Catalog Search Results
1) Community
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael is involved in a car crash which kills his girlfriend. He wakes to find himself in the hospital of a small town in Montana. There he convalesces and gradually becomes acquainted with the local community most of whom seem to be clever and charming, although some are arrogant and difficult to get on with.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nemo Frisby used to be a detective. Now he drives an Uber between billionaire mansions in California. But he never lost the nose for the case - and when his housecleaner Trinity Fox discovers a young woman lying dead in her neighborhood, she persuades him to help her prove it wasn't suicide. Their investigation leads them to the Bel Air home of a wealthy movie producer, who built his mansion over an American Indian burial site. Ancient mythology tells...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"St Philomena's military hospital has been abandoned for over three years. Now Lilian Chesterfield, who works for one of the most successful building companies in England, is in charge of developing it into a luxury housing complex. But as soon as she and her colleagues start work in the Jacobean-style mansion, their dream turns into a nightmare. they hear screaming from wards full of empty beds. They hear doors slamming and find cutlery scattered...
4) Ghost virus
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman pours acid over her own body. A loving husband kills his wife. A headteacher throws her pupils out of a window. DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting Police are at a loss. Why are such violent crimes being committed by the most unlikely of people? A DEADLY VIRUS Ordinary Londoners are being infected with an insatiable lust to murder . All of the killers were wearing second-hand clothes. Could these garments be possessed by a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a terrorist bomb devastates an exclusive junior school in Hollywood, killing the sons and daughters of many famous TV and movie actors and producers, all hell breaks loose. Among the many dead is Danny Bell, the son of successful comedy writer Frank Bell. Responsibility for the blast is claimed by a group who say that they want to put the decadent Western media out of business for good.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After a South London man is shot and killed, his wife swears that the offender didn't have feet. Then a teacher is murdered at a local school and her pupils insist they saw disembodied legs hanging from the ceiling. These murders are neither straightforward nor easily explained, which means there are only two people fit to investigate: DS Jamila Patel and DC Jerry Pardoe, who are used to tracking spirits intent on causing mayhem. When two children...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dartmoor, with its mists, bleak winter weather and overwhelming sense of isolation, is the perfect place to build a prison. It's not a place many would choose to live--yet the Governor of Dartmoor Prison did just that. When Herbert Russell retired, he bought All Hallow's Hall--a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the moor, and lived there all his life. Now he's dead, and his estranged family are set to inherit his estate. But when the dead man's...
Author
Language
English
Description
A mysterious antique that can summon the devil.
An antique chair comes into a family's possession. But they soon discover that this is no ordinary heirloom. Strange things begin to occur, including shifts in the fabric of time itself...
And then Satan himself is summoned...
'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time' -PETER JAMES.
9) Famine
Author
Language
English
Description
What happens when the richest nation on God's Earth is driven to the outer limits of starvation?
When the grain crop failed in Kansas it seemed like an isolated incident and no one took much notice. Except Ed Hardesty. Then the blight spread to California's fruit harvest, and from there, like wildfire, throughout the nation.
Suddenly America woke up to the fact that her food supplies were almost wiped out. Her grain reserves lethally polluted. And...
Author
Language
English
Description
An idyllic retreat? Or a madhouse soaked in blood? Only the Walkers can tell you...
The Oaks is an idyllic, up-market country club – but its ornately carved walls hide a horrific past. Sixty years ago the house was an asylum, home to crazed psychopaths. One night all of them disappeared, never to be seen again.
Jack Reed, the owner of The Oaks, has no idea about the building's terrible history. It is only when Jack's son is dragged into the walls...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
DS Jamila Patel and DC Jerry Pardoe are called to an abandoned London factory where they find a pile of scorched human heads. Soon they are on the trail of a cult that worships a Neolithic god who demands human sacrifices. As Londoners are abducted off the streets to be mutilated and die horrifically, can Patel and Pardoe stop the cult or will they become victims themselves?
13) Festival of Fear
Author
Language
English
Description
Award-winning horror writer and master of the macabre, Graham Masterton presents a blood-curdling array of treats: twelve stories of terror celebrating the bizarre and grotesque, guaranteed to quicken the pulse. Marvel at the mirror dug up in secret and better off buried. . . Thrill at a pair of lovers, whose promise to each other lead them down a disturbing path. Observe the haunted house. . . Come closer, dear reader - the hour of the festival is...
14) Drought
Author
Language
English
Description
A chilling supernatural tale-with an environmental twist-from a master of modern horror. What would happen if the water ran out? Ex-Marine Martin Makepeace only learned the truth of the maxim that you don't know what you have until you lose it, the day his wife walked out on him with their two kids. Now, the social worker does his best to take care of those who need it most. But good deeds mean nothing when the water just . . . disappears. It hasn't...
15) Swimmer
Author
Series
Jim Rook series volume 5
Language
English
Description
He recognizes her voice, but she is hysterical. She has no one else to turn to. Her son has been killed, drowned, but the murderer has left no trace. Her distraught tears shake him to his core - he must help, if he can. She says that the child was a victim of a vengeful spirit. She says that the police believe she is insane. Jennie Oppenheimer was once a student in Jim Rook's Special Class II in '91. And she knows about his psychic powers, that he...
16) Darkroom
Author
Series
Jim Rook series volume 6
Language
English
Description
A spate of unexplained fires spreads across Los Angeles, killing indiscriminately, tearing up the city, destroying people's faith. There seems to be no probable cause for the fires; arson and murder are not suspected but surely they can't have been started by something as fanciful as spontaneous combustion. Can they? Jim Rook, newly returned from a disastrous sojourn in Washington DC, is called upon to assist with the LAPD's investigation. The police...
17) Hidden World
Author
Language
English
Description
When Jessica's parents are tragically killed in a car crash, she goes to live with her grandparents in their big old house in Connecticut. Bullied at her new school because of the injury she suffered in the crash, Jessica finds solace in her favorite fairies and the pictures she loves to draw. One day she suffers a bad concussion after falling downstairs at school, and while recovering at home she hears the strange sound of children's voices calling...
18) Forest Ghost
Author
Language
English
Description
A bone-chilling tale of terror and suspense… Modern-day America. Fifteen Boy Scouts and their seven adult leaders are found to have committed suicide in the forest of a scout reservation. One of the dead boys is a friend of Sparky Wallace, whose father Jack runs a Polish restaurant in Chicago. Drawn into investigating the suicides, Jack discovers a connection with his own grandfather, who killed himself in the Kampinos Forest in Poland when he was...
19) Garden of Evil
Author
Series
Jim Rook series volume 8
Language
English
Description
Jim Rook, remedial English teacher and psychic, knows it's going to be a bad day. He nearly runs over someone dressed entirely in black – but why did they walk right in the middle of the college driveway? And who just walks off into the fog after nearly being run over? But when a splash of blood appears on a questionnaire Jim realizes that his day isn't going to be merely bad: it's going to be the day from hell. Perhaps quite literally . . .
Author
Language
English
Description
A self-proclaimed psychic investigates a deadly plague that creates talking corpses in this chilling horror novel by the author of Blind Panic.
Virus expert Anna Grey is disturbed when a dying patient is wheeled past her lab vomiting fountains of blood and screaming like a banshee. To make matters worse, when she examines the man's corpse, she could swear she hears him whisper: "Get it out of me." John Patrick Bridges is dead. He's definitely dead....
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Salina Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request