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1) Horror Tales
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Three thrilling stories of horror and mystery. Three tales of classical style that will freeze you. Three fascinating stories for all the lovers of the genre. THE FATHER'S INHERITANCE: A young mother discovers that her little baby is suffering from strange transformations. "One of those nights little Pete started breathing in a very strange way, very abrupt. Sharon got scared and turned on the light. Her son appeared to be sleeping peacefully, as...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
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Dollanganger family series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Young Bart, son of Chris and Cathy who spent their adolescence locked in an attic, trembles on the edge of madness.
6) IT
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
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To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their hometown: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw--and felt--what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing ... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing....
7) Misery
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1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
8) Insomnia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 39
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"Ralph Roberts never expected to live out his remaining golden years mourning the death of his beloved wife. He also never expected to begin suffering from chronic insomnia for the first time in his life. Each night he wakes up a little bit earlier, until he's barely sleeping at all. During his overnight walks, he's now observing some strange things going on here in Derry, Maine--and they're more than sleep-deprived hallucinations. There's definitely...
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THE HORROR LIVES THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE OF REALMS!
A collection featuring a variety of stories across the horror aspects into the supernatural and through the paranormal across the Universe of Realms.
From the corners of the Dark Titan Universe to the historical monster hunters of the Symbolum Venatores and the ancient vampires of The Horde.
Even the Numinous have something to fear.
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
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"Sue and her brother, Eddie, are visiting London when they run into a little problem. They can't find their tour group. Still, there's no reason to panic. Because there's no way their tour guide would just leave them. All alone. In a gloomy old prison tower. There's no way they'd get locked inside. After dark. With those eerie sounds. And a strange dark figure who wants them...dead"--P. [4] of cover.
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Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
12) The haunted mask
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Carly Beth thinks she's found the best Halloween mask ever. With yellow-green skin and long animal fangs, the mask terrifies the entire neighborhood. Before long, it has a surprising effect on Carly Beth, too. She tries to take it off . . . but it won't budge!Halloween is almost over, but fright night is just beginning.
13) Ghost Beach
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 22
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IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
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Anticipating the fun of exploring a cave he finds down by the beach, Jerry dismisses the story the other kids tell him of the spooky three-hundred-year-old ghost that lives in the cave and comes out when the moon is full.Get Goosebumps with the startling repackage of a best-selling classic. No swimming. No surfing. No haunting.Jerry can't wait to explore the dark, spooky old cave he found down by the beach. Then the other kids tell him a story. A...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 48
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Looking forward to her plans for Halloween night, when she and her friend Walker will take revenge on the kids that played practical jokes on them, Drew Brockman carves scary jack-o'-lanterns that frighteningly come to life.
15) Pet sematary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
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From horror's master storyteller, Stephen King, comes the classic tale--PET SEMETARY. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son--and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all ... right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth--more terrifying than death itself--and hideously...
16) Needful Things
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 40
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A newcomer opens a shop in Castle Rock, Me., bringing bargains as well as nightmares and disasters to the town.
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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136p. Baffled at the series of strange, unexplained events taking place at summer camp in the desert wilderness, twelve-year-old Billy considers escaping the horrors forever.
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Deadtime stories (Reissued) volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Adam Riley and his friends find out the truth about urban legends of a half-human monster when they participate in a campout from which kids begin disappearing one by one and Adam discovers ominous hoofprints in the woods.
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Signet classic volume CE 1659
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A collection of horror and fantasy fiction by American author Edgar Allan Poe.