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Horror: Contemporary
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Recent books by great writers of horror and dark urban fantasy.
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Horror : Another 100 Best Books ...features one hundred of the top names in the horror field discussing one hundred of the most spine-chilling novels ever written. Each entry includes a synopsis of the work as well as publication history, biographical information about the author of each title, and recommended reading and biographical notes on the contributor. 2005 Adult Nonfiction Book |
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Barker, Clive Coldheart Canyon : a Hollywood Ghost Story The fiercely loyal agent to film's most popular action star finds his client a place to heal from a surgery gone horribly wrong in a forgotten mansion in the Hollywood Hills. But the original owner, a beautiful woman devoted to pleasure at any cost, and the terrible legacy of her deed, haunts Coldheart Canyon. 2001 Adult Fiction Book |
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Bradbury, Ray From the Dust Returned : a Family Remembrance An imaginative, witty novel chronicles the lives of the outlandish Elliott clan--including Cecy, a girl who experiences the world through the travels of her mind; Uncle Einar, a fun-loving vampire; Tom, a farm boy with whom Cecy falls in love during one of her spirit journeys; and Timothy, the Elliott's abnormal adopted son. 2001 Adult Fiction Book |
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Campbell, Ramsey The Grin of the Dark Simon Lester is a film critic thrown out of a job by a lawsuit against the magazine he helped to found. When he's commissioned to write a book about Thackeray and restore the comedian's reputation, it seems as if his own career is saved. But his research leads to something older than the cinema, something that has taken a new and dangerous shape. 2008 Adult Fiction Book |
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Carey, Mike The Devil You Know His long-unused services as a freelance exorcist brought back into demand by a sudden increase in supernatural activity, Felix Castor reluctantly accepts a final job in the hopes of paying off an old debt, but finds the ghost in question linked to dangerous and unexpected consequences. 2007 Adult Fiction Book |
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Clegg, Douglas Neverland During a summer vacation at his grandmother's home on Gull Island, Beau Jackson's cousin, Sumter, initiates Beau into a series of strange and sinister games--secret rituals that culminate in an explosive evil 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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Donaldson, Stephen R. The Wounded Land Four thousand years have passed since Covenant first freed the Land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions. But he is back, and Convenant, armed with his stunning white gold magic, must battle the evil forces and his own despair.... 1981 Adult Fiction Book |
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Due, Tananarive The Good House : a Novel "A terrifying story of supernatural suspense, as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from evil forces"--Front flap. 2003 Adult Fiction Book |
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Ellis, Bret Easton Lunar Park Becoming a best-selling novelist and wealthy celebrity while still in college, only to have his fame disintegrate in a sea of booze, drugs, and vilification, the narrator gets a new chance at life married to the mother of a previously unacknowledged son and living in suburbia, but now his new life unravels in the wake of a series of grotesque murders and the disappearance of young boys. 2005 Adult Fiction Book |
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Finney, Jack Invasion of the Body Snatchers On the surface, everything in Mill Valley appeared the same to Dr. Miles Bennell, but some mysterious force is changing the town and killing it slowly. 1998 Adult Fiction Book |
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Gaiman, Neil American Gods : a Novel Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world. 2001 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hand, Elizabeth Generation Loss : a Novel Cass, a photographer who made a name for herself in the seventies, now finds herself adrift when someone sends her on a mercy gig where she stumbles across an old mystery that is still claiming victims. 2007 Adult Fiction Book |
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Harris, Thomas The Silence of the Lambs FBI Academy trainee Clarice Starling hopes that Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a criminally insane psychiatrist imprisoned in a Boston hospital, can lead her to the serial killer known only as Buffalo Bill. 1988 Adult Fiction Book |
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Harrison, M. John Nova Swing Not far from Moneytown...you’ll find the Saudade Event Site: a zone of strange geography, twisted physics, and frightening psychic onslaughts. Vic Serotonin is an illegal “travel agent” into and out of Saudade. His latest client is a woman as unpredictable as the site itself—and maybe as dangerous. 2007 Adult Fiction Book |
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Hill, Joe Heart-shaped Box A collector of obscure and macabre artifacts, from a cannibal cookbook to a used hangman's noose, unscrupulous metal band musician Judas Coyne is unable to resist purchasing a ghost over the Internet, which turns out to be the vengeful spirit of his late girlfriend's stepfather. 2007 Adult Fiction Book |
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Joyce, Graham The Silent Land : a Novel Buried under a flash avalanche while skiing, young married couple Jake and Zoe miraculously dig their way out only to discover themselves alone in an eerily silent, evacuated region and unable to contact the outside world. 2010 Adult Fiction Book |
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King, Stephen Lisey's Story : a Novel Every marriage has two hearts, one light and one dark, and Lisey Landon must confront both. King's most personal and powerful book to date is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love. 2006 Adult Fiction Book |
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Koontz, Dean R. Fear Nothing While investigating the death of his mother, who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly. 1998 Adult Fiction Book |
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Langan, Sarah Audrey's Door When she moves into the Breviary, an apartment building built on the Upper West Side during Manhattan's Gilded Age, Audrey Lucas is plunged into a world of madness when she is haunted by dark visions and a voice that demands she build a door. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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Laymon, Richard Flesh Alison becomes a tempting target for a man possessed by an unearthly creature with an insatiable taste for human flesh 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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