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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Includes: The Telltale Heart, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Purloined Letter, MS. Found in a Bottle, The Oval Portrait, Berenice, The Masque of the Red Death, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Black Cat, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains, The Oblong Box, The Cask of Amontillado, Metzengerstein, The Pit and the Pendulum, A Descent into the Maelström, The Premature Burial, The Sphinx, The Imp of the Perverse, The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion,...
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A young girl is forced to move into a broken-down house in the country—and she and her new stepbrother discover its hidden horrors . . .
Martha wants to be happy for her father. She likes his new wife—even if she’s a terrible cook—but she doesn’t understand why they had to leave Chicago and move to this horrible house in the country. It’s big, broken-down, and miles from anywhere, alone...
Martha wants to be happy for her father. She likes his new wife—even if she’s a terrible cook—but she doesn’t understand why they had to leave Chicago and move to this horrible house in the country. It’s big, broken-down, and miles from anywhere, alone...
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The seventeenth-century house at Black Creek Crossing in Roundtree (Massachusetts?) is a hard sell. Since the original owner's wife and daughter were burned for witchcraft, it has seldom been occupied long, and those who occupy it usually die in it, mysteriously and violently. Curious, 13 year olds Angel and Seth devote themselves to contacting whatever restless soul haunts the dark recesses of BLack Creek Crossing and unwittingly unleashing a vengeful...
7) Lost
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English
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A psychopath whose only companion is a terrifying dog stalks a woman and her frightened brood of children.
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1190L
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English
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"The man in black now advanced, and taking one of the cords from his left arm, he bound the woman's hands together. She held them meekly toward him as he did so. Then he took her arm with a rough grip and led her toward the wooden horse, which was little higher than her waist. On to this she was lifted and laid, with her back upon it, and her face to the ceiling, while the priest, quivering with horror, had rushed out of the room. I saw that the
...9) Bliss House
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Bliss House novels volume 1
Language
English
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Looking for a fresh start after the death of her husband in a mysterious accident, Rainey Bliss Adams and her teenage daughter move into the old, historic family mansion rumored to have been plagued by strange occurrences, secrets, and disappearances.
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The Cthulhu casebooks volume 2
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English
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It is the spring of 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking in R'lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. Moreover, the man is horribly scarred and has no memory of who he is.The detectives discover that the...
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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 145
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
While visiting Callie in Nantucket, the Hardys are asked to investigate the kidnapping of a friend's father.
15) Magic fire
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Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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A high-school senior gives in to his desire to set fires during a hot, dry autumn in southern California but is overcome by a greater evil.
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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In 1888, the murder of two female journalists in the New York City prompts newly widowed journalist Diana Spaulding to investigate the handsome horror author Damon Bathory in this historical mystery. Although her growing affection for Bathory makes her increasingly reluctant to pursue him, Spaulding is spurred on by her cigar-chomping boss Horatio Foxe in an adventure that pits her against a deranged artist, a matriarch with a bloodthirsty sense of...
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Library of America volume 269
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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These four stories examine isolated crimes within society that not only breed murder but destructive suspicions.
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[2014]
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English
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"Is Skeleton Creek Real? If you're one of the millions who have read the Skeleton Creek series of books, then you might have heard the urban legend surrounding the story. One person claims to have evidence that proves Skeleton Creek is anything but fiction. He says he's discovered files and information that no one else has, and it all points to a very disturbing possibility: Skeleton Creek used real videos of terrifying experiences and they're passing...
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