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1) The shining
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 25
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror. Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel's dark secrets begin to unravel.
“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.”...
“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.”...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Strange things happen when Greg starts using the camera he and his friends found.
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Sworn soldier volume 2
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"The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
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"What do Zoey and Billy Traister do when they find an abandoned ventriloquist dummy in an empty lot? They take him home, of course! As the pair tries to figure out why someone would throw out a perfectly good dummy, they accidentally bring Slappy to life. A night of horror ensues until the siblings put Slappy back into his case. But when they find Slappy's diary and clues that could lead to gold, they'll have to find Slappy's second diary while evading...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Gabe and his cousin Sari are in Egypt trapped inside a mummy's tomb while somewhere outside a mummy is on the loose and instructed to kill!
6) Carrie
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A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
7) Frankenstein
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"When scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a human being from stolen body parts, he instantly hates the ugly monster he has brought into the world. The creature desperately seeks the love of its master, but is rejected. Frankenstein's monster, now friendless and unloved, sets out to destroy its creator, his family and friends. Frankenstein is one of the most famous horror stories ever told, and has brought a chill of fear to generations of readers...
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First published in a 1843 edition of The Saturday Evening Post, The Black Cat tells the story of a man and his increasingly antagonistic relationship with his cat. Akin to The Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat investigates the psychological effects of guilt as well as the potentially destructive and violent consequences of alcoholism.
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Deadtime stories (Reissued) volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Amanda maintains a pet cemetery in her backyard where she buries her dead pets, but when she and her friends prepare to bury a dead squirrel they find a grave with a doll in it, a discovery with links to a scary elderly neighbor.
10) Tales of terror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Nineteenth-century American poet, critic, and short-story writer Edgar Allan Poe is most famous for his cultivation of the macabre in fiction. Four narrators collaborate here on a collection of some of Poe's best known stories, including “The Tell Tale Heart,” “Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar,” “Hop Frog,” “Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “Masque of the Red Death,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” “Fall of the House of Usher,”...
11) New moon
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Twilight saga volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
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When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
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When they get lost on their way to Zoo Gardens Theme Park, the Morris family instead finds HorrorLand, an amusement park with no crowds, no lines, and heart-stopping rides that go beyond creepy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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The story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly place called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting;' Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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Gabe loses track of his cousin Sari in a pyramid and begins to wonder if the curse of the mummy's tomb is real.
18) 'Salem's lot
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#1 BESTSELLER • Soon to be a new major motion picture • Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book.
"A master storyteller." —The Los Angeles Times
When two young boys venture into the woods, and only...
"A master storyteller." —The Los Angeles Times
When two young boys venture into the woods, and only...
19) Horns
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Joe Hill's critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning debut chiller, Heart-Shaped Box, heralded the arrival of new royalty onto the dark fantasy scene. With Horns, he polishes his well-deserved crown. A twisted, terrifying new novel of psychological and supernatural suspense, Horns is a devilishly original triumph for the Ray Bradbury Fellowship recipient whose story collection, 20th Century Ghosts, was also honored
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
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"When city kid Todd Coates moves from Queens, New York, to live on a Wisconsin farm for a year, he's in for a more than just hanging out with his cousins Mila and Skipper. Strange things begin to happen all around him. But Todd is the only one who sees them. Late at night. In the cornfields. Todd is convinced there is something of the undead variety out there. Will he be able to prove it to his classmates before school is dismissed... permanently?"--Provided...
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