Horror Aficionados discussion

Thought I'd start a thread in case others wanted to add some recs for good YA reads. The authors that spring to mind for me when I think of good, dark YA books are Diana Wynne Jones, Robert Westall and Tanith Lee, for starters. I loved Lee's East of Midnight, The Winter Players and Companions on the Road when I was young, and well as Wynne Jones' The Time of the Ghost and Westall's The Watch House

Other posters have mentioned Madeleine L'engle, Robert C. O'Brien's Z for Zachariah, Annette Klause, Laurie Halse Anderson and Philip Pullman.

What do you remember fondly and still consider a good read as an adult?

I like Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp, and of course Neil Gaiman's Coraline. I remember having the SNOT scared out of me as a kid by two books: The Red Room Riddle A Ghost Story and A Candle in Her Room -- but I've never gone back as an adult to see if they hold up!

Not really horror, but Alan Garner's Elidor is a very dark fantasy. And I totally loved The House With a Clock in Its Walls I bought a copy a few years ago and reread it occasionally -- it's pretty great, even as an adult.

I liked Lois Duncan's ESP/supernatural books, not so much her slasher ones.

For Tanith Lee I would further add The Gorgon and Other Beastly Tales. I love that book. What about The Anything Box? I'm not sure if it is YA or not though.

I love Coraline! I've read it twice. Jane-Emily, I did't like so much. It had some good potential but didn't go anywhere, IMO.
Clive Barker's The Thief of Always A Fable is great. I don't think it's YA but I just read Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle and loved it.
The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly (not horror, it's a fairy tale retelling) is also very good.

I'll second Thief Of Always, great book. The latest that I've read was China Mieville's Un Lun Dun which I found entertaining.

How could I forget about Un Lun Dun! I loved that one!

did anyone ever read Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark? i used to love those books, though i would only touch the edges of the cover. i couldn't bring myself to touch the illustrations on the cover.

Z for Zachariah
Into the Forest

I thought both of these were well written and suitable for young readers.

The Graveyard Book.

I love The Graveyard Book and Coraline. I read The Giver by Lois Lowry when i was in middle school and it kinda disturbed me, i think it still might.

Into the Forest is wonderful.

I still really like Richie Tankersley Cusick. i just recently purged my Teen Horror drawer but they survived the cut.