Terrifying Young Adult Horror and Slasher Books

It’s been two weeks since Evie escaped the mines after solving the mystery of Holly’s disappearance only to discover that Desmond followed her but never came back. Evie knows he’s alive, lost wherever the Patchwork Girl resides. When Evie tries to reach out to Holly again for help, she realizes that her connection to the Lost Girl — and the shadow world itself — has been severed. Desmond is gone, and it’s all her fault … In the latest book in the Holly Horror series, Evie Archer and her friends face a new evil ready to devour their town whole.

For fans of Lovecraft Country and Candyman comes a witchy story full of Black girl magic! One girl’s dark ability to summon the dead offers her a chance at a new life, while revealing to her an even darker future.

A high school slasher with a lethal twist, perfect for fans of Holly Jackson! The students at Morton Academy are high-achievers, selected based on academic excellence. So when a series of murders target the school’s best and brightest, the pressure is on.

Sometimes the prettiest Instagram feeds mask the darkest — and bloodiest — secrets. Social media influencer Summer Cartwright leads a charmed life: Millions of followers, the trendiest designer and vintage clothes, the coolest friends, and, until recently, the hottest boyfriend at her über-elite prep school. But when Summer goes missing during her annual Halloween party, those closest to her know something is wrong, and no filter is strong enough to mask the lies they tell themselves. Told in multiple POVs interspersed with social media posts and flashbacks, Live Your Best Lie has twists and turns that will keep readers enthralled. You’ll never guess the ending.

Seventeen-year-old Josephine Jagger is a talented writer with special abilities she doesn’t fully understand. Over the years she has developed methods to cope with the voices she hears in her head, but the old house her family has inherited in Vermont makes Josephine question what’s real and what’s not more than anything she’s even encountered before. It’s filled with shadows, and whispers, and the unshakable feeling of being watched …

Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend, the older brother, his perfect girlfriend, a secret crush, a classmate, and a killer … When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead.

Old money. New secrets. One killer party. A glitzy YA thriller set in New York City elite social circles, filled with backstabbing and blackmail, twisty secrets, and a dead body, from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman, now in paperback.

In Marley’s town, seniors are given a prank as a rite of passage … a dare, if you will. The dares start out simple … egging houses, balloons filled with glitter, chickens running loose in the halls. But this is no child’s play. Accepting a dare means you could be expelled, arrested, or worse. No one wants to back down from a dare. But saying yes has consequences, too …

A teen girl’s attempt to make amends with her former friend group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown.

In the heart of the English countryside, Bessie and her closest friends gather at a remote castle for a secret party destined to make this the best spring break ever. But when the first of them dies, the party takes a lethal turn. As the body count continues to rise, Bessie and her friends must contend with a deadly storm and growing internal suspicion, all while trapped inside with a killer. Set against the backdrop of a sprawling English estate, Natasha Preston’s latest thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat until the party’s over …

Two chilling contemporary horror novels in one volume from New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Perkins.

Scream meets Happy Death Day in this terrifying horror novel from YA scream queen Danielle Valentine. Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. But as the trial begins and Alice prepares to give her testimony, she is knocked out by a Sidney Prescott look-alike in the courthouse bathroom. When she wakes up, it is Halloween night a year earlier, the same day her sister was murdered. Alice has until midnight to save her sister and find the real killer before he claims another victim.

From the author of the New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night. Now in paperback!

The must-read suspense novel about a mysterious sister’s disappearance, her biggest betrayal, and a deadly truth screaming to come out.

When a group of six strangers who have only ever spoken on a creepy Deddit thread decide to meet IRL, they have one plan in mind: They are going to play The Midnight Game and summon the Midnight Man. Rules of the game are simple: Do not turn on the lights. Do not go to sleep. Do not leave the building. And once you start the game, you must finish it — there’s no other way out …

Zoe Hana Mikuta delivers a bloody and unrelenting fantasy about young witches dangling on the edge of love and obsession, of magic and madness, of life and death (and death and death and death) …