Dark and Stormy Reads

10 gothic novels for teens

In honour of Marcus Sedgwick's tour of the Western Isles, we gathered a list of spinetinglingly creepy books that feature ghosts, monsters, mysterious castles and deadly secrets. Read after dark at your own risk.

1. A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray

2. Century

Sarah Singleton

3. Chime

Franny Billingsley

4. City of Bones

Cassandra Clare

5. The Caster Chronicles: Beautiful Creatures

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

6. White Crow

Marcus Sedgewick

7. Ferryman

Claire McFall

8. Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

9. Coraline

Neil Gaiman, P. Craig Russell (Illus)

10. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson