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Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks; Gene Wilder; Peter Boyle; Marty Feldman; Cloris Leachman; All authors - 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD
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Absurd Dr. Frankenstein visits the family castle in Transylvania and makes a monster. Directed by Mel Brooks. |
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Frank Capra - Turner Home Ent
Format: DVD
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Frank Capra made this film in 1941 before he went off to make films for America's war effort, but it wasn't released until 1944. Adapted from the hit play by Joseph Kesselring, this frantic black comedy shows Capra at his best as a master of mood and timing. Actresses Josephine... |
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Hocus Pocus
Bette Midler - Walt Disney Home Video
Format: DVD
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You're in for a devil of a time when three outlandishly wild witches -- Bette Midler (BEACHES, BIG BUSINESS) , Sarah Jessica Parker (HONEYMOON IN VEGAS) , and Kathy Najimy (SISTER ACT) -- return from 17th-century Salem after they're accidentally conjured up by some unsuspecting... |
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Tucker and Dale vs evil
Eli Craig; Morgan Jurgenson; Albert Klychak; Rosanne Milliken; Deepak Nayar; All authors
Format: DVD
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Two friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students is separated from the group, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body... |
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Shaun of the Dead (2007)
Edgar Wright - Universal Studios
Format: DVD
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British horror/comedy Shaun of the Dead is a scream in all senses of the word. Brain-hungry zombies shamble through the streets of London, but all unambitious electronics salesman Shaun (Simon Pegg) cares about is his girlfriend Liz (Kate Ashfield), who just dumped him. With the help of his slacker... |
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Agassi = The handmaiden
Chung Seo-kyung - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
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A Korean woman who is hired as handmaiden to a young Japanese lady is secretly plotting with a conman to defraud her of her large inheritance. |
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Fingersmith
Sarah Waters - Riverhead Books
Format: Hardcover
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From the author of the New York Times Notable Book Tipping the Velvet and the award-winning Affinity: a spellbinding, twisting tale of a great swindle, of fortunes and hearts won and lost, set in Victorian London among a family of thieves. Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant... |
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Raw
Jean Des Forêts - Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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At 16, Justine is a brilliant, promising student and a strict vegetarian. But when she starts veterinary school, she quickly encounters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world. Desperate to fit in during the first week of hazing rituals, she strays from her principles and eats... |
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The Lunch Witch #1
Deb Lucke - Papercutz
Format: Paperback
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For generations and generations, the women of Grunhilda's family have stirred up trouble in a big, black pot. Grunhilda inherits her famous ancestors' recipes and cauldron, but no one believes in magic anymore. Despite the fact that Grunhilda's only useful skill is cooking... |
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Baba Yaga's Assistant
Marika McCoola - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Editors recommend this book for readers who have recently discovered middle grade novels with more intricate story lines.Russian folklore icon Baba Yaga mentors a lonely teen in a wry graphic novel that balances gleefully between the modern and the timeless.Most children think twice... |
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Magic Trixie
Jill Thompson - Harper Trophy
Format: Paperback
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Magic Trixie doesn't understand why no one will take her seriously! First, she's not allowed to do anything fun, while her baby sister gets away with everything, and then she needs to come up with a trick that's really special to impress her friends. Luckily Trixie has the best... |
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Atlas Obscura: An Explorer's Guide to the World's Hidden Wonders
Joshua Foer - Workman
Format: Print book
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Inspiring equal parts wonder and wanderlust, Atlas Obscura celebrates over 600 of the strangest and most curious places in the world. Here are natural wonders - the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand, or a baobob tree in South Africa that's so large it has a pub inside where... |
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Paper Girls Vol. 1
Cliff Chiang - Image Comics
Format: Book
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In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the most important story of all time. Suburban drama and otherworldly mysteries collide in this smash-hit series about nostalgia, first jobs, and the last days of childhood.
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Anya's Ghost
Vera Brosgol - First Second
Format: Paperback
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Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part . . . Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend was not one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough,... |
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Friends with Boys
Faith Erin Hicks - First Second; Original edition
Format: Print book
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A coming-of-age tale with a spooky twist! Maggie McKay hardly knows what to do with herself. After an idyllic childhood of homeschooling with her mother and rough-housing with her older brothers, it's time for Maggie to face the outside world, all on her own. But that means facing high... |
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The Lottery (Creative Classic Series)
Shirley Jackson - Creative Co
Format: Library Binding
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The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot. |
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
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Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction... |
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier - Avon
Format: Mass Market Paperback
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A PBS Great American Read Top 100 PickWith these words, the reader is ushered into an isolated gray stone mansion on the windswept Cornish coast, as the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter recalls the chilling events that transpired as she began her new life as the young bride of a husband she barely... |
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My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier - Sourcebooks Landmark
Format: Paperback
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"From the first page…the reader is back in the moody, brooding atmosphere of Rebecca." —The New York Times From the bestselling author of Rebecca, another classic set in beautiful and mysterious Cornwall. Philip Ashley's older cousin Ambrose, who raised the orphaned... |
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Echoes from the macabre : selected stories
Daphne du Maurier - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Featuring five tales of quiet terror from the classic short story collection. "Don't Look No"w which was filmed by Nicolas Roeg and starred Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland, "Kiss Me Again Stranger", "Not After Midnight", "The Old Man" and "The Birds", which was famously filmed by Alfred... |
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