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Horror for High School: Multcolib Assignments

Books to give high schoolers the heebie-jeebies. This custom book list was created by Multnomah County Library School Corps librarians. Are you a teacher who lives or works in Multnomah County? Need a custom booklist for an upcoming assignment? Click this link to request one: https://multcolib.org/assignment-alert Librarians Rebecca, Maggie, and Tanya

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30 items

  • Sabrina is trying to make the best of being the new girl in town which so far includes two intriguing love interests, an instant rivalry, a couple of misfits that could turn into BFFs, and trying to save the high school (and maybe the world) from…
    Downloadable Graphic Novel, 2025[United States] : Archie, 2025. — Digital Comic
  • As Billy comes to accept his prophesied new role, he must also learn to accept that he and his loved ones are now targets of the most powerful shape-shifting Native American witches and sorcerers on Turtle Island.
    Book, 2024Summertown, Tennessee : 7th Generation, [2024] — y ROBINSON 2024
  • While mourning her best friend, Natalie, an aspiring teen paranormal investigator, stays at the purportedly haunted Harlow Hotel where she finds more than she expected. Available in downloadable audiobook format.
    Book, 2024New York ; Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — y TURK 2024
  • Like a graphic novel version of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, this collection of original horror tales is packed with urban legends, terrifying twists, and delightfully haunted stories by one of the biggest stars in webcomics. Available in…
    Graphic Novel, 2024Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2024] — ygn ELLIS 2024
  • High school senior Magdalena Herrera already has adult responsibilities and a deadly secret hidden in the dark of the basement, one that drains her of energy and leaves her bleeding--until the return of her childhood friend, Nessa, forces her to…
    Graphic Novel, 2024New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2024. — ygn OSTERTAG 2024
  • Inspired by Caribbean folklore, eighteen-year-old Selena gets pulled into a string of mysterious murders on her island home. Available in ebook and downloadable audiobook.
    Book, 2024Los Angeles ; New York : Hyperion, 2024. — y DASS 2024
  • We Mostly Come Out at Night

    15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures

    A YA anthology of short stories ranging in genres from horror to romance; featuring classic and original monsters and creatures; and highlighting authors from the LGBTQIA+ community. Available in ebook format.
    Book, 2024Philadelphia : RP Teens, 2024. — y WE 2024
  • From the attic to the library to the grounds, each chilling story in this anthology focuses on a different area of the haunted house and features unique takes on monsters from a wide array of cultural traditions. Whether it's a trickster djinn, a…
    Book, 2024Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Company, 2024. — y HOUSE 2024
  • A collection of fifteen horror stories centering on Black girls who battle monsters, both human and supernatural, face down death, and survive. Available in ebook and downloadable audiobook formats.
    Book, 2024New York : Flatiron Books, 2024. — y BLACK 2024
  • All These Sunken Souls

    a Black Horror Anthology

    From haunted, hungry Victorian mansions, temporal monster-infested asylums, and ravaging zombie apocalypses, to southern gothic hoodoo practitioners and cursed patriarchs in search of Black Excellence, All These Sunken Souls features the chilling…
    Book, 2024Chicago, Illinois : Amberjack Publishing, 2024. — y ALL 2023
  • Burning Cold

    An Inuit and Dene Comics Collection

    Burning Cold: An Indigenous Comics Collection from the North is a collection of stories by Northern authors from the award-winning Moonshot volumes
    Graphic Novel, 2024Iqaluit, Nunavut ; Toronto, Ontario : Arvaaq Press Inc., [2024] — ygn QITSUALIK 2024
  • Following the murder of their leader and friend, a tight-knit coven of queer teens takes on a wish-granting demon lurking in their town"
    Book, 2024New York, New York : Union Square & Co., [2024] — y KEOLSCH 2024
  • A queer, feminist spin on Stephen King's The Mist, this ode to female-rage is a perfect pick for fans of She Is a Haunting, and a reminder that if "boys will be boys", girls will fight back. Available in downloadable audiobook format.
    eBook, 2024New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2024. — Libby ebook
  • Available in ebook format. When Isa's abusive father dies, she agrees to come back from art school just long enough to collect the inheritance. But then Mason turns up at the cemetery with a revelation and a plea: their friends were murdered by an…
    Book, 2024New York : Gillian Flynn Books, a Zando imprint, 2024. — y LEE 2024
  • High school football player Cade Webster buys a ring in a pawn shop, but when his wish that people stop acting scared of him seems to be coming true, he remembers the ring came with a warning--"When the strangeness begins, come back"-- and suddenly…
    Book, 2024New York : Scholastic Press, 2024. — y GILES 2024
  • When Pastor Holley's wife, Kelly, is found murdered, FBI agent Garrett takes on the case with local New Jersey Sheriff Mullen. Together they start drumming up a convenient satanic-flavored scapegoat to cover up their own crimes of murder and…
    Graphic Novel, 2023Portland, OR : Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group, 2023. — ygn NAHIL 2023
  • Strange Japanese Yokai

    a Guide to Weird and Wonderful Monsters, Demons and Spirits

    Murakami, Kenji, 1968-
    Strange Japanese Yokai assembles an extraordinary collection of mysterious creatures in every possible shape and size, each with their own unique back story. Some are well-known, others obscure. Available in ebook format.
    Graphic Novel, 2023North Clarendon, VT : Tuttle Publishing, [2023] — ygn 398.2 MURAKAMI 2023
  • Strange new vampires have been sighted, and to get to the bottom of these unfolding horrors, our gang will have to head underground... and face the horrifying true cause of the decline in vampire activity!
    Graphic Novel, 2023Los Angeles, California : BOOM! Studios, 2023 — ygn GILLY 2023
  • My Dear Henry

    a Jekyll & Hyde Remix

    Bayron, Kalynn,
    In this reimagination of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, a teen boy tries to discover the reason behind his best friend's disappearance and the arrival of a mysterious and magnetic stranger. Available in ebook and downloadable audiobook.
    Book, 2023New York : Feiwel and Friends, 2023. — y BAYRON 2023
  • Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyen is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans. Available in…
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury, 2023. — y TRAN 2023