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Obsidian Butterfly
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
9.5 |
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:
9.5 |
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:
9.5 |
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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Circus of the Damned
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
9.5 |
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:
9.5 |
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:
9.4 |
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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Communion Blood
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Current:
9.4 |
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:
9.4 |
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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Blood Roses : A Novel of Saint-Germain
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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Current:
9.4 |
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:
9.3 |
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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Guilty Pleasures
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
9.3 |
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:
9.3 |
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:
9.2 |
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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Killing Dance
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
9.0 |
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:
8.9 |
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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The Silver Wolf
Alice Borchardt
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Current:
8.9 |
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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One Tree (Donaldson, Stephen R. Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Bk. 2.)
Stephen R. Donaldson
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Current:
8.9 |
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:
8.9 |
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:
8.8 |
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:
8.7 |
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 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Paper))
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Current:
8.7 |
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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Books of Blood : Volumes One to Three
Clive Barker
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Current:
8.7 |
"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 chance to acquire the 16 remarkable
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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Best New Horror, No 9)
Stephen Jones
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Current:
8.6 |
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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The Dark Descent
David G. Hartwell
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Current:
8.6 |
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:
8.4 |
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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The Essential Clive Barker : Selected Fiction
Clive Barker, Armistead Maupin
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Current:
8.3 |
This 567-page sampler of Clive Barker's darkly fantastic work has an unusual format. You'd expect a huge collection of his macabre short stories (like the three 1984 Books of Blood that mad
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (11th Annual Collection) (Paper)
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Current:
8.2 |
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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Titus Crow : The Burrowers Beneath the Transition of Titus Crow
Brian Lumley
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Current:
8.2 |
The two novels contained in the first volume of Titus Crow--"The Burrowers Beneath" and "The Transition of Titus Crow" (originally published in 1974 and 1975)--are a matched set marking the introduction of Brian Lumley's Sherlockian
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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
H. P. Lovecraft
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Current:
8.2 |
"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."--H. P. LOVECRAFT, "Supernatural Horror in Literature"Howard Phillips Lovecraft forever changed the face of horror, f
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Twelfth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Cloth))
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Current:
8.2 |
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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12 Gothic Tales (Oxford Twelves)
Richard Dalby
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Current:
8.1 |
This two-volume set (the other half is Volume 2: The Modern Gothic) by David Punter is more than simply a history of the gothic form in American and British literature. It's an ambitious attempt t
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The Literature of Terror, Vol. 1: The Gothic Tradition
David Punter
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Current:
8.0 |
This two-volume set (the other half is Volume 2: The Modern Gothic) by David Punter is more than simply a history of the gothic form in American and British literature. It's an ambitious attempt t
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Titus Crow : The Burrowers Beneath, the Transition of Titus Crow
Brian Lumley
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Current:
7.9 |
The two novels contained in the first volume of Titus Crow--"The Burrowers Beneath" and "The Transition of Titus Crow" (originally published in 1974 and 1975)--are a matched set marking the introduction of Brian Lumley's Sherlockian
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The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror : Tenth Annual Collection (Paper)
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Current:
7.9 |
The 10th volume of this excellent annual anthology series not only collects 39 stories and 4 poems in these overlapping genres, but reports on the year's best in books, movies, and other media. The horror and dark fantasy tales are by Jay R
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The Raven and the Monkey's Paw : Classics of Horror and Suspense from the Modern Library
Edgar Allan Poe
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Current:
7.9 |
"Once upon a midnight dreary" is perhaps the best time to peruse the tales of horror and suspense in The Raven and the Monkey's Paw. For a generation raised on the quick-and-gory thrills of Stephen King or Anne Rice, the literary ter
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Spectre of the Black Rose (Ravenloft)
James Lowder, Voronica Whitney-Robinson
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Current:
7.9 |
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Gangrel (The Clan Novel Series, No. 3)
Gherbod Fleming, John Van Fleet (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Marriage of Sticks
Jonathan Carroll
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Current:
7.9 |
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Love in Vein : Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica
Poppy Z. Brite
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Current:
7.9 |
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Clan Novel : Toreador (The Clan Novel Series , No 1)
Stewart Wieck
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Complete John Silence Stories (Dover Horror Classics)
Algernon Blackwood, S. T. Joshi
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Current:
7.8 |
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The Inhuman Condition
Clive Barker
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Current:
7.7 |
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Best Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Horror Classics)
Bram Stoker
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Current:
7.6 |
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Titus Crow : In the Moons of Borea. Elysia : The Coming of Cthulhu
Brian Lumley
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Current:
7.5 |
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Titus Crow : The Clock of Dreams ; Spawn of the Winds
Brian Lumley
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Current:
7.4 |
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Personal Demons
Christopher Fowler
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Current:
7.2 |
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The Monkey's Paw and Jerry Bundler (Classic Frights)
W. W. Jacobs, Jeff White (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.1 |
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The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, the Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel : Three Gothic Novels
Horace Walpole
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Current:
7.0 |
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Great Weird Tales : 14 Stories by Lovecraft, Blackwood, MacHen and Others (Dover Horror Classics)
S. T. Joshi
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7.0 |
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The Castle of Otranto/Vathek/the Monk/Frankenstein/4 Novels in 1 Volume
Horace Walpole
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Current:
6.9 |
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