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1) Dracula
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Edwardsville Public Library - Literacy - Adult Library
LIT COLL FIC STOKER
2 available
LIT COLL FIC STOKER
2 available
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Edwardsville Public Library - Audiobook, CD - Adult Library
CD FIC STOKER
1 available
CD FIC STOKER
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As fledgling English lawyer Jonathan Harker treks into the Carpathian Mountains to complete a real estate transaction, frightened peasants warn him of horrible dangers that await him. Harker, terrified by eerie events along the way, finally meets his client, Count Dracula, a tall, gaunt old man with a surprisingly powerful handshake. Harker soon realises that he is a prisoner in Draculas sumptuously furnished castle a castle strangely devoid of mirrors....
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Practical magic novels volume 1
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Edwardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Library
FIC HOFFMAN
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FIC HOFFMAN
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4 copies, 56 people are on the wait list.
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"For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic concoctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Sally wanted...
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Edwardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Library
FIC GREENWOOD R
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FIC GREENWOOD R
1 available
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4 copies, 85 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 102 people are on the wait list.
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5 copies, 102 people are on the wait list.
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"A recently deceased woman meets "the one" in the afterlife waiting room, scoring a second chance at life (and love!) if she can find him on earth before ten days are up. If she wasn't dead already, Delphie would be dying of embarrassment. Not only did she just die by choking on a microwaveable burger, but now she's standing in her 'shine like a star' nightie in front of the hottest man she's ever seen. And he's smiling at her. As they start to chat,...
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Vampire chronicles volume 1
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6 copies, 41 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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6 copies, 20 people are on the wait list.
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In an unceasing flow of spellbinding storytelling, of danger and flight, loyalty and treachery, as vampires are created, destroyed, avenged, and “remade,” as vampire worlds are summoned up in all their evil and frightening enchantment—the sensuous power, the profound feeling, the wit and verisimilitude of Anne Rice’s narrative announce a literary imagination of the first order.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: Experience Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice as never before in this audacious horror mash-up full of romance, heartbreak, swordfights—and zombies!
This updated edition features 16 pages of color stills from the film adaptation, a reading group discussion guide, and bonus other materials.
A mysterious plague falls upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and...
This updated edition features 16 pages of color stills from the film adaptation, a reading group discussion guide, and bonus other materials.
A mysterious plague falls upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and...
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On the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein, comes a riveting biography of its author, Mary Shelley, whose life reads like a dark gothic novel, filled with scandal, death, drama, and one of the strangest love stories in literary history.
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A superstitious schoolmaster, in love with a wealthy farmer's daughter, has a terrifying encounter with a headless horseman.
8) The shining
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Edwardsville Public Library - Audiobook, CD - Adult Library
CD FIC KING
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CD FIC KING
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15 copies, 27 people are on the wait list.
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First published in 1977, The Shining quickly became a benchmark in the literary career of Stephen King. This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel's past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to claim the very souls of the Torrance family. Adapted into a cinematic masterpiece of horror by legendary...
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Edwardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Library
FIC GAIMAN
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FIC GAIMAN
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Richard Mayhew is a plain man with a good heart -- and an ordinary life that is changed forever on a day he stops to help a girl he finds bleeding on a London sidewalk. From that moment forward he is propelled into a world he never dreamed existed -- a dark subculture flourish in abandoned subway stations and sewer tunnels below the city -- a world far stranger and more dangerous than the only one he has ever known ... Richard Mayhew is a young businessman...
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Edwardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Library
FIC BRADBURY
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FIC BRADBURY
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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2 copies, 11 people are on the wait list.
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A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on...
11) Dracul
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Edwardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Library
FIC STOKER
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FIC STOKER
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It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here ... A sickly child, Bram spent his early days bedridden in his parents' Dublin home, tended to by his caretaker, a young woman named Ellen...
12) Bride
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Edwardsville Public Library - Adult Fiction - Adult Library
FIC HAZELWOOD
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FIC HAZELWOOD
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16 copies, 36 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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30 copies, 21 people are on the wait list.
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"Misery Lark, the only daughter of the most powerful Vampyre councilman of the Southwest, is an outcast--again. Her days of living in anonymity among the Humans are over: she has been called upon to uphold a historic peacekeeping alliance between the Vampyres and their mortal enemies, the Weres, and she sees little choice but to surrender herself in the exchange--again ... Weres are ruthless and unpredictable, and their Alpha, Lowe Moreland, is no...