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  • The Waste Lands by Stephen King

    The Waste Lands by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    Several months have passed, and Roland’s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who—in Roland’s where and when—has already died...
  • Swan Song by Robert McCammon

    Swan Song by Robert McCammon

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The trade paper reissue of Robert McCammon's New York Times bestselling Swan Song.An ancient evil roams the desolate landscape of an America ravaged by nuclear war.He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan -- and destroy her...
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    classics  dark  drama  dystopia  epic  magic  monsters  paranormal
  • The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

    The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 71 ratings
    While pursuing his quest for the Dark Tower through a world that is a nightmarishly distorted mirror image of our own, Roland, the last gunslinger, encounters three mysterious doorways on the beach. Each one enters into the life of a different person living in contemporary New York...
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

    Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · 86 ratings
    Under the streets of London there's a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London...
  • Imajica by Clive Barker

    Imajica by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Imajica is an epic beyond compare: vast in conception, obsessively detailed in execution, and apocalyptic in its resolution. At its heart lies the sensualist and master art forger, Gentle, whose life unravels when he encounters Judith Odell, whose power to influence the destinies of men is vaster than she knows, and Pie 'oh' pah, an alien assassin who comes from a hidden dimension...
  • The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    The Talisman by Stephen King, Peter Straub

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 66 ratings
    On a brisk autumn day, a twelve-year-old boy stands on the shores of the gray Atlantic, near a silent amusement park and a fading ocean resort called the Alhambra. The past has driven Jack Sawyer here: his father is gone, his mother is dying, and the world no longer makes sense. But for Jack everything is about to change...
  • Vamphyri! by Brian Lumley

    Vamphyri! by Brian Lumley

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Not the end of life, Harry Keogh discovered--and not the end of his battle against he terrible evil of vampires. — In a secluded English village, Yulian Bodescu plots his takeover of the world. Imbued with a vampire's powers before his birth, Bodescu rules men's minds and bodies with supernatural ease...
  • Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

    Day Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    The second in a blockbuster series of novels from Russia's most popular science fiction author, Day Watch brings us back into the hyperimaginative world of Sergei Lukyanenko and continues the dramatic battle between good and evil, light and dark, day and night...
  • Last Call by Tim Powers

    Last Call by Tim Powers

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards. But now the cards - and the supernatural powers behind them - have found him again.Crane's father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become the Fisher King, and to keep that power he is determined to kill his son...
  • Everville by Clive Barker

    Everville by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    On the borderland between this world and the world of Quiddity, the sea of our dreams, sits Everville. For years, it has lived in ignorance of the gleaming shore on which it lies. But its ignorance is not bliss...
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    classics  dark  epic  magic  myths  paranormal  retellings  suspense
  • The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

    The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Clive Barker's bestseller Weaveworld astonished readers with his visionary range, establishing him as a master of fabulist literature. Now, with The Great and Secret Show he rises to new heights. In this unforgettable epic he wields the full power and sweep of his talents. "Succinctly put," says Barker, "it's about Hollywood, sex and Armageddon...
    Categorized as:
    classics  dark  epic  ghosts  magic  monsters  paranormal  suspense
  • Necroscope by Brian Lumley

    Necroscope by Brian Lumley

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES...Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying.In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge...
  • Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

    Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Others. They walk among us. Observing. Set in contemporary Moscow, where shape shifters, vampires, and street-sorcerers linger in the shadows, Night Watch is the first book of the hyper-imaginative fantasy pentalogy from best-selling Russian author Sergei Lukyanenko...
  • The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll

    The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll

    Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A novel about how terrifying that would be.Schoolteacher Thomas Abbey, unsure son of a film star, doesn't know who he is or what he wants--in life, in love, or in his relationship with the strange and intense Saxony Gardner...
  • Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey

    Burning Water by Mercedes Lackey

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A sexy witch who writes romances and a police detective who sees more than mortal man team up to battle an ancient Aztec god!Dallas Police Detective Mark Valdez isn't just any cop, he's a psychic who knows that the cattle mutilations and torture murders he's been investigating are somehow tied together...
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    dark  ghosts  magic  myths  paranormal  suspense  urban  20th-century
  • Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde

    Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    When Kerry's little brother forgets his stuffed bear at the laundry, Kerry ventures out at 11th p.m. to retrieve it for him. The laundry is deserted and kind of spooky, and while she's there three men burst in, dragging a bound and bloodied young man they insist is a vampire. Kerry helps him escape, only to be caught up in a desperate game between vampire hunters and their prey...
  • Insomnia by Stephen King

    Insomnia by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 65 ratings
    Ralph Roberts has a problem: he isn't sleeping so well these days. In fact, he's hardly sleeping at all. Each morning, the news conveyed by the bedside clock is a little worse: 3:15...3:02...2:45...2:15. The books call it "premature waking"; Ralph, who is still learning to be a widower, calls it a season in hell...
  • Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

    Song of Kali by Dan Simmons

    Rated: 3.61 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Calcutta: a monstrous city of immense slums, disease and misery, is clasped in the foetid embrace of an ancient cult. At its decaying core is the Goddess Kali: the dark mother of pain, four-armed and eternal, her song the sound of death and destruction...
  • King Rat by China Miéville

    King Rat by China Miéville

    Rated: 3.55 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Something is stirring in London's dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul Garamond's father, and left Saul to pay for the crime.But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into Saul's prison cell and leads him to freedom...
  • The Fury by L.J. Smith

    The Fury by L.J. Smith

    Rated: 3.51 of 5 stars
    · 42 ratings
    A Love Triangle of Unspeakable Horror... Stefan Tormented after losing Elena, he's determined to end the feud with his brother, Damon--whatever the cost.Damon Mocking Stefan and Elena, he laughs in the face of doom.Elena Wild with her craving for blood, she confronts the ultimate evil.The terrifying story of two vampire brothers and the beautiful girl torn between them...
  • The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman, Teddy Kristiansen

    The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman, Teddy Kristiansen

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    The Penultimate volume to the phenomenal Sandman series: distraught by the kidnapping and presumed death of her son, and believing Morpheus to be responsible, Lyta Hall calls the ancient wrath of the Furies down upon him. A former superheroine blames Morpheus for the death of her child and summons an ancient curse of vengeance against the Lord of Dream...
  • Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub

    Brief Lives by Neil Gaiman, Peter Straub

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 53 ratings
    Dream's youngest sister, the loopy Delirium, convinces him to go on a quest for their missing brother, Destruction. But Dream may learn that the cost of finding his prodigal sibling is more than he can bear...
  • Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein

    Season of Mists by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 58 ratings
    Ten thousand years ago, Morpheus condemned a woman who loved him to Hell. Now the other members of his immortal family, The Endless, have convinced the Dream King that this was an injustice. To make it right, Morpheus must return to Hell to rescue his banished love -- and Hell's ruler, the fallen angel Lucifer, has already sworn to destroy him.Collects THE SANDMAN #21-28...
  • The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein

    The Doll's House by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 69 ratings
    A being who has existed since the beginning of the universe, Dream of the Endless rules over the realm of dreams. In The Doll's House, after a decades-long imprisonment, the Sandman has returned to find that a few dreams and nightmares have escaped to reality...
  • A Game of You by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein

    A Game of You by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 54 ratings
    Take an apartment house, mix in a drag queen, a lesbian couple, some talking animals, a talking severed head, a confused heroine, and the deadly Cuckoo. Stir vigorously with a hurricane and Morpheus himself and you get this fifth installment of the Sandman series. This story stars Barbie, who first makes an appearance in The Doll's House, who here finds herself a princess in a vivid dreamworld...
  • Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein

    Worlds' End by Neil Gaiman, Todd Klein

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 49 ratings
    A "reality storm" draws an unusual cast of characters together. They take shelter in a tavern, where they amuse each other with their life stories. Although Morpheus is never a focus in these stories, each has something to say about the nature of stories and dreams. With an introduction by Stephen King. SUGGESTED FOR MATURE READERS...
  • Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

    Preludes & Nocturnes by Neil Gaiman

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 73 ratings
    Written by Neil Gaiman; Art by Sam Kieth, Mike Dringenberg, and Malcolm Jones, III; Painted Cover by Dave McKean A wizard attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. Fearful for his safety, the wizard kept him imprisoned in a glass bottle for decades. After his escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power...
  • Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola

    Hellboy, Vol. 5: Conqueror Worm by Mike Mignola

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Dark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding...
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    dark  demons  epic  magic  monsters  myths  paranormal  retellings
  • Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola

    Hellboy, Vol. 4: The Right Hand of Doom by Mike Mignola

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Dark Horse presents new editions of the entire Hellboy line with new covers, beginning with Seed of Destruction, the basis of director Guillermo del Toro's upcoming film. Hellboy is one of the most celebrated comics series in recent years. The ultimate artists' artist and a great storyteller whose work is in turns haunting, hilarious, and spellbinding...
  • Preacher, Volume 3: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis

    Preacher, Volume 3: Proud Americans by Garth Ennis

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    The third amazing new edition in the PREACHER series, collecting issues #18-26.Jesse Custer heads for France to rescue Cassidy, the Irish vampire, from the clutches of religious fanatics. His search leads him into a no-holds-barred battle against the forces of the Grail. Also told here is the story of how Cassidy became a vampire in the first place...
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