Books like 'Batman and the Monster Men'
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King Stakh’s Wild Hunt by Uladzimir Karatkevich
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKing Stakh's Wild Hunt tells the tale of Andrey Belaretsky, a young folklorist who finds himself stranded by a storm in the castle of Marsh Firs, the seat of the fading aristocratic Yanovsky family. Offered refuge by Nadzeya, the last in the Yanovskys’ line, he learns of the family curse and terrible apparitions that portend her early death and trap her in permanent, maddening fear... -
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Cardinal Black by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsCardinal Black is the latest installment in Robert McCammon's unique series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver, who has been called "the Early American James Bond." December 1703 finds Berry Grigsby living as Mary Lynn Nash in a small English village where she has fallen victim to Professor Fell's involuntary drug experiments... -
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Allison by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAllison can break your bones with her mind, and she can’t control her power.Now forty-five years old, she’s spent her life trying to stay away from other people. But a random encounter with a couple on the street leaves her believing that she may have done something horrible. Something unforgivable.Killer-for-hire Daxton and his girlfriend Maggie know the truth... -
![Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Writer of the Purple Rage by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContaining stories from the dark side, the light side, and all shades in between, this is a masterful collection by one of America's rising storytellers. Storylines include that of a woman who discovers grisly horror on a mountain road, a plastic love doll who becomes liberated, and a baby's diaper that is possessed by aliens... -
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![The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson]()
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson's brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr... -
![Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen]()
Find Me When the Sun Goes Down by Lisa Olsen
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"You know, we've never really talked about what it means that you've claimed me."Newbie vamp Anja Evans is eager to find out what it means to be claimed by sexy, vampire cop, Bishop. Unfortunately, he's been transferred by the Order and she's left to fend for herself... -
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![The River of Souls by Robert McCammon]()
The River of Souls by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe year is 1703. The place: the Carolina settlement of Charles Town. . Matthew Corbett, professional “problem solver,” has accepted a lucrative, if unusual, commission: escorting a beautiful woman to a fancy dress ball.What should be a pleasant assignment takes a darker turn when Matthew becomes involved in a murder investigation... -
![The Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth P. Jones]()
The Thornthwaite Inheritance by Gareth P. Jones
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOvid and Lorelli Thornthwaite have been trying to kill each other for so long that neither twin can remember which act of attempted murder came first. But whoever struck first, trying to take each other's lives is simply what they do... -
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Alone, Untouched, Soulless by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is a collection of the first three titles in The Girl in the Box Series, which are about a teenage girl who develops powers far beyond those of a normal human, and her battles against those who would use her against her will. (Approx. 185,000 words total.)Books included:1. Alone2. Untouched3... -
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Sallow Bend by Alan Baxter
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomething old and deadly has awoken.When two teenagers go missing from the small, rural town of Sallow Bend, the residents come together to search for them. Little do they suspect that finding the wayward girls will be the start of their problems. An ancient evil is rising, and only one man seems to realize that everyone is in danger and this is not the first time it’s happened... -
![Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs]()
Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gripping new instalment of the adventures of Brenda and Effie.No matter what she tries to do, trouble has a way of finding Brenda. It's hardly surprising with secrets like hers. When her old adversary Mr Danby starts filling the airwaves with his late night phone in show it can only mean one thing - and sure enough best friend Effie soon finds herself up to her neck in it... -
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Run by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYOU CAN RUN BUT YOU CAN'T HIDEDuring a camping trip to the Catskill Mountains, Charlotte's boyfriend Luke, a former soldier suffering PTSD, goes on a rampage, nearly killing Charlotte and her two friends. A year later Charlotte is a graduate student in the small college town of Ashenville, North Carolina... -
![ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইস্ট by মাশুদুল হক]()
ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইস্ট by মাশুদুল হক
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsবিয়ের অনুষ্ঠানে অনেকদিন পর দেখা হয়ে যায় পুরনো বন্ধুদের, দুই বন্ধু--নৃতাত্ত্বিক মারুফ এবং পত্রিকার ফিচার এডিটর রুমি কথা প্রসঙ্গে জানতে পারে তাদেরই আরেক বন্ধু পেশা হিসেবে বেছে নিয়েছে ভেন্ট্রিলোকুইজম। কৌতুহলী হয়ে সেটার কারণ অনুসন্ধান করতে গিয়ে ওরা জড়িয়ে পড়ে দারুণ রহস্যময় এক অনুসন্ধানে, বেরিয়ে আসে ভয়ঙ্কর আর শিউরে ওঠার মত সব সত্য, সাধারণ মানুষকে কখনই জানতে দেয়া হয় না এমন সব...Categorized as:
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![The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs]()
The Twelve-Fingered Boy by John Hornor Jacobs
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve doesn’t mind juvie. He’s good at dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day is more than his drunk mother provided. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out.So when he’s assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, Shreve takes the younger boy under his wing... -
![King of Swords by Nick Stone]()
King of Swords by Nick Stone
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSuch was the acclaim that greeted Nick Stone's amazing debut novel, Mr Clarinet, that a curious syndrome soon developed: if you hadn't read the novel (and claimed to have any interest in the crime genre), you had to say (to all who would listen) 'I really must read Mr Clarinet -- I've heard so much about it!' (preferably said with a pronounced guilty note in the voice)... -
![The Best of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
The Best of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe name Edgar Allan Poe conjures up thoughts of hearts beating long after their owners are dead, of disease and plague amid wealth, and of love that extends beyond the grave. The richness of Poe's writing, however, includes much more than horror, loss, and death.Poe's stories teem with irony and black humor, in addition to plot twists and surprise endings... -
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68 Kill by Bryan Smith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt started with a couple of dead bodies and $68,000 in stolen cash. Chip Taylor’s girlfriend Liza had the perfect plan to rip off her rich sugar daddy. It should have been an easy in and out kind of deal. Nobody would get hurt and they would come out of it with enough loot to solve their problems... -
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Premonitions by Jude Watson
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsGrace has premonitions. They've haunted her since her parents' death. She doesn't know how to deal with them, and doesn't want to. She never knows whether she's seeing the past, the present, or the future. It just comes to her. Then Grace's best friend disappears... -
![Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Leather Maiden by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEdgar Award winner Joe R. Lansdale writes outrageous fiction that rockets along with violent spikes of action and intense humor. Gulf War vet Cason Statler has moved back to his East Texas hometown after losing his job as a reporter in Houston (sleeping with both the boss’ wife and 30-year-old stepdaughter has a way of ruining career prospects)... -
![Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow]()
Deus Ex: Black Light by James Swallow
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsILLUMINATE THE SHADOWS The year is 2029, and the shining promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins in the wake of the devastating ‘Aug Incident’ – a horrific catastrophe triggered by a cabal of shadowy power brokers, where millions of cybernetically-enhanced people suffered a forced psychotic break... -
![The KA of Gifford Hillary by Dennis Wheatley, Nick Mercer]()
The KA of Gifford Hillary by Dennis Wheatley, Nick Mercer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsControversy rages at the Ministry of Defence. And Sir Gifford Hillary, outspoken in his views on top-secret measures to counter the threat of Soviet aggression, is partly responsible for tempers fraying.But danger and betrayal stalk closer to home. On a warm autumn night at Longshot Hall, Sir Gifford gets the shock of his life. Horrifically and inexplicably, he witnesses his own murder.. -
![White Ghost by Shaun Hutson]()
White Ghost by Shaun Hutson
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere are new enemies in Britain that nobody knows how to deal with. They are the Triad gangs and they deal in heroin. While investigating a weapons hijack, Sean Doyle - a member of the Counter Terrorist Unit - has a chance to infiltrate the Triads. He then discovers that one gang has IRA support... -
![Assassin by Shaun Hutson]()
Assassin by Shaun Hutson
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLondon was in the grip of its bloodiest bout of gang warfare for two years. Into this world of corruption, violence, madness and death came the Assassin. The author also wrote "Death Day", "Spawn" and "Slugs"... -
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![Already Dead by Denis Johnson]()
Already Dead by Denis Johnson
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA contemporary noir, Already Dead is the tangled story of Nelson Fairchild Jr., disenfranchised scion to a northern California land fortune. A relentless failure, Nelson has botched nearly every scheme he's attempted to pull off. Now his future lies in a potentially profitable marijuana patch hidden in the lush old-growth redwoods on the family land.Nelson has some serious problems... -
![The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams]()
The Men Who Sold the World by Guy Adams
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and free-falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA Special Activities Division squad goes rogue with a cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff.The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case... -
![Something More Than Night by Kim Newman]()
Something More Than Night by Kim Newman
Rated: 3.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDulwich College, England 1904. A young Raymond Chandler meets an enthusiastic cricketer named Billy Pratt (later Boris Karloff). Sharing a sense of being outsiders at school, the two young men become friends and Chandler encourages Pratt to help him uncover the mystery of the housemaster's strange wife and various disappearing objects. What the boys uncover will haunt them their whole lives.. -
![Darling Jim by Christian Mørk]()
Darling Jim by Christian Mørk
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA modern gothic novel of suspense that reveals, through their diaries, the story of sisters who fall in love with a beguiling stranger, and of the town that turns a blind eye to his murderous waysWhen two sisters and their aunt are found dead in their suburban Dublin home, it seems that the secret behind their untimely demise will never be known... -
![Caleb Williams or Things as They Are by William Godwin]()
Caleb Williams or Things as They Are by William Godwin
Rated: 3.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBy William Godwin is a three-volume novel written as a call to end the abuse of power by what Godwin saw as a tyrannical government. Intended as a popularisation of the ideas presented in his 1793 treatise Political Justice Godwin uses Caleb Williams to show how legal and other institutions can and do destroy individuals, even when the people the justice system touches are innocent of any crime... -
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Sliver by Ira Levin
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAN UPTOWN HIGH-RISEA glittering Manhattan "sliver" building.A successful single career woman.A shocking secret hidden in brick and concrete.A HIGH-TECH NIGHTMARESomeone is watching her.He watches her unpack, watches her make the bed; his eyes are everywhere.He owns the building: now he owns her.SLIVERThere's no place more frightening than home...
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