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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Madeline Miller's Circe meets Cersei Lannister in a stunning debut following Clytemnestra, the most notorious heroine of the ancient world and the events that forged her into the legendary queen. As for queens, they are either hated or forgotten. She already knows which option suits her best... You were born to a king, but you marry a tyrant. You stand by helplessly as he sacrifices your child to placate the gods. You watch him wage war on a foreign...
Author
Series
Norendy tales volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
3) 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...
4) 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
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of reimagined Indonesian fairy tales, the girls are the ones with power. The power to fight evil, to protect others, and to grow as people. Because why should girls in folktales always need saving? What if they save themselves instead? Based on graphic novelist Clar Angkasa’s favorite childhood stories and gorgeously illustrated with a dedicated color palette for each tale, this retelling of “Keong Mas,” “Bawang Merah Bawang...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"In a big abandoned house, on a barren hill, lives a skull. A brave girl named Otilla has escaped from terrible danger and run away, and when she finds herself lost in the dark forest, the lonely house beckons. Her host, the skull, is afraid of something too, something that comes every night. Can brave Otilla save them both?"--
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."--
11) 1, 2, 3, scream!
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...
13) Midnight ruin
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Eurydice and Orpheus and Charon. Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she's finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family...and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps rough hands on soft skin are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all? Charon Ariti has been Hades's right-hand man for years. He's given everything to the lower city, but...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"The stories in Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart are about the abomination that resides within us all. That churning, clawing, ravenous yearning: the hunger to be held, and seen, and known. And the terror, too: to be loved too well, or not enough, or for long enough. To be laid bare before your sweetheart, to their horror. To be recognized as the monstrous thing you are.
Two teenage girls working at a sinister roadside attraction called the Eternal...
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
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 260 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of reimagined classic fairy tales, African, and African American folktales that bring to life past, present, and future visions of Black culture.
17) Skeleton crew
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.
19) Cruel Seduction
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 5
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
He was my enemy. My lover. My husband. And the one man I swore by all Olympus I would destroy.
*A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Aphrodite and Hephaestus (and Pandora and Adonis).*
Aphrodite has never flinched at getting her perfectly manicured hands dirty, and she's not about to start now—even if that means marrying Olympus's enemy number one, the new Hephaestus. She has a wicked plan to keep
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Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A brave knight chases a dragon through the land of fairy tales, speeding through Rapunzel, flying through Aladdin, and blowing through The Three Little Pigs. Through the chase, each fairy tale literally pops off the page in a brand-new, exuberant, and wildly creative book from world-renowned paper engineer Robert Sabuda. Will the knight be triumphant? Jump in and find out!
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