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The damned
By Andrew Pyper. 2015
Danny Orchard wrote a bestselling memoir about his near-death experience in a fire that claimed the life of his twin…
sister, Ashleigh, but despite the resulting fame and fortune he’s never been able to enjoy his second chance at life. Ash won’t let him. In life, Danny’s charming and magnetic twin had been a budding psychopath who privately terrorized her family - and death hasn’t changed her wicked ways. Ash has haunted Danny for twenty years and now, just when he’s met the love of his life and has a chance at real happiness, she wants more than ever to punish him for being alive - so she sets her sights on Danny’s new wife and stepson. Danny knows what Ash really wants is him, and he’s prepared to sacrifice himself in order to save the ones he loves. The question is: will he make it back this time? 2015.Mr. Mercedes: a novel (Bill Hodges trilogy. #1.)
By Stephen King. 2014
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a…
spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the “perp” and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy. Bestseller. Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for best novel. Followed by “Finders keepers”. 2014.The deep
By Nick Cutter. 2015
A 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 of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily - and there is no cure. Below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, a substance hailed as "ambrosia" has been discovered - a universal healer that may just be the key to a universal cure. In order to study this phenomenon, a special research lab, the Trieste, has been built eight miles under the sea's surface. But now the station is incommunicado, and it's up to a brave few to descend through the lightless fathoms in hopes of unravelling the mysteries lurking at those crushing depths, and perhaps to encounter an evil blacker than anything one could possibly imagine. Bestseller. 2015.The troop
By Nick Cutter. 2014
Boy Scouts live by the motto "Be Prepared." However, nothing can prepare this group of young boys and their scoutmaster…
for what they encounter on a small, deserted island, as they settle down for a weekend of campfires, merit badges, and survival lessons. Everything changes when a haggard stranger in tattered clothing appears out of nowhere and collapses on the campers' doorstep. Before the night is through, this stranger will end up infecting one of the troop's own with a bioengineered horror that's straight out of their worst nightmares. Bestseller. Winner of the 2016 White Pine Fiction Honour Book Award. 2014.Mountwood School for Ghosts
By Eva Ibbotson, Toby Ibbotson. 2015
Fredegonda, Goneril, and Drusilla are Great Hagges, much more important and much rarer than regular old hags. They think that…
ghosts these days are so decidedly lacking that people haven't been scared of ghosts for years. So one day they decide that something needs to change - it's time for these ghosts to learn a thing or two about being scary. And what better way to teach them than to set up their very own school for ghosts? Grades 3-6. 2015.Universal harvester
By John Darnielle. 2017
Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa in the late 1990s, and he has a problem-- someone is…
altering the video tapes, inserting poorly lit home video scenes which are odd, sometimes violent, and deeply disquieting. There are recognizable landmarks from just outside of town. As Jeremy investigates, he becomes part of an impossible search for something someone once lost-- and would do anything to regain. 2017.The nest
By Kenneth Oppel. 2015
An anxious boy becomes convinced that angels will save his terribly sick baby brother. But these are creatures of a…
very different kind, and their plan for the baby has a twist. Layer by layer, he unravels the truth about his new friends as the time remaining to save his brother ticks down. Grades 5-8. Winner of the 2016 CLA Book of the Year for Children Award. Winner of the 2016 TD Fan Choice Award. 2015.Full dark, no stars
By Stephen King. 2010
Quartet of dark novellas includes 1922, in which a Nebraska farmer enlists his son to help him kill his wife…
when she wants to sell the farm. The wife in A Good Marriage learns her husband is a serial killer. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010.Bellman & Black
By Diane Setterfield. 2013
As a boy, William Bellman commits one small cruel act that appears to have unforeseen and terrible consequences. The killing…
of a rook with his catapult is soon forgotten amidst the riot of boyhood games. And by the time he is grown, with a wife and children of his own, he seems indeed to be a man blessed by fortune. Until tragedy strikes, and the stranger in black comes, and William Bellman starts to wonder if all his happiness is about to be eclipsed. Desperate to save the one precious thing he has left, he enters into a bargain. A rather strange bargain, with an even stranger partner, to found a decidedly macabre business. And Bellman & Black is born. 2013.Haunting Violet
By Alyxandra Harvey. 2011
Violet Willoughby doesn't believe in ghosts, especially since her mother has worked as a fraudulent medium for a decade. Violet…
has taken part in enough of her mother's tricks to feel more than a little jaded about anything supernatural. The ghosts, however, believe in Violet and she's been seeing them everywhere. For junior and senior high readers. 2011.This house is haunted
By John Boyne. 2013
1867. Eliza Caine arrives in Norfolk to take up her position as governess at Gaudlin Hall on a dark and…
chilling night. As she makes her way across the station platform, a pair of invisible hands push her from behind into the path of an approaching train. She is only saved by the vigilance of a passing doctor. When she finally arrives, shaken, at the hall she is greeted by the two children in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There are no parents, no adults at all, and no one to represent her mysterious employer. The children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, a second terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. 2013.Class trip: a novel
By Linda Coverdale, Emmanuel Carrère. 1997
Nicholas's fears and fantasies about the school trip become frighteningly real, when a local child vanishes and the police start…
interviewing staff and pupils. Together with Hodkann, the most feared and respected boy in the class, Nicholas tries to solve the mysterious disappearance, but is soon forced to confront a reality that is much simpler, more sinister and more atrocious than any of his nightmare imaginings. Uniform title: La classe de neige.Five days of the ghost (Irwin young adult fiction)
By William Bell. 1989
Later one night, John and his younger sister, Karen, sneak out to a sacred Indian burial ground. They are plunged…
into a world where past and present blend, and spirits of the dead communicate with the living. For junior and senior high readers. 1989.Tales of the otherworld
By Kelley Armstrong. 2010
Have you ever wondered how lone wolf Clayton Danvers finally got bitten by the last thing he expects: love? Or…
how the hot-blooded bad-girl witch Eve Levine ensnared the cold, ruthless corporate sorcerer Kristof Nast? Or tag along with Lucas and Paige as they investigate a gruesome crime that may be the work of a rogue vampire? Eight tales of the Otherworld, tales of friendship, adventure, and enduring romance, featuring a cast of superhuman men and women whose fierce passion and undivided sense of purpose make them very human indeed. 2010.Safe haven
By Nicholas Sparks. 2010
Since arriving in Southport, North Carolina, waitress Katie has kept to herself. Now new neighbour Jo and widowed store owner…
Alex begin to bring her out of her shell - but her dangerous past is about to catch up with her. Some violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2010.True believer
By Nicholas Sparks. 2005
New York journalist Jeremy Marsh travels to North Carolina to investigate the appearance of ghostly lights in an old cemetery.…
Meanwhile Boone Creek town librarian Lexie Darnell believes her happiness lies there with those she loves. When Jeremy and Lexie meet, they begin to question their future plans. Bestseller. 2005.The headless ghost (Goosebumps. #37.)
By R. L Stine. 1995
Everyone knows about Hill House. It's the biggest tourist attraction in town. That's because it's haunted. Haunted by the ghost…
of a thirteen-year-old boy. A boy with no head! Duane and Stephanie love Hill House. It's dark. And creepy. And totally scary. Still, they've never actually seen the ghost. Until the night they decide to go on a search. A search for his head. Grades 4-7. 1995.13 scary ghost stories
By Marianne Carus. 2001
Do you believe in ghosts, werewolves, and skeletons that come back to life? In these tales no place is safe…
- a ghost could appear in a crowded swimming pool, a sunny beach, or right in your own backyard! Grades 3-6. 2001.Help! I'm trapped in a vampire's body
By Todd Strasser. 2000
The DITS (Dirksen Intelligence Transfer System) Machine at Josh's school can make people switch bodies, and it's malfunctioned right near…
Vlad, the creepy new janitor. That night, Josh finds that he's turned into a vampire, complete with fangs. Using sunblock SPF 45, he goes to school, but Vlad won't agree to take back his body! Grades 4-7. 2000.Dragon tears
By Dean R Koontz. 2006
Detectives Harry Lyon and Connie Gulliver, who are on a mission to fight corruption, encounter a respectable-looking man who enters…
a diner and suddenly peppers the room with bullets. While investigating, Harry is approached by a strange man who predicts Harry and others will be dead by dawn. Harry begins to wonder if he is dealing with a case of possession. Violence, strong language, and descriptions of sex. Bestseller 1993.