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30 Days of Night by Steve Niles
Idea + Design Works, 2004
In Barrow, Alaska the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty days and nights. From the shadows, across the freezing wasteland, an evil comes that brings the citizens into submission. Only the sheriff and deputy, a married couple, can save them.
YA FICTION NIL

Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman 
William Morrow, 2005
"Fat Charlie" Nancy has always been embarrassed by his dad. When he attends his estranged father's funeral, he learns that his father was a human form of Anansi, the African trickster god, and that he has a brother, Spider, who has inherited some of their father's godlike powers.
SCI_FI FANTASY GAI

Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Delacorte Press, 1997
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
YA FICTION KLA

The Blooding by Patricia Windsor
Scholastic Press, 1996
While spending the summer working as an au pair girl for a couple in England, Maris discovers that the husband is a werewolf intent on blooding her and making her one too.
YA FICTION WIN

Blue is for Nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Llewellyn, 2003
Sixteen-year-old hereditary witch Stacey Brown has nightmares of her roommate being murdered and hopes that her magic will be enough to protect Drea--unlike the last person whose death Stacey dreamed.
YA FICTION STO

Coraline by Neil Gaiman
HarperCollins, 2002
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
YT SCI_FI FANTASY GAI

Different Seasons by Stephen King
Signet, 1983
The master of horror delights readers with four tales of people going on a journey.
PB FICTION KING

Frankenstein: Or the Modern Prometheus by Marry Wollstonecraft Shelley
Penguin Books, 1992
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
PB CLASSIC SHE

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Viking, 1959
Eleanor receives an unusual invitation from Dr. John Montague, who is obsessed with "supernatural manifestations." He coordinates a ghost watch, inviting people who have had experiences with otherworldly events. A mystical occurrence from Eleanor's past qualifies her to be a part of Montague's peculiar experiment at Hill House.
FICTION JAC

Killing Britney by Sean Olin
Simon Pulse, 2005
Winter in Madison, WI, can be chilling enough without a serial killer on the loose. Britney Johnson, once an ugly duckling, she is now slim, blonde, and beautiful. What's not to be jealous of? But envy is taken to another level – soon her friends and family end up dead.
YA FICTION OLI

Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde
Harcourt Brace, 1999
Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.
YT FICTION VAN

Peeps by Scott Westerfeld
Razorbill, 2005
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
YA FICTION WES

Prowlers by Christopher Golden
Pocket Pulse, 2001
When nineteen-year-old Jack Dwyer's best friend Artie is murdered, he is devastated. But his world is truly turned upside down when Artie emerges from the Ghostlands to bring him a warning. With his dead friend's guidance and the help of the one person who doesn't think he's insane, Jack learns of the existence of the Prowlers.
PB YA FICTION GOL

Something Upstairs by Avi
Orchard Books, 1988
When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island, Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a black slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early nineteenth century and prevent his murder by slave traders.
YT SCI_FI FANTASY AVI

Tenderness by Robert Cormier
Delacorte Press, 1997
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
YA FICTION COR

Time Windows by Kathryn Reiss
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1991
Thirteen-year-old Miranda moves with her family to a small Massachusetts town and an old house in which a mysterious dollhouse allows her to see into the past, where she discovers her new home exerts an evil influence on the women of each generation of inhabitants--including Miranda's mother.
YT FICTION REI

Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale by Holly Black
Simon & Schuster, 2002
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, who has been visited by faeries since childhood, discovers that she herself is a magical faerie creature with a special destiny.
YA FICTION BLA

Voices after Midnight by Richard Peck
Delacorte Press, 1989
Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery involving the former tenants of the house when the two brothers slip back in time to 1888.
YT SCI_FI FANTASY PEC

Wounded by Stephen Cole
Razorbill, 2005
Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family--and fight becoming werewolves themselves--by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure.
PB YA FICTION COL


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