Keep your lights on and make sure to lock all of your doors, because if you don’t, you’ll be wishing that you had with these young adult horror books.

Welcome to Owl Book World! If you’re new here, then my name is Kaili. Today, I’m talking about young adult horror books that you really should be adding to your TBR. Whether you’re looking for a book for yourself or looking for a book for a teenager in your life, these are all excellent books.

This is a post that I’ve been wanting to do for a while now, because it seems like some readers genuinely didn’t know that there are good young adult horror books out there. Or there are readers out there who kind of want to dig their toes into the genre, but they don’t exactly want to read anything super scary.

That’s why I wanted to create this post. There seem to be a lot of people who don’t know where to start when it comes to horror, and they don’t want to read something pretty extreme. I can’t say that I blame them because the genre can be a bit overwhelming.

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