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Stephen King

a complete exploration of his work, life, and influences
2022
Explore the evolution and influences of Stephen King's body of work over his nearly 50-year career, and discover how the themes of his writing reflect the changing times and events within his life. Timed with Stephen King's 75th birthday on September 21, 2022, Stephen King features archival photos and documents from King's personal collection alongside the stories behind how his novels, novellas, short stories, and adaptations came to be.

The long way home

stories
2019
Eerie, suspenseful, poignant, the stories in The Long Way Home run the gamut from horror to suspense, crime to dark fantasy, mainstream to mystery.

Girl overboard

2022
"When Izzy meets Jade on a cruise to Bermuda, her new daredevil friend turns Izzy's boring family vacation into the trip of a lifetime. Until Jade goes missing. The investigators claim Jade fell overboard, but Izzy knows better. Her friend had secrets--secrets that might have gotten her killed. As Izzy digs deeper into Jade's disappearance, she realizes that someone doesn't want her to find the truth. And if she's not careful, Izzy might not get off this ship alive"--Provided by publisher.

The haunting of Ashburn House

2020
Everyone knows about Ashburn House. They whisper its old owner went mad, and that restless ghosts still roam the halls. But when Adrienne inherits the crumbling old mansion, she only sees it as a lifeline; until night falls. As she uncovers more of the house's secrets, Adrienne begins to believe the whispered rumors may be horrifyingly true. Chasing the threads of a decades-old mystery, Adrienne realizes she's become the prey to something deeply unnatural and intensely resentful. She has no idea how to escape. Only one thing is certain: Ashburn's dead are not at rest.

Thrive

2021
The alien invasion of Earth is imminent. But maybe not all the aliens are united. A rebel faction has reached out to Anaya, saying there's a way to stop the larger invasion; a way for humans and hybrids and cryptogens to work together. Can they be trusted? Or is this a trap? It's not even clear if Anaya, Petra, and Seth are united; some of the hybrids think they'd be better off if the aliens won. With everything on the line, these three teens will have to decide who they are at their core; alien or human, enemy or friend.

The house next door

2020
Josephine lives next door to a haunted house. She began to suspect something was wrong with the old gothic building when its family fled in the middle of the night, the children screaming, the mother crying. They never came back. No family stays at Marwick House long. Animals avoid the place. Once, Josephine swore she saw a woman's silhouette pacing through the upstairs room, but that's impossible. No one had been there in a long, long time. But now Marwick House is waking up, and if Josephine isn't careful, she may be its next victim.

The Carrow haunt

2020
Remy is a tour guide for the notoriously haunted Carrow House. The old place is a haunt for the superstitious, but Remy hasn't seen any proof of the paranormal yet. So when she's asked to host guests for a week-long stay in order to research Carrow's phenomena, she hopes to finally experience some of the sightings that made the house famous.

The fog

2005
A thick mist full of vengeful spirits haunts a prosperous island town off the coast of Oregon, as its inhabitants try to learn their town's dark secret in order to stop it.

A nightmare on Elm Street

2010
The specter of a disfigured man haunts the children of the parents who murdered him, stalking and killing them in their dreams.

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