Terrifying Young Adult Horror and Slasher Books

After her parents’ painful divorce, Evie Archer hopes that moving to Ravenglass, Massachusetts, is the fresh start her family needs. But Evie quickly realizes that her new home — known by locals as the Horror House — carries its own dark past after learning about Holly Hobbie, who mysteriously vanished from her bedroom one night …

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.

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 …

Every secret comes to haunt you in this YA horror that combines the swoony romance and emotional resonance of John Green with the surrealist horror imagery and razor-sharp wit of Jordan Peele. At once haunting, enchanting, and entirely unforgettable, Britney S. Lewis’s novel explores love, loss, and what happens when you stop hiding from your truth.

A dark and powerful mystery perfect for fans of Courtney Summers and true crime podcasts, in which a teen girl must do whatever it takes to find her missing cousin — who everyone else thinks is dead.

People come from everywhere to forget. At the Memory House, in Tumble Tree, Texas, Lucy’s father can literally erase folks’ heartache and tragic memories. Lucy can’t wait to learn the family trade and help alleviate others’ pain, and now, at sixteen, she finally can. But everything is not as it seems … Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind meets Adam Silvera’s More Happy Than Not in this twisty speculative thriller.

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.

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.

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 …

Sloan and Cherry. Cherry and Sloan. They met only a few days before masked men with machetes attacked the summer camp where they worked, a massacre that left the rest of their fellow counselors dead. Now, months later, the two are inseparable, their traumatic experience bonding them in ways no one else can understand. But as new evidence comes to light and Sloan learns more about the motives behind the killing that brought them together, she begins to suspect that her girlfriend may be more than just a survivor — she may actually have been part of it …