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The Vampire Lestat

Anne Rice - Ballantine Books

Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rices enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him,...
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A Discovery of Witches: A Novel

Deborah Harkness - Penguin Books; Reprint edition
Format: Book

A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research....
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Spellcasting in Silk: A Witchcraft Mystery

Juliet Blackwell - New American Library
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Vision in Velvet comes more spooky sleuthing with Lily Ivory, vintage boutique owner and gifted witch ... Lily would like nothing better than to relax, enjoy her friends, and take care of business at her store, which is booming thanks to San Francisco's...
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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson - Penguin Classics Hardcover
Format: Print book

Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by award-winning director Guillermo del Toro Filmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new collection of classic tales and poems by masters...
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Dracula

Elizabeth Miller - Parkstone Press
Format: Hardcover

Dracula is a myth that captivates both the young and old. More than hundred years after the vampirersquos success as the protagonist of Bram Stokerrsquos classic novel Dracula, it is more than overdue to dedicate a comprehensive work to this unconventional hero.The present illustrated...
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The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story

Susan Hill - Vintage; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

A classic ghost story the chilling tale of a menacing specter haunting a small English town. Arthur Kipps is an up-and-coming London solicitor who is sent to Crythin Gifford--a faraway town in the windswept salt marshes beyond Nine Lives Causeway--to attend the funeral and settle the affairs...
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The Turn of the Screw

Henry James; Vanessa Benjamin; Simon Vance - Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook

One of the world's most famous intellectual ghost stories, "The Turn of the Screw" is a haunting tale of suspected supernatural possession. A governess at a country house claims that Miles and Flora, two orphaned children in her care, are being controlled by spirits for some...
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The Shining

Stephen King - Turtleback; Reprint edition
Format: Library Binding

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Jack Torrance sees his stint as winter caretaker of a Colorado hotel as a way back from failure, his wife sees it as a chance to preserve their family, and their five-year-old son sees the evil waiting just for them.,
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The Historian

Elizabeth Kostova - Little, Brown and Company
Format: Hardcover

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history....Late one night, exploring her father's library, a young woman finds an ancient book and a cache of yellowing letters. The letters are all addressed to "My dear and unfortunate successor," and they plunge her into a world she never...
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Something Wicked This Way Comes

Cuger Brant - Epic Press Ltd
Format: Paperback

Who knows what your future holds? Do you really want to know? Be afraid... very afraid! Just pray one of these scenarios doesn't happen. A collection of tales with nightmarish prophecies. Each tale has a subliminal message. Each may wake you in the deep dark night....
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories

Edgar Allan Poe - Puffin
Format: Paperback

A man visits his friend, Roderick Usher, who lies ill in a gloomy estate. Spooky events inside and outside the house escalate into a terrifying conclusion to the physical and ancestral House of Usher. This is a must-have collection of stories from Edgar Allan Poe, legendary author of Gothic...
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End of watch : a novel

Stephen King - Scribner
Format: Print book

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers - In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies...
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The City of Mirrors : a novel

Justin Cronin - Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook

In The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity's desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon--but does silence promise the nightmare's end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling...
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Children of the Dark

Jonathan Janz - Sinister Grin Press
Format: Print book

Will Burgess is used to hard knocks. Abandoned by his father, son of a drug-addicted mother, and charged with raising his six-year-old sister, Will has far more to worry about than most high school freshmen. To make matters worse, Mia Samuels, the girl of Will's dreams, is dating his worst...
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Slade House: A Novel

David Mitchell - Random House
Format: Print book

The New York Times bestseller by the author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas | Named One of the Best Books of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, National Post, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews...
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