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Author
Series
Isadora Moon volume 4
Publisher
Random House Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Half-fairy, half-vampire Isadora Moon wants a normal human birthday party, but will her parents be able to meet her request?
1122) Dead silence
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
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 decide to investigate....
1123) Knock knock, open wide
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Driving home late one night, Etain Larkin finds a corpse on a pitch-black country road deep in the Irish countryside. She takes the corpse to a remote farmhouse. So begins a night of unspeakable horror that will take her to the very brink of sanity. She will never speak of it again. Two decades later, Betty Fitzpatrick, newly arrived at college in Dublin, has already fallen in love with the drama society, and the beautiful but troubled Ashling Mallen....
1124) Tender
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Carolanne wanted a perfect wedding, a perfect husband, a perfect family--but her desire to control the uncontrollable ultimately becomes her undoing.
1125) The hunger: a novel
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
English
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Description
"A retelling of the fate of the Donner Party, with a Walking Dead style twist"--
"A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she'll be Annie's best--and only--friend soon"--
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2014
Language
English
Description
The modern horror story grew and developed across the nineteenth century, embracing categories as diverse as ghost stories, supernatural and psychological horror, medical and scientific horrors, colonial horror, and tales of mystery and premonition. This anthology brings together 29 of the greatest horror stories of the period from 1816 to 1912, from the British, Irish, American, and European traditions. It ranges widely across the sub-genres to encompass...
1128) Brainwyrms
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie's workplace, she blows up Frankie's life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers, pushing away her friends. Then, she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya. The two hit it off immediately, but as their relationship intensifies, so too does Frankie's feeling that Vanya is hiding something from her. When Vanya's...
1129) Hunt
Author
Series
Piggy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Three months after his adventures in Doveport, Ben and his friends have been sweeping the island of Lucella for the Infected, administering the newly created cure and reuniting families. However, the only real cure to their problems will be finding out how this infection started, and putting a stop to it. The search for answers will bring our heroes face-to-face with their deepest secrets and darkest fears--and pull them into a battle for the island...
1130) A botanical daughter
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"It is an unusual thing, to live in a botanical garden. But Simon and Gregor are an unusual pair of gentlemen. Hidden away in their glass sanctuary from the disapproving tattle of Victorian London, they are free to follow their own interests without interference. For Simon, this means long hours in the dark basement workshop, working his taxidermical art. Gregor's business is exotic plants - lucrative, but harmless enough. Until his latest acquisition,...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the house"--
Author
Publisher
Spiderline
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of colonization. Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. Now living in a shiny new Toronto condo, Dawn is haunted by uncanny occurrences, including cryptic messages from her dead mother, that have followed her most of her life. When the life Dawn thought she wanted implodes, she is forced to return...
1133) Nightwing
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
From Martin Cruz Smith, the internationally bestselling author of Gorky Park, comes a reissue of Nightwing, the million-copy bestseller that Stephen King called "one of the best horror novels in the last twenty years." As darkness gathers, the sky is filled with frantic motion and maddening murmurs. In an effort to end the world, an unhappy, aging Native American shaman invokes the Hopi god of death. Those around him remain skeptical, dismissing him...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
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Description
Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually...
1136) John the Balladeer
Author
Publisher
Valancourt Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
'In John the Balladeer, Manly Wade Wellman created one of the great characters in all of horror and fantasy literature. Armed with his silver-string guitar and an endless trove of folk songs, John travels the backwoods of Appalachia, battling supernatural evil with his own brand of down-home charm and endless resourcefulness. In these tales, John wanders the Southern mountains, encountering hoodoo men and with women, strange supernatural beasts, malevolent...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Books You May have Missed 2021: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Horror [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Horror [Middle School]
Titles Worth Trying: Horror [Grades 3-5]
Titles Worth Trying: Horror [Middle School]
Description
"If you're feeling brave, turn the page. A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long... A look-alike doll makes itself right at home... A school talent show act leaves the audience aghast... And a summer at camp takes a turn for the braaaains... This collection of all-new spooky stories is sure to keep readers up past their bedimes"--Dust jacket flap.
1138) The grip of it
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Touring their prospective suburban home, Julie and James are stopped by a noise. Deep and vibrating, like throat singing. Ancient, husky, and rasping, but underwater. "That's just the house settling," the real estate agent assures them with a smile. He is wrong. The move-prompted by James's penchant for gambling and his general inability to keep his impulses in check-is quick and seamless; both Julie and James are happy to start afresh. But this...
Author
Series
Stinetinglers volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes ten new stories that are sure to send a shiver down your spine. Two kids embark on a field trip to the zoo...and stumble upon a creature they never expected to meet. A boy makes a machine that puts kids in charge...but at what cost? A child is sure his new house is haunted...but is it just in his head? And each story comes with a personal introduction from Stine himself. Laced with Stine’s...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Five novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box: -A sister insists to her little brother that "Half the House Is Haunted" by a strange presence. But is it the house that's haunted-or their childhoods? -In "Argyle," a dying man confesses to homicides he never committed, and he reveals long-kept secrets far more sinister than murder. -A tourist takes the ultimate trip to outer space in "The Jupiter...
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