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Fear Street. Original series volume 42
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IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Fear Street - where your worst nightmares live ... Delia and Karina are always competing. From getting the best grades, to being the most popular, to dating the cutest guys - they always fight for the top spot. This year, they both want Vincent - the hottest guy at Shadyside High. Karina's determined to get Vince. She'll do whatever it takes. And if she can't have him, she'll make sure no one else can either. Including Delia.
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Fear Street sagas volume 6
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IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Summoning the dark powers of their family to bring back their dead daughters, Angelica and Simon Fear unflinchingly begin an act of black magic that calls for the sacrifice of two innocent girls.
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No writer combines the "delight in dread" with social consciousness and metaphysical meaning the way John Shirley does. Although In Darkness Waiting begins in much the same vein as many horror novels (mysterious deaths; a small town invaded by evil; plucky, attractive young lovers; the logical level-headed doctor; some salt-of-the-earth townsfolk...) by its end you will have discovered it is not "just another horror novel." With its exploration of...
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As a child, Henry Cadmus lived on Catalina Island, a scenic vacationland off the Southern California coast. But Henry's experiences were far from idyllic. Today, even though Henry has seen firsthand the horrors of war, the ghastly images that haunt his dreams are ones he associates with his childhood... and the island: a snarling pig-man holding a cleaver; a jackal-headed woman on a high balcony, dripping blood; strange occult rituals... and worse....
5) Runaway
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Fear Street. Original series volume 41
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Felicia doesn't want to run away anymore from her past, but will someone find out about her awful powers?
6) Silent night
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Don't open that present! If only Reva Dalby had listened to that warning.
But beautiful, cold Reva won't listen to anyone. She thinks she can have whatever-and whomever-she wants. After all, her daddy owns Dalby Department Stores.
Now, someone has some surprises in store for her. Robbery? Terror? Even murder? Someone wants to treat Reva to a holiday she'll never forget.
Holiday cheer quickly turns to holiday chills for Reva. Someone is stalking...
7) The cheater
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Fear Street. Original series volume 18
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IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Under pressure to perform well on her math exam, Carter Phillips persuades math whiz Adam to take the test for her in exchange for one date, but one date is not enough for the dangerous young man.
8) Bury me deep
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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The dead boy would not go away. Jean is on her way to Hawaii for a week of fun in the sun. But the vacation gets off to a gruesome start. The boy sitting beside her on the plane suddenly chokes and dies. Jean tries to push the incident out of her mind when she arrives on the island, but that's impossible. Part of the reason is because Mike keeps coming back to her in her dreams. Horrible dreams filled with cold blood. Two of Jean's friends are waiting...
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From the award-winning author of Dead Souls and Poe comes an all-new bone-chilling novel where a mysterious island holds the terrifying answers to a woman's past and future. In 1939, on a remote Pacific island, botanical researcher Irene Greer plunges off a waterfall to her death, convinced the spirits of her dead husband and daughter had joined the nightmarchers--ghosts of ancient warriors that rise from their burial sites on moonless nights. But...
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BASED ON THE FILM FROM THE ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR OF AUTO FOCUS AND AFFLICTION, AND FROM THE WRITER OF THE ALIENIST
In the aftermath of World War II, Lankester Merrin finds himself in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. Haunted by memories of the war, he has taken a sabbatical from the priesthood and journeyed far from his native Holland. He has come to lead the archaeological excavation of a mysterious, Byzantine church, buried in pristine condition...
11) Night games
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Fear Street. Original series volume 40
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"Diane and her friends love sneaking out in the middle of the night to play harmless pranks on Fear Street while the rest of the town sleeps. Spencer, the ringleader of the group, has shown them how to have real fun. It's exciting to have the town to themselves, to break all the rules...to live without consequences. But when Lenny, Diane's boyfriend, wants to get back at one of the most hated teachers at their school, the group goes too far. And on...
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Diary of a haunting volume 1
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After her parents' high-profile divorce, sixteen-year-old Paige is forced to leave Los Angeles for a rambling Victorian mansion in small-town Idaho where she soon notices strange occurrences that seem to be building toward some unspeakable horror.
13) The betrayal
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IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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The saga of the feud between the Goode and Fier families begins during the witch hunts in Massachusetts in the late seventeenth century.
14) Wither: a novel
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The college town of Windale, Massachusetts is proud of its colonial heritage -- including the legend of a dark witches' coven dating back three hundred years. No one in Windale actually believes in witches, or imagines that the blood-chilling history of the Salem era could repeat itself. But three people, unknown to one another, are experiencing vivid nightmares of palpable horror. They alone can sense that a dreadful presence is working its way into...
15) Highway to hell
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"The sequel to the "pick-your-own-path" adventure Can You Survive the Zombie Apocalypse?, which the Florida-Times Union hailed, "may just be the best thing to happen to literary zombies since Max Brooks"--For fans of the blockbuster phenomenon The Walking Dead. You've probably read your fair share of zombie stories. But this time it's different. In a horrific and hilarious cross-country road trip (or rather, suicide mission), you must overcome obstacles...
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Tales of Soldiers and Civilians is a collection of short stories written by Ambrose Bierce. Published in 1891, the 26 stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. His famous story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" is included in this collection.
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"For fans of legendary pulp author H.P. Lovecraft, there is nothing bigger than the annual Providence-based convention the Summer Tentacular. Horror writer Colleen Danzig doesn't know what to expect when she arrives, but is unsettled to find that among the hobnobbing between scholars and literary critics are a group of real freaks: book collectors looking for volumes bound in human skin, and true believers claiming the power to summon the Elder God...
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Best horror of the year (Ellen Datlow) volume 15
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An Air Force Loadmaster is menaced by strange sounds within his cargo; a man is asked to track down a childhood friend... who died years earlier; doomed pioneers forge a path westward as a young mother discovers her true nature; an alcoholic strikes a dangerous bargain with a gregarious stranger; urban explorers delve into a ruined book depository, finding more than they anticipated; residents of a rural Wisconsin town defend against a legendary monster;...