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1) The shining
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English
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A child with a precognitive gift sees visions of an evil awaiting his family
3) Carrie
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY MARGARET ATWOOD • Stephen King's legendary debut, the bestselling smash hit that put him on the map as one of America's favorite writers • In a world where bullies rule, one girl holds a secret power. Unpopular and tormented, Carrie White's life takes a terrifying turn when her hidden abilities become a weapon...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"A witch called Old Auntie is lurking near Dan's family's new home. He doesn't believe in her at first, but is forced to accept that she is real and take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years"--
5) It: A Novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
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English
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They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name
6) The ridge
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English
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For years, a lighthouse at the top of a hill called Blade Ridge has lit up the surrounding woods. But when the lighthouse keeper is found dead, strange things begin happening to the people and animals in the area
7) Parasite
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Series
Parasitology volume 1
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English
Description
Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy
SymboGen has genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs. Everything is fine... until the tapeworms begin to change... and want out of...
8) 'Salem's Lot
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English
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Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of The Invited will shock you with a simmering psychological thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters. • "One of the year's most chilling novels." —The Miami Herald
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious...
West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious...
11) The gunslinger
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Series
Dark Tower volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
In The Gunslinger, King introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, an evil being who can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a good man who seems to leave nothing but death in his wake
12) Vampire Breath
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 49
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Formats
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Freddy Martinez and his friend Cara find an empty coffin in Freddy's basement with a bottle labeled "Vampire Breath," and quickly learn that opening the small, blue bottle was a big mistake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show...
14) Hideaway
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Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
©1992
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English
Description
After Hatch Harrison is brought back to life in an ambulance, his second chance turns into a nightmarish quest to squelch the evil he brought back from the afterlife
15) Tunnels of blood
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
Darren, Evra, and Mr. Crepsley leave the Cirque Du Freak and get a taste of the city, but when corpses drained of blood are discovered, Darren and Evra must confront a dangerous creature of the night
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Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
Strange things happen when Greg starts using the camera he and his friends found
17) The bad ones
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English
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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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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
"Darren Shan, the vampire's assistant, faces certain death. Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan -- can Darren reverse the odds and outwit a Vampire Prince and scores of murderous vampanese, or is this the end of thousands of years of vampire rule?"--Cover
20) Dracula
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story
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