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Bad Games

Jeff Menapace · 260 pages

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The Summer I Died

Ryan C. Thomas · 216 pages

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The Bighead

Edward Lee · 292 pages

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Our Share of Night

Mariana Enriquez · 588 pages

Cult HorrorTortureHorrorDark
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The Acolyte

Nick Cutter

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Truck Stop

Jack Kilborn, J.A. Konrath

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Night Shift

Stephen King · 336 pages

Cult HorrorHorrorDarkSmall Town
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The Revelation

Bentley Little · 320 pages

Strange things are happening in the small town of Randall, Arizona. And as darkness falls, an itinerant preacher has arrived to spread a gospel of cataclysmic fury...And stranger things are yet to come...

Cult HorrorHorrorDarkSmall Town
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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

SlasherHorrorViolentDark
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Afraid

Jack Kilborn · 370 pages

A unit of soldiers modified to kill and torture without discrimination is accidentally sent to a small town in Wisconsin. The government sends in a variety of special forces to stop them from destroying the place, but the town's real hope of survival is with "an aging county sheriff, a firefighter, and a single mom."--Back cover.

TortureHorrorViolentDark
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Urban Gothic

Brian Keene · 276 pages

SlasherHorrorDarkViolent
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Crossed, Vol. 2: Family Values

David Lapham · 176 pages

TortureHorrorViolentDark
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Exquisite Corpse

Poppy Z. Brite · 244 pages

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed h

TortureHorrorViolentDark
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Brother

Ania Ahlborn · 329 pages

"Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it's served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don't knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what's buried in the Morrows' backyard. But nineteen-year-old Michael Morrow isn't like the rest of his family. He doesn't take pl

TortureHorrorViolentDark
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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

TortureHorrorDarkViolent
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Return to the Black Farm

Elias Witherow · 264 pages

TortureHorrorDarkViolent
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Diary

Chuck Palahniuk · 272 pages

Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, she's now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking too much and working as a waitress in a hotel. Her husband, a contractor, is in a coma after a suicide attempt, but that doesn't stop his clients from threatening Misty with lawsuits over a series of vile messages they've found on the walls of houses he remodeled.Suddenly, though, Misty

Cult HorrorHorrorDarkSmall Town
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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

Hunted For SportHorrorViolentDark
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Clive Barker's Hellraiser Vol. 1

Clive Barker, Christopher Monfette · 128 pages

TortureHorrorDarkViolent
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Audition

Ryu Murakami · 204 pages

TortureHorrorDarkViolent
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Teratologist

Edward Lee, Wrath James White · 150 pages

TortureHorrorDarkViolent
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Lychee Light Club

Usamaru Furuya

A group of depraved students form a secret, fascist organization and attempt to create an intelligent robot powered by lychees.

TortureHorrorDarkViolent
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Savage Son: A Thriller

Jack Carr · 432 pages

Hunted For SportTortureViolentDark
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