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1) Firestarter
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1980
Physical Desc
428 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them, manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable...
2) Christine
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1983
Physical Desc
471 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is the story of a lover’s triangle…It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry.”
"It’s love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale—dubbed “Christine” by its original cantankerous owner—rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie’s never had...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
367 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects twelve short stories by Stephen King on the theme of relationships, including new stories and previously released material such as "The Gingerbread Girl," "The Things They Left Behind," and "The Cat from Hell."
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 386 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele's anthology of all-new horror stories...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
399 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person’s life in New York—here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower."--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
228 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Stop! Unless you want to be scared, do NOT read this book. These tales of terror are so horrible, so alarming, they had to be bound up between these pages forever! You’ll discover The Boogerman, an oozing horror that lurks in mirrors. You’ll read about Instagrave, a popular new app that tells kids how they are going to die. In Epizeuxis, you’ll learn what happens if you speak the name of a—wait. We’ve said too much already. The things between...
Author
Publisher
Book-of-the Month Club
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is an exclusive Book-of-the-Month Club anthology of hard-to-find non-fiction pieces, little-known interviews, short stories, and articles about writing for those looking for direction on how to find their own "windows"-or for anyone wishing to be touched by Stephen King's humor and wisdom.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
512 p. : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driving a Jaguar finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. This “wonderfully gruesome” collection (The New York Times Book Review) includes: “The Mist”; “Here There Be Tygers”;...
Author
Series
Boogeyman novels volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After making a successful true crime writing and filmmaking career revolving around the murders that shook his hometown decades earlier, Rich Chizmar is terrified when the killings begin again, in the sequel to Chasing the Boogeyman.
10) Silver nitrate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Trist̀n, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood. Then Trist̀n discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. But just as generations of cultishly devoted fans still cling to the lessons they learned from the show, the cast, known as the Circle of Friends, have spent their lives searching for the happiness they felt while they were on it. The friendship. The feeling of belonging. And the...
12) The haunting
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
On Halloween, a copycat killer may be stalking a town still reeling from murders that took place one year earlier.
13) Vlad
Author
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
122 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of war and blood shortages in Eastern Europe, an undead Vlad the Impaler moves to Mexico and offers eternal life to the only child of Yves and Asuncin̤ Navarro in exchange for their legal and real estate services.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022].
Edition
First American edition
Physical Desc
148 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this second book in the Little Bad Book interactive series, young readers will be dared to solve tricky puzzles and funny riddles and to become part of the plot in eerily funny stories in order to reveal the Little Bad Book's secret! HEY, YOU! PSSST You might not believe this, but I've discovered the biggest secret in the world. Yes, honestly! Should I tell you? Okay. Just be careful! It will be the scariest thing you've ever read! I hope you...
15) Camp Sylvania
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Magnolia "Maggie" Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight ... if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she's been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn't going to Camp Rising Star. She's being shipped off to fat camp, and not just any fat camp. She's going to Camp Sylvania,...
17) A tempest of tea
Author
Series
Blood and tea volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the streets of White Roaring, Arthie Casimir is a criminal mastermind and collector of secrets. Her prestigious tearoom transforms into an illegal bloodhouse by night, catering to the vampires feared by society. But when her establishment is threatened, Arthie is forced to strike an unlikely deal with an alluring adversary to save it--she can't do the job alone. Calling on some of the city's most skilled outcasts, Arthie hatches a plan to infiltrate...
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at the Conservatory. She produces a sound from the piano no one else does, employing a special technique she learned from her parents--also stunningly talented musicians--who fled China in the wake of the Cultural Revolution. But...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations, genealogical tables ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 417 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens - while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says. Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make...
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