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The fall of the House of Cabal
by Jonathan L Howard
When he comes into a possession of a vital clue that may lead him to the cure for dead, necromancer Johannes Cabal and his companion's vampiric brother, a devil and a criminologistùwalk into a trap of such arcane complexity that even the one who drew him there has no idea of its true terrors.
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| The Family Plot: A Novel by Cherie PriestAn old mansion near Chattanooga, TN, contains a goldmine of salvageable items, from marble mantelpieces to heart pine flooring to a chestnut staircase -- and that's not counting the outbuildings. Music City Salvage's owner Chuck Dutton pays $40,000 for the right to strip the entire property, and puts his daughter Dahlia in charge of the project. But soon they find human remains in a supposedly fake cemetery, the house's owner disappears, and the mansion displays signs that it has a will of its own -- an unfriendly one. The salvage crew are in danger -- but from what? Library Journal's starred review calls this contemporary haunted house tale an "irresistible mix of horror and home improvement." |
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| Mirror Image by Michael Scott and Melanie Ruth RoseLos Angeles antiques dealer Jonathan Frazer thinks he's gotten the deal of the millennium when he buys a huge, centuries-old mirror, but he thinks again when three of his employees die while restoring the piece. Then it starts showing him images of them and other dead people, and he realizes that it's up to him to free their souls. The darkly fantastic Mirror Image features gory sexual violence as well as other supernatural occurrences. Horror fans who don't mind the explicitly erotic aspects will appreciate the compelling writing and twisty plot. |
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Extreme makeover
by Dan Wells
A satirical tale of suspense by the best-selling author of I Am Not a Serial Killer follows the experiences of a scientist from a health and beauty company who is horrified to discover that his employer's new hand lotion is overwriting DNA.
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The casebook of Victor Frankenstein : a novel
by Peter Ackroyd
An unlikely friendship between a pair of nineteenth-century Oxford students including researcher Victor Frankenstein and poet Percy Bysshe Shelly is marked by disparate religious beliefs that lead to Victor's grisly experimentations with corpses.
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| Dead and Alive by Dean KoontzIn Dead and Alive, the 3rd book in Dean Koontz's Frankenstein series, Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans, threatening total chaos. Scientist Victor Frankenstein, 250 years old and now calling himself Helios, is planning to destroy humanity with his artificial humanoid monsters. But his first creation, who has renamed himself Deucalion, supports the humans, and he heads up an army of Victor's less successful creatures in a bid to derail his project. Though thoroughly science-fictional, Dead and Alive is also terrifying. You may want to start with book 1, Prodigal Son; the series continues through book 5, The Dead Town. |
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Monster
by Frank E. Peretti
During a hike into the beautiful, unspoiled wilderness of the Northwest woods to escape the noise and tumult of the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca come face to face with a mysterious and deadly creature that is out to destroy everything and everyone it encounters.
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| Chimera: A Jim Chapel Mission by David WellingtonIn author David Wellington's series launch Chimera, genetically modified super-soldiers called chimeras have gone out on a targeted killing spree, and a pair of top-level government officials order retired Special Forces veteran Jim Chapel to track down and kill the monsters. Accompanied by a beautiful veterinarian and a sexy hacker, he sets out on his assigned mission, but he wonders what's really behind the killing machines: is it a government conspiracy? Fans of fast-paced science fiction/horror blends will want to pick up Wellington's Jim Chapel series, which currently extends to three volumes. For more in this vein, try Jonathan Maberry's Joe Ledger novels, starting with Patient Zero. |
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Sense and sensibility and sea monsters
by Ben H. Winters
Following up on the success of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale that combines a Regency classic with monster mayhem, in which a Jane Austen novel is expanded with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents and other biological monstrosities.
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