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Christine
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. BestsellerThe 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 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 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 métamorphoseDarkness, I: third in the blood opera sequence
Par Tanith Lee. 1994
Continues the saga of the vampiric and elegant Scarabae. Rachaela gives birth to Anna, who may be a reincarnation of…
Rachaela's first daughter. Anna grows to adolescence in two years and is kidnapped to Cain's ancient and evil underground. Sequel to Personal Darkness (BR 10865). Strong language, violence, and explicit descriptions of sexWalking 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. Bestseller