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Walking after midnight
Par Karen Robards. 1995
At 2:00 a.m., Summer McAfee, owner of a janitorial service, is on her knees scrubbing the floor of a funeral…
home. Suddenly the naked and badly bruised body of a man comes to life, and he takes her hostage. Over the next four days they are on the run, dodging bad cops and a ghost, as the former corpse, a cop working under cover, tries to save himself and Summer. Strong language, some violence, and some explicit descriptions of sexThe house of thunder
Par Dean Koontz. 1982
When Susan Thorton, thirty-two, awakes in a hospital room she has no recollection of why she is there. At first…
all she remembers is her name and age. Then slowly her memory returns and she dreams she is lying in a pool of blood in the House of Thunder. Violence. BestsellerGhosts
Par Noel Hynd. 1993
Actress Annette Carlson has moved to Nantucket Island to be alone. But she is awakened one night by a transparent…
woman in white who warns her that everyone on the island is in danger. Then an evil looking shape slithers into her cellar. Detective Brooks, an adamant nonbeliever in ghosts, changes his mind quickly as he witnesses the cruel actions of whatever is haunting the island. Strong language, some violence, and some descriptions of sexJackals
Par Charles Grant. 1994
Traveling to Virginia, Rachel is forced off a hill in Tennessee by the occupants of an eerie Cadillac. Battered and…
terrified, she escapes and crawls to the nearby home of Jim Scott, who tells her the truth about her pursuers. They are a band of jackal-like humans who skin and eat their victims, and Scott has been hunting them for years. Strong language and violenceWaltz in the shadows
Par Catherine Rieger. 1993
Vienna, 1888. Emily Hopkins, twenty-two, has come to Vienna at the request of Dr. Franz Joseph Demel to help write…
a biography of her father that will, she hopes, dispel the lies about him. But when Emily arrives, she doesn't remember Dr. Demel. Mysterious events are occurring in the dark house, which has become a sanitarium, and someone is attempting to scare her with strange notes. She turns to Dr. Maximillian Schaller for helpVanish with the rose
Par Barbara Michaels. 1992
Diana, a lawyer, knows she is risking a lot when she convinces Walt, the landscaper, to recommend her to the…
Nicholsons as a landscape designer. But she has to find out what has happened to her brother Brad, last seen when working for the previous owner. With her identity soon uncovered, Diana and several young people begin a search that involves haunting music, spells of deja vu, a brutal ex-husband, and a corpse. Strong languageBless the child
Par Cathy Spellman. 1993
Three years ago, Jenna, Maggie O'Connor's drug-addicted daughter, surfaced just long enough to dump her baby daughter, Cody, with Maggie.…
Now Jenna and her husband have come to claim the little girl. Concerned about the environment into which Cody is taken, Maggie finds herself risking everything to protect Cody from the satanic cult that wants to claim her. Violence and strong languageThe haunting of Lamb House
Par Joan Aiken. 1993
A young boy in the eighteenth century experiences ghosts and family tragedy in his English manor. He records his story…
in a journal that is discovered a century later by another of the manor's tenants--writer Henry James. James's attempts to edit and publish the journal are thwarted and another century passes. The manor is now occupied by author E.F. Benson, who inadvertently brings the whole ghostly business out in the openDawn (G.K. Hall large print book series)
Par V. C Andrews. 1990
They are on the move again. It seems to teenagers Dawn and Jimmy Longchamp that it always happens just as…
they are getting settled into a new home. But this time maybe it will be different. Their father finally has a good job, they can go to a private school, and maybe their mother, who won't have to work anymore, can recover from the birth of their baby sister. But then their mother dies and their world is shattered. BestsellerSeven for a secret
Par Victoria Holt. 1992
"And seven for a secret never to be told," is part of a poem written on the wall of Lane…
Cottage. Although simple, it serves as a reminder of secrets to be kept and foreshadows great tragedies. Frederica, who has come to live in Harper's Green with her Aunt Sophie, quickly makes friends with two classmates. As the three grow up they find love, betrayal, marriage, and murder before they know the secret never to be told. BestsellerSecrets of the morning
Par V. C Andrews. 1991
Dawn Cutler's dream of being a singer just might come true now that she is in music school. But Dawn…
can't seem to forget her boyfriend Jimmy and the secrets they share. Then Michael Sutton, a new singing teacher, arrives and Dawn falls victim to his promises of fame and romance. When he disappears, Dawn is once again the victim of her grandmother's twisted schemes. Some descriptions of sex. Sequel to "Dawn." BestsellerMidnight whispers
Par V. C Andrews. 1992
As Christie celebrates her sixteenth birthday, she feels a dark cloud hanging over her. Soon her world is turned upside…
down. Her parents die when their hotel burns, and her Uncle Philip expresses more than a familial interest in her. Fleeing to New York, and then to the plantation, The Meadows, is no help because the curse that haunts the Cutlers still oppresses her. Descriptions of sex. Sequel to Twilight's Child (BR 8827). BestsellerThe silver kiss
Par Annette Klause. 1990
One evening as Zoe, seventeen, is brooding over her mother's imminent death from cancer, her father's lack of support, and…
her best friend's move, she meets Simon, a startlingly handsome and compelling young man. As their friendship blossoms, Simon reveals that he is a vampire out to kill his vampire brother for the gruesome murder of their mother. Some strong language and some violence. For high school and older readersMelmoth the wanderer
Par Charles Maturin. 1989
This classic gothic novel by an eccentric Anglican curate in Dubin was originally published in 1820 and tells of a…
Faust-like hero. John Melmoth has sold his soul to the devil in return for a long life. He can redeem himself if he can find someone to take his place in hell. His search takes him from London's Bedlam mental institution to Spain during the Inquisition, and from Ireland to a mysterious uninhabited islandNeedful things
Par Stephen King. 1991
Leland Gaunt, a new resident in Castle Rock, sets up a curio shop, Needful Things, where a person can have…
anything his or her heart desires--but for a price! Customers must play a prank on a designated person, and sometimes the jokes have serious consequences. Perhaps the residents are paying too high a price for happiness, for Castle Rock has become a battleground. Some violence and strong language. BestsellerThornyhold
Par Mary Stewart. 1988
A gothic romance suspense tale about Gilly, a lonely 1940s lass who inherits a handsome, old English country house, Thornyhold.…
Delighted at first with her dream house, she soon feels unsettled by meddling neighbors and intimations of witchcraft as she comes to believe that everyone around her is under a magic spell. Book club main selectionSlay (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #30)
Par Laurell Hamilton. 2023
Necromancer Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: U.S. Marshal—Preternatural…
Branch. She’s faced horrifying monsters and brutal killers and come out the other side still standing. Considering how things in her life tend to go, Anita never expected her walk down the aisle with Jean-Claude to go smoothly. They’ve already been confronted with naysayers and a power-hungry ancient evil, but now Anita has to do the one thing that actually scares her: introduce her very religious, very human relatives to her fiancé—the newly crowned vampire king of America. As Anita tries to keep the peace between the family she left behind and the family she’s chosen, dark forces jump at the chance to take advantage of the chaos. With her happy-ever-after at risk and everyone’s immortal souls hanging in the balance, Anita grapples with a hard truth: Blood makes you related, but loyalty makes you familyCeux de là-bas
Par Patrick Senécal. 2023
À l'aube de la cinquantaine, Victor Bettany est psychologue auprès des étudiants du cégep de Drummondville. En excellente forme physique,…
c'est toujours à pied qu'il se rend au boulot... ou au CHSLD afin de rendre visite à son père, Philippe, aux prises avec l'Alzheimer, et de soutenir sa mère, Thérèse, continuellement au chevet de son mari. Or, de voir dépérir son père perturbe Victor, lui qui a vécu il y a deux ans le décès accidentel de Roxanne, son amoureuse, et dont la peur de la mort s'amplifie en vieillissant. Mais, comme il le confie souvent à sa meilleure amie Lucie, Victor se sait capable de surmonter ses angoisses, et tout cela ne l''empêche pas de vivre sa vie, ni même de chercher une nouvelle âme sour. Mais ce soir, sa rencontre avec une flamme potentielle ne s'est pas très bien déroulée et, plutôt que de revenir chez lui, Victor décide sur un coup de tête - qu'il va amèrement regretter quelques heures plus tard - d'assister à la première du nouveau spectacle de Crypto, un jeune hypnotiseur qui aime fouiller, paraît-il, dans les zones sombres de l'humainThe crying child
Par Barbara Michaels. 1971
The brides of Aberdar
Par Christianna Brand. 1982
A curse dating back to the days of Good Queen Bess awaits all future brides of the Tudor manor house…
of Aberdar. The curse returns with a vengeance to haunt homely Hetty, the well-meaning governess who agrees to marry the widowed father of the twin girls she adores