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1) If it bleeds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
2) Misery
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
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Series
Signet book volume AE 4293
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
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In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine? A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction? A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell? A woman driver finds a scary shortcut to paradise? An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil? And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged.
4) IT
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
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Description
To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their hometown: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw--and felt--what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing ... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing....
5) Night shift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Nineteen of [King's] most unsettling short pieces: bizarre tales of dark doings and unthinkable acts from the twilight regions where horror and madness take on eerie, unearthly forms, where noises in the walls and shadows by the bed are always signs of something dreadful on the prowl"--Dust flap.
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Series
Scary stories to tell in the dark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.
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Series
Vampire chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 32
Description
In the 3rd book of the series, Akasha, the first vampire, faces her ancient, vengeful enemy, and the fate of all the living dead and all the living as well is decided.
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Series
Weenies short story collections volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Bizarre tales of a teenager going to the school dance with a robot, a Thanksgiving dinner is interrupted by turkeys looking for revenge, and other strange short stories.
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Series
Eerie Elementary volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discovering that his elementary school is alive and menacing, hall monitor Sam Graves, assisted by his friends Lucy and Antonio, works to defend his fellow students as they rehearse for the class play.
14) Insomnia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 39
Description
"Ralph Roberts never expected to live out his remaining golden years mourning the death of his beloved wife. He also never expected to begin suffering from chronic insomnia for the first time in his life. Each night he wakes up a little bit earlier, until he's barely sleeping at all. During his overnight walks, he's now observing some strange things going on here in Derry, Maine--and they're more than sleep-deprived hallucinations. There's definitely...
15) Needful Things
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 40
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A newcomer opens a shop in Castle Rock, Me., bringing bargains as well as nightmares and disasters to the town.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him, since he's new. But when his sister,...
18) Horns: a novel
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One hangover-headache morning, Ig Perrish gropes his forehead and discovers "a pair of knobby, pointed protuberances." As he proceeds to stumble through the day, person after person he encounters, including the nurse and doctor he consults about the horns, tell him things about their desires and intentions that they should keep to themselves, and whenever he touches someone, he instantly knows their darkest secrets. Most disconcerting, he finds out...
20) Frankenstein
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
Frankenstein: Using parts from corpses, Victor Frankenstein creates a large, man-like creature. Rejected and abused by humans, the creature takes revenge by committing murder. Frankenstein then pursues the creature, determined to kill him or die in the attempt. -- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: When Dr. Henry Jekyll begins to look ill and isolates himself from his friends, they fear for his life. A mysterious evil man named Edward...
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