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Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween
by David J. Skal
A cultural critic and author of Hollywood Gothic offers an in-depth study of one of America's most popular and complex holidays, tracing its history back to Celtic lore and legend, and explaining how it has evolved into its current form, and exploring its various traditions, rituals, and religious significance.
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The Family Plot
by Cherie Priest
When a potentially lucrative historic property is offered to her father's salvaging company, Dahlia is alarmed when graves are found on the property and the estate's owner goes missing just as a series of bizarre events reveal that the crew is being targeted by hostile forces. By the author of Boneshaker.
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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.
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The Turn of the Screw, and Other Short Novels
by Henry James
A collection of short novels includes the title work, a chilling classic of psychological terror, as well as "Daisy Miller," "The Aspern Papers," "An International Episode," "The Altar of the Dead," and "The Beast of the Jungle."
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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter
by Stephen Graham Jones
In 1912, a Lutheran pastor documents the chilling confessions of Good Stab, a Blackfeet vampire seeking justice for a historical massacre, intertwining themes of revenge, survival and haunting truths on the Blackfeet reservation.
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The Cloisters: A Novel
by Katy Hays
Assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden, curatorial associate Ann Stilwell becomes obsessed with the history of fortune-telling after discovering a hidden 15th-century deck of tarot cards that might hold the key to predicting the future, blurring the line between the modern and the arcane.
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The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix
A real-life“final girl”— the one girl always left standing at the end of a horror movie— Lynette Tarkington, who survived a massacre 22 years ago, along with five other final girls, works to overcome her past until someone becomes determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.
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And Then There Were None
by Agatha Christie
A killer stalks a group of ten total strangers on an isolated island off the Devon coast, in a suspenseful story of murder and retribution, set to a sinister nursery rhyme.
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
by Max Brooks
An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors--soldiers, politicians, civilians, and others--who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. By the author of The Zombie Survival Guide.
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Hallowe'en Party
by Agatha Christie
Hercule Poirot investigates the death of a girl who shortly before her death had claimed to have seen a murder being committed
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The Starving Saints: A Novel
by Caitlin Starling
A medieval horror novel follows three women in a besieged castle that descends ravenously into madness under the spell of mysterious, godlike visitors.
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The Hollow Places: A Novel
by T. Kingfisher
A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle's house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel from the author of the "innovative, unexpected, and absolutely chilling" (Mira Grant, Nebula Award-winning author) The Twisted Ones. Pray they are hungry. Kara finds the words in the mysterious bunker that she's discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle's house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring this peculiar area-only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts...and the more one fears them, the stronger they become. With her distinctive "delightfully fresh and subversive" (SF Bluestocking) prose and the strange, sinister wonder found in Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, The Hollow Places is another compelling and white-knuckled horror novel that you won't be able to put down.
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Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries. A first novel.
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