MCL's Horror Fiction For Young Adults Bibiliography

Call #	Title/Author/Description	Year
Y BOW	Midget by Tim Bowler Seb has been torturing Midget for years, blaming his younger brother for the death of their mother. When Midget discovers he can control with his mind, it becomes Seb’s turn to be afraid.	1995
Y CAR	The Gathering by Isobelle Carmody When fifteen-year-old Nathaniel moves to a sinister town that has been bruised by an ancient evil, he finds himself one of those chosen to fight the cycle of darkness.	1994
Y COR	I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier A young boy desperately tries to unlock the past, yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.	1977
Y DUN	I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.	1973
Y DUN	Gallows Hill by Lois Duncan Suzanne agrees to disguise herself as a mysterious gypsy fortune teller at a school function, but gets scared when she starts seeing the truth in her crystal ball.	1997
Y FLE	A Fate Totally Worse than Death by Paul Fleischman In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School’s ruling clique become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.	1995
Y GEE	The Fat Man by Maurice Gee In 1933, Herbert Muskie returns to his rundown hometown of Loomis, New Zealand, and uses a combination of cunning and psychological threats to take control of the lives of twelve-year-old Colin Potter and his family.	1997
Y HAH	Look for Me by Moonlight by Mary Downing Hahn While staying at a remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father’s new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.	1995
Y HOH	The Invitation by Diane Hoh An invitation to Cass Rockham’s annual Fall Party turns into a night Sarah will never forget…for unspeakable reasons.	1991
Y KEL	Del-Del by Victor Kelleher A teenage girl in Sydney, Australia, records how her family is devastated by her older sister’s death and by the bizarre behavior of her gifted younger brother, who seems to be possessed by a coldly unfeeling entity.	1992
Y KLA	The Silver Kiss by Annette Curtis Klause A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother’s terminal illness.	1990
Y LOV	At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft Eight works of short fiction from the masterful horror writer who Stephen King lists as one of his inspirations!	1964
Y NIX	Whispers from the Dead by Joan Lowery Nixon After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sara moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.	1989
Y PIK	Remember Me by Christopher Pike After her untimely death, eighteen-year-old Shari tries to prove that she did not commit suicide and to keep the person responsible from killing again.	1989
Y PLU	The Body of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum-Ucci Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.	2000
Y PUL	The White Mercedes by Philip Pullman Seventeen-year-old Chris, living and working in Oxford, falls in love with an elusive girl and while searching for her discovers the devastating consequences of placing his trust in the wrong person.	1993
Y SEB	The Girl in the Box by Ouida Sebestyen Jackie has been kidnapped and is kept in a cement room with no light or human contact. She has no idea if anyone will find her and her only hope are the notes she stuffs through a crack in the door. Can she survive the physical and mental tortures of being locked up alone?	1988
Y STI	The Babysitter by R.L. Stine From the minute Jenny accepted the Hagen baby-sitting job, she knew she had made a mistake. Then the crank phone calls started…	1989
Y SWI	Follow a Shadow by Robert Swindells Headed for trouble with drugs and alcohol, a boy who longs to escape his unexciting world discovers a mysterious portrait of a man much like himself, and becomes involved in a chain of events, which culminates in a terrifying experience.	1990
Y VEL	Never Trust a Dead Man by Vivian Vande Velde Wrongly convicted of murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and the resurrected victim to find the true killer.	1999
Y WES	Calling All Monsters by Chris Westwood Having immersed herself in the books of horror writer martin Wiseman, Joanne is shocked when the hideous monsters in the pages come to life and begin haunting her days and nights.	1993
Y WUF	Time Fix and Other Tales of Terror by Don L. Wulffson Eight tales of horror and suspense that reveal the darker side of everyday life.	1994
Y URB	Urban Horrors edited by William Nolan and Martin Greenberg Eighteen excursions into terror by well-known authors like Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, and John Cheever.	1990
Y ZIN	The Doom Stone by Paul Zindel When fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge.	1995