horror fiction

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Stargazer

2009
When evil wraiths attack her boarding school, Evernight Academy, teenage vampire Bianca discovers she has become the target.

The parliament of blood

2008
In Victorian London, after discovering that vampires really do exist and plot to end the human race, friends George, Liz, and Eddie join Sir William Protheroe in an increasingly desperate effort to find ways to stop them from overthrowing Parliament and, eventually, taking over the world.

The green mile

the complete serial novel
1999
Contains all six installments of the serialized horror novel about death row prisoner John Coffey and his fellow inmates and guards in the Green Mile wing of Cold Mountain Penitentiary.

The doomed and the dead

2007
Collects six scary stories by Victorian-era authors including Charles Dickens, Washington Irving, and Amelia B. Edwards.

Cursed creatures

2007
Contains novel extracts and short stories about ghosts, vampires, and cursed creatures, including selections by Bram Stoker, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, and others.

The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

and other tales of terror
2003
Presents Robert Louis Stevenson's novel about a kind and well-respected doctor who is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation, and includes two additional tales of body snatching and vampirism.

Fog

1989
Christina, a boarder along with Anya at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington, a principal and his wife, becomes alarmed when she realizes that the seemingly respectable couple are behind the slow erosion of Anya's sanity.

Horror classics

2004
Presents graphic-novel-style adaptations of eleven classic short horror stories by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, W. W. Jacobs, Saki, and Jack London.

The cheater

1993
Carter is under so much pressure to ace her math achievement exam that she gets Adam to take the test for her. She promises him a date in return but he wants more--much more.

The snow

1990
The cruel family with which Christina and some other children live have already destroyed Anya. Now they have selected their next victim. Christina wants to save the others, but first she must save herself from The Evil.

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