Edward Gorey
1) Dracula
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Series
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English
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Prince of the Night. Lord of the Damned. King of Vampires. He is Dracula, the most well-known vampire in the world--and this new illustrated edition of Bram Stoker's classic tale of terror offers Dracula as you have never seen him before. Brought to life through the stunning visual artistry of Eisner Award-winning illustrator Becky Cloonan (Demo, American Virgin, Victor Von Doom), this new graphically compelling novel offers a spellbinding, edition...
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English
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H.G. Wells' "scientific romance," published first in serial form and then as a book in 1898, attained perhaps its greatest fame in another form, the infamous realistic 1939 radio broadcast "Invasion from Mars" by Orson Welles. It was also made into an early 1950s science fiction adventure movie. Stover (emeritus, Illinois Institute of Technology) describes Wells' story as "a prophecy of startling originality foreseeing the coming of totalitarianism...
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Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 1
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English
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"When Lewis Barnavelt, an orphan. comes to stay with his uncle Jonathan, he expects to meet an ordinary person. But he is wrong. Uncle Jonathan and his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Zimmermann, are both witches! Lewis is thrilled. At first, watching magic is enough. Then Lewis experiments with magic himself and unknowingly resurrects the former owner of the house: a woman named Serenna Izard. It seems that Serenna and her husband built a timepiece into...
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Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
In 1951, while visiting a distant cousin in the English countryside, thirteen-year-old Lewis Barnavelt accidentally unleashes demonic forces and summons the ghost of an evil wizard bent on killing the Barnavelt family.
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Series
Anthony Monday and Miss Eells series volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in an old house on a desolate Canadian island, Anthony Monday and Miss Eells discover a chest that can transport them to another world and a maniacal group who are plotting the destruction of people on Earth.
10) Red Riding Hood
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Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1990, c1972
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English
Description
Retells in verse the adventures of a little girl who meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.
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Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 6
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger are faced with a dilemma when their discovery of an unpublished opera score unleashes a wicked sorcerer who plans to rule the world by bringing back the dead.
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Series
Lewis Barnavelt series volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1993
Language
English
Description
Rose Rita Pottinger and Mrs. Zimmermann are transported back to 1828 to save the Weiss family from being destroyed by a wicked wizard.
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