Stephanie Perkins made her name writing fluffy YA romances (Anna and the French Kiss, anyone?), so when she pivoted to […]
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Maggie Stiefvater kicked off The Raven Cycle in 2012 with this strange, gorgeous opener—an Appalachian ghost story braided with Welsh
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Stephen King has a long, spooky history with extraordinary kids—think Carrie, The Shining, Firestarter—and The Institute sits right in that
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Marie Lu’s breakout YA dystopian novel, Legend (2011), kicked off a trilogy that felt like a jolt to the genre:
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Scott Cawthon’s Five Nights at Freddy’s universe started as an indie game series about haunted animatronics and security cameras—and somehow
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Don Roff’s twisted little thriller is what happens when a grim fairy tale wanders into Catholic-school hallways armed with scalpels
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YA horror and thrillers often walk a fine line between campy fun and genuinely chilling suspense, and Ten by Gretchen
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YA horror from the late 80s and 90s had a very specific charm—there was an addictive mix of high school
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Lois Duncan is a name that looms large in the world of young adult suspense fiction. Long before psychological thrillers
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F. Paul Wilson’s The Keep is one of those books that walks the line between historical horror and supernatural thriller,
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