Horror for children and young adults: Recently received
This guide lists selected horror tales for children and young adults in Cubberley Education Library.
Recently received
Dead things are closer than they appear by Robin Wasley
Publication Date: 2024Ages 14 and up; Gr.9-12.
High school is hard enough to survive without an apocalypse to navigate. Sid Spencer has always been the most normal girl in her abnormal hometown, a tourist trap built over one of the fault lines that seal magic away from the world. Meanwhile, all Sid has to deal with is hair-ruining humidity, painful awkwardness, being one of four Asians in town, and her friends dumping her when they start dating each other--just days after one of the most humiliating romantic rejections faced by anyone, ever, in all of history. Then someone kills one of the Guardians who protect the seal. The earth rips open and unleashes the magic trapped inside.The lovely dark by Matthew Fox
Publication Date: 2023Ages 8-12; Gr.3-7.
"When 12-year-old Eleanor Newton dies in an accident, she finds herself journeying down a mysterious river that takes her to The Underworld. She apprehensively embarks on her "afterlife" at Eventide House, a boarding school of sorts for children who have died."Stinetinglers: all new stories by the master of scary tales by R. L. Stine
Publication Date: 2023Ages 8-12, Gr.3-6.
A boy who hates bugs starts to see them everywhere. A basketball player's skin starts to almost drip off his hands but no one else can see it. Three friends find a hole in the ground that just gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger. And each story is introduced by Stine himself.The hysterical girls of St. Bernadette's by Hanna Alkaf
Publication Date: 2024Ages 14 and up; Gr.9 and up.
For over a hundred years, girls have fought to attend St. Bernadette's, with its reputation for shaping only the best and brightest young women. Unfortunately, there is also the screaming. When a student begins to scream in the middle of class, a chain reaction starts that impacts the entire school. By the end of the day, seventeen girls are affected--along with St. Bernadette's stellar reputation. Khadijah's got her own scars to tend to, and watching her friends succumb to hysteria only rips apart wounds she'd rather keep closed. But when her sister falls to the screams, Khad knows she's the only one who can save her.Shark night by R. L. Stine
Publication Date: 2024Ages 8-12; Gr.3-7.
Lots of kids dream of being on TV--but for Liam it's a NIGHTMARE Alone in a giant water tank, Liam, holding a camera, watches as a twenty-foot-long hammerhead shark is about to be lowered in with him. This is not where he thought his day was going. Liam is helping his mom film a documentary for the Danger Channel. A twelve-year-old battling a shark! It'll be a sensation!Harvest house by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Publication Date: 2023Lexile measure 850; Ages 12 and up; Gr.7 and up.
Halloween is near, and Hughie Wolfe is volunteering at a new rural attraction: Harvest House. He's excited to take part in the fun, spooky show--until he learns that an actor playing the vengeful spirit of an "Indian maiden," a ghost inspired by local legend, will headline. Folklore aside, unusual things have been happening at night at the crossroads near Harvest House. A creepy man is stalking teenage girls and young women, particularly Indigenous women; dogs are fretful and on edge; and wild animals are behaving strangely. While Hughie weighs how and when to speak up about the bigoted legend, he and his friends begin to investigate the crossroads and whether it might be haunted after all.The nighthouse keeper: a Blight Harbor novel by Lora Senf
Publication Date: 2023Ages 10-12; Gr.5-7.
Evie Von Rathe has been home for only a few weeks from her adventure in the strange world of seven houses when Blight Harbor's beloved ghosts begin to disappear. Did they leave without saying goodbye, or has something gone horribly wrong? Soon Evie is invited to a mysterious council meeting, where she learns about the Dark Sun Side and a terrible secret.It waits in the forest by Sarah Dass
Publication Date: 2024Ages 14 and up; Gr.9 and up.
Unlike the other residents of the small Caribbean Island of St. Virgil, Selina DaSilva does not believe in magic. With a logical mind and a knack for botany, Selina used to dream of leaving the island to study Pharmacology-until a vicious, unsolved attack left her father dead and her mother in a coma. Now her guilt over her mother's condition keeps her tethered to the island, relegated to conning gullible tourists with useless talismans and phony protection rituals. But when one of those tourists ends up at the center of a string of strange murders, the truth that Selina has been denying can no longer be avoided- there is evil lurking in the forests that surround St. Virgil.
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