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Separated from Finn, captive of the Order, Nurrin has no hope left. But she has survived twenty years of zombies,…
and she has the unshakable faith that Finn will find her. But Finn is a long way away. The Order's influence runs deeper than was ever suspected, and politics are shifting--and zombies may not be the most dangerous thing she's facing. Finn always thought the war stripped him of all he had to lose. But with Nurrin missing and doors closing in his face, he realizes there is always more for the world to take--and he will drag the remains of civilization down with him before he gives up on the only promise that matters. Sequel to "The horde without end", followed by "The ruin of the world". 2014.
When Ashley's famous aunt sends her the family goldstone necklace for a birthday present, Ashley is thrilled. She discovers that…
if she sleeps while wearing it, she dreams of the future. However, Ashley finds one particular dream disturbing. It is of a boy named Jonathan, whom she sees not only in her dreams, but in real life as well. The dreams grow more frightening until finally, an avalanche brings her face to face with the boy ghost, who has transcended the bounds of time to recover the goldstone and return its magic to the mountain where it was crafted. Grades 5-8. 2000.
In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Em starts running. Soon she runs from her husband, to the…
airport, down to the Florida Gulf and out to the loneliest stretch of Vermillion Key, where her father has offered the use of a conch shack he has kept there for years. Em keeps up her running'barefoot on the beach, sneakers on the road'and sees virtually no one. This is doing her all kinds of good, until one day she makes the mistake of looking into the driveway of a man named Pickering. Pickering also enjoys the privacy of Vermillion Key, but the young women he brings there suffer the consequences. 2008.
While her brother and mother argue up ahead on the Maine hiking trail, nine-year-old Trisha stops to relieve herself and…
becomes lost for days in the wilderness. Her imaginary conversations with Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon help her cope with the evil thing that's following her. 1999.
Armageddon begins quickly. It is 1971. In the small Californian town of Palomo Grove four girls go swimming in a…
mysterious and haunted lake. Nine months later several children are born. Their prize is the Art, the greatest power known to mankind. Dreams will be made real. At last the grove will see the Great and Secret Show. It will never be the same again; nor will the world. Strong language. Followed by "Everville" (DC17398). 1989. (Book of the art ; 1)
The first death: seventeen-year-old Lin Fox finds a body in an orchard, and as she backs away in horror, she…
steps on broken glass ; the second death: blood and broken glass appears on Lin’s doorstep ; the third death: something terrible is found in the cemetery. As the attacks become more sinister, Lin doesn't know who to trust, but she's getting closer to the truth. But with each move the danger deepens, because someone won't stop until he's got rid of Lin and her family. For senior high readers. 2010.
When Ted learns that his twin cousins are arriving for a visit, he decides to frighten them with ghost stories.…
He is amazed to discover that there really is something happening in the barn! Grades 4-7. 1966.
Stuck on the face of a cliff while looking for fossils, sixth-grader Allie is guided to safety by a mysterious…
voice. Other strange happenings lead Allie to believe she is dealing with a ghost, of a girl not unlike herself. Grades 4-7. c1998.
When sightings of ghosts are reported in Sleath, a small and usually peaceful village in the Chiltern Hills, David Ash,…
a psychic investigator, is sent to investigate. What he uncovers there drives him to the very edge of insanity and in the final night of horror, awesome and malign forces are unleashed in the supernatural storm that threatens to consume the village. Sequel to "Haunted", followed by "Ash". 1994.
Covert agent Bob Howard is learning about a top-secret dossier that vanishes with his boss. Determined to discover the contents…
of this memorandum, Howard runs afoul of Russian spies, ancient demons, and apostles of a hideous cult planning to raise the Eater of Souls from the undead. Sequel to "The Jennifer morgue", followed by "The apocalypse codex". 2011.
In the year 850, Prince Maryn prepares to assume the throne. The ill-fated love affair between the prince and the…
magical Lilli comes to an end. Raena and Rhodry continue their rivalry two centuries later. Some descriptions of sex and some descriptions of violence. Sequel to "The Black Raven". c2001. (Dragon mage ; 3)
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea…
that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career. Grades 5-8. 2005, c2001.
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse…
resolves to survive until her baby is born, and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others. Bestseller. 2016.
Alice Collier moves back to the suburb of Crawbeck, on a hill outside the English city of Manchester, following the…
end of her marriage and loss of her daughter. Her new house looks ordinary, but sometimes, the world outside the windows isn’t the one you expect to see. John Revell, an old flame of Alice’s, reluctantly comes to her aid when the house begins to reveal its secrets. The hill on which it sits is a place of legends – of Old Harry, the Beast of Crawbeck, of the Virgin of the Height and of the mysterious Red Man – and home to the secrets of the shadowy Arodias Thorne. And now Alice and John are all that stand between him and rest of our world. 2016.
After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose…
spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and Alexis, orphaned in the Russian Revolution, to Heaven. Junior and Senior High. 2009.
Sam Vimes is a man on the run and if he cannot make it through the forest to civilization there…
is going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They are bright, they are fast, they are werewolves - and they are catching up. Sequel to "Carpe jugulum" (DC30610). 1999. (Discworld ; 24).
The tale of an eighteenth-century ranch-owning Mexican noblewoman who was feared and revered by many people. A woman of beauty,…
intelligence, remarkable intuition, and an uncompromising sense of justice, her beloved husband dies unexpectedly during a session of passionate lovemaking. He comes back as an otherworldly presence to watch over her, give her practical advice and take note from his new vantage point of how those around his wife and three daughters conduct themselves. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 2001.
United by a perfect chilling atmosphere and graceful literary style, these ghostly stories range from the horror of vampires, homicidal…
ghosts and monstrous spectral worms and slugs to the satire of humorous tales that poke fun at charlatan mediums and fake seances. 2001.