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"A strange house appears on Jac's street on the five-year anniversary of her cancer diagnosis, and when she gets trapped inside she will have to confront horrors from her past to find a way out"--

"From R.L. Stine, the master of horror for young readers, comes ten new stories that are sure to send a shiver down your spine. Two kids embark on a field trip to the zoo...and stumble upon a creature they never expected to meet. A boy makes a machine that puts kids in charge...but at what cost? A child is sure his new house is haunted...but is it just in his head? And each story comes with a personal introduction from Stine himself. Laced with Stine's...

More traditional and modern-day stories of ghosts, witches, vampires, "jump" stories, and scary songs.

After waking up in a coffin in Italy, Lela finds that a year has gone by and that she's been presumed dead the entire time. Now there's only one thing she wants to do-return to the states and reunite with her family and Gallard, the love of her life. Meanwhile, Lucian has been busy learning to integrate himself into the twenty-first century with the goal of destroying the Sharmentino family in revenge for Solomon murdering his. To protect her siblings,...

On Halloween Eve, a small-town babysitter and the kids she is looking after must survive the horrors of serial killer Abner Honeywell.

"When an infection threatens to turn everyone into mindless, dangerous monsters, it is up to a few desperate survivors to survive long enough to find a cure. But can they hold on long enough to get to the bottom of this mysterious illess, or will the hordes of Infected overwhelm them?"-- Provided by publisher.

"From the Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Luminous Dead comes a gothic fantasy horror--The Death of Jane Lawrence. "Intense and amazing! It's like Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell meets Mexican Gothic meets Crimson Peak." -BookRiot. Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied...

"Akira and Kencho make an impromptu trip to Ikebukuro to snag a widescreen TV. But before they can find one, they wind up trapped by zombies in a department store along with a couple of beautiful girls. As Akira tries to cozy up to one of them, the conversation shifts to childhood dreams, and he realizes it's time to embrace his own--by becoming a superhero"--Back cover.

Desperate to fit in at school, Sam rejects her East Indian culture and family to be like everyone else. However, when a mythological demonic spirit latches onto her former best friend, she must come to terms with her heritage to defeat it.

"They are the last children on Earth...and they also happen to be vampires. For longer than any of them can remember, these child vampires have lived a life of eternal wonder amongst the ruins of humanity. But shocking events fracture the group and set them on a path of discovery that will shatter their innocence forever."--Page [4] of cover.