Creatures of the Night

Vampires | Ghosts & Ghouls | Freaks of Nature

Note: Titles marked with an * may include mature content and are recommended for older teens.

Vampires

Bloodline: A Novel
by Cary, Kate
In this story told primarily through journal entries, a British soldier in World War I makes the horrifying discovery that his regiment commander is descended from Count Dracula.

Cirque du Freak
by Shan, Darren
Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices. This is the first book in the series "The Saga of Darren Shan."

*Dracula
by Stoker, Bram
Jonathan Harker, who tells the story through diary entries, must join together with his friends in order to save his fiancé from the blood thirsty Count Dracula.

*I Am Legend
by Matheson, Richard
Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the sleeping undead through the abandoned ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for dawn. How long can one man survive in a world of vampires?

In the Forests of the Night
by Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia
Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will. The author was only 14 years old when this book was published.

Look for me by Moonlight
by Hahn, Mary Downing
While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

*Masquerade: A Blue Bloods Novel
by De la Cruz, Melissa
Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.

*Peeps
by Westerfield, Scott
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.

Sweetblood
by Hautman, Pete
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 uncontrollable diabetes.

The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Eighth Grade Bites
by Brewer, Heather
For thirteen years, Vlad, aided by his aunt and best friend, has kept secret that he is half-vampire, but when his missing teacher is replaced by a sinister substitute, he learns that there is more to being a vampire, and to his parents' deaths, than he could have guessed.

*The Historian
by Kostova, Elizabeth
A sixteen-year-old girl and her father travel the world in search of Vlad the Impaler, the historic figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula, whom they believe still walks the earth.

The Silver Kiss
by Klause, Annette Curtis
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoe come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.

*Thirsty
by Anderson, M.T.
Chris really wants to be a normal kid, to hang out with his friends, avoid his parents, and get a date with Rebecca Schwartz. Unfortunately, Chris appears to be turning into a vampire. So while his hometown performs an anceint ritual that keeps Tch'muchgar, the Vampire Lord, locked in another world, Chris desperately tries to save himself from his own vampire fate. He needs help, but who can he trust?

*Twilight
by Meyer, Stephanie
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.
Other books in the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer:
New Moon
Eclipse

Vampire High
by Rees, Douglas
When his family moves to New Sodom, Massachusetts and Cody enters Vlad Dracul Magnet School, many things seem strange, from the dark-haired, pale-skinned, supernaturally strong students in Charon, the wolf who guides him around campus on the first day.

Ghosts & Ghouls

*A Certain Slant of Light
by Whitcomb, Laura
Two lonely spirits overtake the bodies of a teenaged boy and a teenaged girl in order to pursue a relationship with each other. As dark secrets from the past are uncovered, the two spirits must choose between their love and the futures of the teens they have possessed.

All Hallows Eve: 13 Stories
by Vande Velde, Vivian
Thirteen tales of Halloween horrors; including ghosts, vampires, and pranks gone awry.

Demonkeeper
by Buckingham, Royce
When Nat, the weirdest boy in Seattle, leaves for a date with the plainest girl in town, chaos breaks out in the houseful of demons of which he is the sole guardian.

Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
by Allison, Jennifer
Many teens would resign themselves to a summer of boredom when their best friend goes away to music camp, but not Gilda Joyce. Instead, our intrepid heroine jump-starts her careers as a novelist and psychic investigator and still manages to find time to invite herself to a distant relative's house in order to investigate paranormal activity. Other book in the Gilda Joyce series by Jennifer Allison:
The Ladies of the Lake
The Ghost Sonata

Jade Green
by Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds
While living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman, recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression is the cause of the terrifying happenings.

Never Trust a Dead Man
by Velde, Vivian Vande
Wrongly convicted of a murder and punished by being sealed in the tomb with the dead man, seventeen-year-old Selwyn enlists the help of a witch and resurrected the victim to find the true killer.

Repossessed
by Jenkins, A.M.
A fallen angel, tired of being unappreciated while doing his pointless, demeaing job, leaves Hell, enters the body of a seventeen-year-old boy, and tries to experience the full range of human feelings before being caught and punished, while the boy's friends and family puzzle over his changed behavior.

*The Haunting of Hill House
by Jackson, Shirley
Four Visitors stay at Hill House in an attempt to study paranormal activity. They anticipate a thrilling stay, but they do not suspect that the house will choose one of them as it's own.

The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch
by Delaney, Joseph
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job it is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manners of wicked beasties. Other books in the Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney:
Curse of the Bane
Night of the Soul-eater

*The Night Country
by O'nan, Stewart
A midnight car crash on Halloween night leaves three teens dead. One year later, their spirits come back for one last mission.

The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
by Harper, Suzanne
In Lily Dale, New York, a community dedicated to the religion of Spiritualism, tenth grader Sparrow Delaney, the youngest daughter in an eccentric family of psychics, agonizes over whether or not to reveal her ability to speak with the dead in order to help a friend.

Freaks of Nature

*Blood and Chocolate
by Klause, Annette Curtis
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.

*Frankenstein
by Shelley, Mary Wolstonecraft
A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and his creator.

Rats
by Zindel, Paul
When mutant rats threaten to take over Staten Island, which has become a huge landfill, fourteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Mike try to figure out how to stop them.

Red Rider's Hood
by Shusterman, Neal
After learning there are werewolves in his city, a sixteen-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the Wolves gang to help destroy them for good. Part of the Dark Fusion series by Neal Schusterman.

*Tantalize
by Leitich, Cynthia Smith
When multiple murders in Austin, Texas threaten the grand re-opening of her family's vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old Quincie worries that her best-friend-turned-love interest, Keiren, a werewolf in training, may be the prime suspect.

The Doom Stone
by Zindel, Paul
When fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge.

*The Island of Dr. Moreau
by Wells, H.G.
Edward Prendick is washed ashore a mysterious island following a shipwreck. The island is inhibited by a scientist called Dr. Moreau, who provides Edward with food and shelter. When Edward discovers the nature of Dr. Moreau's horrifying experiments, he must escape the island.

*Wounded
by Cole, Stephen
Sixteen-year-old Tom Anderson and seventeen-year-old Kate Folan try to escape Kate's werewolf family-- and fight becoming werewolves themselves-- by making a cross-country journey in search of a mysterious man who might have a cure. Other books in The Wereling series by Stephen Cole:
Prey
Resurrection