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By Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson. 1983
Someone--or something--is attacking residents of rural Tarker's Mills, Maine, during the full moon. Only Marty Coslaw, a ten-year-old who uses…
a wheelchair, knows the identity of the monster, but no one will believe him. Basis for the 1985 movie Stephen King's Silver Bullet. Strong language and some violence. 1983By A. M Jenkins. 2006
After his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and young sister into an old house that is haunted…
by the spirit of a nineteenth-century teenage girl named Cora. Evan soon has intimate dreams of Cora that threaten his real-life romance. For senior high readers. 2006By Stewart O'Nan. 2003
One year ago on Halloween, a car carrying five Connecticut teenagers slammed into a tree. Two survived--Tim, physically unharmed, and…
Kyle, left severely brain-damaged. As the anniversary of the crash approaches, Toe, Danielle, and Marco return to haunt the living. Strong language, some descriptions of sex, and some violence. 2003By Gary Soto. 2003
Chuy, a high school senior, is brutally murdered in a dance club's restroom. Haunting the halls of his alma mater,…
he learns new things about his friends and relatives--and falls in love. Some violence and some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. Americas Award commendation. 2003By James Herbert. 2008
"Crickley Hall : une vieille demeure comme on n'en trouve que dans les régions reculées de l'Angleterre. Vaste et sinistre,…
elle a même l'air un peu menaçant. Lorsque Gabe et Eve Caleigh viennent s'y installer avec leurs deux filles, ils espèrent y trouver la paix, et tourner la page sur le terrible malheur qui a frappé leur famille. Mais quelque chose ne va pas... Bientôt des bruits inexplicables les arrachent au sommeil. Les enfants sont les seuls témoins d'étranges apparitions. Et, chaque matin, la porte de la cave est entrouverte alors qu'on l'avait fermée la veille. Cette maison est le dernier endroit que les Caleigh auraient dû choisir. L'horreur qui les y attend dépasse tout ce qu'ils pouvaient imaginer. Oserez-vous affronter le terrifiant secret de Crickley Hall ?" -- 4e de couvBy Homero Aridjis. 2012
"Accompanied by Pek, a xolo dog with whom he has a lively conversation, José Navaja searches for his brother, who…
may have been murdered. The search takes him from Mexico City to Ciudad Juárez and the Mexica underworld, where he meets a whole range of sinister and spectral characters: narcos, their girlfriends, psychopathic policemen, kidnappers hunted to death, gods of the Aztec pantheon, rabid hitmen, and orphaned children waiting to grow up to become predators. This novel is a sort of mythological thriller, but it is also much more than that: a successful conjunction of past and present, of representation of today's brutal Mexico and the ancient supernatural world of gods, priests and hitmen where both solar rites and human sacrifices are practiced; finally, it is also a tribute to the ancestors before the mestizaje, to their speech and their worldview, which have crossed several centuries and resonate in our present." -- Translation provided by NLSBy Alice Hoffman. 2003
For generations women of the Sparrow family in Massachusetts have been blessed--or cursed--with clairvoyant powers. When thirteen-year-old Stella has a…
premonition that lands her father in jail on suspicion of murder, she goes to live in the historic ancestral home where she confronts her haunting legacy. Some strong language. 2003By Holly Black. 2002
Sixteen-year-old Kaye, the daughter of a wannabe rock singer now living at the Jersey shore, has been visited by faeries…
all her life. She discovers that she is a changeling with a special destiny that includes a handsome knight and a war. Strong language. For senior high readers. 2002By Lincoln Child, Douglas J. Preston. 2003
FBI agent Pendergast, last seen in The Cabinet of Curiosities (DB 54730), is summoned to Medicine Creek, Kansas, a sleepy…
farm town plagued by a gruesome serial killer. Somehow the murders are connected to the community's outlaw past, and Pendergast has to discover how. Violence and some strong language. 2003By Dean R. Koontz. 2004
As Jimmy Tock is born his dying grandfather foretells dire events in Jimmy's future. In the same hospital, a clown…
murders medical staff before escaping with his own newborn son. Years later the predictions come true when the clown's son abducts Jimmy. Some violence and some strong language. Bestseller. 2004By Sid Hite. 2001
As punishment for lying, fifteen-year-old Paul Shackleford is exiled to work all summer on a relative's Virginia farm. There he…
becomes enmeshed in country life meeting a girl, a dog, and a ghost. For senior high readers. 2001By Christopher Pike. 1995
Los Angeles police investigate two strings of gruesome murders by an evil supernatural force. A grad student, a writer, and…
a gangster are drawn into the maelstrom of horror. Ultimately an Indian spiritual master confronts the evil. Strong language and violenceBy Heather Graham. 2001
Young widow Jillian Llewellyn immerses herself in designing jewelry at her grandfather's Manhattan firm. When she and his new partner,…
Robert Marston, meet, they both feel an indescribable attraction. Amongst family rivalries and sightings of ghosts at each of their country estates, they fall in love. 2001By Stephen King. 2002
It looked like an ordinary eight-cylinder 1954 Buick Roadmaster abandoned at a Pennsylvania gas station. But within hours, an investigating…
policeman has inexplicably vanished. Hoping to keep things quiet, the troopers put the car under lock and key. But it has a malevolent life of its own. Strong language and some violence. Bestseller. 2002By Ali Smith. 2001
Sara, a chambermaid at the Global Hotel in England, plummets to her death in a dumbwaiter. Her death leads to…
the convergence of the lives of four women: her sister, the hotel receptionist, a journalist, and a homeless woman. Sara's restless ghost observes her grieving family. Some strong language. 2001By Laurent Gounelle. 2008
"Imaginez... Vous êtes en vacances à Bali et, peu de temps avant votre retour, vous consultez un vieux guérisseur. Sans…
raison particulière, juste parce que sa grande réputation vous a donné envie de le rencontrer, au cas où... Son diagnostic est formel : vous êtes en bonne santé, mais vous n'êtes pas... heureux. Porteur d'une sagesse infinie, ce vieil homme semble vous connaître mieux que vous-même. L'éclairage très particulier qu'il apporte à votre vécu va vous entraîner dans l'aventure la plus captivante qui soit : celle de la découverte de soi. Les expériences dans lesquelles il vous conduit vont bouleverser votre vie, en vous donnant les clés d'une existence à la hauteur de vos rêves." -- 4e de couvBy Pascale Lacelle. 2023
Ninth House meets A Deadly Education in this gorgeous dark academia fantasy following a teen mage who must unravel the…
truth behind the secret society that may have been involved in her classmates' deaths. Emory might be a student at the prestigious Aldryn College for Lunar Magics, but her healing abilities have always been mediocre at best—until a treacherous night in the Dovermere sea caves leaves a group of her classmates dead and her as the only survivor. Now Emory is plagued by strange, impossible powers that no healer should possess. Powers that would ruin her life if the wrong person were to discover them. To gain control of these new abilities, Emory enlists the help of the school's most reclusive student, Baz—a boy already well-versed in the deadly nature of darker magic, whose sister happened to be one of the drowned students and Emory's best friend. Determined to find the truth behind the drownings and the cult-like secret society she's convinced her classmates were involved in, Emory is faced with even more questions when the supposedly drowned students start washing ashore— alive —only for them each immediately to die horrible, magical deaths. And Emory is not the only one seeking answers. When her new magic captures the society's attention, she finds herself drawn into their world of privilege and power, all while wondering if the truth she's searching for might lead her right back to Dovermere...to face the fate she was never meant to escapeBy Georgette Heyer. 1970
Kate Malvern, a poor relation, is brought into the aristocratic Broome household to marry a handsome but mad cousin. With…
the help of Philip, a dashing cavalier, and her former nurse, Kate manages to escape the cruel destiny planned by her relatives. 1968By William Blatty. 1971
Actress Chris MacNeil is filming a new movie in Washington, D.C. After playing with a Ouija board, her twelve-year-old daughter,…
Regan, begins exhibiting bizarre and macabre behaviors. Medical science doesn't help, so Chris appeals to the Catholic Church. A priest, Damien Karras, conducts an exorcism to try to rid Regan of the demon. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexBy Douglas Clegg. 1999
Thirteen chilling horror stories. In "The Rendering Man" a young girl's acquaintance with the local disposer of dead animals turns…
into a lifelong gruesome obsession. "The Night before Alec Got Married" tells about choosing the wrong stripper for a bachelor party. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. 1999