Teen Read Week
October 17 - 23, 2004

Selected Horror Stories

 
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Owen:
Hidden Evidence : 40 true crimes and how forensic science helped solve them. Profilesforty true crime cases and explains how their investigations were aided by the use of forensic science.
364.1 Bugliosi: Helter Skelter : the true story of the Manson murders.
   
398.2 Holt: Spiders In the Hairdo : modern urban legends. Present a collection of common contemporary urban legends, or tall tales that make their way into the societal rumor mill.
   
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Anderson:. Feed. In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
   
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Atwater-Rhodes: Demon In My View. Seventeen-year-old Jessica Allodola discovers that the vampire world of her fiction is real when she develop relationships with an alluring vampire named Aubrey and the teenage witch who is trying to save Jessica from his clutches.
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Cormier: After the first death. Events of the hijacking of a bus of children by terrorists seeking the return of their homeland are described from the perspectives of a hostage, a terrorist, an Army general involved in the rescue operation, and his son, chosen as the go-between.
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Cormier: The Rag and Bone Shop : a novel. Trent, an ace interrogator from Vermont, works to procure a confession from an introverted twelve-year-old accused of murdering his seven-year-old friend in Monument, Massachusetts.
   

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Fleischman: A Fate Totally Worse Than Death. In this horror novel parody, three self-centered members of Cliffside High School's ruling clique, who are beginning to age rapidly, become convinced that the beautiful new exchange student is the ghost of the girl whose death they caused the year before.

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Gaiman:
Coraline. Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
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Giles: Shattering Glass. When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.
   
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Hautman: Sweetblood. After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the so-called vampires she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
   
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Jackson: The Haunting of Hill House.
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Kin

King: Misery. A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring herfavorite character back to life.

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King:
Carrie. Unaware that she possesses a
terrifying power, Carrie White creates much destruction in a small, quiet New England town after she is humiliated at her high school prom.
   
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Klause: Blood and Chocolate. Having fallen 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.
   
F Kla Klause: The Silver Kiss. A mysterious teenage boy harboring a dark
secret helps Zoë come to terms with her mother's terminal illness.
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Koontz:
Cold Fire. Jim Ironheart flies to Oregon on an impulse. There he risks his life to save a young boy from being killed by a drunk driver. Soon Jim is on the run from a deadly enemy.
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Plum-Ucci: The Body of Christopher Creed. Torey Adams, a high school junior with a seemingly perfect life, struggles with doubts and questions surrounding the mysterious disappearance of the class outcast.
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Poe:
Tales of Suspense

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Rice: Interview with the vampire. Contains the confessions of a vampire which are hypnotic, shocking, and erotic.
   
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Saul: Sleepwalk. 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
   
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Shelley: Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus. A monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead Bodies is scorned for being ugly and swears revenge on his creator and the human race
   
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Stine: The Hitchhiker. Christina decides to live dangerously and stops to pick upa handsome hitchhiker.
   
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Stoker. Dracula. 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.
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Vande Velde: Companions of the Night. When sixteen-year-old Kerry Nowicki helps a young man escape from a group of men who claim he is a vampire, she finds herself faced with some bizarre and dangerous choices.
   
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Windsor: The Blooding. While spending the summer working as an au pair girl for a couple in England, Maris discovers that the husband is a werewolf intent on blooding her and making her one too.
   
Materials selected for the Lawrence High School Library are recommended by American Library Association, The Senior High School Catalog, School Library Journal, Booklist and other recognized library organizations.

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