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In this section you will find over 3.861 exciting and thrilling books about Horror. At Tales we have all types of good Horror books for each individual to enjoy, whether you want some of the classics, new or children’s horror books. We all need a little scare in our lives, to learn how to deal with the real world and acknowledge the fact that it is indeed okay to be scared. Scary stories also teach kids that Monsters are terrifying, but at the same time they’ll have an understanding of scary situations, and learn how to cope with them. Take a chance and let the mystery begin here.
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  • by Vedant Garg
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  • by Matt Beighton
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    by Darren Charlton
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  • by Kenneth Oppel
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  • by A. P. Beswick
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  • by Ryder Smith
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    Baby Ryder is very indecisive. She's not sure what she wants to be for her favorite holiday, Halloween. However, she is sure she wants to be unique. With enchanting rhyming text and vivid illustrations, this fun story will make any child happy to celebrate Halloween.

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  • by Stephan F. Rogers
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    There's a rumor floating around that we read the Mayan calendar wrong. That the end of the world is really going to happen on October 13, 2023, which agrees with the properly translated Cairo calendar. It's not a rumor. When Ash is unwittingly drawn into events leading up to the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy, he wants to do his best to help, but his best might not be good enough. The problem with having an identity crisis is: One minute, you're playing at hero. The next, you're regaining consciousness, covered in blood; with dead bodies strewn all over the place, wondering what just happened. The problem with having the fate of the entire world hanging in the balance is that the only way to know you've won is if everything is still in one piece at the end of the countdown. Will Ash make it in time to prevent the end of everything? What if he fails?

  • by M. Di Turi
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  • by Elizabeth Massie
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  • by Rachel Defriez
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    The Zoser Virus has gone global. It's not the first time mindless monsters have invaded France, set up defense positions, and devoured the inhabitants. Evelyn Cross washes up alone on the Marseille coast. What she finds there is not exactly a dream vacation on the French Riviera. To make her way back to Amber, she'll have to resist the dystopian New Order that the greys have raised up from the ashes of the apocalypse and maybe, just maybe, somewhere in the rubble, she'll find love again. Don't miss the chilling finale of Rachel DeFriez's award winning Walking Grey series. Book 3: Grey Daze.

  • by G. Bailey
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    I'm Anastasia Noble, and after becoming a familiar, I thought I'd found my home. I was wrong. The famous Familiar Empire is full of secrets but none as deadly as my own past that is slowly creeping up on me.Alexander, Liam and Mason made a vow that means they cannot help me now.No matter what they promised. But can my angel in the shadows guide my way? Welcome to the world of the Familiars...where no one has seen the worst yet to come. 18+ RH Romance

  • by Adria Waters
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    I have to be strong. For my dad. For Evie. For everyone. But, I don't know if I can do this...The Ghost Hunters Society thought they broke the Curse of Culvers Grove. Instead, they find a million new questions. Jacob's spirit is trapped in the locket and now something is calling it home. The group is forced to take the Widow's Locket to Savannah, Georgia to lay the angry spirits to rest, but when they arrive, they discover that anger festers with time and the Hoodoo Princess has had a lot of years to be angry. Absence makes the heart grow...darker...

  • by Katie Jones
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    Sixteen-year-old Sophie Weston's life is turned upside down when her father inherits a dilapidated mansion in the Hamptons and her family leave their life in Brooklyn behind to renovate it. As a child, Sophie regularly visited her great-aunt Poppy and the house's other eccentric inhabitants, but why can she no longer recall her time there clear...

  • by Joan Tenner
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  • by Jannette Rae Quackenbush
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    Ghost stories and legends of Ohio's Hocking Hills for kids.

  • by Arthur Dark
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    Junior isn't like other kids in Plum Hollow. He doesn't ride a bike, brush his teeth, or play soccer... Junior is a zombie. Though a zombie, Junior wants nothing more in this world than to be a normal boy. One fateful night he gets his wish - but in a way he never could have imagined.

  • by S. J. Henderson
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  • by Brad McLelland
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    Dark magic meets the Wild West in Brad McLelland & Louis Sylvester's The Fang of Bonfire Crossing: Legends of the Lost Causes, second in the rip-roaring middle-grade adventure series filled with scrappy heroes and diabolical villains.Keech Blackwood and his band of fellow orphans demand justice for their fallen families. But the road to retribution is a long and hard-fought journey. After defeating Bad Whiskey Nelson, the man who burned Keech's home to the ground, the Lost Causes have a new mission: find Bonfire Crossing, the mysterious land that holds clues to the whereabouts of the all-powerful Char Stone. Along the way they'll have to fend off a shapeshifting beast, a swarm of river monsters, and a fearsome desperado named Big Ben Loving who conjures tornadoes out of thin air. It's an epic standoff between the Lost Causes and the outlaw Reverend Rose, a powerful sorcerer who would be unstoppable with the Stone in his possession. With the world-and vengeance-hanging in the balance, the Lost Causes are ready for battle.Praise for Legends of the Lost Causes:A Junior Library Guild Selection"This is a fun and exciting story, written with the utmost respect for the Osage culture." -Wah-Zha-Zhi Cultural Center"A rollicking adventure filled with mystery and magic that crackles like a brush fire." -Emma Trevayne, author of The House of Months and Years "Thrilling, dark, and full of heart, this is a Western like none I've ever read. I loved it." -Stefan Bachmann, author of The Peculiar and The Whatnot

  • by Rebecca Royce
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    *This book was previously published. The author has received her rights back and is republishing the book now*Keep your friends close...and your enemies closer.Rachel Clancy has had to learn the hard way that you can't always trust who you know. Born with a specific set of genes that lets her fight monsters, Rachel has trained her entire life to kill vampires and werewolves. Unprepared for the level of deception and betrayal she faces as she journeys Upwards to battle her enemies, it's not long before Rachel finds herself on a quest that will alter the lives of everyone she knows. Including Rachel's...*This book was previously published and has been extensively re-edited for your enjoyment*

  • by Ingrid Seymour
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  • by Geraldine Allie
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    Desperation drives ordinary townsfolk to make unthinkable choices, unleashing a relentless force that leaves them forever altered. In the eerie embrace of Kip Witch, homecomings become impossible, and the grip of the unknown tightens with an unyielding hold. The haunting fog serves as a harbinger of doom, a malevolent presence that refuses to release its grip.Prepare to immerse yourself in a spine-tingling Halloween tale, where the boundaries between reality and the supernatural blur. "Beware the Fog" is a haunting narrative that will leave you breathless, reminding us that sometimes, when the mists of destiny descend, escape is an elusive dream, and the chilling secrets of a cursed town can never stay hidden.

  • by Heather Renee
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  • by Rich Linville
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    "One night, I am walking in the forest and what do you think I see?" To find out, have fun reading this ghost story with a happy ending. Try to give your answers to the questions before you turn the page. Your answers can be different or the same. Have fun making up your own stories about a pet ghost.

  • by T. A. Moorman
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    As a cursed vampire born with no fangs, going to a class called Feeding 101 is pretty much pointless. If you ask me most of our courses in Be Prepared Academy are pointless. They're meant to teach us how to blend in with humans .Even though we live in a realm without humans. But, as fate would have it, I was getting ready to eat those words. A wizard hell bent on misplaced revenge kidnaps me and my friends and sends us with a one-way ticket to Detroit, Michigan to a time when the tension amongst the races is at its highest. And having to deal with race issues is the one thing that has never even been so much as a thought to any of us, and is the one course not on the roster. Will everything we've learned in the academy be enough to keep us alive? What will we all do when racism stares us in the face? Most importantly, how will we get back home? Guess we're about to find out.

The Horror Genre
Horror is a cultural genre that is meant to scare, shock and repulse its audience. An important thing to remember about this type of genre is that it elicits a dreadful sense in the reader through frightening and terrifying themes, situations and descriptive images. When we read a horror book, everything is important, such as the storyline, characters and the whole atmosphere. It is meant to provoke and shock the reader with its exploration of the unknown. The depreciating value that horror has, will help us understand why something is indeed scary. Look at it this way, once you see the monster come into the light, and you see it for what it truly is, it will help you to be less afraid. This genre also has several sub-genres, some of them consist of; Gothic, Science fiction, Survival, Occult, Dark fantasy, Paranormal, etc. Each has its own distinct characteristics. 

Classic Horror books
If we think about some of the popular classic horror books, the first author that will pop up is most likely the gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe. The gothic novel is a subgenre under horror that specifically has a focus on death, originated in the 18th century and is mastered by him. In the 19th and 20th century the horror writers focused on something completely different, such as tales involving occult ideas, and the popular books Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Dracula by Bram Stoker came into the picture and still kept their relevance today. Frankenstein is a classic story about a scientist who accidentally creates a monster when his experiment goes horribly wrong. And Dracula is a gothic novel about a vampyre who has a desire to spread the undead curse to as many mortal humans as possible. These two popular stories are well known worldwide and they will never lose their relevance, no matter how old they get. That is the magic of being a classic.  

New Horror books
As for the newer horror books, 2019-2021 had been some epic years for horror fiction. It is an ever-evolving genre and so many new voices blossomed. Most of the popular horror stories today involve crime writing, especially serial killers, slashers, and the ghost of the past. Something about newly written gothic stories that take place in the Victorian-era is so thrilling to read about, here we find books like the Stalking Jack the Ripper series by Kerri Maniscalo. The author incorporates themes of equality and social justice which takes the mystery of the infamous murderer to a whole new level. The main character Audrey Rose, eschews polite society for the very scandalous pastime of learning burgeoning science of forensic medicine. While she spends her time being captivated by science, there’s a serial killer on the loose. There’s nothing more thrilling and entertaining than reading about an inspiring heroine who solves mystery crimes. 
Children’s horror books are also important to address. Here we find Nightmares by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller, where the younger audience can explore dark territory but at the same time be comforted. It is a book that’ll reassure you how to overcome the power of fear. The main character Charlie’s and his friends’ adventure in the Netherworld is harrowing, because they’re in constant danger, but together they try to face their fears and conquer their nightmares. 

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