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FPLD Horror Fiction
Annotation:On a summer night, Henry Day runs away from home and hides in a hollow tree. There he is taken by the changelings—an unaging tribe of wild children who live in darkness and in secret.
Place a Hold
Annotation:A couple is caught in a seemingly supernatural web of fairies that links them to a young girl's disappearance 15 years earlier.
Annotation:Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth...but he is not alone. Every other man, woman, and child on Earth has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.
Annotation:The year is 2014. A new infection has spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED.
Annotation:Two young American couples, are enjoying a lazy beach holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they go off with newfound friends toward the remote Mayan ruins.
Annotation:When madness is your inheritance, how do you escape it? The answers unspool in the pages of an unfinished ghost story written in his father's own hand that beckons Scott out to a strange house in the woods with a lightless corridor that cannot be seen from the outside.
Annotation:A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure.
Annotation:The dead are getting restless... Across the country, they have risen. And they seem to have a mission.... The walking has begun... No one knows why they are walking.
Annotation:CIA operative Dew Phillips, working together with CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya, races to stop the spread of a mysterious disease that is turning ordinary people into murderers.
Annotation: Old friends try to come to grips with the darkness of the past--a secret ritual that left behind a gruesomely dismembered body--and find themselves face-to-face with the evil they helped create.
Annotation:A man goes to the aid of woman pursued by assassins and discovers an alternative City of London, a subterranean, medieval world populated by "people who fell through the cracks" from the real city above.
Annotation:Switchcreek is a normal town in eastern Tennessee--until a mysterious disease kill a third of its residents and mutates most of the rest into monstrous oddities
Annotation: For years, a lighthouse at the top of a hill called Blade Ridge has lit up the surrounding woods. But when the lighthouse keeper is found dead, strange things begin happening to the people and animals in the area.
Annotation: A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.
Annotation:Four seekers arrive at the notoriously unfriendly Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House.
Annotation:One dusty postwar summer day, Dr. Faraday is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline-its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine.
Annotation:Dale Stewart's life has become a shadow of what it once was. A respected college professor and successful novelist, he sabotaged his career and his marriage with an obsessive love affair that ended badly.With darkness closing in on him, Dale decides to return to his boyhood home in Illinois.
Annotation:The visionary master of cosmic horror joins The Library of America with this collection of classic stories of the strange and fantastic.
Annotation:After Basil Hallward paints a beautiful, young man's portrait, his subject's frivolous wish that the picture change and he remain the same comes true. Dorian Gray's picture grows aged and corrupt while he continues to appear fresh and innocent.
Annotation:Silently, subtly, almost imperceptibly, alien life-forms are taking over the bodies of everyone in the neighborhood.
Annotation:The tale is told mostly through the journal of a governess and depicts her struggle to save her two young charges from the demonic influence of the eerie apparitions of two former servants in the household.
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