horror tales

"When Springville residents--at least the ones still alive--are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation--Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to change their image: host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret--one that will cost them all their lives"--Provided by publisher.

"Naomi is petrified of the talent show her school is putting on. She can't be out there alone in front of all those people. . .not without serious stage fright. How will she manage? The answer arrives in a mysterious box--a ventriloquist's dummy that transforms Naomi from a shy girl into a natural performer. It all goes well. . .until Naomi starts to want the stage for herself. When the dummy strikes back it raises the question--who's controlling who?"--Provided by publisher.

"Against his better judgment, fifth grader Griffin Birch follows his best friend down the new slide in the school playground, and at the other end of this portal they discover a cruel world populated by bloodthirsty creatures on a quest to become immortal"--OCLC.

"A strange house appears on Jac's street on the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, and when she gets trapped inside she will have to confront horrors from her past to find a way out"--Provided by publisher.

When a Hollywood film crew begins to work on the island of Kisapmata, they ignore the warnings that the island is cursed, until the crew begins to see strange visions and the visitors start to die, one by one.

To claim her inheritance, Helen Vaughan must spend one year in her ancestral home, Harrowstone Hall, and with her life and sanity at stake, she must unravel Harrowstone's secrets, an endeavor that forces her to question everything she knows about her family and herself.

A long awaited fishing trip turns scary for cousins Hunter and Leo when a sea monster appears.

Shane has dragged his younger brother, Geoffrey, to the museum to see the new Egyptian exhibit, but the brothers are not prepared for what happens when two mummies come to life and start the follow the boys.

"Best friends Adelle and Connie...always had in common...their love of a little-known gothic romance novel called Moira. So when the girls are tempted by a mysterious man to enter the world of the book...suddenly they are in the world of Moira...Except…the girls realize that something dark is lurking behind their foray into fiction--and they will have to rewrite their own arcs if they hope to escape this nightmare with their lives"--Provided by publisher.

Chrissy has always been able to see ghosts, and when her friend Chase realized it, he turned her affliction into an internet sensation, with the help of Emmaline, the technology expert and Kiki, the presenter; now they are planning to film an episode in an infamously haunted hotel in Los Angeles, but they may be tackling something really dangerous because Chrissy is seeing the terrifying shadow man who started appearing to her when her mother was dying of cancer--and there is an internet troll who keeps sending death threats to the group.