Coming-of-Age Horror Books: A Master List
These quintessential books capture the unique tension and nostalgia of youth.
By
Sadie Hartmann | Published Apr 28, 2022

- Photo Credit: Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due
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Boys in the Valley
By Philip Fracassi
Ghost Summer
By Tananarive Due
Hearts Strange and Dreadful
By Tim McGregor
December Park
By Ronald Malfi
Mapping the Interior
By Stephen Graham Jones
Knock Knock
By S. P. Miskowski
Wormwood
By Chad Lutzke and Tim Meyer
The Dead Girls Club
By Damien Angelica Walters
My Best Friend's Exorcism
By Grady Hendrix
Disappearance at Devil’s Rock
By Paul Tremblay
Of Foster Homes and Flies
By Chad Lutzke
A House at the Bottom of a Lake
By Josh Malerman
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
By Craig Davidson
Such a Pretty Smile
By Kristi Demeester
Clown in a Cornfield
By Adam Cesare
Children of the Dark
By Jonathan Janz
In the Scrape
By Mark Steensland and James Newman
The Year of the Witching
By Alexis Henderson
The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
By Kiersten White
Seeing Things
By Sonora Taylor
The Ghost Tree
By Christina Henry
The Bone-Weaver's Orchard
By Sarah Read
The Devil Crept In
By Ania Ahlborn
A Plague of Gulls
By Stephen Gregory