Guillermo del Toro
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
1962. Elisa Esposito--mute her whole life--works as a janitor working the graveyard shift at Baltimore's Occam Aerospace Research Center. Only Zelda, a protective coworker, and Giles, her loving neighbor, help her make it through her day. Then she sees something she was never meant to see: an amphibious man, captured in the Amazon, to be studied for Cold War advancements. Using sign language, the two learn to communicate. Richard Strickland, the obsessed...
2) Trollhunters
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
x, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This spellbinding tale takes readers to a sinister, magical, and war-torn world filled with richly drawn characters like trickster fauns, murderous soldiers, child-eating monsters, courageous rebels, and a long-lost princess hoping to be reunited with her family.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (215 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the art and development of the DreamWorks Animation television series "Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia," featuring commentary from developers and artists, and full-color graphic images of characters, artifacts, and geography with captions.
Author
Series
Blackwood tapes volume 1
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forced to shoot her suddenly violent partner, rookie FBI agent Odessa Hardwicke witnesses the escape of a shadowy form from the deceased agent's body, and embarks on a sanity-risking investigation into a centuries-old being.
Author
Series
Strain trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (74 pages) : chiefly color illustrations
Language
English
Description
After Jim Lake, Jr. finds a magical amulet that gives him a powerful suit and the title of Trollhunter, his troll companion must detail the battles of Kanjigar the Courageous in order to explain the Jim how important his new role is to the world of Trolls.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (73 pages) : chiefly color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Jim Lake, Jr.'s friends help him accept his new role as Trollhunter through the stories of six previous Trollhunters and the crises they faced during times of when they questioned their fate.
9) Pacific Rim
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot and an untested trainee, who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.
Author
Publisher
Insight Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
156 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Explore the art and making of Guillermo del Toro's new masterpiece, The Shape of Water, winner of the Venice Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Lion. From master storyteller Guillermo del Toro comes The Shape of Water--an other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of the Cold War-era United States circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, lonely Elisa (Sally Hawkins) is trapped in a life of silence and...
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fate of mankind hangs in the balance when a ruthless prince awakens an unstoppable army of creatures and wages war with the human world. It's up to Hellboy and his team of paranormal outcasts to face off with the forces of darkness.
Author
Publisher
Welbeck
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Masters of Make-Up Effects is a celebration of make-up artists and acclaimed make-up effects from the world of film and television. Authors Howard Berger and Marshall Julius have gleaned untold stories from the sets of cult classics (Planet of the Apes, An American Werewolf in London, The Thing), fan-favorite film and TV franchises (Star Trek, Star Wars, Harry Potter and the MCU) and modern blockbusters like Dune to chart the fascinating evolution...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (586 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When ordinary teenager Jim Lake Jr. stumbles upon a mystical amulet on his way to school one morning, he inadvertently discovers an extraordinary secret civilization of mighty trolls beneath his small town of Arcadia. Suddenly destined to play a crucial role in an ancient battle of good and evil, Jim is determined to save the world, right after gym class. A must-see original series for the entire family.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The demonic paranormal investigator known as Hellboy and his team are sent to Austria when a comet that appears to be a spacecraft marked with a swastika targets the ruins of a Nazi research center.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An otherworldly 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.
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Language
Español
Description
In 1944 fascist Spain, Ofelia, a young girl fascinated with fairy-tales, and her pregnant mother go to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army, on a rural military outpost. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old faun in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her she's a princess, but must prove her royalty by surviving three gruesome tasks. If she fails, she will never prove herself to be the true...
17) Crimson Peak
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxix, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"'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...
19) The Witches
Language
English
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious...
20) The orphanage
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Laura decides to purchase her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. The new environment awakens the imagination of Laura's son. His ongoing fantasy games played with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly threatened by the strange occurrences in the house, Laura looks to a group of parapsychologists...