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The Great and Secret Show
by Clive Barker
A battle between two men with supernatural powers for control of a dream sea that can grant unlimited power.
In 1969, while working in a dead letter office in Nebraska , disgruntled postal clerk Randolph Jaffe discovers hints to a mysterious society known as The Shoal, which ostensibly practises a form of ... (Wikipedia)
Weaveworld
by Clive Barker
Fictional world hidden within a tapestry, a group of humans protecting it from evil.
Decades prior to the book's opening, a magical race known as the Seerkind combined all of their powers to create a secret world known as "the Fugue", a carpet into which they wove their most beloved ... (Wikipedia)
Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three
by Clive Barker
A collection of horror stories, exploring the themes of mortality and supernatural horror.
"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red." For those who only know Clive Barker through his long multigenre novels, this one-volume edition of the Books of Blood is a welcome ... (Goodreads)
The Girl Next Door
by Jack Ketchum
A teenage girl is subjected to horrific abuse by her aunt and cousins, while her neighbors turn a blind eye.
Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow up. Unless you are teenage Meg or her crippled sister, Susan. On a dead-end street, in the dark, ... (Goodreads)
The Ruins
by Scott Smith
A group of tourists stranded in a remote Mexican jungle, struggling to survive.
Four American tourists — Eric, his girlfriend Stacy, her best friend and former roommate Amy, and Amy's boyfriend Jeff, a medical student — are vacationing in Mexico. They befriend a German tourist ... (Wikipedia)
Pet Sematary
by Stephen King
A family's terrifying journey of life and death, as the line between the living and the dead blurs.
Louis Creed, a doctor from Chicago , is appointed director of the University of Maine 's campus health service. He moves to a large house near the small town of Ludlow with his wife Rachel, their two ... (Wikipedia)
The Terror
by Dan Simmons
A gripping survival story set during the doomed Arctic expedition of the HMS Terror.
The story begins, in medias res, in the winter of 1847, when HMS, Terror, and HMS, Erebus, have been trapped in ice, 28 miles north-northwest of King William Island , for more than a year. The ... (Wikipedia)
Black House
by Stephen King
A police detective and an ex-FBI agent investigate a mysterious murder in a small town.
A series of murders has begun to plague the town of French Landing, Wisconsin . The murderer is dubbed "The Fisherman", due to a conscious effort by the killer to emulate the methods of serial killer ... (Wikipedia)
The Fisherman
by John Langan
A small-town family's supernatural encounter with an ancient evil lurking in the woods.
In upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a ... (Barnes & Noble)
Perdido Street Station
by China Miéville
A thrilling adventure through a captivating and unique city, filled with danger and magic.
Isaac Dan der Grimnebulin is a scientist living in the city of New Crobuzon. He is approached by Yagharek, a member of a birdlike species known as garuda , who has had his wings removed as a ... (Wikipedia)
Psycho
by Robert Bloch
A chilling thriller of suspense and horror, confronting a psychopathic murderer.
Norman Bates , a middle-aged bachelor, is dominated by his mother, a mean-tempered, puritanical old woman who forbids him to have a life outside of her. They run a small motel together in the town of ... (Wikipedia)
Wizard and Glass
by Stephen King
A journey of love, loss, and horror as a group of misfits face a mysterious enemy in a world of dark magic.
Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake, and Jake’s pet bumbler survive Blaine the Mono’s final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by ... (Goodreads)
The Complete Clive Barker's The Great And Secret Show
by Chris Ryall
A supernatural battle between good and evil unfolds, with humanity caught in the middle.
Collected here in one deluxe edition is the complete 12-part saga that comprises the comic book adaptation of master of horror Clive Barker's epic journey into the fantastic,, The Great and Secret ... (Goodreads)
Ilium
by Dan Simmons
An epic sci-fi tale of gods, robots, and humans on a quest to uncover the secrets of the ancient past.
The novel centers on three character groups: that of Hockenberry (a resurrected twentieth-century Homeric scholar whose duty is to compare the events of the Iliad to the reenacted events of the ... (Wikipedia)
Night Watch
by Sergei Lukyanenko
A supernatural battle between the forces of Light and Darkness, with the fate of the world in the balance.
A Mage recently reassigned to field work in the Night Watch, Anton Gorodetsky, is tasked with tracking vampires who have been hunting and killing humans without a licence. As he follows a young boy ... (Wikipedia)
Marvel 1602
by Neil Gaiman
A reimagining of Marvel superheroes set in the Elizabethan era.
In Marvel 1602 , award-winning writer Neil Gaiman presents a unique vision of the Marvel Universe set four hundred years in the past. Classic Marvel icons such as the X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic ... (Goodreads)
Swan Song
by Robert R. McCammon
After a nuclear war, a group of survivors journey across a devastated America, facing danger and hopelessness.
The novel begins with nuclear war breaking out between the submarine fleets of the U.S. and the Soviet Union . The President , wracked with guilt over his role in the carnage, prepares to input a ... (Wikipedia)
The Amityville Horror
by Jay Anson
A family's terrifying ordeal in a haunted house, where the supernatural lurks in the shadows.
The book, purportedly based on a true story, describes the house at 112 Ocean Avenue as remaining empty for 13 months after the DeFeo murders . In December 1975, George and Kathleen Lutz bought the ... (Wikipedia)
Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
Four elderly men gather to confront a supernatural entity that has haunted them since their youth.
In life, not every sin goes unpunished. GHOST STORY 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. ... (Goodreads)
Shadowland
by Peter Straub
A young man discovers his family's dark secrets and confronts the evil lurking in the shadows.
You have been there…,if you have ever been afraid. Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning ... (Goodreads)
Crash
by J.G. Ballard
A dystopian novel exploring the surreal and chaotic landscape of a near-future Los Angeles.
The story is told through the eyes of narrator James Ballard, named after the author himself, but it centers on the sinister figure of Dr. Robert Vaughan, a "former TV-scientist, turned nightmare ... (Wikipedia)
Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
by Neil Gaiman
A retrospective exploration of the Batman mythos, examining the legacy of the iconic hero.
The story begins over Gotham City , which the narrator describes as being "different." It is not quite the Gotham that he is accustomed to, but it is still intimately familiar to him. Outside the Dew ... (Wikipedia)
The Last Watch
by Sergei Lukyanenko
A group of magic users protect humanity from supernatural threats in the shadows of the night.
Anton Gorodetsky is learning to use his new power when Gesar sends him to assist the Scottish Night Watch in Edinburgh in a murder investigation. A young Russian man has been murdered in a "Vampire ... (Wikipedia)
The Keep
by F. Paul Wilson
Adventure to save humanity from an ancient evil force, with unexpected allies.
German soldiers and SS Einsatzkommandos are being slowly killed off in a mysterious castle (the "keep" of the title) high in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania in April 1941. Theodore Cuza, a Jewish ... (Wikipedia)
Twilight Watch
by Sergei Lukyanenko
A thrilling fantasy about a secret society of humans and vampires, protecting the balance between the two species.
Among us live the Others. They are humans who can enter the Twilight, a shadowy world that exists alongside our real world, and gain unnatural powers from it. As long as they are in the Twilight, ... (Wikipedia)
The Long Walk
by Richard Bachman
Fourteen boys face a grueling test of endurance and willpower as they compete in a life-or-death march.
One hundred teenage boys join an annual walking contest called "The Long Walk" or just "The Walk". Each contestant, called a "Walker", must maintain a speed of at least four miles per hour; if he ... (Wikipedia)
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
A priest's battle against a powerful demon possessing a young girl.
An elderly Jesuit priest named Father Lankester Merrin is leading an archaeological dig in northern Iraq and is studying ancient relics. After discovering a small statue of the demon Pazuzu (an ... (Wikipedia)
Carrion Comfort
by Dan Simmons
A group of powerful psychics with the ability to control the minds of others use their powers for sinister purposes.
The story begins in 1942, with a man named Saul Laski who fears for his life while at the Chełmno extermination camp built by Germans during World War II in Poland . He is determined to resist being ... (Wikipedia)
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
by Frank Miller
An aging Batman returns to Gotham City to combat a new breed of criminal.
The Dark Knight Returns is set in a dystopian version of Gotham City in 1986. Bruce Wayne, aged 55, has given up the mantle of Batman after the death of Jason Todd 10 years prior, and now lives as a ... (Wikipedia)
The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
A group of people investigating a mysterious and haunted house, uncovering its secrets.
It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted ... (Goodreads)
