The nights are getting long and dark and we are well into Spooky Season. There is no better way to spend a creepy evening than safe inside with a spine-chilling story. And we have a fresh harvest of scary books to offer!
Honeysuckle and Bone by Trisha Tobias
Carina is looking to reinvent herself, and what better place to do it than Jamaica, her mother’s alluring homeland, working as an au pair for the wealthy and powerful Hall family. But when inexplicable things start happening to her in the house, only getting worse each night, Carina realizes that someone, or something, is out to get her.
How to Survive a Horror Movie by Scarlett Dunmore
Horror movie buff Charley isn’t expecting much when she’s enrolled at a girls’ boarding school on a remote island. That is, until someone starts killing off the senior class. With a plot twist sure to make you SCREAM, this is an addictive love letter of a slasher that will keep you guessing until the very last page.
I Am Made of Death by Kelly Andrew
Following the death of his father, Thomas had to grow up quickly, taking on odd jobs to keep food on the table and help pay his gravely ill mother’s medical bills. When he’s offered a highly paid position as an interpreter for an heiress who exclusively signs, Thomas jumps at the opportunity. Thomas is expected to accompany Vivienne wherever she goes and her parents keep her on an extremely short leash. She is not to go anywhere without express permission. She is, most importantly, not to be out after dark.
The Monstrous Kind by Lydia Gregovic
Living in a Regency England beset with a mist that turns humans into monsters, Merrick is summoned home from London by her sister when their father dies suddenly. A recent string of attacks along the province’s borders has turned their land into a terrifying and unpredictable landscape, which makes Merrick and Essie vulnerable in more ways than one. The other eleven Manor Lords are always watching for weakness. When Essie goes missing, it’s clear that Merrick needs help. Only, who can she trust when everyone seems to be scheming, and when all she holds true feels like it’s slipping right out of her grasp?
Roar of the Lambs by Jamison Shea
Sixteen-year-old Winnie is a liar. As the resident psychic at an oddities shop, Winnie truly can see the future. But her customers only want reassurance, and Winnie only wants their money. But all of that changes when a vision sends her walking in the remains of her family home that burned down in a fire 10 years ago. Among the ash and rubble, Winnie finds a box made of bone, untouched by flames and–whispering. At the touch of her finger, the box shows her a vision of death, chaos, and apocalypse, with her at the center.
These Vengeful Wishes by Vanessa Montalban
When her stepfather is arrested, aspiring artist Ceci moves back to her mother’s hometown of Santa Aguas, an eccentric small town steeped in the legend of La Cegua, the specter of a wronged witch who appears on lonely roads at night, luring untrustworthy men to their deaths. When the very door Ceci has been painting appears in the woods, she ventures through it with her new friend, Jamie. They discover a well for granting wishes. After learning others are also searching for the well, Ceci must confront the truth of her mother’s past and prevent La Cegua’s wishes from being used for the wrong reasons.
Bad Creek by June Peyton
Iris, Gum, and Aidan are vacationing in Bad Creek, just like every summer. Except Iris’s older sister, Glory, drowned in the lake last year, and Iris can’t seem to move on; Gum is hiding his sexuality from his family while being viciously haunted by Glory’s rotting ghost; and Aidan is distraught over a drunken argument with Glory that he fears may have led to her death. The trio begins to uncover a sinister history in the very bones of the town and must reckon with the events of last summer and uncover what lurks within Bad Creek before it takes Iris’s life next.
