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Can you survive Dracula?

2022
An adaptation of Bram Stoker's "Dracula," the classic macabre tale of a vampire, Count Dracula of Transylvania, and the small group of people who vowed to rid the world of him.

Possess me

2022
"Kaden should leave the Manor alone. Everyone else knows to avoid the old, burned down mansion left abandoned in the woods but Kaden is curious. Too curious. Or maybe Kaden is drawn there by something sinister. Because once the house has a hold, Kaden can't remember hours out of each day. Almost as if Kaden's life has been...taken over. And at the same time, other kids in town have started to go missing"--Back cover.
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Firestarter

2016
Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by the clandestine government organization known as The Shop. But the outcome unlocked exceptional latent psychic talents for the two of them--manifesting in even more terrifying ways when they fell in love and had a child. Their daughter, Charlie, has been gifted with the most extraordinary and uncontrollable power ever seen--pyrokinesis, the ability to create fire with her mind. Now the merciless agents of The Shop are in hot pursuit to apprehend this unexpected genetic anomaly for their own diabolical ends by any means necessary ... including violent actions that may well ignite the entire world around them as Charlie retaliates with a fury of her own ...

The crossbones

2009
Ryan, who records all of his findings in his journal, and Sarah, who uses her video camera to document everything, continue to search for answers surrounding the strange occurrences in Skeleton Creek and soon find themselves in haunted and sinister places beyond their hometown.

Wait till Helen comes

a ghost story graphic novel
2022
"When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to make friends with their new stepsister, Heather. But Heather only wants to make trouble for them. She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they always get the blame. They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother so she can have her father all to herself--and it seems to be working. Then, Heather starts playing in the graveyard behind their new house. She claims she can talk to a ghost named Helen, and her behavior gets even stranger. Michael doesn't believe in ghosts and thinks their new little sister is just looking for more attention. But Molly isn't so certain, especially when Heather threatens that Helen is going to come for them and make them sorry. It seems as though things can't get any worse--but they do. When Helen comes"--OCLC.
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Infected

2023
"When an infection threatens to turn everyone into mindless, dangerous monsters, it is up to a few desperate survivors to find a cure. But can they hold on long enough to get to the bottom of this mysterious illness, or will PIGGY and her new minons find them first?"--Provided by publisher.
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Wake the bones

After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laurel realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.
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Reset day

2021
What happened after the neighbor disappeared from Raven Brooks? Piper Klein;s life has been turned upside down. She's moving from the big city to her recently-deceased dad's old hometown, Raven Brooks, and it's smack dab in the middle of, well, nowhere. Her once-quiet and meek sister seems to be the popular kid, her mom is running the local grocery store (and taking online classes-yeesh), and Piper is finding the town a little more strange than, well, small towns should be. Raven Brooks is a lot more than the quiet life that piper thought she was getting. But just how strange is it, exactly? And what does a certain Mr. Peterson have to do with it?.

The forever song

2021
Allie will do anything to destroy psychopathic vampire Sarren, who murdered Zeke, and she, her creator Kanin, and her blood brother, Jackal must protect, at any cost, the last vampire-free zone on Earth, Eden.

Wait till Helen comes

a ghost story graphic novel
2022
"When their mom remarries, Molly and her brother, Michael, try to make friends with their new stepsister, Heather. But Heather only wants to make trouble for them. She lies and tattles and misbehaves, and somehow they always get the blame. They know she's trying to drive a wedge between her father and their mother so she can have her father all to herself--and it seems to be working. Then, Heather starts playing in the graveyard behind their new house. She claims she can talk to a ghost named Helen, and her behavior gets even stranger. Michael doesn't believe in ghosts and thinks their new little sister is just looking for more attention. But Molly isn't so certain, especially when Heather threatens that Helen is going to come for them and make them sorry. It seems as though things can't get any worse--but they do. When Helen comes"--OCLC.

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