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forgot her. And for her sweet sixteen, he’s got one hell of a surprise party planned.

VAMPIRES OF NEW JERSEY

MAY

1974

Everyone in Hammerhead Bay is buzzing about the big surf competition . . . until the mysterious Maribel Mauls comes to town and starts making waves of her own. This summer, the shore is really going to suck.

CANNIBAL CLOWN CIRCUS

JULY

1975

Elephants! Acrobats! . . . Zombies? Trapeze artist Tina Soares loves the thrill of flight . . . but she’ll need more than a safety net when this particular circus comes to town.

RETURN TO THE ASYLUM

JUNE

1976

Jackie Urns left her job at Queenswood Asylum after a traumatic incident rendered her mute. One year later, she’s ready to return and face her demons.

THE DAME

MARCH

1977

Stella Shade is the city’s top PI—a secret known to only a few police officials. When Stella moonlights as a waitress at an underground speakeasy to investigate rumors of a murderous spirit, all hell breaks loose. (Set in the 1920s, this film has the distinction of being Edie Mills’s only historical work. It’s also infamous for its highly unpopular twist ending, in which Edie’s character is revealed to be the killer.)

THE COVEN'S CURSE

OCTOBER

1977

When Caroline Hahn returns home for a high-school reunion, she finds out her girlfriends have kept their old secret coven going. Only their rituals have gotten more intense. And this time, they aren’t going to let Caroline break the pact . . .

A THOUSAND FANGS

JUNE

1978

Psychologist Brenda Doyle has the same nightmare every night—an enormous gaping mouth with a thousand fangs, swallowing her whole. But a dream is just a dream . . . until corpses with giant teeth marks start turning up all over town.

DEN OF THE UNDEAD

FEBRUARY

1979

When a group of archaeologists go missing during a dig, Debra St. James and her search-and-rescue team are dispatched. But when they find the not-quite-alive scientists, Debra starts to think this mission must fail for the sake of all mankind.

HOLLOW BOOKS

SEPTEMBER

1979

Amelia Hooper just wants a quiet life, and her new job at the quaint Brockensville Public Library gives her a chance at just that. But when Amelia discovers a locked room stocked with strange books—each filled with blank pages—her life becomes decidedly noisy.

INFECTION

MAY

1980

It shares all the symptoms of the common cold—until the third day, when the real infection reveals itself. Dr. Sandra Vix is used to treating patients with fevers and stuffy noses, but can she find a prescription for pure evil?

THE ASYLUM

MARCH

1981

In this controversial prequel to the beloved Return to the Asylum, Edie Mills plays the role of the Warden, the first movie’s villain who terrorizes and ultimately kills Jackie Urns (also portrayed by Mills). Reception of the Warden’s origin story was mixed, and The Asylum’s release launched a popular theory that Jackie Urns never existed and the events in Return happened entirely in the Warden’s head.

CAMP HALF HELL

MAY

1982

The weapon: a curling iron. The victims: all counselors, picked off one by one. But Mel Sommers has seen enough horror movies to know that running does no good. She needs to face this killer once and for all. Only one will remain by the time the sun rises . . .

BEES?!

MARCH

1983

In this campy reimagining of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds, schoolteacher Ann Hays fears the worst when her ex-fiancé’s body is found covered in sting welts. The bees are coming . . .

WHAT SHE SEES IN THE MIRRORS

APRIL

1984

Largely criticized as being too cerebral, this film focuses on a woman with an unusual and disturbing phobia. Addilyn Cane cannot look people in the face; she can only look at their reflections. But no one realizes what she sees until it’s too late.

MY GIRLFRIEND IS FROM PLUTO

OCTOBER

1984

It started as a joke. But now Nancy Riley’s paranoid boyfriend actually thinks she’s an alien—and he’s managed to convince a group of conspiracy theorists that she’s come to Earth to feed on human hearts.

INVASION OF THE FLESH-EATING RODENTS

JUNE

1985

When a new rabies vaccine goes horrifically wrong, veterinarian Katya Payne locks herself in her clinic, vowing not to leave until she finds a cure. But not if her furry former patients find her first . . .

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