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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)
The Other
by Thomas Tryon
Twins Holland and Niles Perry grow up in a small town, but something sinister lurks in the woods.
Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it. Originally ... (Goodreads)
The Omen
by David Seltzer
A family discovers the terrifying truth about their new-born son, who is the Antichrist.
Now updated, this classic tale of the antichrist who comes to Earth in the form of a young boy is available in time for 20th Century Fox's contemporary remake of the 1976 classic film, starring Liev ... (Goodreads)
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)
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)
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)
Hell House
by Richard Matheson
A group of paranormal investigators explore a haunted mansion, facing the horrors within.
The story of Hell House concerns four people – Dr. Lionel Barrett, a physicist with an interest in parapsychology , his wife Edith, and two mediums (Florence Tanner, a spiritualist and mental medium, ... (Wikipedia)
Floating Dragon
by Peter Straub
A small town is plagued by a supernatural force unleashed by a cursed statue. The townspeople must confront their darkest fears to survive.
Two monstrous evils. This quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous, unstoppable creation of man's power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. ... (Goodreads)
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)
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)
Strangers
by Dean Koontz
A man and woman, both haunted by their pasts, are brought together by a terrifying threat.
A group of people are brought together by their different and equally strange maladies. There is Dominick who suffers from somnambulism , Ginger has unexplained lapses into a fugue state , Father ... (Wikipedia)
The Hellbound Heart
by Clive Barker
A man's obsession with a mysterious puzzle box leads him to a world of sadomasochistic demons and eternal suffering.
In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an ... (Goodreads)
The Green Mile
by Stephen King
A prison guard discovers the power of redemption, and miracles, when he meets a mysterious inmate.
Featuring a first-person narrative told by Paul Edgecombe, the novel switches between Paul as an old man in the Georgia Pines nursing home writing down his story in 1996, and his time in 1932 as the ... (Wikipedia)
Song of Kali
by Dan Simmons
A horror novel set in Calcutta, India, where a writer discovers a cult that worships the goddess Kali.
Robert Luczak is sent by the American literary magazine Other Voices, where he works as an editor, to Calcutta to locate poetry alleged to have been recently authored by a legendary poet, M. Das. The ... (Wikipedia)
Suffer the Children
by John Saul
A small town is haunted by a mysterious force that threatens the lives of its children.
After a young girl is murdered one hundred years earlier in Port Arbello prior to the beginning of the novel, the one responsible comes back and begins taking out more children, one by one. As people ... (Wikipedia)
Firestarter
by Stephen King
A young girl with pyrokinetic powers is pursued by a mysterious government agency.
Andy and Charlene "Charlie" McGee are a father/daughter pair on the run from a government agency known as The Shop. During his college years, Andy had participated in a Shop experiment dealing with ... (Wikipedia)
Legion
by William Peter Blatty
A priest confronts an ancient evil while battling inner demons and questioning his faith.
The story opens with the discovery of a twelve-year-old boy who has been murdered and crucified on a pair of rowing oars. Kinderman already sees that the boy is mutilated in a way identical to the ... (Wikipedia)
Whispers
by Dean Koontz
A family's battle against a mysterious force that is transforming their lives.
Hilary Thomas, a screenwriter living in Los Angeles, is attacked in her home by Bruno Frye, a mentally disturbed man whose vineyard in Napa Valley she recently visited. Frye tries to rape her, but ... (Wikipedia)
Cabal
by Clive Barker
A supernatural battle between good and evil in a nightmarish alternate reality.
Boone, a young man suffering from an unspecified mental disorder , is told by his trusted psychiatrist, Decker, that he is responsible for brutal serial murders in Calgary . Boone, however, has no ... (Wikipedia)
Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
A serial killer stalks the night, and a former FBI agent is the only one who can stop him.
In 1975, Will Graham , a brilliant profiler of the FBI , captured the serial killer Hannibal Lecter . However, Graham suffered serious injuries from the encounter and retired afterwards. Four years ... (Wikipedia)
Descent
by Tim Johnston
A family vacation turns into a nightmare when a young woman goes missing in the Rocky Mountains. The aftermath reveals dark secrets and shattered lives.
“Read this astonishing novel . . . The magic of his prose equals the horror of Johnston’s story.” ,—The Washington Post, The Rocky Mountains have cast their spell over the Courtlands, who are taking ... (Barnes & Noble)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
by Alvin Schwartz
Collection of tales of horror and the supernatural, to be shared with friends around a campfire.
This spooky addition to Alvin Schwartz's popular books on American folklore is filled with tales of eerie horror and dark revenge that will make you jump with fright. There is a story here for ... (Goodreads)
The Devil's Work
by Mark Edwards
A woman starts a new job, but soon realizes that her boss is not what he seems. A psychological thriller that will keep you on edge.
A gripping psychological thriller from the bestselling author of, Follow You Home, and, The Magpies,., It was the job she had dreamed of since childhood. But on her very first day, when an unnerving ... (Goodreads)
Paint it Black
by Janet Fitch
A young woman struggles with grief and self-destruction after her boyfriend's suicide. Set in the 1980s Los Angeles punk scene.
Josie Tyrell, art model, runaway, and denizen of LA's rock scene finds a chance at real love with Michael Faraday, a Harvard dropout and son of a renowned pianist. But when she receives a call from ... (Goodreads)
Audrey Rose
by Frank De Felitta
A man becomes convinced that his daughter is the reincarnation of a girl who died in a tragic accident.
Suppose a stranger told you your daughter was his daughter in another life? Suppose you began to believe him? Suppose it was true? ... (Goodreads)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Dale Wasserman
A power struggle between a rebellious patient and a tyrannical nurse in a mental institution challenges the status quo.
Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, ... (Goodreads)
Violin
by Anne Rice
The story of a master violinist's life, from his childhood in 19th century New Orleans to his present-day fame and the dark secret behind his talent.
The book is set in numerous places, including Vienna , New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro . The novel tells the story of three people: a middle-aged woman yearning to become a musician, a ghostly ... (Wikipedia)
A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
A coming-of-age story about two boys and their complex friendship set during World War II.
Gene Forrester returns to his old prep school, Devon (a thinly veiled portrayal of Knowles's alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy ), , 15 years after he graduated, to visit two places he regards as ... (Wikipedia)
Strange Practice
by Vivian Shaw
Dr. Greta Helsing, a physician to the supernatural, navigates London's underworld of ghouls, vampires, and mummies to solve a mystery.
Greta Helsing inherited the family's highly specialized, and highly peculiar, medical practice. In her consulting rooms, Dr. Helsing treats the undead for a host of ills - vocal strain in banshees, ... (Goodreads)
The Aquitaine Progression
by Robert Ludlum
A lawyer uncovers a conspiracy involving a powerful pharmaceutical company and must go on the run to expose the truth.
In Geneva, American lawyer Joel Converse meets a man he hasn’t seen in twenty years, a covert operative who dies violently at his feet, whispering words that hand Converse a staggering legacy of ... (Goodreads)
