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The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

H.P. Lovecraft · 406 pages

This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction must read: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions ...

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The Fisherman

John Langan · 282 pages

In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true. When Abe and Dan, two widowers who have found solace in each other's company and a shared passion for fishing, hear rumors of the Creek, and what might be found there

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The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson · 168 pages

The House on the Borderland is a supernatural horror novel by William Hope Hodgson. He went beyond the existing ghost story and gothic molds, synthesizing a new cosmic horror that made a huge impact on later writers of weird tales, notably H. P. Lovecraft. The two gentlemen Tonnison and Berreggnog head to a village in Ireland for a week's fishing. There they discover the ruins of a strange house a

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Southern Gods

John Hornor Jacobs · 270 pages

Recent World War II veteran Bull Ingram is working as muscle when a Memphis DJ hires him to find Ramblin' John Hastur. The mysterious blues man's dark, driving music broadcast at ever-shifting frequencies by a phantom radio station is said to make living men insane and dead men rise.

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From a Buick 8

Stephen King · 480 pages

The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was...wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanis

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The Three Impostors and Other Stories

Arthur Machen · 234 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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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski · 736 pages

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The Hollow Places

T. Kingfisher · 341 pages

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Call of Cthulhu: Horror Roleplaying

Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis · 192 pages

In honor of the 20th Anniversary of the award-winning Call Of Cthulhu RPG, Chaosium is proud to release a premium, bonded leather-bound edition of the core rulebook. This special limited edition features high-quality paper stock, a new interior layout designed to evoke that "ancient tome" look and feel, sienna ink, and a durable Smythe-sewn binding that collectively make this 300-page work of art

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Dagon and Other Macabre Tales

H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Sterling, Anna Helen Crofts, T.E.D. Klein · 318 pages

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Occultation and Other Stories

Laird Barron · 245 pages

Laird Barron has emerged as one of the strongest voices in modern horror and dark fantasy fiction, building on the eldritch tradition pioneered by writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub, and Thomas Ligotti. His stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year’s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Gui

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Teatro Grottesco

Thomas Ligotti · 312 pages

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Phantom Road Volume 1

Jeff Lemire · 132 pages

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The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death

H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffmann Price · 387 pages

This volume collects, for the first time, the entire Dream Cycle created by H. P. Lovecraft, the master of twentieth-century horror.

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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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Fatale, Book One: Death Chases Me

Ed Brubaker

Modern day reporter Nicolas Lash learns of a secret involving an ageless woman who has been on the run since the 1930s, while reporter Hank Raines meets the same woman in 1950s San Francisco.

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Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm

Mike Mignola · 156 pages

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The Trail of Cthulhu

August Derleth · 224 pages

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American Elsewhere

Robert Jackson Bennett · 681 pages

Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map: Wink, New Mexico. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she u

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Agents of Dreamland

Caitlin R. Kiernan · 126 pages

"A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptib

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Our Lady Of Darkness

Fritz Leiber · 190 pages

Our Lady of Darkness introduces San Francisco horror writer Franz Westen. While studying his beloved city through binoculars from his apartment window, he is astonished to see a mysterious figure waving at him from a hilltop two miles away. He walks to Corona Heights and looks back at his building, to discover the figure waving at him from his apartment window—and to find himself caught in a centu

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The Willows

Algernon Blackwood · 59 pages

After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On the big maps this deserted area is painted in a fluffy blue, growing fainter in color as it leaves th

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Lovecraft

Hans Rodionoff, Keith Giffen · 140 pages

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