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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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American Monsters

Derek Landy

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World After

Susan Ee · 336 pages

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Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 1

Gege Akutami

The athletic Yuji Itadori chooses to spend his time with members of the Occult Research Club, who unseal a cursed object.

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The Rising

Brian Keene · 330 pages

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The Hellbound Heart

Clive Barker · 164 pages

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I Am Alice

Joseph Delaney · 448 pages

"Alice Dean's destiny is intertwined with Tom Ward's. But he's going to be the next Spook, and she's a witch--possibly the most powerful one the county has ever seen. To rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice will venture into the depths of the dark"-- Alice is a witch. possibly the most powerful the County has ever seen, and to rid the world of its greatest evil, the Fiend, Alice v

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The Devil's Detective

Simon Kurt Unsworth · 289 pages

Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloging and filing reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that flows through Hell. His job holds no reward or satisfaction, because Hell has rules but no justice. Each new crime is stamped "Do Not Investigate" and dutifully filed away in the depths of the Bureaucracy. But when an important political delegation arriv

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House Infernal

Edward Lee · 369 pages

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The Merciless III: Origins of Evil

Danielle Vega · 312 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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Execution

Alexander Gordon Smith · 339 pages

Alex Sawyer has escaped his underground nightmare to discover that the whole world has become a horrible prison run by his nemesis, Alfred Furnace, and only Alex can stop him, even if that makes him the executioner.

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Piercing the Darkness

Frank E. Peretti · 448 pages

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 (ESV) It all begins in Bacon’s corner, a tiny farming community far from the interstate. An attempted murder, a suspicious case of mistaken identity, and a ruthless lawsuit against a struggling Christian school threaten the peace of the small town. Sally Beth Roe, a young loner, finds herself in the middle of even

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Anna Dressed in Blood

Kendare Blake

For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.

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Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman · 456 pages

And Lucifer said: “Let us rise against Him now in all our numbers, and pull the walls of heaven down…” The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm—that the fallen angels under Lucifer are rising in

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Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 2

Clive Barker, Christopher Monfette · 128 pages

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The Dead Take the A Train

Cassandra Khaw · 391 pages

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Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft

Joe Hill · 158 pages

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...

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Black Blood

Christopher Pike · 196 pages

Surviving through countless centuries, Alisa is beautiful, strong and deadly. Alisa has long been hiding a dark and deadly secret, but it seems that someone is finally onto her. When a private investigator is hired to delve into Alisa's personal affairs, her shocking true age and untraceable fortune are uncovered.

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Berserk, Vol. 3

Kentaro Miura · 240 pages

Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, finishes his desperate battle with the monstrous Count, cutting and blasting him to gory scraps when the presence of the Count's daughter makes the monster hesitate. But Guts won't even have the time to clean his gigantic sword when the Count's dying pleas activate the Behelit, summoning the five God Hands, demon lords of immeasurable power. Guts' journey so far h

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The Laughing Corpse

Laurell K. Hamilton · 320 pages

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Sunglasses After Dark

Nancy A. Collins

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The Devil's Only Friend

Dan Wells · 304 pages

John Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: They've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can...but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full-scale supernatural war. John doesn't want the life he's stuck

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The Fallen

Charlie Higson · 517 pages

The Enemy is among us . . .First the sickness rotted the adults' minds. Then their bodies. Now they stalk the streets of London, hunting human flesh. The Holloway crew are survivors. They've fought their way across the city and made it to the Natural History Museum alive--just barely. But their fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there's another way. The Holloway crew has made it t

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