Young Adult Supernatural Horror

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Poison Ink
By Christopher Golden
YA F GOLDEN
Matching tattoos were supposed to bind Sammi to her four closest friends, but, worried about betraying her parents' trust, she backs out at the last minute. At school, her friends shun her and act out of character. Sammi discovers that the tattoos have expanded, taking over their bodies with pulsating lines of ink. Now it's up to Sammi to break the ink's spell. Sammi's discovery of the tattoo artist's intentions leads to a satisfying, violent and sad ending.

The Haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson
YA F JACKSON
This is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a “haunting”; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its powers—and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.

Doppelganger
By Marie Brenna
SCIFI BRENNAN
When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what happens when the doppelganger survives? Mirage, a fierce bounty hunter, lives by her wits and lethal fighting skills. She always gets her mark. Miryo is a witch who has just failed her initiation test. She now knows that there is someone in the world who looks like her, who is her: Mirage. To control her powers and become a full witch, Miryo has only one choice—to hunt the hunter and destroy her.

Bitten
By Kelley Armstrong
F ARMSTRONG
Elena Michaels is a self-described "mutt," a werewolf who left her secretive pack in upstate New York for a life among humans. Her new life is jeopardized when she agrees to help her old packmates hunt some troublesome mutts who are converting common criminals to werewolves and leaving a trail of conspicuous carnage. Forced into brutally predatory confrontations, Elena finds the call of the wild subtly reasserting itself.

In the Forests of the Night
By Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
YA F ATWATER-RHODES
Risika is a vampire of great strength and power, yet she hates and fears Aubrey, who was one of the vampires responsible for her transformation. The novel jumps between the present day and 300 years ago when Risika was a mortal named Rachel. While thinking that she was defending her twin brother from the evil beings, Rachel herself is taken and transformed into "one of them." Risika still remembers her former life and the morals she held as a human, yet has come to an understanding of her new life as a vampire and tries to find a balance between the two. She believes that Aubrey was responsible for the murder of her twin brother, and her need for vengeance is strong. But is it strong enough to defeat Aubrey?