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1) Night shift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Jerusalem's lot -- Graveyard shift -- Night surf -- I am the doorway -- The mangler -- The boogeyman -- Gray matter -- Battleground -- Trucks -- Sometimes they come back -- Strawberry spring -- The ledge -- The lawnmower man -- Quitters, Inc. -- I know what you need -- Children of the corn -- The last rung on the ladder -- The man who loved flowers -- One for the road -- The woman in the room.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Thad, a college professor who moonlights as a writer of pop thrillers under the pseudonym George Stark, finally writes a serious novel, and decides to stop writing shockers. But George Stark has come to life and doesn't want to die. Thad is forced to battle his own creation for the control of the mind which both must share.
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Max Maury should be on top of the world. He's a famous horror director. Actors love him. Hollywood needs him. He's making money hand over fist. But it's the 80s, and he's directing cheap slashers for audiences who only crave more blood, not real art. Not real horror. And Max's slimy producer refuses to fund any of his new ideas. Sally Priest dreams of being the Final Girl. She knows she's got what it takes to score the lead role, even if she's only...
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English
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At the time of his death at the age of forty-six, Lovecraft's work had appeared only in dime-store magazines, ignored by the public and maligned by critics. Now, well over a century after his birth, Lovecraft is increasingly being recognized as the foundation for American horror and science fiction. Editor Leslie S. Klinger charts the rise of the erstwhile pulp writer, whose rediscovery and reclamation into the literary canon can be compared only...
6) Lightning
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Aided through many crises by the almost miraculous intervention of a stranger, Laura Shane learns the nature of her awesome destiny when, on her thirtieth birthday, the stranger finally requests her help.
7) Desperation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
Several cross-country travelers--including a writer, a family on vacation, and a professor and his wife--end up in the little mining town of Desperation, where a crazy policeman and evil forces compel them to fight for their lives.
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English
Description
"Devils Kill Devils is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Certain Dark Things and Southern gothic horror. Johnny Compton brings his trademark terror and dread that readers fell in love with in The Spite House to a new roster of monsters-angels, devils, vampires-and a heart-pounding race to save the world. When all hell breaks loose, you need a devil on your side Sarita has been watched over by a guardian angel her entire life. She calls him...
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Language
English
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"One of the darkest, most nightmarish stories of the twentieth century, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" created a sensation when it was first published in 1948. Now celebrating its seventy-fifth anniversary, this lucid tale of a sleepy town's annual lottery--and the monstrous desires it awakens--endures as an essential classic of American fiction. The Lottery and Other Stories unites "The Lottery" with twenty-four wonderfully strange and equally terrifying...
10) Firestarter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them, manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable...
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English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the bottom of the stairs, she finds a door that didn't exist before--and one night, it opens to reveal an exact physical copy of her. This doppelgänger is sweet and biddable where Tamsin is calculating...
13) The twisted ones
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English
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"When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes. After all, how bad could it be? Answer: pretty bad. Grandma was a hoarder, and her house is packed to the gills with useless garbage. That would be horrors enough, but there's more. Mouse stumbles across her step-grandfather's journal, which at first seems to be the ravings of a broken mind. Until she encounters some of the terrifying things he described herself. Alone...
14) Summer sons
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Language
English
Description
"Lee Mandelo's debut Summer Sons is a sweltering, queer Southern Gothic that crosses Appalachian street racing with academic intrigue, all haunted by a hungry ghost. Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew...
15) The Mask
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Language
English
Description
Such a pretty face, so young, so sweet, she appeared out of nowhere, in the middle of traffic, on a busy day. A teenager with no past, no family, no memories. She was blond and beautiful. Carol and Paul were drawn to her. She was a dream come true, she could be the child they'd never had. Then the nightmares began, ghastly sounds in the night, the bloody face in the mirror, and the razor-sharp ax.
16) Lute
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Language
English
Description
"Wicker Man meets Final Destination in Jennifer Thorne's atmospheric, unsettling folk horror novel about love, duty, and community. On the idyllic island of Lute, every seventh summer, seven people die. No more, no less. Lute and its inhabitants are blessed, year after year, with good weather, good health, and good fortune. They live a happy, superior life, untouched by the war that rages all around them. So it's only fair that every seven years,...
17) Gerald's game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Jessie is trapped: during an ill-fated S & M game, she kicks her husband and induces a fatal coronary. She is handcuffed to the bed in a lakeside cabin in the middle of nowhere, with no means of escape. Voices in her head force her to confront a buried childhood trauma.
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Language
English
Description
"A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller, The Cabin at the End of the World, and A Head Full of Ghosts"--
"A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller, The Cabin at the End of the World, and A Head Full of Ghosts. Featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing...
19) Christine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
"It's love at first sight for high school student Arnie Cunningham when he and his best friend Dennis Guilder spot the dilapidated 1958 red-and-white Plymouth Fury for sale--dubbed "Christine" by its original cantankerous owner--rusting away on a front lawn of their suburban Pennsylvania neighborhood. Dennis knows that Arnie's never had much luck in the popularity department, or really taken an interest in owning a car ... but Christine quickly changes...
20) Thinner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A fatal accident leads to a gypsy curse. When the scales told Billy Halleck he was losing weight, it was what the doctor ordered. His wife was pleased - as she should have been. But... 'Thinner' - an old man's curse, had lodged in his mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, came violence.