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Stephen King’s 1986 horror classic follows seven children terrorized by a shape‑changing entity that takes the form of the iconic clown Pennywise, using their deepest fears to hunt them.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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A struggling writer and recovering alcoholic, Jack Torrance takes over caretaking of the remote Overlook Hotel in the Colorado Rockies, but a winter storm and the building’s malevolent past drive him toward madness, threatening his family's safety.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1986
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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*Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus* is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. Frankenstein tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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This book is the story of Griffin, a scientist who creates a serum to render himself invisible, and his descent into madness that follows.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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In a South Carolina penitentiary, a death‑row supervisor encounters an inmate with miraculous healing powers, weaving themes of death, empathy, and the supernatural into a haunting tale of justice and humanity.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Flowers in the Attic, V. C. Andrews’ first Gothic novel, follows the Dollanganger siblings through Cathy’s first‑person voice.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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Interview With the Vampire: An Immortal Vampire Tells His Life Story
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie, whose father owned the restaurant, and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Nothing, in all it's entirety.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Chiunque abbia visto qualche film del terrore con al centro una costruzione abitata da sinistre presenze si sarà trovato a chiedersi almeno una volta perché le vittime di turno (giovani coppie, gruppi di studenti, scrittori alla vana ricerca di ispirazione) non optino, prima che sia troppo tardi, per la soluzione più semplice – e cioè non escano da...
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Cujo (/ˈkjuːdʒoʊ/) is a 1981 psychological horror novel by American writer Stephen King about a rabid Saint Bernard. The novel won the British Fantasy Award in 1982 and was made into a film in 1983.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Cell is a 2006 apocalyptic horror novel by American author Stephen King. The story follows a New England artist struggling to reunite with his young son after a mysterious signal broadcast over the global cell phone network turns the majority of his fellow humans into mindless vicious animals.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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The Silence of the Lambs is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel won the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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"A master storyteller at his best--the O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King delivers a generous collection of stories, several of them brand-new, featuring revelatory autobiographical comments on when, why, and how he came to write (or rewrite) each story.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird. Spooky. Possibly haunted. And the town of Dark Falls is pretty strange, too. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Amanda and Josh do. But these new friends are not exactly what their parents had in mind.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Stephen King’s 1991 horror novel follows Leland Gaunt’s shop in Castle Rock, Maine, where items are traded for pranks and deeds, inciting violence, chaos, and death in the town.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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A love triangle involving 17-year-old misfit Arnie Cunningham, his new girlfriend and a haunted 1958 Plymouth Fury. Dubbed Christine by her previous owner, Arnie's first car is jealous, possessive and deadly. ([source][1]) [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/christine.html
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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A tale of witches, neurosurgeons, and secrets in New Orleans, exploring the power of the past and the present.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The twelfth expedition arrives expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers. They discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
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The story of two boys and their dark journey through a haunted carnival
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Bag of Bones is a 1998 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It focuses on an author who suffers severe writer's block and delusions at an isolated lake house four years after the death of his wife.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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A captivating tale of adventure and moral conflict, set on the isolated island of Dr. Moreau, where Edward Prendick must confront the dark secrets and twisted creatures of a scientist obsessed with human enhancement. Inspired by the science fiction classics of H. G.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Thinner is a horror novel by American author Stephen King, published in 1984 by NAL under King's pseudonym Richard Bachman. The story centers on lawyer Billy Halleck, who kills a crossing Romani woman in a road accident and escapes legal punishment because of his connections.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. Two lonely young women fall into a terrifying web of web chats and internet forums in the early 2000s. Can they escape the horror that awaits them?
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Strange things happen when Greg starts using the camera he and his friends found.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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A collection of fourteen macabre short stories by Stephen King that blend horror, suspense, and supernatural elements, exploring grim human conditions, eerie coincidences, and uncanny encounters.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Petals on the Wind, released in 1980, continues the Dollanganger family saga after their escape from the attic in 1960, chronicling their trials and secrets through 1975.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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Dreamcatcher is a 2001 science fiction horror novel by American writer Stephen King, featuring elements of body horror, suspense and alien invasion.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
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The Long Walk is a dystopian horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1979, under the pseudonym Richard Bachman. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Rosie Daniels flees from her husband, Norman after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. During one bout of violence, Norman caused Rosie to miscarry their only child. Escaping to a distant city, Rosie establishes a new life and forges new relationships.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Stories of ghosts and witches, "jump" stories, scary songs, and modern-day scary stories.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Casteel Family, #1 Of all the folks in the mountain shacks, The Casteels were the lowest -- the scum of the hills. Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face... despite a father meaner than ten vipers... despite her weary stepmother, who worked her like a mule.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. The Passage debuted at #3 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list, and remained on the list for seven additional weeks.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Duma Key is a novel by American writer Stephen King published on January 22, 2008 by Scribner. The book reached No. 1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is King's first novel to be set in Florida and/or Minnesota.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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"The Tell-Tale Heart" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in James Russell Lowell's The Pioneer in January 1843. "The Tell-Tale Heart" is often considered a classic of the Gothic fiction genre and is one of Poe's best known short stories.
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Located off a desolate stretch of Interstate 50, Desperation, Nevada has few connections with the rest of the world. It is a place, though, where the seams between worlds are thin.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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The Amityville Horror is a book by American author Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released from 1979 onward. The book is claimed to be based on the paranormal experiences of the Lutz family, but has led to controversy and lawsuits over its truthfulness.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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The residents of Little Tall Island are in the worst blizzard any of them have ever had to deal with. Cut off from the rest of the world, they must also deal with an evil stranger who has murdered one of their elderly residents and even while being held prisoner continues to cause harm.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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A ghost from the future is haunting Melissa and it's up to the two of them to prevent a young man's death from ever happening.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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A young housewife and charismatic actor settle into a Manhattan Upper West Side apartment, only to find their dream home becomes a harrowing nightmare where unseen forces and ancient evils lurk.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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An encyclopedia about the characters from the game "Five Nights at Freddy's" by Scott Cawthon.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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Set in the Maine town of Haven, Stephen King’s 1987 science‑fiction horror novel follows its residents as a buried alien artifact begins to transform their lives, blending supernatural terror with an unsettling exploration of space and unknown forces.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Cosmic Horror
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Stephen King’s ‘Nightmares & Dreamscapes’ is a gripping anthology of new and previously published short stories that straddle horror, suspense, and dark humor, weaving tales of vampires, zombies, crime, and the macabre, all set against the backdrop of King’s famed Castle Rock.
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Emily wants to like her stepsister, but it hasn't been easy. As soon as Jessie moves in, she takes over Emily's room, steals Emily's clothes, and lies to everyone. Then Emily picks up Jessie's diary and learns a horrifying secret. Is Jessie really capable of murder? Emily tries to tell her parents, but no one believes her.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Two years after her husband's death, Lisey Landon decides it's time to go through his office to clear out his papers. Scott Landon was a bestselling novelist and Lisey has been besieged by people wanting to buy any of his unpublished work but she is determined not to let that happen.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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One week after she starts her summer job on Fear Street with old Mrs. Cottler, Mayra Barnes begins to sleepwalk, always waking up outdoors in the middle of the night never knowing where she is! Things take a disturbing turn when Mayra discovers Mrs. Cottler may be a witch.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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My Sweet Audrina is a 1982 novel by V. C. Andrews. It was the only stand-alone novel published during Andrews' lifetime and was a number-one best-selling novel in North America. The story takes place in the Mid-Atlantic United States during the 1960s and 1970s.
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"Nothing bad will happen," Della O'Connor assures her friends in the Outdoors Club. So what if their advisor can't go on the overnight to Fear Island—won't it be more fun with no adults around? But it's no fun at all when Della gets lost in the woods, and the dangerous stranger appears, whispering threats, driving her to a violent act.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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"Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Welcome to Fear Street. Don’t listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn’t you rather explore it yourself…and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You’re not afraid, are you? Who killed the counselor? “I could kill you!” screamed Geri Marcus.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Freddy Martinez and his friend Cara find an empty coffin in Freddy's basement along with a bottle labeled "Vampire Breath," and quickly learn that opening the small, blue bottle was a big mistake.
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Dollanger Series #5 Garden of Shadows is the "prequel" to V.C. Andrews' phenomenally popular Dollanganger series that began with Flowers in the Attic and continued with Petals on the Wind, If there Be Thorns, and Seeds of Yesterday.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Gothic Horror
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Cutler Family #1 Here is the stunning debut of a phenomenal new series...a compelling story of sinister secrets, shattered illusions, tender drams...and a young girl's desperate yearning for the sheltering warmth of a true home and a happy family. Dawn Longchamp wants more than anything to believe that, at last, she's safe and secure.
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In the chilling third entry of the Dollanganger saga, half‑brothers Jory and Bart navigate jealousy, a new family secret, and a mysterious old neighbor, all while the family's dark past looms.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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A werewolf is stalking Tarker's Mills and only young, wheelchair-bound Marty Coslaw suspects the truth. He enlists the help of his black sheep uncle to identify the shape shifter and destroy him. ([source][1]) [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/cycle_of_the_werewolf.html
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Lizzie McVay was so excited to be nominated Prom Queen. But when the other candidates are murdered, Lizzie must uncover the killer's identity before it's too late.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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In an old toy store near his great-aunt's home, twelve-year-old Evan buys a dusty can of Monster Blood he thinks will be fun to play with.
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The Dark Half is a horror novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1989. Publishers Weekly listed The Dark Half as the second best-selling book of 1989 behind Tom Clancy's Clear and Present Danger. The novel was adapted into a feature film of the same name in 1993.
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Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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A girl discovers her friends may have been involved in her murder and decides to seek revenge.
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La vedette, si l'on peut dire, de ce roman de suspense fantastique est un chien rendu intelligent par manipulations génétiques. A la suite de son évasion, malheur à ceux et celles qui l'abritent, le protègent et l'aiment car c'est un secret d'Etat ...
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From his Books of Blood to The Damnation Game, Weaveworld, and The Great and Secret Show, to scores of short stories, bestselling novels, and now major motion pictures, no one comes close to the vivid imagination and unique terrors provided by Clive Barker.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Supernatural Horror
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The invitation arrived in a black-borderred envelope and was delivered by the beautiful and mysterious transfer student. The inside showed a coffin with the inscription "reserved for You" -- perfect for an al-night Halloween party in an old house on Fear Street. The party was well under way when the lights went out.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Thrilled when two new boys in Shadyside begin vying for her attentions, the usually boyfriendless Chelsea Richards finds her joy turn to fear when the FBI informs her that they have tracked a psychotic killer to Shadyside.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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Welcome to Fear Street Don’t listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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It's been a year since Evan died in the Fear Street woods. A year since Ellen moved away, and "the gang" split up. Meg Dalton felt as if she'd lost her best friends. Everyone changed. Even her boyfriend Tony was acting moody, strange.
Genre: Horror Subgenre: Psychological Horror
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In a small New England town over half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt when he looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later he is a man who with his beautiful wife will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs.
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As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
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Penpal began as a series of short and interconnected stories posted on an online horror forum.
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**At last, Heaven would find the happiness she longed for... free from the scorn and contempt of her past!** In her grandmother's fine, rich Boston house, Heaven Leigh Casteel dreamed of a wonderful new life -- of new friends, the best schools, beautiful clothes and most important, love.
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A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
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Nicole and her best friend Lucy decide to switch bodies at the Changing Wall in the woods, but when Lucy's parents are murdered, Nicole finds herself trapped as Lucy--and the primary suspect.
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An exploration of fear and death through the eyes of teens at a hospice, blending classic horror tales with a unique perspective on the human condition.
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An important early classic of fantasy/sci-fi. [Main story:] The ill effects of a soul-destroying play, to read which brings doom. A discovery that changes living flesh to stone. The mad adherents of a cult of evil powers from beyond. A lost traveler is suddenly 400 years in the past. Great writing; powerful emotions.
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Scotty has the perfect girlfriend. Lora is smart, beautiful, and popular. When Lora goes out of town, Scotty has an unforgettable secret weekend with Shannon, a girl he just met. On Monday, Scotty wants to go back to Lora, but Shannon plans to keep Scotty any way she can--and some ways are pretty horrible.
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The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph.
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A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
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A horror story for children. A book in the Fear Street series. When Amanda Conklin has to go to summer school, her parents hire Chrissy to look after her little brother and sister. Amanda soon realizes that the pretty nanny has an evil heart and supernatural powers.
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Becka Norwood's life is turned upside down when a new girl named Honey starts claiming to be her best friend. And it soon becomes clear as to what lengths Honey will go to make that delusion reality....
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Every private room at Shadyside Hospital holds a shocking secret of its own. Student volunteer Laurie stumbles onto the hospital's sickest secret of all.
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Carly Beth's Halloween mask is so ugly, but she can't seem to get it off after she scares some of the boys in her neighborhood.
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A teenager's strange visions lead her to a secret grave in the Fear Street woods--and on a terrifying hunt for a killer. A bony hand beckons from a shallow grave, but only Ellie can see the skeletal hand. Ellie's visions of past secrets and future horrors lead her to the body of a girl killed two years before . . . and possibly to the murderer.
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Selena is on top of the world, her acting career at Shadyside High is going great- until she starts getting messages from someone calling themselves The Sun and accidents start happening. Can she find out the identity of her 'number one fan' before it's too late?
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[The Green Mile](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL81629W/The_Green_Mile) #1 The story is told by former prison guard, Paul Edgecombe, of events in Cold Mountain penitentiary during 1932 when an unusual inmate by the name of John Coffey is brought to the prison.
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A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that’s replaced by obscene insults. Amanda—a successful architect in a happy marriage—finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she’s doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette.
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When her businessman father decides to open up a new amusement park despite the curse of the Fear family, Dierdre Bradley is caught in a seemingly endless nightmare ride.
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This book is surprising and strange turns are always being taken.especially at the end!
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When Margaret and Casey see their father become weedy while working on his botany experiments, they worry that his plant-testing may not be entirely harmless.
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This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend the two kinds of romance: the ancient and the modern.
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