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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Contains four short stories by Stephen King, including "1922," in which James' wife's suggestion that they sell the family homestead and move to Omaha leads to a murderous chain of events, along with "Big Diver" and "Fair Extension."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When a middle-aged man returns to his childhood home in Sussex, England, for a funeral he remembers frightening childhood memories relating to the neighbor girl who promised to protect him from the darkness unleashed by a suicide at the pond at the end of their street.
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Language
English
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Description
Jack Durkin, the latest person in his family to fulfill an eighteenth-century contract to weed Lorne Field each day and burn the plants, which if left untended will grow into killing monsters called Aukowies, finds belief and support for his mission waning after three hundred years, and he is driven to desperate lengths to prove the importance of his work.
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Series
You're invited to a creepover volume no. 9
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After her family moves to Heaton Corners, Ashley McDowell starts making plans for Halloween but she soon discovers the terrifying reason why no one else in town celebrates the spooky holiday.
8) Hater
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2006
Language
English
Description
Danny McCoyne, a minor bureaucrat in an English city, struggles to keep his family safe when an unexplained upsurge in violence in which ordinary people mysteriously turn on each other, sweeps the country.
9) I am legend
Author
Language
English
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Description
Presents the complete novel, "I Am Legend," about Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire; and includes ten additional short horror stories.
11) Strange highways
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
A collection of two novels and twelve short stories and novelettes by horror fiction writer Dean Koontz.
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
When the Plucker, a malevolent spirit, is set loose upon the world of make-believe, Jack, and abandoned toy, finds himself thrust into the role of defending Thomas, the very child who abandoned him.
15) Horns
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Ig has lived under a cloud of suspicion since his girlfriend Merrin was brutally murdered, and Ig feels everyone, including God, has abandoned him, so when Ig discovers a macabre new talent, he vows to use it to find the man responsible for Merrin's death, even if it means letting the devil within escape.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"One of America's finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Lethem. In Strange Weather, this "compelling chronicler of human nature's continual war between good and evil," (Providence Journal-Bulletin) who "pushes genre conventions to new extremes" (New York Times Book Review) deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life.--Amazon.com...
17) Dead silence
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Language
English
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"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...
19) Tales
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Presents twenty-two fiction stories by twentieth-century American horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.
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Language
English
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"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
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