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Handling the Undead

John Ajvide Lindqvist - Thomas Dunne Books
Format: Hardcover

In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires. Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that...
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The Passage: A Novel

Justin Cronin - Ballantine Books
Format: eBook

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls "a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction." NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR...
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The Troop

Nick Cutter - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE JAMES HERBERT AWARD FOR HORROR WRITING "The Troop scared the hell out of me, and I couldn't put it down. This is old-school horror at its best." - Stephen KingOnce every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend...
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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski
Format: Paperback

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting...
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Bones & All: A Novel

Camille DeAngelis - St. Martin's Press
Format: Print book

2015 Alex Award Recipient!Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what...
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The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy

Chuck Hogan - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

Stated First Edition. Hard cover with DJ. Clean and unmarked copy. Mild shelf and edge wear from normal handling. Not a remainder, not price clipped. Satisfaction guaranteed!
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The Boy Who Drew Monsters: A Novel

Keith Donohue - Picador Usa
Format: Book

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Stolen Child comes a hypnotic literary horror novel about a young boy trapped inside his own world, whose drawings blur the lines between fantasy and reality.Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, ten-year-old...
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Snowblind

Christopher Golden - St. Martin's Press; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In Christopher Golden's first horror novel in more than a decade---a work reminiscent of early Stephen King---Snowblind updates the ghost story for the modern age. The small New England town of Coventry had weathered a thousand blizzards . . . but never one like this. Icy figures...
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20th Century Ghosts

Joe Hill - William Morrow
Format: Book

Imogene is young and beautiful. She kisses like a movie star and knows everything about every film ever made. She's also dead and waiting in the Rosebud Theater for Alec Sheldon one afternoon in 1945. . . .Arthur Roth is a lonely kid with big ideas and a gift for attracting abuse. It isn't...
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Horns: A Novel

Joe Hill - William Morrow
Format: Bargain - Hardcover

Joe Hill has been hailed as "a major player in 21st-century fantastic fiction" (Washington Post); "a new master in the field of suspense" (James Rollins); "one of the most confident and assured new voices in horror and dark fantasy to emerge in recent years (Publishers...
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The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story

Susan Hill - Vintage
Format: Paperback

The classic ghost story from the author of The Mist in the Mirror: a chilling tale about a menacing spectre haunting a small English town. Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford - a faraway...
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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called...
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After the People Lights Have Gone Off

Stephen Graham Jones - Dark House Press
Format: Book

WINNER, Best Collection of the Year, THIS IS HORRORNOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, BRAM STOKER AWARDSNOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDSThe fifteen stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural...
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Bird Box: A Novel

Josh Malerman - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world - a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.Something is out there...
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The Night Sister: A Novel

Jennifer McMahon - Doubleday
Format: Print book

The latest novel from New York Times best-selling author Jennifer McMahon is an atmospheric, gripping, and suspenseful tale that probes the bond between sisters and the peril of keeping secrets. Once the thriving attraction of rural Vermont, the Tower Motel now stands in disrepair,...
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The Winter People: A Novel

Jennifer McMahon - Doubleday; Unabridged Version edition
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell returns with a simmering literary thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters . . . sometimes too unbreakable. West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange...
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In the Miso Soup

Ryū Murakami - Penguin Books
Format: Print book

From postmodern Renaissance man Ryu Murakami, master of the psychothriller and director of Tokyo Decadence, comes this hair-raising roller-coaster ride through the nefarious neon-lit world of Tokyo's sex industry. In the Miso Soup tells of Frank, an overweight American tourist who has hired...
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Piercing

Ryu Murakami

A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller soon to be a major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska*One of Literary Hub's "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror) "*Kawashima Masayuki is a successful...
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Her Fearful Symmetry: A Novel

Audrey Niffenegger - Scribner; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin...
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Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales

Yoko Ogawa - Picador; Reprint edition
Format: Print book

Its not just Murakami but also the shadow of Borges that hovers over this mesmerizing book and one may detect a slight bow to the American macabre of E.A. Poe. Ogawa stands on the shoulders of giants, as another saying goes. But this collection may linger in your mind -- it does in mine...
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Rooms: A Novel

Lauren Oliver - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Before I Fall and the Delirium trilogy makes her brilliant adult debut with this mesmerizing story in the tradition of The Lovely Bones, Her Fearful Symmetry, and The Ocean at the End of the Lanea tale of family, ghosts, secrets, and mystery, in which...
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White is for Witching: A Novel

Helen Oyeyemi - Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Format: Print book

"Miranda is at home - homesick, home sick ..."As a child, Miranda Silver developed pica, a rare eating disorder that causes its victims to consume nonedible substances. The death of her mother when Miranda is sixteen exacerbates her condition; nothing, however, satisfies...
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Haunted : A Novel of Stories

Chuck Palahniuk
Format: Hardcover

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk is a novel made up of stories: Twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter - sometimes all at once. They are told by people who have answered an ad headlined...
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The Ruins

Scott Smith - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Eerie, terrifying, unputdownable - Scott Smiths first novel since his best-selling A Simple Plan ("Simply the best suspense novel of this year - hell, of the 1990s" - Stephen King) . The Ruins follows two American couples, just out of college, enjoying a pleasant, lazy beach...
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A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel

Paul Tremblay - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2015 BRAM STOKER AWARD FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVELA chilling thriller that brilliantly blends psychological suspense and supernatural horror, reminiscent of Stephen King's The Shining, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist.The...
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The Little Stranger

Sarah Waters - Riverhead Hardcover; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

The 1 book of 2009...Several sleepless nights are guaranteed.Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly One postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician,is called to a patient at lonely...
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