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Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez · 588 pages

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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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Last Days

Adam Nevill · 530 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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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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Fatale, Book Three: West of Hell

Ed Brubaker

"The dark days of the Great Depression, ancient secrets of the Middle Ages, haunted plains of the old West, and bombed out ruins of World War Two... The third book of the hit series Fatale features four interlinked stories of horror and noir, each one a puzzle piece in the mystery of the Femme Fatale."--Back cover.

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Creed

Trisha Leaver, Lindsay Currie · 253 pages

When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby deserted town called Purity Springs, but in the morning they see the town is populated with a deadly cult and find themselves at the mercy of the charismatic leader, Elijah Hawkins.

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Cemetery Dance

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 577 pages

Pendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan 's Upper West Side . Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange, si

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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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Depraved

Bryan Smith · 324 pages

"Visitors are more than welcome in the isolated rural town of Hopkins Bend. The town needs them for their annual sacrifices--and entertainment. Now outsiders have stumbled into the town's traps. Some will be held for their captors' perverse, degrading amusement, but some will face a far more gruesome end at the yearly Holiday Feast. The townspeople hope their unholy ritual will protect them from t

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The Servants of Twilight

Dean Koontz · 440 pages

"A crazed woman, her faithful followers, and their target: your child. One mother experiences a fear beyond her wildest nightmares in this terrifying thriller.

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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1

Sui Ishida · 224 pages

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MPD Psycho, Vol. 1

Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima · 184 pages

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Within These Walls

Ania Ahlborn · 455 pages

With his marriage on the rocks and his life in shambles, washed-up true-crime writer Lucas Graham is desperate for a comeback, one more shot at the bestselling success he once enjoyed. His chance comes when he's promised exclusive access to death row inmate Jeffrey Halcomb, the notorious cult leader and mass murderer who's ready to break his silence after 30 years, and who contacted Lucas personal

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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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Dead Space: Martyr

B.K. Evenson, Brian Evenson · 416 pages

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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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Chapelwood

Cherie Priest · 448 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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Clean Room, Vol. 1: Immaculate Conception

Gail Simone

"Journalist Chloe Pierce had no idea that her fiance Philip's decision to pick up a book by enigmatic and compelling self-help guru Astrid Mueller would change her life forever--by ending his! Three months after reading Mueller's book, Philip had blown his brains out all over Chloe's new kitchen--and something in that book made him do it. Now, Chloe will stop at nothing as she attempts to infiltra

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The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker · 164 pages

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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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Let the Right One In

John Ajvide Lindqvist · 480 pages

Twelve-year-old Oskar is obsessed by the murder that's taken place in his neighborhood. Then he meets the new girl from next door. She's a bit weird, though. And she only comes out at night--Publisher's description.

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Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman · 456 pages

And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in

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