Hauntingly Good Reads for Teens

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These spine-chilling books feature thrilling tales of mystery, supernatural encounters, and dark adventures perfect for teen readers.
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Illustrated cover of "The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor" showing two characters fending off attackers with a sword and book.

The Dire Days of Willowweep Manor by Shaenon K. Garrity

After she saves a man from drowning, Haley wakes up in a pocket universe that appears as a gothic estate and helps three brothers whose job it is to protect her world against a penultimate evil.

Book cover of "The Narrow" by Kate Alice Marshall, showing a girl in a white dress immersed in water inside a dark room.

The Narrow by Kate Alice Marshall

A deliciously terrifying novel about a ghost who uncovers a teen girl’s best kept secrets while haunting her boarding school, perfect for fans of Lost in the Never Woods and The Haunting of Bly Manor.

Book cover: "A House Unsettled" by Trynne Delaney with flowers, a skull, and an hourglass against a dark background.

A House Unsettled by Trynne Delaney

With her dad’s incarceration, escalating fights with her mom, and an overbearing stepdad she’s not sure she can trust, Asha is desperate for the fresh start promised by a move to the country. Her great aunt Aggie’s crumbling, pest-ridden house isn’t exactly what she had in mind, but the immediate connection she makes with her new neighbor Cole seems like a good sign. Soon, though, Asha’s optimism is shadowed by strange and disturbing occurrences within the old house’s walls.

Book cover of "Harvest House" by Cynthia Leitich Smith, featuring a boy standing in front of a building, with a girl's reflection below.

Harvest House by Cynthia Leitich Smith

When strange things start happening at night near a new, supposedly haunted, rural attraction, including a creepy man stalking young Indigenous women, Hughie Wolfe and his friends set out to discover the truth in order to protect themselves and their community.

Book cover of 'The Taking of Jake Livingston' features a wide-eyed boy in a suit with ghostly hands behind him.

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass

When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game…

A book cover titled "Raising the Horseman" by Serena Valentino, features figures and a pumpkin head with eerie green flames.

Raising the Horseman by Serena Valentino

Wanting nothing to do with Sleepy Hollow’s superstitious celebrations after receiving her ancestor’s diary, Kat van Tassel must uncover a 200-year-old secret that is shockingly linked to her own life in time to protect what she truly loves.

Book cover of "Cursed Cruise" with a haunted ship in eerie green light, dark sea, and authors' names, Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren.

Cursed Cruise by Victoria Fulton and Faith McClaren

After their fateful stay at the Hearst Hotel, the Ghost Gang is back with more spooks and more subscribers. They’ve been invited to record onboard the RMS Queen Anne, a transatlantic luxury ocean liner with a colorful past of violent deaths of hundreds of passengers. Unbeknownst to the rest of the group, Chrissy has been sucked into another time by a passenger who wants the Ghost Gang to know her untimely death was not an accident and the perpetrator is still alive—and on board this ship.

Book cover of "Holly Horror" by Michelle Jabès Corpora, depicting a blue skull wearing a pink hat against a spooky background.

Holly Horror by Michelle Jabáes Corpora

When teenage Evie moves with her mother and brother to a new home known by locals as the Horror House, where a teen mysteriously vanished without a trace many years ago, she becomes haunted by a terrifying bonneted specter.

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