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The exorcist
Par William Blatty. 1971
Actress Chris MacNeil is filming a new movie in Washington, D.C. After playing with a Ouija board, her twelve-year-old daughter,…
Regan, begins exhibiting bizarre and macabre behaviors. Medical science doesn't help, so Chris appeals to the Catholic Church. A priest, Damien Karras, conducts an exorcism to try to rid Regan of the demon. Strong language and explicit descriptions of sexItalian fever: a novel
Par Valerie Martin. 1999
Lucy Stark is an assistant to novelist DV, who dies suddenly while writing a book in Italy. Lucy travels to…
Italy for his funeral, to retrieve his things, and to discover why he died. She is met by Massimo, an interpreter, who comes to care for her in many ways. Some descriptions of sex. BestsellerRebecca
Par Daphne Maurier. 1938
Rebecca, the glamorous mistress of a great English estate, died eight months before Maxim de Winter brought a young and…
frightened second wife to live there. Mystery, intrigue, and violence eventually reveal the circumstances surrounding Rebecca's deathChristine
Par Stephen King. 1983
Chilling, macabre love tragedy set in 1978 in Pittsburgh centers on teenage misfit Arnie Cunningham and his devotion to and…
ultimate possession by his '58 Plymouth Fury, "Christine." Eerie things happen from the day that Arnie buys the car for $250 from creepy old Roland D. LeBay. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. BestsellerSnake dreamer
Par Priscilla Galloway. 1998
Recurring nightmares about snakes so disturb Dusa that she becomes a research subject for two psychologists. Dusa is admitted to…
their clinic on a Greek island hoping to be cured, but mysterious happenings fill her with foreboding as she recalls the myth of Medusa. For senior high readersFinding Laura
Par Kay Hooper. 1997
Ever since childhood, Laura Sutherland has had a fascination with mirrors--she is searching for something in their reflections, although she…
isn't sure what it is. After she finds the right mirror at the Kilbourne family estate sale in Atlanta, she becomes a pawn in a struggle between the family matriarch, Amelia, and grandson Daniel. Some descriptions of sexFrankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus (Penguin classics)
Par Mary Shelley. 1985
The reformatory: A novel
Par Tananarive Due. 2023
A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated…
reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead. Gracetown, Florida June 1950 Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a talent for seeing ghosts, or haints. But what was once a comfort to him after the loss of his mother has become a window to the truth of what happens at the reformatory. Boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, but the haints Robbie sees hint at worse things. Through his friends Redbone and Blue, Robbie is learning not just the rules but how to survive. Meanwhile, Gloria is rallying every family member and connection in Florida to find a way to get Robbie out before it's too late. The Reformatory is a haunting work of historical fiction written as only American Book Award–winning author Tananarive Due could, by piecing together the life of the relative her family never spoke of and bringing his tragedy and those of so many others at the infamous Dozier School for Boys to the light in this riveting novelPeggy Sue et les fantômes: 7], La révolte des dragons
Par Serge Brussolo. 2005
"Une malédiction pèse sur les habitants de Zantora. Pour ne pas être transformés en monstres, ils doivent chaque jour avaler…
une potion fabriquée avec des larmes de dragon. Il faut donc recueillir les pleurs de l'animal et ne jamais les laisser tarir... Pas si simple ! Peggy Sue, Sebastian et le chien bleu, appelés à la rescousse, ne vont pas tarder à s'en rendre compte..." -- 4e de couvThe beasties
Par William Sleator. 1997
When Doug's family moves to a logging camp, he and his younger sister Colette encounter the beasties. Colette sympathizes with…
these underground creatures making war on the loggers. Doug fears the beasties because they mutilate humans to replace parts of their own maimed bodies. Now Colette and Doug are the next likely victims. Violence. For senior high and older readersCompanions of the night
Par Vivian Velde. 1995
Returning to a laundromat at midnight to retrieve her brother's toy, sixteen-year-old Kerry is confronted by three men who are…
holding a young man named Ethan hostage. When she realizes the captors are determined to prove Ethan is a vampire, Kerry helps him escape. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readersNoctuary
Par Thomas Ligotti. 1994
A discussion of the genre of weird fiction, followed by twenty-seven short weird tales, presented in three parts. "The Medusa"…
probes the power of classical myth in modern life, "Conversations in a Dead Language" explores the tradition of trick or treating at Halloween, and "Autumnal" examines deathThe dancing floor
Par Barbara Michaels. 1997
Heather Tradescant has come to England to visit some of its famous gardens. One of her greatest hopes is to…
see the ones at Troytan House. When she is denied permission, Heather attempts to get a glimpse of the fabled landscape by crawling through a wall of thick brush. What awaits her is not what she expectsDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other stories
Par Robert Stevenson. 1992
In the title story, a short psychological novel of the war between good and evil within the human personality, a…
kindly physician commits diabolical crimes when his suppressed personality is released. "The Body-Snatcher" and "A Lodging for the Night" pursue moral issues, "Markheim" and "Thrawn Janet" are stories about the supernatural, and "The Misadventures of John Nicholson" is a Gothic taleA fate totally worse than death
Par Paul Fleischman. 1995
The Huns are a group of very rich students at Cliffside High School. Earlier three Hun girls arranged the death…
of an outsider who tried to date a Hun. Now Helga, a new girl, is showing interest in a Hun boy. But as the girls make their plans for Helga, their bodies start aging rapidly. For junior and senior high readersLetters from the inside
Par John Marsden. 1991
Bored, Australian teenager Mandy answers an ad for a pen pal from a girl named Tracey. After the two develop…
a friendship through their letters, Mandy learns an astonishing fact about Tracey. Some strong language. For junior and senior high readersEighteen stories of vampires down through history, from ancient Greece to the modern day. Some are tales of terror, while…
others seem poignant and even humorous. In the opening story, the undead spirit of a slain Athenian soldier returns to convince Socrates of death's horror and to guide him into the netherworld. ViolenceCarrie
Par Stephen King. 1974
A high school girl uses her secret powers of telekinesis, the ability to produce motion in objects by mind control,…
as a weapon to exact revenge on a New England town. Strong language and some violencePersonal darkness: second in the blood opera sequence
Par Tanith Lee. 1993
In this sequel to Dark Dance, the surviving Scarabae vampires settle in an elegant house outside London after being burned…
out by the young Ruth. She flees her clan and finds her way through London by drinking the blood of her unwitting hosts. Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexPolyphagie: roman (Hurlantes fictions)
Par Véronique Drouin. 2023
Romane, une étudiante à la très réputée école culinaire Guillot, sort prendre un pot avec ses amis dans un club…
branché. La soirée se termine par un black-out complet. La jeune femme se réveille seule dans un lieu désaffecté, nue et couverte de sang. À ses côtés, une main sectionnée et un téléphone inconnu. C'est ainsi que débutera une lente descente aux enfers pour celle qui cherchera à comprendre non seulement ce qui s'est produit cette nuit-là, mais quel est ce mal qui la ronge et la métamorphose