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Young adult horror is a very busy corner of the book world right now, which probably says something about the anxious times in which we live. Horror is traditionally the genre in which we work out our real-world issues by transposing them into imaginative threats—ghosts, demons, mom zombies, these sort of things. Ìý
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The collection below features new and upcoming YA horror stories from January 2022 through the end of this year. Each of the books currently has an average star rating of 3.5 or above.
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Some books have already started making noise in the horror-boom cultural conversation: Tiffany D. Jackson’s The Weight of Blood updates a familiar Stephen King–style story with extremely relevant contemporary issues. Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes a similar approach in her short story collection Manmade Monsters.
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One particularly interesting development to watch out for: Several anthology-style collections that explore the horror genre from marginalized perspectives—Latin American monster stories, say, or BIPOC queer revenants. All These Sunken Souls, meanwhile, rethinks a variety of horror traditions featuring Black characters and themes.
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Among the buzzier titles coming later in the year: feral ghouls at music festivals (This Delicious Death); slasher killers at summer camp (You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight); and ghostly events in Victorian London (The Spirit Bares Its Teeth). That last one, by the by, is from Andrew Joseph White, the author of last year’s breakout Hell Followed with Us.
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This stuff really is the horror genre at its best: plenty of nightmares to choose from, plus cultural and psychological insight if you want to look for it. Click through the cover images below for more details, and add the ones you like to your Want to Read shelf. Ìý

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