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Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
1st Dark Horse books edition
Physical Desc
1 online resource (419 pages)
Language
English
Description
The stories are legendary, the characters unforgettable, the world horrible and disturbing. Howard Phillips Lovecraft may have been a writer for only a short time, but the creations he left behind after his death in 1937 have shaped modern horror more than any other author in the last two centuries: the shambling god Cthulhu, and the other deities of the Elder Things, the Outer Gods, and the Great Old Ones, and Herbert West, Reanimator, a doctor who...
62) Gumdrop Angel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A string of bad luck you can't seem to shake: for Angel, Hudson, and Sergio, it's an all too familiar feeling. Repulsed by her spoiled stepsister's lavish birthday party, Angel exacts a hasty and ill-fated revenge. Hudson's young life is littered with tragedy and broken dreams, but a well-paying security job might just be all he needs to turn things around. Sergio acquires a unique novelty toy that instantly brings good luck, but is the toy really...
63) The missing
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five children have been lured into Shadow House, all for different reasons, and they must determine if someone is trying to help them escape or trap them there forever.
64) Heads, you lose!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jessica and her best friend, Ryan, find the perfect HorrorLand souvenir --a two-headed coin with mysteriously dark powers. After an unlucky flip of the coin, they find themselves in a strange land being chased down by angry guards. HorrorLand was scary but this is much worse. Will they be able to escape?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A pair of mysterious magic shoes appears every night under Daphne's bed, and they give her the ability to walk through solid objects, like a phantom, but there are consequences for wearing them--and that is only one of the chilling stories in this collection.
67) Manhunt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate. Robbie lives by his gun and one hard-learned motto: Other people aren't safe. After a brutal accident entwines the three of them, this found family of suvivors must navigate murderous TERFs, a sociopathic billionaire bunker brat, and awkward relationship dynamics-all...
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 38
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Blakes are off to Alaska to photograph a mysterious snow creature known as the Abominable Snowman.
69) Slappy, beware!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Slappy the ventriloquist's dummy has only one mission in his tiny, deranged mind: do evil every day, all day. His creator, powerful sorcerer Darkwell the Magician, has warned him that should he fail to cause chaos before the sun sets each day, he will sleep FOREVER. Normally, this is a piece of poisonous cake for Slappy ― but he may have met his match in the Carlton family. Each attempt at evil ends in disaster, and the dummy starts to panic. Will...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After the death of her estranged father, artist Rita struggles with grief and regret. There was so much she wanted to ask him--about his childhood, their family, and the Mi'kmaq language and culture from which Rita feels disconnected. But when Rita's girlfriend Molly forges an artist's residency application on her behalf, winning Rita a week to paint at an isolated cabin, Rita is both furious and intrigued. The residency is located where her father...
71) Holly: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight,...
Author
Series
Scary stories for young foxes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of six connected stories that follows a group of fox kits as they fight to survive in an unforgiving wilderness.
The haunted season has arrived in the Antler Wood. No fox kit is safe. When Mia and Uly are separated from their litters, they discover a dangerous world full of monsters. In order to find a den to call home, they must venture through field and forest, facing unspeakable things that dwell in the darkness: a zombie who hungers...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself. When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for 13 nights, he believes he's finally found the location that will bring him a bestseller. As with his other...
74) Dust devils
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Beware when the vampires come to town. When traveling actors recruited his wife for a plum role, Cody Wilson had no idea they would murder her. Twelve-year-old Willet Black was just as devastated the night the fiends slaughtered everyone he loved. Now Cody and Willet are bent on revenge, but neither of them suspects what they're really up against. For the actors are vampires. Their thirst for human blood is insatiable. Even if word of their atrocities...
75) Blackbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of three novellas explores what happens when the past takes on a life of its own.
76) Diary of a dummy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What do Zoey and Billy Traister do when they find an abandoned ventriloquist dummy in an empty lot? They take him home, of course! As the pair tries to figure out why someone would throw out a perfectly good dummy, they accidentally bring Slappy to life. A night of horror ensues until the siblings put Slappy back into his case. But when they find Slappy's diary and clues that could lead to gold, they'll have to find Slappy's second diary while evading...
77) The crossbones
Author
Series
Skeleton Creek volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
The Crossbones have a long history of destroying people who get in their way and now Ryan and Sarah find themselves in their crosshairs.
78) Goblin Monday
Author
Series
Goosebumps House of Shivers volume 2
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mario is spending winter break with his neighbors, Todd and Jewel, on their family vacation to Vermont. He is excited to see snow for the first time and meet his friend's beloved grandparents. But Todd and Jewel's grandparents turn out to be a little odd. They love telling tall tales of goblins, elves, and trolls. When Mario spots a blur of green fur in the garden, he wonders if the stories could be real. He's determined to find out more, but the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dominic's family is house hunting, but as Dominic explores the large Victorian house they are considering he encounters a ghost child; when his parents refuse to believe him Dominic decides to get video evidence--but will he get proof of the paranormal activity before it is too late?
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[T]he Last Kids are happily reunited—but quickly faced with a monstrous new mission. Inside an other-dimensional fortress, the evil Thrull, alongside a vile new villain, is carrying out a sinister plan. Jack, Quint, June and Dirk must make their own plans to infiltrate the stronghold before Thrull gets any closer to completing the mysterious Tower, a structure that could ultimately spell doom for this dimension."--publisher's website
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