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Mystery/Suspense/Horror:

SUSPENSE NOVELS FOR BOYS

  • Books by Jay Bennett
  • Alex Rider books by Anthony Horowitz
  • The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  • The Watcher by James Howe
  • The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci
  • Death and the Arrow by Chris Priestley
  • Following Fake Man by Barbara Holmes
  • The Thief by Meghan Whalen
  • Tomorrow When the War Began by John Marsden
  • The Fat Man by Maurice Gee
  • Sangspell by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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HORROR FICTION

  • Clay / David Almond - The developing relationship between teenager Davie and a mysterious new boy in town morphs into something darker and more sinister when Davie learns firsthand of the boy's supernatural powers.
  • Final Exam / A Bates
  • The House Next Door / Richie Cusick - Summary: A bet to spend a 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.
  • The Locker /Richie Cusick - Marlee Fleming saw a horrifying vision when she opened her new locker, the one which had belonged to the missing Suellen.
  • Coraline / Neil Gaiman - Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
  • Field Trip / Jeff Hammer
  • The Book of Dead Days / Marcus Sedgwick - A magician named Valerian has only the days between Christmas and New Years to save his own life after making a pact with the devil years before and seeks the help of a servant boy and an orphan girl named Willow.
     

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REALLY SCARY FICTION

REALLY SCARY (AND SOMEWHAT DISTURBING) BOOKS

  • The Dark Pond – Bruchac
  • Skeleton Man – Bruchac
  • The Dark is Rising – Cooper
  • Revenge of the Witch - Delaney
  • Coraline – Gaiman
  • Raven’s Gate – Horowitz
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Irving
  • Clockwork – Pullman
  • The Dark Side of Nowhere – Shusterman
  • Dread Locks – Shusterman
  • Full Tilt – Shusterman
  • All Hallows Eve – Vande Velde
  • Being Dead - Vande Velde
  • Here There Be Ghosts – Yolen

STORY COLLECTIONS

  • Give Yourself a Fright - AIK
  • The Dark Thirty - McK
  • Into the Candlelit Room – McK
  • Things that Go Bump in the Night - YOL
  • Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast – Yolen
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark – 398.2 SCH

AUTHORS

  • Cooney, Caroline
  • Cusick, Richie
  • Pike, Christopher
  • Poe, Edgar Allan
  • Stine, R.L.
     

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