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"If you're feeling brave, turn the page. A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long... A look-alike doll makes itself right at home... A school talent show act leaves the audience aghast... And a summer at camp takes a turn for the braaaains... This collection of all-new spooky stories is sure to keep readers up past their bedtimes."--Dust jacket flap.
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters lurk, refusing to be forgotten." -- book jacket.
44) The dark army
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Tom Ward is now spook of the county, and with his apprentice, Jenny, he continues the fight against boggarts, witches, and terrifying new creatures of the dark. Together with the witch assassin, Grimalkin, Tom and Jenny lead an army into battle against a dangerous enemy���but it all goes catastrophically wrong. The situation seems hopeless until Alice���Tom���s lost love and a powerful witch���appears. But Alice had turned...
45) The Inn Between
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During a long car trip, best friends Quinn and Kara explore the strange and creepy goings-on at a remote Nevada inn when Kara's family stops for the night.
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
470 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction. Whether the stories are familiar to readers or discovered for the first time, readers will revel in Edgar Allan Poe's classic tales, and how they've been brought to life in 13 unique and unforgettable ways.
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English
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Eighteen-year-old Ned, having taken to hanging out at the barracks of state police Troop D in rural Pennsylvania after the death of his father, Trooper Curtis Wilcox, becomes obsessed with learning the truth about a 1954 Buick Roadmaster--apparently a conduit to the underworld--the squad has had secreted in a locked shed since 1979 when its owner mysteriously disappeared.
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...
50) Cry to heaven
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Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Cry to Heaven is a historical novel by American author Anne Rice. Taking place in eighteenth-century Italy, it follows the paths of two unlikely collaborators: a Venetian noble and a maestro from Calabria, both trying to succeed in the world of the opera.
51) Gerald's game
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
332 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
“And now the voice which spoke belonged to no one but herself. Oh my God, it said. Oh my God, I am all alone out here. I am all alone.”
"Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald’s kinky sex games—something that she’s frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a “romantic getaway” at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts—and...
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...
53) Deliverance
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1970
Physical Desc
278 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Four suburban businessmen take a canoe trip along a Georgia river, an odyssey that pits their courage against the river's raging rapids and the most primitive human impulses of fear, lust, and murder.
54) Loteria
Author
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Trade paperback reissue edition
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance--similar to bingo. However, in Lotería instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images. There are 54 cards in the Lotería game, and for this short story collection you will find one unique story per card based on a Latin American myth, folklore, superstition, or belief--with a slant towards the paranormal and horrific. In this deck of cards you will find murderers, ghosts,...
55) Coraline
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Language
English
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When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
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
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First William Morrow paperback edition.
Physical Desc
752 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it is Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe. Harper...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
134 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When city kid Todd Coates moves from Queens, New York, to live on a Wisconsin farm for a year, he's in for a more than just hanging out with his cousins Mila and Skipper. Strange things begin to happen all around him. But Todd is the only one who sees them. Late at night. In the cornfields. Todd is convinced there is something of the undead variety out there. Will he be able to prove it to his classmates before school is dismissed... permanently?"--Provided...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
305 p. map 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Everything I did, I did for love..."
"When Vera Donovan, one of the wealthiest and most ill-natured residents of Maine's Little Tall Island, dies suddenly in her home, suspicion is immediately cast on her housekeeper and caretaker, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores herself is no stranger to such mistrust, thanks to the local chatter and mysterious circumstances surrounding her abusive husband's death twenty-nine years earlier. But if this is truly to be...
Author
Series
Blood of Eden volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Cast out of Eden and separated from the boy she dared to love, Allie will follow the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from the psychotic vampire Sarren. But when the trail leads to Allie's birthplace in New Covington, what Allie finds there will change the world forever--and possibly end human and vampire existence.
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