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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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Dreamcatcher

Stephen King · 870 pages

Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry, four boys stood together and did a brave thing. It was something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand. Twenty-five years after saving a Down's-syndrome kid from bullies, Beav, Henry, Pete, and Jonesy -- now men with separate lives and separate problems -- reunite in the woods of Maine for their annual hunting trip. But wh

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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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Attack on Titan, Vol. 1

Hajime Isayama · 200 pages

The megahit Attack on Titan anime is back! In this post-apocalyptic sci-fi story, humanity has been devastated by the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming mankind. Seemingly unintelligent, they have roamed the world for years, killing everyone they see. For the past century, what's left of man has hidden in a

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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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Don't Let the Forest In

C.G. Drews · 352 pages

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The Final Descent

Rick Yancey · 320 pages

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Crossed, Vol. 2: Family Values

David Lapham · 176 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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The Infection

Craig DiLouie · 286 pages

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Spread, Vol. 1: No Hope

Justin Jordan

"An all-consuming ecosystem like nothing we've seen on earth: The Spread. For ten years it has twisted our planet into its own warped image. Now, one man has found the key that could save the world, but in his path are monsters, raiders, cannibals, fanatics and one cranky baby."--Back cover of Volume 1.

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The Conqueror Worms

Brian Keene · 326 pages

Detective Sergeant Stella Mooney is back on the case, this time on the trail of a vicious serial killer.

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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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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson · 169 pages

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

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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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Little Heaven

Nick Cutter · 579 pages

A trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman to evaluate the safety of a boy who may have been taken against his will to a New Mexico backwoods settlement, where the mercenaries encounter paranoia, mistrust, and insanity in the shadow of a monolithic idol.

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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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Domain

James Herbert · 412 pages

Man versus rat—the balance of power has shifted The long-dreaded nuclear conflict has come. The city is torn apart and its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets—if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that

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Flesh

Richard Laymon · 336 pages

No one in town has ever seen anything like it: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your flesh—but what it makes you do to others.

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Parasyte, Volume 9

Hitoshi Iwaaki · 184 pages

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Alien: Out of the Shadows

Tim Lebbon · 304 pages

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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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Fiend

Peter Stenson · 295 pages

When Chase sees the little girl in umbrella socks savaging the Rottweiler, he's not too concerned. As someone who's been smoking meth every day for as long as he can remember, he's no stranger to such horrifying, drug-fuelled hallucinations. But, as he and his fellow junkies discover, the little girl is no illusion. The end of the world really has arrived. And with Chase's life already destroyed b

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Dead Sea

Tim Curran · 328 pages

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