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At the Mountains of Madness

H.P. Lovecraft · 185 pages

Introduction by China MievilleLong acknowledged as a master of nightmarish visions, H. P. Lovecraft established the genuineness and dignity of his own pioneering fiction in 1931 with his quintessential work of supernatural horror, At the Mountains of Madness. The deliberately told and increasingly chilling recollection of an Antarctic expedition's uncanny discoveries--and their encounter with unto

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What Stalks the Deep

T. Kingfisher · 179 pages

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John Dies at the End

David Wong · 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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Lovecraft's Monsters

Ellen Datlow · 432 pages

"This deliriously affectionate tribute to the master of horror features riveting stories paired with incomparable illustrations of his wicked progeny. Celebrating Lovecraft's most famous beasts in all their grotesque glory, each story is a gripping new take on a classic mythos creature"--provided by publisher.

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Skeleton crew

Stephen King · 573 pages

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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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B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 1: New World

Mike Mignola, John Arcudi · 144 pages

Our heroes face new horrors as they investigate small town vanishings, wild monsters in the woods, and a strange new creature that arrives to create hell on earth. Written by Mike Mignola and John Arcudi, and drawn by 2009 Eisner Award-winner Guy Davis (The Marquis), B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: New World marks the beginning of a new era in horror!

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B.P.R.D.: Plague of Frogs 4

Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Guy Davis · 456 pages

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Maplecroft

Cherie Priest

Lizzie Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks; and when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one.... The people of Fall River, Massachusetts, fear me. Perhaps rightfully so. I remain a suspect in the brutal deaths of my father and his second wife despite the verdict of innocence at my trial. With our inheritance, my sister, Emma, and I have taken up residence in Ma

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Peter Clines · 469 pages

Padlocked doors. Strange light fixtures. Mutant cockroaches. There are some odd things about Nate’s new apartment. Of course, he has other things on his mind. He hates his job. He has no money in the bank. No girlfriend. No plans for the future. So while his new home isn’t perfect, it’s livable. The rent is low, the property managers are friendly, and the odd little mysteries don’t nag at hi

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Alan Moore's the Courtyard

Alan Moore, Jacen Burrows, Anthony Johnston · 56 pages

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Providence ACT 1

Alan Moore · 352 pages

Alan Moore's quintessential horror series has set the standard for a terrifying examination of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. It is being universally hailed as one of Moore's most realized works in which the master scribe has controlled every iota of the story, art, and presentation. The result has been a masterpiece like no other, unparalleled in tone and content, and a true must have addition to h

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The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson · 168 pages

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house a

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Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer · 195 pages

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges of human civilization. The twelfth expedition arrives expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers. They discover a massive topographic anomaly and life-forms that surpass understanding. But it's the surprises that came across the border with them, and the secrets the expedition members are

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The Trail of Cthulhu

August Derleth · 224 pages

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That Which Should Not Be

Brett J. Talley

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The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

Laird Barron · 280 pages

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The Children of Cthulhu

Steve Rasnic Tem, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Weston Ochse, China Mieville, Brian Hodge, Matt Cardin, James Robert Smith, James Van Pelt, L.H. Maynard, M.P.N Sims, Richard Laymon, Mark Chadbourn, Yvonne Navarro, Paul Finch, Alan Dean Foster, J. Michael Reaves, Meredith L. Patterson, Poppy Z. Brite, W.H. Pug · 480 pages

Drawn from H.P. Lovecraft's horrifying and eerily prophetic Cthulhu mythos, an anthology of stories features contributions by Poppy Z. Brite, James S. Dorr, Paul Finch, Yvonne Navarro, James Van Pelt, and Michael Reaves.

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The Book of Cthulhu

Ross E. Lockhart · 529 pages

"The Cthulhu Mythos is one of the 20th century''s most singularly recognizable literary creations. Initially created by H. P. Lovecraft and a group of his amorphous contemporaries (the so-called "Lovecraft Circle"), The Cthulhu Mythos story cycle has taken on a convoluted, cyclopean life of its own. Some of the most prodigious writers of the 20th century, and some of the most astounding writers of

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Cthulhurotica

Cody Goodfellow, Kenneth Hite, K.V. Taylor, Don Pizarro, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Kirsten Brown, Steven J. Scearce, Gabrielle Harbowy, Matthew Marovich, Richard Baron, Nathan Crowder, Travis King, Maria Mitchell · 340 pages

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The Book of Cthulhu II

Laird Barron, Molly Tanzer, Elizabeth Bear, Sarah Monette, John R. Fultz, Paul Tobin, William Browning Spencer, Kim Newman, Christopher Reynaga, Gord Sellar, Michael Chabon, Mark Samuels, Matt Wallace, Stanley C. Sargent, Orrin Grey, Karl Edward Wagner, Neil Gaiman, Cody Goodfellow, Caitlin R. Kiern · 426 pages

"When Night shade books unleashed The book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world, it was critically acclaimed as "the ultimate Cthulhu anthology" and "a 'must read' for fans of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos," The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to the very edge of madness... and beyond. For nearly a century, H. P. Lovecraft's tales of malevolent Great Old One

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The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price · 387 pages

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror.

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The Fisherman

John Langan · 282 pages

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there

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