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The bone snatcher
By Charlotte Salter. 2017
Stuck in a decaying mansion surrounded by sea monsters, Sophie Seacove's only hope for escape is to find the mysterious…
Monster Box before the other inhabitants of the house get to her first. Grades 5-8. 2017.The breathing method
By Stephen King. 1984
It was a gentlemen's club, although no one paid any dues. The cost of membership was a tale well told,…
and this one paid for all. 1984. Uniform title: Different seasonsThe body-snatchers
By Robert Louis Stevenson. 1981
In 1815 in Scotland, a young medical student, Doctor Fettes, is given the job of receiving fresh cadavers for his…
class. Since the matter is such a delicate business, Fettes is told to simply pay the transporters and not ask any questions. But when Fettes recognizes one of the bodies as a young woman he knows to have been alive and well the day before, he begins to wonder just how these poor souls are meeting their end. 1981. Uniform title: Short stories.The body
By Stephen King. 1984
The broken hours
By Jacqueline Baker. 2014
In the spring of 1936, horror writer H.P. Lovecraft is broke, living alone in a creaky old house and deathly…
ill. At the edge of a nervous breakdown, he hires a personal assistant, Arthor Crandle. Candle arrives at Lovecraft's home with no knowledge of the writer or his work, but is soon drawn into his distinctly eerie and unnerving world. c2014.The book of mercy
By Kathleen Cambor. 1996
Retired fireman Edmund Mueller's lonely life is haunted by melancholy memories of his runaway wife and estranged children. Mueller practices…
alchemy, hoping to restore his lost past. His psychiatrist daughter uncovers the secret of her father's obsession and realizes that her own life is also a futile quest for happiness. Strong language and descriptions of sex. 1996.The book of common dread: A Novel Of The Infernal
By Brent Monahan. 1993
Simon Penn agrees to give his captivating colleague Frederika Vanderveen information from a guarded rare book in Princeton's Firestone Library…
if she will rent him a room so he can escape his live-in girlfriend. Meanwhile vampire Vincent DeVilbiss also needs an ancient manuscript and is planning to take advantage of Frederika's desire to conjure up her dead father's ghost. Strong language, violence, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Followed by "The blood of the covenant" (DC20503). 1993.The blue girl
By Charles De Lint. 2004
New at her high school, Imogene enlists the help of her introverted friend Maxine and the ghost of a boy…
who haunts the school, after receiving warnings through her dreams that soul-eaters are threatening her life. Some descriptions of violence and strong language. For senior high readers. 2006, c2004.The black chalice
By Marie Jakober. 2000
A young knight, Karelian of Lys, returns from the Crusades to his home in 12th-century Germany, having witnessed enough to…
undermine his faith in God and himself. Though he craves peace, Karelian soon becomes the lover of a half-human witch queen and the enemy of a nobleman who claims to be a direct descendant of Jesus, and thus the destined king of Earth. Karelian must use all his combat skills, intelligence, and empathy to fight his way through the tangle of duty and passion in which he's caught. Some descriptions of sex, violence, and some strong language. 2000.The blessing way (Joe Leaphorn And Jim Chee Novel Ser.)
By Tony Hillerman. 1970
A casual summer outing to investigate rumours of sorcery leads Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, and anthropologist Bergen McKee,…
to a series of inexplicably grisly murders. Leaphorn uses his uncanny powers of deduction and knowledge of Navajo ways to solve the crimes. c1989, 1970.The blue ghost
By Marion Dane Bauer. 2005
Liz is awakened in the middle of the night by a mysterious voice softly calling her name. A blue light…
turns into a ghost in old-fashioned clothes, who appears for a moment and then fades through the wall. Liz tries to figure out who the ghost is, why she was calling her name, while unravelling some family secrets. Grades 3-6. 2005.The blood of the covenant: a novel of the vampiric
By Brent Monahan. 1995
Princeton University librarians Simon Penn and Frederika Vanderveen steal the ancient Scrolls of Ahriman that are sought by both the…
vampire world and the Vatican. Pursued by vampires, they try to unravel the scrolls' prophecy before time runs out. Sequel to "The book of common dread" (DC12675). Some strong language and some descriptions of violence. 1995.The birds, and other stories
By Daphne Du Maurier. 1992
The birds revolt against mankind; the climber on Mount Verita discovers the awesome cost of giving your all to the…
mountains; a malformed apple tree bears an uncanny resemblance to a neglected wife; amusing herself with the little photographer has far reaching consequences for the Marquise; love promised by a glowing stranger becomes a darker intimacy; family jealousies take an unexpectedly violent form; in these six stories, the weak, the dispossessed and the exploited wreak their revenge on a complacent world. 1992.Soirée d'enfer
By Louise Binette, Sinclair Smith. 2016
Félix adore surprendre ses amis. Et ce soir, il leur a préparé une soirée digne d'un film d'horreur! Mais quand…
il les emmène à la vieille auberge abandonnée, la blague tourne au cauchemar. Et tandis que dehors la tempête fait rage, les adolescents sont pris au piège. Survivront-ils à cette nuit de terreur? Pour les lecteurs d’école secondaire. 2016.Terres perdues (La Tour Sombre ; #3)
By Stephen King, Jean-Daniel Brèque, Christiane Poulain. 1992
Liés par le destin, Roland, Eddie et Susannah mettent le cap vers les Terres perdues où la Tour sombre pourrait…
se situer. Mais hanté par le souvenir de Jake, Roland le Pistolero perd l'esprit. Comment renouer le lien avec ce gamin au coeur tendre? Suite de "Les trois cartes" (FD04387). 1992. (La Tour Sombre ; 3)The ancestors (Griot audio)
By Tananarive Due, Brandon Massey, L. A Banks. 2009
In this collection of flesh-crawling tales, each author contributes one deliciously twisted selection. A writer unearths dangerous truths in backwoods…
Mississippi and a man's sanity - and life - are threatened by disturbing visions. Then, in the third and final tale, two children are forced to face off against terrifying ancestors. Strong language. 2009.The afterlife
By Gary Soto. 2004
A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of…
a club where he had gone to dance. Junior High. 2004.Telling the tale
By Robin Skelton. 1987
That eye, the sky
By Tim Winton. 1986
Ort knows that the sky is watching. He knows what it means to watch. Things are terribly wrong. His father…
is withering away, his sister is consumed by hatred, his grandmother is all inside herself, and his mother, a flower-child of the 1960's, is brave but helpless. Then a strange man appears at their door. That Eye, The Sky is about love, about a boy's vision of the world beyond, about the blurry distinctions between the natural and the supernatural. 1986.The adventures of Tom Sawyer and the undead
By Don Borchert. 2010
Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer lives in a world overrun by a zombie virus that turns people into something folks call…
“Zum.” The United States is infected with a plague of rotting, yet spry, Zum, searching for fresh meat. When vicious, self-aware zombies evolve and threaten Tom’s town, what will Tom and pal Huck do to protect their loved ones, and will they live to tell the tale? Some descriptions of violence and some strong language. 2010.