Chilling YA horror books to read this summer

A chilling and suspenseful horror book is something people of all age groups like to read. The nail-biting storyline, haunted locations, blood-sucking vampires - who doesn’t like them all! After all, we as humans like to discover the unknown - something which is beyond our reach and understanding. This gives an adrenaline rush to an otherwise boring, work-from-home life that we are living due to the pandemic. Moreover, life has become even duller for kids and young adults who can’t step out of the house. To keep them busy and entertained, here is a look at 7 chilling YA horror books.

The book is about Quinn Maybrook and her father who have moved to tiny, boring Kettle Springs, which is caught in a battle between old and new. It’s a fight that looks like it will destroy the town. Until a creepy clown goes homicidal and decides that the only way for Kettle Springs to grow back is to slaughter the kids who live there now.

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The book centers on Tana, a teenager that believes that she has been infected with vampirism. As per its blurb, "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown is a wholly original story of rage and revenge, of guilt and horror, and of love and loathing from bestselling and acclaimed author Holly Black."

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The book's blurb best describes its inside contents: "a feverishly twisty thriller about a girl whose past has always been a mystery--until she decides to return to her mother's hometown . . . where history has a tendency to repeat itself."

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The first in a four-part series, the novel revolves around Sofia, who starts at her new school and becomes a part of the most popular girls in the school group. Soon, their leader declares that the school oddball needs to be exorcised. Sofia agrees to help, only to discover the girls’ idea of an exorcism looks a lot more like torture.

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The book is told from Anders’s and Thea’s dual points of view and is full of unexpected twists. It captivates readers with a dark, hypnotic story about the cost of talent - and the evil that lurks just out of sight.

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In this chilling diary, an American teen recounts the strange events that occur after she moves into a new and very haunted home with her family that features photos and images of what she experienced. Things only get creepier when she learns about the cult that conducted experimental rituals in the house almost one hundred years earlier.

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The suspense novel centers on Cassidy, who as a child, accidentally started a fire that killed her neighbor. In the town bully Melody's eyes, Cassidy is a murderer and always will be. But when Melody goes missing, it's up to Cassidy to figure out what's really going on.

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