Richard Matheson
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1918, wounded WWI American soldier Alex White has a frightening encounter in the forest near the pastoral English village of Gatford. His encounter leads him into the arms of Magda Variel, an alluring red-haired widow rumored to be a witch. She warns him to steer clear of the wood and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders, but Alex cannot help himself. Drawn to its verdant mysteries, he finds love, danger, and wonders that will forever change...
2) Hell House
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new investigation into the secrets of Belasco House brings together four strangers, each with their own reason for entering the most haunted house on Earth.
3) Dystopia
Author
Publisher
Crossroad Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
"The critically acclaimed collection of Richard Christian Matheson's stories of dread and the 'irreal'. Inescapably troubling and bizarre, these sixty stories are severe and immediate. These stories are a scape of ominous excess and psychological revelation. Matheson's heralded style is, as always, both distilled and hypnotic."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inch by inch, day by day, Scott Carey is getting smaller. Once an unremarkable husband and father, Scott finds himself shrinking with no end in sight, the result of exposure to a radioactive cloud. He becomes a national spectacle, a freak that is bullied by teenagers and disrespected by everyone. His wife and family turn into unreachable giants, the family cat becomes a predatory menace, and Scott must struggle to survive in a world that seems
...7) I am legend
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The last man on earth is not alone. Somehow immune to an unstoppable, incurable virus, military virologist Robert Neville is now the last human survivng in New York City. He believes he may be the last human alive in the world. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows. They watch Robert's every move and wait for him to make a fatal mistake. Robert is driven by only one remaining mission - to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But, he is...
8) The box
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (116 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Norma and Arthur Lewis are a suburban couple with a young child. After Arthur losses his job, they receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences. Arlington Steward is a mysterious stranger who delivers the message that the box promises to bestow upon its owner $1 million with the press of a button. But, by pressing this button it will simultaneously cause the death of another person somewhere in the world, someone...
Publisher
PolyGram Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
Special ed.; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, he tries to remain close to his beautiful, mortal wife, Annie. With the friendly spirit assigned to guide him, he begins to adapt to his new state of being in a setting that can only be described as heavenly. But when Annie in her despair takes her own life, she is banished to an eternal damnation. Chris vows to find her so they can share eternity together, but no one has ever succeeded in rescuing a soul from...
10) Stir of echoes
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c1999
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Tom is hypnotized at a neighborhood party, he changes. He sees things he can't explain and hears voices he can't ignore. As the visions intensify, he realizes they are echoes of a crime calling out to be solved.
11) Jaws 3
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1983]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 39 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a baby shark dies at the new Undersea Kingdom at Florida's Sea World, the creature's mother goes on a killing spree.
12) Duel
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Collector ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
David Mann (Dennis Weaver) is just a regular family man on a business trip. Unfortunately, things go from bad to worse when a huge gasoline truck in front of him forces him to drive slower than he wants. As the drive continues, Mann realizes that he's not dealing with just another road hog. Though he can never see the trucker's face, the driver proves to be psychopathic, starting to run Mann off the road and trick or force him into a number of deadly...
13) Stir of echoes
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2000, ©2000
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Tom is hypnotized at a neighborhood party, he changes. He sees things he can't explain and hears voices he can't ignore. As the visions intensify, he realizes they are echoes of a crime calling out to be solved.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (15 hrs, 20 mins) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. .
Language
English
Description
A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often have a wicked sense of humor and are filled with unexpected twists. Includes a bonus episode of American Masters profiling Rod Serling.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including...
17) The omega man
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the future where biological warfare has decimated life on Earth. Los Angeles is a windswept ghost town where Robert Neville tools his convertible through sunlit streets foraging for supplies. He fends off attacks by The Family-- sinister neopeople spawned by the plague. He also becomes a man with a mission after meeting Lisa, another infected survivor, and guardian of some healthy children representing our species' hope.
Publisher
Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Definitive ed.
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (ca. 1038 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.