Are you a teenager with a thing for horror novels? Congratulations, you’ve just hit the jackpot!
After a long, extensive review, we have compiled a list of the 5 best horror books for teens!
So, without further ado, let’s dive right into it!
Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett
Ash joins her mother in the picturesque village of Quivira, Kansas, a modest settlement surrounded by cornfields in flyover country. And dark secrets. Ash succumbs to the lingering influence of her ancestor Katia, who is connected to Quivira’s bloody past and falls in love with Dane, a troubled yet swoon-worthy youth. As killings reverberate across Quivira, Ash and Dane look to their town’s soon-to-be-reactivated ghostly past in order to build a future that will keep them together and alive. Blood and Salt is the first perplexing novel in a young adult horror trilogy.
Bad Witch Burning by Jessica Lewis
In this horror novel, Katrell utilizes her abilities to communicate with the dead to earn extra money on the side. Katrell attempts to leave the game because the money is insufficient to sustain herself, her mother, and her mother’s most recent bad boyfriend. Instead, she brings a corpse back to life. The situation becomes much more difficult as Katrell attempts to evade evil forces pursuing her.
As I Descended by Robin Talley
As I Descended by Robin Talley is a reworking of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Maria Lyon and Lily Boiten are a power couple at the elite prep school Acheron Academy in this queer adaptation. Maria and Lily would do anything to prevent the popular Delilah Dufrey from receiving the prestigious Cawdor Kingsley Prize, even conjuring and plotting with the spirits that still haunt the former plantation site of Archeron.
Asylum by Madeline Roux
This frightening young adult horror novel is the first of a trilogy. As with the infamous and groundbreaking picture novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, another superb young adult horror novel, Asylum, uses actual pictures of closed mental facilities. Dan, sixteen, is looking forward to his summer camp, New Hampshire College Prep. Dan quickly finds two new friends, Abby and Jordan, who are similarly captivated by the campus’s history as an asylum for the incurably criminally ill. But the farther they delve into the history of their new home, the more obvious it becomes that they were destined to be there. This intriguing story is the first of a young adult horror series that you’ll want to add to your TBR list.
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Anna Dressed in Blood, unquestionably one of the best YA horror novels of all time, concludes this list of the best horror books for teens. In this spine-chilling thriller, the first of a two-part series, Cas Lowood inherited his father’s ability to slay the dead. After his father was killed by a ghost that turned on him, Cas, his witch mother, and their supernaturally-powered cat tour the country exterminating ghosts. But he is unprepared for Anna, a ghost still wearing the white dress she was wearing when she was murdered as a teenager. Only now, blood has dyed her clothes red. Anna tests Cas’ moral compass while romantically engaging his heart.
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