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Trapped

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Jaws

Peter Benchley · 309 pages

Jaws is a 1974 novel by American writer Peter Benchley. It tells the story of a great white shark that preys upon a small resort town and the voyage of three men trying to kill it. The novel grew out of Benchley's interest in shark attacks after he learned about the exploits of Montauk, New York shark fisherman Frank Mundus in 1964. Doubleday commissioned him to write the novel in 1971, a period w

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Phantoms

Dean Koontz · 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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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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The Troop

Nick Cutter · 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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Castaways

Brian Keene · 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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Prey

Michael Crichton · 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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The Shuddering

Ania Ahlborn · 283 pages

A group of friends vacationing at a remote Colorado cabin find themselves stranded by a blizzard and stalked by cannibalistic monsters.

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The Mist

Stephen King · 230 pages

#1 New York Times bestselling author STEPHEN KING suspends a small town in a haze of terror—as humanity makes its last stand against unholy destruction… —back cover

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Snow

Ronald Malfi

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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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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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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 169 pages

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

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Ancestor

Scott Sigler · 288 pages

An isolated location, a deadly scientific experiment, people with hidden motivations and a creature nature deemed to dangerous to exist and hence wiped out thousands of years ago. A thrilling adventure ride with scientific insights and immersive writing, Ancestor is a book that you will not be able to put down if you are fan of horror, adventure and science fiction genres.

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Invasive

Chuck Wendig · 345 pages

On the isolated Kolohe Atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a charismatic billionaire employs a team of scientists to conduct cutting-edge research that he hopes will change the world. In a cabin on a remote lake in the Adirondacks, FBI futurist Hannah Stander finds a barely recognizable human body, which appears to have been skinned alive by thousands of genetically engineered ants. Hannah's

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Gone

Michael Grant · 567 pages

In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears.Gone.Everyone except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not a single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Gone, too, are the phones, internet, and television. There is no way to get help.Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new

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Tomb of Gods

Brian Moreland · 288 pages

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30 Days of Night

Steve Niles, Ben Templesmith · 252 pages

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House

Frank E. Peretti, Ted Dekker · 400 pages

The stakes of the game become clear when a tin can is tossed into the house with rules scrawled on it. Rules that only a madman―or worse―could have written. Rules that make no sense yet must be followed. One game. Seven players. Three rules. Game ends at dawn. *A mind-bending supernatural thriller from the creators of This Present Darkness and Saint. Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker―two of the

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The Woods Are Dark

Richard Laymon · 243 pages

A group of deformed, cannibalistic, humanoid creatures live in the woods...as some unlucky travelers are about to find out.

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The Pit and the Pendulum

Edgar Allan Poe · 59 pages

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The Girl with All the Gifts

M.R. Carey · 416 pages

Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh. Melanie loves school. She loves learning about spell

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Misery

William Goldman, Stephen King · 368 pages

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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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Alien³

Alan Dean Foster · 256 pages

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