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• Jaws

  a Novel

  Benchley, Peter,

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  When three people are killed by a great white shark in three different incidents, the police chief of a Long Island resort town is forced to take action.

• Pet Sematary

  a Novel

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  When a little boy's pet dies, and he persuades his parents to bury it in an old Indian cemetery, reputed by legend to house restless spirits, a nightmare of death and destruction begins.

• Frankenstein in Baghdad

  a Novel

  Saʻdw, Amad,

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  Hadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city.

• The Hunger

  Katsu, Alma,

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  A supernatural reimagining of the Donner Party story follows a group of wagon-train pioneers who navigate sanity-testing misfortunes, including the mysterious death of a little boy and a series of disappearances that cause a beautiful member of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Dracul

  Stoker, Dacre,

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  A prequel to Dracula, based on original author notes and co-written by a family descendant, reveals the iconic vampire's origin story, the early years of Bram Stoker and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connected them.

• Blood Communion

  a Tale of Prince Lestat

  Rice, Anne, 1941-

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  Navigating his new leadership of the vampire world, Lestat uncovers the story of a mysterious outcast demon who he traces to 18th-century Petersburg and the court of Empress Catherine. By the best-selling author of An Interview With a Vampire.

• Prodigal Son

  a Novel

  Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray), 1945-

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  In a reworking of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel, Detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, are confronted by a serial killer in search of victims that possess the humanity missing in himself.

• Cujo

  a Novel

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster.

• Epidemic of the Living Dead

  Russo, John, 1939-

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  Years after a small Pennsylvania town dealt with a zombie outbreak, the seemingly-normal children of those bitten begin to change for the worse.

• Frankenstein

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851

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  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.

• Serpentine

  Hamilton, Laurell K,

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  While visiting Florida for her friend and fellow U.S. marshal Edward's wedding, Micah uncovers a horrific new form of lycanthropy and Anita faces a strange power unlike any she's ever encountered.

• Interview With the Vampire

  Rice, Anne, 1941-2021

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  In an interview with a reporter, Louis, a former New Orleans plantation owner, describes his two hundred years of existence as a vampire, his relationships with Lestat and Claudia, and his feelings about the vampire world.

• The Dead Road

  Patrick, Seth,

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  A conclusion to the trilogy that began with Reviver and Lost Souls follows a forensic detective who revives the dead to exhume a world-changing conspiracy.

• The Exorcist

  Blatty, William Peter

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  A Jesuit priest, unable to find plausible explanations for an eleven-year-old's strange behavior, begins to suspect demonic possession.

• I Am Legend

  Matheson, Richard, 1926-2013

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  A lone human survivor in a world that is overrun by vampires, Robert Neville leads a desperate life in which he must barricade himself in his home every night and hunt down the starving undead by day.

• The Merry Spinster

  Tales of Everyday Horror

  Ortberg, Mallory,

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  Adapted from the author's "Children Stories Made Horrific" series, a collection of darkly whimsical stories based on classic fairy tales updates familiar favorites with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity and feminist mischief.

• The Turn of the Screw

  James, Henry

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  In 'The Turn of the Screw,' one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care.

• The Listener

  McCammon, Robert R,

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  When John and Ginger arrange a kidnapping-for-ransom scheme in depression-era New Orleans, they don't expect that Curtis, a redcap for the local railroad station, has psychically stumbled onto their plan and intends to foil it.

• Carrie

  King, Stephen, 1947-

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  An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.

• Heart-shaped Box

  a Novel

  Hill, Joe

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  A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, from a cannibal cookbook to a used hangman's noose, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation