Summary: "A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing Co. 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction BovalinoSummary: A darkly luminous new anthology collecting the most terrifying horror stories by renowned female authors, presenting anew these forgotten classics to the modern reader.--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Bear, Elizabeth/ Gaiman, Neil/ Kiernan, Caitlin R./ Laidlaw, Marc/ Langan, John
Summary: Features twenty-seven short stories published in the twenty-first century that were inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prime Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWSummary: A selection of unsettling stories--one in graphic form along with two poems--by such authors as Ray Bradbury, William Sleator, Robert Service, Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl, Jane Yolen, and Mr. Stine himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2002
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC StineSummary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cemetery Dance Publications 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLISummary: An anthology of modern horror fiction features tales from twenty-five masters of the genre, with such selections as Stephen King's "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," Dan Chaon's "The Bees," and Peter Straub's "Little Red."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POEHarkup, Kathryn
Summary: The year 1818 saw the publication of one of the most influential science-fiction stories of all time. Frankenstein: Or, Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley had a huge impact on gothic horror and science fiction genres. The name Frankenstein has become part of our everyday language, often used in derogatory terms to describe scientists who have overstepped a perceived moral line. But how did a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Sigma 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 HARSummary: What frightens us, what unnerves us? What causes that delicious shiver of fear to travel the lengths of our spines? It seems the answer changes every year. Every year the bar is raised; the screw is tightened. The twenty-one stories and poems included in this anthology were chosen from magazines, webzines, anthologies, literary journals, and single author collections to represent the best...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Night Shade 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FLIContents: Introduction: horror in 2011 -- Holding the light / Ramsey Campbell -- Lantern Jack / Christopher Fowler -- Rag and bone / Paul Kane -- Some kind of light shines from your face / Gemma Files -- Midnight flight / Joel Lane -- Trick of the light / Tim Lebbon -- But none shall sing for me / Gregory Nicoll -- About the dark / Alison Littlewood -- The photographer's tale / Daniel Mills -- The tower...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAMContents: The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Green Tea / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The yellow wallpaper / Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The bottle imp / Robert Louis Stevenson -- The great god Pan / Arthur Machen -- Dracula's guest / Bram Stoker -- The monkey's paw / W.W. Jacobs -- Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad / M.R. James -- The country of the blind / H.G. Wells -- The willows / Algernon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THIConnolly, John
Summary: Filled with eerie surprises and dark delights, Night and Day takes us from the dusty shelves of an uncanny library filled with fictional characters to a bunker deep beneath the earth where scientists seek revenge on old Nazis; from an English marsh haunted by a mother and her son to a country house where a grieving widower finds comfort from a most unlikely source. Concluding with the author's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC CONContents: The roots. They opened the graves / by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens ; Dead persons in Hungary / by Antoine Augustin Calmet ; The end of my journey / by George Gordon, Lord Byron ; The vampyre / by John Polidori ; Wake not the dead / attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck ; The deathly lover / by Thǒphile Gautier -- The tree. The family of the Vourdalak / by Aleksei Tolstoy ; Varney the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walker & Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRADoyle, Arthur Conan
Contents: Tales of terror: The horror of the heights. The leather funnel. The new catacomb. The case of Lady Sannox. The terror of Blue John Gap. The Brazilian cat.--Tales of mystery: The lost special. The beetle-hunter. The man with the watches. The japanned box. The black doctor. The Jew's breastplate. The nightmare room.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1977
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Publisher / Publication Date: Serpent's Tail 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 823.914 FOWHerbert, James
Summary: Joseph Creed is a paparazzo, one of that un-illustrious band of photographers whose sole purpose in life is to chase and harass celebrities for candid shots, preferably of the seedier kind. Creed is a sleaze of the first order, but good at his job; nothing will stop him getting the right shot. After the funeral ceremony of a major Hollywood actress, he photographs a man of ravage appearance...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERAickman, Robert.
Contents: The wine-dark sea -- The trains -- Your tiny hand is frozen -- Growing boys -- The fetch -- The inner room -- Never visit Venice -- The next glade -- Into the wood -- Bind your hair -- The stains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House/Morrow 1988
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC AICBlackwood, Algernon
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spring Books 1968
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BLAConnolly, John
Summary: A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and delighted readers, John Connolly, bestselling author of thirteen acclaimed thrillers featuring private investigator Charlie Parker, gives us a second volume of tales of the supernatural. From stories of the monstrous for dark winter nights to fables of fantastic libraries and haunted books, from a tender account of love after death to a frank,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONDu Maurier, Daphne
Contents: Don't look now.--The apple tree.--The pool.--The blue lenses.--Kiss me again, stranger.--The chamois.--Not after midnight.--The old man.--The birds.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1977