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Fiction

Beautiful Creatures - Kami Garcia
- In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
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Blood - Kevin Wignall
- A centuries-old vampire wakes up in the modern day to find he is being hunted by an unknown enemy, and begins to uncover the secrets of his origin and the path of his destiny.
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Darkness before dawn - J.A. London
- When seventeen-year-old Dawn Montgomery, daughter of the slain delegates to ruling vampire Lord Valentine, becomes the new delegate she finds herself falling in love with Valentine's kindhearted son, and risks her life when she is drawn into their dangerous political game.
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Diviners - Libba Bray
- Seventeen-year-old Evie O'Neill is thrilled when she is exiled from small-town Ohio to New York City in 1926, even when a rash of occult-based murders thrusts Evie and her uncle into the thick of the investigation. Be prepared for one of the creepiest ghosts ever in this book!
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Infinite days : a vampire queen novel - Rebecca Maizel
- At a New England boarding school, Lenah Beaudonte tries to act like a normal sixteen-year-old although she was, before a hundred-year hibernation, a centuries-old vampire queen whose bloodthirsty, abandoned coven is seeking her.
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Infinity - Sherrilyn Kenyon
- At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends...until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
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Jekel Loves Hyde - Beth Fantaskey
- Jill Jekel has always obeyed her parents' rules--especially the one about never opening the mysterious, old box in her father's office. But when her dad is murdered, Jill enlists the help of Tristen Hyde, who has his own dark secrets.
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Jessica's Guide to Dating on the Dark Side - Beth Fantaskey
- The undead can really screw up your senior year . . . Marrying a vampire definitely doesn't fit into Jessica Packwoods senior year get-a-life plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth and hes her long-lost fiance.
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Lily Dale : Awakening - Wendy Corsi Staub
- After her mom falls down the stairs and dies, Calla spends the summer with her maternal grandmother. Odelia lives in New York state in a place called Lily Dale, where spiritualists gather to give séances and readings. After several eerie experiences, Calla realizes reluctantly that she has inherited her grandmother's gift of seeing and communicating with the dead.
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My Swordhand Is Singing - Marcus Sedgwick
- When a band of Gypsies comes to his village, Peter's drab existence is turned upside down. He is infatuated by Sofia, a beautiful gypsy princess, and he finds himself drawn into her vampire-slaying world.
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Name of the Star - Maureen Johnson
- Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
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Nightmarys - Dan Poblocki
- Timothy July and his new friend Abigail try to break a curse that is causing them and others to be tormented by their greatest fears brought to life. Ghostly girls, accursed bones, and murder abound.
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Other - Karen Kincy
- Gwen Williams is like any seventeen-year-old except that she is a shapeshifter living in Klikamuks, Washington, where not everyone tolerates "Others" like Gwen, but when someone begins killing Others she must try to embrace her true self and find the killer before she becomes the next victim.
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Persistence of Memory - Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
- Sixteen-year-old Erin Misrahe just wants to be like everyone else in her new school. But Erin has more to worry about than passing AP Chemistry or making friends. In times of stress, she has always been overcome by her alter ego, Shevaun, whose violent behavior wreaks havoc on those around her.
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Pretty Dead - Francesca Lia Block
- Beautiful vampire Charlotte finds herself slowly changing back into a human after the mysterious death of her best friend.
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Pretty Monsters - Kelly Link
- From the multiple award-winning "The Faery Handbag," in which a teenager's grandmother carries an entire village (or is it a man-eating dog?) in her handbag, to the near-future of "The Surfer," whose narrator (a soccer-playing skeptic) waits with a planeload of refugees for the aliens to arrive, Link's stories are funny and full of unexpected insights and skewed perspectives on the world.
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Revealers - Amanda Marrone
- Jules has a rebellious streak, a massive crush on Connor, and the abilities of a Revealer witch. By day, she and her coven friends seem like typical high school seniors. By night, they have the power to make werewolves, vampires, and ghosts reveal themselves, so they can destroy them. It's not exactly cheerleading, but at least the girls know they're doing the world some good.
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Shadowed Summer - Saundra Mitchell
- Iris is ready for another hot, routine summer in her small Louisiana town, hanging around the Red Stripe grocery with her best friend, Collette, and traipsing through the cemetery telling each other spooky stories and pretending to cast spells. Except this summer, Iris doesn’t have to make up a story. This summer, one falls right in her lap.
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The devouring - Simon Holt
- The Vours are evil, demonic figures that inhabit human bodies during the darkest hours of the winter solstice. After Reggie reads about them in an old journal, she assumes they are figments of a madwoman's imagination. But after her little brother begins acting strangely, Reggie soon finds out what happens when fear comes to life.
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The Graveyard Book - Neil Gaiman
- Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack—who has already killed Bod's family... Excellent audiobook, too, read by Neil Gaiman himself.
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The night tourist - Katherine Marsh
- After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Perdu has a near fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.
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The night wanderer : a native gothic novel - Drew Hayden Taylor
- A troubled teenager's life on a reservation is complicated when her father rents her room to an ancient vampire, newly returned to his tribal home from Europe. A blending of Gothic romance and modern coming-of-age, this is unlike any other vampire story.
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The poisoned house - Michael Ford
- Fifteen-year-old Abi is a scullery maid in Greave Hall, an elegant but troubled household. The widowed master of the house is slowly slipping into madness, and the tyrannical housekeeper, Mrs.Cotton, punishes Abi without mercy. But there's something else going on in Greave Hall, too. An otherworldly presence is making itself known, and a deadly secret will reveal itself---a secret that will shatter everything Abi knows.
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The Summoning - Kelley Armstrong
- Chloe starts seeing ghosts–everywhere, demanding her attention. After she suffers a breakdown, her devoted aunt Lauren gets her into a highly recommended group home. At first, Lyle House seems a pretty okay place, but as she gradually gets to know the other kids at the home Chloe begins to realize that there is something that binds them all together, and it isn’t your usual “problem kid” behaviour.
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The tear collector - Patrick Jones
- Prepare for a new kind of vampire: one that feeds off of tears instead of blood. Descended from an ancient line of creatures that gain their energy from human tears, Cassandra Gray depends on human sorrow to live. Only Cass has grown tired of living this life and wants to live like a human, especially now that she's met someone worth fighting for.
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Uninvited - Amanda Marrone
- After Jordan's boyfriend Michael dumps her and sleeps his way through half the student body, he then kills himself. Only he didn't commit suicide, and he's not dead. He's a vampire, and he appears at Jordan's window every night, begging her to let him in.
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Manga & GN

Chibi vampire - Yuna Kagesaki
- Karin isn't like all the other teenage girls. Once a month, she experiences an intense nose bleed. Karin is from a family of vampires who love to suck blood, but she prefers to give blood to her "victims." If done right this act of giving can be extremely positive, but the problem is that Karin seems to never do things right.
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Rosario + Vampire - Akihisa Ikeda
- Tsukune can't get accepted to any high school save one... but on his first day, he finds the rest of the student body doesn't appear average in the least. Best of all, the cutest girl on campus can't wait to fling her arms around his neck! Wait a sec' - are those her teeth around his neck too... ?
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Vampire knight - Hino Matsuri
- Cross Academy has a Night Class full of vampires and a Day Class that must be protected from them without knowing their secret. The headmaster's on a mission to end the war between the two sides, heedless of the danger it brings as the two groups pass every day at twilight.
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Non-fiction

Ghost files - Jason Hawes
- Television's ghost hunters share all of their true stories of unexplained phenomena. These stories are both fascinating and frightening.
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Jeepers Creepers - John Robert Colombo
- Here are over 40 scary, hair-raising, and frightening stories of the supernatural and the paranormal. These are first-person narratives that are unexplained and possibly inexplicable.
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True ghost stories - Paul Dowswell
- Whether you believe they are true or not, you'll enjoy reading this collection of ghost stories.
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Vampires - Angela Cybulski
- The figure of the vampire has existed within the history of many cultures for thousands of years. While the true nature of the vampire is shrouded in mystery, its image is also prey to the often inconsistent or inaccurate stereotypes found in literature and film. This text presents a collection of writings that attempt to define the main characteristics of the vampire and to explore whether or not vampires truly exist among us.
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Vampires and other monstrous creatures - M.J. Knight
- This book deals mainly with vampires - their origins, words for vampire, different species of vampires around the world, how to deal with vampires and how to slay them. Information is also included on other creatures, such as zombies, chimera, ogres, and the werewolf.
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