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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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'Everything's Eventual' is a collection of short stories from Stephen King. It includes some of the best King storytelling of recent years much of which has previously only appeared in private collections or magazines.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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The story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly place called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting;' Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
There's something spooky about the camera that Greg and his friends found, it takes pictures of the future.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
A stunning collection from international bestseller Stephen King that displays his phenomenally broad readership (stories published in The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's and including the 25,000 word story "Gingerbread Girl" published in Esquire).
Stephen King—who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies—delivers...
Stephen King—who has written more than fifty books, dozens of number one New York Times bestsellers, and many unforgettable movies—delivers...
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Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
Description
As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier's eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined, until now. But the journals of resident Kate Holland, recovered from the town's bloody wreckage, capture a tale too harrowing and too earth-shattering in its implications, to be forgotten. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept the impossible. We must accept that...
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English
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"A collection of four chilling novels, ingeniously wrought gems of terror from the brilliantly imaginative, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fireman, Joe Hill. "One of America?s finest horror writers" (Time magazine), Joe Hill has been hailed among legendary talents such as Peter Straub, Neil Gaiman, and Jonathan Lethem. In Strange Weather, this "compelling chronicler of human nature?s continual war between good and evil," (Providence Journal-Bulletin)...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved...
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Ten twisted tales that have haunted generations of readers and writers from H. P. Lovecraft to the creators of the hit TV series True Detective Nightmare imagery courses through these stories like blood through the veins. In "The Repairer of Reputations," a Lethal Chamber stands at the edge of Washington Square Park, open to all who can no longer bear the sorrows of life. A Parisian sculptor discovers a liquid solution that can turn any living thing-a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade - how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must...
13) Hell's corner
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Series
Camel Club novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"The mysterious attackers in a seeming terrorist plot in Washington, D.C., might have another target in their sights, and if the Camel Club is unable to stop them, the results would be nothing less than catastrophic"--Provided by publisher.
14) The haunted mask
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Carly Beth's Halloween mask is the best ever and she is still wearing it after Halloween.
15) The stand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
Description
"When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in...
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Language
English
Description
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 59
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tommy Frazer, a new student at Bell Valley Middle School, gets lost while trying to find his way back from the art room and stumbles onto a horrifying secret that has been hidden in the school for fifty years.
18) The wolf gift
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Description
The time is the present. The place, the rugged coast of northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest. A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer, an older woman, welcoming him into her magnificent, historic family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency. A chance encounter between two unlikely...
19) Skeleton crew
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Language
English
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Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror.
20) My name is evil
Author
Series
Nightmare room volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Say Happy Birthday to Maggie O'Connor. She's that shy, pretty girl standing outside the fortune-teller's tent. Maggie and her friends came to the carnival for fun. But Maggie won't be celebrating for long. The old woman who reads her palm will soon have Maggie screaming in horror. Because Maggie hasn't really entered a fortune-teller's tent. She has stepped into The Nightmare Room.