Guillermo del Toro
3) Trollhunters
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Everything changes for San Bernardino teenage suburbanite Jim Sturges when a 45-year old mystery resurfaces, threatening the lives of everyone in his seemingly sleepy town. Soon Jim has to team up with a band of unlikely (and some un-human) heroes to battle the monsters he never knew existed.
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Blackwood tapes volume 1
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325 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Rookie FBI agent Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner. Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent, turned suddenly violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting was self-defense, but she is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. What most troubles her isn't the tragedy itself-- it's the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing Leppo's body after his death. Questioning her future...
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345 pages ; 22 cm
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Español
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"La vida en el instituto siempre es complicada. Pero cuando las criaturas de la oscuridad empiezan a acechar por los pasillos en busca de carne humana ... entonces se vuelve terrorífica. Hace cuarenta años, el pueblo de San Bernardino sufrió una oleada de misteriosas desapariciones, que convirtieron al padre de Jim en un ser aterrado y obsesivo. Hoy, por primera vez, Jim tendrá que tomarse muy en serio las paranoias de su padre. Porque los monstruos...
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Strain trilogy volume 3
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577 pages ; 22 cm.
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Español
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As New World vampires go to war with Old World vampires over an ancient book containing the entire history and darkest secrets of the vampires, Eph Goodweather and his team seek to stop the vampiric plague and the monsters it has created.
8) The strain
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Strain trilogy volume 1
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401 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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Abraham Setrakian, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust, joins forces with CDC specialist Eph Goodweather to battle a vampiric virus that has infected NewYork in this first installment in a thrilling trilogy about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity.
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Strain trilogy volume 3
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371 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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After the blasts, it was all over. Nuclear Winter has settled upon the earth. Except for one hour of sunlight a day, the whole world is plunged into darkness. It is a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won. It is their time. Almost every single man, woman and child has been enslaved in vast camps across the globe. Like animals, they are farmed, harvested for the sick pleasure of the Master Race. Almost, but not all. Somewhere out there,...
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The story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting;' Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its...
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303 pages ; 23 cm
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Luego de una tragedia familiar, Edith Cushing, una novel escritora, se deja llevar por la tentación de un seductor forastero que le roba el corazón y es arrastrada a una mansión en lo alto de una montaña de arcilla rojo sangre: un lugar lleno de secretos y fantasmas que la perseguirán hasta que se atreva a develarlos. Entre el deseo y la oscuridad, el misterio, el amor y la locura, se encuentra la verdad detrás de La Cumbre Escarlata. --
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lxxix, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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"'Remarkably, a nineteen-year-old, writing her first novel, penned a tale that combines tragedy, morality, social commentary, and a thoughtful examination of the very nature of knowledge,' writes ... author Leslie S. Klinger in his foreword to The New Annotated Frankenstein. Despite its undeniable status as one of the most influential works of fiction ever written, Mary Shelley's novel is often reductively dismissed as the wellspring for tacky monster...
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148 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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When a Boeing 777 lands at JFK International Airport and goes dark on the runway, the Centers for Disease Control, fearing a terrorist attack, calls in Dr. Ephraim Goodweather and his team of expert biological-threat first responders. Only an elderly pawnbroker from Spanish Harlem suspects a darker purpose behind the event - an ancient threat intent on covering mankind in darkness! Adaptaion of the first novel from Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's...
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1 videodisc (73 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Five of Edgar Allan Poe's best-known stories are brought to vivid life in this heart-pounding animated anthology. Murderous madmen, sinister villains and cloaked ghouls stalk the darkened corridors of Poe's imagination, as his haunting tales are given a terrifying new twist by some of the most beloved figures in horror film history. Include: The tell-tale heart; The fall of the house of Usher; The masque of the red death; The pit and the pendulum;...
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An other-worldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa is trapped in a life of isolation. Elisa's life is changed forever when she and co-worker Zelda discover a secret classified experiment.
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1 videodisc (approximately 108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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It's l968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind, but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley, where for generations the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time.
17) Crimson Peak
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When her heart is stolen by a seductive stranger, a young woman is swept away to a house atop a mountain of blood-red clay; a place filled with secrets that will haunt her forever. Between desire and darkness, between mystery and madness, lies the truth.
18) Cronos
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Criterion collection volume 551
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (37 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
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Español
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In the darkness, a clock ticks. Aging antique dealer Jesús Gris marks his time with his granddaughter Aurora, and his wife Mercedes. Señor Gris comes to possess, quite accidentally, the ancient Cronos device. The invention of a sixteenth century alchemist who fled to Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition, it grants eternal life and youthful vigor to the user. The only drawbacks are marble white skin that burns under sunlight and an insatiable thirst...
19) Pacific Rim
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2 videodiscs (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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"When legions of monstrous creatures known as Kaiju started rising from the sea, a deadly war began. To combath them, humans devised massive robots called Jaegers as weapons. Controlled simultaneiously by two pilots, even the Jaegers proved nearly defenseless against the Jaiju. Now on the verge of defeat, mankind must turn to a washed-up former pilot and an untested trainee teamed in a seemingly obsolete Jaeger. These unlikely heroes are the last...
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1 videodisc (144 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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The epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged, Smaug rains his fiery wrath down upon the defenseless men, women and children of Lake-town. Obsessed above all else with his reclaimed treasure, Thorin sacrifices friendship and honor to hoard it as Bilbo's frantic attempts to make him see reason drive the Hobbit towards...