Wamego High
School's Good Reads
Horror & Supernatural
Fiction
| Nonfiction
FICTIONThe following books can be found in the Fiction collection, shelved by the first three letters of the author's last name, e.g., F BAR.
Boyd, Donna.
The awakening.
Paul
and Penny Mason and their teenage daughter Elsie become caught up in a
frightening mystery when they go to their family lake house for the
summer in an effort to patch up their marriage and help Elsie recover
from a past trauma, and find the once idyllic home is being haunted by
a woman who needs their help to move on.
Cabot, Meg. Haunted : a tale of the mediator.
Sixteen-year-old
Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and
she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a nineteenth-century
ghost.
Card, Orson Scott. TREASURE BOX.
A brilliant loner finds love only to discover there is indelible evil in the heart of even the most perfect woman.Cooney, Caroline B. STRANGER.
A high school girl discovers that her boyfriend is really a beast.Cormier, Robert. FADE.
Paul Moreaux, the 13-year-old son of French-Canadian immigrants, inherits the ability to become invisible, but this power soon leads to death and destruction.Duncan, Lois. DOWN A DARK HALL.
Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, 14-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.Fleischman, Paul. FATE TOTALLY WORSE THAN DEATH.
Terror, body parts, and screams await you in this wicked parody of teenage horror novels.Golden, Christopher. Prowlers
Nineteen-year-old Jack Dwyer searches for the killer of his best friend and discovers a band of beasts called the Prowlers, who disguise themselves as humans and feed on them as well.
Iving, John. PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY.
A terrifying and unforgettable story of what happens in Meany's life as a result of hitting a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother.Jones, Diana Wynne. The time of the ghost.
A
ghost, uncertain of her identity, watches the four Melford sisters
hatch a plan to get their parents' attention and slowly becomes
aware of the danger from a supernatural power unleashed by the girls
and their friends from the boys boarding school run by the
Melfords.
King, Stephen. CARRIE.
Story of a shy high school girl who discovers she has telekinetic powers and takes revenge on her tormentors.________. From a Buick 8 : a novel.
Eighteen-year-old
Ned, having taken to hanging out at the barracks of state police Troop
D in rural Pennsylvania after the death of his father, Trooper Curtis
Wilcox, becomes obsessed with learning the truth about a 1954 Buick
Roadmaster -- apparently a conduit to the underworld--the squad has had
secreted in a locked shed since 1979 when its owner mysteriously
disappeared.
Koontz, Dean. MIDNIGHT.
The only citizens of Moonlight Cove left untouched by the inhuman experiment of an evil genius must expose his evil plan.Leroux, Gaston. PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.
One of the world's great tales of horror and suspense.Lessing, Doris. FIFTH CHILD.
An upper-middle-class couple face a frightening dilemma in the form of their fifth child.Michaels, Barbara. STITCHES IN TIME.
Graduate student Rachel Grant discovers that an antique bridal quilt holds secrets best left undisturbed, when the quilt mysteriously appears at the vintage clothing shop where she works.Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Jade green : a ghost story.
While
living with her uncle in a house haunted by the ghost of a young woman,
recently orphaned Judith Sparrow wonders if her one small transgression
causes mysterious happenings.
Nolan, Han. DANCING ON THE EDGE.
A young girl from a dysfunctional family creates for herself an alternative world which nearly results in her death but which ultimately leads her to reality.Pike, Christopher. COLD ONE.
Chilling story about a villian whose soft touch can wither a person's soul, whose great beauty conceals a black heart, and whose breath carries death in every exhalation.
When
visitors are killed at the New York Museum of
Natural History before the opening of the Superstition exhibition,
graduate
student Margo Green discovers a link between the killings, a tragic
archaeological trip to the Amazon Basin
Preston, Douglas J and Child, Lincoln. Reliquary. (sequal to Relic)
FBI Special
Agent Pendergast, searching for
the human villain behind the death of infamous art critic Jeremy Grove,
found
murdered in a crime that appears to have supernatural origins, follows
the
trail from New York
Saul, Jon. CREATURE.
A young couple's move to the perfect, small Colorado town turns to horror.Shelly, Mary. FRANKENSTEIN.
The classic story of a monster created by a scientist and the monster's revenge on the scientist after he's rejected.Shusterman, Neal. SCORPION SHARDS.
Accurate portrayal of teenage phobias and the engaging, sympathetic characters combine in a haunting but ultimately reassuring novel.Sniegoski, Tom. The fallen.
Orphaned
since birth, Aaron is, at eighteen-years-old, is discovering
newfound--and sometimes--supernatural talents and his role as a liaison
between angels, mortals, good and evil.
Stein, R. L. CALL WAITING.
A killer phones his victims before dropping in.Stoker, Bram. DRACULA.
Vampires, werewolves, creatures dead and yet still living abound amidst people determined to eliminate them.Wallace, Rich. Restless.
Frank,
a teenaged ghost who has not been able to move on to a higher
realm in the afterlife, tries to connect with his younger brother
Herbie, a high school senior who was eight years old when Frank died.
NONFICTION
001.9 RON
Ronan, Margaret. Master of the dead and other strange unsolved mysteries.
Unexplainable
events and
mysterious happenings retold by
the author.
133 COH
Cohen, Daniel. In search of ghosts.
Examines
some of the
most plausible cases of "real" ghosts and such related topics as
psychical research, seances, poltergeists, and how spirit photographs
are
taken.
133 PARWilliams, Mary E. Paranormal phenomena.
133.1 WES
Westbie, Constance and Cameron, Harold. Night stalks the mansion.
The
true story of the Cameron
family's terrifying encounter with the
supernatural.
133.8 RENRenier, Noreen and Lucks, Naomi. A mind for murder : the real-life files of a psychic investigator.
Noreen
Renier shares her
strange and
startling experiences and the methods that helped her solve more than
130
criminal cases.
616.9 PRE
Preston, Richard. The demon in the freezer : a true story.
A
true-life
thriller about the return of smallpox in an engineered form.
Eradicated in 1979, smallpox now has crept onto the international black
market,
where it is prized as the mother of all biological weapons. This is the
story
of a crusade by three doctors to stay a step ahead of the bioterrorists
and
neutralize the most contagious pathogen known.
