Horror

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Historical, Fiction, Horror lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Toni Morrison?s Beloved is a spellbinding and dazzlingly innovative portrait of a woman haunted by the past.Sethe was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has borne the unthinkable and not gone mad, yet she is still held captive by memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful f...

Mary Shelley began writing Frankenstein when she was only eighteen. At once a Gothic thriller, a passionate romance, and a cautionary tale about the dangers of science, Frankenstein tells the story of committed science student Victor Frankenstein. Obsessed with discovering the cause of generation and life and bestowing animation upon lifeless matte...

Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth_x0097_musicians, tat...

Patrick Bateman is twentysix and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to headon collision with America's greatest dream?and its worst nightmare?American Psycho is bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognise but do not wish to confront....

Carrie knew she should not use the terrifying power she possessed... But one night at her senior prom, Carrie was scorned and humiliated just one time too many, and in a fit of uncontrollable fury she turned her clandestine game into a weapon of horror and destruction......

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lu...

THE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler_x0092_s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi_x0092_s themselves...THE PRESENT... Compelled by the encounter to survive at ...

"If John Irving ever wrote a horror novel, it would be something like this. I loved it." Stephen King ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: ESQUIRE THE NERD DAILY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY A GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FINALISTMonsters both figurative and very literal stalk the Turner family. The youngest child, Noah, narrates the family history: ...

A chilling thriller that brilliantly blends domestic drama, psychological suspense, and a touch of modern horror, reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewskis House of Leaves, John Ajvide Lindqvists Let the Right One In, and Shirley Jacksons The Haunting of Hill House.The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourt...

A little door that opens to a world of fairy tale wonders becomes the blooddrenched stomping ground for a gang of hunters in _x0093_Faun._x0094_ A griefstricken librarian climbs behind the wheel of an antique Bookmobile to deliver fresh reads to the dead in _x0093_Late Returns._x0094_ In _x0093_By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain,_x0094_ two young friends stumble on the corpse of...

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, Fantasy, and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bend...

Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream_x0085_A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She_x0092_s not his mother. He_x0092_s not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a gh...

To a mortician, the preparation of a corpse is an art. The smooth, silent exchange of blood and embalming fluid is like a symphony to be orchestrated. The presentation of the deceased lying in a shining casket framed by flowers is an exquisitely composed tableau. And the burial itself is the magnificent climax to his craftsmanship. Clive Bark...

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous.But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go.Coraline will have to fight with all her wits and courage if she is to save ...

Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood.By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.How long can one man su...

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beaten the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. Now, twenty years after the Rising, bloggers Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the ...

Fledgling, Octavia Butler's new novel after a seven year break, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly inhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53yearold vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn ...

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it_x0092_s an offer that_x0092_s too good to refuse. There_x0092_s only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives eld...

Can any soul surviveRegarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Two previous expeditions to investigate its secrets met with disaster, the participants destroyed by murder, suicide or insanity. Now a new investigation has been mounted four strangers, each with h...

Whoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves.Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a 17th century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters your homes at will. She stands next to your bed for nights on end....

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene insults. Amanda_x0097_a successful architect in a happy marriage_x0097_finds her life going off kilter by degrees. She starts smoking again, and one night for no reason, without even the knowledge that she's doing it, she burns her husband with a cigarette. At nig...

Welcome to Derry, Maine ...It_x0092_s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grownup men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force ...

"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 onevolume edition of the Books of Blood is a welcome chance to acquire the 16 remarkable horror short stories with which he kicked off his career. For those who already know these tales, the poignant intro...

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Comic, Comics., Horror, Comics.Fiction lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

“Available recommendation signals cluster around Fiction, Fantasy, Horror lists, suggesting this book may fit readers looking for imaginative storytelling, atmosphere, or character-driven reflection. Treat this as discovery context, not a quality guarantee.”

The monsters live inside of Kate Woodson. Chronic pain and a host of autoimmune diseases have robbed her of a normal, happy life. Her husband Andrew_x0092_s surprise of their dream Maine lake cottage for the summer is the gift of a lifetime. It_x0092_s beautiful, remote, idyllic, a place to heal. But they are not alone. Something is in the woods, screeching in...

Ready Player One meets Gladiator in this highoctane thriller that mixes fighttothedeath UFCstyle cage matches and blackops espionage.In the near future, the line between entertainment and brutality has blurred. Mysterious billionaire and entertainment magnate Cameron Crayton is a household name from his questionably legal televised spectacles...

When Alexis' little sister, Kasey, becomes obsessed with an antique doll, Alexis thinks nothing of it. Kasey is a weird kid. Period. Alexis is considered weird, too, by the kids in her high school, by her parents, even by her own goth friends. Things get weirder, though, when the old house they live in starts changing. Doors open and close by thems...

Play adaptation of the successful novel by William March....

Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edgeofyourseat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic nearfuture world_x0097_a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman.Something is out there . . . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One gl...

From the bestselling horror author of Within These Walls and The Bird Eater comes a terrifying novel that follows a teenager determined to break from his family_x0092_s unconventional_x0097_and deeply disturbing_x0097_traditions.Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands a crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it_x0092_s served them well s...

In life, not every sin goes unpunished.GHOST STORYFor four aging men in the terrorstricken town of Milburn, New York, an act inadvertently carried out in their youth has come back to haunt them. Now they are about to learn what happens to those who believe they can bury the past and get away with murder....

First published in 1967 and reissued in 1983, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream contains seven stories with copyrights ranging from 1958 through 1967. This edition contains the original introduction by Theodore Sturgeon and the original foreword by Harlan Ellison, along with a brief update comment by Ellison that was added in the 1983 edition. Amo...

Past midnight, Chyna Shepard, twentysix, gazes out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Foreman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. A selfproclaimed "homicidal adventurer," Vess lives only to sat...

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moment...

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