From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness

8 best books like From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madness (Thomas F. Monteleone): The Secret of the Mansion, In the Flesh, Callahan's Secret, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War, Sooner or Later, Misfit City Vol. 1, Five Smooth Stones : Hope's Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776,, The Fifth Gospel

The Secret of the Mansion

Author

Julie Campbell

Trixie Belden was not perfect. She got into trouble, she got dirty, she argued and lost, and she got kidnapped! Truly, if you cut her, did she not bleed?! yes!

My Mom bought me two Trixie Belden books to take on a family vacation to Florida the summer after 2nd grade. I think I had finished them before...

In the Flesh

Author

Clive Barker

Terrifying and forbidding, subversive and insightful, Clive Barker's groundbreaking stories revolutionized the worlds of horrific and fantastical fiction and established Barker's dominance over the otherworldly and the all-too-real. Here, as two businessmen encounter beautiful and seductive...

Callahan's Secret

Author	Spider Robinson
ISBN	0812572297

Callahan's Place is open for business, and all of the "regulars" are here--a talking dog, an alcoholic vampire, and two telepaths--enhancing their joys by drowning their sorrows. Everyone, that is, but Mickey Finn, a seven-foot tall alien in danger of enslavement at the hands of a traveller from across...

Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Author	Clive Barker
ISBN	0060596384

All things in their time . . .

Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the Abarat are getting stranger by the hour. Why has the Lord of Midnight sent his henchman after her? Why can she suddenly speak words of magic? Why is this world familiar?

Candy and her companions must solve the mystery...

Sooner or Later

Author	Carole Hart
ISBN	0380429780

I came across this book in one of my trunks. I have kept it since the first time I read it and fell for Bruce and Carole Hart's writing.
As I turned each page, the flash of me as a teen filled with wonder, excitement, and lost within the pages hit - which had me devouring the book in under an hour.
A great...

Misfit City Vol. 1

Author	Kirsten Smith
ISBN	1684150272

Nothing’s happened in Wilder’s hometown since they filmed that cult kids’ adventure movie there in the 80s...Until one day, she and her friends come upon a centuries-old pirate map!

Smothered by her backwater hometown and frustrated by its 1980s cult-movie fame (The Gloomies...have...

Five Smooth Stones : Hope's Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776,

Author	Kristiana Gregory
ISBN	0439148278

Title: Five Smooth Stones: Hope’s Diary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 (My America series)
Author: Kristiana Gregory
Lexile Level: 640L
Pages: 112p

Recommendations & Comments: Five Smooth Stones relates a year’s worth of diary entries by Hope Potter, a nine-year-old...

The Fifth Gospel

Author	Ian Caldwell
ISBN	1451694148

A mysterious exhibit is under construction at the Vatican Museums. The curator is murdered at a clandestine meeting on the outskirts of Rome a week before it opens. That same night, a violent break-in rocks the home of Greek Catholic priest Father Alex Andreou. When the papal police fail to identify...