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41) Jaws
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1974
Edition
[1st ed.]
Physical Desc
311 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phenomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature ... and man against himself. As the movie continues to broadcast all over the world, entire generations may know the Jaws story only through its cinematic...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A Puritan woman goes missing deep in the woods of colonial New England, and soon must face the supernatural horrors that her people had only imagined up until then.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Private detective Foster Gates is a father is in search of his missing daughter, and sound engineer Mitzi harbors a secret that may help him solve the case. It's Mitzi's job to create the dubbed screams used in horror films and action movies. She's the best at what she does. But what no one in Hollywood knows is the screams Mitzi produces are harvested from the real, horror-filled, blood-chilling screams of people in their death throes--a technique...
44) Red rain
Author
Language
English
Description
Travel writer Lea Sutter is on a small island near South Carolina when she barely survives a hurricane. After the storm she discovers two orphaned twin boys--Samuel and Daniel--and decides to adopt them. But when she brings them home to her husband and two other children, Lea's good deed becomes a nightmare.
45) Killing it
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
The Square, an important New York club for the alt-comedy scene in the late 1980s, had a much darker purpose in the past and four comics find themselves in a desperate situation after a literal "killing" on stage.
47) Odd hours
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Haunted by dreams of a powerful red tide, Odd Thomas, accompanied by two otherworldly sidekicks, is drawn to a small California coastal town, where nothing is as it appears and where he confronts overwhelming and sinister forces out to stop his quest.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A fast-paced, thrilling horror novel that follows a group of heroines to die for, from the brilliant New York Times bestselling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but victorious, a victim and a hero. But after the sirens fade and the audience...
49) The big dark sky
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves--and humanity.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"In this spine-tingling, atmospheric debut for fans of Jennifer McMahon, Simone St. James, and Chris Bohjalian, a woman returns to her hometown after her childhood friend attempts suicide at a local haunted house-the same place where a traumatic incident shattered their lives twenty years ago. Few in sleepy Sumner's Mills have stumbled across the Octagon House hidden deep in the woods. Even fewer are brave enough to trespass. A man had killed his...
51) Fire-Starter
Author
Pub. Date
1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Charlie, an eight-year-old girl, has the ability to start fires by pyrokinesis. Now a government agency is after her and wants to use her as a weapon.
52) Horns
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
370 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
Author
Series
Odd Thomas volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas and his companion Annamaria, temporarily taking refuge at Roseland, the opulent estate of a reclusive billionaire, discover that the estate and its masters are hiding deep and dreadful secrets.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
The affluent occupants of luxury apartments, housed in a two-hundred-year-old mansion with a checkered past, enter into a terrifying waking nightmare when the haunted house reawakens, leaving no one safe from its grip.
55) Jackal: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
RECOMMENDED BY GILLIAN FLYNN ON THE TODAY SHOW A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . ."I read this thriller that is Get Out meets The Vanishing Half in one night."-BuzzFeed"Extraordinary . . . A terrifying tale of fears and hatreds generated by racism and class inequality."-Associated PressEDGARrAWARD FINALIST BRAM STOKERr AWARD FINALIST PHENOMENAL...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
238 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it's not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable...
58) Dead silence
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Titanic meets The Shining in S.A. Barnes' Dead Silence, a SF horror novel in which a woman and her crew board a decades-lost luxury cruiser and find the wreckage of a nightmare that hasn't yet ended. A GHOST SHIP. A SALVAGE CREW. UNSPEAKABLE HORRORS. Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed-made obsolete-when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal. With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and her team...
59) The hollow kind
Author
Publisher
MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
434 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Andy Davidson's jaw-dropping, epic horror novel about the spectacular decline of the Redfern family, haunted by an ancient evil"--
60) The seeker
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a graduate student discovers a diary proving her aunt was a close companion of Henry David Thoreau, she travels to Walden Pond searching for dissertation material, but instead finds something malevolent living in the woods.