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Tales of terror (Chris Priestley) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
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During a visit to his eccentric Uncle Montague to hear several grisly tales behind the unique artifacts in his collection, Edgar discovers the truth about his uncle's past.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A collection of horror-inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers--edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder (Black Balloon, 2018)."--Provided by publisher.
23) Scary stories
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A collection of twenty very scary stories by timeless authors.
24) The hungry moon
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English
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"In the town of Moonwell, old rituals are still alive. Right-wing evangelist Godwin Mann isn't about to let that continue, so he descends into the pit where the being who's been worshipped by the Druids for centuries is said to dwell. What emerges is a demon in Mann's shape, and only the town's outcasts can see that something is horribly wrong"--Provided by publisher.
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Horror and speculative fiction wouldn't exist without the women who created it. From forgotten visionaries like Margaret "Mad Madge" Cavendish, to literary icons such as Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson, to modern-era marvels such as Anne Rice and Helen Oyeyemi, women authors have always been at the vanguard of frightening fiction. And their life stories are as intriguing as the novels, short stories, and novellas they crafted. Part biography, part...
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Best horror of the year (Ellen Datlow) volume 13
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The Best Horror of the Year showcases the previous year's best offerings in horror short fiction. This edition includes award-winning and critically acclaimed authors Nathan Ballingrud, Gemma Files, Stephen Graham Jones, J.A. W. McCarthy, Steve Duffy, Sarah Pinkser, Simon Bestwick, and others. For more than four decades, award-winning editor and anthologist Ellen Datlow has had her finger on the pulse of the latest and most terrifying in horror writing....
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English
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"As railroads, industry, cities, and technology flourished in the mid-nineteenth century, so did stories exploring the horrors they unleashed. This anthology includes ghost stories and tales of haunted houses, as well as mad scientists, werewolves, ancient curses, mummies, psychological terrors, demonic dimensions, and even weird westerns." --provided by publisher.
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From the fertile mind of Brian Lumley: Weird heroes and weirder worlds!
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!
Vampires. Elder Gods. Nightmares. Mysterious elixirs. Wines capable of transporting the drinker-literally-to another world. Fossils that dream of rending flesh between their teeth. These wonders, and many more, spring from the fertile imagination of Brian Lumley.
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! collects eight long...
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
More than thirty chilling stories and novellas featuring Bram Stoker's King of the Vampires: Count Dracula, Prince of Darkness! Since his creation one hundred and twenty years ago, the name of Dracula has become synonymous with the legend of the vampire and the character is one of the world's most iconic to appear in fiction and film. Now, this history of the blood-drinking nobleman follows Dracula from his origins in Transylvania, through his travels...
36) Flight or fright
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like--gulp!--a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including...
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The ghost of a poor Afghan returns to haunt the doctor who once amputated his hand. A mysterious and malignant force inhabits a room in an ancestral home and attacks all who sleep in it. A man who desecrates an Indian temple is transformed into a ravening beast. A castle in the Tyrol is the setting for an aristocratic murderer's apparent resurrection. In the stories in this collection, horrors from beyond the grave and other dimensions visit the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Though Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
"Who are the people who make our hearts race and our minds spin? Why are they so good at making us fear what goes bump in the night? What are the stories behind the writers who give us goosebumps? Dark Hearts is a collection of fourteen short biographies of the world's best-known horror writers, including Mary Shelley, Shirley Jackson, Neil Gaiman, R. L. Stine, Stephen King, Bram Stoker, and others." --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Jekyll is a kind and respected man. His friends cannot understand his companionship with the wicked, mysterious Mr. Hyde, who seems to have come from nowhere and yet has a terrible hold on the doctor. Even as Hyde commits crimes that shock all of London, no one can guess how -- or why -- the two men are so close. Only at the very end of this gripping tale is the incredible truth revealed." - back cover.
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