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The Cellar

Richard Laymon · 255 pages

Tourists flock to Beast House, but few ever return. Behind the cellar door lurks a creature of pure evil.

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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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Dark Hollow

Brian Keene · 384 pages

Strange things are happening in the rural community of LeHorn's Hollow. Women are disappearing overnight, mysterious fires are seen in the woods, and eerie piping music is heard. The ancient god Pan has been summoned to Earth!

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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 Lake of Souls

Darren Shan · 282 pages

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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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Lair

James Herbert · 256 pages

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Attack on Titan, Volume 20

Hajime Isayama

"FACING ANNIHILATION. The Survey Corps's quest for the truth of the world inside the Walls has brought them back to Titan-infested Shiganshina District, a mere stone's throw from Eren's childhood home. They have come to execute Erwin's final gambit, reclaiming Wall Maria and the secrets of humanity's past. But the Colossus Titan, the Armored Titan, and the Beast Titan have been waiting for them, a

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Mile 81

Stephen King · 70 pages

At Mile 81 on the Maine Turnpike is a boarded-up rest stop, a place where high school kids drink and get into the kind of trouble high school kids have always gotten into. It's the place where Pete Simmons, armed only with the magnifying glass he got for his tenth birthday, finds a discarded bottle of vodka in the boarded up burger shack and drinks enough to pass out. Not much later, a mud-covered

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The Great and Secret Show

Clive Barker · 688 pages

To possess the greatest power of all, the Art, two man-spirits are preparing to fight using their mortal offspring. But an innocent passion between two of the children escalates the war to a new ferocity. Book One in a new three-volume series from master horror author Clive Barker.

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Nocturnal

Scott Sigler · 566 pages

Experiencing vivid dreams about serial murders taking place in San Francisco, homicide detective Bryan Clauser fears he is losing his sanity and discovers a link between the victims and a young boy who is gripped by the same nightmares.

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Slugs

Shaun Hutson

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Trapped

Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath · 330 pages

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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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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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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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The Funhouse

Dean Koontz · 326 pages

Years after leaving the carnival, her hated first husband, and the child she could never love, Ellen has a new life, a new husband, and two beautiful children, but now the carnival is coming back to town, and Ellen is going to have to pay for her sins.

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House Infernal

Edward Lee · 369 pages

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This Savage Song

Victoria Schwab · 448 pages

**KATE HARKER** wants to be as ruthless as her father. After five years and six boarding schools, she's finally going home to prove that she can be. **AUGUST FLYNN** wants to be human. But he isn't. He's a monster, one that can steal souls with a song. He's one of the three most powerful monsters in a city overrun with them. His own father's secret weapon. **THEIR CITY IS DIVIDED.** **THE

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Sunglasses After Dark

Nancy A. Collins

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The Isle of Blood

Rick Yancey · 557 pages

When Dr. Warthrop goes hunting for the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" in 1888, twelve-year-old orphan Will Henry follows him to Socotra, plunging into depths of horror worse than anything he has experienced so far.

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Tomb of Gods

Brian Moreland · 288 pages

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Snow

Ronald Malfi

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Midnight's Lair

Richard Kelly, Richard Laymon · 286 pages

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