horror fiction

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Lyra's Oxford

2003
Lyra discovers a request from a witch's demon for an escort to the home of alchemist Sebastian Makepeace is not as straightforward as it appears. Includes maps, brochures, postcards, and other clues.

Dracula

2011
Having discovered the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Includes an introduction, a bibliography, a chronology, and explanatory notes.

How to analyze the works of Stephen King

2011
Explains how to use critical theory to analyze the works of Stephen King and provides summaries of his famous books as well as critiques of each.

I am legend

2007
Robert Neville, the last living man on an Earth in which every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, struggles to survive, scavenging for food and supplies and desperately searching for other survivors and trying to avoid the evil that lurks in the shadows. Includes ten additional short horror stories.

On writing

a memoir of the craft
2000
Stephen King reflects on how his writing has helped him through difficult times and describes various aspects of the art of writing.

Stephen King's danse macabre

1983
Novelist Stephen King reflects upon the creation and elements of horror in various media, discussing specific films, novels, stories, radio programs, and folktales.

The vanishing vampire

a monsterrific tale
2013
After waking up as a vampire, Sebastian, a student at Washington Irving Elementary School, has only one chance to turn back into a human and time is running out.

My hairiest adventure

1994
Some very unusual and scary things begin to happen when Larry uses an old bottle of "Insta-tan" he found in the trash.

Attack of the mutant

1994
Skipper Matthews sees a building in Riverview Falls that looks exactly like one from his comic book collection--the Masked Mutant's secret headquarters--and wonders if the evil supervillain could really live in his own home town.

The Other life

2012
More than three years after a rabies mutation drove survivors into underground bunkers, fifteen-year-old Sherry teams up with seventeen-year-old Joshua, who takes her to Safe Haven and helps rescue her family while fending off part-human, part-beast creatures known as Weepers.

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