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Anthology of bizarro. Volume 1.

Anthology of bizarro. Volume 1.

"Imagine 'Monty Python' writes horror... Welcome to the wonderfully horrific world of Bizarro - that dark, forbidding corner of the horror genre where absolutely anything goes and one may delve into the farthest recesses of the authors' warped imaginations....

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The cat bride  by Charlotte Tierney

The cat bride

Charlotte Tierney

"The heatwave of 1995. Sixteen years since an infamous tiger-lynx hybrid escaped a small moorland zoo and ate someone. Sixteen years since the animal was euthanised. Sixteen years for the zoo to fall into disrepair. Then sixteen-year-old convalescent Lowdy,...

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Sour cherry  by Natalia Theodoridou

Sour cherry

Natalia Theodoridou

"The tale begins with Agnes. After losing her baby, Agnes is called to the great manor house to nurse the local lord's baby boy. But something is wrong with the child: his nails grow too fast, his skin smells of soil, and his eyes remind her of the dark...

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Nowhere  by Allison Gunn

Nowhere

Allison Gunn

"Rachel Kennan, the new police chief of a fundamentalist southern town, relies on her job to push through the pain of losing her young son and the identity she buried years ago. Her husband Finn, a washed-up writer and recovering addict whose alcoholism led to...

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Senseless  by Ronald Damien Malfi

Senseless

Ronald Damien Malfi

"When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the detective assigned to the case can't deny the similarities between this murder and one that occurred a year prior. Media outlets are quick to surmise...

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Direct descendant  by Tanya Huff

Direct descendant

Tanya Huff

"This cozy stand-alone horror novel set in modern-day Toronto is the perfect balance of dark and delightful; a charming love story about a small-town baker, a quick-witted PI, and, yes, an ancient evil"--

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The vampire tapestry  by Suzy McKee Charnas

The vampire tapestry

Suzy McKee Charnas

"Examines the classic monster as a biological, rather than supernatural, predator who awakens from hibernation every few decades needing to relearn human culture. After years of secret effort, the self-styled Edward Weyland has become a respected anthropology...

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Root rot  by Saskia Nislow

Root rot

Saskia Nislow

"Come meet The Liar, The Secret Keeper, The Crybaby, and the rest. Nine children travel with their families to their Grandfather's vacation property, where strange things begin to happen: eyes blink from the bottom up, mushrooms ooze blood, people's faces...

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White line fever  by K. C. (Kevin Charles) Jones

White line fever

K. C. (Kevin Charles) Jones

"At a passing glance, County Road 951 is an entirely unremarkable stretch of blacktop, a two-lane scar across the Cascade foothills of Central Oregon. But the road is known by another name, coined by locals who've had to clean up after all those scenic detours...

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The ruins  by Scott Smith

The ruins

Scott Smith

"In Cancún, Mexico, for a peaceful vacation, a group of tourists sets off in search of one of their group who disappeared during an excursion to some nearby Mayan ruins, only to come face to face with an insidious evil that threatens their lives."--Publisher.

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The haunting of room 904  by Erika T. Wurth

The haunting of room 904

Erika T. Wurth

"Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of her sister, Naiche. But when Naiche dies unexpectedly and under strange circumstances, somehow Olivia suddenly can't stop seeing and hearing from...

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Sundown in San Ojuela  by M. M. Olivas

Sundown in San Ojuela

M. M. Olivas

"When the death of her aunt brings Liz Remolina back to San Ojuela, the prospect fills her with dread. The isolated desert town was the site of a harrowing childhood accident that left her clairvoyant, the companion of wraiths and ghosts. Yet it may also hold...

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Beauty in the blood  by Charlotte (Charlotte C.) Carter

Beauty in the blood

Charlotte (Charlotte C.) Carter

"A riveting, eerie novel about two families caught up in a centuries-old curse... Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced - and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, a force she can neither...

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Fever dreams of a parasite  by Pedro Iniguez

Fever dreams of a parasite

Pedro Iniguez

""Haunting tales that traverse worlds both familiar and alien. Paying homage to Lovecraft, Ligotti, and Langan, these cosmic horror, weird fiction, and folk-inspired stories explore tales of outsiders, killers, and tormented souls as they struggle to survive...

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Greater sins  by Gabrielle Griffiths

Greater sins

Gabrielle Griffiths

"1915, the Cabrach, Aberdeenshire. An isolated Scottish community is disturbed by a strange discovery- a body in a peat bog, perfectly preserved. Two people haul the body from the ground- Lizzie, the wife of a wealthy local landowner, and Johnny, a nomadic...

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Vanishing daughters  by Cynthia Pelayo

Vanishing daughters

Cynthia Pelayo

"Haunted by eerie visions and restless spirits, Briar Thorne investigates a string of murders tied to a Chicago serial killer, uncovering a chilling connection between her nightmares and the key to stopping the killer before she becomes his next...

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The memory ward  by Jon Bassoff

The memory ward

Jon Bassoff

"They say it's always beautiful in Bethlam, Nevada. No place you'd rather live. The people are friendly, if a little nosy, and there's no crime to speak of. Life is pretty perfect. But postal worker Hank Davies has started to suspect something is off in this...

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Palmetto  by Ania Ahlborn

Palmetto

Ania Ahlborn

"Kim Devland nearly has it all. A great marriage. A baby on the way. All that's missing is a house-one idyllic enough to fill the Norman Rockwell-shaped spaces in her mind. When Kim's husband, Eddie, books a property tour of a home Kim has been eyeing online,...

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Dark across the bay  by Ania Ahlborn

Dark across the bay

Ania Ahlborn

"The house sits stoic and slightly askew off the coast of Raven's Head. Its off-kilter windows are both charming and disorienting, its walls of overstuffed bookshelves both comforting and claustrophobic. When Leo and Lark Parrish arrive at their vacation home...

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If you see her  by Ania Ahlborn

If you see her

Ania Ahlborn

"The house on Old Mill Road has stood in an open field for longer than Jesse Wells has been alive, its crooked windows and jutting turret tormenting the kids of Warsaw, Michigan the way only a haunted house knows how. Everyone imagines that something terrible...

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Good and joyful things  by Ania Ahlborn

Good and joyful things

Ania Ahlborn

"Simone and Elliott Evans have it all; a comfortable life, a house on a quiet street, and two sweet daughters. But their marriage is far from happy, especially now. While Elliott spends all day at work, postpartum depression presses down hard on Simone's...

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Mean spirited / Nick Roberts. by Nick (Writer of horror fiction) Roberts

Mean spirited / Nick Roberts.

Nick (Writer of horror fiction) Rob...

"Matt Matheny teaches during the day, drinks at night, and barely hides his functioning alcoholism from his veterinarian ex-wife, Lucy, and his six-year-old son, Mikey. His world spirals out of control when a former student is killed, and he's left with her...

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The divine flesh  by Drew Huff

The divine flesh

Drew Huff

"Jennifer Plummer and the Divine Flesh have exactly three things in common: 1) they're trapped inside Jennifer's body; 2) they despise each other; and 3) they're in love with Daryl Plummer, Jennifer's ex-husband. But when Jennifer takes an experimental wonder...

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Blood on her tongue  by Johanna van Veen

Blood on her tongue

Johanna van Veen

"The Netherlands, 1887. Lucy's twin sister, Sarah, is unwell. She refuses to eat, mumbles nonsensically, and is increasingly obsessed with a centuries old corpse recently discovered on her husband's grand estate. The doctor has diagnosed her with temporary...

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Rose of Jericho  by Alex Grecian

Rose of Jericho

Alex Grecian

"Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not dying. When...

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Suburban monsters  by Christopher (Horror fiction writer) Hawkins

Suburban monsters

Christopher (Horror fiction writer)...

"The house at the end of the block with the overgrown lawn. The darkened store window in a forgotten corner of the shopping mall. The colorful characters of a children's TV show. What dark secrets do they hide? From award-winning author Christopher Hawkins...

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Legends of the werewolf hunter

Legends of the werewolf hunter

"Hell's apex predator kills with impunity, but so does the werewolf hunter, creating a vicious cycle of blood and vengeance. Welcome to a collection imagined from the pages of Brian P. Easton's Autobiography of a Werewolf Hunter series, a nightmare-fueled...

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Younger  by Dani Lamia

Younger

Dani Lamia

"Eternity has a price... Harriet has lived a long, fulfilling life, surrounded a loving family and her friends at the Marryat Manor retirement home. But instead of enjoying her twilight years, she feels alone and afraid. The specter of dementia haunts her, and...

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Hex  by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

Hex

Thomas Olde Heuvelt

"Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children's bed...

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Beta vulgaris  by Margie Sarsfield

Beta vulgaris

Margie Sarsfield

"Elise and her boyfriend, Tom, set off for Minnesota, hoping the paycheck from the sugar beet harvest will cover the rent on their Brooklyn apartment. Amidst the grueling work and familiar anxieties about her finances, Elise starts noticing strange things:...

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The exorcist  by William Peter Blatty

The exorcist

William Peter Blatty

"Chris MacNeil, busy movie star and single mother, slowly realizes that her 12-year-old daughter, Regen, is behaving strangely, then out of the norm, then like the demon who is possessing her."--Publisher.

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One came back  by Rose McDonagh

One came back

Rose McDonagh

"It's New Year's Eve in Edinburgh when Emily sees Nicky. Or at least she thinks she does. He looks, laughs, and moves just like Nicky. But how can that be? Nicky died when they were teenagers, in an accident on a remote road up in the Highlands... didn't he? A...

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The Gaia Chime  by Johnny Worthen

The Gaia Chime

Johnny Worthen

"Charlotte, seeking to make a documentary for her graduate thesis enlists the older Seth, a burned-out film teacher with a history of scandal, to film the daily life of a rising tennis star, Bobby Weller. It's a glimpse into the world of the rich and dedicated...

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Monster hunter international  by Larry Correia

Monster hunter international

Larry Correia

"Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a fourteenth story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer. It turns out that monsters are real. All the things from myth, legend,...

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Carrion crow  by Heather (Writer and editor) Parry

Carrion crow

Heather (Writer and editor) Parry

"Marguerite has been locked in the attic of her family home, a disintegrating Chelsea house overlooking the stench of the Thames. For company she has: a sewing machine, a copy of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management and trays of congealing food carried up...

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Exquisite corpse  by Poppy Z. Brite

Exquisite corpse

Poppy Z. Brite

"To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the ambition of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires...

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Something in the walls  by Daisy Pearce

Something in the walls

Daisy Pearce

"Newly-minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she's been unable to get her feet wet. Instead she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain, and...

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Girls against God  by Jenny Hval

Girls against God

Jenny Hval

"Welcome to 1990s Norway. White picket fences run in neat rows and Christian conservatism runs deep. But as the Artist considers her work, things start stirring themselves up. In a corner of Oslo a coven of witches begin cooking up some curses. A...

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The deep  by Nick Cutter

The deep

Nick Cutter

"A strange plague called the 'Gets is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget--small things at first, like where they left their keys, then the not-so-small things like how to drive or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies...

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The lamb  by Lucy Rose

The lamb

Lucy Rose

"A contemporary folktale in which a mother and daughter take in passersby and eat them, exploring queerness, first loves, and tense mother-daughter relationships. Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. They spend quiet days...

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Scuttler's Cove  by David Barnett

Scuttler's Cove

David Barnett

"Scuttler's Cove is a working village, nestling in dramatic coastal scenery in Cornwall, where life has gone on uninterrupted for centuries - until this seaside idyll was discovered by the rich. Now the quaint harbour-front cottages have been snapped up by...

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The poorly made and other things  by Sam Rebelein

The poorly made and other things

Sam Rebelein

"In Renfield County, a cursed madness grips the residents after Lawrence Renfield's massacre, with bloodstained wood repurposed into everyday items unleashing terrifying consequences; through interconnected tales, a young girl uncovers family secrets, a...

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But not too bold  by H. Pueyo

But not too bold

H. Pueyo

"The old keeper of the keys is dead, and the creature who ate her is the volatile Lady of the Capricious House - Anatema, an enormous humanoid spider with a taste for laudanum and human brides. Dalia, the old keeper's protegee, must take up her duties, locking...

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Bitter is the heart  by Mina Hardy

Bitter is the heart

Mina Hardy

"Tamar Glass fled an abusive mother when she was eighteen, running away from home to find a better life elsewhere. She has lived in freedom from her mother, Ruth, for decades, until one night she wakes to find her now-elderly mother standing over her bed,...

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Marginal  by Tom Carlisle

Marginal

Tom Carlisle

"A man returns to the cult he escaped from to bury his brother, only to discover the past is monstrous, hungry and mutating, in this devilishly gory body horror. When Rob receives a call in the middle of the night, he knows it must be bad news. But he isn't...

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Our winter monster  by Dennis Mahoney

Our winter monster

Dennis Mahoney

"Holly and Brian race through a blizzard, hoping a ski-village getaway will save their strained relationship, until they lose control of the car... and lose each other in the storm. Something monstrous stalks them in the whiteout, leaving a trail of wreckage...

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Mr. X  by Peter Straub

Mr. X

Peter Straub

"Every year on his birthday, Ned Dunstan has a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious figure in black whom he calls Mr. X. Now, with his birthday fast approaching, Ned has been drawn back to...

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At the bottom of the garden  by Camilla Bruce

At the bottom of the garden

Camilla Bruce

"Clara Woods is a killer-and perfectly fine with it, too. So what if she takes a couple of lives to make her own a little bit better? At the bottom of her garden is a flowerbed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace-or so she always thought....

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Vampire Hunter D. Omnibus book seven  by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Vampire Hunter D. Omnibus book seven

Hideyuki Kikuchi

"Vampire Hunter D Omnibus Book Seven collects three different complete novels. Mercenary Road leads D to a ruined castle where a family hides in hope of rescue from a resurrected horde of the undead. In Scenes From an Unholy War, D is hired to defend a village...

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The Pink Agave Motel & other stories  by V. Castro

The Pink Agave Motel & other stories

V. Castro

"Readers are invited to The Pink Agave Motel, where brutality and intimacy ooze across the pages, exploring the depths of the unhinged imagination and how human desire unlocks the impulse to bite. Castro's voice, influenced by Mexican folklore and a feminist...

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Mother of serpents  by John R. (Suspense fiction writer) Gordon

Mother of serpents

John R. (Suspense fiction writer) G...

"Brooklyn-based poet DuVone Mapley-Stevenson is already struggling with fragile mental health when his white husband Jack gets a promotion that means them relocating to all-white Kwawidokawa County, upstate Maine. At first it seems this could be a fresh start...

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Listen to your sister  by Neena Viel

Listen to your sister

Neena Viel

"Twenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is...

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Thinner  by Richard Bachman

Thinner

Richard Bachman

"Attorney Billy Halleck seriously enjoys living his life of upper-class excess. He's got it all - an expensive home in Connecticut, a loving family ... and fifty extra pounds that his doctor repeatedly warns will be the death of him. Then, in a moment of...

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Broken ghosts  by J. D. Oswald

Broken ghosts

J. D. Oswald

"Spring, 1985. Twelve year old Phoebe MacDonald's world is falling apart. She has just buried her parents, a fire at their family home claiming both in a freak accident. Now she must leave Scotland, the only place she has ever known, and go to live with her...

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Waysider  by K. J. Sutton

Waysider

K. J. Sutton

"If you go wandering through the dark, you're going to find things you don't like. When twenty-year-old Cass Ryan is pulled out of the Hudson River, she's officially dead for four minutes. She doesn't know anything about the boy who pushed her in. She doesn't...

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The demonologist  by Andrew Pyper

The demonologist

Andrew Pyper

"David Ullman is a literature professor at Columbia University, with special expertise in Milton's Paradise Lost. The epic poem about Satan and his court of fallen angels makes for a fascinating lecture, but at the end of the day for David, it's just another...

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The muse and other stories  by Kok Yee Chua

The muse and other stories

Kok Yee Chua

"An anthology of novella and short stories with supernatural elements based on Malaysia's multi-culture beliefs and myths"--Provided by publisher.

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The strain  by Guillermo del Toro

The strain

Guillermo del Toro

"A grisly scene onboard a grounded Boeing 777 prompts a call to the CDC and Dr. Eph Goodweather. Once on board, Dr. Goodweather discovers the first reported case of a deadly vampire-like disease rapidly affecting the human population. Meanwhile in Harlem,...

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Long division

Long division

"We live in divided times. We're fueled by misinformation. We retreat inside ideological bubbles. We no longer trust each other. We've forgotten what holds us together. We're more dangerous than ever. These original stories of transgression show us the...

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Hungerstone  by Kat Dunn

Hungerstone

Kat Dunn

"Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage the relationship has soured, and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them from London to the Peak District, to the remote, imposing...

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Weird fiction

Weird fiction

"Penguin Weird Fiction- a celebration of the very best of the weird, a store of novels and tales that for generations have delighted and horrified. Sometime around the turn of the twentieth century, something happened, something... weird. In the dark halls of...

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Old soul  by Susan Barker

Old soul

Susan Barker

"The woman never goes by the same name. She never stays in the same place too long. She never ages. She never dies. But those around her do. When two grieving strangers meet by chance in Osaka airport they uncover a disturbing connection. Jake's best friend...

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Anathema  by Nick (Writer of horror fiction) Roberts

Anathema

Nick (Writer of horror fiction) Rob...

"Derrick Stockton is in his mid-twenties, approaching three years sober, and working a stable job in Ohio. After surviving the seemingly random horrors of his childhood at the hands of a sinister neighbor, he believes he's finally moved on. All that changes...

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Voice like a hyacinth  by Mallory Pearson

Voice like a hyacinth

Mallory Pearson

"Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends, Caroline, Finch, Amrita, and Saz, are one another's muses--so close they have their own language and so devoted to the craft that they'll do anything to keep their inspiration alive. Even if it...

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Witchcraft for wayward girls  by Grady Hendrix

Witchcraft for wayward girls

Grady Hendrix

"They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and most...

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Strange pictures  by author Uketsu

Strange pictures

author Uketsu

"An exploration of the macabre, where the seemingly mundane takes on a terrifying significance. . . . A pregnant woman's sketches on a seemingly innocuous blog conceal a chilling warning. A child's picture of his home contains a dark secret message. A sketch...

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The ice lands  by author Steinar Bragi

The ice lands

author Steinar Bragi

"The recovering alcoholic Hrafin; and their partners Anna, a tenacious journalist and Vigdis, a psychiatrist facing her own inner demons - embark on an ambitious camping trip, their jeep packed with supplies.Victims of the financial crisis, the purpose of the...

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At dark, I become loathsome  by Eric LaRocca

At dark, I become loathsome

Eric LaRocca

"A single line of text, glowing in the darkness of the internet. Written by Ashley Lutin, who has often thought that, and worse, in the years since his wife died and his young son disappeared. But the peace of the grave is not for Ashley it's for those he can...

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Wake up and open your eyes  by Clay McLeod Chapman

Wake up and open your eyes

Clay McLeod Chapman

"When Noah's aging parents stop returning his calls, he travels to their Virginia home and finds it in shambles. They have been violently possessed via the media they watch - and much of the country is succumbing, too. With his nephew - also unaffected -Noah...

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Anathema  by Nick (Writer of horror fiction) Roberts

Anathema

Nick (Writer of horror fiction) Rob...

"Bryan and Ellie Stockton hope they left behind their demons when they move to their idyllic new home in southern West Virginia. Above all, they want a fresh start for their young son, Derrick, who witnessed the tumultuous first years of their marriage - years...

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Crimson paradise  by Eugene Weaver

Crimson paradise

Eugene Weaver

"In the middle of the Solomon Sea, off the coast of Papua New Guinea, by cover of inexplicable, violent storm clouds lies la Isla de Sebria. Once inhabited by the Spanish Conquistadores, and later the discovery of an exiled village of natives from the nearby...

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At midnight we possess the damned  by Nick (Author Cato

At midnight we possess the damned

Nick (Author Cato

"There are casual fans, and then there are genuine fanatics. Gary has been obsessed with the extreme side of cinema since he could remember, and has been on a quest to see every infamous film possible, the more shocking, the better. He has even tried his hand...

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The swarm  by Andy Marino

The swarm

Andy Marino

"It begins with cicadas. It will end with the swarm. When millions of insects appear unexpectedly, off the rhythm of their 17-year cycle, Detective Vicky Paterson is investigating a bizarre killing in her sleepy hometown. At the same time, a pair of hired guns...

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Bat eater  by Kylie Lee Baker

Bat eater

Kylie Lee Baker

"Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner. But the bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. But the killer was never caught, and Cora is still haunted by his last...

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Guillotine  by Delilah S. Dawson

Guillotine

Delilah S. Dawson

"Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his...

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Crypt of the moon spider  by Nathan Ballingrud

Crypt of the moon spider

Nathan Ballingrud

"Veronica Brinkley has been committed to The Barrowfield Home, run by Dr. Cull, to treat her depression. The institution is built on the crypt of a giant Lunar Spider, tended to by a monastic group of worshippers called the Alabaster Scholars. Dr. Cull is...

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Wake up and open your eyes  by Clay McLeod Chapman

Wake up and open your eyes

Clay McLeod Chapman

"When Noah's aging parents stop returning his calls, he travels to their Virginia home and finds it in shambles. They have been violently possessed via the media they watch--and much of the country is succumbing, too. With his nephew--also unaffected--Noah...

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Between two fires  by Christopher Buehlman

Between two fires

Christopher Buehlman

"The year is 1348. Thomas, a disgraced knight, has found a young girl alone in a dead Norman village. An orphan of the Black Death, and an almost unnerving picture of innocence, she tells Thomas that plague is only part of a larger cataclysm - that the fallen...

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The sum of all things  by Sébastien Doubinsky

The sum of all things

Sébastien Doubinsky

"In New Samarqand, trouble is brewing: The king is very ill, nobody knows who will succeed him and terrorist groups are plaguing the city-state. In the eye of the storm, the National Museum is opening a new wing displaying the magnificent tomb of two Amazon...

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Beneath the poet's house  by Christa Carmen

Beneath the poet's house

Christa Carmen

"Unmoored by her husband's death and suffering from writer's block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of Sarah Helen Whitman, the nineteenth-century poet and spiritualist once courted by Edgar Allan Poe. Saoirse's certain...

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Attack of the killer tomatoes  by Jeff Strand

Attack of the killer tomatoes

Jeff Strand

"UFOs! Bigfoot! Communists! The government has swiftly dealt with many a crisis... But can it survive the diabolical ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES? After a series of bizarre and increasingly horrific attacks from pulpy, red, seeded fruit, Mason Dixon finds...

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Elemental forces

Elemental forces

"Elemental Forces is the fifth volume in the non-themed horror series of original stories, showcasing the very best short fiction that the genre has to offer, and edited by Mark Morris. This new anthology contains 20 original horror stories, 16 of which have...

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Blight  by Tom Carlisle

Blight

Tom Carlisle

"1897. James Harringley is summoned home from London to his rambling family mansion in the north of England. His father is sick, deranged, and James must return, confronting the horrors he tried to forget: the labyrinthine house, the madness and secrets which...

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Stone certainty  by Simon R. Green

Stone certainty

Simon R. Green

"The stone circle at Chipping Amesbury has a dark history of disappearances and deaths, which locals recount to tourists but avoid themselves. When Sir Neville Chumley plans to restore the circle, Bishop Alistair Kincaid, an expert in ancient stone circles,...

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It will only hurt for a moment  by Delilah S. Dawson

It will only hurt for a moment

Delilah S. Dawson

"Heading for a new beginning at Tranquil Falls, a secluded artists' colony, Sarah Carpenter hopes to rediscover her love for pottery and put the broken pieces of her life back together, but soon she unearths a chillingly horrific past that cannot remain...

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The levee  by Michael McDowell

The levee

Michael McDowell

"Perdido, Alabama, has scarcely recovered from the floods that devastated the community. Now a scheme to build a levee is dogged by a series of mysterious events- unpredictable currents in the river, worrying disappearances. Meanwhile in the Caskey family,...

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The house  by Michael McDowell

The house

Michael McDowell

"Perdido, 1928. Torn apart by the continuing tensions between Mary-Love and her daughter-in-law Elinor, the Caskey family must also confront other crises. As the economy plummets and relationships sour, something sinister is prowling the darkest recesses of...

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The flood  by Michael McDowell

The flood

Michael McDowell

"As the dark and menacing waters of the local river submerge Perdido, a small town in the south of Alabama, the Caskeys - a family of rich landowners - must confront the tide of damage caused by the flood. Led by Mary-Love, the powerful matriarch, and by...

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Wicked Jenny  by Matt Hilton

Wicked Jenny

Matt Hilton

"This eerie tale sees a group of men haunted by one traumatic event from their childhood. They thought they'd moved on but someone or something won't let them! 1988: Thirteen-year-old Andy Miller and his friends - Carl, Brian, Johnny and Gavin - become...

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The haunting of Moscow House  by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

The haunting of Moscow House

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

"It is the summer of 1921, and a group of Bolsheviks have taken over Irina and Lili Goliteva's ancestral home in Moscow, a stately mansion falling into disrepair and decay. The remaining members of their family are ordered to move into the cramped attic, while...

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The Loney  by Andrew Michael Hurley

The Loney

Andrew Michael Hurley

"If it had another name, I never knew, but the locals called it the Loney - that strange nowhere between the Wyre and the Lune where Hanny and I went every Easter time with Mummer, Farther, Mr and Mrs Belderboss and Father Wilfred, the parish priest. It was...

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The Hellfire Club  by Peter Straub

The Hellfire Club

Peter Straub

"They are dying, one by one. Wealthy, middle-aged women in an exclusive Connecticut suburb. Their murderer remains at large. Nora Chancel, wife of publishing scion Davey Chancel, fears she may be next. After all, her past has branded her a victim. Then Davey...

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Skeleton crew  by Stephen King

Skeleton crew

Stephen King

"Age-old images of fear fuse with the iconography of contemporary American life in this collection of tales from the modern master of horror."--Provided by publisher.

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Forgotten boy  by Laura Andersen

Forgotten boy

Laura Andersen

"A building undergoes multiple transformations through the centuries - but a fair-haired boy continues to haunt its halls... 1460: Ismay Deacon, caught between sides in the War of the Roses, tries to hide away in her ancestral home, Havencross. But when word...

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