Horror Fiction Schools

Just like all little girls, I hoped I was special and that one day my powers would be revealed. My parents would be bewildered, my friends would equally worship and envy me, and my bullies would run away in terror! Nothing happened when I turned 10. I didn't grow wings at 12, still wasn't able to make things move with my mind at 14, and at 16, I was already too old to believe in such nonsense. Well, what do you think happened the day I turned 18? I got the confirmation that I was only human. In the mail! Oh, and also an invitation to apply to the Grim Reaper Academy.

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award * “You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King A gripping...

A thrilling gothic debut The untimely death of a student at a girls’ boarding school marks the first in a haunting series of escalating supernatural events, and uncovers buried truths of teenage repression, queer desire, and the everyday horror of coming of age. "A truly impeccable novel...

London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all. Kristian Hadeland, young and ambitious, has moved to London to study photography; he knows that he and his art are destined for more. His family never understood him, and his fellow photography students bore...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the...

Fifteen-year-old Izzy Brannick was trained to fight monsters. For centuries, her family has hunted magical creatures. But when Izzy's older sister vanishes without a trace while on a job, Izzy's mom decides they need to take a break. Izzy and her mom move to a new town, but they soon discover it's not as normal as it appears. A series of hauntings has been plaguing the local high school, and Izzy is determined to prove her worth and investigate.

I've seen it all.... A boy who planned to be the next school shooter. A patient with OCD whose loved ones really did suffer every time he missed a ritual. A choir boy who claimed he was being molested - not by a priest - but by God Himself. A patient with PTSD who gave me nightmares. A husband and wife who accused each other of abuse, and only one of them was telling the truth.

Some girls get their hearts broken. Valencia got her soul snatched. Valencia thought she had it all. Fly hair, decent grades, and the kind of confidence that made people pay attention. Then she met him. Older. Smooth. Dangerous fine. The first time felt like a dream. But it wasn’t love. It was a spell. And once he had her, everything started to rot. Her edges thinned. Her skin dulled. The smell of decay followed her everywhere. And the nightmares? They wouldn’t stop. She thought she was the only one. She wasn’t. With her best friend Kiyah by her side, Valencia dives headfirst into ...

There isn't a style or pop culture trend in the monster world that Cleo De Nile isn't on top of. But on a visit to the human world, Cleo discovers a tradition that completely escaped her: Monster Con, where humans gather to dress up as their favorite monsters. Convinced it's what Monster High has been missing-and determined to prove to her family that she can be a leader-Cleo decides to put on the school's first ever Human Con.

“A morally complex and life-affirming exploration of what it means to be alive, and of the enduring power of love to transform, reanimate, and redeem.” —Celeste Ng, New York Times-bestselling author of Our Missing Hearts “The novel’s immersive quality and intricate structure is...

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and...

Have you recently turned 18? Have you been bullied, no friends, no family, no future? Fear not. We have the perfect job for you! Pervis had a tough life growing up. Always thought of as a sissy and a wimp, he was ridiculed and lonely with a bleak future ahead of him when suddenly things began to change. A major corporation came calling and wanted to hire him specifically, and a new friend appeared out of nowhere. Bullies no longer bothered him, girls that shunned him would smile and say hello, and he finally had the opportunity to learn about sex for the very first time! Little did he know ...

I spent my whole life believing magick was a curse - and that I didn't have enough of it to worry about, anyway. Turns out I was wrong on both counts. I'm so much more than a magick-blessed Academy student. I'm an Arcana Witch, bound to a sacred order whose sole duty is to protect magick - and one another - at all costs. Thankfully, I'm not alone. My Arcana magick brought four fiercely loyal, impossibly sexy Arcana mages into my life. But it also brought trouble. Corrupt Academy officials. Mysterious attacks stripping students of their power.

The 11-year-old school bully has gone missing- seemingly vanished into thin air. Everyone says that they know nothing about her mysterious disappearance... ...everyone is lying. Nelly Chester gave a lot of people a lot of reasons to dislike her. She had no respect for authority; was a burden on her poverty-stricken parents; routinely broke all the rules and, worst of all, was a nasty, vicious and merciless bully. So when Nelly disappears from school one Friday afternoon, at first all fingers are pointed at the mother of one of her weakest victims... until the police discover that the ...

In this chilling mystery from a New York Times bestselling author, a storm strands a group of teens in a creepy motel—leaving them trapped with a killer. Nell has always wanted to be an actor, but doubts her ability. As a member of her school’s theater program, she prefers working backstage...

This electrifying, chilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller None Shall Sleep focuses on junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for. After a harrowingly close contact with juvenile sociopath Simon...

The year is 1988, and the old Crowford School building is about to be knocked down. Before that happens, however, three schoolchildren are determined to discover the truth about an old legend. Does the ghost of a murdered woman really haunt the old school? And if she does, what does she want from the living? Eleven-year-old Bradley Firth has a particular reason for wanting to prove that the ghost is real. His own mother is desperately ill, and Bradley wants to believe that she can come back to him if the worst happens.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Angel Down, Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Scowler, and more, comes Rotters. Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection...

Can he control the beast within? Jacob is just like any other high school boy. He tries to make new friends and figure out the opposite sex, but he harbors a dark secret that isolates him from everyone else - schizophrenia. And the voice inside his head goads him to do horrific things. Can Jacob control his darker alter ego, or will tragedy unleash the beast hiding within? And more alarming, why and who are the outside forces pushing Jacob to reveal his darker side? Bestselling author Scott W Kimak tells the origin story of his most memorable character in this action-packed supernatural ...

What evil is lurking in the shadows of Grey Towers? Secret organisation The Night House unravels the horrifying truth in this chilling mystery from master of sci-fi Dan Smith. A storm rages across the moors the night that Damien Cooper arrives at the gates of Grey Towers Boarding School for Boys...