horror fiction

Presents stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "Masque of the Red Death," and "The Raven;" and includes biographical information about the author.

Library page Baru Reddy loves horror stories so when the T. Middleton Nightengale City Library transforms into a ruined gothic cathedral complete with authors Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and Charlotte Bronte, not to mention a host of zombie monks, he is not as alarmed as his fellow pages; he just needs to figure out a way to bring Mary Shelley's creation (made out of books, not body parts) to life to defeat the zombies--and who better to help than Ben Franklin, who is busy with his electricity experiments.

Every Saturday at noon precisely, the T. Middleton Nightingale City Library is transformed, and today Kelly, one of the library pages, arrives just in time to find herself inside the Labyrinth, confronting the Minotaur with Princess Ariadne; her fellow pages are nowhere in sight--and defeating the Minotaur is only the beginning, because other monsters of Greek mythology are also roaming the confusing corridors, and there seems to be no way out of this maze.

At T. Middleton Nightingale City Library, when the old, broken clock strikes twelve, the library is transformed into something out of an author's mind--and today the volunteer pages find themselves in the middle of Edgar Allan Poe's imagination where monsters lurk, and a raven is telling them to find Lenore if they want to restore the library to normal.

Emma Lindsay has nowhere to go. Her friends are dead. Eric and Casey are lost to the Dark Passages. Emma commands the cynosure, a device that allows for safe passage between the Many Worlds, to put her where she might find her friends again. But Emma wakes up in the body of Little Lizzie, all grown up. And in this alternative Victorian London, Elizabeth McDermott is mad.Elizabeth's physician, Dr. Kramer, has drugged her to allow Emma who's blinked to this London before to emerge as the dominant personality.Elizabeth is dying, and if Emma can't find a way out, everyone as they exist in this London will die with her.

When millions of people begin receiving apocalyptic messages on their mobile phones, their brains are cleared of any human feelings and they are left with only aggressive and destructive impulses. Illustrator Clayton Riddell, who does not own a cell phone, must fight for survival as well as find his estranged wife and young son.

It's been four years since the invisible dome that was created by an alien virus appeared over Perdido Beach. Inside the dome, animals began to mutate and the teens remaining the dome developed dangerous powers. Now the dome has disappeared, but meteors are hitting the Earth with an even deadlier virus. Humans all over the world will mutate into monsters and as some teens begin to turn into heroes, they find that others are out of control and that a battle between good and evil is looming.

When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.

A collection of horror stories from Stephen King.

Alice Bell must learn to fight the undead to avenge her family and learn to trust Cole Holland, who has secrets of his own.