Guillermo del Toro
1) Nocturna
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 1
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Siempre han estado aquí. Vampiros. En la oscuridad y en secreto. Esperando. Ahora ha llegado su momento. En una semana, tomarán Manhattan. En un mes, el país entero. En dos meses, el mundo. El visionario creador de la película ganadora del Oscar El laberinto del Fauno y un escritor ganador del Hammett Award, vuelcan sus imaginaciones en esta audaz novela épica sobre una horrorosa batalla entre hombre y vampiro que amenaza a toda la humanidad....
2) Trollhunters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a forty-five-year-old mystery resurfaces that threatens the lives of everyone in his town, San Bernardino teenager Jim Sturges teams up with a band of unlikely heroes to battle the monsters he never knew existed.
Author
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"'La forma del agua' está ambientada en la ciudad de Baltimore en plena Guerra Fría, en el centro de investigación aeroespacial Occam, al que hace poco ha llegado un ser tan extraordinario como potencialmente valioso: un hombre anfibio capturado en el Amazonas. Lo que sigue es una emotiva historia de amor entre este ser y una de las mujeres de la limpieza en Occam, quien es muda y se comunica con la criatura por medio del lenguaje de signos"--Amazon.com....
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After the blasts, it was all over. Nuclear Winter has settled upon the earth. Except for one hour of sunlight a day, the whole world is plunged into darkness. It is a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won. It is their time. Almost every single man, woman and child has been enslaved in vast camps across the globe. Like animals, they are farmed, harvested for the sick pleasure of the Master Race. Almost, but not all. Somewhere out there,...
6) The fall
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Last week the vampiric virus invaded Manhattan. This week-- the world! Eph and his small team set out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters-- while his now blood-crazed ex-wife is stalking the city, looking for their young son.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The Shape of Water is set in Cold War-era Baltimore at the Occam Aerospace Research Center, which has recently received its most sensitive asset ever: an amphibious man captured in the Amazon. What unfolds is a stirring romance between the asset and one of the janitors on staff, a mute woman who uses sign language to communicate with the creature.
8) The strain
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Abraham Setrakian, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust, joins forces with CDC specialist Eph Goodweather to battle a vampiric virus that has infected New York in this first installment in a thrilling trilogy about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Two years after the Master's plan succeeded and near apocalypse coated the world in eternal darkness. Now able to roam freely, the Master's legion of vampires rule the world-a horrifying police state where humans are harvested for blood. As humanity despairs, Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and an unlikely team of heroes continue their fight against extinction and hope to unlock the secret to the Master's demise.Collects The Strain: The Night Eternal #1-6....
10) The hollow ones
Author
Series
Blackwood tapes volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to shoot her suddenly violent partner, rookie FBI agent Odessa Hardwicke witnesses the escape of a shadowy form from the deceased agent's body, and embarks on a sanity-risking investigation into a centuries-old being.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"First published in 1959, [this book] has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called 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. At first, their stay seems destined...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Set in post-civil war Spain, a young girl flees the home of her cruel step-father into an underground fantasy world where she encounters a strange creature and a terrifying battle between good and evil.
14) Crimson Peak
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a family disaster, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious stranger. Attempting to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds, and remembers.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley, where for generations the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.
16) Pacific rim
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes: a washed-up former pilot and an untested trainee, who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
17) Mama
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Series
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
During the Spanish Civil War, young Carlos is abandoned at a completely isolated orphanage. The tensions therein have been building for years, exacerbated by the unexploded bomb resting menacingly in the courtyard. Bullies scheme, tempers flare, and a ghost that visits Carlos's bed seems to be the key to it all.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sally Hurst is going to Rhode Island to live with her father Alex and his new girlfriend Kim in the nineteenth-century mansion they are restoring. While exploring the estate, Sally finds a hidden basement and accidentally lets loose a race of ancient, dark-dwelling creatures who conspire to drag her down into the mysterious house's bottomless depths. Before the evil lurking in the dark consumes them all, Sally must convince Alex and Kim that it's...
20) The book of life
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The journey of Manolo, a young man who is torn between fulfilling the expectations of his family and following his heart. Before choosing which path to follow, he embarks on an incredible adventure that spans three fantastical worlds where he must face his greatest fears.