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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
While visiting HorrorLand, Marco Gonzales finds a rare edition of "The Wizard of Oooze," a graphic novel about an evil mutant made of oil sludge. Unfortunately, after Marco mentions the special edition at a comic convention, a couple of unsavory characters want the book.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 25
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
Skipper Matthews sees a building in Riverview Falls that looks exactly like one from his comic book collection--the Masked Mutant's secret headquarters--but the building seems to appear and disappear. Could the Masked Mutant really live in Skipper's home town?
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 26
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
When Larry uses an old bottle of "Insta-tan" that he found in the trash, some very unusual and scary things begin to happen.
9) The deep
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of The Troop--which Stephen King raved "scared the hell out of me and I couldn't put it down....old-school horror at its best"--comes this utterly terrifying novel where The Abyss meets The Shining. A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget--small things at first, like where they left their keys...then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters...
11) Party summer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
When Cari and her three friends get jobs in an island beach resort, they look forward to a "party summer," but, Cari and her friends are in for a surprise.
Author
Series
Lake witch trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones. "Some girls just don't know how to die..." Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw, written by the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians Stephen Graham Jones, called "a literary...
14) The cliffs
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
From twisted toys to gut-wrenching games, this collection of terrifying tales is unsettling enough to mess with even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy's fans. In this volume, series creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of FNAF's canon. Each story comes complete with accompanying artwork from a fan-favorite game artist to bring the horror to life in a whole new way. Readers beware: In this...
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"What if I shrink down to the size of a bug? What if I completely disappear during the night? Danny Marin thinks the comic-book superhero, Shrinkman, is the coolest! Shrinkman can shrink to the size of a bug and go places most ordinary people can't. But when Danny suddenly starts to shrink, he finds that being small isn't really so super. In fact, it's terrifying. First, he's nearly torn to pieces by his own dog. Then he's in a fight to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave ... A series of apocalyptic incidents [bears] out one character's claim that 'when a...
18) Step closer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Isolation can open up a void. Pete lashes out at his younger brother in the wake of his parents' divorce, falling prey to a gruesome curse. Kasey struggles with the lengths she'll go to survive on the streets after stealing a pair of unusual novelty glasses. Samantha and her sister, Susie, struggle to exist side by side, desperate to connect after a horrific tragedy. But in the grim world of Five Nights at Freddy's, empty feelings often attract hungry...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Featuring stories from R.L. Stine and Madeleine Roux, this middle grade horror anthology, curated by New York Times bestselling author and master of macabre Jonathan Maberry, is a chilling tribute to Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark.
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
Description
A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers; " a writer confronts the reality of his success in "Secret Window, Secret Garden; " after being scolded by "The Library Policeman, " you'll never return a book late again; and once again the community of Castle Rock finds itself besieged by a nasty pooch in "The Sun Dog."
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