Contemporary Urban Horror

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     • horror
     • adventure
     • urban setting
     • contemporary setting

The Strain
Guillermo del Toro
F TORO Strain #1
The story begins onboard a grounded plane that has just landed at New York's JFK airport. Police and emergency medical crews are called to investigate the possible outbreak of a mysterious disease, which has killed all but four of the plane's passengers. Unknowingly, something more ominous is responsible for the carnage, which now threatens the city and soon the entire country.

House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
F DANIELEW
When House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper. Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeffry P. Lindsay
MYSTERY LINDSAY Dexter #1
Dexter Morgan, who hides a secret life as a serial killer while working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police, is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own.

Odd Thomas
Dean R. Koontz
F KOONTZ Odd Thom #1
Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soul-mate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.

Koko

Peter Straub

F STRAUB Tim Unde #1

"KOKO..." Only four men knew what it meant. They were Vietnam vets-a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. They were as different as men could be. Yet all of them were bound eternally together by a single shattering secret. And now they have been reunited, on a quest that will take them from the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York...as they hunt something inhuman from the past that has risen from the darkness to kill and kill and kill....

Teen Fiction

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• fiction
• teen reads
• young protagonists
• reads like Lois Lowry, JK Rowling, Gail Carson Levine, and Harper Lee

Cinder
By: Marissa Meyer
Call Number: YA F MEYER Lunar #1
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.

Matched
By: Ally Condie
Call Number: YA F CONDIE Matched #1
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her, so when Xander appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate--until Ky Markham's face appears for an instant before the screen fades to black.



 

The Wednesday Wars
By: Gary Schmidt
Call Number: YA F SCHMIDT
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.

Rebecca
By: Daphne du Maurier
Call Number: F DU MAURIER
A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house's first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted.