Spooky Teen Reads for Halloween

Are you excited for Halloween? Do you love to read horror and/or thrillers? Have I got recommendations for you!

1. Flawless Girls by Anna-Marie McLemore: When her sister Renata returns from prominent finishing school Alarie House, seemingly pleasant, unnervingly polite and possibly murderous, younger sister Isla is determined to find out want happened to Renata by going back to the school and is drawn into the opulent, unsettling place that won’t give up its secrets—or her—without a fight.
2. Killer House Party by Lily Anderson: Red Solo cups? Check. Snacks? Check. Abandoned mansion full of countless horrors that won’t let you leave? Check. The Deinhart Manor has been a looming shadow over town for as long as anyone can remember, and it's been abandoned for even longer. When the final Deinhart descendent passes, the huge gothic manor is up for sale for the first time ever. Which means Arden can steal the keys from her mom’s real estate office . . . It’s time for a graduation party that no one will ever forget. Arden and her friends each have different reasons for wanting to throw the party to end all parties. But when the manor doors bar everyone inside and the walls begin to bleed, all anyone wants to do is make it out alive.
3. Lockjaw by Matteo L Cerilli: Determined to kill the monster under their town before anyone else gets hurt, Paz, along with inseparable friends bound by a childhood pact, discovers death is neither the beginning nor the end as she faces a greater force of evil than she ever could’ve imagined.
4. Old Wounds by Logan-Ashley Kisner: Two transgender teens embark on a cross-country road trip, only to find their journey interrupted when their car breaks down in a small Kentucky town that sacrifices girls to a forest-dwelling monster.
5. Ruin Road by Lamar Giles: High school football player Cade Webster buys a ring in a pawn shop, but when his wish that people stop acting scared of him seems to be coming true, he remembers the ring came with a warning--"When the strangeness begins, come back"-- and suddenly people seem to have lost their fear of everything.
6. Sweetest Darkness by Leslie Karen Lutz: When fifteen-year-old clairvoyant Quinn enters the dark halls of an abandoned hotel with his friends, he accidentally unleashes a ruthless entity that threatens to wipe out his small Texas town.
7. The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert: Teenage Nora uncovers dangerous secrets and eerie local lore surrounding disappearances in her small town, where a teacher and three high school students, including her best friend, go missing.
8. The Dark Becomes Her by Judy I. Lin: When a ghost from the spirit world transforms her sister, Ruby Chen confronts the dark upheaval in Vancouver's Chinatown as she enters into an ancient battle over the gateway to the underworld as she attempts to save her sister and her community.
9. The Unfinished by Cheryl Isaacs: With the black water from a strange pond stalking her every move, Avery must connect to her Indigenous culture to save both her best friend—and longtime crush—and the town when people there begin disappearing, but is forced to make an impossible choice.
10. What Stalks Among Us by Sarah Hollowell: The last thing they expect to come across is a giant, abandoned corn maze. But with a whole day of playing hooky unspooling before them, they make their second mistake. Or perhaps their third? Maybe even their fourth. Because Sadie and Logan have definitely entered this maze before. And again before that. They quickly realize they've not only entered this maze before, they've died in it too. A lot...