There’s nothing quite like a great young adult paranormal book. Here are 12 you might not have heard of.

Wise Creatures – Deidre Sullivan

Daisy is a former child psychic who is now a long way from her former life when she begins to suspect that her beloved cousin is being haunted when she starts acting differently and keeping secrets.

The Name of the Star – Maureen Johnson

Rory Deveaux moves from Louisana to London to start a new life at an English boarding school on the same day that someone begins recreating the horrifying murders of Jack the Ripper. The police are left with no leads but one day, Rory sees a mysterious man near one of the crime scenes and believes him to be a main suspect. Except that no one else could see him.

Rory soon finds herself the next target and must find out what is going on and where the suspect went.

I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me – Jamison Shea

Laure is a black ballerina, constantly overlooked for her white counterparts even though she knows she’s the best. To level the playing field, she ventures deep into the Paris Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood which grants her the influence and adoration she’s always dreamed of.

But as she begins to surpass her peers, leaving broken bodies behind her, she discovers she’s not the only monster around and her vicious desires have made her the perfect target for slaughter.

City of Ghosts – V.E. Schwab

Cassidy’s parents are TV ghost hunters who travel to Scotland for a show. But what they do is fake and Cassidy can see ghosts. She meets Lara who tells her that if she can see ghosts, it’s her job to help spirits move permanently beyond the veil.

All Our Hidden Gifts – Caroline O’Donoghue

While cleaning out a closet at her Catholic Girl’s School, Maeve finds an old pack of tarot cards and begins giving her classmates scarily accurate readings. But then Maeve’s ex-best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card that no one has seen before called The Housekeeper, and a few days later, Lily disappears.

Alongside Lily’s sibling, Roe, Maeve must attempt to find out the connection between her and the cards and search for clues about Lily’s disappearance that the police would never be able to find, as well as fend off a religious cult that has shown up in town to attempt to recruit local teenagers.

This Delicious Death – Kayla Cottingham

The melting of arctic permafrost released a virus that caused some people to undergo a transformation that made it so they could only gain sustenance through consuming the flesh of human beings. Those that go without it quickly become feral which has resulted in a distrust of these people and they’re quickly given the nickname ‘ghouls.’

But 3 years on, scientists have developed a synthetic version of human meat that means the world has slowly begun to return to normal.

4 teenage girls living in Southern California are heading off to a music festival in the desert. But on the first night, one of them goes feral and ends up eating a boy. They soon realize that other festival goers are disappearing and they begin to suspect that someone is forcing ghouls to go feral.

You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight – Kalynn Bayron

Charity has the summer job of her dreams. She plays the ‘final girl’ at Camp Mirror Lake, where guests pay to be scared in a full-contact horror game based on a slasher movie. They recreate scenes from the classic film and try to make it as scary as possible for their guests.

But on the last weekend of the season, some of Charity’s co-workers begin to disappear and when one of them turns up dead, she begins to feel like her role as the ‘final girl’ is about to become a bit too real as they’re forced to fight for survival.

The Revelry – Katharine Webber

Once a year, the Revelry occurs in the woods outside Ember Grove. It’s an exclusive and mysterious party that happens at the end of the school year and everyone knows that you can’t go without an invitation. Once you go, you’re sworn to secrecy.

But Bitsy lets her friend convince her to sneak into the party and the next morning she can’t remember anything about it. But ever since the party, her life begins to unravel and she seems to have nothing but bad luck.

Mina and the Undead – Amy McCaw

Mina arrives in New Orleans to visit her older sister, Libby, and she can’t wait to explore the city’s dark secrets and local myths. She even manages to get a fun summer job at a horror movie mansion but things take a turn for the worse when Mina stumbles across the body of a girl with puncture marks in her neck.

Someone is replicating New Orleans’ most brutal supernatural killings and Mina’s sister is the main suspect. 

Gallant – V.E. Schwab

16-year-old Olivia is mute and grew up in an orphanage but one day she receives a letter inviting her to live at Gallant with her uncle. But when she arrives, she finds out that her uncle is dead and the estate is empty except for a few servants.

They allow Olivia to stay as long as she agrees to follow 2 rules: don’t go out after dusk, and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate’s western edge.

Good Girls Die First – Kathryn Foxfield

Ten teenagers are lured to a derelict carnival on a pier by someone claiming to know their deepest, darkest secrets. When fog and magic swallow the pier, the group finds themselves cut off from the real world and their morals. As the teenagers begin to turn on each other, they must face the secrets that brought them here in the first place.

Jessica’s Guide to Dating On the Dark Side – Beth Fantaskey

Jessica is ready for a normal senior year in her sleepy small town until a mysterious boy shows up on her doorstep. Lucius Vladescu claims that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess and he’s her long-lost fiancé.