Uncanny Bodies - The Coming of Sound Film and the Origins of the Horror Genre

In 1931 Universal Pictures released "Dracula "and "Frankenstein, "two films that inaugurated the horror genre in Hollywood cinema. These films appeared directly on the heels of Hollywood's transition to sound film. "Uncanny Bodies "argues that the coming of sound inspired more in these massively influential horror movies than screams, creaking doors, and howling wolves. A close examination of the historical reception of films of the transition period reveals that sound films could seem to their earliest viewers unreal and ghostly.

Mo Hayder - Pig Island

Journalist Joe Oakes is a born skeptic who makes his living exposing supernatural hoaxes. But his stay with a cult-like religious group on Scotland's remote Pig Island might be enough to turn him into a believer.

Joe Oakes is on the trail of a strange creature caught on some amateur film footage: a figure so deformed it can hardly be human. Recently arrived on the remote Scottish island where it was sighted, he is determined to expose the creature as the religious hoax it so obviously must be. But his confrontation, and its violent and bloody aftermath, is so catastrophic that it forces him to question the nature of evil ...

The Cruelest Month

Louise Penny – The Cruelest Month

It’s spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees, and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a seance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to rid the town of its evil – until one of their party dies of fright. Was this a natural death, or was the victim somehow helped along?

The Novel Companion is the advanced level of the interactive reading workbooks, Read and Write. Students will study six novels, autobiographies, and plays as they complete the Novel Companion workbook. The titles represent well-known and much loved literature both from the literary cannon and from award-winning modern works. They challenge advanced students by offering readabilities that are at grade level or one grade above level. The workbook also explains two methods of note taking.
The Teacher Guide includes an answer key and other teacher features.

Crescendo

The much anticipated follow up to the New York Times best-seller Hush, Hush.

Nora should have known her life was far from perfect. Despite starting a relationship with her guardian angel, Patch (who, title aside, can be described as anything but angelic), and surviving an attempt on her life, things are not looking up. Patch is starting to pull away, and Nora can’t figure out if it’s for her best interest or if his interest has shifted to her arch-enemy Marcie Millar. Not to mention that Nora is haunted by images of her father and she becomes obsessed with finding out what really happened to him that night he left for Portland and never came home.