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Night Film

Marisha Pessl · 624 pages

Ashley Cordova is dead. Scott McGrath, a veteran investigative journalist wants to know why. The reason why the death of this beautiful, young woman has piqued his interest so much is because of who her father is. He is Stanislas Cordova, the world famous director of strange cult/horror films that hasn't been seen publicly in over thirty years. The last time McGrath got involved with Cordova he lo

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Ritual

David Pinner

Shrouded in the same brand of mystery and contradiction that forms its tangled plot, "Ritual", the 1967 debut by David Pinner is commonly recognised by cult cinema fanatics as the original seed that grew into the towering movie enigma "The Wicker Man". Set against an enclosed rural Cornish landscape, Ritual follows the trail of English police officer, David Hanlin, who is requested to investiga

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Diary

Chuck Palahniuk · 272 pages

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn't stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they've found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty

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Last Days

Brian Evenson · 228 pages

Forcibly recruited into an underground religious cult in order to solve a murder, a detective weaves through a maze of lies, threats, and misinformation involving stakes that are much higher than he anticipated.

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The Horror At Red Hook

H.P. Lovecraft

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Rosemary's Baby

Ira Levin · 245 pages

She is a housewife—young, healthy, blissfully happy. He is an actor—charismatic and ambitious. The spacious, sun-filled apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side is their dream home—a dream that turns into an unspeakable nightmare. . . . Enter the chilling world of Ira Levin—where terror is as near as your new neighbors . . . and where evil wears the most innocent face of all. . . . --front flap

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This Present Darkness

Frank E. Peretti · 508 pages

“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 Ashton is just a typical small town. But when a skeptical reporter and a prayerful, hardworking pastor begin to investigate mysterious events, they suddenly find themse

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Last Days

Adam Nevill · 530 pages

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The Diviners

Libba Bray · 608 pages

Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us? Evie O'Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City--and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession w

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Tropic of Night

Michael Gruber · 438 pages

E-book extra: Afterword by Michael GruberJane Doe is nothing, a shadow. Once a promising anthropologist, she's now hiding from an unimaginable horror. Miami police detective Jimmy Paz knows that Jane is connected to the ritualistic murders terrifying the city. Together, they must battle a psychopath whose shamanistic powers can alter reality itself.

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Darkfall

Dean Koontz · 352 pages

A blizzard brings a city to a standstill-and ushers in an evil that defies imagination.

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Gathering Prey

John Sandford · 448 pages

When his adopted daughter's friend reports that someone has been killing off a circle of nomadic panhandlers, Lucas travels to North Dakota, where he encounters a dangerously violent subculture. "The extraordinary new Lucas Davenport thriller from #1 New York Times-bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize-winner John Sandford. They call them Travelers. They move from city to city, panhandling, commi

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The Bone Collector

Jeffery Deaver · 432 pages

Number one bestselling author Jeffery Deaver returns with his most famous characters Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs in beautifully reissued editions.

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A Book of Bones

John Connolly · 720 pages

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Pig Island

Mo Hayder · 352 pages

The remote Scottish island where investigative journalist Joe Oakes has just arrived has been divided into two clear halves. On one side lives the obscure religious community and on the other side, fenced off by high voltage electric wire, is where David Dove, the community's founder and leader, lives in total isolation.

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Devil Bones

Kathy Reichs · 315 pages

The eleventh gripping Temperance Brennan thriller from world-class forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs, no.1 bestselling author of Break No Bones and Bones to AshesAn underground chamber is exposed in a seedy, dilapidated house with sagging trim and peeling paint...In the dark cellar, a ritualistic display is revealed. A human skull rests on a cauldron, surrounded by slain chickens and bizarre f

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Blood and Salt

Kim Liggett · 352 pages

Romeo and Juliet meets Children of the Corn in this one-of-a-kind romantic horror. “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in—blood and salt.” These are the last words Ash Larkin hears before her mother returns to the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But when Ash follows her to Quivira, Kansas, something sinister and a

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Naked in Death

J.D. Robb · 313 pages

It is the year 2058, and technology now completely rules the world. But Lieutenant Eve Dallas knows that the irresistible impulses of the human heart are still ruled by just one thing-passion. Crime and punishment is her business. Murder her speciality. Named by the social worker who found her when she was a mere child roaming that city's streets, Eve is a New York police detective who lives for h

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Say You're Sorry

Karen Rose · 614 pages

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Doctor Sleep

Stephen King · 532 pages

The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a tribe of murderous paranormals. On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless; mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone

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Falling Angel

William Hjortsberg · 256 pages

A spellbinding novel of murder, mystery, and the occult, Falling Angel pits a tough New York private eye against the most fearsome adversary a detective ever faced. For Harry Angel, a routing missing persons case soon turns into a fiendish nightmare of voodoo and black magic, of dizzying peril and violent death--a world in which the shadow he chases seems to be the shadow he casts.--Cover

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Live and Let Die

Ian Fleming · 262 pages

Beautiful, fortune-telling Solitaire is the prisoner (and tool) of Mr Big - master of fear, artist in crime and Voodoo Baron of Death. James Bond has no time for superstition - he knows that Mr Big is also a top SMERSH operative and a real threat. More than that, after tracking him through the jazz joints of Harlem, to the Everglades and on to the Caribbean, 007 has realized that Mr Big is one of

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Blood Vines

Erica Spindler · 405 pages

"Alexandra Clarkson is having terrifying dreams filled with blood and ceremonial images. Her mother, Patsy, commits suicide after speaking with Detective Daniel Reed. Years earlier, Patsy was married to Harlan Sommer, a prominent vintner, when their infant son disappeared. The loss destroyed their marriage, causing Patsy to leave and take Alex with her. Reed is investigating the identity of a baby

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Godfall

Van Jensen · 384 pages

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