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American Elsewhere

Robert Jackson Bennett - Orbit
Format: Paperback

Some places are too good to be true.Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. 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...
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Those Across the River

Christopher Buehlman - Ace Books
Format: Hardcover

Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors...
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Dead Men's Boots

Mike Carey - Grand Central
Format: Print book

You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor. A brutal murder in King's Cross bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer,...
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The Darkling: A Novel

R. B. Chesterton - Pegasus Crime
Format: Hardcover

When the Henderson family takes in a mysterious teenager, they are happy to have a new addition to the family, but it soon becomes clear that Annie is no regular orphan... In the 1940s, Coden, Alabama was a hideaway for movie stars - an isolated playground tucked among live oaks and placid...
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Neverland

Douglas Clegg - Vanguard Press
Format: Book

From Douglas Clegg, New York Times bestselling author of Isis, comes a southern gothic tale of family secrets and games of innocence turned to darkness. For years, the Jackson family has vacationed at Rowena Wandigaux Lee's old Victorian house on Gull Island, a place of superstition...
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The Magdalena Curse

F.G. Cottam - Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

It only takes a couple of visits to convince Dr. Elizabeth Bancroft that Adam Hunter is not just having bad dreams. He's a child possessed. His father is desperate: adamant that his son's affliction is the result of a curse he incurred in the depths of the Amazon, where a badly misguided...
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The Passage

Justin Cronin - Wheeler/Gale Cengage Learning
Format: Large Print Hardcover

""It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born."" First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos...
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Ash

James Herbert - Tor
Format: Hardcover

Deep in the countryside, ghost hunter David Ash is investigating a mysterious, secluded stately home. Reports from locals regarding strange goings-on make him think the house is haunted... But not even David Ash's long professional history of warding off evil spirits can prepare him for the shocking...
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NOS4A2: A Novel

Joe Hill - William Morrow
Format: Print book

NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions....
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The Uninvited

Liz Jensen - Bloomsbury
Format: Print book

A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother's neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh...
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Darkness on the Edge of Town

Brian Keene - Leisure Books
Format: Print book

One morning the residents of Walden, Virginia, woke up to find the rest of the world gone. Just . . . gone. Surrounding their town was a wall of inky darkness, plummeting Walden into permanent night. Nothing can get in - not light, not people, not even electricity, radio, TV, internet,...
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Sparrow Rock

Nate Kenyon - Leisure Books
Format: Paperback

No missing pages, Water Damage, or stains. Spine shows creasing. This is a readable copy.
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Edge of Dark Water

Joe R. Lansdale - Mulholland Books/Little
Format: Print book

Mark Twain meets classic Stephen King--a bold new direction for widely acclaimed Edgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale.May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River.Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage...
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Little Star: A Novel

John Ajvide Lindqvist - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

"Establishes Lindqvist as Sweden's Stephen King."--The Washington Post on HarborJohn Ajvide Lindqvist has been crowned the heir apparent to Stephen King by numerous sources, and he is heralded around the globe as one of the most spectacularly talented horror writers...
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Last Days

Adam Nevill - St. Martin's Press
Format: Paperback

Last Days (winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel of the Year) by Adam Nevill is a Blair Witch style novel in which a documentary film-maker undertakes the investigation of a dangerous cult -- with creepy consequencesWhen guerrilla documentary maker,...
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Red Moon: A Novel

Benjamin Percy - Grand Central Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Award -winning author Benjamin Percy presents an explosive and deeply layered literary thriller set in the American West. They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.They change.When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents,...
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The Demonologist: A Novel

Andrew Pyper - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

**WINNER OF THE 2014 THRILLER AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL** Fans of The Historian won't be able to put down this spellbinding literary horror story in which a Columbia professor must use his knowledge of demonic mythology to rescue his daughter from the Underworld.Professor David Ullman...
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The Birthing House: A Novel

Christopher Ransom - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

It was expecting them.Conrad and Joanna Harrison, a young couple from Los Angeles, attempt to save their marriage by leaving the pressures of the city to start anew in a quiet, rural setting. They buy a Victorian mansion that once served as a haven for unwed mothers, called a birthing...
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This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It

David Wong - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

From the writer of the cult sensation John Dies at the End comes another terrifying and hilarious tale of almost Armageddon at the hands of two hopeless heroes.WARNING:You may have a huge, invisible spider living in your skull. THIS IS NOT A METAPHOR. You will dismiss this as ridiculous...
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