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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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Red Harvest

Joe Schreiber · 320 pages

Unlike those other Jedi sidelined to the Agricultural Corps, Hestizo Trace possesses one extraordinary Force talent: a gift with plants. Suddenly her quiet existence among greenhouse and garden specimens is violently destroyed by the arrival of an emissary from Darth Scabrous who seeks the final ingredient in an ancient Sith formula that promises to grant Darth Scabrous his greatest desire: immort

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The Infection

Craig DiLouie · 286 pages

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson; Foreword by Joe R. Lansdale

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Gerald's Game

Stephen King · 400 pages

An erotic game with handcuffs between husband and wife. One of them won't make it through the night. For the survivor, death would have been a blessing.

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Oedipus Rex

Sophocles · 115 pages

Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of a classic tragedy, noticeably containing an emphasis on how Oedipus's own faults contribute to the tragic hero's downfall, as opposed to having fate be the sole cause. Over the centuries, Oedipus Rex

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The Day of the Triffids

John Wyndham · 272 pages

When Bill Masen wakes up blindfolded in hospital there is a bitter irony in his situation. Carefully removing his bandages, he realizes that he is the only person who can see: everyone else, doctors and patients alike, have been blinded by a meteor shower. Now, with civilization in chaos, the triffids - huge, venomous, large-rooted plants able to 'walk', feeding on human flesh - can have their day

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The Twelve

Justin Cronin · 624 pages

The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the

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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1

Sui Ishida · 224 pages

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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 169 pages

See work: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL64225W

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Bones & All

Camille DeAngelis · 304 pages

"Since she was a baby, Maren has had serious trouble accepting affection. Any time someone gets too close to her, she's overcome by the desire to eat them. Abandoned by her mother the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, but finds much more than she bargained for along the way. Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prosp

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Purification

David Moody · 329 pages

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Pandemic

Scott Sigler

Third and final chapter of the Infected series

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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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Preacher, Volume 1: Gone to Texas

Garth Ennis · 200 pages

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Year of Wonders

Geraldine Brooks · 310 pages

This is the story of a young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the year of 1666, when plague suddenly visits her small Derbyshire village and the villagers, inspired by a charismatic preacher, elect to quarantine themselves.

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Symbiont

Mira Grant

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The Birth of Venus

Sarah Dunant · 430 pages

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones · 441 pages

In 1912 a strange confession is given, over several nights, to a Lutheran priest who transcribes the life of a vampire who haunted the fields of the Blackfeet reservation, looking for justice. A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran Pastor is discovered within a wall and what it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to two hundred and seventeen Blackfeet dead in the snow. To

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The Omen

David Seltzer · 197 pages

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The Fireman

Joe Hill · 768 pages

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Baltimore, Vol. 2: The Curse Bells

Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden · 126 pages

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The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty · 374 pages

The Exorcist is a 1971 horror novel by American writer William Peter Blatty. The book details the demonic possession of eleven-year-old Regan MacNeil, the daughter of a famous actress, and the two priests who attempt to exorcise the demon. Published by Harper & Row, the novel was the basis of a highly successful film adaptation released two years later, whose screenplay was also written and produc

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