10 Best Teenage-Centric Horror Books Depicting the Dark Side of Adolescence
Discovering the gnarled nooks and crannies of adolescence can be a tumultuous ride at best. But when the usual trials and tribulations of teenage life start getting a tinge too tame, why not press the pedal and take a detour through the doorways of dread? We are talking hair-raising, spine-tingling, heart-stopping horror - mind you, quite a far cry from chemistry homework. If you're a young adult with a penchant for the macabre, you're in for a glorious ghoul-filled treat. Today, we're shining a spectral light on the best teenage-centric horror books. These chilling narratives don’t just cloak our favourite monster-in-the-closet tales in adolescent angst; they rip open the belly of teenage existence to reveal the dark, disturbing underbelly. Whether it's the eerie mysteries lurking in the lockers of high schools, haunted hallways of dormitories, or the sinister secrets of popular kids - Inside these pages, horror isn’t always supernatural; it's often right next door. They delve into the terror of transitioning from childhood to adulthood and record the uncanny echoes of your worst nightmares and deepest fears. So, brace yourself as we dive headfirst into the eerie abyss. You have been warned...
『Carrie (Spanish Movie Tie-In Edition)』
Sus compañeros se burlan de ella, pero Carrie tiene un don. Puede mover cosas con su mente. Este es su poder y su gran problema. Pero aunque un acto de bondad, tan espontáneo como las burlas crueles de sus compañeros, le ofrece a Carrie la oportunidad de ser normal, una inesperada crueldad transforma su don en un arma de horror y destrucción. Con un pulso mágico que mantiene la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora hasta llegar a un terrible momento de venganza que nadie olvidará.
Author | Stephen King |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Vintage Espanol |
Release Date | Sep 24, 2013 |
Source | Google Books |
『Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children』
The #1 New York Times best-selling series. eBook Bonus Features: • A Q&A with author Ransom Riggs • 8 pages of color stills from the Tim Burton film • A sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. “A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.”—John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars “With its X-Men: First Class-meets-time-travel story line, David Lynchian imagery, and rich, eerie detail, it’s no wonder Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children has been snapped up by Twentieth Century Fox. B+”—Entertainment Weekly “‘Peculiar’ doesn’t even begin to cover it. Riggs’ chilling, wondrous novel is already headed to the movies.”—People “You’ll love it if you want a good thriller for the summer. It’s a mystery, and you’ll race to solve it before Jacob figures it out for himself.”—Seventeen
Author | Ransom Riggs |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Quirk Books |
Release Date | Jun 07, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Monstrumologist』
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a New Escientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Author | Rick Yancey |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing |
Release Date | Jul 20, 2010 |
Source | Google Books |
『Coraline 10th Anniversary Enhanced Edition』
This edition of New York Times bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Neil Gaiman’s modern classic, Coraline—also an Academy Award-nominated film—is enriched with a foreword from the author, a reader's guide, and much more. When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life. This enhanced edition contains the full text of the novel, plus the following bonus content: Original Coraline manuscript pages Coraline’s Many Houses: A Retrospective Video: The official Coraline Movie Trailer An excerpt from the Coraline Graphic Novel , adapted and illustrated by P. Craig Russell Audio: Coraline Graphic Novel Podcast Audio: Music from the Coraline audiobook, performed by the Gothic Archies Excerpts from other books by Neil Gaiman with illustrations by Dave McKean: The Graveyard Book, The Wolves in the Walls, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, and Crazy Hair Coraline Foreign Edition Cover Gallery
Author | Neil Gaiman |
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Price | $8.99 |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Release Date | Apr 24, 2012 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Coldest Girl in Coldtown』
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black. Tana lives in a world where walled cities called Coldtowns exist. In them, quarantined monsters and humans mingle in a decadently bloody mix of predator and prey. The only problem is, once you pass through Coldtown's gates, you can never leave. One morning, after a perfectly ordinary party, Tana wakes up surrounded by corpses. The only other survivors of this massacre are her exasperatingly endearing ex-boyfriend, infected and on the edge, and a mysterious boy burdened with a terrible secret. Shaken and determined, Tana enters a race against the clock to save the three of them the only way she knows how: by going straight to the wicked, opulent heart of Coldtown itself. The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black.
Author | Holly Black |
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Price | $9.99 |
Publisher | Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Release Date | Sep 03, 2013 |
Source | Google Books |
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『The Forest of Hands and Teeth』
In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth. But, slowly, Mary’s truths are failing her. She’s learning things she never wanted to know about the Sisterhood and its secrets, and the Guardians and their power. And, when the fence is breached and her world is thrown into chaos, about the Unconsecrated and their relentlessness. Now, she must choose between her village and her future, between the one she loves and the one who loves her. And she must face the truth about the Forest of Hands and Teeth. Could there be life outside a world surrounded in so much death? [STAR] "A bleak but gripping story...Poignant and powerful."-Publishers Weekly, Starred "A postapocalyptic romance of the first order, elegantly written from title to last line."-Scott Westerfeld, author of the Uglies series and Leviathan "Intelligent, dark, and bewitching, The Forest of Hands and Teeth transitions effortlessly between horror and beauty. Mary's world is one that readers will not soon forget."-Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of City of Bones "Opening The Forest of Hands and Teeth is like cracking Pandora's box: a blur of darkness and a precious bit of hope pour out. This is a beautifully crafted, page-turning, powerful novel. I thoroughly enjoyed it."-Melissa Marr, bestselling author of Wicked Lovely and Ink Exchange "Dark and sexy and scary. Only one of the Unconsecrated could put this book down."-Justine Larbalestier, author of How to Ditch Your Fairy
Author | Carrie Ryan |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Ember |
Release Date | Feb 09, 2010 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Diviners』
Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle, curator of The Museum of American Folklore, Superstition, and the Occult, into the thick of the investigation.
Author | Libba Bray |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Turtleback Books |
Release Date | Dec 03, 2013 |
Source | Google Books |
『Rot and Ruin』
The Catcher in the Rye meets The Walking Dead in this gripping, postapocalyptic teen thriller from award-winning author Jonathan Maberry. In a world full of zombies, who are the REAL MONSTERS? Nearly fourteen years ago, a freak virus swept across the world - turning those infected into the undead. Benny Imura has grown-up never knowing anything different; his last memory of his parents was of them becoming zombies. Now Benny is fifteen, and joining his brother Tom in the 'family business' of zombie killing. Benny and Tom head into the Rot and Ruin, an area full of the wandering undead, and Benny realises that being a bounty hunter isn't just about whacking zombies. Benny finds his beliefs challenged - and discovers that sometimes the worst monsters you can imagine aren't the zombies, after all… 'This is anything but another zombie novel... exciting, full of action, and curiously thoughtful' Charlaine Harris, author of the True Blood series 'A thought-provoking thriller that still delivers a good dose of action and gore' The Bookseller 'Highly recommended' The Bookbag.co.uk '…thoughtful, postapocalyptic coming-of-age tale…In turns mythic and down-to-earth, this intense novel combines adventure and philosophy to tell a truly memorable zombie story...' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Also by Jonathan Maberry: Dust and Decay Dead and Gone Flesh and Bone Fire and Ash
Author | Jonathan Maberry |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Release Date | Mar 03, 2011 |
Source | Google Books |
『The Hazel Wood』
Welcome to Melissa Albert's The Hazel Wood—the fiercely stunning New York Times bestseller everyone is raving about! Seventeen-year-old Alice and her mother have spent most of Alice’s life on the road, always a step ahead of the uncanny bad luck biting at their heels. But when Alice’s grandmother, the reclusive author of a cult-classic book of pitch-dark fairy tales, dies alone on her estate, the Hazel Wood, Alice learns how bad her luck can really get: Her mother is stolen away—by a figure who claims to come from the Hinterland, the cruel supernatural world where her grandmother's stories are set. Alice's only lead is the message her mother left behind: “Stay away from the Hazel Wood.” Alice has long steered clear of her grandmother’s cultish fans. But now she has no choice but to ally with classmate Ellery Finch, a Hinterland superfan who may have his own reasons for wanting to help her. To retrieve her mother, Alice must venture first to the Hazel Wood, then into the world where her grandmother's tales began—and where she might find out how her own story went so wrong. Don’t miss the bestselling sequel to The Hazel Wood, The Night Country or the illustrated collection of twelve fairy tales, Tales from the Hinterland!
Author | Melissa Albert |
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Price | unknown |
Publisher | Flatiron Books |
Release Date | Mar 26, 2019 |
Source | Google Books |
In conclusion, these fear-inducing narratives thoroughly capture the darker corners of adolescence. They bring a chilling element to the already turbulent world of teenagers experiencing emotional growth, hormonal shifts, and formative life experiences. Some may argue that teenage years are horror stories in and of themselves; these authors just took it a step further. Each item on this list will gnaw at your nerves, keeping you on the edge till the very last page. You’ll find that the characters, though trapped in terrifying circumstances, are just as relatable in their struggles as they are in their joys and transformations. Who wouldn't want to dive into this adventurous literary world? Just remember, as Stephen King said, "Books are a uniquely portable magic", but these? Consider them magically horrifying. Keep your lights on, grab a friend and brave the gory beauty of teenage life through these captivating tales. Happy reading, if you dare!
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