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-- American horror story.2013., 20th Century Fox Call No: DVD Fic American HS 2 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: American horror story Volume: 2Summary Note: 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.'.
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By Pottle, Adam2023., Dark Matter INK Click to access digital title. Summary Note: After years of imprisonment, a Deaf teen escapes his father's basement. Bloody, alone, and without language, he stumbles through the Saskatchewan prairie until he lands in an isolated psychiatric facility, where he meets Felix, another Deaf teen, who eagerly teaches him Sign Language. As the two grow closer, the ambitious and cunning Felix begins to see his pupil less like an individual and more like a mind that he can mold in his own image, and as his ego grows, his plans to break free from the facility become increasingly more dangerous.Told entirely from a Deaf perspective, Apparitions is a powerful story like no other. With prose compared to Cormac McCarthy and Jack Ketchum, this is horror literature at its finest.
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1998., Vintage Books Call No: Fic Mcg Edition: First Vintage Contemporaries edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2016., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic Hop Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Yorkshire, England, 1911: After a moment of defiance at the factory where she has worked since she was a child, Ella Fay finds herself an unwilling patient at the Sharston Asylum. Ella knows she is not mad, but she might have to learn to play the game before she can make a true bid for freedom. John Mulligan is a chronic patient, frozen with grief since the death of his child, but when Ella runs towards him one morning in an attempt to escape the place where he has found refuge, everything changes. It is in the ornate ballroom at the centre of the asylum, where the male and female patients are allowed to gather every Friday evening to dance, that Ella and John begin a tentative, secret correspondence that will have shattering consequences, as love and the possibility of redemption are set against one ambitious doctor's eagerness to make his mark in the burgeoning field of eugenics, at all costs."--From publisher.
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c2004., HarperCollins Call No: Fic Hol Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tea broker James Tilly Matthews is committed to Bethlem Hospital, a hospital for the insane, where he is kept by John Haslam, an apothecary, who wants to study his patient.
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c2012., General, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: Fic Hep Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: 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 Ambrose Weller, a Confederate soldier whose memories terrorize him into wild fits that can only be calmed by the color blue, but whose gentleness and dark eyes beckon to Iris. The institution calls itself modern, but Iris is skeptical of its methods, particularly the dreaded "water treatment." In this isolated place, she finds love with Ambrose. But can she take him with her if she escapes? Will there be anything for them to make a life from, back home? This novel is the story of a spirited woman, a wounded soldier, their impossible love, and the call of freedom.
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By Peck, Gregory, 1916-2003 Curtis, Tony, 1925-2010 Dickinson, Angie Albert, Eddie Gregory, James, 1911-2002 Leslie, Bethel Duvall, Robert Sargent, Dick, 1930-1994 Storch, Larry Darin, Bobby Miller, David, 1909-1992 Breen, Richard L Ephron, Phoebe, 1914-1971 Ephron, Henry, 1912-1992 Arthur, Robert, 1909-1986 Rosten, Leo Calvin, 1908-1997 Brentwood Productions, Inc R2008, p1967., Universal Studios Call No: DVD Fic Captain N Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A realistic look at life and love inside a stateside military hospital's psychiatric ward during World War II.
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By Leary, Ann2022., Marysue Rucci Books, Scribner Call No: Fic Lea Edition: Marysue Rucci Books. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In 1927, when eighteen-year-old Mary Engle, while working at an institution for mentally disabled women, learns that a girl from her childhood orphanage is an inmate, who begs Mary to help her escape, it forces Mary to make a terrible choice with life-altering consquences.
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Ã2015., Crown Publishers Call No: Bio B163b Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The author pieces together the story of her absent father's life, beginning with his advancements in isolating the biochemical root of manic depression, which he then began to suffer from himself, leading to years of institutionalization and confinement.
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2009., 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Mirrors Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Attempting to pick up the shattered pieces of his life, a disgraced former cop takes a routine job guarding the charred ruins of a once-famous department store. But the terrifying images he sees in the store's ornate mirrors will send him on a pulse-pounding mission to unravel the secrets of the building's past...before they destroy his entire life.
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-- Mister Nobody.2020., Ballantine Books Call No: MYS Fic Ste Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "When a man is found on a British beach, drifting in and out of consciousness, with no identification and unable to speak, interest in him is sparked immediately. From the hospital staff who find themselves inexplicably drawn to him, to international medical experts who are baffled by him, to the national press who call him Mr. Nobody, everyone wants answers. Who is this man? And what happened to him? Some memories are best forgotten. Neuropsychiatrist Dr. Emma Lewis is asked to assess the patient in a small town deep in the English countryside. This is her field of expertise, this is the chance she's been waiting for, and this case could make her name known across the world. But therein lies the danger. Emma left this same town fourteen years ago and has taken great pains to cover all traces of her past since then. Places aren't haunted . . . people are. But now something--or someone--is calling her back. And the more time she spends with her patient, the more alarmed she becomes that he knows the one thing about her that nobody is supposed to know"--
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By Lukach, Mark[2017], General, Harper Wave Call No: Bio L953m Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "A heart-wrenching, yet hopeful, memoir of a young marriage that is redefined by mental illness and affirms the power of love. Mark and Giulia's life together began as a storybook romance. The fell in love at eighteen, married at twenty-four, and were living their dream life in San Francisco. When Giulia was twenty-seven, she suffered a terrifying and unexpected psychotic break that landed her in the psych ward for nearly a month. One day she was vibrant and well-adjusted; the next she was delusional and suicidal, convinced that she was the devil and that her loved ones were not safe. All she wanted was to die. Eventually, Giulia fully recovered, and the couple had a son. But, soon after Jonas was born, Giulia had another breakdown, and then a third a few years after that. Pushed to the edge of the abyss, everything the couple had once taken for granted was upended. A story of the fragility of the mind, and the tenacity of the human spirit. A love story that raises profound questions: How do we care for the people we love? What and who do we live for? An intensely personal story of mental illness, anchored by an abiding devotion to family that will affirm readers' faith in the power of love"--Provided by publisher.
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1997, p1975., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic One Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The story of a man whose rebelliousness pits him against the head nurse of a mental ward and the full spectrum of institutional repression.
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2018., Adult, Gallery Books Call No: MYS Fic Cou Edition: Gallery books Canadian export edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: FBI Thriller Volume: 22Summary Note: Chief Ty Christie of Willicott, Maryland, witnesses a murder at dawn from the deck of her cottage on Lake Massey. When dragging the lake, not only do the divers find the murder victim, they also discover dozens of bones. Even more shocking is the identification of a unique belt buckle found among the bones. Working together with Chief Christie, Savich and Sherlock soon discover a frightening connection between the bones and an escaped psychopath.
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By Allan, Clare2006., Bond Street Books Call No: Fic All Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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c1998., HarperCollins Publishers Call No: 423 W759p Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library