Four girls share a cabin on their school retreat in an abandoned town where the ghost of Smiling Jack is known to haunt the isolated campers. Shelley is the new girl with her own haunted past. Mack made things awkward by kissing her best friend.…
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- Ever since a hurricane devastated the small town of Mercy, Louisiana, a red algae bloom has taken over. Mutated wildlife lurks in the water that rises by the day, but Mercy has always been a place where monsters walk in plain sight. Especially at…
- Lara Williams is desperate to get away. When she gets a job working aboard the luxury train The Banebury for her gap year, she this is her chance to reinvent herself, after the incident that wrecked her relationships and her college prospects…
- Jade Nguyen has always lied to fit in. She's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough at least for this summer with her estranged father in Vietnam. Just five weeks of ignoring the quietly decaying French colonial house he's fixing up,…
- Sloan and Cherry. Cherry and Sloan. They met only a few days before masked men with machetes attacked the summer camp where they worked, a massacre that left the rest of their fellow counselors dead. Now, months later, the two are inseparable, their…
- From the moment Audre arrives in rural Pennsylvania, it's clear she won't fit in. After all, her nose ring, her horror movie obsession, and her family's Ouija board collection aren't likely to endear her to a town convinced there's a secret Satanic…
- Sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse- being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students…
- Sade Hussein is the new girl at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy. She has no idea what to expect of her mysterious new boarding school an institution steeped in tradition and secrets. But she certainly didn't imagine her roommate, Elizabeth, to…
- When Andrew returns to boarding school, he can't wait to find refuge in the twisted fairy tales he writes for Thomas the boy with hair like autumn leaves. But Thomas' parents have vanished, and he has blood on his sleeve. Stranger still, Thomas…
- Quinn Maybrook and her father have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, to find a fresh start. But what they don't know is that ever since the Baypen Corn Syrup Factory shut down, Kettle Springs has cracked in half. On one side are the adults, who…
- Regent Academy has a long and storied history in the small town of Winslow, Vermont. But so does the vast forest that surrounds its campus. While the school is known for molding teens into world leaders, its past is far more nefarious, and even more…
- Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or…
- They'll chase you. They'll rip you open. They'll feed on you. When the sickness came, every parent, police officer, politician every adult fell ill. The lucky ones died. The others are crazed, confused and hungry. Only children under fourteen…
- Morgan believes her nightmares are over when she moves to the country and confides in a local boy, whose secrets seem as tangled as hers. But Morgan's bad dreams return when her archaeologist father starts working on an ancient grave. With every…
- Four years ago, five kids started a game. Not all of them survived. Now, at the end of their senior year of high school, the survivors Owen, Madeline, Emerson, and Dax have reunited for one strange and terrible reason: they've been summoned by the…
- It's 1988 in Shadyside. A spring night, soft moonlight, five beautiful prom queen candidates, dancing couples at the high school prom these should be the makings of a perfect, romantic night. But Lizzie McVay realizes someone is brutally killing the…
- Red Solo cups? Check. Snacks? Check. Abandoned mansion full of countless horrors that won't let you leave? Check. The Deinhart Manor has been a looming shadow over town for as long as anyone can remember, and it's been abandoned for even longer.…
- The house beckons you inside. Do you enter? A dance to the death. A monstrous girl who lures people into dark water. A hallway that's constantly changing and hungry. All these stories exist within a house unbound from the laws of time and space.…
- Set in a small town where rumour spreads as fast as the fire on the day of the killings, the theory is the old ghoul who haunts the house after his own murder nearly a century ago has finally taken revenge. As Cam, Jonesy, Amber and new-girl Buffy…
- Death is neither the beginning nor the end for the children of Bridlington. Chuck Warren died tragically at the old abandoned mill, but Paz Espino knows it was no accident, there's a monster under the town, and she's determined to kill it before…
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