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1) Night shift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kings first collection of short stories showcases the darkest depths of his brilliant imagination. Here we see mutated rats gone bad (“Graveyard Shift”); a cataclysmic virus that threatens humanity (“Night Surf,” the basis for The Stand); a possessed, evil lawnmower (“The Lawnmower Man”); unsettling children from the heartland (“Children of the Corn”); a smoker who will try anything to stop (“Quitters, Inc.”); a reclusive alcoholic...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
By turns bizarre, unsettling, spooky, and sublime, Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories showcases nine incomparable stories from master conjuror Algernon Blackwood. Evoking the uncanny spiritual forces of Nature, Blackwood's writings all tread the nebulous borderland between fantasy, awe, wonder, and horror. Here Blackwood displays his best and most disturbing work - including the title story, the inspiration for Val Lewton's classic film Cat...
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Joey Shannon is a 40-something alcoholic on the road to nowhereand haunted by his abandoned dream of being a writer. His failure is painfully underscored by the success of P.J., his charismatic brother, who earns international fame as the Kerouac of the nineties. P.J. grew into the man Joey always wanted to be. If only Joey could relive the past, go back in time, choose a different highway. When his father dies. Joey unexpectedly gets the second chance....
Author
Series
The green mile volume Pt. 6
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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