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Books of Blood : Volumes One to Three
Clive Barker
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Current:
9.5 |
"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 Dark Descent
David G. Hartwell
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Current:
9.5 |
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:
9.4 |
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:
9.4 |
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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Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
H. P. Lovecraft
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Current:
9.4 |
"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:
9.2 |
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:
9.1 |
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:
9.1 |
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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Titus Crow : The Burrowers Beneath, the Transition of Titus Crow
Brian Lumley
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Current:
9.1 |
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: Twelfth Annual Collection (Year's Best Fantasy & Horror (Paper))
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Current:
9.0 |
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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The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (Best New Horror, No 9)
Stephen Jones
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Current:
9.0 |
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 Year's Best Fantasy and Horror (11th Annual Collection) (Paper)
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
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Current:
9.0 |
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:
9.0 |
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:
9.0 |
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:
8.8 |
"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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Kiss and Kill (The Hot Blood Series , No 8)
Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett
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Current:
8.8 |
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:
8.8 |
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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Carmilla : The Return
Kyle Marffin
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Current:
8.7 |
Ever since J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla--an important (and openly acknowledged) influence on Bram Stoker's Dracula--horror writers have
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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:
8.7 |
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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Seeds of Fear (Hot Blood)
Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett
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Current:
8.7 |
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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Hot Blood X
Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett
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Current:
8.6 |
This 10th annual edition of the Hot Blood series amply proves that erotic horror is no passing fad: the physical and psychological connections between bodies in lust and bodies in extremis appear to stimulate the imaginations of horr
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Stranger by Night (The Hot Blood)
Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett
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Current:
8.6 |
A collection of erotic horror stories highlights the works of such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, Graham Masterton, Brink Stevens, Brian Hodge, Edward Lee, Lucy Taylor, and Mike Newton. more]
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Immoral Tales : European Sex & Horror Movies 1956-1984
Cathal Tohill, Pete Tombs
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Current:
8.6 |
"I urge you: learn how to look at 'bad' films, they are so often sublime." This remark by Ado Kyrou heads up the introduction to Immoral Tales, from which horror and exploitation film fans, especially Americans, can learn m
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The Darker Passions : Frankenstein (The Darker Passions Series)
Amarantha Knight
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Current:
8.5 |
The mistress of erotic horror sets her sights on Mary Shelleys darkest creation. What if you could create a living, breathing human? What shocking acts could it be taught to perform, to desire, to love? Find out what pleasures await those w
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Distorture
Rob Hardin
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Current:
8.5 |
Distorture is a very unusual, elegantly designed (and illustrated) collection of short stories and a few poetic essays--densely embroidered with expressions like "a sandpainting of empty bodies and fixed lamprey eyes," and
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I Shudder at Your Touch : 22 Tales of Sex and Horror
Michele Slung
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Current:
8.4 |
A collection of twenty-two tales of sex and horror features work by Stephen King, Ruth Rendell, Clive Barker, Stephen R. Donaldson, Patrick McGrath, Thomas M. Disch, and others. R
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Tales of Provocative Horror
Jeff Gelb, Lonn Friend
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Current:
8.4 |
Robert R. McCammon, Graham Masterton, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell and other masters of the macabre take readers into their private world of fear, fantasy, and fatal attraction--in 24 tales of dread and debauchery, riveting stories of se
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The Inhuman Condition
Clive Barker
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Current:
8.4 |
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Best Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Horror Classics)
Bram Stoker
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Current:
8.3 |
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Titus Crow : In the Moons of Borea. Elysia : The Coming of Cthulhu
Brian Lumley
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Current:
8.3 |
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Personal Demons
Christopher Fowler
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Current:
8.3 |
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The Monkey's Paw and Jerry Bundler (Classic Frights)
W. W. Jacobs, Jeff White (Illustrator)
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8.2 |
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The Complete John Silence Stories (Dover Horror Classics)
Algernon Blackwood, S. T. Joshi
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Current:
8.2 |
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Titus Crow : The Clock of Dreams ; Spawn of the Winds
Brian Lumley
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Current:
8.1 |
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Love in Vein : Twenty Original Tales of Vampiric Erotica
Poppy Z. Brite
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Current:
8.1 |
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The Beloved
M. D. Gray
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Current:
8.0 |
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Daughters of Darkness : Lesbian Vampire Stories
Pam Keesey
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Current:
8.0 |
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Somewhere in the Night : Eight Gay Tales of the Supernatural
Jeffrey N. McMahan, Jeffery N. McMahan
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Current:
7.9 |
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The Illusionist : A Novel
Dinitia Smith
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Current:
7.9 |
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Demon Sex
Amarantha Knight
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Current:
7.8 |
A blood-chilling descent into erotic horror. Examining the dark forces of humankinds oldest stories, the contributors to Demon Sex reveal the strange symbiosis of dread and desire. Stories include a streetwalkers deal with the devil; a visi
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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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7.8 |
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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:
7.8 |
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The Castle of Otranto/Vathek/the Monk/Frankenstein/4 Novels in 1 Volume
Horace Walpole
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Current:
7.8 |
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Sex MacAbre
Amarantha Knight
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Current:
7.7 |
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Flesh Fantastic
Amarantha Knight
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Current:
7.5 |
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Tales of Titillation and Terror : A Compilation of Short Stories from the MacAbre to the Erotic
Mel D. Ames
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Current:
7.5 |
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Maneater
Sophie Gallerymor Bird
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Current:
7.5 |
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Dracula : A Symphony in Moonlight & Nightmares
Jon J. Muth
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Current:
7.4 |
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Our Lady : An Erotic/Thriller Novel
Dale Gershwin
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Current:
7.4 |
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Sexpunks and Savage Sagas : Dark, Quirky, Exotic Stories
Richard Sutphen
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7.4 |
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