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1) I am legend
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English
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Robert Neville may well be the only survivor of an incurable plague that has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he scavenges for food and supplies, desperate to find any other survivors who might be out there. But all the while, the infected lurk in the shadows, watching his every move, waiting for him to make a mistake.
2) The ax
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English
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The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing.
Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search — with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding...
Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search — with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding...
5) Breeder
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Rachel Adair thought her new home would be the perfect place for her and her husband, Hugh, to once again, try and start a family. But as soon they moved into the decrepit townhouse, the nightmares began: horrific images of the child Rachel lost; the unforgivable sins of Hugh’s father; scenes of blood-curdling rituals... and of the demon spawn that desperately needs Rachel in order to unleash its evil upon the world.
6) Watchers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
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English
Description
Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.
"On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been...
7) The manitou
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Series
Manitou volume 1
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English
Description
An ancient vengeful spirit attempts to return through the body of a terrified young woman in this horror classic by an award-winning “master of the genre” (Rocky Mountain News).
Phony psychic and conman Harry Erskine never really believed in the occult until Karen Tandy approached him with a rapidly growing tumor on her neck, complaining of dark and disturbing dreams. When the mass is revealed by doctors to contain...
Phony psychic and conman Harry Erskine never really believed in the occult until Karen Tandy approached him with a rapidly growing tumor on her neck, complaining of dark and disturbing dreams. When the mass is revealed by doctors to contain...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
A collection of fantasy stories and poems. In Chivalry, a woman discovers the Holy Grail in a secondhand shop, in Murder Mysteries, an angel visiting Los Angeles provides the inside story on Lucifer's revolt against God, and there are revisionist stories on Snow White and Santa Claus.
9) Odd Thomas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant
The new paperback of the bestselling thriller from Dean Koontz, one of the most acclaimed and popular authors of modern times. In Odd Thomas he has created a character whose unique voice will live for generations to come. Odd Thomas takes pride in his work as a fry cook. His fame has spread,...
10) Night passage
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Investigative reporter Roni Mayfield returns to her crumbling Nevada hometown to avenge a friend’s brutal death—only to be hunted by the same twisted serial killer
Caroline Holt’s body was found in her bed, covered in blood, her wrists cut, a framed wedding photo on her chest. The death was quickly ruled a suicide, but investigative reporter Roni Mayfield suspects foul play—especially after receiving a terrified...
Caroline Holt’s body was found in her bed, covered in blood, her wrists cut, a framed wedding photo on her chest. The death was quickly ruled a suicide, but investigative reporter Roni Mayfield suspects foul play—especially after receiving a terrified...
12) Neverwhere
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Series
London Below The World of Neverwhere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Richard Mayhew is a young businessman with a good heart and a dull job. When he stops one day to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk, his life is forever altered, for he finds himself propelled into an alternate reality that exists in a subterranean labyrinth of sewer canals and abandoned subway stations below the city. He has fallen through the cracks of reality and has landed somewhere different, somewhere that is Neverwhere.
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"Barker's the best thing to happen to horror fiction for many moons. . . [he] never fails to deliver the compelling prose and relentless horror his readers expect." —Chicago Tribune
The classic tale of supernatural obsession from the critically acclaimed master of darkness—and the inspiration for the cult classic film Hellraiser
From his scores of short
...14) Imajica
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At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie 'oh' pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension. That dimension is one of five in the great system called Imajica. They are worlds that are utterly unlike our own, but are ruled, peopled, and haunted by species whose lives are intricately connected...
15) Into the out of
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English
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Vacationing FBI agent Joshua Oak is caught up in a hazardous plot to prevent the evil of another reality from entering the earth through the tribal colonies of Africa.
16) Tales of terror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
A collection of ten tales by the celebrated author of horror and mystery stories.
17) Song of Kali
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English
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Robert Luczak, sent to Calcutta to interview the mysterious poet, M. Das, who has been missing for ten years, discovers that the missing man is mixed up in the death-worshiping cult of of Kali.
18) The bone parade
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Pub. Date
2004
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English
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Ashley Stassler, an ingenious and horrific killer, whose penchant for identifying and tracking down certain doomed families is exceeded only by his passion for making sculpture out of bronze. Stassler has found a grisly method of combining his interests, and the result is an extraordinarily bizarre and satisfying thriller that gives a whole new meaning to the term "family planning."
19) Coraline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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There's no witch in Cincinnati tougher, sexier, or more screwed up than bounty hunter Rachel Morgan, who's already put her love life and her soul in dire jeopardy through her determined efforts to bring criminal night creatures to justice. Between "runs," she had her hands full fending off the attentions of her blood-drinking partner, keeping a deadly secret from her backup, and resisting a hot new vamp suitor. Rachel must also take a stand in the...