Horror

 //**Rot & Ruin **// In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn’t want to apprentice as a zombie hunter with his boring older brother Tom, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zoms for cash—but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.
 * by Jonathan Maberry **

Danny and his father have moved from town to town, trying to stay one step ahead of their grief over the death of Danny's mother. Now they've landed in Harvest Cove, tucked away in Canada's Big Empty, during an especially severe winter. One night a large, vicious creature attacks and bites Danny; a couple of days later, it also crosses paths with Danny's friend Howie. Looking through newspaper archives, the boys discover a pattern: every harsh winter, Harvest Cove teens begin disappearing. First the teens get attacked, then they turn delirious, and two weeks later they vanish into the night. Or, as Danny and Howie suspect, the creature returns to claim them.
 * //Bonechiller //**
 * by Graham McNamee **

Mary dreams of a world beyond her village. But she also knows how impossible that dream is; according to the Sisters, no other village still exists. The Unconsecrated, the undead who claw at the village's fence, have infected everyone outside it. But one day the impossible happens: a normal, healthy-looking young woman emerges from the forest outside the village. Her presence gives Mary hope. It is hope she needs when, soon after, the Unconsecrated breach the village fence. To survive, Mary must escape from the village into the Forest of Hands and Teeth.
 * //The Forest of Hands and Teeth //**
 * by Carrie Ryan **

//**Lockdown **// Furnace Penitentiary: the world’s most secure prison for young offenders, buried a mile beneath the earth’s surface. Convicted of a murder he didn’t commit, sentenced to life without parole, Alex Sawyer knows he has two choices: find a way out, or resign himself to a death behind bars, in the darkness at the bottom of the world. Alex discovers that the prison is a place of pure evil, where inhuman creatures in gas masks stalk the corridors at night, where giants in black suits drag screaming inmates into the shadows, where deformed beasts can be heard howling from the blood-drenched tunnels below. And behind everything is the mysterious, all-powerful warden, a man as cruel and dangerous as the devil himself, whose unthinkable acts have consequences that stretch far beyond the walls of the prison.
 * by Alexander Gordon Smith **