TITLE: Monstress (Vols. 1 - 6)
AUTHOR: Marjorie Liu WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Liu - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Set in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, Monstress tells the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression and terrible danger, Maika is both hunter and hunted, searching for answers about her mysterious past as those who seek to use her remain just one step behind...and all the while, the monster within begins to awaken... |
TITLE: Head Lopper Vol. 1: The Island or a Plague of Beasts
AUTHOR: Andrew MacLean WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mac - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: The Head Lopper, Norgal, and the nagging severed head of Agatha Blue Witch arrive on the Isle of Barra to find it overrun with beasts; minions of the Sorcerer of the Black Bog. When Queen Abigail hires Norgal and Agatha to slay the Sorcerer, our heroes trek across the island relieving the horrors of their heads - and playing right into the hands of a master manipulator. |
TITLE: Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
AUTHOR: Anthony Bourdain & Joel Rose WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bou - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge. Inspired by the Japanese Edo period game of Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai, Hungry Ghosts reimagines the classic stories of yokai, yorei, and obake, all tainted with the common thread of food. |
TITLE: The Taking of Jake Livingston
AUTHOR: Ryan Douglass WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Dou - HORROR SUMMARY: When a murderous ghost begins to haunt sixteen-year-old Jake Livingston, high school soon becomes a different kind of survival game. |
TITLE: Pet
AUTHOR: Akwaeke Emezi WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Eme - FANTASY SUMMARY: In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster. |
TITLE: Beetle & the Hollowbones
AUTHOR: Aliza Layne WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Lay - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Twelve-year-old goblin and witch-in-training Beetle enlists her former best friend, Kat Hollowbones, to help stop Kat's sorceress aunt from demolishing the mall where Beetle's friend Blob Ghost is trapped. |
TITLE: Not Even Bones
AUTHOR: Rebecca Schaeffer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sch - HORROR SUMMARY: Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place. |
TITLE: Cemetery Boys
AUTHOR: Aiden Thomas WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Tho - FANTASY SUMMARY: Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family. |
TITLE: Frankenstein
AUTHOR: Mary Shelley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC She - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. |
TITLE: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
AUTHOR: Kiersten White WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Whi - HORROR SUMMARY: The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is adopted as a child by the Frankenstein's as a companion for their volatile son Victor. |
TITLE: Fake Blood
AUTHOR: Whitney Gardner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gar - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: In order to get the attention of Nia, the girl he likes, eleven-year-old A.J. pretends to be a vampire, unaware that she intends to be a slayer. |
TITLE: Razorhurst
AUTHOR: Justine Larbalestier WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Lar - FANTASY SUMMARY: In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses. |
TITLE: The Passage
AUTHOR: Justin Cronin WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cro - HORROR SUMMARY: FBI agent Brad Wolgast vows to protect six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte after a government military experiment she was involved in goes bad, unleashing a toxic virus that turns humans into bloodthirsty monsters. |
TITLE: Trail of Lightning
AUTHOR: Rebecca Roanhorse WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Roa - NATIVE COLLECTION SUMMARY: While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinetah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinetah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. |
TITLE: Home Before Dark
AUTHOR: Riley Sager WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sag - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Twenty-five years after her father published a wildly popular nonfiction book based on her family's rushed exit from a haunted Victorian estate, naysayer Maggie inherits the house and begins renovations, only to make a number of disturbing discoveries. |
TITLE: Soulless
AUTHOR: Gail Carriger WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Car - FANTASY SUMMARY: Alexia Tarabotti, a woman without a soul who is viewed as unable to marry, works with werewolf Lord Conall Maccon to clear her name after she accidently kills a vampire and is suspected of the disappearances of other undead members of high society. |
TITLE: Kim Reaper Vol. 1: Grim Beginnings
AUTHOR: Sarah Graley WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gra - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: Like most university students, Kim works a part-time job to make ends meet. Unlike most university students, Kim's job is pretty cool: she's a grim reaper, tasked with guiding souls into the afterlife. Like most university students, Becka has a super intense crush. Unlike most university students, Becka's crush is on a beautiful gothic angel that frequents the underworld. . . Unaware of the ghoulish drama she's about to step into, Becka finally gathers up the courage to ask Kim on a date! But when she falls into a ghostly portal and interrupts Kim at her job, she sets off a chain of events that will pit the two of them against angry cat-dads, vengeful zombies, and perhaps even the underworld itself. But if they work together, they just might make it... and maybe even get a smooch in the bargain. |
TITLE: The Girl with All the Gifts
AUTHOR: Mike Carey WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Car - HORROR SUMMARY: A little girl who is detained by the military, restrained in a wheelchair, and goes to school while heavily guarded doesn't truly understand why she is special until it is up to her to save the world. |
TITLE: Contaminated
AUTHOR: Em Garner WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gar - HORROR SUMMARY: Velvet fights for her family's survival after a widespread contamination turns a segment of the population, including her mother, into ultra-violent zombie-like creatures. |
TITLE: Alice in Zombieland
AUTHOR: Gena Showalter WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sho - HORROR SUMMARY: Alice Bell must learn to fight the undead to avenge her family and learn to trust Cole Holland who has secrets of his own. |
TITLE: Twilight
AUTHOR: Stephenie Meyer WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Mey - FANTASY SUMMARY: When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. |
TITLE: Dracula
AUTHOR: Bram Stoker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sto - CLASSICS SUMMARY: Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. |
TITLE: Dracul
AUTHOR: Dacre Stoker WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sto - HORROR SUMMARY: A prequel to Dracula, based on original author notes and co-written by a family descendant, reveals the iconic vampire's origin story, the early years of Bram Stoker and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connected them. |
TITLE: The Enemy
AUTHOR: Charlie Higson WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hig - HORROR SUMMARY: In the wake of a devastating disease, everyone sixteen and older is either dead or a decomposing, brainless creature with a ravenous appetite for flesh. Teens have barricaded themselves in buildings throughout London and venture outside only when they need to scavenge for food. |
TITLE: The Radleys
AUTHOR: Matt Haig WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hai - HUMOR SUMMARY: The Radleys, an eccentric family of vampires living in the suburbs, struggle but try to deny their natural instincts to avoid eating the neighbors and fit in with their peers. |
TITLE: Infinity
AUTHOR: Sherrilyn Kenyon WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Ken - FANTASY SUMMARY: Fourteen-year-old sarcastic, street-savvy Nick is drawn into the world of the Dark-Hunters, but must hide his participation in the battle against werewolves, vampires, and zombies from his mother and high school principal. |
TITLE: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
AUTHOR: Max Brooks WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bro - HORROR SUMMARY: Max Brooks, son of actor Mel Brooks, chronicles the fictitious "zombie wars" that nearly decimated the human population, with first-hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the planet. |
TITLE: Help for the Haunted
AUTHOR: John Searles WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Sea - MYSTERY SUMMARY: Struggling with the loss of her parents, who helped haunted souls find peace, Sylvie Mason pursues the mystery, moving closer to the truth of what happened that night as she comes to terms with her family's past. |
TITLE: 13 Days of Midnight
AUTHOR: Leo Hunt WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Hun - HORROR SUMMARY: When Luke Manchett's estranged father dies suddenly, he leaves his son a dark inheritance: a host of eight unique, powerful, and restless spirits. Unfortunately, Luke has no clue how to manage them, which the ghosts figure out pretty quickly. Armed with only his father's indecipherable notes and a locked copy of 'The Book of Eight,' Luke struggles to adapt to his new role as a necromancer. |
TITLE: Archivist Wasp
AUTHOR: Nicole Kornher-Stace WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Kor - FANTASY SUMMARY: A postapocalyptic ghosthunter escapes her dire fate by joining the ghost of a supersoldier on his quest to the underworld. |
TITLE: The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac
AUTHOR: Sharma Shields WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Shi - LOCAL SUMMARY: A multigenerational tale tells the story of the Roebuck family whose patriarch, Eli, is consumed by the hunt for the mythical, elusive sasquatch he claims to have encountered in his youth. |
TITLE: A Monster Calls
AUTHOR: Patrick Ness WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Nes - FANTASY SUMMARY: Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss. |
TITLE: The Graveyard Book: The Graphic Novel
AUTHOR: Nail Gaiman WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gai - GRAPHIC SUMMARY: A single-volume graphic novel adaptation of the Newbery Award-winning best-seller follows the experiences of a boy being raised by ghosts who must avoid and expose the dangerous killer responsible for his family's deaths. |
TITLE: The Hunt
AUTHOR: Andrew Fukuda WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Fuk - SCIENCE FICTION SUMMARY: Seventeen-year-old Gene has passed as a vampire for years, carefully following every rule, but now, just as he finds a girl worth fighting for, he is chosen to participate in the hunt for the last remaining humans among ruthless vampires who soon suspect his true nature. |
TITLE: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
AUTHOR: Seth Grahame-Smith WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Gra - HORROR SUMMARY: Abraham Lincoln, having realized that his mother's death was caused by a vampire, embarks on a plan of revenge that takes him all the way to the White House. |
TITLE: Marked
AUTHOR: P. C. Cast WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cas - FANTASY SUMMARY: After she is accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school, sixteen-year-old Zoey discovers that one of her peers is misusing her powers and a rivalry develops between her and Aphrodite, the leader of the Dark Daughters. |
TITLE: The Flame of Olympus
AUTHOR: Kate O'Hearn WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC O'He - FANTASY SUMMARY: Thirteen-year-old Emily's life is transformed when Pegasus, the mythological winged horse, crashes onto the roof of her building during a New York City blackout and takes her to Olympus where she faces monsters, a corrupt governmental agency, and the quest to keep the Olympic flame burning. |
TITLE: City of Bones
AUTHOR: Cassandra Clare WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Cla - FANTASY SUMMARY: 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 bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster. |
TITLE: Favorite Monster
AUTHOR: Sharma Shields WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Shi - LOCAL SUMMARY: A deliciously bent collection of short stories -- funny, disturbing and surprisingly profound. A wildly entertaining survey of the modern habits of the cyclops, the Sasquatch, the werewolf, and perhaps the most monstrous of all, the human -- this book is fantastic in every sense of the word. |
TITLE: Shadow and Bone
AUTHOR: Leigh Bardugo WHERE TO FIND IT IN THE LIBRARY: FIC Bar - FANTASY SUMMARY: Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegé of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold. |