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1 So you like feeling spooked... Check out one of these chilling reads for teens. Galesburg Public Library Teen Scene Last Updated September 2012 Paranormal/Vampire: Thirsty by M.T. Anderson YA Anderson From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human. Demon in my View by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes YA ATWATER-RHODES Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod series by Heather Brewer YA BREWER For thirteen years, Vlad has kept the secret that he is half-vampire. When his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire than he imagined. The Morganville Vampires series by Rachel Caine YA CAINE In Morganville, Texas, a small college town where evil terrorizes the streets under the cover of darkness, Claire Danvers discovers that her new roommates are vampires and all hell breaks loose as the living party with the dead. House of Night series by P.C. Cast YA CAST Follws the adventures of Zoey Redbird, a fledgling teenage vampire attending the House of Night boarding school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Blue Bloods series by Melissa de la Cruz YA DE LA CRUZ Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.

2 Drink, Slay, Love by Sarah Beth Durst YA DURST After sixteen-year-old vampire Pearl Sange is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn, she develops non-vampire-like traits that lead her to save her high school classmates from the Vampire King of New England. Vampire Rising by Jason Henderson YA HENDERSON At a boarding school in Switzerland, fourteen-year-old Alex Van Helsing learns that vampires are real, that he has a natural ability to sense them, and that an agency called the Polidorium has been helping his family fight them since Team Human by Justine Larbalestier YA LARBALESTIER Residing in New Whitby, Maine, a town founded by vampires trying to escape persecution, Mel finds her negative attitudes challenged when her best friend falls in love with one, another friend's dad runs off with one, and she herself is attracted to someone who tries to pass himself off as one. Wicked Lovely series by Melissa Marr YA MARR In this 21 st century faery tale, teenager Aislinn lives in a world where fairies and mortals intermingle. Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead YA MEAD Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy. Twlight series by Stephenie Meyer YA MEYER Bella, Edward, and Jacob: need we say more? Vampire Kisses series by Ellen Schreiber YA SCHREIBER Goth girl Raven Madison and her vampire boyfriend Alexander Sterling are not your everyday sweethearts Eternal by Cynthia Leitich Smith YA SMITH When Miranda's guardian angel Zachary recklessly saves her from falling into an open grave and dying, the result is that she turns into a vampire and he is left to try to reinstate his reputation by finally doing the right thing.

3 Vampire Diaries series by L.J. Smith YA SMITH Now a television show on the CW, this series of books follows Elena Gilbert, a high school girl torn between two vampire brothers. Peeps by Scott Westerfeld YA WESTERFELD Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected. Paranormalcy by Kiersten White YA WHITE When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also uncover its connection to herself and the alluring shapeshifter, Lend. Scary short stories Gothic! Ten Original Dark Tales edited by Deborah Noyes YA GOTHIC Ten acclaimed authors pay homage to the gothic tale in wide-ranging stories of the supernatural and surreal. All Hallows Eve: 13 Stories by Vivian Vande Velde YA VANDE VELDE Presents thirteen tales of Halloween horrors, including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry. Just plain old creepy Bad Girls Don t Die by Katie Alender YA ALENDER When fifteen-year-old Lexi's younger sister Kasey begins behaving strangely and their old Victorian house seems to take on a life of its own, Lexi investigates and discovers some frightening facts about previous occupants of the house, leading her to believe that many lives are in danger. Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake YA BLAKE For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

4 The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare YA CLARE Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. Prom Dates from Hell by Rosemary Clement-Moore YA CLEMENT-MOORE High school senior and yearbook photographer Maggie thought she would rather die than go to prom, but when a classmate summons a revenge-seeking demon, she has no choice but to buy herself a dress and prepare to face jocks, cheerleaders, and Evil Incarnate. Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore YA CLEMENT-MOORE Seventeen-year-old Amy Goodnight has long been the one who makes her family of witches seem somewhat normal to others, but while spending a summer with her sister caring for their aunt's farm, Amy becomes the center of weirdness when she becomes tied to a powerful ghost. Evernight by Claudia Gray YA GRAY Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world. Bad Taste in Boys by Carrie Harris YA HARRIS Future physician Kate Grable is horrified when her high school football coach gives team members steroids, but the drugs turn players into zombies and Kate must find an antidote before the flesh-eating monsters get to her or her friends. Rotters By Daniel Kraus YA KRAUS Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he's never known, and who's the town pariah. Dreamhouse Kings series by Robert Liparulo YA LIPARULO When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.

5 Rot & Ruin by Jonathan Maberry YA MABERRY In a post-apocalyptic world where fences and border patrols guard the few people left from the zombies that have overtaken civilization, fifteen-year-old Benny Imura is finally convinced that he must follow in his older brother's footsteps and become a bounty hunter. Bliss by Lauren Myracle YA MYRACLE Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult. Daemon Hall by Andrew Nance YA NANCE Famous horror story writer R. U. Tremblin comes to the town of Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying-- and deadly--night with him in a haunted house. The Forest of Hands and Teeth series by Carrie Ryan YA RYAN Orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead. White Crow by Marcus Sedgwick YA SEDGWICK Rebecca moves with her father from London to a seaside village, where she befriends another motherless girl and they spend the summer together exploring the village's sinister history. Demonata series by Darren Shan YA SHAN Presumably the only witness to the murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the therapists determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see. The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff YA YOVANOFF A breathtaking and transcendent novel about a demon girl's search for love on Earth.