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Sodom Road exit
By Amber Dawn. 2018
Summer 1990. Crystal Beach in Ontario has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost…
town. It is back to this fallen community that Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt. But an economic downturn, mother-daughter drama, and Generation X disillusionment soon prove to be the least of Starla's troubles: a mysterious and salacious force begins to dog her; inexplicable sounds in the night and unimaginable sites spotted in the periphery. Soon enough, Starla must confront the unresolved traumas that haunt Crystal Beach. Where others might feel fear, Starla feels lust and queer desire. When others might run, Starla draws the horror nearer. And in turn, she draws a host of capricious characters toward her--all of them challenged to seek answers beyond their own temporal realities. 2018.Scream and scream again!: spooky stories from Mystery Writers of America
By R. L Stine. 2018
From tales of wicked ice cream trucks to haunted warehouses, every story in this anthology has one key thing in…
common--they all begin or end with a scream. Grades 4-7. 2018.Strange highways
By Dean R Koontz. 1996
A collection of haunting stories which includes two full length novels, one of which has never before been published, nine…
novelettes, and over half-a dozen short stories, all sharing a common theme of strange highways from one end of America to the other. 1996.Story time
By Edward Bloor. 2004
Brainy sixth-grader George and sassy eighth-grader Kate have to go to a strange new school, in a haunted library, where…
they take standardized tests all day alongside green-tinged "Mushroom Children". They hate the school, the tests, and dealing with the weird adults who run it. When a series of demonic possessions and grisly deaths occur, Kate and George get on the trail of a creepy paranormal mystery spanning generations. Edgar Award finalist 2005. Grades 5-8. 2004.Strange weather: four short novels
By Joe Hill. 2017
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug…
who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap. A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump, and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero’s island of roiling vapour that seems animated by a mind of its own in "Aloft." Short horror stories that deftly expose the darkness that lies just beneath the surface of everyday life. Bestseller. 2017. Uniform title: Novels.Storm of the century: An Original Screenplay
By Stephen King. 1999
Screenplay for a TV miniseries. General store owner Mike Anderson recounts what happened when a blizzard struck Little Tall Island,…
Maine, and Andre Linoge arrived for a horror-filled visit. Eighty-year-old Martha Clarendon was the first to see the stranger, and he killed her with his wolf-headed cane. Some violence. c1999. Uniform title: Storm of the century (Motion picture)Stolen: a novel (Women Of The Otherworld Ser. #Bk. 2)
By Kelley Armstrong. 2002
Ty Winslow, an obsessed tycoon with a sick curiosity, is well on his way to amassing a private collection of…
supernaturals such as vampires, demons, shamans, and witches, and plans to harness their powers for himself, even if it means killing them all. Elena Michaels, the world's only female werewolf, has also been kidnapped and imprisoned deep underground by Winslow. Separated from her Pack and unable to tell her friends from her enemies, Elena realizes that choosing the right allies is a matter of life and death. Some strong language, descriptions of sex and violence. Sequel to "Bitten" (DC22976). 2002.Stealing shadows (Shadows trilogy.)
By Kay Hooper. 2000
Psychic Cassie Neill fails to prevent a murder in Los Angeles and flees to North Carolina. Once there, however, a…
stalker invades her mind. No one believes her until a body is found. Then she becomes a suspect. Companion to "Hiding in the Shadows". Some descriptions of sex and some strong language, descriptions of violence. Bestseller. 2000. (Shadows trilogy)Stationary bike
By Stephen King. 2006
When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz finally gets around to having that physical he'd been putting off for years, and his…
cholesterol comes back dangerously high, he does what so many thirty-something, junk food-eating couch potatoes have done before him: he buys a stationary bike, and vows to ride it regularly. Unlike many a mid-life exercise convert, however, Richard actually starts to ride his new stationary bike. A lot. Soon he's spending so much time on his bike that he decides to put his artistic talents to use and paint a mural on the wall opposite his stationary bike. But it turns out that Richard's mural is no ordinary picture-and soon his stationary bike is taking him places he doesn't want to go...and can't stay away from. 2006.Stars of the new curfew
By Ben Okri. 1989
A succession of flights into the grotesque and phantasmagoric: a medicine huckster bedevilled by dreams as he touts a panacea…
called "Power drug", a hallucinatory horror show, in which a musician is haunted by premonitions of his girl friend's death. 1989.Star Lord
By Louise Lawrence. 1978
A Welsh family is caught up in the struggle between the supernatural powers of a mountain and the technological powers…
of a star lord who crashes into it. For junior high readers. c1978.Smoke and ashes (Tony Foster Ser.)
By Tanya Huff. 2006
Tony Foster and the crew of "Darkest Night," a TV series about a vampire detective, find themselves facing another supernatural…
menace, a Demonic Convergence. Tony - with the help of vampire Henry Fitzroy and Leah, a stuntwoman who is the last surviving priestess of a sex demon, plus a tabloid reporter and a Canadian Mountie - must keep the key to the convergence alive to prevent a demonic invasion so large scale that it could be the finale - for the whole world. Some descriptions of sex, descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2006.Smoke and mirrors
By Tanya Huff. 2005
Tony Foster, a burgeoning wizard and production assistant on a television show, has to contend with filming haunted house scenes…
in a house that's actually haunted. When all the doors slam shut, he finds himself trapped with ghosts repeatedly reenacting their deaths, his painfully cynical and egotistical colleagues, and - worst of all - the boss's bratty daughters. Sequel to "Smoke and shadows" (DC27499). Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2005.Smoke and shadows (DAW book collectors ; #1289)
By Tanya Huff. 2004
Tony Foster, saved from the streets by 450-year-old vampire Henry Fitzroy, is now a production assistant for the show Darkest…
Night, where he has just discovered the dead body of the guest star. Tony fears it has something to do with the strange shadows he has seen around the studio, and asks special-effects wizard Arra Pelindrake, who turns out to be a real wizard, for help. When Tony and Henry can't persuade Arra to face down the shadows, they must battle them before they gain a foothold in this world. Some descriptions of sex and violence, strong language. Followed by "Smoke and mirrors" (DC27498). 2004.Sole survivor
By Dean R Koontz. 1997
The official story of flight 353 is a lie. They say it was an accident. It was not. They say…
there were no survivors. There was - a scientist with a secret. A secret that will change the world. Descriptions of violence. 1997.Spooky night
By Natalie Savage Carlson. 1982
Spirit lost
By Nancy Thayer. 1989
Willy and John Constable buy a house in Nantucket. They plan to launch John's career as an artist, but increasingly…
he becomes obsessed with a ghost whom only he can see. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1989.Something wicked this way comes (Grand Master Editions, The)
By Ray Bradbury. 1962
Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, both thirteen, are fascinated by the carnival that comes to their small town. But after…
a series of frightening events, the boys realize there is something sinister about the show and its owner. 1962.Smouldering fires
By Anya Seton. 1978
Sisters of blood and spirit (Sisters of blood and spirit. #1.)
By Kady Cross. 2016
Wren, the ghost of a girl who died at birth, and Lark, her depressed misfit living twin, help a boy…
who saves Lark from a suicide attempt and who is being threatened by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead serial killer. Followed by "Sisters of salt and iron". For junior and senior high readers. 2016.