Joe Hill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this masterful collection of short fiction, Joe Hill dissects timeless human struggles in thirteen relentless tales of supernatural suspense, including "In The Tall Grass," one of two stories co-written with Stephen King, basis for the terrifying feature film from Netflix. A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blood-drenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in "Faun." A grief-stricken librarian climbs behind...
3) The fireman
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out in the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others.
Author
Language
English
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A pulse-pounding, terrifying rollercoaster ride of a supernatural thriller—a remarkable debut novel from a blazing talent that will keep readers spellbound
Sooner or later, the dead catch up. . . .
Judas Coyne was a collector. The bizarre, the unusual, the grotesque: A cookbook for cannibals. A used hangman's noose. A snuff film. Usually the objects were sent by the black-clad fans who made his metal band a legend and made
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of four short novels that take us beyond the ordinary, into dreams and nightmares. There's a tattooed thug whose camera erases memories; a young man on his first parachute jump becoming trapped on a cloud; a rain of crystal splinters that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover; and a security guard who stops a mass shooting in a mall and becomes a hero until his story begins to unravel.
8) Horns
Author
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"June Branch visits her boyfriend, Liam, on Brody Island for a relaxing last weekend of summer. After an escaped group of criminals breaks into the house that June and Liam are watching, Liam is taken by them. June grabs a strange Viking axe and flees from the intruders. When one of the attackers finds her, she swings the axe and takes off his head, which rolls away and begins to babble in terror. For June to uncover the truth, she'll need to hear...
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Series
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Three never-before-collected additions to the series the A.V. Club called a 'modern masterpiece, ' showcasing the depths of depravity and the beautifully heart-breaking heights writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez have to offer within the sprawling world of Locke & Key"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
A sister and brother pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they've lost one another. The boy's cries become more desperate.
12) Road rage
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Duel: A businessman finds himself pitted against an anonymous truck driver in a deadly game of cat and mouse on a Californian highway.
Throttle: A faceless trucker is pitted against a tribe of motorcycle outlaws, in the simmering Nevada desert. Their battle is fought out on twenty miles of the most lonely road in the country, a place where the only thing worse than not knowing what you're up against, is slowing down.
14) Horns
Publisher
Starz Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Ig Perrish is the number one suspect in the murder of his girlfriend, Merrin. Hung over from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns growing from his head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses - an effective tool in his quest to discover what happened to his girlfriend and exact revenge on her killer.
15) NOS4A2: season 2
Publisher
AMC Studios, RLJ Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After eight years on life-support, Charlie Manx finally dies and the news hits Vic hard; she can't believe it's over ... and with good reason. Soon Manx is back and desperate for revenge against the woman who put him in critical condition, and her whole family -- but especially her son -- is under threat. Allies new and old on both sides are ready to battle for the future.
16) The black phone
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Finney Shaw is a shy but clever 13-year-old boy who's being held in a soundproof basement by a sadistic, masked killer. When a disconnected phone on the wall starts to ring, he soon discovers that he can hear the voices of the murderer's previous victims, and they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sherlock Holmes has not only captivated readers for more than a century and a quarter, he has fascinated writers as well. Almost immediately, the detective's genius, mastery, and heroism became the standard by which other creators measured their creations, and the friendship between Holmes and Dr. Watson served as a brilliant model for those who followed Doyle. Not only did the Holmes tales influence the mystery genre but also tales of science-fiction,...
18) Flight or fright
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube with hundreds of strangers. All the ways a trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including some never thought of before. Featuring brand new stories by Joe Hill and Stephen King, as well as fourteen classic tales and one poem from the likes of Richard Matheson,...