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Warlock (Egyptian novel ; #3)
By Wilbur A Smith. 2001
Stricken with grief after the death of Queen Lostris, Taita becomes a hermit, studies the occult and transforms himself into…
a warlock. He discovers that there has been a divine purpose in his suffering, when he is called upon to save the dynasty of Queen Lostris from the evil that looms over Egypt. Some descriptions of sex. Sequal to "The seventh scroll" (DC14374). 2001. (Egyptian novel ; 3)Creed
By James Herbert. 2001
Sometimes horror is in the mind and sometimes it's real. Telling the difference isn't always easy, especially for Joe Creed.…
He'd just photographed the unreal, and now he had to pay the price. He always thought that demons were just a joke - but the joke was on him.Others
By James Herbert. 1999
When Nicholas Dismas, a private investigator, is hired to find a missing baby his investigation leads him to uncover the…
secret of "the others." It also leads to the resolution of the enigma of his own existence.The mediator I: love you to death (The mediator Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Meg Cabot. 2004
Suze is a mediator. Which means she spends a lot of time directing the unhappy dead into the afterlife, and…
it isn't easy - not all ghouls want to be guided. Newly arrived in California, Suze has hardly unpacked when her mediator skills are put to the test. A vicious spirit is hell-bent on making her life a complete nightmare. At least she's sharing her bedroom with Jesse - the most gorgeous ghost ever. But dare she make a move on the sexiest spook in town? For junior or senior high readers. 2004.Ghostlight (Dark paths. #8.)
By Allan Frewin Jones. 1999
The old grange is haunted by a spirit called the Light of Misery. Professor Valentine's electronic device is designed to…
produce scientific proof of its presence. And he's sure that Jack's psychic ability is the connection he needs to open a door into the paranormal world. But the spirit is more dangerous than science indicates. Grades 5-8. (Dark Paths ; 8)The monk's curse (Dark paths)
By Allan Frewin Jones. 1999
Twenty pillars of stone stand in a circle, but one stone appears to be missing. In ancient times one man…
understood their evil power and he left a warning that the twenty-first stone should never be added to complete the circle. But in modern times Frankie, Regan, Tom and Jack are caught up in the restoration of the henge and don't know about the potential for evil they are about to unleash by completing the circle of stones. Grades 5-8. (Dark Paths) 1999.Blood stone (Dark paths ; #6)
By Allan Frewin Jones. 1999
The Greek island of Panos is magically beautiful, but Regan, Frankie, Tom and Jack are about to discover its grisly…
past. High above the sun-drenched beach stands an ancient stone altar where human victims were once sacrificed to Artemis, the Huntress, and their bloody bodies flung into the sea. Some say the old ways never died, and the murderous goddess of Panos will walk again in the guise of a young girl. Grades 5-8. Followed by "The Monk's Curse" (BR67101). (Dark paths) 1999.The monk: a romance (The World's classics)
By Howard Anderson, M. G Lewis. 1980
The magic carpet slippers (Young Puffin Story Bks.)
By Dick King-Smith. 2001
When 75-year old Percy Sloggett's battered old slippers are replaced, it is a surprise to discover that the new pair…
are magic. They make him feel years younger and also make him strong and clever. When they enable him to leap across the road to prevent an accident, they become life-savers as well. Grades 2-4. 2001.The worst witch (The worst Witch Ser.)
By Jill Murphy. 1974
The letter, the witch, and the ring (Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger series. #3.)
By John Bellairs. 1993
Mrs. Zimmerman, the kindly neighbourhood witch, invites Rose Rita on a trip to discover the meaning of a puzzling deathbed…
letter. The trip becomes a nightmare as the two are drawn into a dark world where not even Mrs. Zimmerman's powers of witchcraft can help them. Sequel to "The Figure in the Shadows" (EB69292). Followed by "The ghost in the mirror" (EB69286.) Grades 5-8. 1976.The gathering (Puffin Bks.)
By Isobelle Carmody. 1996
Nathanial's sick of hearing that Cheshunt's a place where nothing bad ever happens. So why does it seem so sinister?…
No one else thinks the curfew strange, the school subdued or the haunted look in people's eyes out of the ordinary. But then Nathanial's new. He has to be initiated in the ways of the town. Once that's done, he won't be causing any more trouble. Junior high readers.The ghost in the mirror
By John Bellairs, Brad Strickland. 1993
In this sequel to The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring (EB69285), Rose Rita Pottinger and Mrs. Zimmermann, the kindly…
neighbourhood witch, are transported back to 1828. There they attempt to save the Weiss family from being destroyed by a wicked wizard. Grades 5-8. 1993.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. Snapshot -- Loaded -- Aloft -- Rain. Uniform title: Novels.The serpent on the crown (Amelia Peabody mystery ; #17)
By Elizabeth Peters. 2005
Egypt, 1922. Archaeologist Amelia Peabody Emerson and her family are at their house on the Nile when author Magda Petherick…
arrives with an ancient statue she believes is cursed. When Magda is murdered, Amelia and her husband and son investigate the crime as well as the relic's history. Bestseller 2005. (Amelia Peabody mystery ; 17)Vampire State Building (Sam and Robert Bamford books. #4.)
By Elizabeth Levy. 2002
While 11-year-old Sam is playing chess online with 12-year-old Vlad Clinciu in Bucharest, Romania, Sam's annoying cousin Mabel prattles on…
about vampires and Count Dracula. Then Vlad and his family come to New York for a chess tournament, and Sam is astounded and annoyed to find that his friend is not a chess beginner at all. Meanwhile, Mabel and Sam's brother Robert find all sorts of reasons to believe that Vlad really is a vampire. Grades 3-6. 2002. (Sam and Robert Bamford books ; 4)The silk factory
By Judith Allnatt. 2016
Rosie Milford inherits a house in an old silk factory after her mother’s death and moves there with her young…
children. The discovery of a shocking truth about her own childhood, fills her with distrust and fearfulness. Then she starts seeing a strange child, wandering in the garden. In 1812, orphan Beulah Fiddement works as a bobbin winder and has secrets that her master would go to any lengths to get. Beulah’s story of guilt and bravery will echo down two centuries and change Rosie’s life as she struggles to overcome the hand of her own past and find redemption. 2016.The girl who couldn't read
By John Harding. 2014
New England, the 1890s. A man calling himself Doctor John Shepherd arrives at an isolated women's mental hospital to begin…
work as assistant to the owner Dr Morgan. As Shepherd struggles to conceal his own dark secrets, he finds the asylum has plenty of its own. Who is the woman who wanders the corridors by night with murderous intent? Why does the chief nurse hate him? And why is he not allowed to visit the hospital's top floor? Shocked by Morgan's harsh treatment of the patients, and intrigued by one of them, Jane Dove, a strange amnesiac girl who is fascinated by books but cannot read, Shepherd embarks upon an experiment to help her. 2014.The Lazarus heart (The crow)
By Poppy Z Brite. 1998
Jared Poe counts the days on Louisiana's Death Row. He has been condemned to die for killing his lover. Can…
he clear his name and find the real killer in time? No. For we are in the dark realm of The Crow, and Jared must feel the cold shudder of Death before proving his innocence.Night of the soul-stealer (Last apprentice. #3.)
By Joseph Delaney. 2006
Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding…
Anglezarke Moor. But he soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "Curse of the bane" (EB74300), followed by "Attack of the fiend". 2007. (The last apprentice ; 3) Uniform title: Spook's secret