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TitleAuthorFilm/TV adaptionDescription (from Follett)FormatLevelLMHS LibrarySORACWMARS - borrow through public library
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"Black Phone" short story in Black Phone Stories & 20th Century GhostsJoe HillThe Black Phone
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"Children of the Corn" short story found in Night ShiftStephen KingChildren of the Corn (1984)All the adults are missing and a mysterious cornfield deity holds sway over a cult made up of children in a small Nebraska community.Short StoryAdult1 copyebookSeveral copies available
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"Don't Look Now" short story Daphne du MaurierDon't Look Now (1973)Short StoryAdultn/an/aSeveral copies to borrow
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"Graveyard Shift" short story found in Night ShiftStephen KingGraveyard Shift (1990)Short StoryAdult1 copy of NightshiftebookSeveral copies available
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"In the Tall Grass" short story in Full ThrottleStephen King and Joe HillIn the Tall Grass (2019)A brother and sister pull over when they hear the cries of a young boy coming from the tall grass, but as they begin to search for the boy, they both become disoriented and separated from one another as the boys cries become more desperate.Short StoryAdultSeveral copies available
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"Lawnmower Man" short story found in Night ShiftStephen KingLawnmower Man (1992)Short StoryAdult1 copy of NightshiftebookSeveral copies available
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"The Birds" short story Daphne du MaurierThe Birds (1963)Short StoryAdultn/an/aSeveral copies to borrow
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"The Mist" novella found in Skeleton CrewStephen KingThe Mist (2007)A sudden, dangerous storm descends on the small town of Bridgton, Maine, bringing a mist that hides gruesome creatures that bring death and destruction to the town's residents.NovellaAdult1 copy of Skeleton CrewebookSeveral copies of standalone Mist | Several copies of Skeleton Crew
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"Trucks" short story found in Night ShiftStephen KingMaximum Overdrive (1986)Short StoryAdult1 copy of NightshiftebookSeveral copies available
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30 Days of NightsSteve Niles30 Days of Nights (2007)During its thirty days and nights of darkness, Barrow, Alaska, endures an attack by a band of vampires that only the husband-and-wife sheriff team of the small town can stand against.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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All Things Cease to AppearElizabeth BrundageThings Heard and Seen (2021)Arriving home to find his wife murdered and their toddler left alone, art history professor George Clare is targeted with suspicion by a relentless police officer as dark community secrets are revealed over a span of decades.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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American PsychoBret Easton EllisAmerican Psycho (2000)Patrick Bateman moves among the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Amityville HorrorJay AnsonAmityville Horror (1979) & Amityville Horror (2005)In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island, where, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his entire family. But the price was too good to pass up.Twenty-eight days later, the entire Lutz family fled in terror.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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AnnihilationJames VandermeerAnnihilation (2018)Area X has claimed the lives of members of eleven expeditions. The twelfth expedition, consisting of four women, hopes to map the terrain and collect specimens; to record all their observations, scientific and otherwise, of their surroundings and of one another; and, above all, to avoid being contaminated by Area X itselfNovelAdultn/an/an/a
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AuditionRyu Murakami (translated by Ralph McCarthy)Audition (1999) Aoyama, a middle-aged widower and single father, decides to start dating again and is urged by a film producer friend to hold a phony audition to introduce Aoyama to some new women, but his first impressions about Yamasaki Asami, a young ballerina, are soon proven very wrong.NovelAdultn/an/an/a
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Bird BoxJosh MalermanBird Box (2018)Something is out there . . .Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remain, including Malorie and her two young children.NovelAdultn/aebook & audiobookSeveral copies available
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CarrieStephen KingCarrie (1976) & REMAKECarrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon of horror and destruction that no one will ever forget.NovelAdult1 copyebookSeveral copies available
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CellStephen KingCell (2016)Maine artist Clayton Riddell, elated after closing the deal for his first comic book, comes down to Earth quickly when a brain-zapping energy burst--The Pulse--strikes, reducing cell phone users to zombie-like creatures, and leaving Clayton desperate to find a way home from Boston to see if his wife and son have survived.NovelAdult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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ChristineStephen KingChristine (1983)Stephen King's ultimate evil vehicle of terror, Christine: the frightening story of a nerdy teenager who falls in love with his vintage Plymouth Fury. It's love at first sight, but this car is no lady.NovelAdult1 copyebookSeveral copies available
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CujoStephen KingCujo (1983)Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting. Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. One day, Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by sick bats and emerges as something new altogether.NovelAdult2 copiesn/aSeveral copies available
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?Philip K. DickBlade Runner (1982) & Blade Runner 2049 (2017)In January 2021, years after World War Terminus has destroyed the planet, bounty hunter Rick Deckard remains on the Earth pursuing his vocation of hunting down and killing rogue androids.Adult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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Doctor SleepStephen KingDoctor Sleep (2019)Sequel to: The shining. Still haunted by his experiences at the Overlook Hotel, where he spent one year as a child, Dan Torrence has settled in New Hampshire to try to escape those and other ghosts of his past. When he meets Abra Stone, a twelve-year-old girl who shares Dan's gift of "shining," and discovers that a tribe of traveling paranormals called True Knot want to steal her power by slowly torturing her to death, he becomes determined to save the child.NovelAdult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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Dolores ClaiborneStephen KingDolores Claiborne (1995)Dolores Claiborne finally tells the police why she murdered her husband Joe and her longtime employer Vera Donovan.Adult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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DraculaBram StokerDracula (1992) + many versionsWhen Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client. Soon afterward, disturbing incidents unfold in England?an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby, strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck, and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his "Master" - culminating in a battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversarie.NovelAdult1 copyebooks & audiobooksSeveral copies available
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DreamcatcherStephen KingDreamcatcher (2003)25 years ago, in their haunted hometown of Derry, Maine, four boys bravely stood together and saved a mentally challenged child from vicious local bullies. These lifelong friends make it a point to reunite every year for a hunting trip deep in the snowy Maine woods. This time, though, chaos erupts when a stranger suddenly stumbles into their camp...And all too quickly, the four companions are plunged into a horrifying struggle for survival with an otherworldly threat and the forces that oppose it...where their only chance of survival is locked into their shared past--and the extraordinary element that bonds them all...NovelAdult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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Exorcist (The)William Peter BlattyThe Exorcist (1973)A priest struggles with his own inner demons when he is called upon to exorcise a mysteriously, violently troubled eleven-year-old girl.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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FirestarterStephen KingFirestarter (1984) & Firestarter (2022)Charlie, an eight-year-old girl, has the ability to start fires by pyrokinesis. Now a government agency is after her and wants to use her as a weapon.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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FrankensteinMary Shelleymuliple adaptationsTells the story of scientist Victor Frankenstein and the catastrophic consequences of his attempts to create a perfect new being by activating a group of body parts with an electrical charge.NovelAdult2 copiesebooks & audiobooksSeveral copies available
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Ghost Bride (The)Yangsze ChooThe Ghost Bride (2017)When she agrees to become a ghost bride for the wealthy Lim family's son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances, Li Lan must dive into a shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife to find the truth.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Girl With All the Gifts (The)M. R. CareyGirl With All the Gifts (2016)Not every gift is a blessing. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl.NovelAdultn/aebook & audiobookSeveral copies available
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Haunting of Hill House (The)Shirley JacksonThe Haunting (1999) and The Haunting of Hill House (TV series - 2018)Four believers of the paranormal come to the old, abandoned mansion, including an anthropologist who wants to conduct an unusual research project.NovelAdultLostebook & audiobookSeveral copies available
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Hellbound HeartClive BarkerHellraiser (1987)Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back—though the price will be bloody and terrible . . . and there will certainly be hell to pay.NovellaAdultn/an/aOne copy available
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Homunculus manga seriesHideo YamamotoHomunculus (2021)Nakoshi Susumu, age thirty-four, lives out of his car. Between spending his days with the homeless and his nights in his vehicle, he has little to his name. When a medical student begins to stalk him, offering to pay Nakoshi a significant sum of cash to undergo a strange surgical procedure, Nakoshi initially refuses. But after his beloved car is towed, he finally agrees to take the offer and subjects himself to the operating table. What, if anything, will Nakoshi see differently once he awakens?MangaAdultn/a
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HornsJoe HillHorns (2013)Ig has lived under a cloud of suspicion since his girlfriend Merrin was brutally murdered, and Ig feels everyone, including God, has abandoned him, so when Ig discovers a macabre new talent, he vows to use it to find the man responsible for Merrin's death, even if it means letting the devil within escape.Adultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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HushEva KonstantopoulosMalevolent (2018)Angela Sayers is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Convinced by her controlling brother to stop taking her medication, Angela's world unravels just a little more when she discovers she can communicate with the dead. It's not a welcome revelation. Her dead mother was driven mad by this gift. NovelAdultn/an/an/a
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I Am LegendRichard MathesonI 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 shadowsAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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I Know What You Did Last SummerLois DuncanI Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)Four teenagers who have desperately tried to conceal their responsibility for a hit-and-run accident are pursued by a mystery figure seeking revenge.NovelYAn/aebook & audiobookSeveral copies available
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Influence (The)Ramsey CampbellThe Influence (2019)Queenie is the ageing matriarch of the Faraday family, and even death cant break her hold over her eleven-year-old granddaughter Rowan. Shes buried with a locket that contains a lock of Rowans hair and by the time anyone sees what effect the ghostly influence on Rowan is having, it may be too late for her.NovelAdultn/an/aOne copy available
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Interview with the VampireAnne RiceInterview with the Vampire (1994)Anne Rice's bestselling first novel reinvented the vampire myth. Rice recast the undead as a secret society of decadent aesthetes, alternately entranced by the world's beauty and haunted by spiritual despair. NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Invastion of the Body Snatchers OR Body SnatchersJack FinneyInvasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version recommended). Also 1956 and 2007 versions.On a quiet fall evening in the peaceful town of Mill Valley, California, Dr. Miles Bennell discovers an insidious, horrifying plot. Subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies and minds of his neighbors, friends, family, the woman he loves, and the entire world as he knows it.NovelAdultn/an/aSome copies available
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Invisible ManH.G. WellsThe Invisible Man (2020)The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who theorises that if a person's refractive index is changed to exactly that of air and his body does not absorb or reflect light, then he will be invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but cannot become visible again, becoming mentally unstable as a result.NovellaAdult1 copyebookSeveral copies available
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Island of Dr. MoreauH.G. WellsIsle of Dr Moreau (1996)Victims of a shipwreck in the Pacific discover an island ruled by a ominous scientist who performs ghastly genetic experiments which change animals into grotesque, partially human creatures.NovelAdultLostebook & audiobookSeveral copies available
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ItStephen KingIt (2017) + It (TV mini series - 1990)They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that draws them back to Derry, Maine, to face the nightmare without an end and the evil without a name.NovelAdult1 copyebookSeveral copies available
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JawsPeter BenchleyJaws (1975)As a great white shark terrorizes a small Long Island town, marine biologist Matt Hooper and Police Chief Martin Brody must find a way to stop the shark before more people are killed.NovelAdult1 copyebookSeveral copies available
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Langoliers novella found in Four Past MidnightStephen KingThe Langoliers miniseriesAfter falling asleep, a handful of passengers awaken to realize that they have broken the time-space continuum and landed in a static and lifeless world. As they tentatively explore their new surroundings, they begin to hear menacing crunching noises over the hillsNovellaAdult3 copies of Four Past Midnightn/aSeveral copies available
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Let Me In (Originally titled Let the Right One In)John Ajvude LindqvistLet the Right One In (2010) - also original 2008 Swedish film versionTwelve-year-old schoolboy Oskar, who is bullied at school in Stockholm and obsesses about gruesome murders, meets Eli, a child who moves in next door and appears to be the same age, but only goes out at night; when the killings start, Oskar learns that his friend is a vampire.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Locke & KeyJoe HillLocke & Key (series)Locke & Key tells the story of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them...and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...Graphic Novel seriesAdultn/aseries is availableSeveral copies of each available
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Lovecraft CountryMatt RuffLovecraft Country (seies on HBO)When his father goes missing, army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite--heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus's ancestors--they encounter both the mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours. NovelAdultn/aebook & audiobookSeveral copies available
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MiseryStephen KingMisery (1990)After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.NovelAdultn/aebook & audiobookSeveral copies available
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N0S4A2Joe HillN0S4A2 (series on AMC)Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding missing things. Vic, now an adult, was the only kid to ever escape evil child kidnapper Charles Talent Manx, and Charles intends on getting his revenge by kidnapping Vic's son.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Needful ThingsStephen KingNeedful Things (1993)Leland Gaunt opens a shop called Needful Things where there is something for everyone, but of course there is always a very high price to pay.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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No One Gets Out AliveAdam NevillNo One Gets Out Alive (2021)Stephanie moves to a cheap neighborhood in Birmingham, in a building with all women, and everything seems stable enough until she starts hearing and feeling things at night, and she must escape before it's too late.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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The Pale Blue EyeLouis BayardThe Pale Blue Eye (2006)New York City detective Augustus Landor is called upon to conduct a discreet investigation when a young cadet at West Point Academy is killed and his heart removed, and he receives unexpected help from a moody young student named Edgar Allan Poe.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Pet SemataryStephen KingPet Sematary (1989) and Pet Sematary (2019)A family moves into a beautiful old home in rural Maine, not realizing the horror that awaits them from the pet cemetery and Indian burial ground behind the house.NovelAdultChecked outebook and audiobookSeveral copies available
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PsychoRobert BlochPsych (1960)The psychological torment of a man named Norman Bates comes to a head when two people are murdered at his hotel--murders he believes his mother committed.NovelAdultn/an/aSome copies available
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Ring OR RingsKoji SuzukiThe Ring (2002)A Japanese journalist's investigation of the deaths of four teenagers leads him to a deadly videotape that somehow kills if its viewers do not perform a mysterious task within a week--and while he races to save himself, his wife and daughter watch the tape as well.NovelAdultn/an/aThree copies of Ring | One copy of Rings
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Ritual (The)Adam NevillThe Ritual (2017)Four college friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, their hike turns into a nightmare scenario that could cost them their lives.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Rosemary's BabyIra LevinRosemary's Baby (1968)Young wife Rosemary Woodhouse is drawn into a nightmare when she is selected by a coven to bear the son of Satan.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Ruins (The)Scott SmithThe Ruins (2008)Two American couples, newly graduated from college, are enjoying the final week of a Cancun vacation when they are persuaded by a new friend to accompany him into the jungle to find his brother who has gone off with an archaeological team in search of ruins, and they do not realize until it is too late that they are trapped by an unspeakable horror.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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Running Man (The)Stephen KingRunning Man (1987)In 2025, America's favorite TV game show features contestants attempting to evade death at the hands of the Hunters. Thirty days of survival takes the prize--one billion dollars.NovelAdult1 copyn/aSome copies available
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Salem's LotStephen KingSalem's Lot (1979) & REMAKE COMING SOONWriter Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem's Lot, where he spent part of his childhood, in the hope of finding inspiration for his new book, but instead finds that a new horror has taken root in the small Maine town.NovelAdult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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Secret Window, Secret Garden novella found in Four Past MidnightStephen KingSecret Window (2004)“Secret Window, Secret Garden” enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed, and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives, pointing an accusing finger.NovellaAdult3 copies of Four Past Midnightn/aSeveral copies available
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Shining (The)Stephen KingThe Shining (1980) & REMAKE??The Torrance family, having arrived at a remote mountain resort where they are to work as winter caretakers, find themselves in the grip of terror when young Danny, a child with the gift of precognition, begins having horrible visions.NovelAdultLostebookSeveral copies available
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Silence of the LambsThomas HarrisSilence of the Lambs (1991)A serial murderer known by a grotesquely apt nickname--Buffalo Bill-is stalking particular women. A young F.B.I. trainee is assigned to interview a mental patient--a brilliant psychiatrist and killer, for insights into the crime.NovelAdult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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Stand (The) - two versions of bookStephen KingThe Stand (TV mini series - 2020)A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, ColoradoNovelAdult2 copiesebookSeveral copies available
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TommyknockersStephen KingTommyknockers (TV mini series 1993)While looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her backyard, Bobbi finds part of an ancient spaceship still humming with some sort of life.NovelAdult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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Under the DomeStephen KingUnder the Dome (TV series)The citizens of Chester's Mill, Maine, find their relationships strained and lives in danger after an inexplicable force field develops around the town, cutting it off from the outside world and resulting in a power struggle between local politician and drug lord Big Jim Rennie, who enjoys the idea of dominating an isolated populace, and people who disagree with Jim and want to investigate the origins of the dome.NovelAdult1 copyn/aSeveral copies available
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War of the WorldsH.G. WellsWar of the Worlds (2005)After Martians land on Earth just outside of London in the late nineteenth century, an Englishman tries to find his wife while the British military and human technology fail in their efforts to stop the Martians, which have begun to kill and feed off of humans.NovelAdult1 copySome copies available
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Who Goes There?John W. CampbellThe Thing (1982) & The Thing From Another World (1951) The crew members of a polar research station must fight for their survival after being attacked by a shape-changing alien.NovellaAdultn/an/an/a
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Woman in BlackSusan HillWoman in Black (2012)London solicitor Arthur Kipps ends up settling more than just typical estate business for a client when he is haunted by a series of terrifying sounds and images, including a ghostly woman dressed all in black, during his business trip.NovelAdultn/an/aSeveral copies available
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World War ZMax BrooksWorld War Z (2013)Max Brooks chronicles the fictitious "zombie wars" that nearly decimated the human population, with first-hand accounts from people who have had a brush with the undead and facts and figures documenting how many undead currently roam the planet.NovelAdultn/aebook and audiobookSeveral copies available
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