Malorie Blackman
YF BLA
Malorie Blackman tackles the issues of racism and prejudice in a world set in an alternate historical reality.
Cassandra Clare
YF CLA
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Stephen Cole
YF COL
Kate's family is of a very particular type - a werewolf family. Her parents and brother are werewolves, and when Kate comes of age werewolf law dictates that she will become one too. But Kate is horrified at her fate. For the time she is able to avoid the issue, until her parents kidnap Tom.
Charlaine Harris
F HAR
Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana who doesn't get out much - until the vampire of her dreams walks into her life. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for. But Bill has a disability - he's a vampire with a bad reputation, and when a string of murders hits the town, along with a gang of truly nasty vampires looking for Bill - Sookie wonders if having an undead boyfriend is such a bright idea.
Stephen King
ADV KIN
Ben Mears - a moderately successful writer - returns to Salem's Lot to write a novel based loosely on his life there as a small child and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. All is calm until a child disappears and a dog is brutally killed.
Annette Curtis Klause
YF KLA
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.
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Sergei Luk'ianenko
SCFI LUK
In today's Moscow, a small number of Muscovites with supernatural powers - those who are Other, each owing allegiance either to the Dark or the Light - coexist in an uneasy truce, each side aware of, and keeping a close eye on, the other's activities around the city. Anton, an Other on the side of the Light, is a Night Watchman, patrolling the streets and Metro of the city, as he protects ordinary people from the vampires of the Dark. On his rounds, Anton comes across a young woman, Svetlana, who he realises is under a curse that threatens the entire city, and a boy, Igor, a young Other, as yet unaware of his own enormous power. Partnered by Olga, an Other who is in the form of an owl, he struggles to remove the curse, thus saving the city, and to prevent Igor from falling into the clutches of the Dark.
Robin McKinley
SCFI MAC
No human has ever allied with a vampire. But when Sunshine is kidnapped by vampires in a treacherous manoeuvre against one of their own, she knows she will not live to see another morning. But when she does, and if a vampire saves her life, doesn't she owe him the same favour?
Richelle Mead
YF MEA
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
Anne Rice
ADV RIC
Urged on by David Talbot, fledgling vampire, self-appointed chronicler and former psychic detective, Pandora documents in sophisticated detail her pre-vampire existence as the privileged daughter of a Roman senator. She's a curious character, first introduced in The Queen of the Damned, in which Marius described her as the Greek courtesan who seduced him into making her a vampire and helped him care for the vampire progenitors until strife forced them apart. Here, Pandora herself sets the record straight.
Anne Rice
ADV RIC
Sixteen-year-old Vittorio, sole survivor of a violent massacre at his father's Tuscan hilltop palazzo, escapes to the Florence of Cosimo de Medici seeking vengeance. He has been saved from death by a mysterious woman, only to find himself at the mercy of demonic and bloody nightmares.
Marcus Sedgwick
YF SED
In the bitter cold of an unrelenting winter Tomas and his son, Peter, arrive in Chust and despite the inhospitability of the villagers settle there as woodcutters. Tomas is churlish - taciturn at the best of times. He digs a channel of fast-flowing waters around their hut so they have their own little island kingdom. Peter doesn't understand why his father has done this, nor why, all his life they've moved from place to place, or why his father carries a long battered box everywhere they go, and why he is forbidden to know its mysterious contents. But when a band of gypsies comes to the village Peter's drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by the beautiful gypsy princess, Sofia, intoxicated by their love of life and drawn into their deadly quest.
Darren Shan
YF SHA
Darren goes to a freak show with his friend, Steve. It's the gothic Cirque du Freak where weird, half human/half animals appear and interact with the audience. Darren falls in love with a tarantula and determines to steal the spider so that he can train it to perform amazing deeds.
L. J. (Lisa J.) Smith
YF SMI
The awakening: Beautiful high school senior, Elena Gilbert, has everything in life. Except excitement. Searching for the ultimate thrill, she homes in on mysterious new boy, Stefan. But Stefan is hiding a deadly secret - a secret that will change Elena's life for ever.;"The struggle: Torn between her loyalty to her boyfriend, Stefan, and her secret attraction to his evil brother, Damon, Elena knows she must make a choice."
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Daniel Waters
YF WAT
When dead teenagers who have come back to life start showing up at her high school, Phoebe, a goth girl, becomes interested in the phenomenon, and when she starts dating a living impaired boy, they encounter prejudice, fear, and hatred.
Scott Westerfeld
YF WES
In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. She'd rather risk life on the outside. When Shay runs away, Tally learns about a whole new side of the pretty world -- and it isn't very pretty. The authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her in, or never turn pretty at all. The choice Tally makes changes her world forever.
Rachel Caine
YF CAI
Welcome to Morganville, Texas. Just don't stay out after dark. College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation, where the popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks in the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life. But they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.
P. C Cast
YF CAS
Zoey Redbird enters into the House of Night, a school where she will train to become an adult vampire, once she has undergone the Change. It's tough to begin with and on top of that she has been Marked as special by the vampire goddess, Nyx. Now Zoey must look deep within herself for the courage to embrace her destiny.
Melissa De la Cruz
YF DEL
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
Claudia Gray
YF GRA
Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.
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Pete Hautman
YF HAU
After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the proto-vampires she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
Susan Hubbard
ADV HUB
Thirteen-year-old half-vampire Ariella Montero struggles with the realities of her condition while harboring a desire to unravel the secrets of vampire nature, a longing that leads her to learn about the gentle, wise, and even vegetarian lifestyles of vampires.
Ellen Schreiber
YF SCH
Sixteen-year-old Raven, an outcast who always wears black and hopes to become a vampire some day, falls in love with the mysterious new boy in town, eager to find out if he can make her dreams come true.
M. T Anderson
YF AND
From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.
Holly Black
YF BLA
Seventeen-year-old Valerie, who has befriended a unusally group, now is bound into service with a troll. When seventeen-year-old Valerie Russell runs away to New York City, she's trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city's labyrinthine subway system. But there's something eerily beguiling about Val's new friends. There's the impulsive Lolli who talks of monsters in the tunnels and shoots up a strange amber-colored powder that makes the shadows around her dance. There's the severe Luis who the others claim can make deals with creatures that no one else can see. And then there's Luis's brother, timid Dave, who makes the mistake of letting Val tag along as he makes a delivery to a woman who turns out to have goat hooves instead of feet. When a bewildered Val allows Lolli to talk her into tracking down the hidden lair of the creature for whom Luis and Dave have been dealing, Val finds herself bound into service by a troll named Ravus. He is as hideous as he is honorable. And as Val grows to know him, she finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.
Libba Bray
YF BRA
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
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YF PRO
In this exciting collection, bestselling authors Meg Cabot (How to Be Popular), Kim Harrison (A Fistful of Charms), Michele Jaffe (Bad Kitty), Stephenie Meyer (Twilight), and Lauren Myracle (ttyl) take bad prom nights to a whole new level-a paranormally bad level. Wardrobe malfunctions and two left feet don't hold a candle to discovering your date is the Grim Reaper-and he isn't here to tell you how hot you look. From angels fighting demons to a creepy take on getting what you wish for, these five stories will entertain better than any DJ in a bad tux. No corsage or limo rental necessary. Just good, scary fun.
Joshua Gee
J 001.9 GEE
This book invites you to join its quest for the terrifying truth about all things ghoulish and ghastly. But beware! Surprises lurk at the turn of every page... --Publisher's description.
Annette Curtis Klause
YF KLA
Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
Martine Leavitt
YF LEA
When Lord Death comes to claim sixteen-year-old Keturah while she is lost in the King's Forest, she charms him with her story and is granted a twenty-four hour reprieve in which to seek her one true love.
Tanith Lee
YF LEE
When a stranger is captured by the Guards of the House and Garden where she has worked all her life as a slave and maid, sixteen-year-old Claidi helps him escape and sets out with him to journey to his home city through the dangerous Waste.
Juliet Marillier
YF MAR
Five sisters who live with their merchant father in Transylvania use a hidden portal in their home to cross over into a magical world, the Wildwood.
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Melissa Marr
YF MAR
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
Douglas Rees
YF REE
When his family moves from California to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students to Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.
Vivian Vande Velde
YF VAN
When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.
Scott Westerfeld
YF WES
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
Laura Whitcomb
YF WHI
After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.
Chris Wooding
YF WOO
Pale and thin, with long black hair and violet eyes, the sullen, moody girl named Poison is an appropriate heroine for this over-the-top gothic horror fantasy. The 16-year-old has never been out of the Black Marshes, one of the remote backwaters settled by humans in a Realm ruled by phaeries and inhabited by a cast of foul creatures that includes trolls, daemons, and a particularly nasty Spider Woman. When her baby sister is kidnapped and a changeling is left in her crib, Poison sets off for the Realm of Phaerie to rescue her.
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