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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories including classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle and much more.
82) Eclipse
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her relationship with Edward, both vampires, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.
83) Firestarter
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror...
First, a man and a woman are subjects of a top-secret government experiment designed to produce extraordinary psychic powers.
Then, they are married and have a child. A daughter.
Early on the daughter shows signs of a wild and horrifying force growing within her. Desperately, her parents try to train her to keep that force in check, to "act normal."
Now
84) The gunslinger
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Filled with ominous landscapes and macabre menace, Stephen King's latest mass market novel features The Gunslinger, a haunting figure in combat with The Man in Black in an epic battle of good versus evil. A spellbinding tale that is both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike.
86) If it bleeds
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"From Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas-Mr. Harrigans Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds-each pulling you into intriguing and frightening places. The novella is a form King has returned to over and over again in the course of his amazing career, and many have been made into iconic films, including "The Body" (Stand By Me) and "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (Shawshank...
87) Mexican gothic
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemi knows little about the region. Noemi is also an unlikely rescuer: She's a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...
Author
Series
Asylum volume Prequel
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Follows the experiences of teen Rick, who after being wrongfully committed to Brookline at the height of warden Crawford's regime, must escape before becoming a subject in an evil experiment and losing his mind to the forces haunting the asylum.
89) Ghost girl
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Zee Puckett loves ghost stories. She just never expected to be living one. It all starts with a dark and stormy night. When the skies clear, everything is different. People are missing. And Zee is seeing frightening things: large, scary dogs that talk and maybe even . . . a ghost. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious threat moves towards Biltmore, bringing with it violent storms and flooding, Serafina must fight to defend all she loves and become everything that she is meant to be.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation "His Face All Red," in print for the first time.Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for the first time. These are fairy tales gone seriously wrong, where you can travel to "Our Neighbors...
93) Revival: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs--including Jamie's sisters and mother. Then tragedy...
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Jane Austen's classic tale of the tangled relationships between lovers from different social classes in nineteenth century England is faced with a new challenge: an army of undead zombies.
"An unexpected and off-kilter treat, thanks to a BBC-quality cast and (un)deadpan humor."--Newsday.
"...Writer-director Burr Steers delivers a screen mash-up that's generally done in the right, warped spirit."--Boston Globe.
"Director Burr Steers... does a nifty...
95) Needful things
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
Description
A new store has opened in the town of Castle Rock, Maine. It has whatever your heart desires... if you're willing to pay the price. In this chilling novel by one of the most potent imaginations of our time, evil is on a shopping spree and out to scare you witless. Presented unabridged and read by the author.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1900, the shapeshifting guardian of North Carolina's Biltmore estate faces deceptively dark and terrifying forces that make her question her own senses and whom she can trust.
Author
Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Vinnie Salvo is being terrorized by a shadow monster that has horns, claws, and big sharp teeth, but his mom and dad refuse to believe his story, even when the monster sucks all the energy right out of Vinnie's body.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Warthrop begins to doubt fourteen-year-old Will Henry's loyalty, he sets him against one of the most horrific creatures in the Monstrumarium unaware that Will's life and his own fate will lie in the balance.
99) The waste lands
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
100) The fear
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In London, after a worldwide sickness infects adults, turning them into zombie-like creatures, DogNut and his crew embark on a deadly mission to find missing friends, as hungry, bloodthirsty grownups lie in wait.