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Grady Hendrix · 2016 · US · horror
★ 3.92 Goodreads · 165,465 ratings

In 1988 in Charleston, high school best friends Abby and Gretchen have been inseparable since a roller-rink birthday party in fourth grade, but after a night out goes wrong, Gretchen starts acting strangely, and Abby comes to believe her friend is possessed.

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12 books for readers of My Best Friend's Exorcism

How to Sell a Haunted House

Grady Hendrix · 2023 · US 97% match ★ 3.63 Goodreads · 185,534 ratings
shares: South Carolina, dark humoured, witty, comic · easy read, intimate

After their parents die, Louise has to go home to Charleston and work with her estranged brother Mark to clear out and sell the family house, which is full of their mother's puppets and dolls and does not want to be sold.

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires

Grady Hendrix · 2020 · US 94% match ★ 3.78 Goodreads · 346,448 ratings
shares: friendship, witty · easy read, intimate

Patricia Campbell, a housewife in a genteel Charleston suburb in the late 1980s whose only escape is her true-crime book club, gets to know James Harris, a charming new neighbour, as children in a poorer part of town start to go missing.

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle · 2023 · US 94% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 31,495 ratings
shares: demonic, adolescent, coming of age · easy read, intimate

Rose Darling is a devout, cheerful teenager in Neverton, Montana, home of the most successful gay conversion camp in the country, and when she begins having terrifying visions no one can explain, she goes looking for what her church and her town have hidden.

Summer of Night

Dan Simmons · 1991 · US 92% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 30,674 ratings
Book 1 of 2 in Seasons of Horror
shares: school, friendship, coming of age · easy read, intimate

In the summer of 1960 in Elm Haven, Illinois, a gang of eleven- and twelve-year-old boys on bicycles discover that something evil has woken in Old Central, the huge old school that is about to close for good.

The September House

Carissa Orlando · 2023 · US 92% match ★ 3.84 Goodreads · 117,785 ratings
shares: dark humoured, witty, comic · easy read, intimate

Margaret loves the big Victorian house she and her husband Hal bought, even though every September the walls bleed and the ghosts turn violent, so when Hal disappears and their grown daughter comes looking for him, Margaret has to keep the house's rules and her own secrets.

The Traveling Vampire Show

Richard Laymon · 2000 · US 91% match ★ 3.81 Goodreads · 9,788 ratings
shares: adolescent, friendship, coming of age · easy read, intimate

On a hot August day in 1963, three sixteen-year-olds in the small town of Grandville sneak out to the clearing where the Traveling Vampire Show has set up, hoping to see Valeria, billed as the only vampire in captivity.

My Heart Is a Chainsaw

Stephen Graham Jones · 2021 · US 90% match ★ 3.50 Goodreads · 57,395 ratings
Book 1 of 3 in The Indian Lake Trilogy
shares: pop culture, adolescent, coming of age · intimate, suspenseful

Jade Daniels, a half-Indian seventeen-year-old in the lake town of Proofrock, Idaho, knows everything about slasher films, and when people start dying just as rich newcomers build mansions across the lake, she is sure the pattern is playing out for real.

Carrie

Stephen King · 1974 · US 88% match ★ 3.99 Goodreads · 894,460 ratings
shares: school, coming of age · easy read, intimate

A bullied teenage girl discovers she has telekinetic powers, and prom night becomes a bloodbath that indicts everyone who made her what she became.

Needful Things

Stephen King · 1991 · US 88% match ★ 3.77 Hardcover · 560 ratings
shares: demonic, dark humoured · easy read, suspenseful

A new shop called Needful Things opens in Castle Rock, Maine, and its courtly owner, Leland Gaunt, sells each customer the thing they most desire for a small price and a little prank to play on a neighbour.

The Raven Boys

Maggie Stiefvater · 2012 · US 87% match ★ 4.05 Goodreads · 412,557 ratings
Book 1 of 4 in The Raven Cycle
shares: school, friendship · easy read, intimate

Blue Sargent, from a family of psychics in Henrietta, Virginia, has always been told that if she kisses her true love he will die, and she has never cared, until she gets mixed up with four boys from an elite private school who are hunting for a sleeping Welsh king.

Son of a Trickster

Eden Robinson · 2017 · Canada 87% match ★ 3.80 Goodreads · 14,553 ratings
shares: adolescent, dark humoured, coming of age · easy read, intimate

Jared, a sixteen-year-old Haisla boy in Kitimat who sells weed cookies to pay the family's bills, starts seeing things that can't be real, and his mother may be a witch.

The Hollow Places

T. Kingfisher · 2020 · US 87% match ★ 3.77 Goodreads · 62,534 ratings
shares: friendship, witty · easy read, intimate

Newly divorced, Kara moves in with her uncle above his Glory to God Museum of Natural Wonders, Curiosities and Taxidermy in a small North Carolina town, and finds a hole in the wall that opens onto somewhere else.