When the sun goes down and the shadows start to stretch, it’s the perfect time to pick up a book that keeps you glancing over your shoulder. From haunted houses and supernatural mysteries to deadly family secrets and dark magic, these chilling YA reads deliver thrills, twists, and just the right amount of nightmare fuel. Add these dark reads for dark summer nights to your TBR—if you dare.
A native Hawaiian teen travels to a luxury island resort in search of her missing twin and uncovers the dark side of paradise, in this riveting supernatural thriller.
Three girls bond in unsettling ways when a grizzly starts picking off known abusers in their secluded mountain town in this darkly funny, deeply feminist novel for fans of books like The Honeys and Wilder Girls.
Willa has no memory of anything before arriving at Dorsey House, and when she meets two sinister girls who seem to already know her, she slowly begins to lose her grip on what is real . . . and what is a lie. A haunting contemporary speculative thriller for fans of Kill Creatures and We Were Liars.
The daughter of a sinister magical family who made a deal with the devil must stop the man killing them off, one by one, in this deliciously dark fantasy thriller that’s House of Hollow meets Succession, laced with a kiss-or-kill romance.
