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Author
Publication Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
The tomb -- Beyond the wall of sleep -- The White Ship -- The temple (manuscript found on the coast of Yucatan) -- The quest of Iranon -- The music of Erich Zann -- Under the pyramids (with Harry Houdini) -- Pickman's model -- The case of Charles Dexter Ward -- The Dunwich horror -- At the mountains of madness -- The thing on the doorstep.
Author
Publication Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Four novellas from Stephen King bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters. This gripping collection begins with "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption," in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge--the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption. Next is "Apt Pupil," the inspiration for the film...
3) Night shift
Author
Publication Date
1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
#1 BESTSELLER • A collection of bone-chilling, nail-biting tales from the undisputed master of horror that showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination and will "chill the cockles of many a heart" (Chicago Tribune).• INCLUDES THE STORY “THE BOOGEYMAN” – NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM 20th CENTURY STUDIOS
Originally published in 1978, Night Shift is the...
Originally published in 1978, Night Shift is the...
Author
Publication Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
The basis for the 2006 TNT miniseres--now available on DVD--King's bestselling short-story collection also features Dolan's Cadillac, soon to be released as a major motion picture starring Christian Slater and Wes Bentley.
Author
Publication Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestseller about a mysterious store than can sell you whatever you desire—but not without exacting a terrible price in return.
The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that's just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something...
The town of Castle Rock, Maine has seen its fair share of oddities over the years, but nothing is as peculiar as the little curio shop that's just opened for business here. Its mysterious proprietor, Leland Gaunt, seems to have something...
Author
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A collection of fourteen of the author's best-known tales of mystery and the macabre includes "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Fall of the House of Usher," in which a visitor to a gloomy mansion finds a childhood friend dying under the spell of a family curse
Author
Publication Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"An aspiring actress goes to an audition with a mysterious director tor receives the last manuscript of his murdered friend. A young lawyer learns the terrible connection between her grandfather and an ancient race of creatures. A bodyguard drives her employer across a frozen road toward an immense hole in the earth. In these stories and others, John Langan maps the branches of his literary family tree, tracing his connections to the writers whose...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Publication Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A child is forced to grow up too soon. A woman trusts her doctor too much. An abandoned woman isn't as alone as she thinks. An idyllic holiday masks an unspeakable act of violence. Driven, desperate, fighting for the power to choose their own fate, Paquette's characters in these horror tales dare to push back at the walls that hold them in. Come watch them burn.
Author
Publication Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Thad, a college professor who moonlights as a writer of pop thrillers under the pseudonym George Stark, finally writes a serious novel, and decides to stop writing shockers. But George Stark has come to life and doesn't want to die. Thad is forced to battle his own creation for the control of the mind which both must share.
Author
Publication Date
2010
Language
English
Description
These thirteen stories are our own lives, inside out.
A boy's summer romance doesn't end in that good kind of heartbreak, but in blood. A girl on a fishing trip makes a friend in the woods who's exactly what she needs, except then that friend follows her back to the city. A father hears a voice through his baby monitor that shouldn't be possible, but now he can't stop listening. A woman finds out that the shipwreck wasn't the disaster, but who she's...
Author
Publication Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as ""The Gingerbread Girl"" and "N."


