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The passage : a novel
by Justin Cronin
Rendered a latest test subject in a covert government experiment, abandoned six-year-old Amy is rescued by an FBI agent who hides them in the Oregon hills, from which she emerges a century later to save the human race from a terrifying virus. By the award-winning author of Mary and O'Neil.
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Let the right one in
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
In the aftermath of the bizarre murder of a local bully, twelve-year-old Oskar theorizes that the killing was an act of revenge and wonders about the nighttime activities of a new next-door neighbor
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Kill creek
by Scott Thomas
After reluctantly agreeing to spend Halloween night in a haunted house at the end of a dark prairie road in Kansas, Sam McGarver, along with three other masters of horror, unknowingly awaken an entity that will stop at nothing to make them part of the Kill Creek legacy
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White is for witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
Suffering from pica, a malady that causes her to eat nonedible items, sixteen-year-old Miranda helps to run the family bed-and-breakfast while witnessing her community's hostilities toward outsiders, a malice that erupts in violent and destructive ways
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Survivor Song : A Novel
by Paul Tremblay
When Massachusetts is overrun by a rabies-like virus that is incurable an hour after infection, a soft-spoken pediatrician navigates apocalyptic obstacles to get a vaccine to her eight-months pregnant friend. By the award-winning author of Growing Things.
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Zone one : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies, survivor efforts to rebuild are focused on Manhattan, where civilian Mark Spitz works to eliminate infected stragglers and remembers his experiences at the height of the zombie plague
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The little stranger
by Sarah Waters
This New York Times best-selling ghost story describes a fateful visit by rural physician Dr. Faraday to the Ayres family’s decaying, but once great, Georgian house, who finds them haunted by something worse than their dying way of life. Reprint. A best-selling novel.
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City infernal
by Edward Lee
When her twin sister commits suicide, Cassie discovers that she has the power to travel to Hell, a fiery city filled with skyscrapers, busy streets, evil, and violence, and journeys to this dark metropolis to save her sister, encountering sights that will haunt her forever. Original.
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My best friend's exorcism : a novel
by Grady Hendrix
After witnessing a series of strange incidents combined with her best friend's increasingly bizarre behavior, 1980s high schooler, Abby, comes to the conclusion that Gretchen has become possessed by a demon and embarks on a quest to save her.
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We sold our souls
by Grady Hendrix
A has-been heavy metal artist discovers that her failed band's lead singer sold their souls in a Faustian exchange for his solo-career fame and fortune. By the award-winning author of Horrorstör
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The southern book club's guide to slaying vampires : A Novel
by Grady Hendrix
When her hectic but predictable life is upended by a vicious attack by an elderly local, Patricia unexpectedly bonds with a well-read neighbor who her senile mother-in-law claims to have known herself when she was a girl.
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The Ballad of Black Tom
by Victor D. LaValle
.In jazz age New York City, Charles Thomas Tester delivers an occult book to a reclusive sorceress in Queens that opens the door to deeper realm of magic, and in the process gets the unwanted attention of things that should not be disturbed.
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
This genre-defining supernatural tale by the author of The Lottery describes four people who arrive for an unwelcome stay at a haunted house is part of a new collection of classic horror tales curated by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro. 35,000 first printing.
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NOS4A2 : a novel
by Joe Hill
When Charles Talent Manx, an unstoppable monster who transforms children into his own terrifying likeness, kidnaps her son, Victoria McQueen, the only person to ever escape his unmitigated evil, must engage in a life-and-death battle of wills to get her son back. 200,000 first printing.
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The Only Good Indians : A Novel
by Stephen Graham Jones
Four American Indian men, who shared a disturbing event during their youth, are hunted down years later by an entity bent on revenge that forces them to revisit the culture and traditions they left behind.
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Mongrels
by Stephen Graham Jones
Enduring a hardscrabble, marginalized existence with his impoverished family outside of a society that does not understand or want him, a young boy travels in the night to escape legal harassment while his family watches diligently to see if he will display the same differences that have shaped their unusual lives. 50,000 first printing.
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Mexican Gothic
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
A reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets of an isolated mansion. By the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow.
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Jaws : a novel
by Peter Benchley
When three people are killed by a great white shark in three different incidents, the police chief of a Long Island resort town is forced to take action.
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The natural way of things
by Charlotte Wood
"Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls....In each girl's pastis a sexual scandal with a powerful man. The Natural Way of Things is a gripping, starkly imaginative exploration of contemporary misogyny and corporate control, and of what it means to hunt and be hunted. Most of all, it is the story of two friends, their sisterly love and courage."--Author's website
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The haunting of Sunshine girl. Book one
by Paige McKenzie
Moving from Texas to Washington, Sunshine, an adopted sixteen-year-old, discovers that her new home is haunted and that the ghosts may have revelations about her past
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
Deeply unsettling, this novel about a perverse, isolated and possibly murderous family follows their dramatic struggle with the arrival of a unexpected visitor who interrupts their unusual way of life.
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The devil in silver : a novel
by Victor D. LaValle
Landing in a budget-strapped mental institution after being accused of a crime he does not remember, self-proclaimed hero Pepper is assaulted by a monstrous creature that has been attacking patients but that the hospital staff does not believe exists, a situation that compels Pepper to rally three fellow inmates in a fight for survival. 15,000 first printing.
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Cujo
by Stephen King
A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster
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Fledgling
by Octavia E. Butler
Shori, a seemingly young, amnesiac girl with frightening inhuman abilities and a thirst for blood, wanders the land, unaware that she is really a genetically altered, fifty-three-year-old vampire with a unique ability to walk in the light of day and that she is the only survivor of a brutal attack on her community, searching for who wants to destroy her.
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Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
When Dr Henry Jekyll dares to explore the delicate balance between good and evil, he little suspects the destructive powers he will unleash.
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Hex
by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight
An expelled biology PhD candidate researches the fine line between poisons and antidotes at the side of her adored mentor before their respective dysfunctional relationships, desires and ambitions trigger ripple effects throughout a university campus.
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The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
In D.C. to shoot a film, adored film star Chris MacNeil finds her stay turning into a nightmare when her young daughter, Regan, is possessed by the devil and must endure a brutal exorcism.
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The cabin at the end of the world : a novel
by Paul Tremblay
A twist on the home-invasion horror story follows the experiences of a 7-year-old girl whose family is taken hostage in a remote cabin by men who are either the world's defenders or deranged apocalypse fanatics. 50,000 first printing.
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Infidel
by Pornsak Pichetshote
Tells the tale of an American Muslim woman and her multiracial neighbors who are haunted by monsters that feed on xenophobia
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The Ritual
by Adam L. G. Nevill
Unexpectedly clashing with his three old University friends while hiking in the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, Luke takes a shortcut that leads the group to an ancient pagan sacrificial site where they are hunted by a bestial predator. Original. 40,000 first printing.
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Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
When the daughter of an enigmatic cult horror film director is found dead in an abandoned Manhattan warehouse, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath, disbelieving the official suicide ruling, probes into the strange circumstances of the young woman's death while being drawn into the director's eerie world. By the author of Special Topics in Calamity Physics.
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It : a novel
by Stephen King
It began--and ended--in 1958 when seven children searched in the drains beneath Derry for an evil creature, but in 1985, Mike, once one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultimate terror
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The Troop
by Nick Cutter
Leading a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a traditional weekend camping trip, scoutmaster Tim Riggs encounters a disturbing, voraciously hungry intruder in the woods who infects the troop with a bioengineered disease.
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The terror : a novel
by Dan Simmons
Captain Crozier must find a way for his crew to survive the deadly attacks of a mysterious and insatiable sea monster that is stalking the men trapped in the Arctic ice, in a novel loosely based on the mid-nineteenth-century Arctic expedition originally led by Sir John Franklin. 75,000 first printing.
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Frankenstein in Baghdad : a novel
by Amad Sa'dw
Hadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city.
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Baby teeth
by Zoje Stage
An ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature
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Devour
by Kurt Anderson
Fishing boat captain Brian Hawkins goes after the biggest catch of the century when a casino cruise ship carrying high-stakes passengers—and a top-secret cargo—falls under the attack of a massive predator that rises from the sea in search of human prey.
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The Amityville horror
by Jay Anson
Provides a chilling account account of the four weeks of terror experienced by an Amityville, Long Island, family after moving into a house in which a particularly gruesome mass murder had once been committed. Reissue.
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The graveyard apartment
by Mariko Koike
After moving to a new apartment complex next to a cemetery, a young Japanese family experiences strange and terrifying occurrences that send the other residents fleeing their homes, ultimately leaving them alone with a dark, evil something, or someone, residing in the basement.
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Scary stories to tell in the dark : the complete 3-book collection!
by Alvin Schwartz
Collects tales from the oral traditions of American folklore, these ghost stories and tales of weird happenings, witches, and graveyards have startling, funny, or surprising endings
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Frankenstein, or, The modern Prometheus
by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mary Shelly's classic tale of terror is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life into a creature that he has constructed from corpses he finds.
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Quarantine
by Lex Thomas
Lord of the Flies meets The Breakfast Club
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The dark descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
by Kiersten White
The events of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein unfold from the perspective of Elizabeth Lavenza, who is taken in by the Frankensteins as a companion for their son Victor and whose survival depends on managing his temper and entertaining his every whim
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Scythe
by Neal Shusterman
"A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe-a role that neither wants. These teens must master the 'art' of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing their own. Scythe is the first novel of a thrilling newseries by National Book Award-winning author Neal Shusterman in which Citra and Rowan learn that a perfect world comes only with a heavy price"
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Bent heavens
by Daniel Kraus
Fed up with her missing father’s delusions about alien abductions, Liv endeavors to destroy her father’s “alien traps,” before an astonishing discovery forces Liv and her friend, Doug, to make an impossible choice. By the award-winning author of Trollhunters.
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