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Vampire Academy: The Ultimate Guide by Michelle Rowen, Richelle Mead
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsPrepare to be Tested.The story that kicked off the international #1 bestselling Vampire Academy series is NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE... -
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsAn Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It’s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson...Categorized as:
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 68 ratingsOriginally titled Children’s and Household Tales, The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales contains the essential bedtime stories for children worldwide for the better part of two centuries. The Brothers Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm, were German linguists and cultural researchers who gathered legendary folklore and aimed to collect the stories exactly as they heard them...Categorized as:
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Palace of the Damned by Darren Shan
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsBefore Madame Octa...Before the Cirque... Before Darren Shan... Larten Crepsley was a young man. After failing his mentor and killing the entire crew of a ship in a bout of revenge for the death of his assistant, Larten is bereft with guilt. He no longer has the drive to live the vampiric life, and hides out in Paris, masquerading as a human... -
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Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1-3) by Ransom Riggs
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe New York Times #1 best selling series Includes 3 hardcover novels by Ransom Riggs and 12 collectible peculiar photographs. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is in theaters December 2016... -
The World of All Souls: A Complete Guide to A Discovery of Witches, Shadow of Night and The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness, Colleen Madden
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy--"an irresistible . . . wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People)A Discovery of Witches introduced Diana Bishop, Oxford scholar and reluctant witch, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont. Shadow of Night and The Book of Life carried Deborah Harkness's series to its spellbinding conclusion... -
The Night Crossing by Robert Masello
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBram Stoker kept secret a tale even more terrifying than Dracula. It begins among the Carpathian peaks, when an intrepid explorer discovers a mysterious golden box. She brings it back with her to the foggy streets of Victorian London, unaware of its dangerous power…or that an evil beyond imagining has already taken root in the city... -
The Finality Problem by G.S. Denning, Robert Garson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWarlock Holmes is dealing with a jerk, who just so happens to be a stockbroker. There may be a link. He's also trying to hunt down some tokens to control something magical (it's all rather complicated), and Moriarty just won't stop taking over people's bodies. And of course Dr. John Watson is by his side (mostly), but not quite as useful as he once was.. -
The People's Will by Jasper Kent
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPart historical adventure, part vampire thriller -- the fourth dark and dazzling novel in Jasper Kent's 'Danilov Quintet'. Turkmenistan 1881: Beneath the citadel of Geok Tepe sits a prisoner. He hasn't moved from his chair for two years, hasn't felt the sun on his face in more than fifty, but he is thankful for that. The city is besieged by Russian troops and soon falls...Categorized as:
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White Wolf by Lauren Gilley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNYPD homicide detective Trina Baskin is having nightmares. Vivid ones. Full of blood, and snow, dead wolves…and a young man with pale hair who howls like an animal. She chalks them up to stress and an overactive imagination, too many Old Country stories from her Russian father who, when he’s had too much vodka, starts to rave about dark forces and things that look like men…but aren’t... -
Unseen by Jordan L. Hawk
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsLibrarian Sebastian Rath and his lover Vesper Rune are tasked with seeking and containing the evil Books of the Bound. But one of the Books has been freed from its prison—and is in the hands of a killer.As more bodies turn up, Sebastian finds himself tempted to use forbidden magic to locate the Book and stop the murderer... -
From The Ashes by C.J. Archer, Shiromi Arserio
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhat will happen when Charlie returns to Lichfield?The killer is still on the loose, Lady Harcourt's secret past is out, and Lady Vickers is trying to find Seth a wife. Charlie is stepping back into chaos, but nothing compares to the chaos wreaked on her heart by seeing Lincoln every day... -
The Scarletti Curse by Christine Feehan
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe BeastStrange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorned the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a still more fearful secret lurked within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who entered its forbidding walls was doomed to leave in a casket.The BrideMystical and unfettered, Nicoletta had no terror of ancient curses and no fear of marriage.. -
The Reign of Osiris by Anne Rice, Christopher Rice
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary Anne Rice, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war... -
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The Breath of God by Guy Adams
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe nineteenth century is about to draw to a close. In its place will come the twentieth, a century of change, a century of science, a century that will see the superstitions of the past swept away.There are some who are determined to see that never happens.A body is found crushed to death in the London snow. There are no footprints anywhere near it... -
Red, White, and Blood by Christopher Farnsworth
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Presidential Campaign Trail, 2012: A political operative and a volunteer are brutally murdered while caught in a compromising position. Written in their blood on the wall of the crime scene: IT’S GOOD TO BE BACK.And with that, a centuries-old horror known only as the Boogeyman returns to taunt Nathaniel Cade, the President’s Vampire...Categorized as:
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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes by Loren D. Estleman
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSherlock Holmes has already encountered the evil young hedonist Edward Hyde, and knew he was strangely connected with Henry Jekyll, the respectable young doctor. It was not until the Queen herself requested it, however, that Holmes was officially on the case of the savage murder of Sir Danvers Crew. Here, then is the account of that devilish crime as recorded by Dr Watson..Categorized as:
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Van Helsing by Kevin Ryan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDeep in the mountains of nineteenth-century Carpathia lies the mysterious and mythic land of Transylvania, a world where evil is ever-present, where danger rises as the sun sets, and where monsters such as Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Frankenstein's Monster take form and inhabit man's deepest nightmares -- terrifying legends who outlive generations, defying repeated attacks from the doomed... -
Raising Hell by John G. Hartness
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWINNER OF THE 2016 MANLY WADE WELLMAN AWARD Straight out of the pages of the legendary vampire novel Dracula comes a demon hunter for the modern world. Mina Murray and Jonathan Harker had a son. They named him Quincy. His guardian angel calls him Q. Dracula calls him nephew. Demons call him The Reaper. "There are things in this world that men and women aren’t meant to understand... -
The Sign of the Nine by G.S. Denning
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“If you ever wondered how much better Sherlock would be if people could hurl hellfire at each other, well this one is for you.” Starburst Magazine on A Study in BrimstoneWarlock Holmes may have demons in his head, but now Dr. John Watson has a mummy in his bloodstream... -
Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula by Stephen Seitz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter Mina Murray asks Sherlock Holmes to locate her fiancee, Holmes and Watson travel to a land far eerier than the moors they had known when pursuing the Hound of the Baskervilles. The confrontation with Count Dracula threatens Holmes' health, his sanity, and his life...Categorized as:
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The Wicked by Douglas Nicholas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe mesmerizing and highly anticipated sequel to Something Red transports readers to the harsh and enchanting world of thirteenth-century England, where a group of unlikely heroes battles an ancient evil...Categorized as:
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Elusive by Genevieve Cogman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRevolutionary France is full of blood and bite as vampires plot for power.Eleanor, once a lowly English maid, is now a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel, know for their daring deeds and recusing aristocrat vampires from the guillotine.This time, Eleanor and the League are investigating the disappearance of Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, the notorious French statesman and diplomat...Categorized as:
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The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith returns with the follow-up to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter--a sweeping, alternate history of 20th Century America as seen through the eyes of vampire Henry Sturges.THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIREIn Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death... -
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Rovers by Richard Lange
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo immortal brothers crisscross the American Southwest to elude a murderous biker gang and protect a young woman in this “utter triumph and delight” from award-winning author Richard Lange (Jonathan Ames, author of A Man Named Doll ). Summer, 1976. Jesse and his brother, Edgar, are on the road in search of victims... -
A Night of Blacker Darkness: Being the Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III by Dan Wells
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWrongly imprisoned, Frederick Whithers is desperate to commit the crime he's already being punished for: defrauding the bank out of a vast inheritance. He fakes his death to escape, but when he's seen climbing out of a coffin everyone assumes he's a vampire; when he shows none of the traditional vampire weaknesses, they decide he must be the most powerful vampire in the history of the world...Categorized as:
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The Tangled Skein: A Sherlock Holmes Adventure by David Stuart Davies, Peter Cushing
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPastiche short novel in which Sherlock Holmes meets Dracula... -
The Ghosts of Nagasaki by Daniel Clausen
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOne night a foreign business analyst in Tokyo sits down in his spacious high rise apartment and begins typing something. The words pour out and exhaust him. He soon realizes that the words appearing on his laptop are memories of his first days in Nagasaki four years ago. Nagasaki was a place full of spirits, a garrulous Welsh roommate, and a lingering mystery... -
The Cats Of Seroster by Robert Westall
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCam, a lad of 18, is tricked into a errand to the sinister Seroster, a distant city. Try as he might he cannot rid himself of the mysterious letter or the bloodthirsty knife that goes with it. The author is a two-time Carnegie Medal winner and a Smarties category winner in 1989... -
Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsViolet Willoughby doesn't believe in ghosts. But they believe in her. After spending years participating in her mother's elaborate ruse as a fraudulent medium, Violet is about as skeptical as they come in all matters supernatural. Now that she is being visited by a very persistent ghost, one who suffered a violent death, Violet can no longer ignore her unique ability... -
Seance for a Vampire by Fred Saberhagen
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsVladimir Kulakov returns from his hanging with a sore neck and an axe to grind, and when Sherlock Holmes vanishes, Dr. Watson suspects a connection and summons Holmes' cousin, the vampire Prince Dracula, to help... -
Mexico, 1850 by Sebastian Rook, Ben Jeapes
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA thrilling new suspense trilogy with a twist. For a thousand years, an ancient and all-powerful vampire god has lain dormant in the Mayan jungle. In 1850, he awakes - and sets out for Europe...Camazotz and his band of vampires have left Paris, but they're one step ahead of Jack and his friends...Categorized as:
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The Prestige by Christopher Priest
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsIn 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences...Categorized as:
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The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars · 44 ratingsFrom master storyteller Carlos Ruiz Zafon, author of the international phenomenon The Shadow of the Wind, comes The Angel’s Game — a dazzling new page-turner about the perilous nature of obsession, in literature and in love... -
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Rogues by George R.R. Martin, Joe Abercrombie
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsIf you’re a fan of fiction that is more than just black and white, this latest story collection from #1 New York Times bestselling author George R.R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois is filled with subtle shades of gray... -
Ghost Ship: A Cape Cod Story by Mary Higgins Clark
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWorld-renowned master storyteller and New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark's first picture book is a ghost story set on the Cape Cod coastline and the high seas, and a story of friendship between two boys.Thomas loved his summer visits to his grandmother's on Cape Cod. He spent hours wondering about the sailing ships of the past and imagining their stories...Categorized as:
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Bryony Gray'in Lanetli Portreleri by E. Latimer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Tim Burtonesque retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray aimed at Middle Graders. The most peculiar things always happen to Bryony Gray. As if it isn’t bad enough that her uncle keeps her locked in the attic, forcing her to paint for hisrich clients, she’s becoming rather well known in the art world… since all her customers seem to go missing...Categorized as:
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Sin of The Vampire by M.L. Guida
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS: A Pirate's Curse Darkness is coming… Would you hand over the woman you love to a demon to save your brothers? Captain Kane O’Brien never expected to be a vampire, but now he has a chance to save his crew and break the curse. But time is running out... -
The Collector of Dying Breaths: A Novel of Suspense by M.J. Rose, Phil Gigante
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom one of America's most imaginative storytellers comes a passionate tale of love and treachery, spanning the days of Catherine de Medici's court to the twenty-first century and starring a woman drawn back, time and again, to the past. In 1533, an Italian orphan with an uncanny knack for creating fragrance is plucked from poverty to become Catherine de Medici's perfumer... -
Relentless Melt by Jeremy P. Bushnell
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStranger Things meets the Golden Age of Detective fiction in a rollicking supernatural detective thriller that introduces Artie Quick, a sales assistant at Filene’s in Boston, who moonlights as a amateur detective.The year is 1909, and Artie Quick—an ambitious, unorthodox and inquisitive young Bostonian—wants to learn about crime... -
The Darkening Dream by Andy Gavin
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Darkening Dream is the chilling new dark fantasy novel by Andy Gavin, creator of Crash Bandicoot and Jak & Daxter.Even as the modern world pushes the supernatural aside in favor of science and steel, the old ways remain. God, demon, monster, and sorcerer alike plot to regain what was theirs...Categorized as:
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The Watcher in the Shadows by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsIt was an unforgettable summer....When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place--its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors. There, she meets a local boy named Ishmael, and the two soon fall in love...Categorized as:
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Sepulchre by Kate Mosse
Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn 1891, young Léonie Vernier and her brother Anatole arrive in the beautiful town of Rennes-les-Bains, in southwest France. They've come at the invitation of their widowed aunt, whose mountain estate, Domain de la Cade, is famous in the region. But it soon becomes clear that their aunt Isolde-and the Domain-are not what Léonie had imagined... -
The Kiss of Death by Marcus Sedgwick
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMarcus Sedgwick's tale of Venice and vampires is a captivating companion volume to the bestselling My Swordhand is Singing. Marko and Sorrel meet in Venice for the first time...Categorized as:
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Ashes to Ashes and Cinder to Cinder by Cameron Jace
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhat if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?Book description of Ashes to Ashes and Cinder to Cinder: A Grimm Diaries Prequel as told by Alice Grimm:Seventeen-year-old Alice Grimm lives a dangerously enchanted life. Other than being distracted by a Dreamhunter called Loki Blackstar who has a heart of gold but acts like a jerk, she has a job to do... -
The Legacy of Lehr by Katherine Kurtz, Michael Wm. Kaluta
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen four large blue cats with psychic powers come aboard an interstellar luxury cruiser, a rash of murders breaks out... -
Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows by James Lovegrove
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn the stews of London’s East End, an outbreak of insanity sees ordinary men and women reduced to gibbering, incoherent wrecks; a mysterious creeping fog hides terrifying apparitions within that rob the wits of all who see them and even inspire suicide... -
A Study in Brimstone by G.S. Denning
Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSherlock Holmes is an unparalleled genius who uses the gift of deduction and reason to solve the most vexing of crimes. Warlock Holmes, however, is an idiot. A good man, perhaps; a font of arcane power, certainly. But he’s brilliantly dim. Frankly, he couldn’t deduce his way out of a paper bag...Categorized as:
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Down These Strange Streets by George R.R. Martin, Charlaine Harris
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsUrban fantasy where mystery waits at the end of every alley and things that go bump in the night have something to fear... 1 The Bastard Stepchild - George R.R. Martin 2 Death by Dahlia - Charlaine Harris 3 The Bleeding Shadow - Joe R. Lansdale 4 Hungry Heart - Simon R. Green 5 Styx and Stones - Steven Saylor 6 Pain and Suffering - S.M... -
Child of an Ancient City by Tad Williams, Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Vampyr's WagerDuring the reign of Caliph Harun al-Rashid, a caravan of soldiers sets forth from Baghdad on a dangerous mission to the lands of the north. Bandits fall upon them in the night, scattering their horses and stranding their party in the desolate mountains. But the worst is yet to come. For these hills are stalked by an ancient and powerful vampyr...
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