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'Salem's Lot

By Stephen King

When a writer returns to his Maine home town, he discovers that the peaceful hamlet is being overrun by vampires and sets out to curb this ancient evil before it can spread.

 

 

Became the TV Miniseries: Salem's Lot (1979 and 2004)

Abandon

By Blake Crouch

Hiring back-country guides, a psychic, and a paranormal photographer to aid their investigation into the bizarre and abrupt disappearances of every citizen from a gold-mining town over a century earlier, a history professor and his journalist daughter embark on the journey aware that the last team that attempted to solve the mystery was never heard from again.

All Together Dead

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Betrayed by her longtime vampire lover, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has her hands full dealing with every kind of undead and paranormal creature, as well as the new man in her life, the shapeshifter Quinn, and the upcoming vampire summit (From the Publisher).

American Vampire Volume 1

By Scott Snyder
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Includes King’s western tale about a sun-powered vampire with rattlesnake fangs + Snyder’s story about a female vampire who is seeking revenge against the European bloodsuckers who tortured and abused her.

American Vampire: Volume 3

By Scott Snyder
Series American Vampire Series
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

This volume of the critically-acclaimed AMERICAN VAMPIRE follows the star of AV Volumes 1 and 2, Pearl, and her husband Henry, as he is recruited by a mysterious group of vampire hunters, off to World War II Japan to find a new breed of blood sucker. But what does the notorious vampire Skinner Sweet have to do with it?

Ancestor

By Scott Sigler

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered the holy grail of medicine—a computer-engineered living creature, whose organs can be implanted in any person, with no chance of transplant rejection. There’s just one problem: these “ancestors” are not docile.

Annihilation

By Jeff VanderMeer
Series Southern Reach Trilogy
Recommended By Cliff Hong, Library Page
With Stacey Mencher, Readers' Services Librarian

Monday, May 18, 2015. 7 PM.

Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition consisting of four women hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens, to record all their observations and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

Ash

Ash

By James Herbert
Series Dvid Ash Novels

Visiting a secluded stately home that country locals believe to be haunted, paranormal investigator David Ash looks into stories about strange occurrences and makes a shocking discovery beyond anything he has ever encountered.

Authority

By Jeff VanderMeer
Series Southern Reach Trilogy

John Rodriguez, head of the secret agency Southern Reach, is charged with exploring Area X, a remote area sequestered from civilization, as his team exposes disturbing truths about the area, with far-reaching consequences for himself and his agency.

Awakened

By James S. Murray

The star of truTV's Impractical Jokers shares the story of a new state– of–the–art subway that is found empty and drenched in blood, signaling the release of an ancient horror and civilization–destroying dark forces.

Bad Seed

By William March

 “The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before (From the Publisher).”

Bag of Bones

By Stephen King
Recommended By Melissa Contino, Library Clerk

Plagued by vivid nightmares of the summer house he had shared with his late wife, grieving widower Mike Noonan returns to his former Maine getaway, only to find a town in the grip of a ruthless millionaire and tormented by a series of ghostly visitations.

 

Became the TV mini-series: Bag of Bones.

By Josh Malerman

In a world where no one can go outside for fear of something terrifying that when seen drives people to deadly violence, single mother Malorie and her two children must attempt a terrifying twenty-mile trip downriver while blindfolded.

Bitten

By Kelley Armstrong
Series Women of the Otherworld Series
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

On the eve of her marriage, Elena Michaels learns that her fiance has been concealing his secret life as a werewolf, and, as a bonus, he has made her into one also.

Blackout

By Mira Grant
Series Newsflesh Trilogy

“In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a team of CDC researchers, must find her way back to Shaun Mason, who is dealing with his own problems, before things get worse in her post-zombie, post-resurrection America (From the Publisher).” 

Bone-Chilling Ghost Stories

By Jen Jones

When people die, do they leave part of themselves behind? Throughout history, people have heard and seen ghostly evidence of a world beyond the grave. Read about a doomed English queen, a creepy talking doll, and a shape-shifting wolf. Then whistle past the graveyard if you dare.

Boy Who Drew Monsters

By Keith Donohue

Developing agoraphobia after a near-drowning incident, a 10-year-old boy draws increasingly disturbing pictures of monsters while his parents search for answers about strange noises coming from the nearby ocean at night.

Breathers: A Zombie's Lament

By S.G. Browne

Meet Andy Warner, a recently deceased everyman and newly minted zombie. Resented by his parents, abandoned by his friends, and reviled by a society that no longer considers him human, Andy is having a bit of trouble adjusting to his new existence. But all that changes when he goes to an Undead Anonymous meeting and finds kindred souls in Rita, an impossibly sexy recent suicide with a taste for the formaldehyde in cosmetic products, and Jerry, a twenty-one-year-old car-crash victim with an exposed brain and a penchant for Renaissance pornography. When the group meets a rogue zombie who teaches them the joys of human flesh, things start to get messy, and Andy embarks on a journey of self-discovery that will take him from his casket to the SPCA to a media-driven class-action lawsuit on behalf of the rights of zombies everywhere.

Broken Girls

By Simone St. James

More than sixty years after one of four friends in a reputedly haunted boarding school goes missing, journalist Fiona Sheridan resolves to learn her sister's fate before a harrowing discovery is made.

Brood

By Chase Novak

Teenagers Adam and Alice struggle with the terrifying reality that they are reaching the age when some of the children created by the fertility treatment that spawned them begin to turn feral, while their aunt, Cynthia, fights to protect their lives from a troop of feral offspring threatening to invade their refuge.

By Blood We Live

By Glen Duncan
Series Last Werewolf Series

Talulla settles down with her werewolf family only to be tormented by a fanatical cult and nagging thoughts about ancient vampire Remshi, who believes he knows Talulla from another time.

Carrie

By Stephen King

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.

Cell

By Stephen King

Mayhem and violence are unleashed around the world when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs, and only a small band of "normies" who avoided the technological attack can stop the rampage.

Cherish Farrah

By Bethany C. Morrow
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist, Nathalie Levin, Children's Services Librarian

Being faced with her home’s foreclosure, one of only two black girls in a wealthy gated community manipulates her way into her friends’ household where she starts noticing strange things happening and her suspicion of the seemingly–perfect family grows.

Children's Home

By Charles Lambert

The disfigured heir to a fortune of mysterious origins, Morgan Fletcher—along with his housekeeper, Engel—opens up his home to two strange children whose disturbing behavior escalates as they discover the truth of his past in the attic of his mansion.

Christine

By Stephen King

A scarlet-and-white, 1958 Plymouth fury - salvaged over every rational dissent and objection, from decay - possesses its new owner and brings hellish terror to him, his friends, and his classmates.

 

Became the movie: Christine.

Club Dead

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels

“When her boyfriend Bill, a vampire who has been rather distracted of late, disappears, Sookie journeys to Mississippi to find her beloved, who has gotten himself caught in a dangerous web of murder and betrayal at Club Dead, an elite underground society (From the Publisher).”

Code Zero

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Joe Ledger Novels

“When a team of killers breaks into the Department of Military Sciences and steals the world’s most dangerous weapons, Joe Ledger and Echo Team rush to stop a brilliant and devious master criminal from unleashing terror across the country (From the Publisher).”

Complete Stories

By Edgar Allan Poe

The complete stories by the master who influenced French symbolism, Freudian analysis, and Hollywood movies, includes his well–known tales of suspense and macabre as well as his lesser–known stories.

Coraline

By Neil Gaiman
Grade(s): 5+

Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.

 

Became the movie: Coraline.

Cujo

By Stephen King

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

 

Became the movie: Cujo.

Darling Rose Gold

By Stephanie Wrobel

Enduring decades of serious illness as a victim of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy before exposing her mother’s behavior, Rose Gold invites her unrepentant mother back into her life to secretly settle the score.

Dead and Gone

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires

“When the body of a were-panther is discovered in the parking lot of Merlotte's, Sookie Stackhouse feels compelled to discover the identity of the killer, but encounters a much greater threat to the human and undead communities of Bon Temps (From the Publisher).”

Dead to the World

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sooke Stackhouse/Southern Vampire Novels
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager

“Sookie Stackhouse, a waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, as she tries to save him from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life (From the Publisher).”

Dead Until Dark

By Charlaine Harris
Series Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampires Novels
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a vampire with ties to a crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers.

Deadline

By Mira Grant
Series Newsflesh Trilogy

“When a CDC researcher, after faking her own death, arrives on his doorstep with a ravenous pack of zombies in tow, Shaun Mason, the head of a news organization, is plunged into the biggest story of his life (From the Publisher).”

Devil Crept In

By Ania Ahlborn

In a town plagued by mysterious disappearances and unsolved crimes, one of which resulted in murder, young Stevie Clark is determined to find out what really happened to his best friend, Jude, who has been missing for several days, but the awful truth may be too horrifying to imagine.

Dracula

By Bram Stoker

Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.

Dread Nation

By Justina Ireland

When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.

Dreamcatcher

By Stephen King

Four men who reunite every year during hunting season in the woods of Maine, encounter a disoriented, incoherent stranger who drags the men into a terrifying struggle with a creature from another world, and their only chance for survival lies in their shared past.

 

Became the movie: Dreamcatcher.

Fall of Night

By Jonathan Maberry
Series Dead of Night Series

Officer Desdemona Fox and her associates must figure out a way to rescue and evacuate the people of Stebbins County before the infected zombie horde completely takes over.

Final Girls

By Riley Sager
Recommended By Jessikah Chautin, Community Engagement Specialist

Emerging as the lone survivor of a serial killer’s massacre a decade earlier, Quincy Carpenter struggles to ignore traumatic memories and move on as one of a group of other survivors who look to her for answers when one of them is found dead in a suspicious suicide.

Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

By Neil Gaiman

A collection of more than twenty-five short fictional works follows a theme of the intersections between life and death, perception and reality, and darkness and light.

Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus

By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Recommended By Megan Kass, Systems Manager
With Sonia Grgas, Health Reference Librarian

Tuesday, September 25, 2018. 1:30 PM.

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. Includes illustrated notes throughout the text explaining the historical background of the story. 

From Hell

By Alan Moore

In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.

Gerald's Game

By Stephen King

When rough sex between Jessie and Gerald Burlingame turns deadly, leaving Gerald dead and Jessie handcuffed to the bed, it sets in motion a terrifying and psychologically twisted twenty-eight hours.

Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton

By Edith Wharton

Set in the bleak mansions of England, America, and Normandy, eleven classic tales depict the terrors of persons confronted by unearthly entities

Ghosts by Gaslight: Stories of Steampunk and Supernatural Suspense

By Jack Dann

Featuring stories by James Morrow, Terry Dowling, Garth Nix and Robert Silverberg, this spellbinding collection of steampunk and supernatural tales breathes new life into the Victorian and Edwardian ghost story for a new generation of readers.

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

By Neil Gaiman
Recommended By Stacey Mencher, Technology and Applications Manager

The world is going to end next Saturday, but there are a few problems--the Antichrist has been misplaced, the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse ride motorcycles, and the representatives from heaven and hell decide that they like the human race.

Goosebumps Series

By R.L. Stine
Series Goosebumps

When their father inherits an old house in the town of Dark Falls, Amanda and Josh are excited, until they begin to suspect that the house is haunted.