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"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story. Since his first collection, Nightshift, published thirty-five years ago, Stephen King has dazzled readers with his genius as a writer of short fiction. In this new collection he assembles, for the...
2) Deep trouble
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 19
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Billy and his sister, Sheena, are visiting a tiny Caribbean island. It's the perfect place for an underwater adventure. There's only one rule to remember: Stay away from the coral reefs. But Billy can't resist the beauty of the reefs -- and he quickly discovers that he's not alone. Something that's half-human, half-fish is lurking deep below.
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 4
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Strange things happen when Greg starts using the camera he and his friends found.
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"Edgar Allan Poe is credited with having pioneered the short story, having perfected the tale of psychological horror, and having revolutionised modern poetics. The entirety of Poe's body of imaginative work encompasses detective tales, satires, fables, fantasies, science fiction, verse dramas, and some of the most evocative poetry in the English language. This omnibus edition collects all of Poe's fiction and poetry in a single volume, including...
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"From R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes ten new stories that are sure to leave you shivering. A boy who hates bugs starts to see them everywhere. A basketball player's skin starts to almost drip off his hands--but no one else can see it. Three friends find a hole in the ground that just gets bigger, and bigger, and bigger . . . And each story is introduced by Stine himself, providing a personal touch sure to delight fans.Laced...
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Luke Harrison's dad makes horror movies. It's very fun to be around such scary stuff-especially when you have your own monster museum at home. But when two ventriloquist dummies join the collection, things get real creepy. Real-life creepy! Slappy and Snappy can walk and talk on their own.
7) Night shift
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Presents a collection of twenty stories of horror and nightmarish fantasy that transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving.
8) Hunger
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Gone novels volume 2
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Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
9) If it bleeds
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Holly Gibney (from Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy and The outsider) must face her fears and possibly another outsider--this time on her own. In "Mr. Harrigan's Phone," an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. "The Life of Chuck" explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in "Rat," a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition. If these stories show King's range, they also prove that certain...
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OBD Horror for MG/YA - YOUTH
Read Me If You Dare
Scary Stories for Middle Grade (SCPL-YS)
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"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, New York Times bestselling author and 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...
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Stinetinglers volume 2
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A collection of ten scary stories with brief introductions by the author.
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 16
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"In HorrorLand there are no crowds and no lines. And the admission is free. It seems like a pretty cool place. But that was before Lizzy's heart-stopping ride on the deadly Doom Slide .. and her terrifying experience in the House of Mirrors. Because there's something weird about the rides in HorrorLand -- something a little too real..." P. [4] of cover.
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"If you're feeling brave, turn the page. A game of hide-and-seek goes on far too long ... A look-alike doll makes itself right at home ... A school talent show act leaves the audience aghast ... And a summer at camp takes a turn for the braaaains ... This collection of all-new spooky stories is sure to keep readers up past their bedimes"--Dust jacket flap.
14) Slappy, beware!
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"The untold, true story of the world's most villainous dummy! In the Goosebumps universe, there is no villain more feared than Slappy. Endowed by his magician creator with devious powers, Slappy has only one mission in his tiny, deranged mind: Do evil every day, all day. But he may have met his match in the Carlton family. Each of Slappy's attempts to ruin their lives ends in disaster, and the dummy starts to panic. Will Slappy's scariest day yet...
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AMPL Dark Academia
Books About Libraries/Librarians (Adult)
OBD National Library Week (April) - ADULT
Scary Halloween
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Scary Halloween
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A young woman finds old papers which begin to reveal an ancient and evil plot concerning Vlad the Impaler and the legend of Dracula, which may still be continuing.
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An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...
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Slip behind the bleak walls and vacant windows of Netflix's reimagining of the mansion of doom in this anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired the limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. From well-loved classics like "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"to lesser-known gems such as "Tamerlane" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," these collected tales have withstood the test of time, haunting readers for nearly two hundred years.--Amazon...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 39
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When he receives a wrinkled, green shrunken head as a gift from his aunt, Mark cannot wait to show the gruesome object to his friends at school, but when night falls, the head begins to glow, and Mark is given a strange power.
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