Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
When tragedy strikes on his son's wedding day, Lord Manfred believes it is a foreboding omen, and will do whatever it takes to stop it-no matter how immoral.
Set in the 18th century, The Castle of Otranto begins on the day Manfred's son, Conrad, was meant to be married. Known for his sickly nature, Conrad is the eldest child of two, and is set to marry Princess Isabella, a union that would reap strong benefits for the noble family. However, when...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories. The first half of the book features highly esteemed weird stories, and the book has been described by critics as a classic in the field of the supernatural. There are ten stories, the first four of which ("The Repairer of Reputations",...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903) is a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker. Written during a period of increased interest in Egyptology across Europe, The Jewel of Seven Stars helped to establish the Irish master of Gothic horror's reputation as a leading writer of the early twentieth-century.
In the middle of the night, a young lawyer is roused from sleep by Margaret Trelawny. At her urgent request, he accompanies her to the house of her father, Abel...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
For lovers of the supernatural and the macabre comes this collection of ghostly and chilling stories from legendary mystery writer Agatha Christie. Fantastic psychic visions, specters looming in the shadows, encounters with deities, a man who switches bodies with a cat-be sure to keep the light on whilst reading these tales.
Author
Language
English
Description
"What if it's not your mansion that's haunted--it's you? Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted by "her," a curse passed down through the generations that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak and death. For generations, the Villarcas have died young, under mysterious circumstances. But Iris dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. As the world falls apart around her,...
9) Tidepool
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"If ye give not willingly, the Lords will rise...In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappears while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, won't rest until she finds him. Defying her father's orders to remain at home, she travels to Tidepool, the last place Henry visited. Residents of the small, shabby oceanside town can't quite meet Sorrow's eyes when she questions them about Henry. When corpses wash up on shore looking as if they've been torn apart by...
Author
Series
Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 3
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 03
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 3
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 03
Welcome to Night Vale episodes volume 3
Language
English
Description
"In the town of Night Vale, there's a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone's home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from... until now. Told in a series of eerie flashbacks, the story of The Faceless Old Woman goes back centuries to reveal an initially blissful and then tragic childhood on a Mediterranean Estate in the early nineteenth century, her rise in the criminal underworld of Europe, a nautical adventure with...
11) The accursed
Author
Series
Gothic saga volume 05
Language
English
Description
In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse besets the wealthiest of the town's families. When it causes the disappearance of a young bride, her brother sets out to find her and ends up crossing paths with the town's most formidable members--including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair.
Author
Series
James Asher vampire novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
October, 1912. James Asher, his wife Lydia, and the old occultist and vampire-hunter Dr. Solomon Karlebach have journeyed to the new-born Republic of China to investigate the rumour that the mindless Undead - the Others that even the vampires fear - have begun to multiply in the caverns of the hills west of Peking. Alongside his old vampire partner, Don Simon Ysidro, Asher embarks on a sinister hunt, while somewhere in the city's cold gray labyrinth...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The dead won't bother you if you don't give them permission. Boston, 1844. Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous. As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby's gift so she could profit from the recent craze for séances. Now a young woman and tragically separated from Alice, Tabby...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The eerie, disturbing story of one of our perennial fascinations, witchcraft in colonial America, wrapped up in a lyrical novel of psychological suspense. 'Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods.' In this horror story set in colonial New England, a law abiding Puritan woman goes missing. Or perhaps she has fled or abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of...
Author
Series
Crimson City volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Readers of early Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, and the best thrillers out there should try Liu now. "-Publishers Weekly"Anyone who loves my work should love [Lui's]. "-Christina FeehanAward-winning, New York Times bestselling author Marjorie M. Liu's magnificent Dirk and Steele novels are the gold standard of paranormal romance fiction. Stepping briefly away from her unique detective agency of shapeshifters, psychics, and extraordinary beings,...
16) Tomb of ancients
Author
Series
House of furies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Fleeing the nightmares of Coldthistle House, Louisa and her friends have taken up in a posh new London residence. But religious zealots from the shepherd's army are flocking to the city in droves, and ominous warnings are being left on Louisa's very doorstep. With the evil influence of her father's spirit growing stronger, Louisa knows she'll have to pick a side in the coming war between the old gods, whether she'd like to or not. Louisa will do whatever...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
Author
Series
Lovecraft Country volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor's escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil's bargain with the ghost...
Author
Series
Saga of Larten Crepsley volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having received a sign that he is not meant to die, young vampire Larten tries to live in the human world, raising the infant who survived his veangeful killing of a ship's crew and falling in love with a human girl, but the darkness inside him forces him back to Vampire Mountain.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request