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- Monster Literature (28)
- When Nature Attacks (8)
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)
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.
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).
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before (From the Publisher).”
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.
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.
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).”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).”
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).”
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.
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.
Genre Horror, Supernatural Fiction, Teen Books for Adults, Books to Screen, Movies
Teen Genre Supernatural Fiction, Fantasy
Kids Genre Top 15 (Fall 2013), Horror
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.
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.
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).”
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).”
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.
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).”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By Alan Moore
In Victorian Era London, a troubled clairvoyant police detective investigates the murders by Jack The Ripper.
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.
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
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.
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.
Genre Humor, Supernatural Fiction, Satire, Black Humor, Humorous Fiction, Religious/Spiritual Fiction, Apocalypse, Horror
Teen Genre Adult Books for Teens
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.