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Reading Lists: Chills and Thrills
These stories are chock full of chills, thrills, and suspense. If these aren't scary enough for you, try our Horror and Supernatural Fiction list.
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Bennett, Jay. The Dark Corrider. 1988. 152p. At the end of a summer disrupted by three teenage suicides in their town, eighteen-year-old Kerry's girlfriend Alicia apparently kills herself, leaving him obsessed with death and strange doubts. |
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Bennett, Jay. The Deadly Gift. 1969. 135p. John-Tom, a Mohawk Indian teenager living in New York City, feels that the $10,000 he finds is a curse but even gangsters can't make him return it. |
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Bennett, Jay. The Birthday Murder. 1977. 150p. Did seventeen-year-old Shan really commit a childhood murder? Is someone really trying to kill him now? Or is Shan losing his mind? |
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Bennett, Jay. Say hello to the hit man. 1976. 133p. The nineteen-year-old son of a criminal syndicate executive receives a phone call threatening his life--but why? and who? |
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Cross, Gillian. Roscoe's Leap. 1987. 160p. A plan to restore a guillotine and other strange toys once belonging to an eccentric millionaire fills his twelve-year-old great-great-grandson with nameless dread and concern for his family's safety. |
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Dickinson, Peter. The Seventh Raven. 1981. 192p. In a bungled attempt to kidnap an ambassador's son, four revolutionaries make hostages of a hundred children rehearsing an opera. |
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Duncan, Lois. They never came home. 1969. 192p. Two boys fail to return from a weekend camping trip in the mountains. Why aren't they found? Why is there no trace even of their equipment? And who is the man who demands $2,000 owed him from a "business" deal by one of the boys? Best for 7th grade and up. --This author is prolific. Look for more of her stories! |
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Nixon, Joan Lowery. Secret, Silent Screams. 1988. 180p. A high school senior is convinced her friend Barry did not commit suicide but was a murder victim, and she endangers her own life to prove it. Best for ages 13 and up. This author has written many mysteries, thrillers, and adventure stories. |
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Schunk, Laurel. Black and secret midnight. 1998. 239p. Beth loves her Georgia relatives, but she doesn't understand the undercurrents of hatred and greed. As she tries to acclimate to the changes around her, the killing starts. |
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Thompson, Julian F. The Grounding of Group 6. 1996. 291p. Arriving at what they believe is an exclusive school, five sixteen-year-olds are unaware that they have been sent there to be exterminated and that their teacher is a murderer for hire. |
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Werlin, Nancy. The Killer's Cousin. 1998. 229p. After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily. |
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Westall, Robert. Gulf. 1992. 101p. Tom Higgins, a British schoolboy during the Persian Gulf War, narrates his younger brother's struggle with an apparent mental illness or "mystery of nature" which drives the child to assume the role of an Iraqi. There's a glossary in the back to help us "Yanks" with British slang. |
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Whelan, Gloria. The Secret Keeper. 1990. 185p. Sixteen-year-old Annie comes face to face with murder and kidnapping during what promised to be a pleasant summer on Lake Michigan. |
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White, Robb. Deathwatch. 1972. 228p. Madec was not the kind of man Ben would ordinarily have chosen as a companion for a quiet hunting trip. He was a cold man who liked to hurt things, and he was dangerous with a gun. But Ben needed money to pay for another semester at college, and so when Madec offered to hire him as a guide to hunt bighorn sheep, he agreed. It was a mistake. |
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