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Hemlock Grove

Brian McGreevy · 319 pages

"An epic, original reinvention of the Gothic novel, taking the characters of our greatest novels, myths, and nightmares - the werewolf, the vampire, Frankenstein - and reimagining them for our time"--

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Bad Moon Rising

Jonathan Maberry · 544 pages

A new master of terror reigns supreme. And in his most horrifying novel yet, the clash between good and evil explodes in an apocalyptic showdown few will survive… From A Funfest…Each year, the residents of Pine Deep host the Halloween Festival, drawing tourists and celebrities from across the country to enjoy the deliciously creepy fun. Those who visit the small Pennsylvania town are out for a goo

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High Moor

Graeme Reynolds · 368 pages

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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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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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Cycle of the Werewolf

Stephen King · 128 pages

When the full moon shines, a paralysing fear descends on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next, but snarls that sound like human words can be heard and all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated. (Source: http://www.amazon.com/Cycle-Werewolf-Signet-Stephen-King/dp/0451822196)

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The Howling

Gary Brandner · 191 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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Those Across the River

Christopher Buehlman · 352 pages

Moving to rural Georgia, a failed academic plans to write a history of his family's old plantation and the horrors that occurred there but instead discovers a sense of unspoken dread among the townspeople and a long-standing debt of blood.

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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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Circus of the Damned

Laurell K. Hamilton · 328 pages

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Crimson

Gord Rollo · 326 pages

The citizens of the Canadian town of Davinsport, Ontario, are no strangers to fear. Evil has walked their streets before, leaving in its wake a legacy of murder, and mad-ness. No one likes to talk about it anymore, and most people have managed to convince themselves it never really happened, but secrecy and denial can only hide the truth for so long. Evil can wait forever. By 1967, what had happen

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The Academy

Bentley Little · 391 pages

Here’s one good reason for staying home from school. . . Something strange is happening at Tyler High. The laid-back principal has become unusually strict. The janitors no longer work nights because of what they hear. The students are frightened by what they see. And things are happening on school grounds that defy rational explanation. But there is an explanation. It’s just nothing that anyone ca

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The Wolfen

Whitley Strieber · 252 pages

Probably one of the most terrifying books I have ever read. If you want a nighttime scare, this is the one. Don't read it alone on any dark and scary night. Loved it.

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Creepshow

Stephen King, Bernie Wrightson · 64 pages

**CREEPSHOW - STEPHEN KING EM QUADRINHOS É MUITO DARKSIDE®** Por Stephen King e Bernie Wrightson. Adaptado do filme de George A. Romero. Tudo começou em 1982. King juntou forças com outro gênio das sombras, o diretor George A. Romero (A Noite dos Mortos-Vivos), para realizarem um filme inspirado em quadrinhos clássicos dos anos 1950, como Contos da Cripta, da EC Comics. O longa-metragem m

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The Halloween Man

Douglas Clegg · 359 pages

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Cold Moon Over Babylon

Michael McDowell · 256 pages

16-year-old Margaret Larkin is found murdered: tied to her own bicycle and drown in the Styx River where her parents died in an accident ten years before. Her murderer, wealthy and insane Nathan Redfield, believes he got away with the crime. But soon he begins to see not only the ghost of Margaret, but other watery spirits that pursue him. The fever of a guilty conscience? Encroaching insanity? Or

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Cry for the Strangers

John Saul · 320 pages

Clark's Harbor was the perfect coastal haven, jealously guarded against outsiders. But now strangers have come to settle there. And a small boy is suddenly free of a frenzy that had gripped him since birth... His sister is haunted by fearful visions... And one by one, in violent, mysterious ways the strangers are dying. Never the townspeople. Only the strangers. Has a dark bargain been struck be

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Covenant

John Everson · 307 pages

In a small town with a strange history of teen suicides, a group of five women have made a pact with a demon and must sacrifice their firstborn.

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Rachel Rising, Volume 3: Cemetery Songs

Terry Moore

Dark forces are at work in Manson. The relentless snow falls like a body count and the town in infested with rats. It's all the work of Lilith as she brings judgement to the town that persecuted her 300 years ago. Only Rachel and Jet can stop the ageless witch, but Rachel is struggling to recall her powers and Jet is lying frozen in a morgue. The body count is rising in Cemetery Songs. Collect

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The Devil Crept In

Ania Ahlborn · 384 pages

"--a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance of his cousin and uncovers a terrifying secret kept hidden for years. Young Jude Brighton has been missing for three days, and while the search for him is in full swing in the small town of Deer Valley, Oregon, the locals are starting to lose hope. They're well aware that the first forty-eight hours are critical and after that, the odds

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Floating Dragon

Peter Straub · 595 pages

The seemingly typical commuter town of Hampstead suffers from a mysterious horror.

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B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth, Vol. 6: The Return of the Master

Mike Mignola, John Arcudi · 160 pages

A rogue scientist who escaped the bloody massacre in B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: Russia assembles a paranormal cult bent on world destruction. Can an elite B.P.R.D. task force hunt down the mad Russian's stronghold in time, or will monsters overwhelm a world already teetering on the edge of apocalypse? Plus: The Nazis from Hellboy: Seed of Destruction fight to bring back Rasputin!

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