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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before, then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home...
Author
Language
English
Description
New York, 1895. Sylvan Threadgill, a night soiler cleaning out the privies behind the tenement houses, finds an abandoned newborn baby in the muck. An orphan himself, Sylvan rescues the child, determined to find where she belongs. Odile Church and her beautiful sister, Belle, were raised amid the applause and magical pageantry of The Church of Marvels, their mother's spectacular Coney Island sideshow. But the Church has burnt to the ground, their...
3) Firstlife
Author
Series
Everlife volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Locked in an asylum for her refusal to let her parents dictate her afterlife choices, Ten Lockwood finds herself caught in a violent power struggle between the two leading Everlife realms that would do anything to claim her powerful soul.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The only kind of life Brighton Turner understands is the one she has endured within the dreary walls of a rural Pennsylvania asylum. A nurse has thoughtfully educated and raised Brighton, but she has also kept vital information from her in order to keep her close. Brighton befriends a boy whom she calls Angel (he doesn't know his name) and as the two of them learn more about what lies beyond the walls they call home, they fight for their release and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
Author
Series
Mad passions volume 2
Publisher
Signet Eclipse
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Lady Mary Darrel should be the envy of London. Instead, all society believes her dead. For Mary holds a secret so dangerous, her father chose to keep her locked away--and have a grave made for her near her mother's. Driven to the edge of desperation, Mary manages to escape the asylum, only to find that her fate yet again rests in the hands of a man.
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren't sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love--and a lot of what they fear--through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying. From haunted,...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Transferred to a famous asylum after being arrested for his wife's murder in fin-de-siècle Paris, a man with an eidetic memory is investigated by a doctor and a police officer who discover links between the bizarre crime and the highest and lowest establishments in France.
10) Dark asylum
Author
Series
Jem Flockhart novels volume 2
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When the principal physician for Angel Meadow Asylum is found brutally murdered, Jem Flockhart and Will Quatermain pursue the story through the darkest corners of London. From the depths of a notorious rookery, to brothels, gallows, graveyards and the convict fleet, Jem and Will find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities.
11) The bone jar
Author
Series
Detective Lew Kirby volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The body of an elderly woman has been found in the bowels of a derelict asylum on the banks of the Thames. As Detective Lew Kirby and his partner begin their investigation, another body is discovered in the river nearby. How are the two murders connected? Before long, the secrets of Blackwater Asylum begin to reveal themselves. There are rumours about underground bunkers and secret rooms, unspeakable psychological experimentation, and a dark force...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Put on trial by her slaveholder husband and convicted of madness by a Virginia judge, Iris Dunleavy is sent to Sanibel Asylum to be restored to a good wife. But Iris knows her husband is the true criminal; she is no lunatic, only guilty of violating Southern notions of property. A pompous superintendent heads this asylum populated by wonderful characters, including his self-diagnosing twelve-year-old son, a woman who swallows anything in sight, and...
13) Sleep no more
Author
Series
Lost night files volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Pallas Llewellyn, Talia March, and Amelia Rivers co-host a podcast, The Lost Night Files, where they investigate cold cases. After receiving a tip, Pallas travels to Carnelian, California to explore an abandoned asylum when she's stopped by the women's mysterious tipster. Ambrose Drake is positive something terrible happened at the Carnelian Sleep Institute the night he was there. Pallas and Ambrose conduct their investigation, and the while townsfolk...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013, c2012.
Language
English
Description
Step inside a madhouse of horror and experience the chilling new incarnation of TV's most daringly provocative series. The sins of the past haunt the present at the notorious Briarcliff home for the criminally insane, ruled with an iron fist by Sister Jude. Forbidden desire and terrifying evil lurk around every corner, from alien abduction to demonic possession to a skin-wearing psychopath known as 'Bloody Face.'.
15) Spellbound
Series
Publisher
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Constance Peterson (Bergman) is a dedicated psychiatrist who puts all her passion into her work--until she falls in love with Dr. Edwardes (Peck). Unfortunately, it soon becomes clear that Edwardes is an imposter--an amnesiac--who may or may not be a cold-blooded murderer. Pursued by the police, Constance must decide whether to turn in her mysterious lover ... or risk her life by trying to unlock the dark secrets in his mind."--Container notes....
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This mystery set in the world of superheroes follows a reporter determined to find out what happened to her father: The Black Hammer. All answers seem to lie in Spiral City's infamous insane asylum where some of its dangerous super-villain tenants reside. As she gets closer and closer to the truth she uncovers the dark origin stories of some of Black Hammer's greatest foes and how they tie into the puzzle of what happened to Spiral City's greatest...
17) The foundling
Author
Publisher
MarySue Rucci Books/Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer--brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women's suffrage. Now, at age forty,...
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