HORROR/SUSPENSE BIBLIOGRAPHY

Blood and Chocolate    (M)                                                      Klause, Annette Curtis

Summary:  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.  (Also: The Silver Kiss)

Blooding   (M)                                                             Windsor, Patricia

Summary:  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.

Chain Letter                                                                             Pike, Christopher

Summary:  For seven teenagers, keeping a secret could be more than difficult, it  could be deadly.

 Cirque du freak: Lake of Souls                                      Shan, Darren

Summary:  The lives of Darren and Harkat are at risk as they face monstrous obstacles on a desperate quest to the Lake of Souls.

 Dangerous Girls: a novel                                                           Stine, R. L.

Summary:  After sixteen-year-old Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are turned into partial vampires at a summer camp, they try to find the “Restorer,” someone who can return them to normal. 

Demon In My View                                                                  Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia

Summary:  Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.

 Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red  (M)

Summary:  A young wife’s diary chronicles inexplicable disappearances and ghastly death occurring at the mansion Rose Red.                   

Dr. Franklin’s Island                                                                 Halam, Ann

Summary:  When their plane crashes over the Pacific Ocean, three science students are left stranded on a tropical island and then imprisoned by a doctor who is performing horrifying experiments on humans involving the transfer of animal genes.

 Double Helix                                                                            Werlin, Nancy

Summary:  Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.

 Dreadful Sorry                                                              Reiss, Kathryn

Summary:  Seventeen-year-old Molly is plagued by nightmares and visions of a girl who died over eighty years ago.

 A Fate Totally Worse Than Death                                             Fleischman, Paul

Summary:  In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School’s ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before. 

The House Next Door                                                              Cusick, Richie Tankersley

Summary:  A bet to spend the night alone in the abandoned house next door leads Emma Donovan to relive a passionate love and a horrific night from the house’s past.

 Jade Green  (M)                                                                      Naylor, Phyllis

Summary:  While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression causes mysterious happenings.

 The Long Walk                                                                        King, Stephen

Summary:  A young boy is selected to take the Long Walk, a deadly contest of endurance and determination, in which each stepcan be his last.

Look For Me By Moonlight                                                      Hahn, Mary Downing

Summary:  While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father’s new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

 Lottery                                                                                     Jackson, Shirley

Summary:  Horror classic in which a young woman gambles for the privilege of becoming a sacrificial victim.

Mummy                                                                                    Cooney, Caroline B.

Summary:  Emlyn and her classmates plan to steal an ancient Egyptian mummy from a museum.

 Raptor Red                                                                              Bakker, Robert T.

Summary:  Narrated from a dinosaur’s point of view, this paleontologist’s novel is filled with facts and informed speculations regarding dinosaur life.

 Rats                                                                                         Zindel, Paul

Summary:  When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike

try to figure out how to stop them. (Also: Loch, Raptor)

 Wait Till Helen Comes: A Ghost Story                          Hahn, Mary Downing

Summary:   Molly and Michael dislike their bratty new stepsister Heather but realize that they must try to save her when she seems ready to follow a ghost child to her doom.

 We Have Always Lived in the Castle                                        Jackson, Shirley

Summary:  The lives of two sisters after one is acquitted of the arsenic poisonings of four family members, by the author of The Lottery.

 (M) – Mature Reader

11/06