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Gothic Reads for Teens

Odd characters, unsettling narratives, and atmospheric settings are abundant in these gothic fiction books for teens!

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  • "Seventeen-year-old Dilly will stop at nothing to become a doctor, including stealing corpses to continue her father's research on resurrection, which she successfully performs on her twin sister after a horrible accident."
    Book, 2025New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2025. — TEEN FICTION Allen Kathleen
  • Helga

    a Frankenstein Retelling

    Yu, Catherine,
    "Enamored with city life, she'll do anything to find love--but she has only two weeks until her father gets back, and besides there are ominous rumblings from the volcanic island that could put her dating schemes, and even her own life, in grave…
    Book, 2024Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Co., 2024. — TEEN FICTION Yu Catherin 10/2024
  • "After an incident at her old school, Page Whittaker gets a second chance at a prestigious boarding school in Scotland, only to uncover dark secrets about her new friends and the school's sinister history."
    Book, 2025New York : Delacorte Press, [2025] — TEEN FANTASY Wilkinso Lili 02/2025
  • "Set in an alternate Victorian England where mediums control the dead, sixteen-year-old autistic transgender boy Silas must expose a power-hungry secret society while confined to a cruel finishing school designed to turn him into the perfect wife."
    Book, 2023Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Teen, [2023] — TEEN FICTION White Andrew 08/2023
  • "Living in a Regency England beset with a mist that turns humans into monsters, Merrick is summoned home from London by her sister, but her sister has secret plans that may threaten their lives, and the lives of the ruling Manor families."
    Book, 2025New York : Delacorte Press, 2025. — TEEN FANTASY Gregovic Lydia 09/2024
  • "Set in a darkly shimmering Edwardian Paris where worship of the Roman gods never ended, A Riddle of Thorns drips with Gothic atmosphere, sizzles with romantic tension, and confounds with intricate puzzles and long-buried mysteries."
    Book, 2025New York : Holiday House, [2025] — TEEN FICTION Nanua Sarena 11/2025
  • "Manga Classics® proudly presents a beautiful, faithful recreation of Bram Stoker's famous vampire."
    Graphic Novel, 2019[Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada] : UDON Entertainment Corporation, 2019. — GRAPHIC King Stacy 10/2019
  • "But it wasn't luck that made the Suttons rescue Margot from her bleak existence at the group home. Margot was handpicked to be a companion to their silent, mysterious daughter, Agatha."
    Book, 2020New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020. — TEEN FICTION Alender Katie 09/2020
  • ". . . Coldwater has a few unsettling secrets of its own. The more you try to leave, the stronger the town's hold."
    Book, 2024New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2024. — TEEN FICTION Burch Ciera 04/2024
  • "Seventeen-year-old bisexual Jade Nguyrn is spending the summer in Vietnam at the French colonial house her estranged father is fixing up as a vacation rental, but unbeknownst to her family, the house and its ghosts have other plans."
    Book, 2023New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2023. — TEEN FICTION Tran Trang 02/2023
  • "The iconic gothic romance, is retold with all the spectacle its legend demands in this devoted graphic novel adaptation that marries stunning artwork with Gaston Leroux's haunting prose."
    Graphic Novel, 2020[Rhinebeck, New York] : A Wave Blue World, [2020] — TEEN GRAPHIC Varga Tomi 12/2020
  • "Nesbit Nuñez discovers the partially devoured body of Bastion Attia: star quarterback, secret witch, and Nesbit's even-more-secret boyfriend."
    Book, 2024New York : Union Square & Co., [2024] — TEEN HORROR Kolsch Freddie 07/2024
  • "Phantom of the Opera meets Black Swan in this breathtakingly gorgeous gothic fantasy about love and control that will never let you go."
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Delacorte Press, [2025] — TEEN FICTION Woods E.V.
  • "Violet Costantino knows she is already on thin ice this school year. . . she is determined to keep her head down and just get through unscathed. But the school seems to have other plans for Violet: to her extreme foreboding, she is cast as one of…
    Book, 2025Toronto : Annick Press, [2025] — TEEN FICTION Riley Sierra