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Vittorio the Vampire : New Tales of the Vampires
Anne Rice
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Current:
9.7 |
Tired of the same old vampires? Check out Anne Rice's new race of undead bloodsuckers, independent of the Lestat series. Her alterna-vamp books began with Pandora, but the second of her New
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Bag of Bones
Stephen King
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Current:
9.6 |
Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary ol
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| 3
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False Memory
Dean R. Koontz
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Current:
9.6 |
Not a continuation of the Moonlight Bay series (Seize the Night and Fear Nothing) as many fans were expecting, False Memory
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| 4
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The Green Mile : The Complete Serial Novel
Stephen King
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Current:
9.5 |
This novel taps into what Stephen King does best: character-driven storytelling. The setting is the small "death house" of a Southern prison in 1932. The charming narrator is an old man looking back on the events, decades later. M
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Fear Nothing
Dean R. Koontz
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Current:
9.5 |
If you think you've got it tough, meet Christopher Snow, the hero of Dean Koontz's novel Fear Nothing. Not only did his parents die under mysterious circumstances, but he's also being stalked by shadowy characters who want Snow to st
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Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires
Anne Rice
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Current:
9.5 |
Anne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees t
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A Patchwork Planet (Ballantine Readers Circle)
Anne Tyler
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Current:
9.5 |
Barnaby Gaitlin is one of Anne Tyler's most promising unpromising characters. At 30, he has yet to graduate from college, is already divorced, and is used to defeat. His mother thrives on reminding him of his adolescent delinquency and debt
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The Green Mile : The Complete Serial Novel
Stephen King
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Current:
9.4 |
When Stephen King originally wrote The Green Mile as a series of six novellas, he didn't even know how the story would turn out. And it turned out to be of his finest yarns, tapping into what he does best: character-driven storytelli
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The Descent
Jeff Long
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Current:
9.3 |
In a high Himalayan cave, among the death pits of Bosnia, in a newly excavated Java temple, Long's characters find out to their terror that humanity is not alone--that, as we have always really known, horned and vicious humanoids lurk in va
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Blue Moon (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter)
Laurell K. Hamilton
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Current:
9.3 |
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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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Stephen King
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Current:
9.2 |
Trisha McFarland is a plucky 9-year-old hiking with her brother and mom, who is grimly determined to give the kids a good time on their weekends together. Trisha's mom is recently divorced, and her brother is feuding with her for moving fro
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Red Dragon
Thomas Harris
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Current:
9.1 |
Lying on a cot in his cell with Alexandre Dumas's Le Grand Dictionnaire de Cuisine open on his chest, Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter makes his debut in this legendary horror novel, which is even better than its sequel, The Silence
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Storm of the Century (Screenplay)
Stephen King(Introduction)
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Current:
8.9 |
Stephen King started writing Storm of the Century as a novel, but it evolved into the teleplay of an ABC TV miniseries. Set in Maine's remote Little Tall Island, the tale is all about vivid small-town characters, feuds, infidelities,
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Bag of Bones
Stephen King
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Current:
8.8 |
Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary ol
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Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
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Current:
8.7 |
The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris, is even better than the successful movie. Like his earlier Red Dragon, the book takes us inside the world of professional criminal investi
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Seize the Night
Dean R. Koontz
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Current:
8.5 |
Chris Snow, the light-phobic, oddball hero of Dean Koontz's Fear Nothing, is once again caught in the middle of something ugly. The children (and pets) of Moonlight Bay, California, are dis
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The Vampire Armand : The Vampire Chronicles (Rice, Anne, Vampire Chronicles)
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.4 |
In The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice returns to her indomitable Vampire Chronicles and recaptures the gothic horror and delight she first explored in her classic tale more]
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The Coffin Dancer
Jeffery Deaver
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Current:
8.4 |
This return engagement for quadriplegic criminologist Lincoln Rhyme is strong on forensic details as Rhyme tracks an elusive assassin known only by the tattoo that gives this fast-paced thriller its title. Three witnesses to a murder co
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Pandora : New Tales of the Vampires
Anne Rice
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Current:
8.4 |
Anne Rice fans will greet Pandora: New Tales of the Vampires, the first of her new vampire chronicles, as hungrily as the Fang Gang facing a fresh new neck. Our heroine, Pandora, a senator's daughter in Augustus Caesar's day, flees t
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American Psycho : A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
Bret Easton Ellis
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Current:
8.4 |
The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York. Read more
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The Sandman : The Dream Hunters
Neil Gaiman, Yoshitaka Amano (Illustrator)
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Current:
8.4 |
Sandman fans should feel lucky that master fantasy writer Neil Gaiman discovered the mythical world of Japanese fables while researching his translation of Hayao Miyazaki's film Princess Mononoke. At the same time, while prepa
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Seize the Night
Dean R. Koontz
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Current:
8.4 |
Chris Snow, the light-phobic, oddball hero of Dean Koontz's Fear Nothing, is once again caught in the middle of something ugly. The children (and pets) of Moonlight Bay, California, are dis
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The Stand : Complete and Uncut
Stephen King
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Current:
8.4 |
In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to b
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The House
Bentley Little
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Current:
8.4 |
If you haven't had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Bentley Little, then The House will give you the perfect opportunity to get to know this fine sorcerer of horror. Haunted houses are an endless source of fascination for writers of the m
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
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Current:
8.2 |
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. more]
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The Haunting
Shirley Jackson, Shirely Jackson
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Current:
8.1 |
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. more]
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The Unburied
Charles Palliser
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Current:
8.0 |
Though putatively a mystery set (mostly) in the Victorian age, Charles Palliser's The Unburied has more in common with Umberto Eco than Arthur Conan Doyle. Like The Name of the Rose,
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Great Ghost Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
John Grafton
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Current:
8.0 |
Chaim Skibelski rises from a pit of slaughter, leaving his dead townsmen and family behind, and returns to his home--now occupied by non-Jews. "In front of every house were piles of vows and promises, all in broken pieces. How I could
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A Blessing on the Moon
Joseph Skibell
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Current:
8.0 |
Chaim Skibelski rises from a pit of slaughter, leaving his dead townsmen and family behind, and returns to his home--now occupied by non-Jews. "In front of every house were piles of vows and promises, all in broken pieces. How I could
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Topper
Thorne Smith
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Current:
7.8 |
"[Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit. A ghost that haunts us still." --The New York TimesThorne Smith is a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee. Topper, his best-known work, is the hila
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Classic American Ghost Stories : 200 Years of Ghost Lore from the Great Plains, New England, the South, and the Pacific Northwest
Deborah L. Downer, Deborah A. Downer
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Current:
7.8 |
Downer brings together stories from newspapers, journals and magazines--none of which were written as fictitious--that tell of phantoms and ghosts from across the nation. Read mor
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The Cold, Cold Hand : More Stories of Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills
James V. Burchill
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Current:
7.8 |
This is a collection of authentic ghost stories and legends that will send shivers up and down the spine. Gathered from those who lived in the Appalachian foothills for generations, The Cold, Cold Hand is a sequel to the popular Ghosts and
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The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton, Laszlo Kubinyi (Illustrator)
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Current:
7.8 |
"'No, I don't believe in ghosts, but I'm afraid of them,' is much more than the cheap paradox it seems to many. To 'believe,' in that sense, is a conscious act of the intellect, and it is in the warm darkness of the prenatal fluid far
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The Uncanny
Andrew Klavan
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Current:
7.8 |
"Trolls, he thought. That's what it was. Religious people believed God ran the world. Atheists figured it was indifferent nature. But it was trolls. Sadistic little homunculi in leather jackets with lots of zippers. Hiding behind the s
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Haunted Heartland
Beth Scott, Michael Norman
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Current:
7.7 |
This is the second collaborative effort of Scott and Norman, described by the authors as a collection of "genuine, if gentle, chills in a section of the country not known for its gothic mansions...or abandoned ghost towns." While this book
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A Face at the Window
Dennis McFarland
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Current:
7.6 |
A Face at the Window is a rare treat--a critically acclaimed literary novel that is also a charming tale of the supernatural. The plot is a bit like Stephen King's The Shining: a man
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The Ghost of Hannah Mendes : A Novel
Naomi Ragen
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Current:
7.4 |
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12 Classic Ghost Stories
John Grafton
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Current:
7.3 |
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Suspicion : A Novel
Barbara Rogan
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Current:
7.3 |
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| 40
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The Moonlit Road and Other Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
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Current:
7.2 |
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Collected Ghost Stories
Montague Rhodes James
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Current:
7.1 |
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Tamsin
Peter S. Beagle
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Current:
7.0 |
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The Rainy Season
James P. Blaylock
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Current:
7.0 |
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Best Ghost and Horror Stories (Dover Horror Classics)
Bram Stoker
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Current:
6.9 |
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12 Victorian Ghost Stories
Michael Cox
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Current:
6.8 |
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13 Haunting Ghost Tales
Kirt Stark, Kirk Stark
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Current:
6.8 |
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The Dark Tower : The Gunslinger, the Drawing of the Three, the Waste Lands
Stephen King
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Current:
6.7 |
Titles include The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger, The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three and The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands. Read more
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
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Current:
6.6 |
Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House has unnerved readers since its original publication in 1959. A tale of subtle, psychological terror, it has earned its place as one of the significant haunted house stories of the ages. more]
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The Green Man
Kinglsey Amis, Kingsley Amis
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Current:
6.5 |
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12 Irish Ghost Stories (Oxford Twelves)
Patricia Craig
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Current:
6.5 |
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