Ghastly Ghostly Stories for Teens

Joaquin Felix Ladron “Joaquin” is a high schooler who’s desperate to experience something paranormal–he’d do anything to even catch a glimpse of a ghost, even if it means sacrificing his relationship with his boyfriend.

There’s a ghost haunting Drew Tarpin’s new room. Liam Orville has been dead for ten months and has no idea how to move on. But the longer he stays, the more likely it is he’ll degrade into an energy consuming husk… Drew is everything Liam never was when he was alive, but they do share some common ground: Drew finds herself hopelessly attracted to–and completely tongue-tied around–Hannah Sullivan, who happens to be Liam’s former best friend.

On the run from a mercenary dragon, among other dangers, thirteen-year-old Charl seeks refuge in an abandoned abbey haunted by an assemblage of ghosts.

A group of rival musicians find themselves stranded in an abandoned house that seems to know everything they want–and will provide it to them…at a cost.

Joana and her younger brother Peter aren’t used to setting down roots. Ever since the violent murder of their mother, their father can’t stay in one place for long, haunted by the literal ghosts of the past. He has what he calls “the whisperings,” and will do anything to protect his children from the horrors that torment him.

Teen vlogger Malika’s ghost hunter channel is almost popular enough to start earning money to support her family. All she needs is one viral video–and she knows exactly where she’s going to get it.

The Harrow Home for Wayward Girls has long stood as a place of secrets. The estate has housed hundreds of young women hidden away during their pregnancies, their homesick cries echoing through the halls, providing a haunting score to Grace Harrow’s childhood. Not all of the wayward girls made it out…One still lingers. Lurking in the shadows. Looking for vengeance.

Moll, Redd, Agnes, and Ossie use their supernatural gifts to investigate paranormal events, but when a missing persons case leads them to a haunted Victorian mansion, the four find themselves in grave danger as Moll discovers the origins and extent of her powers, which could have deadly consequences.

A queer romantic thriller in which the lives of Hollis, a boy in search of meaning, and Walt, a spirit with unfinished business, collide when Walt takes possession of Hollis’s body…and maybe his heart.

Are the four Farthing sisters really descended from Persephone? This is what their aunt has always told them: that the women in their family can trace their lineage right back to the Goddess of the Dead. And maybe she’s right, because the Farthing girls do have a ghost in the attic of their New York City brownstone–a kind and gentle ghost named Henry, who only they can see.

Four young debutantes go to stay in the manor of a reclusive, wealthy woman and compete to be the inheritor of her fortune, but soon discover that their host–and her home–are not what they seem.

Carina Marshall is looking to reinvent herself, and what better place to do it than Jamaica, her mother’s alluring homeland where she conveniently has access to an au pair gig for the wealthy and powerful Hall family. But when inexplicable things start happening to her in the house, only getting worse each night, Carina realizes that someone, or something, is out to get her.

This volume collects some of the most well-known of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic tales and poems originally published in the early to mid-19th century for a new generation of young readers.