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The Cabin in the Woods: The Official Movie Novelization

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The Summer I Died

Ryan C. Thomas Β· 216 pages

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Apeshit

Carlton Mellick III Β· 178 pages

Six trendy teenagers (three cheerleaders and three football players) go to an isolated cabin in the mountains for a weekend of drinking, partying, and crazy sex, only to find themselves in the middle of a life and death struggle against a horribly mutated psychotic freak that just won't stay dead--Publisher's description

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Phantoms

Dean Koontz Β· 441 pages

After finding one hundred and fifty people grotesquely dead in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California, officials cannot imagine anything as gruesome as the real reason for their death.

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Dreamcatcher

Stephen King Β· 870 pages

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But wh

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Prey

Michael Crichton Β· 490 pages

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to

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Pandaemonium

Christopher Brookmyre Β· 400 pages

The senior pupils of St Peter's High School are on retreat to a secluded outdoor activity centre to come to terms with the murder of a fellow pupil. Nearby at a top-secret military establishment an experiment has spiralled out of control and two very different worlds are on a collision course.

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Relic

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child Β· 468 pages

As taken from the author website (www.prestonchild.com): Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite o

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Castaways

Brian Keene Β· 285 pages

When a group of people come to a lush, deserted island to compete on a popular reality TV show, they soon discover that they are being eliminated from the game permanently and violently when they fall victim to the monstrous half-human creatures that live in the jungle.

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The Troop

Nick Cutter Β· 368 pages

Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip. This year, something is waiting in the darkness. Something wicked.... An intruder stumbles upon their campsite like a wild animal. He is shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry. Within his body is a bioengineered nightmare, a horror that spreads faster than fear.

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The Ritual

Adam Nevill Β· 368 pages

When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common with his well-heeled friends, tensions rise.With limited fitness and experience between them, a shortcut m

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Hack/Slash Omnibus Volume 3

Tim Seeley, Drew Edwards, Ken Haeser

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Outpost

Adam Baker Β· 369 pages

When the end of the world comes, do you want to be the first to go? Or the last to survive? Kasker Rampart: a derelict refinery platform moored in the Artic Ocen. A skeleton crew of fifteen fight boredom and despair as they wait for a relief ship to take them home. They took the job to escape the world, they didn't expect the world to end.

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Dark Mountain

Richard Laymon, Richard Kelly Β· 384 pages

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Hack/Slash Omnibus Volume 1

Tim Seeley, Stefano Caselli Β· 300 pages

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Hack/Slash Vol. 1: First Cut

Tim Seeley, Stefano Caselli, Federica Manfredi Β· 160 pages

In every slasher movie, there's one girl who makes it all the way to the end. She's the survivor... the last girl. Meet Cassie Hack, the lone survivor of an attack by a vicious slasher called The Lunch Lady. Now Cassie, along with her monstrous partner, Vlad, travel the country, hunting down other slashers before they can leave a trail of blood and terror--Publisher.

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Alien

Alan Dean Foster Β· 261 pages

Adaptation of 1979 movie of the same name.

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John Dies at the End

David Wong Β· 428 pages

This may be the story of John and David, a drug called soy sauce, and other-worldly beings invading the planet. Or, it may be the story of two beer-drinking friends who live in an unnamed Midwestern town and only think something horrific is going on. But the important thing is, according to the narrator, "None of this is my fault."

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The Terror

Dan Simmons Β· 784 pages

The bestselling author of Ilium transforms the story of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition into a devastating historical adventure that will chill you to your core.The men on board Her Britannic Majesty's Ships Terror and Erebus had every expectation of triumph. They were part of Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition – as scientifically advanced an enterprise as had ever set forth – and theirs were t

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Endless Night

Richard Laymon Β· 470 pages

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Diary

Chuck Palahniuk Β· 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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The Hollow Places

T. Kingfisher Β· 341 pages

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The Catacombs

Jeremy Bates Β· 361 pages

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Burial Ground

Michael McBride Β· 477 pages

When the body of Hunter Gearhardt washes up on the banks of a seasonal river outside of Pomacochas, Peru, with only samples of vegetation, a handful of feathers, two black- and gray-streaked rocks, and a golden headdress of indeterminate origin in his possession, his grieving father launches an expedition to determine how his son died. The party uses these clues to divine Hunter’s route into the j

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Hell House

Richard Matheson Β· 256 pages

Rolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been

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