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Horror and Ghost Stories for Teens

Chicago Public Library

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  • 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…
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  • Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-concious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school, but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse.
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  • After three years in juvenile detention, Angela's just months shy of release, but then ten-year-old Jessica arrives in shackles and is placed in segregation, and while no one knows what she did to end up there, creepy things begin to…
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  • Chicago Haunts. 3

    Locked Up Stories From An October City

    Bielski, Ursula
    Bielski continues her third volume of capturing Chicago's haunted history with her distinctive blend of lively storytelling, in-depth historical research, and insights from parapsychology.
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  • When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby deserted town called Purity Springs, but in the morning they see the town is populated with a deadly cult and…
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  • Told through journal entries, a psychotherapist's notes, court records, and more, relates the tale of Carly, a teen who was institutionalized after her parents' death but released to Elmbrige High School, where she is believed to have a…
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  • 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,…
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  • The Ghosts of Chicago

    the Windy City's Most Famous Haunts

    Selzer, Adam
    From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the Murder Castle of H. H. Holmes and the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago's yesteryear are still with us . . . and so are its ghosts.
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  • Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing the innocent ghosts of the murdered-dead and taking the lives of killers with the vengeance they are due, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen with the series of intricate…
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  • Young Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters -- the countless haints of Harrow County. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures -- and to…
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  • Haunted Chicago

    Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends

    Ogden, Tom
    Among this country's many treasures is the city of Chicago, an area filled with creativity and culture. Haunted Chicago, a collection of stories of ghosts, mysteries, and paranormal happenings in Chi-Town, will leave readers delightfully…
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  • In San Diego in 1918, as deadly influenza and World War I take their toll, sixteen-year-old Mary Shelley Black watches desperate mourners flock to séances and spirit photographers for comfort and, despite her scientific leanings, must…
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  • The Locke children move into the mysterious Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.
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  • In Rowan's Glen, a remote farming community in the Missouri Ozarks where Ivy Templeton's family has lived for centuries, it's an old-fashioned way of life, full of superstition and traditions, and sixteen-year-old Ivy loves it. When her…
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  • Seventeen-year-old Micheline Helsing is a tetrachcromat, able to see ghosts in color and capture them on film, but when a routine hunt goes awry, Micheline's infected with a curse known as a soulchain and if she's unable to exorcise the…
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  • A sixteen-year-old girl in rural Oregon in the 1920s searches for the truth about her father's death while avoiding trouble from the Ku Klux Klan in this YA historical novel inspired by Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
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  • A collection of five spine-tingling short stories in graphic novel format that those who were childhood fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark will love.
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  • Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way-- except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between…
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  • Voices From the Chicago Grave

    They're Calling, Will You Answer?

    Markus, Scott
    Chicago is full of ghosts, mysterious deaths, murders, and tragic events. Visit over eighty macabre Chicagoland locations you'd never want to visit after dark.
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  • Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience…
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