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Robert Bloch's Psychos
Robert Bloch, Stephen King
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Current:
9.6 |
The late, great Robert Bloch (author of Psycho) was a master of macabre humor: he was fond of clever, grisly one-liners, often used as twist endings. He also liked to write about psychotic
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Paper))
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Current:
9.5 |
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror annuals are always a treat; read this one and The Year's Best Science Fiction Sixteenth Annual Collection edited by Gardner Dozois and you'll have
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Kiss and Kill (The Hot Blood Series , No 8)
Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett
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Current:
9.5 |
More thrilling tales from the original--and still the hottest--bestselling and award-winning erotic horror series. Get your kicks from fantasy-fulfilling cheerleaders on Interstate 666 . . . enter a modern den of sin where centuries-old act
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Crimes of Passion (Hot Blood Series.)
Jeff Gelb
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Current:
9.4 |
This ninth installment in the Hot Blood series shows no sign of flagging imagination on the part of the contributors--not surprisingly, because the concept of erotic horror encompasses everything dark and sensual that can happen between two
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Best New Horror, No 9)
Stephen Jones
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Current:
9.3 |
Good horror writers can set up a disturbing situation, then add an extra turn of the screw. The sound of a tree branch tapping the window on a winter night--what if that tree suddenly appeared out of nowhere? The bare scalp and wide eyes of
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Heckedy Peg (A Voyager/Hbj Book)
Audrey Wood, Don Wood (Illustrator)
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Current:
9.3 |
For the first time in paperback, a story of seven children who are saved by their mother after an evil witch casts a spell on them. The children--each named for a day of the week--are transformed into specific types of food, and only their
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Beast of the Heartland
Lucius Shepard
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Current:
9.2 |
If you're already familiar with Lucius Shepard, you won't need any encouragement to pick up Beast of the Heartland, a collection of short works that leads with the Hugo-winning novella "Barnacle Bill the Spacer." In addition to the more]
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Love in Vein II : Eighteen More Tales of Vampiric Erotica
Poppy Z. Brite, Martin Harry Greenberg
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Current:
9.2 |
Collected here are sumptuous stories that prove that the dark desires are everywhere--from the New Orleans Goth scene to the punk bars of Amsterdam, from the dark side of glistening Las Vegas to the secret lovers who dwell in Lugosi's tomb.
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Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected
Roald Dahl
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Current:
9.2 |
Dahl is a master at introducing readers to a new sense of what lurks beneath the ordinary. Read more
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Night Screams : Twenty-Two Stories of Terror
Edward Gorman
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Current:
9.1 |
It's a jungle out there. It's even more savage inside the twisted minds of murderers who conceal their malevolence behind smiling masks and strike out without pity. This spine-tingling collection contains 23 new stories of suspense from som
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999 : New Stories of Horror and Suspense
Al Sarrantonio
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Current:
9.0 |
This colossal collection of truly original horror and nonsupernatural suspense proves that the contemporary horror genre is alive and kicking--with enough talented heirs to keep it breathing for many years to come. Here the well-known maste
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Apt Pupil : A Novella in Different Seasons
Stephen King
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Current:
9.0 |
Different Seasons (1982) is a collection of four novellas, markedly different in tone and subject, each on the theme of a journey. The first is a rich, satisfying, nonhorrific tale about an innocent man who carefully nurtures hope an
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Grimm's Grimmest
Jacob Grimm
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Current:
8.9 |
A scholar of fairy tales, Maria Tatar, provides a fascinating introduction about the history and meaning of the stories assembled by the Brothers Grimm. She writes, for example, "We n
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Crow : Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams
J. O'Barr, Ed Kramer
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Current:
8.9 |
The Crow, a dark character created by James O'Barr, "warps together two of man's strongest emotions and desires--love and revenge," writes Ed Kramer in the preface to this anthology of theme stories and art. A black, nightmarish spirit with
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Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers
Ellen Datlow
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Current:
8.9 |
Obsessions, lust, passion, and ecstacy are the subjects of this excellent anthology edited by the talented, award-winning, and prolific team of Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling. With uninhibited stories from heavy-hitters such as Joyce Carol
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The Dark Descent
David G. Hartwell
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Current:
8.9 |
If you could have only one anthology of dark stories, this would be the one to have. Having observed that "fans of horror fiction most often restrict their reading to books and stories given a horror category label, thus missing some of the
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Cthulhu 2000 : A Lovecraftian Anthology
Jim Turner
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Current:
8.9 |
Editor Jim Turner has compiled a real page turner in Cthulhu 2000. His anthology of short stories based on the works of horrorist H.P. Lovecraft is a dark gem, and of superior stuff. Although they all have the coppery tang of the eld
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Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
Phyllis Cerf Wagner
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Current:
8.8 |
This bargain of a book is a thick hardcover anthology--more than 1,000 pages long--containing stories of naturalistic and supernatural terror. First published in 1944, it has stood the test of time and become a classic in the field. Grea
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Seeds of Fear (Hot Blood)
Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett
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Current:
8.8 |
An anthology of erotic horror includes the stories of a trucker who gets more than he expected from a midnight pickup, a young woman who loves sex to death--literally, and a porn producer who recruits the wrong star. more]
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (11th Annual Collection) (Paper)
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Current:
8.8 |
Editors Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling are back with the 11th installment of their annual Year's Best collection. As with previous volumes, this book offers a mixture of fantasy and horror stories (46 in all) that bend and often shatter ge
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Night Shade : Gothic Tales by Women
Victoria A. Brownworth, Judith M. Redding
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Current:
8.7 |
Gothic fiction transforms normality--the supernatural becomes the everyday, human fears are exaggerated, familiar landscapes are turned into places that are strange and bizarre. Female writers have inhabited this landscape for generations.
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Obsidian Butterfly
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.7 |
Anita Blake, the tough, sexy vampire executioner, zombie animator, and police consultant for preternatural crimes in St. Louis, hunts monsters in New Mexico in the ninth book of Laurell K. Hamilton's excellent series. Edward, Anita's mentor
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Angel Fire East
Terry Brooks
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Current:
8.6 |
Angel Fire East marks the close of Terry Brooks's Nest Freemark-John Ross saga, which began with 1997's Running with the Demon. After a long layover in Seattle for the middle book, more]
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Blue Moon (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.6 |
Anita Blake makes a living raising the dead. She also executes rogue vampires and villains among the local were-folk. Marks bind her to Jean-Claude, the Master vampire of St. Louis and her lover, and to her ex-fiancé, a powerful were
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Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.4 |
Anita Blake may be small and young, but vampires call her the Executioner. Anita is a necromancer and vampire hunter in a time when vampires are protected by law--as long as they don't get too nasty. Now someone's killing innocent vampires
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Burnt Offerings (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter)
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.4 |
Burnt Offerings is the seventh in Laurell K. Hamilton's genre-straddling Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Anita carries a gun and an attitude: "Questions are great, but only if you know the answers. If you ask questions and the an
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The Laughing Corpse
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.3 |
Harold Gaynor offers Anita Blake a million dollars to raise a 300-year-old zombie. Knowing it means a human sacrifice will be necessary, Anita turns him down. But when dead bodies start turning up, she realizes that someone else has raised
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Circus of the Damned
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.3 |
The third novel of Hamilton's Anita Blake series has the petite necromancer fighting a giant cobra and a rogue vampire, Alejandro, who wants her for his human servant. Anita is still resisting the advances of Jean-Claude, St. Louis's master
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The Lunatic Cafe
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.3 |
The zombie-raising business gets slow in December, so Anita Blake is starting to see some oddball cases. She's got a neatly typed list of eight missing lycanthropes given to her by Marcus, the leader of the local werewolf pack, who wants he
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Bloody Bones
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.3 |
When Anita Blake's boss at Animators, Inc., informs her that she's expected to raise 300-year-old zombies from a field of jumbled bones just to settle a land dispute, she's understandably annoyed. But as soon as she arrives in Branson, Miss
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Killing Dance
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.2 |
Anita Blake, vampire hunter, is now herself a hunted woman. Who put the $500,000 price on her head--a man or a monster? It's not just her own skin she needs to save; the rivalry between her werewolf boyfriend, Richard, and Marcus, the other
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Night of the Wolf
Alice Borchardt
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Current:
8.2 |
Night of the Wolf interweaves a tale of the Roman Empire with magic, romance, and--lycanthropy. It follows The Silver Wolf, Alice Borchardt's absorbing story of the coming of age of
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Communion Blood
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Current:
8.0 |
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's regal vampire Ragoczy, the Count Saint-Germain, crushes our perceptions of the stereotypical bloodsucking, murderous vampire. Unlike his undead brethren Dracula and more]
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Nightseer (Roc Fantasy)
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
8.0 |
An evil witch murdered her mother when she was only five, but now that Keleios has grown into her own magical powers, revenge will be sweet. But with that power comes the dreaded demonmark, offering undreamed of abilities and luring her wit
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The Silver Wolf
Alice Borchardt
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Current:
8.0 |
Regeane is a fatherless royal relation who happens to be a werewolf. Her guardian, Gundabald, and his venal son Hugo plan to recoup their fortunes by marrying Regeane to a wealthy bridegroom, even though she might inadvertently make him int
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Blood Roses : A Novel of Saint-Germain
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Current:
7.9 |
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's epic of the vampire Ragoczy, the Count Saint-Germain (including Mansions of Darkness, Darker Jewels, and more]
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The Soul of an Angel (Sisters of the Night/Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Christopher H. Bing (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.9 |
One of the most memorable scenes in Bram Stoker's dark classic, "Dracula," is the chilling apparition of the three "weird sisters"--a trio of intriguing beauties, all brides of the vampire lord himself. Little is disclosed about these once
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One Tree (Donaldson, Stephen R. Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Bk. 2.)
Stephen R. Donaldson
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Current:
7.9 |
Thomas Covenant and Linden Avery begin their search for the One Tree that is to be the salvation of the Land. Only he could find the answer and forge a new Staff of Law--but fate decreed that the journey was to be long, the quest arduous, a
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A Chill in the Blood (Vampire Files)
P. N. Elrod, P. N. Elerod
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Current:
7.7 |
Gangland Chicago, 1937. Jack Fleming, vampire PI, doesn't care for the Mob. He was killed once by a Mob boss, see, and he's seen too many shot down since. Ambitious gangsters are like roaches--there always seem to be more coming out of the
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Of Masques and Martyrs (The Shadow Saga , No 3)
Christopher Golden
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Current:
7.6 |
Led by Peter Octavian, the Shadows must drink blood. Yet they do not steal life. New Shadows are created only by individual choice. Peace is their only hunger. The minions of Hannibal have a different goal: the enslavement of humanity. They
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Of Saints and Shadows (The Shadow Saga , No 1)
Christopher Golden
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Current:
7.6 |
Book One in the Shadow Saga is a brilliant epic that takes you into the secret world of vampires--and a secret society sworn to destroy them. Sweeping, sensuous, and shocking, it is a powerful vision of immortality that will hold you in its
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The World's Shortest Stories : Murder, Love, Horror, Suspense, All This and Much More in the Most Amazing Short Stories Ever Written, Each One Just 55
Steve Moss
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Current:
7.5 |
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Love in Vein : Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica
Poppy Z. Brite
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Current:
7.5 |
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Best New Horror, No 10)
Stephen Jones
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Current:
7.4 |
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Spectre of the Black Rose (Ravenloft)
James Lowder, Voronica Whitney-Robinson
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Current:
7.2 |
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The Marriage of Sticks
Jonathan Carroll
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Current:
7.2 |
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Clan Novel : Toreador (The Clan Novel Series , No 1)
Stewart Wieck
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Current:
7.2 |
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Gangrel (The Clan Novel Series, No. 3)
Gherbod Fleming, John Van Fleet (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.2 |
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Midnight Blue : The Sonja Blue Collection
Nancy A. Collins, Thom Ang (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.2 |
White Wolf proudly announces the return of Sonja Blue, the powerful and intriguing vampiress chronicled in Sunglasses After Dark and In the Blood. This third novel in the popular series becomes available for the first time in this trade pap
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