It's Here: More Books for Fans of Stephen King's It
Stephen King's 1986 novel It was recently released as a feature film and it's been doing well with both critics and the general public. Whenever a book is made into a movie, everyone decides to read or reread the book. As you can imagine, there are a lot of holds on It right now.
While you're waiting for your hold to come in you might want to keep busy with similar books. Like It, these novels feature young people whose childhood experiences with supernatural forces have long term repercussions.
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The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly Twelve year old David is struggling to cope with the death of his mother and with his father's remarriage. After moving into a house in the country, David hears his mother's voice and finds himself in a fantasy world full of literary characters and monsters. |
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The Boy on the Bridge by M.R. Carey The British population has been decimated by a virus that turns its victims into zombies called Hungries. In order to give the remaining uninfected a chance to survive, a group has gone out to collect samples that may hold the key to a cure. Among the search party is Stephen Greaves, a brilliant child who has the ability to see something else lurking among the Hungries. Regular Print |
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The Boy who Drew Monsters by Keith Donohue The Keenan family lives in rural Maine where a brutal winter is keeping them isolated. They begin to see mysterious creatures skulking around the woods and realize that they resemble the monsters drawn by ten-year-old Jack, who has been terrified of the outdoors since a near-drowning several years earlier. |
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The Death House by Sarah Pinborough Toby is a normal boy living a normal life until a routine blood test shows that he is a Defective. He is immediately taken to an institution for others like him where they try to live as normal a childhood while fully aware that something terrible is going to happen to each of them. |
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The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn Stevie Clark is distraught when his only friend Jude goes missing. There are a lot of creepy things in the woods surrounding his small Oregon town and the last boy who disappeared from the town was found dead. What has happened to Jude? Is there a killer lurking in the town? |
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Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire • Audiobook Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children is a school for young people who have spent time in a fantasy land and who bitterly resent being returned to the real world. It's supposed to be a safe place for the kids to recover but some of them are being murdered. Winner of Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Alex awards. |
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The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit by Graham Joyce University student David wants to escape another summer of construction work so he takes a job at a holiday resort. During his time there he falls in love, tries to figure out his place in the world and has visions of a ghostly figure. |
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Let Me In by John Ajvide Lindqvist Bullied and friendless, 12-year-old Oskar has a morbid curiousity about crime and imagines revenge against his tormentors. He befriends a girl his age who has moved in next door and becomes aware that she's not like other children--for one thing she only comes out after dark. Also published as Let the Right One In. |
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NOS4A2 by Joe Hill Charles Manx is a child abductor who uses supernatural powers to imprison his captives in a terrifying theme park called Christmasland. The only child to escape his clutches is Victoria McQueen who has a few powers of her own. Now an adult, Vic is haunted by memories of Manx. He has never forgotten her either and kidnaps her son for revenge. |
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman A lonely young boy meets a special girl who comes to his aid when evil takes hold of his family. (This is a terrible description of a great book. I really loved it. Please read it in spite of my horrible plot summary.) Regular Print |
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The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics Since the death of her mother, Lucy has lived an isolated life in a big mansion in the woods with only her aunt and cousin for companionship. Suddenly things start to change--the family cook commits suicide, Aunt Penelope disappears and cousin Margaret begins hearing voices in the walls...
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