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Ghost Story

Peter Straub

For four aging men in the terror-stricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past -- and get away with murder.
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Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe
Format: Hardcover

This single volume brings together all of Poe's stories and poems, and illuminates the diverse and multifaceted genius of one of the greatest and most influential figures in American literary history.
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Dracula

Bram Stoker - Barnes & Noble
Format: Print book

The classic tale of the bizarre Carpathian count, who drinks human blood to stay alive, and the Englishman who knows his secret.
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The Complete Phantom of the Opera

George Perry - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Hardcover

This is the lavishly illustrated, definitive account of The Phantom of the Opera, tracing the Phantom legend from its origins in historical fact through Gaston Leroux's heartrending classic novel and other artistic incarnations to the present day and Andrew Lloyd Webber's incredibly...
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Cell

Stephen King - Thorndike Press
Format: Print book

There's a reason cell rhymes with hell. On October 1st, God is in His heaven, the stock market stands at 10,140, most of the planes are on time, and Clayton Riddell, an artist from Maine, is almost bouncing up Boylston Street in Boston. He's just landed a comic book deal that...
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Creepers

David Morrell - Thorndike
Format: Hardcover

'Creepers'. That's what they call themselves. Urban explorers who illegally enter sealed buildings - hotels, offices, department stores - many of which have been abandoned for years. Exploring one holds all the thrill of going into a time capsule. One night in New Jersey, a group of creepers...
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Magic for Beginners

Kelly Link - Small Beer Press
Format: Hardcover

Best of the Decade: Salon, The A.V. Club"If I had to pick the most powerfully original voice in fantasy today, it would be Kelly Link. Her stories begin in a world very much like our own, but then, following some mysterious alien geometry, they twist themselves into something fantastic...
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Monster

Frank E Peretti

Some monsters are real. Miles away from the hectic city, Reed and Rebecca hike into the beautiful Northwester woods. They are surrounded by gorgeous mountains, waterfalls, and hundreds of acres of unspoiled wilderness. During their first night camping, an u
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ROSEMARY S BABY

Ira Levin
Format: Book

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbours Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building; de
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Wildwood Road

Christopher Golden

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The Book of Vampires

Dudley Wright - Causeway Books
Format: Book

Visions of fiends rising from their graves to prey on the living have long haunted humanity. The most notorious of these figures is the vampire, a nocturnal creature with an unnatural hunger. This book, originally published in the early twentieth century, was the first serious study of vampirism...
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Haunted Highway: The Spirits of Route 66

Ellen Robson - Golden West Publishers
Format: Paperback

A guide to sixty-six spine-tingling tales of haunted homes, businesses and graveyards along America's "Mother Road." It's no accident that Route 66 begins in Chicago- at Jackson Boulevard and Michigan Ave. It was started by adventurous souls who had already traveled this far west...
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Haunted Houses of California: A Ghostly Guide to Haunted Houses and Wandering Spirits

Antoinette May - Wide World/Tetra
Format: Book

From San Diego's Whaley House to Sonoma's Valley of the Moon Saloon, California offers an amazing array of haunted sites. Enriched with historical background and generously illustrated, this fascinating, fun-to-read guide documents dozens of chill-inducing spots throughout the state, including...
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The Incredible World of Gold Rush Ghosts : True Tales of Hauntings in the Mother Lode

Nancy Bradley - Gold Rush Ghosts

Book by Bradley, Nancy
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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski - Pantheon; 2nd edition
Format: Hardcover

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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I Am Legend

Richard Matheson

Robert Neville may well be the last living man on Earth . . . but he is not alone. An incurable plague has mutated every other man, woman, and child into bloodthirsty, nocturnal creatures who are determined to destroy him. By day, he is a hunter, stalking the infected monstros
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The Ritual

Adam Nevill - St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common...
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American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis - Vintage Books
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland) , Chloe Sevigny (The Last Days of Disco) , Jared Leto (My So Called Life) , and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions) , and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol) .In American Psycho, Bret Easton...
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77 Shadow Street

Dean Koontz - Bantam; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Welcome to the Pendleton. Built as a tycoon’s dream home in the 1880s and converted to luxury condominiums not quite a century later, the Gilded Age palace at the summit of Shadow Hill is a sanctuary for its fortunate residents. Scant traces remain...
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The Amityville Horror

Jay Anson - Pocket Star
Format: Paperback

In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in that house. But the property complete with boathouse and swimming pool and the price...
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Heart-Shaped Box: A Novel

Joe Hill - William Morrow; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Buy my stepfathers ghost read the e-mail So Jude did He bought it in the shape of the dead mans suit delivered in a heart-shaped box because he wanted it because his fans ate up that kind of story It was perfect for his collection the genuine skulls and the bones the real honest-to-God...
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Let the Right One In: A Novel

John Ajvide Lindqvist - St. Martin's Griffin; Mti edition
Format: Paperback

Let the Right One In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival!It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally...
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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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The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

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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The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty - Harper & Row
Format: Print book

The phenomenal bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture--newly re-released in a version you've never seen before!
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The Exorcist

William Peter Blatty - Harper & Row
Format: Print book

The phenomenal bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture--newly re-released in a version you've never seen before!
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Ghost Story

Peter Straub - Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover

Stephen King The terror just mounts and mounts.Chicago Sun-Times The scariest book I've ever read....It crawls under your skin and into your dreams. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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It: A Novel

STEPHEN KING - Scribner
Format: Paperback

Now a major motion picture Stephen King's terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, "a landmark in American literature" (Chicago Sun-Times) - about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers...
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