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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A life-size baby doll who stalks its prey. A flesh-hungry ogre who jingle jangles when he walks. A haunted house just dying for a visitor. What do all these things have in common? In collaboration with the Horror Writers Association, master of horror Jonathan Maberry has compiled a gruesome collection of terrifying stories--in tribute to Alvin Schwartz's classic Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series--that will absolutely chill readers to the bone....
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On his first (and last) day delivering mail in this neighborhood, Mr Finn meets Dory, a little girl with a pet monster she keeps in the mailbox--and this is only one of the chilling tales in this collection of scary stories.
Author
Series
Weenies short story collections volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Kids can be such monsters. Literally. From the award-winning author of Hidden Talents, two remarkable short story collections - Kidzilla and The Witch's Monkey - together for the first time. Plus several brand new stories. Each hilarious and harrowing. A substitute teacher finds out she has some monsters for students. A group of kids attempt a levitation trick with hair-raising results. A neighborhood is so boring the grown-ups are turning into...well...you...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
"A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that god kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be possible, but now he can't stop listening. A woman finds out that the shipwreck wasn't the disaster, but who she's shipwrecked with. A big brother learns just what he...
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Description
This collection represents the best of Alcotts adult oeuvre, starting with A Modern Mephistopheles, a dark Faustian tale inspired by A Long Fatal Love Chase. The stories in this volume display dramatic intensity and thrilling, suspenseful plots that show Alcott to be a complex and passionate writer. Readers will discover within this maelstrom of murder, deceit, obsessive desire, treachery, duplicity, and betrayal that love and honor can still conquer...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen chilling short stories to keep you up at night-but only if you dare.
You never know what's out to get you. Though you might think you're safe from monsters and menaces, everyday objects can turn against you, too. A mysterious microwave. A threatening board game. A snowman that refuses to melt. Even your own heartbeat has its secrets. Thu-thump. Thu-thump. When you stop to listen, each beat sounds more menacing than the last.
Master storyteller...
Author
Pub. Date
1982
Description
Pure, hundred-proof distillation of Ellison. A righteous verbal high. Here you will find twenty of his very best stories and essays, including the four-part 'Scenes from the Real World," an anecdotal history of the doomed TV series, The Starlost, that he created for NBC; "Tales from the Mountains of Madness"; and his hilariously brutal reportage on the three most important things in life, sex, violence, and labor relations. With an absolutely killer...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
After over a half century underground, the vampire Lestat awakens in the 1980s; becomes the leader of a rock band named Satan's Night Out; and searches for his own roots and the meaning of his immortality.
73) Does it hurt?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Who am I? I've forgotten the answer to that question long ago. Ever since I ran from that house, so desperate to escape, I left with only the clothes on my back and socks on my feet. After that day, I've only ever walked in stolen shoes. Could I be a girl who is searching for the meaning of life in faceless men? They were all so forgettable. Until he came along. He took me under a waterfall and made me forget my name, and in return, I took his instead....
75) End Game: 3
Author
Series
Midnight library volume 3
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A collection of three horror stories.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"A group of high school girls takes revenge on their sadistic gym teacher in the most fitting way possible. Two stowaways find themselves on a ship for the dead. An ancient predator stalks the wrong victim. Here are thirteen tales of death, murder, and revenge"--
78) Oddest of all
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Contains nine fiction stories by Bruce Coville, telling of frog mutations, child disappearances, ghosts, and other frights and oddities.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Edgar Allan Poe was a master of tales of the mysterious and macabre. From the eerie incantations of The Raven to the persistent fright of The Tell-Tale Heart, his stories and poems are unforgettable explorations of the darker side of life that still offer lessons and insight into human behavior today, making them an integral component of just about any library.
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