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• The Black Girl Survives in This One

  Horror Stories

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  "Celebrating a new generation of bestselling and acclaimed Black writers, The Black Girl Survives in This One makes space for Black girls in horror. Fifteen chilling and thought-provoking stories place Black girls front and center as heroes and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wilder Girls

  Power, Rory

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  "Friends Hetty, Byatt, and Reece go to extremes trying to uncover the dark truth about the mysterious disease that has had them quarantined at their boarding school on a Maine island."

• Clown in a Cornfield

  Cesare, Adam,

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  "Resolving to keep her head down through graduation when a factory closing divides the adults and kids in her small community, Quinn is caught in a dispute between tradition and progress before a homicidal corporate mascot begins targeting teens."

• The Haunted

  Vega, Danielle

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  "To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house."

• You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

  Bayron, Kalynn,

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  "Recreating scenes from a classic slasher film for a full-contact terror game, Charity Curtis, who plays the 'final girl' at Camp Mirror Lake, finds her role turning all too real when a killer starts picking off her co-workers one by one."

• She Is a Haunting

  Tran, Trang Thanh,

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  "Staying in Vietnam at the house her estranged father is restoring, Jade, plagued by sleep paralysis, bugs, and a ghostly apparition, must expose the evil lurking in its walls before dark forces consume them all."

• The Getaway

  Giles, Lamar, 1979-

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  "Jay discovers that the mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates."

• Monstrous

  Lewis, Jessica, 1994-

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  "When seventeen-year-old Latavia is presented as a human sacrifice to an ancient beast, she is determined to do whatever it takes to survive--even if that includes making a deal with the monster and endangering her crush and family."

• The Blonde Dies First

  Wellington, Joelle,

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  "Seventeen-year-old Devon, her twin sister, and her friends face a demonic force who seemingly follows horror movie tropes, propelling the group to flip the script and use their horror movie knowledge in order to survive."

• Horrid

  Leno, Katrina

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  "Following her father's sudden death, Jane North-Robinson and her mother are forced to move to the old North house in Maine, where Jane uncovers her family's disturbing secrets."

• Raising the Horseman

  Valentino, Serena

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  "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."

• In Nightfall

  Young, Suzanne

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  "Soon after arriving in the tiny tourist town of Nightfall, Oregon, siblings Theo and Marco break their grandmother's rule not to leave the house after dark and befriend a mysterious group of beguiling girls who are far from what they seem."

• The White Guy Dies First

  13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

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  "A collection of thirteen scary stories by authors of color. These stories are filled with ancient terrors and modern villains, but go ahead, go into the basement, step onto the old plantation, and open the magician’s mystery box because this time,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Don't Swim Here

  Tirado, Vincent,

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  "She is the reason no one goes in the water. And she will make them pay. A chilling new novel for fans of Tiffany D. Jackson, Lamar Giles, and Ryan Douglass."

• A Tempest of Tea

  Faizal, Hafsah

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  "When her prestigious tearoom is threatened, criminal mastermind and collector of secrets Arthie Casimir must make a devil's bargain with an adversary to infiltrate the dark and glittering vampire society of Athereum to pull off a heist that turns…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

  White, Andrew Joseph

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  "Shipped away in 1883 London to Braxton's Finishing School and Sanitorium after a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, 16-year-old autistic trans Silas Bell decides to expose the school's darkest secrets to the world when the ghosts of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Our Shadows Have Claws

  15 Latin American Monster Stories

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  "Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars featuring the monsters of Latine myths and legends."

• Not Even Bones

  Schaeffer, Rebecca

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  "Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place."

• Night of the Living Queers

  13 Tales of Terror & Delight

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  "A collection of 13 horror stories all written by queer authors of color and each told through the lens of a teenager of color about the Halloween night that changed their lives forever."

• Dreamfall

  Plum, Amy

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  "When an experiment to cure teen insomnia goes awry, a group of patients become trapped in a dangerous dreamscape created from their nightmares."