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Thirsty
M.T. Anderson
Pb ya horror Anderson

From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.
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Bloodline
Kate Cary
YA C3326 bl

In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.
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Bloodline: Reckoning
Kate Cary
YA C3326 re

In this story told primarily through journal entries, Quincy Harker, the heir to Dracula's bloodline, returns to England in 1918 to pursue Nurse Mary Seward, whose fiance has been transformed into a monstrous vampire.
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Fendi, Ferragamo & Fangs
Julie Kenner et al.
Pb ya horror Kenner

Three novellas follow the adventures of Olivia, Veronika and Sydney, supermodels from the agency Vamp Modeling, Inc. It's no coincidence that these party girls enjoy the night.
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The Silver Kiss
Annette Curtis Klause
Pb ya horror Klause

Zoe is wary when, in the beautiful but frightening Simon comes to her house. He understands the pain of loneliness and death and Zoe's brooding thoughts about her dying mother. Simon is a vampire, seeking revenge for the gruesome death of his mother three hundred years ago. Does Simon dare ask Zoe to help free him from this lifeless chase and its intolerable solitude?
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The Cirque du Freak Series
Darren Shan
YA S5282

This multi-volume series follows the exploits of Darren Shan, half-vampire. Together with fellow vampires and friends from the Cirque du Freak, Darren is destined to fight the evil Vampaneze Lord, during the War of the Scars.
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The Wereling series
Stephen Cole
Pb ya horror Cole

#1 Wounded. #2 Prey. #3 Resurrection. The series follows the exploits of sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson who is turned into a werewolf by the evil Folan family following a hiking accident. While held captive by the Folans in a cabin in the woods, he meets Kate Folan, their teenage daughter, who also wants to escape the family. Together they do, and are pursued by dynasties of werewolves, determined to find and kill them to protect their centuries-old secrets.
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Blood and Chocolate
Annette Curtis Klause
Pb ya horror Klause

Vivian Gandillon comes from a long line of werewolves who routinely prey on "meat boys" and "meat girls." Then Vivian falls in love with kind, gentle, human Aiden and she finds relief in her human existence with him, far away from her squabbling pack. Vivian longs to reveal herself to Aiden and share her dual-existence with him but fears he will not understand. And the pack is looking at Aiden as food. Now a movie!
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Doctor Illuminatus: The Alchemist's Son
Martin Booth
YA B7249 do

Pip and her twin brother, Tim, awaken an alchemist's son from a centuries-long slumber when their family moves to an old English country estate, and he enlists them in the fight against an evil alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus.
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M is for Magic.
Neil Gaiman
YA G141 m

Eleven stories by the master of magic, Neil Gaiman. In this you'll find a teenage boy who has trouble talking to girls who finds himself at a rather unusual party; a sinister jack-in-the-box haunts the lives of the children who owned it; a boy raised in a graveyard makes a discovery and confronts the much more troubling world of the living; a stray cat fights a nightly battle to protect his adopted family from a terrible evil. And more...
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The Book of Dead Days
Marcus Sedgwick
YA S4482 bo

. The days between Christmas and New Year's Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil.
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The Dark Flight Down
Marus Sedgwick
YA S4482 da

The conclusion to The Book of Dead Days. On an errand for Kepler, his new master, Boy is captured and imprisoned in the palace dungeon, where he plots his escape from the evil Maxim and the lunatic King Frederick but also learns a disturbing secret about his father.
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Blue is for Nightmares. White is for Magic. Silver is for Secrets. Red is for Remembrance
Laurie Faria Stolarz
Pb ya horror Stolarz

This series follows Stacy from her junior year at boarding school to college. Stacy's nightmares portend murder and death. Each of the books begins with a spine-tingling dream populated by ghosts of victims who warn Stacy of impending doom. Stacy turns to folk magic learned from her grandmother to save the day...and the night.
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The Beast of Noor
Janet Lee Carey
YA C27403 be

Fifteen-year-old Miles Ferrell uses the rare and special gift he is given to break the curse of the Shriker, a murderous creature reportedly brought to Shalem Wood by his family's clan centuries before.
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Doppleganger
David Stahler, Jr.
YA S7812 do

When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life - and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.
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A Stir of Bones
Nina Kiriki Hoffman
YA H6006 st

After discovering the secrets that lie in an abandoned house, fourteen-year-old Susan Backstrom, with the help of some new friends, has the ability to make a safe, new life for herself.
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Story Time
Edward Bloor
YA B655 st

George and Kate are promised the best education but instead face obsessed administrators, endless tests, and evil spirits when they are transferred to Whittaker Magnet School.
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The Love Curse of the Rumbaughs
Jack Gantos
YA G2112 lo

On Easter Sunday, a young girl named Ivy discovers a chilling secret in the basement of the Rumbaugh pharmacy across the street from the hotel where she lives with her mother. The discovery reveals a disturbing side to the eccentric lives of family friends Abner and Adolph Rumbaugh, known throughout their small western Pennsylvania town simply as the Twins. It seems that Ab and Dolph have been compelled by a powerful mutual love for their deceased mother to do something extraordinary, something that in its own twisted way bridges the gap between the living and the dead.
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Pay The Piper
Jane Yolen and Adam Stemple
YA Y54 pa

When Callie interviews the band, Brass Rat, for her school newspaper, her feelings are ambivalent, but when all the children of Northampton begin to disappear on Halloween, she knows where the dangerous search must begin. A modern take on the Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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The Good, the Bat and the Ugly
Paul Magrs
YA M2128 go

It's true. Puppets really are evil! When famous puppets of British television are murdered, everyone suspects thirteen-year-old Jason's father, a bitter, forgotten puppeteer, of committing the grisly acts.
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The Last Days
Scott Westerfeld
YA W526 la

As an ancient evil stirs beneath the streets of New York City, infecting rats and people like a plague, five quirky teens come together to form a "New Sound" band whose music seems to have paranormal power.
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The Watchers Out of Time
H.P. Lovecraft
Pb ya horror Lovecraft

Short stories by Lovecraft, master of early 20th century horror. Lovecraft carried on the tradition of Edgar Allan Poe. For him, he found terror in the newly discovered, the infinite universe, the questioning of established beliefs. He was the Columbus of the malignant universe.
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Pb ya horror Shelley

The classic tale about Dr.Frankenstein who creates a creature from dead body parts and brings it to life.
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Dracula
Bram Stoker
Pb ya horror Stoker

The classic tale wherein the king of vampires travels to London in search of new blood. He preys on, and eventually kills Lucy Westenra. Dracula is discovered to be a vampire by Dr. Abraham van Helsing. Together with Dr. John Seward and Arthur Holmwood, van Helsing sets out to destroy the centuries-old vampire.
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The Thief of Always
Clive Barker
Pb ya horror Barker

In this house of a thousand wishes, everything Harvey ever dreamed of is now real. So are a few of his nightmares. After a mysterious stranger promises to end his boredom with a trip to the magical Holiday House, ten-year-old Harvey learns that his fun has a high price.
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The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury
YA B79799 ha

A group of children and a "spirit" go back through time to discover the beginnings of Halloween.
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The Night Country
Stewart O'Nan
fic O581 ni

At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five teenagers leaves a winding road and slams into a tree, killing three of them. One escapes unharmed, another suffers severe brain damage. A year later, summoned by the memories of those closest to them, the three that died come back on a last chilling mission among the living.
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All Hallows' Eve
Vivan VandeVelde
YA V244 all

All of these stories take place on Halloween night. Among them, a deceased killer strikes again, a girl becomes trapped in a centuries old mausoleum, and five friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic.
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Hauntings and Other Tales of Danger, Love, and Sometimes Loss
Betsy Hearne
YA H43653 ha

In fifteen eerie tales you will meet the lonely, the troubled, the grieving. They have choices; they have fears; they have life and death. Their stories will haunt you long after they end.
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Horror Stories
chosen by Susan Price
Pb ya horror Horror

Classic horror stories by Stephen King, John Steinbeck, E. A. Poe, Charles Dickens and Terry Jones and Michael Palin (of Monty Python fame).
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