Frank Carlson Library

When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.

The masque of the Red Death -- The black cat -- The pit and the pendulum -- The tell-tale heart -- The cask of Amontillado -- The fall of the House of Usher.

The murder of an old man is revealed after the murderer keeps hearing the continued beating of his victim's heart.

Ricky Beamer is furious when he gets kicked off the school paper, so he decides to play a joke on Tashas, the bossy editor-in-chief. Just a little joke. Harmless, really. After school one day he sticks a message in the paper. "If you're a creep call Tasha after midnight" it reads. But somehow Ricky's message gets messed up. And now he's getting calls! Strange calls from kids who say they are creeps. Creeps with scaly purple skin. And long sharp fangs......

"It started with the strange howling at night. Then there was the dead rabbit. Everyone thinks Grady's new dog is responsible. After all, he looks just like a wolf. And he seems a little on the wild side. Grady knows his dog is just a regular old dog. But dogs don't howl at the moon and disappear at midnight. Or do they?"-Back cover.

Ginger and her twin brothers Nat and Pat are lost in the woods. They meet the beasts -- big blue furry creatures.

Mark gets a shrunken head from the jungle island of Baladora and it starts to glow and give him magical power.

Realizing that he has become lost in a strange part of town, Skipper Matthews, a ravenous comic book collector who's favorite character is an evil super-villain, discovers a building just like the secret headquarters of his idol.

"When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means"--

"Don't do this! Watch out for that!" Marco's mom thinks the whole world is a danger zone. She won't even let Marco play softball. But Marco just wants to have fun. So he sneaks off to a game. And that's when it happens. He gets hit in the head with a baseball bat. Now things are getting really fuzzy. Really scary. Because when Marco gets home, he gets the strangest call. From someone who says he lives in Marco's basement...