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The Damnation Game by Clive Barker. 1985
A bodyguard must protect a successful industrialist from decomposing corpse-assassins stalking his employer to collect an ancient debt.
Fiction Barker

White Shark by Peter Benchley. 1994
A hideous underwater being created years ago by an evil sadistic Nazi scientist renders the oceans red with unwary divers, innocent teenagers, and sea creatures of all sizes.
Fiction Benchley

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. 1971
A mother enlists the help of Jesuit priests to dispossess the evil spirit Pazuzu from her eleven-year-old daughter.
Fiction Blatty

Homebody by Orson Scott Card. 1998
Terrifying supernatural forces charge ghostly consultation fees from an architect-builder while renovating an old house.
Fiction Card

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton. 1995
Who do you call when your fanged friends are being brutally murdered? Anita Blake aka the Executioner aka Animator - the Dirty Harriet of vampire killers!
PB Fiction Hamilton

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Book of Fours by Nancy Holder. 2001
Evil axe-wielding spirits summoned by a powerful sorceress are unleashed on two female vampire slayers to chop, dice, and feed their souls to the Lord of Chaos.
Fiction Holder

It by Stephen King. 1986
Lurking in the dark, dank sewers of a New England village is a hungry ghostly manifestation of every child's worst fears that must be destroyed before it's ghastly twenty-seven year feeding cycle returns.
Fiction King

The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft annotated and with an introduction by S.T. Joshi. 1997
Shriek in the shadow of the Dunwich Horror, howl blindly at the Mountains of Madness, and run stark raving mad from the Rats in the Walls in this annotated series of horrifying stories from the master tale-spinner of the supernatural.
Fiction Lovecraft

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. 1954
Fiction Matheson

Dust by Charles Pellegrino. 1994
Fiction Pellegrino

Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. 1995
Lurking in the dark corridors of the American Museum of Natural History is an ancient being that prefers human brains for breakfast!
Fiction Preston

The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe. 1938
Cringe from the eerie throbbing pulsation of the Tell-tale Heart, beg for mercy in the torture chambers in the Pit and Pendulum, and claw your way out of pre-mature burial in the Oblong Box from Poe's tales of the macabre.
Fiction Poe

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.1818.
Classic horror tale of a young scientist playing at creating a human being yet misunderstanding the pain and misery experienced by his monster who inevitably seeks murderous revenge.
Classics Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker. 1897
Gallop over the Borgo Pass with the Children of the Night, escape from the starry heights of Castle Dracula, and race against the Devil to destroy the Prince of Darkness in this Gothic masterpiece of horror.
Fiction Stoker

Magic Terror by Peter Straub. 2000
Plunge into the depths of terror with this collection of disturbing tales from subtle, psychological suspense to pure, unadulterated horror.
Fiction Straub

The Last Vampire
by Whitley Strieber. 2001
What do the CIA and a beautiful, powerful and rapacious vampire have in common? A taste for the hunt and an undying desire to wipe each other out!
Fiction Strieber

Blood Roses: A Novel of Saint-Germain by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro. 1998
Fiction Yarbro

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