thinks that a dream factory will help him make his slumber more fun... but what's the line between dream and nightmare?
Two kids find an abandoned shack on the side of the road and are determined to make it their new treehouse... but is it as abandoned as it seems?
A boy wants to impress at...
The Unfinished September 3, 2024
The Unfinished, Book 1
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 to survive. Avery can smell the water, see it...
Tales From Cabin 23 August 27, 2024
Tales From Cabin 23, Book 2
Twelve-year-old Alia has always had the worst luck. Whether it’s her parents moving her all the way from Kuala Lumpur to a tiny village, or her shoes constantly coming untied, Alia can’t help but feel as if the universe has it out for her.
To top it all off, her estranged older sister, Ayu, has...
The Creepening of Dogwood House July 30, 2024
At night, Roddie still dreams of sitting at his mother’s feet while she braids his Afro down. But that’s a memory from before. Before his mom died in a tragic accident. Before he was taken in by an aunt he barely knows. Before his aunt brought him to Dogwood House, the creepiest place Roddie has...
Tales From Cabin 23 May 14, 2024
Tales From Cabin 23, Book 1
The last thing Tasha Washington wants is to move from her home in Savannah to a trailer park in Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father—a man she’s never met, who abandoned her mom when Tasha was just a baby—she doesn’t have much of a choice. At...
The Curse on Spectacle Key January 30, 2024
Frank Fernandez’s family never stays in one place for long. His parents renovate unusual buildings and turn them into homes, which means the family moves—a lot. This makes it hard for bookish Frank to make friends. So when his parents announce they’re moving to Spectacle Key, Florida, to live in a...
Not Quite a Ghost January 16, 2024
The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn’t fit among them. For Violet Hart—whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street—very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried...
The International House of Dereliction July 18, 2023
Home is where the heart is. But can a house have a heart of its own? Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She’s lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent...
The Lake House April 25, 2023
Claire’s grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It’s just how she’s wired—her worst-case scenarios never actually come true.
Until she arrives at an off-the-grid summer camp to find a blackened, burned husk instead of a lodge—and no survivors, except her...
Scowler December 9, 2014
Imagine your father is a monster. Would that mean there are monsters inside you, too?
Nineteen-year-old Ry Burke, his mother, and little sister eke out a living on their dying family farm. Ry wishes for anything to distract him from the grim memories of his father’s physical and emotional abuse....
Rotters April 5, 2011
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in...