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Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Volume 1: Prodigal Son

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Relic

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child · 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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Batman and the Monster Men

Matt Wagner · 144 pages

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Dead and Alive

Dean Koontz · 352 pages

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Now the mesmerizing saga concludes. . . .As a devastating hurricane approaches, as the benighted creations of Victor Helios begin to spin out of control, as New Orleans descends into chaos and the future of humanity han

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Perdido Street Station

China Mieville · 710 pages

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos contain a vast mix of workers, artists, spies, junkies, and whores. In New Crobuzon, the unsavory

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Gris Grimly's Frankenstein

Gris Grimly, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley · 208 pages

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Miracleman, Book Two: The Red King Syndrome

Alan Moore, Catherine Yronwode · 224 pages

Michael Moran has rediscovered the power of Miracleman, but unbeknownst to him, Dr. Emil Gargunza, the man behind Project Zarathustra, has set in motion plans decades in the making. In The Red King Syndrome, Gargunza's intentions for Miracleman's wife and unborn child set the stage for a confrontati on between creator and creation. The origins of Gargunza and Zarathustra will be revealed, and life

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The Strain

Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan · 504 pages

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.The StrainThey have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in d

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The Manhattan Projects, Vol. 1: Science. Bad.

Jonathan Hickman · 144 pages

Originally published in single magazine form as The Manhattan Projects #1-5. The Manhattan Projects is a comic series that started in 2012 from Image Comics. It concerns an alternate history of the end of World War II in which the Manhattan Project was a front for other more esoteric science fiction ideas.

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Preludes & Nocturnes

Neil Gaiman · 240 pages

Preludes and Nocturnes collects the first eight issues of The Sandman comic by Neil Gaiman published by DC Vertigo. The series centers on Morpheus (Dream of the Endless). Dream is imprisoned for decades by an occultist seeking immortality. Upon escaping, he must reclaim his objects of power while still in a weakened state, confronting an addict to his dream powder, the legions of Hell, and an all-

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The Waterworks

E.L. Doctorow · 264 pages

New York of 1870 is the background of this tale of a journalist who finds out that his father forged his own death so that he could be part of the experiment of a mad scientist to prolong his life.

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Alan Moore's the Courtyard

Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows, Anthony Johnston · 56 pages

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Banana Fish, Vol. 1

Akimi Yoshida · 196 pages

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Ajin: Demi-Human, Vol. 1

Gamon Sakurai, Tsuina Miura

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The Book of Phoenix

Nnedi Okorafor · 236 pages

"Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York's Tower 7. She is an 'accelerated woman'--only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix's abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of

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Felidae

Akif Pirincci · 290 pages

Francis, der samtpfotige Klugscheißer, ist neu im Revier. Als er bei seinem ersten Erkundungsspaziergang auf einen grausam zugerichteten toten Artgenossen stößt, ist ihm klar, daß hier sein Intelligenzquotient gefordert ist. So rollt sich vor dem Leser mit katzenartiger Geschwindigkeit eine Geschichte von atemberaubender Spannung auf: eine Geschichte von serienmäßigen Morden und religiösen Sekten,

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City of Night

Dean Koontz, Ed Gorman · 455 pages

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth. Here is the mystery, the myth, the terror, and the magic of...Dean Koontz's City of the NightThey are stronger, heal better, and think faster than any humans ever created--and they must be destroyed. But not even Victor

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Daredevil, Volume 19: Lady Bullseye

Ed Brubaker, Michael Lark, Clay Mann

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

H.G. Wells · 155 pages

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettable movies, this early work of H. G. Wells was greeted in 1896 by howls of protest from reviewers, who found it horrifying and blasphemous. They wanted to know more about the wondrous possibilities of science shown in his first book, The Time Machine, not its potential for misuse and terror. In The Is

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Hellboy, Vol. 1: Seed of Destruction

Mike Mignola, John Byrne · 128 pages

When strangeness threatens to engulf the world, a strange man will come to save it. Sent to investigate a mystery with supernatural overtones, Hellboy discovers the secrets of his own origins, and his link to the Nazi occultists who promised Hitler a final solution in the form of a demonic avatar. " ... Hellboy is a brilliant example of how to elevate the comic of the future to a higher literar

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Parasyte, Volume 9

Hitoshi Iwaaki · 184 pages

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