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When We Were Animals

Joshua Gaylord - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

In this chilling Shirley Jackson Award-nominated novel, a small, quiet Midwestern town is unremarkable save for one fact: when the teenagers reach a certain age, they run wild. When Lumen Fowler looks back on her childhood, she wouldnt have guessed she would become a kind suburban wife,...
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Universal Harvester: A Novel

John Darnielle - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller"A moving, beautifully etched picture of America's lost and profoundly lonely." -- Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature"Brilliant . . . Darnielle is a master at building...
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The Beguiled: A Novel

THOMAS CULLINAN - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

The basis for the major motion picture directed by Sofia Coppola - named best director at the Cannes Film Festival for The Beguiled - and starring Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, and Elle Fanning"[A] mad gothic tale . . . The reader is mesmerized with horror by what...
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Widows Point

Richard Chizmar - Cemetery Dance Publications
Format: Hardcover

"This is a bad place. I dont think people are meant to live here.". Longtime residents of Harpers Cove believe that something is wrong with the Widows Point Lighthouse. Some say its cursed. Others claim its haunted.. Originally built in 1838, three workers were killed during the lighthouses...
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The Scarlet Gospels

Clive Barker - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The New York Times bestseller from Clive Barker, who brings his extraordinary universes of Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions together in a masterpiece of dark fantastic horror. The Scarlet Gospels takes readers back many years to the early days of two of Barker's...
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A Book of Horrors

Stephen Jones - St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback

A collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world's best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide LindqvistMany of us grew up on The Pan Book of Horror Stories and its later incarnations, Dark Voices and Dark Terrors (The Gollancz Book of Horror)...
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Blood Lite: An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association

Kevin J. Anderson - Gallery Books
Format: Paperback

The Horror Writers Association Presents BLOOD LITE ...a collection of entertaining tales that puts the fun back into dark fiction, with ironic twists and tongue-in-cheek wit to temper the jagged edge. Charlaine Harris reveals the dark side of going green, when a quartet of die-hard...
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The Dark Net

Benjamin Percy - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

"Thrilling . . . one of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself. . . . The setup promises furious action, and Percy delivers, like [Richard] Matheson, like King. . . An awfully impressive literary performance." - New York Times Book Review "Masterful...
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Night Film: A Novel

Marisha Pessl - Random House
Format: Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR * Cosmopolitan * Kirkus Reviews * BookPageA page-turning thriller for readers of Stephen King, Gillian Flynn, and Stieg Larsson, Night Film tells the haunting story of a journalist who becomes...
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The House of Small Shadows

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

Catherine's last job ended badly. Corporate bullying at a top TV network saw her fired and forced to leave London, but she was determined to get her life back. A new job and a few therapists later, things look much brighter. Especially when a challenging new project presents itself -- to catalogue...
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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams: Stories

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Includes the story "Premium Harmony" - set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one iconic stories with accompanying autobiographical comments...
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The Grip of It: A Novel

Jac Jemc - FSG Originals
Format: Paperback

Finalist for the Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, Dan Chaon's Best of 2017 pick in Publishers Weekly, one of Vol. 1 Brooklyn's Best Books of 2017, a BOMB Magazine "Looking Back on 2017: Literature" Pick, and one of Vulture's 10 Best Thriller Books...
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The crooked house

Christobel Kent - Sarah Crichton Books
Format: Hardcover

"A taut psychological thriller, loaded with mood, and a puzzle tricky enough to keep you guessing to the final page" -- The Washington PostIn the chilling tradition of Daphne du Maurier and with the acuity of Kate Atkinson comes an atmospheric psychological thriller about...
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Haunted Nights

Lisa Morton - Anchor
Format: Paperback

Sixteen never-before-published chilling tales that explore every aspect of our darkest holiday, Halloween, co-edited by Ellen Datlow, one of the most successful and respected genre editors, and Lisa Morton, a leading authority on Halloween.In addition to stories about scheming jack-o'-lanterns,...
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Parasite

Mira Grant - Orbit
Format: Hardcover

A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.We owe our good health to a humble parasite -- a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the Intestinal Bodyguard worm protects us from illness, boosts...
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Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology

Peter Straub - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

From the incomparable master of horror and suspense comes an electrifying collection of contemporary literary horror, with stories from twenty-five writers representing today's most talented voices in the genre.Horror writing is usually associated with formulaic gore, but New Wave horror...
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things

Iain Reid - Gallery/Scout Press
Format: Hardcover

AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 "I'm Thinking of Ending Things is one of the best debut novels I've ever read. Iain Reid has crafted a tight, ferocious little book, with a persistent tenor of suspense that tightens and mounts toward its visionary, harrowing final pages"...
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Ghostly : a collection of ghost stories

Audrey Niffenegger - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

Collected and introduced by the bestselling author of The Time Traveler's Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry - including her own fabulous new illustrations for each piece, and a new story by Niffenegger - this is a unique and haunting anthology of some of the best ghost stories...
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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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Breed: A Novel

Chase Novak - Mulholland Books
Format: Hardcover

Critically celebrated novelist Scott Spencer delivers a Rosemarys Baby-like novel of gothic horror, set against the backdrop of modern-day Upper East Side Manhattan. Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives-fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattans Upper East Side, a passionate...
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The Box: Uncanny Stories

Richard Matheson - Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition
Format: Audio CD

What if you were told that you could make a fortune just by pushing a button on a box?  But pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world . . . someone you don’t know.  Would you still push the button?“Button,...
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Positive: A Novel

David Wellington - Harper Voyager
Format: Hardcover

In the bestselling vein of Guillermo Del Toro and Justin Cronin, the acclaimed author of Chimera and The Hydra Protocol delivers his spectacular breakout novel - an entertaining page-turning zombie epic that is sure to become a classic.Anyone can be positive . . . The tattooed plus sign...
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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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Hell Train

Christopher Fowler - Solaris; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Four passengers meet on a train journey through Eastern Europe during the First World War, and face a mystery that must be solved if they are to survive...Bizarre creatures, satanic rites, terrified passengers and the romance of travelling by train, all feature in this classically styled...
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The Caretaker of Lorne Field: A Novel

Dave Zeltserman - Overlook Hardcover
Format: Hardcover

Dave Zeltserman's last novel was named by NPR as one of the top five crime and mystery novels of 2008 and one of The Washington Post's best books of the year. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, said his "breakthrough third crime novel deserves comparison with the best...
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