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1) If it bleeds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Description
1922 opens with the confession of Wilfred James to the murder of his wife, Arlette, due to a long-standing argument about farmland willed to Arlette by her father. In "Big Driver", mystery writer Tess has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no problems. But following a last-minute invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a shortcut home with dire consequences. Suffering from cancer, Dave Streeter...
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Series
Signet book volume AE 4293
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Description
In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine? A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction? A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell? A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise? An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil? And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 42
Description
"Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never dreamed of - a labyrinth where the secrets of her father's past and her mother's mysterious fate connect to an inconceivable evil hidden in the depths of history." "The letters provide links to one of the darkest powers...
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Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
The woman astride the ghostly stallion reaches out desperately, the latest spirit to enlist the aid of Odd Thomas, the unassuming young fry cook whose gift--or curse--it is to see the shades of the restless dead, and to help them when he can.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. She didn't know what terrible accident brought her there--or the four shadowy strangers who hovered in the darkened corridors. Yet step by step, she unlocked the mysteries of her past--returning to a single night of violence waged by four young men. Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble...
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Pub. Date
p[2009]
Description
House on Maple Street: Four siblings return home from a year abroad, only to discover that something terrifying is growing beneath the house.
Umney's last case: A private detective finds out that he is merely the character in a crime novel.
Head down: King chronicles the 1989 season of his son Owen's little league baseball team and their journey to Maine State Championships.
Brooklyn August: Takes a nostalgic look back on the glory days of professional...
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Description
Universally acclaimed as the maestro of horror and the morbid, Edgar Allan Poe's dark gift has for more than a century and a half set the standard for the genre. Now, Caedmon Audio presents a classic collection of Poe's most terrifying tales performed by two of the most brilliant interpreters of his work, Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone. Between them, they perform 20 of Poe's chilling stories and poems, creating an unforgettably intense listening...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Charlaine Harris and Toni L.P. Kelner have harvested the scariest, funniest, saddest werewolf tales from an outstanding pack of authors, best read by the light of a full moon and with a silver bullet close at hand. These fifteen frighteningly original stories will surprise, delight, amuse, and scare the pants off listeners who love a little wolfsbane with their mistletoe.