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Horror Stories & the Supernatural
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The Afterlife / Soto, Gary.  After he is stabbed to death, seventeen-year-old Chuy lingers long enough to watch the reactions of his family and friends while getting to know some other ghosts.

The Beasties / Sleator, William.  In this modern horror tale, Doug and his younger sister discover a race of weird underground people who remove the arms and legs of their victims.

Book of Shadows / Tiernan, Cate.  Morgan isn't interested in witchcraft until she meets Cal, a high school senior who is a Wiccan and who draws Morgan into his world.

Cat in Glass: And Other Tales of the Unnatural / Etchemendy, Nancy.  Eight spooky and suspenseful stories that will captivate brave readers.

Companions of the Night / Vande Velde, Vivian.  A sixteen-year-old finds herself caught in a life-and-death chase after she helps an injured man who may be a vampire.  Also by Vivian Vande Velde:  Being Dead, A Coming Evil, Never Trust a Dead Man, There's a Dead Person Following My Sister Around.

Dark Garden / Buffie, Margaret.  Thea, who suffers from amnesia after an accident, begins hearing voices, one of which belongs to a young woman who died tragically years before.

Dark Starry Morning: Stories of This World and Beyond / Patneaude, David. Six eerie tales about encounters with the unknown and the supernatural.

Darkest Hour / Carroll, Jenny.  Suze's ability to communicate with ghosts comes in handy as a skeleton turns up in her backyard and she falls for a phantom called Jesse.

Demon in My View / Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia.  Seventeen-year-old Jessica, who writes fiction about vampires and witches, finds her imagined world coming to life.

Doom Stone / Zindel, Paul. A slimy, truly evil creature stalks the moors and inhabits the mind of the protagonist's aunt.  Also by Paul Zindel:  Loch.

Full Tilt / Shusterman, Neal.  A suspenseful drama in which sixteen-year-old Blake must tackle frightening rides at a mysterious carnival and face his own worst fears in order to save his daredevil older brother Quinn.

Ghost Behind the Wall / Burgess, Melvin.  David finds more than he expects when he ventures into his building's ventilation system.

Ghostwise: A Book of Midnight Stories / Yashinsky, Dan.  A collection of 35 short but chilling stories of the supernatural and ghosts.

Hostilities: Nine Bizarre Stories / MacDonald, Caroline.  Nine tales with strange, unsettling themes and Australian locales.

House Next Door / Cusick, Richie Tankersley.  Emma dares to spend a night in a haunted house and becomes caught up in a struggle to free a spirit from the past in this tale of supernatural suspense.

Locked in Time / Duncan, Lois.  Nore's father marries into a family that somehow never seems to age.  Also by Lois Duncan:  Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow and Substance, Stranger with My Face, Summer of Fear.

Night School / Cooney, Caroline B.  Four California teens enroll in a mysterious night school course and encounter an evil instructor and their own worst character defects.

Operating Codes / Manns, Nick.  A suspenseful tale of supernatural presences and espionage in which two young children and their father become embroiled.

Ozark Ghost Stories / Young, Richard.  Spooky Ozark stories are the focus of this horror anthology, including old favorites and less well-known jokes and tales.

Playing with Fire / Karr, Kathleen.  This story about the occult takes place in 1920s New York and involves Greer and her spiritualist mother.

Queen of the Cold-Blooded Tales / Brown, Roberta Simpson.  A collection of 23 contemporary horror stories.

Restless: A Ghost's Story / Wallace, Rich.  Sports and the supernatural take center stage in seventeen-year-old Herbie's life after he becomes aware of a ghostly being on a run through the graveyard.

Rosey in the Present Tense / Hawes, Louise.  After the death of his girlfriend, seventeen-year-old Franklin can't stop living in the past until the ghost of Rosey and his family and friends help him accept his loss and begin to think of the present.

Secret Whispering Springs / Garretson, Jerri.  A ghost and a mysterious stranger alert Cassie to potential danger, and a potential fortune, in this suspenseful adventure.

Shades of Simon Gray / McDonald, Joyce.  After a crash that some see as a suicide attempt, Simon lies in a coma attended by a ghost, his bed watched over by contemporaries who are worried that he will awake and reveal their cheating on tests.

Sights / Vance, Susanna.  Baby Girl has the ability to see the future, but this does not help her to cope with her abusive father or to escape the usual traumas of adolescence.

Sorcerers of the Nightwing / Huntington, Geoffrey.  Magic and mystery abound in this horror story featuring a young teenager with superpowers who is a sorcerer in the Order of the Nightwing.

Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush / Hamilton, Virginia.  A fourteen-year-old girl who cares for her older, retarded brother meets a charming ghost who reveals secrets of her past.

Tunnels of Blood / Shan, Darren.  Darren Shan, teenage half-vampire, sets out to investigate a spate of recent killings for which he believes his vampire master might be responsible.  Also by Darren Shan:  A Living Nightmare, The Vampire's Assistant, Vampire Mountain, Trials of Death, The Vampire Prince.

Vampire and Werewolf Stories / Durant, Alan.  Eighteen stories make up this classic Gothic horror anthology about vampires and werewolves.

Vampire High / Rees, Douglas.  A flunking Cody is sent to Vlad Dracul Magnet School where he finds classmates very strange, but he soon adapts to their vampire nature.

When Nobody's Home / Gorog, Judith.  A collection of 15 terrifying (supposedly true) tales on the theme of babysitting.

Whispers from the Dead / Nixon, Joan Lowery.  After being saved from drowning, Sarah is able to communicate with dead spirits. Also by Joan Lowery Nixon: The Haunting.

Whistle, the Grave, and the Ghost / Strickland, Brad.  A silver whistle frees a woman vampire, drawing Lewis Barnevalt and his friends into suspenseful adventures battling an ancient threat.

Wish List / Colfer, Eion.  Meg's mix of good and bad deeds leaves her poised between heaven and hell, and she is sent on a mission that will tip the balance one way or the other.


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