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1) Harvest
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620L
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Second year surgical resident Abby DiMatteo stumbles onto a horrifying conspiracy when a wealthy patient who has just had a heart transplant becomes ill and Abby, in trying to treat the woman, discovers the donor records have been falsified.
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Six terrifying tales to chill the blood from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young boy plays with dolls instead of action figures. But as he grows older, his passion takes on a darker edge ... A white man shoots dead a black boy creating a media frenzy. But could it be that it was self-defense as he claims?... A nervous woman tries to escape her husband. He says he loves her, but she's convinced he wants to kill her ... These quietly...
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"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",...
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The basis for the film starring Scarlett Johansson, award-winning author Michel Faber's Under the Skin blends elements of science fiction, grotesque comedy, horror, and thriller into a genre-jumping meditation'' (Washington Post Book World).
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing...
Isserley cruises the Scottish Highlands picking up hitchhikers. Scarred and awkward, yet strangely erotic and threatening, she listens to her hitchhikers as they open up to her, revealing...
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"In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spread by saliva. But unlike rabies, the disease has a terrifyingly short incubation period of an hour or less. Those infected quickly lose their minds and are driven to bite and infect as many others as they can before they inevitably succumb. Hospitals are inundated with the sick and dying, and hysteria has taken hold. To try to limit its spread, the...
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Thomas Fool is a detective from Hell--literally. Having survived the wrath of both angel and demon, and still without memory of his life on earth, Fool is currently spending his damnation as a bureaucrat heading up the Information Office of Hell. But when mysterious fires begin spooking higher-ups in the Bureaucracy--homicidal arson, it's believed--and a series of unexplained murders plagues Heaven, Fool is dispatched north to investigate. But Heaven...
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Horror novelist Michael Anthony decides to move his family from NYC to the small Missouri town where he was raised by his eccentric grandmother. Moving into the house left to him, they find something already residing in the walls.
10) The last to know
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When a killer targets stay-at-home mothers like Tasha Banks, a small town is transformed into a sinister place where evil lurks behind the mask of a familiar face--one that may be the last face Tasha ever sees.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher when Blake has to chase Quinn into a bizarre phantom carnival that traps its customers forever. In order to escape, Blake must survive seven deadly rides by dawn, each of which represents a deep, personal...
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Everyman's library volume 336. Fiction
Collins Classics
Collectors' library volume 14
Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural
Collins Classics
Collectors' library volume 14
Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural
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English
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Presents an anthology of tales of horror and the supernatural.
14) Just like home
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Just Like Home is a darkly gothic thriller from nationally bestselling author Sarah Gailey, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House as well as HBO's true crime masterpiece I'll Be Gone in the Dark. "Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories - she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there,...
15) The last witness
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While on a camping trip to an isolated beach on the Scottish coast, Heather's friends stuffer the wrath of a malevolent spirit, and a year later, Heather remains imprisoned in a facility, refusing to admit guilt.
16) Dead ever after
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After learning the devastating reason why vampire hunk Eric Northman has been cooling on their relationship, clairvoyant waitress Sookie Stackhouse becomes embroiled in a shocking murder that sends all of Bon Temps reeling in the final novel of the best-selling series.
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Thomas Fool, an Information Man who is tasked with cataloging and filing reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that streams through Hell, must piece together clues to identify a serial killer who is challenging the rules and order of a place where death is common currency.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Maybe Archie Coomes has been watching too many horror movies. All of a sudden, the most ordinary things have taken on a sinister edge: a penny on a doormat. A man in a brown suit under a streetlamp. The persistent sound of an ax chopping in the middle of the night. He keeps telling himself that this is Seaham, a sleepy seaside town where nothing ever happens. Or at least nothing did, until his dad's construction company opened up the cliff beneath...
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When the Coastline Killer, a vigilante who's been targeting random victims because they don't respect the environment, claims another victim, the local police consider Jay Macklin--a tourist staying at a remote northern California cottage with his paramedic wife--a suspect.
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