Horror - Park Ridge Library

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

by Ransom Riggs After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there. Lexile: 890.

City of Ghosts

by Victoria Schwab After surviving a near-fatal drowning that gives her the ability to enter the spirit world, Cassidy, the daughter of television ghost-hunters, visits Edinburgh where the encounters with the city's old ghosts reveals the dangers that come with her powers. Lexile: 720.

Party Games

by R. L. Stine Rachel Martin has been warned not to go to Brendan Fear's birthday party at his family's estate on mysterious Fear Island, but Rachel has a crush on Brendan and is excited to be invited, until guests start dying one-by-one during the games that Brendan planned to entertain the partygoers. No Lexile.

Trollhunters

by Guillermo del Toro When a forty-five-year-old mystery resurfaces that threatens the lives of everyone in his town, San Bernardino teenager Jim Sturges teams up with a band of unlikely heroes to battle the monsters he never knew existed. No Lexile.

The River has Teeth

by Erica Waters When her sister goes missing on the Bend, becoming the second girl to disappear from the wildlife preserve, Natasha turns to a local girl rumored to be a witch to find her. No Lexile.

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Horror

The Companion

by Katie Alender Selected by a prestigious family to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, a traumatized orphan who has survived the terrible accident that killed her family begins questioning her sanity when she experiences strange phenomena in her hosts' isolated, gothic house. Lexile: 720.

Lally's Game

by Scott Cawthon A forbidden artifact from her fianc?'s past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double-life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay. Lexile: 740.

Camp Scare

by Delilah S. Dawson When the mean girl in her cabin at summer camp turns all the other girls against her, with the exception of a strange girl named Jenny, Parker Nelson discovers theres a deep, dark secret to making friends. Lexile: 900.

Lexile: 610.

Eat Your Heart Out

by Kelly deVos Six disgruntled teens are forced to spend their winter break at fat camp during Flagstaff, Arizona's worst blizzard in a century, only to find that Camp Featherlite is even worse than expected because it is crawling with genetically-modified monsters.

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. Lexile: 730.

Demon Slayer (series)

by Koyoharu Gotoge Shelved in the Manga section by title. After his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters most of his family and turns his little sister Nezuko into a demon, Tanjiro Kamado sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to save his sister and avenge his family. No Lexile.

The Hunt

by Andrew Xia Fukuda "In a world where humans have been preyed upon to near extinction by a bloodthirsty species, 17-year-old Gene has only managed to survive by painstakingly concealing his true identity, so when Gene is chosen to participate in the governmentsponsored hunt for the last remaining humans, it thrusts him into the fight of his life and into the path of a human girl with whom he falls in love. Lexile: 730.

Horror Hotel

by Victoria Fulton Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it he turned her affliction into an internet sensation, with the help of Emmaline, the technology expert and Kiki, the presenter; now they are planning to film an episode in an infamously haunted hotel in Los Angeles, but they may be tackling something really dangerous. Lexile: 750.

The Buried

by Melissa Grey Ten years ago, disaster struck the remote town of Indigo Falls. A horrific event drove the residents underground, into shelters that keep them safe from the danger on the surface. No one speaks about what happened that fateful day, but everyone remembers the fear and, most of all, the searing pain of sunlight. No Lexile.

Hide and Seeker

by Daka Hermon Joining his friends for a game of hideand-seek at the welcome back party of a young neighbor who mysteriously went missing for a year and came back rather changed, Justin watches in horror as players are pulled into a nightmarish alternate world where they are terrorized by a mysterious Seeker. Lexile: 480.

A Taste for Monsters

by Matthew J. Kirby When the Jack the Ripper murders begin, Evelyn Fallow and Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man, find themselves haunted by the ghosts of his victims and Evelyn is obsessed with learning the killer's identity. Lexile: 850.

Whispering Pines

by Heidi Lang Relocated to a new community a year after her fathers unexplained disappearance, a girl who is convinced her father left against his will races to uncover secrets about the eerie transformations of several local kids. By the author of the Mystic Cooking Chronicles. Lexile: 700.

The Girls are Never Gone

by Sarah Glenn Marsh Seventeen-year-old Dare plans to spend her summer debunking a haunting at an historic estate with a dark past, but she finds herself in a lifeor-death struggle against a malignant ghost. Lexile: 890.

The Ooze

by Tash Mcadam Bran's phone's dead, he can hear screaming, but he can't get out. Eventually, he manages to pry the doors open to find that something's very wrong. Lexile: 490.

The Black Slide

by J. W. Ocker Using the new black slide on the playground, Griffin Birch and his best friend, Laila, end up in a cruel world of bloodthirsty creatures hungering for immortality where the friends must fight for their survival and the fate of the world. No Lexile.

The Devouring Wolf

by Natalie C. Parker To find out why twelve-year-old Riley and the rest of the sapling pack did not transform into werewolves on the first full moon of the summer, they must unearth their community's deepest secrets and face a terrifying legendary creature. Lexile: 720.

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