11 Best horror books like Deadly Detention by Eric Weiner

Cover of Deadly Detention by Eric  Weiner

Deadly Detention

By: Eric Weiner

3.58

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Six unsuspecting high-school students, kept after school for misconduct, discover that detention ca…

If you liked the horror plot in Deadly Detention by Eric Weiner , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Lights Out by Nicholas Pine

1. Lights Out

By: Nicholas Pine

2.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Located in a small New England town, Central Academy seems like a normal high school . . . Some unf… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas Pine's Lights Out book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • young adult
  • horror
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2. Summer of Fear

By: Lois Duncan

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

Why is Rachel the only one to sense the evil that surrounds Julia? From the moment Rachel's cousin … read more

Similar categories in Lois Duncan's Summer of Fear book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of Alone in the Dark (Baby-Sitter's Nightmares, #1) by Daniel Parker

3. Alone in the Dark (Baby-Sitter's Nightmares, #1)

By: Daniel Parker

4.20

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

In this first novel in a chilling new series about baby-sitters on the job, enter a huge mansion wh… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Parker's Alone in the Dark (Baby-Sitter's Nightmares, #1) book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • young adult
  • horror
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4. Broken Hearts (Fear Street Super Chiller, #4)

By: R.L. Stine

3.32

Format: None pages, Paperback

Roses are red, corpses are blue. On Valentine's Day, you'll die too! There's someone out there, som… read more

Similar categories in R.L. Stine's Broken Hearts (Fear Street Super Chiller, #4) book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • young adult
  • horror

5. My Bloody Valentine

By: Jo Gibson

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

BE MINE ... AND DIE It's Valentine's Day at Hamilton High. Everyone's excited about this year's big… read more

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6. Silent Night (Fear Street Super Chiller, #2)

By: R.L. Stine

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Fear Street. Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you r… read more

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7. Class Trip

By: Bebe Faas Rice

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

The author of Babysitter's Nightmare offers a tale of suspense on a class outing. After a storm des… read more

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8. The Midnight Club

By: Christopher Pike

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die, was home to the Midn… read more

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9. The Body

By: Carol Ellis

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

No one knows what reallyhappened the night Lisa Randolph fell off the cliff. And it seems that no o… read more

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10. The Train

By: Diane Hoh

4.54

Format: 608 pages, Paperback

Hannah, Mack, Kerry and Lewis. Four friends enjoying Parker High School's cross-country train tour … read more

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11. Hide

By: Kiersten White

3.33

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The challenge: spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The priz… read more

Similar categories in Kiersten White's Hide book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • horror
"What a generation long before her summoned and paid for, and what subsequent generations decided to make others pay for. Trickle-down economics. They got the economy, and the blood trickled down the …"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"Mack looks back at the maze that housed a monster that fed in youth and hope and stalled dreams. That ground up vulnerable people so the ones in power could keep their power, could keep their safety,…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"So now she's seen it. She [Mack] knows what's out there. It doesn't make any more sense than it did before, but at least she can move from horror, the fear of the unknown, and into terror, the fear o…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

"He doesn't love you," she said matter-of-factly. "He didn't love your mother, either, and I don't want you to spend your whole life waiting for something he can't give. Men like that, people are thin…"

-Kiersten White, Hide

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12. A House with Good Bones

By: T. Kingfisher

3.69

Format: 247 pages, Hardcover

A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explor… read more

Similar categories in T. Kingfisher's A House with Good Bones book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • horror
"Like many family dynamics, it didn't have to be healthy, it just had to work."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"He's got an alibi. People with alibis in the first half of the show are always suspicious."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I could research it. I am a champion researcher. It's why they pay me the meager academic bucks."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

"I understood Grand Mae then, I think. I could not pity the adult she had become, but I could pity the girl she had been."

-T. Kingfisher, A House with Good Bones

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13. Open Book

By: Jessica Simpson

4.11

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An alternate cover edition can be found here. Jessica tells of growing up in 1980s Texas where s… read more

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"Who was I if I had no one to blame for my life but myself?"

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"Sometimes we are all so afraid to be honest with ourselves because we know that honesty will lead to somewhere."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"Give a girl an insult, she'll feel bad for a day, but teach a girl to hate her body and she'll feel bad forever."

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

"...The people I want to focus on are Lesa, who was kind to me and went on to become a successful therapist, and you. If you are being bullied, whether it's because you're gay or someone decides they …"

-Jessica Simpson, Open Book

Cover of Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman

14. Man, Fuck This House

By: Brian Asman

3.36

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Sabrina Haskins and her family have just moved into their dream home, a gorgeous Craftsman in the r… read more

Similar categories in Brian Asman's Man, Fuck This House book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • horror
Cover of Be Mine (POINT) by Jane McFann

15. Be Mine (POINT)

By: Jane McFann

3.40

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

Love you. . .to death. Someone has a little crush on Bethany. But Bethany doesn't give it too m… read more

Similar categories in Jane McFann's Be Mine (POINT) book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of New Year's Evil (Scream, #6) by Michael August

16. New Year's Evil (Scream, #6)

By: Michael August

3.13

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Determined to correct the behavior of Bran Hatten, the school bully, Tess Ryan and her friends at P… read more

Similar categories in Michael August's New Year's Evil (Scream, #6) book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of The Admirer (Scream, #7) by Debra Franklin

17. The Admirer (Scream, #7)

By: Debra Franklin

3.12

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Seventeen-year-old Morgan Hight begins receiving gifts from a secret admirer, but the gifts soon tu… read more

Similar categories in Debra Franklin's The Admirer (Scream, #7) book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of Deadly Detention by Eric  Weiner

18. Deadly Detention

By: Eric Weiner

3.58

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Six unsuspecting high-school students, kept after school for misconduct, discover that detention ca… read more

Similar categories in Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention book and Eric Weiner's Deadly Detention

  • young adult
  • horror
Cover of The Evil Child (Baby-Sitter's Nightmares #2) by Mark Sumner

19. The Evil Child (Baby-Sitter's Nightmares #2)

By: Mark Sumner

3.18

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Toni has never met a kid like William. He's smart, very smart. When he's quiet, it's time for Toni … read more

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8 must-read young adult books like Deadly Detention by Eric Weiner

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Lights Out

Nicholas Pine

2.50

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Summer of Fear

Lois Duncan

3.67

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Alone in the Dark (Baby-Sitter's Nightmares, #1)

Daniel Parker

4.20

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Broken Hearts (Fear Street Super Chiller, #4)

R.L. Stine

3.32

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13 must-read young adult books like The Admirer (Scream, #7) by Debra Franklin

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I Know What You Did Last Summer

Lois Duncan

3.41

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The Stepsister 2 (Fear Street, #33)

R.L. Stine

3.66

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The Phantom (Point Horror #28)

Barbara Steiner

3.34

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The First Evil (Fear Street Cheerleaders, #1)

R.L. Stine

3.83

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