horror fiction

"Tania is having the best year of her life. She has a hot new boyfriend, she landed the starring role in a student film, and she's just been voted homecoming queen. But someone is jealous of Tania and plans to ruin her perfect year--even if that means killing her. Will Tania live to see the homecoming dance?"--OCLC.

"Seventeen-year-old Noelle Layne knows horror. Every trope, every warning sign, every survival tactic. She even leads a successful movie club dedicated to the genre. Who better to throw the ultimate, most exclusive Halloween party on all of Long Island? With some of the top influencers in her school on the guest list, including gorgeous singer-songwriter Archer Mitchell, her popularity is bound to spike. She could really use the social boost for an upcoming brand expansion. Nothing is going to ruin this party. Except . . . maybe the low budget 'It' clown she hired for a stirring round of tag. He axes one of her classmates. From the looks of his devilish grin and bag full of killer tricks, he's just getting started. A murderous clown is out for blood, but Noelle has been waiting her entire life to prove that she's a Final Girl"--Provided by publisher.

As soon as newcomers Corky and Bobbi Corcoran join the cheerleading squad at Shadyside High, terrible things begin to happen to the cheerleaders.

A year after the Kettle Springs massacre, Quinn and her friends Rust and Cole become the focus of online conspiracy theories that recast them as villains rather than victims.

"A collection of more than 50 classic horror stories, from well-known writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Franz Kafka, and Charles Dickens"--Provided by publisher.

When twelve-year-old Silas and his family take over his late aunt's rundown summer camp, Silas finds an old lion's pelt and he thinks it will bring them success. However, Silas feels the pelt watching him and then his baby brother George disappears. Silas races to save George from a lion named Scar that materializes from a picture book.

Sixth-grader Murphy Shannon cannot wait for his class's visit to the Rayburne Observatory. Unfortunately, being a know-it-all, all the lectures bore him. That's when he and his friends Orly and Cleo go exploring on their own and encounter the enigmatic and frightening Dr. Rayburne himself, who may just take the kids on a terrifying adventure in outer space.

"A collection of [ten] scary short stories by R. L. Stine, each one introduced by the [author]"--Back cover.

When twelve-year-old Rosa finds herself in the Library of Doom, she runs into a hungry When-Where-Why-Wraith and must overcome this question creature to return home.

"All Chief Jim Hopper wants is to enjoy a quiet first Christmas with Eleven . . . Over Hopper's protests, she pulls a cardboard box marked 'New York' out of the basement--and the tough questions begin . . . Although he'd rather face a horde of demogorgons than talk about his own past, Hopper knows that he can't deny the truth any longer. And so begins the story of the incident in New York--the last big case before everything changed. . . . Summer, New York City, 1977. Hopper is starting over after returning home from Vietnam. A young daughter, a caring wife, and a new beat as an NYPD detective make it easy to slip back into life as a civilian. But after shadowy federal agents suddenly show up and seize the files about a series of brutal, unsolved murders, Hopper takes matters into his own hands, risking everything to discover the truth. Soon Hopper is undercover among New York's notorious street gangs. But just as he's about to crack the case, a blackout rolls across the boroughs, plunging Hopper into a darkness deeper than any he's faced before"--Provided by publisher.