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1) The shining
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one mysteriously immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A collection of short fiction features "L.T.'s Theory of Pets," "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," and "In the Deathroom," as well as "1408," about a writer whose stay in Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel turns his life upside down.
4) It
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
Language
English
Formats
Description
It began--and ended--in 1958 when seven children searched in the drains beneath Derry for an evil creature, but in 1985, Mike, once one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultimate terror.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the latest jaw-dropping thriller from New York Times bestselling author Riley Sager, a man must contend with the long-ago disappearance of his childhood best friend-and the dark secrets lurking just beyond the safe confines of his picture-perfect neighborhood"--
Author
Series
Jade Daniels volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. "Some girls just don't know how to die..." Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The only surviving cast member of a notorious, disturbing 1993 art house horror movie joins the remake, but begins having trouble distinguishing between reality and film in the new novel by the author of The Pallbearers Club.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Language
English
Description
"Peter Straub's Ghost Story meets Liane Moriarty's Big Little Lies in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends, find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years earlier by killing them, their families, and friends"--
Author
Language
English
Description
This gripping collection begins with 'Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge'the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption.
Next is 'Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town.
In 'the Body," four rambunctious...
12) If It Bleeds
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Series
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
192 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of thirty-five stories featuring such horrors as a monstrous Halloween costume, a midnight visit to a graveyard, and a hearing-impaired genie. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 48
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
133 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A practical joke involving two scary pumpkin heads turns into a Halloween night of terror when the pumpkins develop strange hissing voices and flames shoot out of their faces.
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 42
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
115 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
On an egg hunt, Dana finds an abnormal egg that is the size of a softball. It's covered with blue and purple veins and it's starting to hatch.
17) Revival: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Thirty-one creepy stories about vampires, transmutations, dreadful fairylands, and other terrifying things. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.
19) Twilight
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2005
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (12 hr., 51 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jack finds a book that explains how people can fly, he thinks it may be his chance to get revenge on a bully, but Jack is in for the ride of his life.