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Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 620 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides the season is changing there.
Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard, seven most unusual trees. And from those trees grows a new sort of apple: strange, beautiful, with skin so red it’s nearly black.
Take a bite of one of these apples, and you will desire only to devour another. And another. You will become stronger. More vital. More yourself, you will believe. But...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Paul Tremblay has won widespread acclaim for illuminating the dark horrors of the mind in novels and stories that push the boundaries of storytelling itself. The fifteen pieces in this brilliant collection, The Beast You Are, are all monsters of a kind, ready to loudly (and lovingly) smash through your head and into your heart.
In “The Dead Thing,” a middle-schooler struggles to deal with the aftermath of her parents’ substance addictions and...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Stephen King's Holly marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy (but also brave and ethical) recluse in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers to a full-fledged, smart, and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider. In King's new novel, Holly is on her own, and up against a pair of unimaginably depraved and brilliantly disguised...
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele's anthology of all-new horror stories...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""A joyful, furious romp through dark places, Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love." --T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of What Moves the Dead. From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community face in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a...
Author
Series
HelloNeighbor volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition,
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's a typical night in the town of Raven Brooks... eleven-year-old Regina relaxes at home, her father and stepmother on a date while her older stepsister Pris babysits. But when an emergency alert comes over the airwaves, the two must grab their things and head out of town--a flash flood is coming, cell phone towers are down, and they are on their own. And to make things worse, a freak car accident leaves them stranded on the side of the road. Can...
Author
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
385 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An eerie, atmospheric Polar Gothic following a Victorian explorer in search of his lost shipmate and his own redemption-from the author of the "vivid, immersive" (The Guardian) horror novel All the White Spaces.William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Physical Desc
xix, 1153 p. : illustations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a disease wipes out most of humankind, the survivors gather to create a new society and to battle a force of pure evil in human form unleashed upon the world.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A spine-tingling and boldly original gothic horror novel. It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward--loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters--and their days are a mix of boredom and dread. The Brits they're replacing delight in telling them the history of the old barracks just off base, a Soviet-era...
10) Lost Man's Lane
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
For a sixteen-year-old, a summer internship working for a private investigator seems like a dream come true--particularly since the PI is investigating the most shocking crime to hit Bloomington, Indiana, in decades. A local woman has vanished, and the last time anyone saw her, she was in the backseat of a police car driven by a man impersonating an officer. Marshall Miller's internship puts him at the center of the action, a position he relishes...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2000.
Edition
2nd edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 709 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is a multilayered intersection of wild ideas, ten years in the making, from Mark Danielewski. It is also the story of a seemingly normal house gone wild. The novel intertwines the narratives of two haunted individuals: Zampano, a blind man whose strange manuscript is found in his apartment when he dies, and Johnny Truant, the tome's discoverer and narrator of House of Leaves. Zampano's manuscript is a critique of a documentary film called "The...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Beaked. Feathered. Monstrous. Avita was born to be a star. Her circus tent sells out nightly, and every performance incites bloodcurdling screams. She's the most lucrative act from Texas to Tacoma, the crown jewel of the Family Fortuna.
Avita feeds on the fear, the screams, the gasps. But when a handsome young artist is commissioned to create new posters of the performers, Avita is appalled by his rendering of Bird Girl. Is that truly all she is--a...
Author
Series
Boogeyman volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After making a successful true crime writing and filmmaking career revolving around the murders that shook his hometown decades earlier, Rich Chizmar is terrified when the killings begin again, in the sequel to Chasing the Boogeyman.
14) The green mile
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First paperback edition, Quirk Books.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.
One...
16) The night house
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
17) Contagion
Author
Series
Contagion volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
423 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After receiving an urgent SOS from a work detail on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is dispatched to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. But when the crew arrives, they find an abandoned site, littered with rotten food, discarded weapons... and dead bodies. As they try to piece together who--or what--could have decimated an entire operation, they realize that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready to awaken....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it's the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings and campfires that nearly burn down the house have escalated to bloody bones, hex circles, and now, terrified renters who've fled after finding blood and nail marks all over the guest room closet,...
19) Lally's Game
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
232 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Some secrets are better left hidden... A forbidden artifact from her fiance's past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double life from her friends and coworkers in the children's wing of the hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's, everything comes with a price to pay.
In this first volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon...
20) Prankster
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
194 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Standing up for yourself can be hard... Jeremiah decides he's done being the butt of his coworker's jokes at their small game studio. Joel is counting the days until he can quit his family's garden center and hit the road to a new life. Aimee finally works up the courage to ditch her loud-mouthed, annoying friend at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. But when it comes to Five Nights at Freddy's, even the most well-meaning actions can reap horrible consequences....