Christopher Pike is an author that specalizes in horror/thriller stories, mostly for teens and young adults. His stories often feature aspects of science fiction, religion, whodunit, and Greek, Hindu, and Egyptian mythology. His most well known work may be Slumber Party, a story about a group of teens who go on a ski weekend and end up with scar and violent results. Some of his other, more well known works, include Weekend, Chain Letter, Bury Me Deep, Remember Me (a trilogy), and The Last Vampire (a six-book series).
For a reccomended read, there are three books of his that I have read that I enjoyed more than others:
Master of Murder, which tells the story of Marvin, a high school student who is a very succesful author under a pen name. He has a girl that he is in love with, Shelley, who is dating a popular jock, I'm thinking his name was Triad. Shelley wants to know how her former boyfriend died, and she employs Marvin to find out. It leads to a story of love, heartbreak, and betrayal.
Die Softly, a story about a boy ( If forget his name) who has a crush a cheerleader, Alexia. One day he decides to film the cheerleaders in the shower, just a harmless prank. But he sees something he wishes he hasn't. A murder taking place. This is followed by a series of unfortunate murders and deaths, and a story of love, sex, drugs, and tradgedy in a small town.
And Whisper of Death. The story follows a teenage girl, Roxanne. She gets pregnant by her boyfriend Pepper. When they decide on abortion, they travel to a nearby town at night, with an appointment scheduled for a very early morning. When they return to their town, they find that they, along with four of their friends, are seemingly the only 6 left alive in the world. They all have something in common: They were each in a way connected to Betty Sue McCormick, a girl who had died recently by commiting suicide. They all feel that she may be connected to the strange world they awoke to that fateful morning, and set out around town to find what had happened. The story follows with something none of them would've ever imagined, and wish they had never knew.
For a reccomended read, there are three books of his that I have read that I enjoyed more than others:
Master of Murder, which tells the story of Marvin, a high school student who is a very succesful author under a pen name. He has a girl that he is in love with, Shelley, who is dating a popular jock, I'm thinking his name was Triad. Shelley wants to know how her former boyfriend died, and she employs Marvin to find out. It leads to a story of love, heartbreak, and betrayal.
Die Softly, a story about a boy ( If forget his name) who has a crush a cheerleader, Alexia. One day he decides to film the cheerleaders in the shower, just a harmless prank. But he sees something he wishes he hasn't. A murder taking place. This is followed by a series of unfortunate murders and deaths, and a story of love, sex, drugs, and tradgedy in a small town.
And Whisper of Death. The story follows a teenage girl, Roxanne. She gets pregnant by her boyfriend Pepper. When they decide on abortion, they travel to a nearby town at night, with an appointment scheduled for a very early morning. When they return to their town, they find that they, along with four of their friends, are seemingly the only 6 left alive in the world. They all have something in common: They were each in a way connected to Betty Sue McCormick, a girl who had died recently by commiting suicide. They all feel that she may be connected to the strange world they awoke to that fateful morning, and set out around town to find what had happened. The story follows with something none of them would've ever imagined, and wish they had never knew.
) I quite liked them at the time, but I don't think I have gone anywhere near his books since I was 13 or so. I always thought of his books as more teenager than young adult but such is semantics.