F.A. Day Library: Horror & Suspense

Candy Quackenbush of Chickentown, Minnesota, journeys to the Abarat, an archipelago filled with strange wonders, and has a curious revelation: she has been here before, and it is her responsibility to save this mysterious place from the evil forces that threaten it.

An ancient and terrifying Narragansett Native American legend begins to come true for a teenage long-distance runner whose recovery from the accident that killed her parents has stunned everyone, including her guardian aunt in Providence, Rhode Island.

Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected.

Since eighth-grader Gabriel Ashe moved into his grandmother's house he has been spending a lot of time playing in the woods with his new friend Seth, but Gabriel is not sure how much of the dark games is imagination and how much is real.

When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, a dark mystery begins to unfold, involving a reclusive toymaker who lives in a mansion filled with mechanical beings and shadows of the past.

Max and Alicia enlist the help of their friend Roland to explore why a spirit named Jacob is haunting their new house; but their search uncovers a sinister character who returns from beyond in order to collect a debt from the past.

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.

After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water.

Presumably the only witness to the horrific and bloody murder of his entire family, a teenage boy must outwit not only the mental health professionals determined to cure his delusion, but also the demonic forces only he can see.

When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.

Upon the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running; when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.

Follows Hansel and Gretel as they walk out of their own story and into eight more tales, encountering such wicked creatures as witches, along with kindly strangers and other helpful folk.

Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.

Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.

In the year 2032, after a virus that turned people into zombies has been eradicated, Josh is invited to join an underground gaming society, where the gamers hunt zombies and the action is more dangerous than it seems.

Kerry, a member of one of the coolest cliques at school, believes her popular days are over when three of the group are killed in a car accident, so she can hardly believe it when she gets a text saying the girls are alive and want her to meet them.

When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.

Two boys who are best friends visit an illegal freak show, where an encounter with a vampire and a deadly spider forces them to make life-changing choices.

Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but strange and desperate people keep calling--one of them a denizen of Hell--begging for or demanding his help.

As the master of an elegant house in London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.

When thirteen-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.

Charli's impulsive uncle, Will Crandall, decides to buy the town's abandoned, possibly haunted castle and fix it up as a bed-and-breakfast, but Charli and Sophia, a clairvoyant orphan who has come to stay with the Crandall family, know his plan is somehow dangerous.

Three young operatives of a psychic detection agency battle an epidemic of ghosts in London.

After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Mass., where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.

Around the time of her thirteenth birthday, Penny's neighborhood is terrorized by a psychopath and everyone is sure that the young man just out of a juvenile home is responsible.

After his best friend is murdered, seventeen-year-old Booger realizes he is the only one who has any idea who might have committed the crime--but he doesn't dare tell anyone.

Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.

Alice suspects something is wrong when she gets a call from her father insisting she drive to meet him, even though she doesn't have a driver's license, but she soon learns that her father is dead and she is the number one suspect.

A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.

After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.

Gail Osborne, a high school girl in suburban Connecticut, is swept up into a world of terror when she begins receiving threatening and obscene notes and telephone calls.

A scientist performs an experiment that changes his personality from respectable to monstrous.

In the mountains of Transylvania, Jonathan Harker, meets his latest client, the wealthy Count Dracula. In a few days he sees the sinister side and true nature of Dracula.

A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

When the students at Mortingham Boarding Academy find a group of strange, silvery beetles on school grounds they are excited, but when the beetles attack them and a mysterious virus starts spreading, a group of mismatched students must work together to survive.

When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means.