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Horror Fiction

GHOSTS

Almond, David. Kit’s Wilderness. Thirteen-year-old Kit goes to live with his grandfather in the decaying coal mining town of Stoneygate, England, and finds both the old man and the town by of the past.

Anthony, Piers. Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn. Jordan was once a valorous knight before was killed. Now he is a in Xanth riding his horse on dangerous missions over 400 years into the past.

Avi. ’s Race. Sixteen-year-old John Proud is tormented by the ghost of an evil ancestor, with his own name and his own face, who was hanged in 1854 for being a .

Avi. Something Upstairs. When he moves from Los Angeles to Providence, , Kenny discovers that his new house is haunted by the spirit of a slave boy who asks Kenny to return with him to the early 19th century and prevent his by slave traders.

Barker, Clive. Coldheart Canyon. After his plastic surgery goes awry, actor Todd Pickett settles into a mansion in Coldheart Canyon to wait for the scars to heal, but when the president of his fan club arrives to try and uncover the truth behind his disappearance, she learns some unsettling secrets about the canyon.

Block, Francesca Lia. Missing Angel Juan. Witch Baby follows Angel Juan to New York City and meets the ghost of her almost grandfather Charlie .

Bunce, Elizabeth C. A Dark as Gold. Upon the death of her father, 17n-year-old Charlotte struggles to keep the family's woolen mill running in of an overwhelming mortgage and what the local villagers believe is a curse, but when a man capable of spinning straw into gold appears on the scene she must decide if his help is worth the price.

Cabot, Meg. Darkest Hour. Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she tries to solve the murder of Jesse, a nineteenth-century ghost she is in love with. (4th in Mediator series)

Cabot, Meg. Haunted: A Tale of . Susannah Simon finds herself in a difficult and dangerous situation when she agrees to go out with Paul Slater in order to keep him from doing harm to her true love Jesse, a 19th-century ghost. (5th in the Mediator series)

Cabot, Meg. The Ninth Key. Sixteen-year-old Suze is pleased to have a date with a popular boy but her ability to converse with ghosts is causing her problems. (2nd in the Mediator series)

Cabot, Meg. . Susannah Simon is a teenager with the ability to interact with ghosts but she'd rather just concentrate on graduating high school until the ghosts of four teenagers killed in a suspicious car accident try to take vengeance on her friend Michael. (3rd in Mediator series)

Cabot, Meg. . Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon, a liaison between the living and the dead, hopes to be able to live as a normal teenager after moving from New York to California with her mom and new stepfather, but on the first day of school she encounters the very hostile ghost of a girl who committed over winter break and is out for revenge against her former boyfriend. (1st in Mediator series)

Cusick, Richie Tankersley. The House Next Door. A bet to spend the alone in the abandoned house next door leads Emma Donovan to relive a passionate love and a horrific night from the house’s past.

Goldstein, Rebecca. Properties of Ligh : A of Love, Betrayal and Quantum Physics. Three physicists work together to solve some of the most challenging scientific problems in quantum mechanics.

Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for Me by Moonlight. While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, 16-year- old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father’s new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

Hoh, Diane. The Accident. A wispy, shadowy figure appears in Megan's one day begging to trade places with her for just one week. The young girl begs her to let her live again. Gradually Megan comes to realize that she must grant this request.

Hurley, Tonya. Ghostgirl. An outlaw condemned to be hanged threatens to wreak vengeance from the grave on those responsible for his death.

Lerangis, Peter. Last Stop. David Moore enters a strange world inhabited by ghost-like people in order to find his father who has disappeared.

Nixon, Joan Lowry. The Haunting. When her mother inherits an old plantation house in the countryside, 15-year-old Lia seeks to rid of the evil spirit that haunts it.

Nixon, Joan Lowry. from the Dead. After making contact with the spirit world during a near-death experience, Sarah moves to Houston with her parents and receives otherworldly messages about a murder committed in her house.

Peck, Richard. Voices after . Living with their sister and parents in a rented house in New York City during the summer, Chad and Luke uncover a mystery involving the former tenants of the house when the two brothers slip back in time to 1888.

Peck, Richard. The Ghost Belonged to Me. In 1913 in the Midwest, a quartet of characters share adventures from exploding steamboats to “exorcizing” a ghost.

Pike, Christopher. Remember Me. After her untimely death, 18-year-old Shari tries to prove that she did not commit suicide and to keep the person responsible from killing again.

Shusterman, Neil. Everlost. When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost , where, although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.

Soto, Gary. The . A senior at East Fresno High School lives on as a ghost after his brutal murder in the restroom of a club where he had to dance.

Velde, Vivian Vande. Ghost of a Hanged Man. An outlaw condemned to be hanged threatens to wreak vengeance from the grave on those responsible for his death.

Whitcomb, Laura. A Certain Slant of Light. After benignly haunting a series of people for 130 years, Helen meets a teenage boy who can see her and together they unlock the mysteries of their pasts.

MEDICAL

Cook, Robin. . When more than a dozen minor-surgery patients die inexplicably on the operating table, a medical student determines to find the reason.

Cook, Robin. Contagion. After he looses his practice and his family, Dr. John Stapleton tries to rebuild his life in New York. When a series of virulent and extremely lethal illnesses strikes the young, the old, and the innocent, Dr. Stapleton’s suspicions are aroused, especially when the same for-profit medical company seems to be involved in each incident.

Cook, Robin. Harmful Intent. A subtle clue puts a physician turned fugitive and Nurse Kelly on the trail of a crazed killer, responsible for drugtampering deaths.

Cook, Robin. . OB/gyn and biomolecular researcher Dr. Victor Frank attempts to create a superior being, his son, in a dangerous experiment.

Cook, Robin. . When the director of a Los Angeles health maintenance clinic succumbs, along with seven patients, to an untreatable virus, Atlanta’s Centers for Disease control goes on red alert. Dr. Melissa Blumenthal is sent to investigate.

Crichton, Michael. The Andromeda Strain. For five days, scientists struggle to identify and control a deadly new virus threatening the United States.

Herber, Frank. Dune Messiah. Living in exile on the planet dune, Paul Atreides finally realizes the destiny for which he had been prepared as the product of numerous genetic experiements.

Koontz, Dean. Nothing. Christopher Snow’s condition makes it impossible for him to be out in sunlight, so he spends his wandering around Moonlight Bay observing the nocturnal habits of his neighbors. When he witnesses a bizarre crime, he realized he is the only one who can solve it.

Koontz, Dean. . Two creatures escape from a secret, sinister government laboratory where experiments in genetic engineering are conducted.

Patterson, James. When the Wind Blows. An FBI agent, Kit Harrison, is on leave and is conducting his own investigation of a number of that have been happening around town. He encounters a veterinarian, Frannie, who spots a young girl on the side of the road who has wings and can fly.

Shelley, Mary Wollsgonecraft. . A assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A man’s reckless genius leads him to develop a monstrous second personality.

OCCULT, &

Cooney, Caroline B. Both Sides of Time. The summer after her senior year, Annie, wishing she could have lived a hundred years ago in a more romantic time, finds herself in the 1890s and it is indeed romantic—and very painful.

Duncan, Lois. Gallows Hill. When Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.

Duncan, Lois. Stranger with My Face. A 17-year-old senses she is being spied on and probably impersonated, but when she discovers what actually is occurring, it is more unbelievable than she ever imagined.

Duncan, Lois. The Third Eye. High school senior Karen, who worries that her powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help locate missing children.

Goobie, Beth. Before Wings. Fifteen-year-old Adrien, having survived a aneurysm two years earlier, receives a message from the spirits of five young women that could hold the key to the secret that haunts her haunt Erin.

Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House. Four seekers look for haunting evidence at the abandoned old mansion called Hill House. Their stay begins as a spooky encounter, but the house is gathering its powers and will choose one of them to make its own.

King, Stephen. . A terribly ostracized young girl has supernatural powers of telekinesis.

King, Stephen. . Four friends’ association with a mentally handicapped boy with supernatural abilities leaves them with special gifts that come in handy when they unite as adults for an annual hunting trip in Maine and find themselves in the middle of an alien .

King, Stephen. . Innocence and beauty ignite with evil and terror as a young girl exhibits signs of a wild and horrifying force.

Koontz, Dean. . Jim Ironheart flies to Oregon on an impulse. There he risks his life to save a young boy from being killed by a drunk driver. Soon Jim is on the run from a deadly enemy.

Koontz, Dean. Hideaway. Resusitated after being declared dead, Hatch Harrison believes he has brought back an evil force from the afterlife after a series of frightening events.

Peck, Richard. Ghosts I Have Been. Blossom Culp’s gift of second sight, which she discovers gradually, leads her into some unusual adventures.

Pike, Christopher. Remember Me 2: The Return. As a murder victim, Shari resides in a place of eternal light and love. When she is given the chance to return to earth, reborn into of an unhappy teenager, Shari will do a great service to humanity -- if the evil ones do not have their way.

Pike, Christopher. Remember Me 3: The Last Story. Shari Cooper is a Wanderer--a who has taken up residence in a mature body--and has returned to mortal life to write lessons for young people about the afterlife, but when a story comes to her that warns of great danger to humanity, creatures from the dark beyond try to shut her up for good.

PSYCHOLOGICAL

Allen, Steve. The Trench. When the 20-ton Megalodon shark escapes from the Monterey Aquarium, it embarks on a deadly feeding frenzy along the California coast and it is up to paleo-biologist Jonas Taylor to stop the shark before anyone else is killed.

Avi. Rider: A Tale of Terror. After receiving an apparent crank call from a man claiming to have committed murder, Andy finds his close relationship with his father crumbling as he struggles to make everyone believe him.

Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House. Four seekers look for haunting evidence at the abandoned old mansion called Hill House. Their stay begins as a spooky encounter, but the house is gathering its powers and will choose one of them to make its own.

King, Stephen. . Cujo, a 200-pound Saint Bernard, becomes infected with and begins killing people in Maine.

King, Stephen. . A bestselling authors is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite back to live.

Klein, Rachel. The Moth Diaries. A 16-year-old girl at an exclusive girls’ boarding school during the late sixties uses the pages of her journal to try and come to terms with the that seem to rule her life.

Koontz, Dean. . Terrifying troubles plague Laura’s life though she prevails—often with the help of a mysterious blond-haired stranger. On her 30th birthday, she learns the identity of this stranger.

O’Brien, Edna. In the Forest. After losing his mother at a young age, Michen O’Kane’s life takes a downward spiral into theft, violence, and imprisonment, a cycle that soon leads him on a killing spree that terrorizes Ireland.

Peck, Richard. Are You in the House Alone? As the recipient of threatening notes and phone calls, a high schol girl becomes aware that she is under constant observation.

Pike, Christopher. Chain Letter. Someone, somewhere knew about that awful night when Alison and six other friends committed an unthinkable crime in the desolate California desert. Now that person is determined to make them pay for it.

Pike, Christopher. Chain Letter 2: The Ancient Evil. A chain letter arrives again, but everybody thinks it must be a --after all the perpetrator of the original chain letter is dead. But the letter is similar to the old ones. It is signed "Your Caretaker" and insists they perform certain deeds or else they will be hurt.

Sleator, William. House of Stairs. Five 16-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.

VAMPIRES, , ETC.

Abel, Jessica, Gabirel Soria, and Warren Pleece. Life Sucks. Teen Dave Miller, facing the prospect of eternity stocking shelves at an all-night, vampire-owned convenience store in Los Angeles, becomes involved with Rosa, a mortal with a fascination for the dark side, only to find himself in competition for her attentions with a psychotic surfer-vamp.

Alten, Steve. Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror. Terror surfaces from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharodon megalodon--a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be extinct--alive and well off the coast of Japan.

Anderson, Mt. T. Thirsty. From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the of people around him while also struggling to remain human.

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Demon In My View. Seventeen-year-old Hessuca Allodola discovers that world of her fiction is real when she develops relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. In the Forests of the Night. Risika, a teenage vampire, wanders back in time to the year 1684 when, as a human, she died and was transformed against her will.

Atwater-Rhodes, Amelia. Midnight Predator. Turquoise Draka goes undercover as a human slave in order to enter the fabled vampire realm of Midnight and assassinate Jeshikah, one of the cruelest in history, but her guise brings up old memories of her past enslavement and she finds herself comforted by her benign master Jaguar.

Ast, P. C. Betrayed. Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird settles in at the House of Night, a finishing school for vampyres; but when a series of murders is traced back to the school, Zoey begins to think about the connections that still exist between her old and new worlds.

Caine, Rachel. The Dead Girls’ Dance. College student Claire Danvers is just learning how to stay safe in Morganville, a town ruled by vampires, when her boyfriend Shane's vampire hunting father arrives and disrupts the fragile peace.

Caine, Rachel. Feast of Fools. The college town of Morganville is filled with vampires and humans who have learned to live in relative peace, but when old-school vampire Mr. Bishop arrives, his desire to dominate threatens the town's peace.

Caine, Rache. Glass Houses. College student Claire Danvers begins having trouble with the popular girls in the dorms and decides to rent a room in an old house off campus, where her roommates are stranger than she is but willing to protect her from the undead that run the town.

Caine, Rachel. Lord of Misrule. When Bishop, a master vampire, arrives in Morganville, a college town where vampires and humans coexist in reasonably bloodless harmony, he threatens the peace by bringing evil forces to life, and while other threats mount, student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to do battle with the supernatural.

Caine, Rachel. Midnight Alley. Claire Danvers has finally accepted the fact that her college town is populated by vampires and has pledged herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town, but even Amelie's protection might not be enough when Claire becomes the target of an ancient bloodsucker.

Cary, Kate. . Nineteen-year-old John Shaw returns from World War One and is haunted by nightmares of not only the battles but the horrifying discovery that his regimental commander is descended from Count .

Cast, P. C. and Kristin Cast. Chosen: A House of Night Novel. Zoey Redbird, a fledgling vampyre, becomes confused about who to trust, with friends becoming enemies and enemies becoming friends at the House of Night prep school, and the need for caution becomes increasingly important when she finds herself juggling three boyfriends, and vampyres start turning up really dead.

Cast, P. C. and Kristin Cast. Hunted: A House of Night Novel. Zoey and her friends encounter evil in an unexpected place when they learn that Kalona, the newest member of the House of Night, is hiding a deadly secret.

Cast, P. C. and Kristen Cast. Marked. After being accepted as a fledgling vampire at the House of Night prep school and receiving special powers by a goddess, 16-year-old Zoey Montgomery discovers one of her peers is misusing her powers and must decide what the right thing to do is.

Cusik, Richie Tankersley. The Harvest. finds herself back in the vampire-hunting business when she arrives in Sunnydale, California just in time for The Harvest, a once-in-a-century night when the Master Vampire can open the portal between the worlds of light and darkness.

De la Cruz, Melissa. Blue Bloods. Schuyler Van Alen, a loner at a prestigious New York City private school, sets out to learn the secrets of the Blue Bloods, an ancient group of vampires.

De la Cruz, Melissa. : A Blue Bloods Novel. Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens- only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.

Gray, Claudia. . Sixteen-year-old Bianca, a new girl at the sinister Evernight boarding school, finds herself drawn to another outsider, Jared, but dark forces threaten to tear them apart and destroy Bianca's entire world.

Hahn, Mary Downing. Look for Me by Moonlight. While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, 16-year- old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father’s new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.

King, Stephen. Silver Bullet. This volume includes 's "Cycle of the ," the complete "Silver Bullet" , and a new foreword by the author.

Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate. Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.

Klause, Annette Curtis. The Silver Kiss. A mysterious teenage boy, harboring a dark secret, helps Zoe come to terms with her mother’s illness.

Koontz, Dean. . Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Snow, a man who has a rare skin disorder that makes him unable to tolerate light, teams up with his surfer friends Bobby and Sasha, as well as his unusually intelligent dog Orson, to solve the mystery of what happened to his father's corpse, which for some unknown reason has been stolen from the hospital.

Meyer, Stephenie. . This continues the story of the human Bella and the vampire Edward whose love is threatened by their difference, a werewolf named Jacob, and other outside influences.

Meyer. Stephenie. Elipse. Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city.

Meyer, Stephenie. New Moon. When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "" and changes in terrible ways.

Mignola, Michael. Baltimore, or, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire. On the battlefields of World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore awakens the wrath of a vampire, unleashing a violent plague that leaves Baltimore fighting a battle against evil and relying on the aid of three friends whose experiences have shown them that evil is devouring the world around them.

Rice, Anne. Interview with the Vampire. A vampire tells his whole bloody story to a reporter.

Rice, Anne. The Queen of the Damned. Akasha the Queen has risen from a 6000-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. She has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and to destroy the vampire Lestat.

Rice, Anne. The Tale of the Body Thief. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the universe of the living dead. Now he is alone. Suddenly all his vampire rationale is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.

Rice, Anne. The Vampire Lestat. Lestate the vampire, once an in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying existence. Stoker, Bram. Dracula.

Saul, John. Creature. The Tanner family discovers that beneath the perfect facade of the town of Silverdale there is a monstrous evil harbored.

Schreiber, Ellen. The Coffin Club. When goth-girl Raven follows her vampire boyfriend to Hipsterville, she discovers a dangerous secret club inhabited by vampires who are feuding over its leadership.

Shan, Darren. Death’s Shadow. As Bec's relationship with Dervish improves, werewolves and attack and she sends Shark and Meera through a window to another universe to seek Beranabus, and soon all must face an even greater force of evil, the Shadow.

Shan, Darren. Demon Apocolypse. Grubbs Grady tries to resist his werewolf urges and evade the eight-armed grasp of the demonic Lord Loss.

Shelley, Mary Wollsgonecraft. Frankenstein. A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.

Shusterman, Neal. Red Rider’s Hood. After learning that there are werewolves in his city, a 16-year-old is even more surprised to discover the identities of the hunters who drove them out decades earlier, but he soon infiltrates the gang to help destroy them for good.

Stine, R. L. Dangerous Girls. After 16-year-old Destiny and her twin sister Livvy are turned into partial vampires at a summer camp, they try to find the "Restorer," someone who can return them to normal.

Strasser, Todd. Help! I’m Trapped in a Vampire’s Body. Jake switches bodies with Vlad, a vampire.

Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Harker first meets and then must destroy the vampire, , in order to save those closest to him.

Vande Velde, Vivian. Companions of the Night. When 16-year-old Kerry helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.

Windsor, Patricia. The Blooding. While spending the summer working as an au pair girl for a couple in England, Maris discovers that is a werewolf intent on blooding her and making her one too.

GENERAL

Allen, Steve. Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror. Terror surfaces from the deep after ocean explorers run afoul of a male and female Carcharoden megalodon—a gigantic ancestor of the great white shark long believed to be extinct—alive and well of the coast of Japan.

Andrews, V. C. Flowers in the Attic. In this strange, terrifying tale of passion and peril, four innocent children are locked away from the world by their selfish mother.

Andrews, V. C. If There Be Thorns. An old woman in the house next door and her sinister butler give Chris and Cathy’s youngest son, Bart, a mysterious book that drives him to the brink of madness.

Andrews, V. C. Petals in the Wind. Following the nightmare of Flowers in the Attic, Cathy knew it was time to show her mother and grandmother that the pain and terror of the attic could not be forgotten—that it could not be forgiven. She would show them once and for all.

Andrews, V. C. Seeds of Yesterday. Despite the painful memories of the original Foxworth Hall, Cathy and Chris move into the reconstructed Hall, which has been left to her second son, Bart.

Barker, Clive. . These bloody tales will make you want to !

Barker, Clive. The Thief of Always. After a mysterious stranger promises to end his boredom with a trip to the magical Holiday House, 10-year-old Harvey learns that his fun has a high price.

Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. A diabolical carnival that wreaks havoc on the lives of the people of a small Illinois town.

Cooney, Caroline B. Wanted! Alice suspects something is wrong when she gets a call from her father insisting she drive his precious Corvette to meet him, even though she does not have a driver’s license, but she realizes someone has set her up when she learns tha her father is dead and she is the number one suspect.

Danielewski, Mark Z. Mark Z. Danielewski’s . Johnny Truant begins to fear an evil entity in his own life after finding writer Zampano’s analysis of photojournalist Will Navidson’s spooky documentary about a home, bigger on the inside than the outside and haunted by a fearful entity, in this multilayered horror story/ of postmodernism and scholarly criticism.

Duncan, Lois. Summer of Fear. From the moment Rachel’s cousin arrives that summer, she seems to seep into Rachel’s life like poison. Everyone else is enchanted by her, even Rachel’s boyfriend. Why is Rachel the only one to sense the evil that surrounds Julia?

Hart, Carolyn. Something Wicked. Everyone, including mystery-bookstore owner Annie Laurance, loves Arsenic and Old Lace. But something wicked is poisoning a local summer stock production as cast members stab each other in the back and props are sabotaged.

King, Stephen. . They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror in their Maine town. Now they were grownup men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them would withstand the force that drew them back to face the nightmare.

King, Stephen. . Ralph Roberts used to be an ordinary guy—until insomnia robbed him of sleep. Now he’s no longer ordinary; he can see horrible things happening to the people of , Maine.

King, Stephen. It. Seven childhood friends return to their small New England hometown to confront a supernatural horror from their youth.

King, Stephen. . The Creeds are an ideal family, with a charming little daughter and an adorable infant son. When they find the old house in rural Maine, it seems too good to be true. It is. For the truth is blood chilling—something more horrifying than death itself and hideously more powerful.

King, Stephen. Salem’s Lot. A stranger with an evil secret harms the lives of many inhabitants of a small New England town.

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

Cohen, Daniel. Southern Fried Rat & Other Gruesome Tales.

Coville, Bruce. Odder Than Ever: Stories. A collection of nine short stories featuring a ghost, a , a giant, and other unusual creatures

Hoke, Helen. Ghastly, Goulish, Gripping Tales. These stories describe a haunted trailer, a spider collector, a sinister ski-lift, a ’s curse, a servant’s desire for revenge, a vampire, and an attack by army ants.

Hoke, Helen. , Monsters, Monsters. Thirteen stories by such masters of horror as Bradbury, Poe, Wells, and Lovecraft recount the terrifying doings and depredation of , imaginary, and unnatural creatures.

Hoke, Helen. Weirdies, Weirdies, Weirdies. This volume contains classic monster stories by such authors as Arthur Conan Doyle, Franz Kafka, and Edmund Spenser.

Irving, Washington. ’s The of sleep Hollow and Other Stories. Contains thirteen short stories by Washington Irving, including the title work about schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and his encounter with a headless horseman.

King, Stephen. Nightshift. More than 25 stories of horror and nightmarish transform everyday situations into experiences of compelling terror in the worlds of the living, the dying, and the nonliving.

King, Stephen. Crew. Includes the stories “Here There Be Tygers,” “,” “,” “Mrs. Todd’s Shortcut,” and “.”