CRRL My Librarian: Terrifically Eerie Tales for TeensLike this list

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• Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

  the Book of Scary Urban Legends

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  Professor Jan Harold Brunvand recounts classic stories of modern monsters that are perfect to share at an after-dark gathering.

• Beware the Wild

  Parker, Natalie C.

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  There's a creepy swamp next to Sterling's hometown, but she only realizes exactly how creepy it is when her brother disappears there--and she's the only one who remembers he ever existed.

• The Bone Witch

  Chupeco, Rin

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  In this alternative fantasy world, magic is real, and there are whole families of witches, including Tea's. She has the rare gift of necromancy--raising the dead--and her frightened community drives her away. But Tea is determined to make…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gathering Dark

  An Anthology of Folk Horror

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  Ten stories by critically acclaimed authors will have you visiting a lake that returns its drowned dead, a monster-infested bridge, an evil town on the cusp of its third burning, and more.

• In the Shadow of Blackbirds

  Winters, Cat

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  Sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black lives in the eerie year 1918, where the flu pandemic has killed thousands upon thousands and World War I is taking the lives of thousands of others, including Mary's first love. Mary was skeptical of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long Lankin

  Barraclough, Lindsey

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  Sent to an isolated village to live with their elderly aunt, sisters Cora and Mimi, along with two village boys, encounter an ancient evil that has cursed the countryside for generations.

• The Raven Boys

  Stiefvater, Maggie, 1981-

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  Blue has always avoided the "Raven Boys" who go to the local private school, but then she meets Gansey. Because of her gifts, she knows he is fated to die, but he is on a quest with three other students, each attractive in his own way, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Seer of Shadows

  Avi, 1937-

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  In 1860s New York City, Horace, a 14-year-old photographer's apprentice, discovers he has the ability to photograph spirits--which leads him into a friendship with Pegg, an enslaved girl, and unwittingly freeing a spirit to seek revenge.

• Something Wicked This Way Comes

  Bradbury, Ray, 1920-2012

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  Halloween comes a week early to Green Town when Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show slides in under the shadows of night. Even in such a small town, people have their dreams. On the cusp of adulthood, lifelong friends Will and Jim have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965

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  Merricat Blackwood was only 12 when four members of her family died of poisoning. The weight of the unsolved murder haunts the village and has led the remaining Blackwoods to lead a life of seclusion for the past six years--until…Read moreRead more of this annotation