Christopher Golden
1) Ararat
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"When a newly engaged couple climbs Mount Ararat in Turkey, an avalanche forces them to seek shelter inside a massive cave uncovered by the snow fall. The cave is actually an ancient, buried ship that many quickly come to believe is really Noah's Ark. But when a team of scholars, archaeologists, and filmmakers make it inside the ark for the first time, they discover an elaborate coffin in its recesses ... and when they break it open, they find that...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden's chilling exploration of what happens when the original Pandora's Box is discovered in an ancient subterranean city, stirring international conflict and exposing the archaeological team to curses, whispers, and the terror of a legendary plague. In one ancient variation on the myth of Pandora's Box, there were two jars, one for Pandora and one for her sister, Anesidora. One contained all the blessings...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is a stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route...
4) Red hands
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In bestselling author Christopher Golden's supernatural thriller Red Hands, sometimes a story is a warning. Sometimes the warning comes too late When a mysterious and devastating bioweapon causes its victims to develop Red Hands, the touch of death, weird science expert Ben Walker is called to investigate. A car plows through the crowd at a July 4th parade. The driver climbs out, sick and stumbling, reaching out...and everyone he touches drops dead...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Across Italy there are many half-empty towns, nearly abandoned by those who migrate to the coast or to cities. The beautiful, crumbling hilltop town of Becchina is among them, but its mayor has taken drastic measures to rebuild--selling abandoned homes to anyone in the world for a single Euro, as long as the buyer promises to live there for at least five years. It's a no-brainer for American couple Tommy and Kate Puglisi. Both work remotely, and...
6) All hallows
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling, Bram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden is best known for his supernatural thrillers set in deadly, distant locales...but in this suburban Halloween drama, Golden brings the horror home. It's Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Darth Vader joins forces with Xizor, an ambitious and ruthless underlord of a criminal organization called Black Sun, to target the young Jedi knight Luke Skywalker, while Princess Leia launches a desperate campaign to free Han Solo, frozen in a carbonite slab.
8) Horseman
Author
Series
Hollow volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a string of grisly decapitation murders occurs in the famed village of Sleepy Hollow, newcomers Aimee and Shane Lancaster suspect a supernatural killer.
10) The myth hunters
Author
Series
Veil volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
11) The wild
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jack London makes the arduous journey to the Yukon's gold fields in 1893, becoming increasingly uneasy about supernatural forces in the wilderness that seem to have taken a special interest in him.
12) The sea wolves
Author
Series
Secret journeys of Jack London volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Jack London is captured returning from the Yukon and taken aboard a pirate ship where the captain, the crew, and their navigator all have dark secrets.
13) Snowblind
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"SNOWBLIND is a thrilling contemporary ghost story with both horror and heart. The small New England town of Coventry is haunted by its memories of a deadly winter... in which loved ones were lost, families torn apart, and a town buried in a terrible blizzard. Now, twelve years later, the people plagued by their memories of that storm are haunted once again as a new storm approaches, promising to wreak new havoc. Old ghosts trickle back, and this...
14) Tin men
Author
Publisher
Random House Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, the U.S. has deployed the Remote Infantry Corps: thousands of robots remote-piloted by soldiers whose bodies lie hidden in underground bases. But the worst occurs when anarchists set off a global pulse that shorts out electrical connections. In Damascus, Private Danny Kelso, Corporal Kate Wade, and their platoon realize they are trapped inside the Tin Men--something the government never warned them could happen. In Athens, the...
15) Dead ringers
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Tess Devlin runs into her ex-husband Nick on a Boston sidewalk, she's furious at him for pretending he doesn't know her. She calls his cell to have it out with him, only to discover that he's in New Hampshire with his current girlfriend. But if Nick's in New Hampshire...who did she encounter on the street? Frank Lindbergh's dreams have fallen apart. He wanted to get out of the grim neighborhood where he'd grown up and out of the shadow of his...
17) Sons of entropy
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged Gatekeeper. In limbo, the Ghost Roads are crumbling, becoming weak and unstable where Hell and the Otherworld have begun seeping in, blurring the passages that lead to the human world. And Xander lies mortally wounded from a failed attempt to free Joyce Summers from...
20) Blooded
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Buffy is hot on the trail of Chirayoju, a Chinese vampire, and it is very dangerous for her and her friends.