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1) The bad ones
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Teenage Nora uncovers dangerous secrets and eerie local lore surrounding disappearances in her small town, where a teacher and three high school students, including her best friend, go missing
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"October 1993. When single mom Eleanor Mazinski goes out a for a much-needed date night, she leaves her two young children--sweet, innocent six-year-old Ben and precocious, defiant twelve-year-old Mira--in the capable hands of their sitter, Amy. The quiet seventeen-year-old is good at looking after children, despite her anxiety disorder. She also loves movies, especially horror flicks. Amy likes their predictability; it calms the panic that threatens...
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"Mario is spending winter break with his neighbors, Todd and Jewel, on their family vacation to Vermont. He is excited to see snow for the first time and meet his friend's beloved grandparents. But Todd and Jewel's grandparents turn out to be a little odd. They love telling tall tales of goblins, elves, and trolls. When Mario spots a blur of green fur in the garden, he wonders if the stories could be real. He's determined to find out more, but the...
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2023
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A runaway working a dead-end job in Pennsylvania must fight to return home when an intense, otherworldly summer storm arrives bringing a mind-bending monster that enslaves the residents in the new novel by the author of Queen of Teeth
Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Then a summer night storm crashes into town-- with...
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"Twins Oliver and Trisha are on a canoe trip with their dad when a freak accident leaves their father badly injured. With no cell phone reception, their only choice is to continue down river and hope to find civilization. And they do-in a small village. Except the people there behave strangely, and weirdest of all is the giant scarecrow in the village square. The townspeople seem nervous-obsessed-with the scarecrow. 'He watches over us,' the twins...
7) Last laugh
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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"What's scarier than a collection of clown dolls in a secret locked room? How about ... those clown dolls coming to life. And hunting you down"--
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Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
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"A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating--and then terrifying--journey. A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. A psychiatric patient's irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside...or keep the world from falling...
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"Four of the top creators in comics gather to continue the Victorian tradition of ghost stories on Christmas Eve. Four tales of the bizarre and terrifying to keep you company on the cold yule night. A unique approach to the ghost story format where the creators themselves become part of the story in this deluxe edition hard cover designed by the award-winning Phil Balsman"--
11) Slay
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"Evil continues to rain down on a vampire hunter and those she most cherishes in this new, gripping novel in the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series by New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton. Anita Blake is finally ready to marry Jean-Claude, the vampire king of America. But first, they must tackle a new, daunting challenge: her family. And with the ancient evil that cast a shadow on St. Louis still lurking and threatening to destroy...
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Horrible volume 1
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Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Eleven-year-old Zenith journeys into a bizarre, macabre world within a mysterious bag where he struggles to save his older sister from a living hairball and survive a trio of bloodthirsty mouths, a sentient sawdust-stuffed giant, and other horrors
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"Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have been dismembered and sewn back together in unnatural ways. But is it the work of a human killer . . . or something far darker? She and her younger sister live by a strict set of rules designed to keep them safe--which is why it's such a shock when Hope is taken. Desperate to get her back, Abby tells the police everything she knows, but they...
17) X
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In 1979 some young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast members find themselves in a fight for their lives.
18) 78 MPH
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Earth is no longer what it used to be. An environmental catastrophe transformed the atmosphere into a large magnifying glass that enhances solar radiation; a nuclear disaster slowed down the speed of rotation of the planet. Anyone that moves slower than 78 miles per hour will not escape from the scorching sun. Only a small group of people was able to survive on this new world by constantly moving in huge rolling city, never stopping.
19) Dead or Alive
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It's trains and brains! Four would-be bounty hunters find themselves on a runaway train overrun by zombies and they must find a way off without unleashing the undead on an unsuspecting town!
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Hugo Award winning editor, and horror legend, Ellen Datlow presents this chilling horror anthology of original short stories exploring the endless terrors of winter solstice traditions across the globe, featuring chillers by Tananarive Due, Stephen Graham Jones, Alma Katsu and many more. The winter solstice is celebrated as a time of joy around the world--yet the long nights also conjure a darker tradition of ghouls, hauntings, and visitations. This...
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