supernatural creatures in Kelly Keaton’s Darkness Becomes Her.
In The Iron Thorn by Caitlin Kittredge, a teenager living in the city of Lovecraft in an alternate 1950s tried to avoid going mad, as the rest of her family had done, when she turned sixteen.
A girl became obsessed with the objects she discovered in her family’s new home in Jennifer Archer’s ghostly novel Through Her Eyes.
While they were staying at an old lake house, a girl’s boyfriend started acting strangely in Emma Carlson Berne’s Still Waters, and The Hunting Ground was another haunted house novel by Cliff McNish.
A teenager could hear the voices of his missing school-friends in Cryer’s Cross by Lisa McMann.
Two sisters encountered a powerful ghost in Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement- Moore, the daughter of a fake Victorian medium could see a real ghost in Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey, and a girl could see ghosts during a visit to the English city of York in Dark Souls by Paula Morris.
A ghost tried to solve her own murder in Ghost of a Chance by Rhiannon Lassiter, while a ghost watched as his former girlfriend and best friend got involved with each other in Wherever You Go by Heather Davis.
And a dead teen tried to discover what happened to her with the help of another spirit in Between by Jessica Warman.
Seventeen-year-old Cas and his Wiccan mother travelled to Ontario to destroy the ghost of a murdered 1950s high school teen in Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake.
A family of witches kept their powers secret in Witches of East End (aka Witches of the East), the first in the “Beauchamp Family” series by best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz.
Crave was the first book in a trilogy by Melissa Darnell about a war between witches and vampires.
The Cellar by A. J. Whitten (Shirley Jump and Amanda Jump) was a YA horror novel inspired by Romeo and Juliet, while Stacey Jay’s Juliet Immortal found Shakespeare’s lovers on opposite sides in the battle between Good and Evil.
Jackson Pearce’s Sweetly was a dark twist on the “Hansel and Gretel” story, and This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Ogiwara was a prequel to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, about Victor Frankenstein and his dying twin brother Konrad. Chris Priestley’s Mister Creecher was based on the same source novel.
Two teenagers found themselves staring at death after a car wreck in August by New Zealand writer Bernard Beckett, while three teens living a New Zealand town discovered the secret behind the suspicious deaths of their brothers in The Shattering by Karen Healey.
Death Watch was the first in the “Undertaken” trilogy by Ari Berk.
Illustrated by Coleman Polhemus, Return to Daemon Hall: Evil Roots was the second volume in the series by Andrew Nance, and From Bad to Cursed was the second title in Katie Alender’s “Bad Girls Don’t Die” series.
A girl was torn between her living and ghostly boyfriends in Shift, the sequel to Jeri Smith-Ready’s Shade, while The Waking: Spirits of the Noh was the second book in a Japan-set trilogy by “Thomas Randall” (Christopher Golden).
Ocean of Blood and Palace of the Damned were the second and third volumes in the “The Saga of Larten Crepsley” vampire spin-off series by “Darren Shan” (Darren O’Shaughnessy).
Lisi Harrison’s Monster High 2: The Ghoul Next Door and Monster High 3: Where There’s a Wolf There’s a Way were the second and third volumes in a series of YA tie-in novels based on a series of dolls.
Set in a haunted boarding school, The Screaming Session was the third book in Nancy Holder’s “Possessions” series. The busy author also teamed up with Debbie Viguie for Damned, the second in the “Wicked” spin-off series, “Crusade”, and Unleashed, the first volume in the “Wolf Springs Chronicles”.
The Isle of Blood was the third in Rick Yancy’s “Monstrumologist” series about an apprentice monster-hunter.
Everfound was the final book in Neal Shusterman’s supernatural “Skinjacker” trilogy, while The Hidden was the third and final book in Jessica Verday’s trilogy set in Sleepy Hollow.
The Spook’s Destiny (aka The Last Apprentice: Rage of the Fallen) was the eighth in Joseph Delaney’s series about an apprentice ghost-buster, illustrated by Patrick Arrasmith.
A young girl had a strange reaction to a vampire’s bite in R. A. Nelson’s Throat, and Jane Jones: Worst Vampire Ever was a humorous novel about a nerdy undead teenager by Caissie St. Onge.
The Slayer Chronicles: First Kill was the first in a spin-off series from “The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod” by Heather Brewer, while By Midnight was the first volume in Mia James’ “Ravenwood” vampire mystery series. It was followed by Darkness Falls.
Catlyn Youngblood, a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, unknowingly fell in love with a vampire in After Midnight, the first volume in the “Youngbloods” series by “Lynn Viehl” (Sheila Kelly, who writes under a variety of pseudonyms).
Jason Henderson’s Alex Van Helsing: Voice of the Undead was the second book about another teenage vampire-hunter, and The President’s Vampire was the second book in a series by Christopher Farnsworth.
The Vampire Diaries: The Return Vol.3: Midnight was the seventh volume in the overall series by L. J. Smith, while The Vampire Diaries: Stefan’s Diaries Vol.3: The Craving and Vol.4: The Ripper were the third and fourth volumes in the uncredited spin-off series based on Smith’s books and TV series. The author was also only credited as “creator” on Vampire Diaries: Hunters: Phantom.
Thirst No.4: The Shadow of Death was the latest volume in the YA “Last Vampire” series by Christopher Pike, and Afterlife was the fourth book in the vampire school series by “Claudia Gray” (Amy Vincent).
Waking Nightmares was the fifth in Christopher Golden’s “Shadow Saga” series about Christopher Octavian.
Blood Ties by Mari Mancusi was the sixth in the “Blood Coven Vampire” series, and Melissa de la Cruz’s Bloody Valentine and Lost in Time were the latest titles in the prolific author’s “Blue Bloods” series.
Awakened and Destined were the eighth and ninth volumes, respectively, in the “House of Night” vampire series by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast.
After an electromagnetic pulse wiped out technology, a sixteen-year-old girl and her friends attempted to evade the flesh-eating “Changed” of a post-apocalyptic world in Ashes, the first in a new trilogy by Ilsa J. Bick.
In Ty Drago’s The Undertakers: Rise of the Corpses, a boy discovered that he could see that many of the people around him were actually the walking dead.
The Fear by Charlie Higson was the third in the author’s zombie series that began with The Enemy and The Dead, and following on from The Forest of Hands and Teeth and The Dead-Tossed Waves, The Dark and Hollow Places was the final volume in Carrie Ryan’s post-apocalyptic zombie trilogy.
Wereworld: Rise of the Wolf was the first in a new YA series by Curtis Jobling,
