horror fiction

Mickey and his best friend, Amanda, are in charge of watching their vacationing neighbors' cat, Bella, but when Bella is hit by a truck, Mickey and Amanda decide to replace her with a look-alike from the local pet store, a plan that backfires when the cat seems to have an evil streak that could destroy them all.

In order to win a scholarship to summer sports camp, Lee Hargrove plans to change his rival Cory "Lucky Duck" Duckworth's good luck streak with a birthday present he will never forget.

When Matt's parents send him to a strange boarding school, where the students move at a dead-slow pace, he begins to suspect he has been enrolled in a school for zombies.

Jack Harmon, who is bullied at school, finds a cell phone and hears a strange voice who wants him to do bad things.

In 1950, Noem? Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newly married cousin indicating someone is trying to poison her, prompting Noem? to quickly travel to High Place, an isolated mansion in the countryside. Noem?, a glamorous socialite, doesn't know if she can be a sleuth and uncover the truth about her cousin's new English husband, but as she explore the house and gets to know its denizens, she comes to believe that the house itself may be acting against her finding the truth.

Maggie Holt's father bequeaths an old Victorian mansion to her after he dies--a mansion that is supposedly haunted. Maggie barely remembers when her family lived there--a mere three weeks--before they fled in the middle of the night. Her father even wrote a book about the experience, which became a best-seller. Maggie doesn't believe the house is haunted, but does want to renovate it, in order to sell it, and hopes put to rest some of the memories of the past. The house, however, has other plans.

Contains ten essays that provide a variety of perspectives on the nineteenth-century novel, "Frankenstein," discussing issues of sexuality, race, class, science, language, and identity; and includes explanatory notes, and a selective guide to further reading.

Clem and her best friend, Nina, live in the haunted town of Moon Basin, known for its accidents and murders that are linked to the now-abandoned coal mine, but when they join their new friend, Piper, and her dad on a trip into the mine, they find themselves haunted by strange dreams and experiences afterwards.

Everyone thinks that Clark is too old to still play with stuffed animals. Bullies target him at school while his mother tries increasingly un-subtle ways to wean him off his toys and introduce more "normal" interests. But Clark can't shake the feeling that his stuffed friends are important, even necessary. Sometimes they move around in the night, and sometimes in the morning they look a little worse for wear, as if they've engaged in battle. And it turns out . . . he's right.

A graphic novel adaptation of Bram Stoker's classic story that finds Jonathan Harker, a guest at an eerie castle owned by Count Dracula, investigating the strange nighttime activities of his host.