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Horror Fiction at Immaculate Conception High School
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Novels
Benchley, Peter. White Shark. FIC BEN
Simon Chase, a young marine biologist, studies and tracks sharks and other marine species, the effect of pollution and other environmental threats. He becomes concerned when bodies begin to wash ashore.
Bradbury, Ray. Something Wicked This Way Comes. Fic Bra
Two boys, best friends in a small Midwestern town, finally come to understand that of all the terrors threatening them from Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show the greatest menace exists within themselves.
Clare, Cassandra. City of Bones. Fic Cla
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Also try:
City of Ashes.
City of Glass.
Clark, Mary Higgins. Where Are the Children? Fic Cla
Nancy thought remarrying would help her forget the deaths of her two children, but before long, her nightmare begins anew.
Cormier, Robert. Fade. FIC COR
Paul Moreaux, the thirteen-year-old son of French Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.
Cross, Gillian. The Dark behind the Curtain. FIC CRO
Strange emotions begin to haunt the actors who are recreating a play that has its roots in real human cruelty and despair.
Dickens, Charles. The Haunted House. Fic Dic
A group of friends, sequestered in their rooms in a reputedly haunted house from Christmas Eve to Twelfth Night, share their personal stories of ghostly encounters when they join together again for a celebratory feast.
Duncan, Lois. Down a Dark Hall. FIC DUN
Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.
Hill, Susan. The Woman in Black. FIC HIL
Arthur Kipps returns to north London to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow and settle her estate, but the formalities of his job soon give way to a series of sinister and terrifying events on the isolated English moors.
Jackson, Shirley. The Haunting of Hill House. Fic Jac
Four seekers look for haunting evidence at the abandoned old mansion called Hill House. Their stay begins as a spooky encounter, but the house is gathering its powers and will choose one of them to make its own.
James, Henry. The Turn of the Screw. Fic Jam
A nineteenth-century story in which a governess believes her two charges, ten-year-old Miles and eight-year-old Flora, are being haunted by the ghosts of former servants.
King, Stephen. Gerald's Game. FIC KIN
Jessie and Gerald Burlingame play a game in the bedroom, something goes wrong and Jessie is left alone in the house.
King, Stephen. Desperation. Fic Kin
Mary and Peter Jackson, the Carver family, and aging novelist John Marinville are on their way to different destinations, but first they must pass through the town of Desperation, Nevada and for some of them it will be the end of the road.
King, Stephen. Cell: A Novel. Fic Kin
Maine artist Clayton Riddell, elated after closing the deal for his first comic book, comes down to Earth quickly when a brain-zapping energy burst--The Pulse--strikes, reducing cell phone users to zombie-like creatures, and leaving Clayton desperate to find a way home from Boston to see if his wife and son have survived.
King, Stephen. The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel. Fic Kin
Contains all six installments of the serialized horror novel about death row prisoner John Coffey and his fellow inmates and guards in the Green Mile wing of Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
King, Stephen. Duma Key. Fic Kin
Self-made millionaire Edgar Freemantle's wife walks out on him after a construction accident leaves him disfigured, so he heads for Florida's Duma Key and starts to paint; however, his work appears to take on a life of its own.
Klause, Annette Curtis. Blood and Chocolate. Fic Kla
Having fallen in love for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.
Klause, Annette Curtis. The Silver Kiss. Fic Kla
A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.
Koontz, Dean R. The Face of Fear. Fic Koo
An ex-mountain climber and a beautiful terrified woman are trapped on the fortieth floor of a deserted office building by a psychopath called "The Butcher.".
Leroux, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. Fic Ler
A disfigured musical genius who lives beneath the Paris Opera House falls in love with a beautiful soprano and, in his desperation to have his love returned, embarks on some terrifying means towards that end.
MacDonald, Reby Edmond. The Ghosts of Austwick Manor. FIC MAC
Hillary and Heather find themselves entering the sixteenth century as a direct result of their older brother Don's inheritance. Will they be able to save Don who is in grave danger from an ancient curse?.
MacPhail, Catherine. Dark Waters. Fic Mac
Col McCann becomes a local hero when he saves a boy from drowning but when his older brother is suspected of a serious crime, Col must decide if he should be loyal to his family or tell the truth about what he saw while under the water.
Martin, Valerie. Mary Reilly: A Novel. Fic Mar
Mary, employed by Dr. Jekyll, finds herself the keeper of her Master's house, the guardian of his sanity, and the only one in possession of the dark knowledge that might save his life.
Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. Fic Mey
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Also try:
New Moon
Eclipse.
Breaking Dawn.
Owen, Dilys. Leo Possessed. FIC OWE
When her family moves into an old Georgian townhouse, a 13-year-old English girl is disturbed by haunting presences.
Plante, Edmund. Alone in the House. FIC PLA
It began with the party. Joanne's parents were away and she'd been talked into having some friends over, but strangers crashed the party--and the fun ended.
Preston, Douglas J. The Relic. FIC PRE
When visitors are killed at the New York Museum of Natural History before the opening of the Superstition exhibition, graduate student Margo Green discovers a link between the killings, a tragic archaeological trip to the Amazon Basin, and a figurine from the exhibit.
Rice, Anne. Interview with the Vampire: A Novel. Fic Ric
Presents the confessions of Louis, a vampire, and tells of his relationship with the vampire Lestat.
Saul, John. Sleepwalk. FIC SAU
A madman with terrifying powers and a deep hatred for teenagers lives in a peaceful desert town. Now he has discovered a way to strike back at them.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein. Fic She
Presents the 1831 revised text of the novel about a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies, who develops a mind of his own and learns to loathe himself and hate his creator.
Sleator, William. Fingers. FIC SLE
Eighteen-year-old Sam falls in with his mother's bizarre scheme to revitalize his younger brother's flagging career as a piano prodigy, and agrees to compose "new works" by a long dead composer and present them to his brother as the dictations of a ghost.
Stevenson, Robert Louis. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories. Fic Ste
Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novel featuring scientist Dr. Jekyll who takes on an evil persona by night; also contains five other short stories.
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Fic Sto
The mysterious Transylvanian Count Dracula wreaks havoc on young businessman Jonathan Harker, his fiancée Mina, and several others, and when he is revealed to be a vampire, he must be destroyed at all costs.
Wilde, Oscar. The Canterville Ghost. FIC WIL
A celebrated and feared English ghost is outraged when the new American owners of his haunting place refuse to take him seriously and actually fight back against him.
Wooding, Chris. The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray. Fic Woo
In a world similar to Victorian London, Thaniel, a seventeen-year-old hunter of deadly, demonic creatures called the wych-kin, takes in an lost, possessed girl, and becomes embroiled in a plot to unleash evil on the world.
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Short Stories
Alfred Hitchcock's Ghostly Gallery. SC Alf
A collection of eleven ghost stories by Robert Arthur, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harry Kuttner, F. Marion Crawford, Walter Brooks, A.M. Burrage, Lord Dunsany, H.G. Wells, and Algernon Blackwood
Baleful Beasts: Great Supernatural Stories of the Animal Kingdom. SC Bal
A collection of stories about supernatural beasts, written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Saki, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Lafcadio Hearn, and others.
Bierce, Ambrose. The Complete Short Stories of Ambrose Bierce. SC BIE
A compilation of ninety-three tales of war, horror, and the absurd by Ambrose Bierce.
Charles Keeping's Book of Classic Ghost Stories. SC CHA
A collection of short stories about ghosts written by Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Oscar Wilde, Daphne du Maurier, M.R. James, A.M. Burrage, and Charles Dickens.
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror. SC DAR
An anthology of twenty-three short stories about the supernatural.
The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Stories. 808.83 Dra
A collection of stories about vampires.
Halloween Horrors. SC HAL
A collection of Halloween stories written by Robert R. McCammon, Charles L. Grant, Whitley Strieber and others.
Jackson, Shirley. The Lottery and Other Stories. SC Jac
A collection of twenty-six stories by twentieth-century American author Shirley Jackson, including her famous work, "The Lottery," in which the people of a village perform their annual lottery even though they have long forgotten the reason for the ritual.
James, Henry. Stories of the Supernatural. SC Jam
A collection of eighteen short storied by Henry James about the supernatural inclugin The Turn of the Screw.
King, Stephen. Skeleton Crew. SC Kin
A collection of horror stories from Stephen King.
The Nightmare Reader. SC Nig
A collection of stories that will keep you up at night.
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories. SC One
A collection of a hundred ghost stories written by American and English authors.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales. SC POE Presents fifteen tales of horror by Edgar Allan Poe, including "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Pit and the Pendulum."
Poe, Edgar Allan. Tales of Mystery & Imagination. SC POE
Presents an anthology of tales of horror and the supernatural.
Short Circuits: Thirteen Shocking Stories by Outstanding Writers for Young Adults. SC Sho
Includes offerings from Joan Lowery Nixon, Vivien Alcock, Robert Westall, and Joan Aiken.
A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories. SC TRE
Contains twenty-four Victorian ghost stories.
Venomous Tales of Villainy and Vengeance: An Anthology. SC VEN
Eight creepy tales by such authors as Ray Bradbury, Joan Aiken, and Robert Silverberg focus on viscious people and events that are meant to cause goose bumps and curl eyebrows.
Young Ghosts. SC YOU
Includes twelve tales involving young ghosts by a variety of authors.
Created May, 2003. Revised February, 2010.
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