Sorted By: Horror
Shakirah Bourne
HERE LIES A GHOST
March 2026, Scholastic, 304 pp
India Hill Brown meets Sharon Draper in a spooky, poignant, tour-de-force from Shakirah Bourne -- an ode to Black Boy friendships, the richness of Caribbean history, and the power that comes from recl...
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H.D. Hunter
A LAKE WITH NO BOTTOM
November 2026, FSG/Macmillan, TBD pp
When Sidney Cromwell moves to rural Forsyth County, Georgia from the big city of Atlanta, all he wants is to fit in at his new high school. But when Sidney nearly drowns in Lake Lanier, an allegedly h...
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Paige Hender
THE CONFESSIONAL
March 2025, Silver Sprocket, 200 pp
In this compelling debut horror graphic novel, a newly turned vampire yearns for salvation in the arms of the priest who uncovers her secret. New Orleans, 1922. Cora Velasquez lives with her sister a...
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Randy Ribay
NEST OF TONGUES
August 2026, Random House Children's Books, TBD pp
NEST OF TONGUES is a lyrical, slow burn, YA paranormal/horror that inverts the monster-hunter trope to explore questions of sibling relationship, identity, otherness, familial duty, and the dangers o ...
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Ann Dávila Cardinal
YOU'VE AWOKEN HER
June 2025, HarperCollins, 288 pp
Fans of You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight and Your Lonely Nights Are Over will love this thrilling YA horror about a string of disappearances and "accidental" drownings in the Hamptons, the changing ...
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Sarah Dvojack
WELCOME TO FEAR CITY
September 2024, Union Square Kids, 464 pp
New York City, summer of '77—in a city on the edge and obsessed with a serial killer, Sylvie Stroud is dealing with an entirely different kind of evil when she awakens a dark magic hellbent on consumi...
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Shakirah Bourne
BEWARE THE HEARTMAN
September 2024, Scholastic, 336 pp
Ten months after her terrifying escape from a sea spirit, Josephine is happy to settle back into life in Fairy Vale, playing on her cricket team, and spending time with her Dad, Miss Alleyne......
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Ellen Oh
HARU, ZOMBIE DOG HERO
July 2023, HarperCollins Children's Books, 176 pp
An evil laboratory causes a zombie apocalypse through illegal animal testing and a kidnapped dog, Haru. When Haru turns into a zombie, it is his love for his human boy that keeps him from turning into...
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Shakirah Bourne
NIGHTMARE ISLAND
May 2023, Scholastic, 304 pp
Serenity Noah has never told anyone about her recurring nightmare, where a silver butterfly leads her to a shadowy, silent monster. Her parents already favor her little brother, Peace, and as the "dif...
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Suzanne Weyn
DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S DAUGHTERS
January 2013, Scholastic, 250 pp
Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties a...
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Ann Dávila Cardinal
FIVE MIDNIGHTS
June 2019, Tor/Macmillan, 288 pp
In this thrilling, supernatural murder mystery, monsters only come when they’re called. A self-described Gringa-Rican from Vermont, Lupe Dávila has her summer thrown off-course when she’s shipped off...
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Ann Dávila Cardinal
CATEGORY FIVE
June 2020, Tor/Macmillan, 240 pp
After the hurricane, some see destruction and some smell blood. Category Five is a new supernatural thriller from Ann Dávila Cardinal, set against the backdrop of a post-hurricane Puerto Rico. The t...