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1021) The pit and the pendulum
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Retold in graphic novel format, the narrator tells of his macabre torture at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 4
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Desmond and Andres face a zombie during a school field trip to the zoo.
1023) Soulless
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations. First, she has no soul. Second, she's a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead. Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette. Where to go from there? From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire -- and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate....
1024) What grows in the dark
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen years ago, Brigit's sister ranted about monsters and slit her wrists near Ellis Creek. Now, Brigit travels America, investigating paranormal activity, and faking results. But then she takes a case at Ellis Creek.
1025) The lava crown
Author
Series
Troll hunters volume 3
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Zak and the other young heroes must descend deep underground to face the creature that wears the lava crown and commands the troll army--can they rescue their mentor, Dr. Hoo and the captive humans, or has the doctor betrayed them?
1026) Chainsaw Man: 9,Bath
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Denji was a small-time devil hunter just trying to survive a harsh world. After being killed on a job, Denji is revived by his pet devil-dog Pochita and becomes something new and dangerous--Chainsaw Man! With the climactic battle against the Gun Devil close, Aki may be wavering. Has he found something more important to him than revenge? And what is the true meaning behind the vision shown to him by the Future Devil?" --
Author
Publisher
[Pioneer Library System]
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes...
1028) Mothman's curse
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Josie and her brother Fox discover the truth behind the legend of the Mothman, they must stop a disaster in order to break the curse that has been afflicting their town" --
1029) The phantom hour
Author
Series
Babysitting nightmares volume 02
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Clio has already had one brush with the paranormal and she's dead set on making it her last. But her new babysitting job is in a haunted house! At first, Clio's excited to work at the Victorian mansion in town - until doors start closing behind her, objects move on their own, and messages appear from beyond the grave.
1030) The narrow
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone has heard the story of the Narrow. The river that runs behind the Atwood School is only a few feet across and seemingly placid, but beneath the surface, the waters are deep and vicious. It's said that no one who has fallen in has ever survived. Eden White knows that isn't true. Six years ago, she saw Delphine Fournier fall into the Narrow--and live. Delphine now lives in careful isolation, sealed off from the world. Even a single drop of...
1031) Deephaven
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Hoping for a fresh start at Deephaven Academy, Guinevere "Nev" Tallow instead finds something strange stalking its corridors and teams up with another first-year student to unravel the secrets of this exclusive boarding school and its forbidden east wing.
1032) Fallen star
Author
Series
Troll hunters volume 4
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The young heroes have escaped from the underground kingdom of the trolls, but a final battle still awaits them at Zion Falls, where the trolls are controlling the people's minds and using them to attack the children of the stars--will any of them survive?
Author
Series
Paola Santiago volume 01
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In Silver Springs, Arizona, her mother's stories of the monstrous La Llorona are thrilling but unbelievable to science-loving Paola until she and her best friends Dante and Emma take a walk through a cactus field near the Gila River.
1034) The Minotaur maze
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Every Saturday at noon precisely, the T. Middleton Nightingale City Library is transformed, and today Kelly, one of the library pages, arrives just in time to find herself inside the Labyrinth, confronting the Minotaur with Princess Ariadne; her fellow pages are nowhere in sight--and defeating the Minotaur is only the beginning, because other monsters of Greek mythology are also roaming the confusing corridors, and there seems to be no way out of...
1035) The Jackal
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The location of the glymera's notorious prison camp was lost after the raids. When a freak accident provides Nyx clues to where her sister may still be doing time, she becomes determined to find the secret subterranean labyrinth. Embarking on a journey under the earth, she learns a terrible truth - and meets a male who changes everything, forever. The Jackal has been in the camp for so long he cannot recall anything of the freedom he once knew. Trapped...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Friday Fitzhugh spent her childhood solving crimes and digging up occult secrets with her best friend Lancelot Jones, the smartest boy in the world. But that was the past, now she's in college, starting a new life on her own. Except when Friday comes home for the holidays, she's immediately pulled back into Lance's orbit and finds that something very strange and dangerous is happening in their little New England town.
Rated M / Mature
1037) Dread nation: rise up
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead.
1038) Dead flip
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it's 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren't speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine? These days, all Maz wants to do is party, buy CDs at Sam Goody, and run away from his past. Meanwhile,...
1039) Not good for maidens
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women--the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market--until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl, accepted her invitation, and became inextricably tied to the world her family tried to protect her from. The market learned her name, and even when she...
1040) The hollow ones
Author
Series
Blackwood tapes volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced to shoot her suddenly violent partner, rookie FBI agent Odessa Hardwicke witnesses the escape of a shadowy form from the deceased agent's body, and embarks on a sanity-risking investigation into a centuries-old being.