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Wolf Worm

T. Kingfisher · 277 pages

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Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews · 352 pages

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Apartment 16

Adam Nevill · 466 pages

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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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Haunted

Chuck Palahniuk · 416 pages

Twenty-three stories chronicle the experiences of people who have answered an ad for an artist's retreat, believing that they will find a peaceful refuge, only to find themselves isolated and trapped in a cavernous old theater.

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Symbiont

Mira Grant

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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 4

Sui Ishida · 190 pages

Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Kaneki meets Shu Tsukiyama, known as The Gourmet for his

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Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica · 209 pages

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Uzumaki

Junji Ito · 653 pages

Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obs

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Herbert West: Reanimator

H.P. Lovecraft · 58 pages

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Brain Cheese Buffet

Edward Lee · 179 pages

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Juniper & Thorn

Ava Reid · 368 pages

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Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium

Clive Barker · 87 pages

"At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, the novella takes us into the heart of the legendary "first city" known as Primordium, the site of political upheaval, passionate encounters, and astonishing acts of transformation. Lurking at the edges of this extravagant tale is the ancient entity known as "Agonistes," who accepts the pleas of selected "Supplicants," transforming them

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The Grinding

Matt Dinniman

COMING IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2013 Six months ago, the world watched in horror as we lost an American city. The Grinder. That's what the survivors of Tucson called the monster. Just one touch, and they became a part of it. It used their bodies as limbs and as weapons. In just a matter of hours, it became huge, a towering monstrosity made entirely out of tens of thousands of people and animals. This isn

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Black Hole

Charles Burns · 368 pages

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area’s teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways — from the hideously grotesque to the subtle (and concealable) — but once you’ve got it, that’s it. There’s not turning back. As we inhabit the heads of several key characters — some kids who have

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Apeshit

Carlton Mellick III · 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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MPD Psycho, Vol. 1

Eiji Otsuka, Sho-u Tajima · 184 pages

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Parasyte, Volume 9

Hitoshi Iwaaki · 184 pages

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I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison · 178 pages

This is a story set in a post-apocalyptic future. The Cold War progressed until it was too complicated for humans to manage, so the three major superpowers each developed a computer program to help run the war. When one of the programs becomes sentient it eliminates all of the human race except five persons, which it tortures for eternity.

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The Jigsaw Man

Gord Rollo

Homeless Michael Fox is about to commit suicide when a mysterious billionaire surgeon stops him and offers him two million dollars...for his right arm. But Fox's arm is only the beginning, as the surgeon continues his mad experiments, removing parts of Fox's body bit by bit and reassembling him from other parts. And Fox isn't the only one the doctor is experimenting on.

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COWS

Matthew Stokoe · 192 pages

Twenty-five-year-old Steven faces a bleak life with a sadistic mother and a job at a slaughterhouse where he is confronted with extreme violence and death.

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The Island of Dr. Moreau

Herbert George Wells · 112 pages

Shipwrecked in the south Pacific Ocean, Englishman Edward Prendick awakens aboard a ship where a man named Montgomery and his beastly looking servant were transporting animal cargo. Soon, they arrive on an island and more and more of these bizarre humanlike creatures appear. Prendick senses a sinister secret to the island after he meets with the owner, a one Dr. Moreau...The Island of Doctor Morea

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