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"A debut novel for fans of Sarah Perry and Kate Morton: when a young woman is tasked with safeguarding a natural history collection as it is spirited out of London during World War II, she discovers her new manor home is a place of secrets and terror instead of protection"--
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When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn't suffer.
But Isabella's parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella's... condition, and when Ms Valdez arrives at the estate, having forced herself through a surreal nightmare maze of twisted human-like statues, she discovers that there is no girl to tutor.
Or is there...?
3) Carmilla
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"In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a horse-drawn carriage crashes into view, carrying an unexpected guest - the beautiful Carmilla. So begins a feverish friendship between Laura and her mysterious, entrancing companion. But as Carmilla becomes increasingly strange and volatile, prone to eerie nocturnal wanderings, Laura finds herself tormented...
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"On the day of his wedding Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. Fearing the end of his dynasty, his father, Manfred, determines to marry Conrad's betrothed Isabella, until a series of supernatural events stands in his way. A giant helmet falls from the moon, a portrait sighs, a statue bleeds and spirits warn of impending tragedy, as the curse on Manfred's house inexorably works itself out."--Jacket.
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
F Mor
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F Mor
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Glencliff High - Teen Fiction
F MOR
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F MOR
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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"A rich, spellbinding new novel from the author of The Lake House - the story of a love affair and a mysterious murder that cast their shadows across generations, set in England from the 1860's until the present day"--
6) Dracula
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F Sto
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
F Sto
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F Sto
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Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Fiction
F STO
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F STO
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Madison Middle - Teen Non-Fiction
741.5 Sto
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741.5 Sto
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Nashville School of the Arts - Teen Comic/Graphic
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741.5 KIN
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Overview: The punctured throat, the coffin lid slowly opening, the unholy shriek as the stake pierces the heart-these are just a few of the chilling images Bram Stoker unleashed upon the world with his 1897 masterpiece, Dracula. Inspired by the folk legend of nosferatu, the undead, Stoker created a timeless tale of gothic horror and romance that has enthralled and terrified readers ever since. A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended...
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A complex, haunting novel that explores a schizophrenic young artist’s struggles with her perception of reality… including an intriguing ghostly woman who appears to her in the most mysterious ways.
India Morgan Phelps—Imp to her friends—is trying to write her memoir, but she struggles with the unreliability of her own mind. Suffering from schizophrenia, as well as comorbid anxiety and OCD, Imp has a...
India Morgan Phelps—Imp to her friends—is trying to write her memoir, but she struggles with the unreliability of her own mind. Suffering from schizophrenia, as well as comorbid anxiety and OCD, Imp has a...
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Slip behind the bleak walls and vacant windows of Netflix's reimagining of the mansion of doom in this anthology of works by Edgar Allan Poe that inspired the limited series The Fall of the House of Usher. From well-loved classics like "The Raven" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"to lesser-known gems such as "Tamerlane" and "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," these collected tales have withstood the test of time, haunting readers for nearly two hundred years.--Amazon...
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Cornwall, 1844. On a lonely moorland farm not far from Jamaica Inn, farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond. But Charlotte has many secrets, possessing powers that cause both good and ill. When she's found on the moor with her throat cut, Shilly is determined to find out who is responsible, and so is the stranger calling himself Mr Williams who asks for Shilly's help. Mr Williams has secrets too, and Shilly is thrown into the bewildering...
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Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction
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F BUT
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Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction
F But
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F But
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Maplewood High - Teen Fiction
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LIT F BUT
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Shori, a fifty-three-year-old vampire who appears as a young girl, wakes up in a cave and becomes the target of a plot to kill her and the rest of her species.
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F Kos
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Independence Academy - Teen Fiction
F Kos
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F Kos
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James Lawson High - Teen Fiction
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HOR F KOS
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3 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigate the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler.
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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Glencliff High - Teen Fiction
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Hillsboro High - Teen Fiction
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F HAW
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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This enduring novel of crime and retribution vividly reflects the social and moral values of New England in the 1840s. Nathaniel Hawthorne's gripping psychological drama concerns the Pyncheon family, a dynasty founded on pious theft, who live for generations under a dead man's curse until their house is finally exorcised by love. Hawthorne, by birth and education, was instilled with the Puritan belief in America's limitless promise. Yet -- in part...
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F ALL
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Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Fiction
F ALL
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F ALL
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James Lawson High - Teen Fiction
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HIST F ALL
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The Trueba family embodies strong feelings. This family saga starts at the beginning of the 20th century and continues through the assassination of Allende in 1973.
14) The keep
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Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact...
15) Mexican Gothic
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Cane Ridge High - Teen Fiction
F Mor
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F Mor
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Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Fiction
F MOR
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F MOR
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James Lawson High - Teen Fiction
HIST F Mor
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HIST F Mor
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7 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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4 copies, 23 people are on the wait list.
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After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemi Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find--her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemi knows little about the region. Noemi is also an unlikely rescuer: She's a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited...
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Independence Academy - Teen Fiction
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F Dan
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Overton High - Teen Fiction
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F DAN
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In 1902, at the Brookhants School for Girls, Flo and Clara form the Plain Bad Heroines Club in homage to their favorite author Mary MacLane. The two girls are killed, and less than five years later, the school closes. Over a century later, Merritt Emmons' book about the school is going to be made into a movie starring lesbian it girl Harper Harper and B-list actress and former child star Audrey Wells. When Merritt, Harper, and Audrey arrive to shoot...
17) Rebecca
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Antioch High - Teen Fiction
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F DUM
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Hume-Fogg High Magnet - Teen Fiction
F DU
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F DU
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5 copies, 15 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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7 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
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"A woman trying to outrun her past is drawn to a quiet coastal town in Maine--and to a string of unsolved murders--in this haunting tale of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen."--
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
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"When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting. When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life of luxury. But with her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only...
20) Titus Groan
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Gormenghast trilogy volume 1
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First in the classic gothic trilogy. “A masterpiece . . . a moody, melancholy comedy with an underlying wit and profundity that cannot be denied.” —Speculiction
The basis for the 2000 BBC series
Now in development by Showtime
As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast...
The basis for the 2000 BBC series
Now in development by Showtime
As the novel opens, Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. He stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that form Gormenghast...