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CRRL Teen: Real Creepy Reads

Keep the lights on. These creeptastic young adult titles will have you shivering with fear!

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  • Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But Kettle Springs is caught in a battle between old and new, tradition and progress. It's a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until…
    Book, 2020New York : HarperCollins, [2020] — FICTION Ces
  • Two days before the dead begin to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Jane McKeene was born. Now laws require certain children to attend combat schools to learn how to kill the dead. When families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. — FICTION Ire
  • Seventeen-year-old Dare plans to spend her summer debunking a haunting at an historic estate with a dark past, but she finds herself in a life-or-death struggle against a malignant ghost.
    Book, 2021New York : Razorbill, 2021. — FICTION Mar
  • Follows teenager Alex and her horror buff friends as their dream trip to a remote Romanian castle turns into a nightmare when they begin to be killed one by one.
    Book, 2022New York : Razorbill, 2022. — FICTION Dev
  • Following her father's death, Jane North-Robinson and her mom move from California to the dreary, dilapidated North Manor in Maine, where her mother grew up. As autumn arrives, Jane finds solace in old books and memories of her dad. Jane discovers…
    Book, 2020New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2020. — FICTION Len
  • When no one in the small town of Merritt, Florida, believes that he was attacked by a monster, fifteen-year-old Virgil Knox fears the monster will return to finish him off, or worse - that he is becoming a monster himself.
    Book, 2022New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2022] — FICTION Hut
  • In chapters that alternate between the past and the present, Cat slowly recalls her life before she and her classmates were trapped inside School, where half of them are mutating, everyone is fearful, and self-destruction seems to be the only means…
    eBook, 2022New York, NY : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022] — FICTION Zap
  • Some legends say if you look into a mirror and say Bloody Mary's name thirteen times, she will show you the future. It might be your one true love... or a skull to mark your death within five years. Elena, Steph, Calvin and Grace think it's an…
    Book, 2021New York : Scholastic Press, 2021. — FICTION Sar
  • In the old factory town of Pender, a child goes missing every October. When Clara moves to town with her father, her new friends tell her of the Mumbler, a monster who stalks to marshes and claims a victim on Halloween.
    Book, 2019New York, NY : HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. — FICTION Fre
  • When transfer student Finch Chamberlin and popular senior Selena St. Clair accidentally wake something terrifying and ancient in the depths of their school, they must work together to stop the horror they unleashed before it consumes the town.
    eBook, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2022] — FICTION Cot
  • Z Chilworth, a genderqueer teen, has to adjust quickly to the new status as a zombie after waking from death caused by a car crash that killed the rest of their family. Becoming undead in Salem, Oregon, launches Z in a world of monsters, magic, and…
    Book, 2019New York : Seven Stories Press, 2019. — FICTION Sch
  • 1890s Chicago is more dangerous and chaotic than Zuretta ever imagined. She doesn’t know where to start until she learns of her missing sister’s last place of employment…a mysterious hotel known as "The Castle." Zuretta takes a job there hoping to…
    Book, 2021Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2021] — FICTION Moo
  • Sawkill Rock is an ideal island to live with plenty of beautiful lands to explore and enjoy. Marion moves to the island with her mother and sister after the tragic death of their father. When her sister suddenly goes missing, Marion discovers that…
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018. — FICTION Leg
  • Former friends must discover which one of them broke the rules when objects they sealed in an ancient stone box come to life and dead things reanimate.
    Book, 2018New York, New York : Viking, 2018. — FICTION Ste
  • When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game.
    Book, 2021New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — FICTION Dou