Shearer, Wendy
Summary: "This spook-tactular collection features more than 20 fright-filled stories from around the globe. Retold with ghoulish relish by professional storyteller Wendy Shearer and beautifully illustrated by Teo Georgiev, these hair-raising tales are sure to send shivers down your spine."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2023
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Summary: More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SCHChávez Castañeda, Ricardo
Summary: "There are stories so terrible that we tremble to hear even a whisper of them. Even more terrible, some of them are true.This is one such story, a story of our deepest inhumanity--one that confronts the history of violence against children, and through its young narrator attempts to find a way out. A horror story and ghost story told as much through art as through text, The Book of Denial is an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Unruly, an imprint of Enchanted Lion Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CHACoates, Darcy
Summary: "When Keira wakes in a strange forest, she can remember only two things: she can see ghosts, and strange, mask-wearing men are hunting her. She seeks shelter at a church, and the kind pastor offers to let her stay in the groundskeeper's cottage for a few days. But the cottage is situated behind the graveyard, and its spirits are only too eager to make themselves known. This sleepy, quaint town...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2021
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Summary: James Carson has gotten away with murder three times. What James doesn't know is that his three victims have found each other. And that they're coming for him. Brecia, Meghan, and Skye might be dead, but they're not gone. And they won't rest until they find a way to keep him from killing again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dynamite Books 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC IHLBear, Greg
Summary: When a new information channel that enables the transmission of unprecedented volumes of data is developed, the bandwidth's users begin having strange experiences that lead to the realization that it might be a pathway to the spirit realm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAWhite, Andrew Joseph
Summary: "London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to Mother, he'll be married by the end of the year. It doesn't matter that he's needed a decade of tutors to hide his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree Teen 2023
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC WHIStine, R. L.
Summary: Ten more scary stories from the master of horror, each one introduced by the author himself. From R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes ten new stories that are sure to send a shiver down your spine. Two kids embark on a field trip to the zoo ... and stumble upon a creature they never expected to meet. A boy makes a machine that puts kids in charge ... but at what cost? A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC STIIrving, Washington
Summary: Collection of four stories of strange and unexplainable circumstances. A headless horseman haunts Sleep Hollow. At least that's the legend in the tiny village of Tarrytown. But scary stories won't stop the town's new schoolmaster, Ichabod Crane, from crossing through the Hollow, especially when the beautiful Katrina lives on the other side. Will Ichabod win over his beloved or discover that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Children's Books 2013
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Summary: "Gracetown, Florida. June 1950. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie's journey further into the terrors of the Jim Crow South and the very real horror of the school they call The Reformatory. Robbie has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEKiste, Gwendolyn
Summary: "Three childhood friends miraculously survive the night when everyone in their suburban hometown turns into ghosts"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Saga Press 2024
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Summary: "Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself. When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for 13 nights, he believes he's finally found the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Publishing Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OCKSkogen, Jennifer
Summary: A long forgotten mystery may decide the fate of the world. The group is fractured as Sam races against time to find a cure for Jackson before it is too late. Meanwhile, an important figure from Trev's past resurfaces, forcing him to decide once and for all where his loyalties lie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SKODe Becerra, Katya
Summary: Haunting of Hill House meets found-footage horror in this edge-of-your-seat thriller that explores the power of family ties and the trauma that lurks there. When Sophia Galich was twelve, she starred in her older sister Layla's amateur horror movie Vermillion, which recorded raw footage of her very real reactions to scenes her sister concocted in their old Californian house on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Publishing 2023
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Summary: "A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love, Johnny Compton's The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the making--The Babadook meets A Headful of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country. Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nightfire 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COMSummary: Offers a collection of eighteen spooky stories featuring characters from popular Disney movies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Press 2017
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Summary: A collection of ten scary stories with brief introductions by the author.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STIRiggs, Ransom
Summary: After fleeing an army of terrible monsters, Jacob Portman and his peculiar friends find themselves lost at sea, and the only person who might be able to get them ashore safely, their illustrious headmistress Miss Peregrine, is stuck in the form of a bird! Hoping to find a way to get Miss Peregrine back to normal -- or as normal as a peculiar can get -- the children journey to London. But no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC RIGArden, Katherine
Summary: "When the carnival arrives in town Coco, Brian, and Phil must work together to save Ollie from the smiling man"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2022
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Summary: A rich cornucopia of horror and ghosts stories, science fiction and fairy tales, fabulism and poetry that explore the realm of experience and emotion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GAIGaiman, Neil
Summary: This third collection of short fiction by Gaiman includes previously published pieces of short fiction -- stories, verse, and a very special Doctor Who story that was written for the fiftieth anniversary of the beloved series in 2013 -- as well "Black Dog," a new tale that revisits the world of American Gods.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICITON GAICollins, Kate
Summary: "Once upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLKilcoyne, Elizabeth
Summary: After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KILPriest, Cherie
Summary: Dahlia Dutton's father is thrilled when the aged and esteemed Augusta Winthrow appears in his office and makes a deal for his company, Music City Salvage, to take over and liquidate her massive family estate in Chattanooga. He gives the job to Dahlia, who gathers a crew and a couple of trucks and heads for the estate--an ancient house, a barn, a carriage house, and a small, overgrown cemetery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016