D'Youville Library Dispatch

Halloween is near! Get ready with these great reads.

As Halloween approaches this year, the library continues to plumb its collection for options for those seeking something frightful. Take a look at earlier posts with options from our streaming video and new eBook collections.

However, we didn't want to leave out those seeking the primordial pleasures of reading a book by candlelight. We have created the following list of titles just for you!

All of these titles (and many more) are available on our Halloween display on the second floor of the library.

Twilight Eyes

by Dean Koontz

Slim MacKenzie is no ordinary man. With eyes the color of twilight, he’s been blessed with a psychic gift: premonitions. He’s also been cursed, for Slim can see the monsters hiding among us, feeding on our suffering...

And when Slim joins a traveling carnival seeking sanctuary, what he’ll find is a hunting ground—with humanity as the prey.

Black House

by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Jack Sawyer, a retired homicide detective living in rural Wisconsin, doesn't remember his boyhood journey into the parallel universe called the Territories. Jack is recruited to help find a brutal serial killer who is stalking the region and whose methods resemble those of Albert Fish who committed murders thirty years earlier, but is there an even more malignant force at work?

The Mummy

by Anne Rice

Ramses the Great lives!
 

But having drunk the elixer of live, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied.

Haunted

by Leo Braudy

This book explores how fear has been shaped into images of monsters and monstrosity. From the Protestant Reformation to contemporary horror films and fiction, he explores four major types: the monster from nature (King Kong), the created monster (Frankenstein), the monster from within (Mr. Hyde), and the monster from the past (Dracula). Drawing upon deep historical and literary research, Braudy discusses the lasting presence of fearful imaginings in an age of scientific progress, viewing the detective genre as a rational riposte to the irrational world of the monstrous.