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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Stephen King The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen...
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Language
English
Description
The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations,...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Formats
Description
The final book in the Dark Tower cycle. Thus continues Roland the Gunslinger and his relentless quest to reach The Tower in a last ditch effort to save all that is. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
From a power-invested ancient Roman statue that steals souls to long-dead movie stars resurrected to serve the forces of evil, these three collections of short stories combine the extraordinary with the ordinary, to create a nightmarish world of terror and the macabre.
7) Whispers
Author
Publisher
Naiad Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A tale of mystery and suspense, which begins when a nun plunges to her death during a violent storm. 100 years later a woman is haunted by whispers and visions, and an evil that crosses the barriers of time.
9) Black tide
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A character-driven science fiction/horror blend, KC Jones' Black Tide is Stephen King's Cujo meets A Quiet Place. It was just another day at the beach. Then the world ended. Mike and Beth were strangers before the night of the meteor shower. Chance made them neighbors, a bottle of champagne brought them together, and a shared need for human connection sparked something more. Following their drunken and desperate one-night stand, the two discover...
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the PARIS IMMORTAL series comes this steamy collection of vignettes featuring the vampire stars of the series, Michel and Gabriel. Not included in the novels, these shorts afford the reader another look into the relationship between these immortals."--Amazon
11) Bound in flesh
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Vampires Jean-Luc Courbet and Claude Halloran travel the world, quenching their thirst, satisfying their desires, and creating a depraved empire, until one of their creations, ex-cop Mike O'Donald, who becomes a new type of vampire trained in the secrets of Tantric sex magic, turns against them
12) Firelands
Author
Publisher
Alyson Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
"The winter of 1799 is falling fast on the Ohio frontier settlement of Hugh's Lick. Food is scarce, and tense relations with the neighboring Delaware village threaten to erupt in all-out war. But things are about to get much worse. In the midst of a ferocious storm, frontiersman Cole Seavey is attacked by a terrifying creature spawned from the bowels of hell. Pakim, a Delaware brave, rescues a gravely wounded Cole and delivers him to safety at the...
13) Dracul
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here ... A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen...