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The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsOne of the feature stories of the Cthulhu Mythos, H.P. Lovecraft's 'the Call of Cthulhu' is a harrowing tale of the weakness of the human mind when confronted by powers and intelligences from beyond our world... -
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The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTwo sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting...Categorized as:
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An Old Friend of the Family by Fred Saberhagen
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Southerland family left the old world to start anew in America, but little did they know that a blood-feud, older than history itself, would follow them through the generations to come.Kate Southerland, the first born of the latest generation of Southerlands, has been murdered, but she is not dead. Her little brother, Johnny, has also vanished, a severed, bloody finger the only clue... -
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Ghost by Carole Cummings
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDwelling in the land of Ada and defending magic users called the Jin, Fen Jacin-rei is a trained assassin and an Untouchable, one whose mind hosts the Voices of the Ancestors, spirits of long-dead magicians. His fate should be one of madness and solitude, yet Fen Jacin-rei desperately clings to his sanity and ferociously protects the family he loves... -
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![Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones]()
Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Chilling . . . A neo-gothic treat; original, richly imagined, and powerfully told." --The Guardian (UK) for The String Diaries See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town...Categorized as:
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![Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons]()
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsTHE PAST... Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves...THE PRESENT..Categorized as:
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![Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King]()
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsFive interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation...Categorized as:
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![The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]()
The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William... -
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The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsIn a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone... -
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Crawling Chaos: Selected Works 1920-1935 by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 3.45 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAn indispensable collection of HP Lovecraft's best work from his distinctive collaborative pieces, prose-poems and early tales of the gruesome and bizarre, through to his later, more mature work: the Cthulhu Mythos. With an introduction by Colin Wilson, Crawling Chaos is must-have for every horror/ fantasy fan... -
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In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt, Anne-Laure Tissut
Rated: 3.32 of 5 stars · 30 ratings"Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods."In this ingenious horror story set in colonial New England, a woman goes missing. Or not missing–perhaps she has fled, abandoned her family. Or perhaps she's been kidnapped, and set loose to wander in the dense woods of the north. Alone and possibly lost, she meets another woman in the forest. Then everything changes...Categorized as:
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 by Hajime Isayama
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 41 ratingsThe Desperate Battle Begins! For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humankind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about to change everything.. -
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 2 by Hajime Isayama
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsBIRTH OF A MONSTER The Colossal Titan has breached humanity’s first line of defense, Wall Maria. Mikasa, the 104th Training Corps’ ace and Eren’s best friend, may be the only one capable of defeating them, but beneath her calm exterior lurks a dark past. When all looks lost, a new Titan appears and begins to slaughter its fellow Titans... -
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Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 6 by Hiromu Arakawa
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThe origin of the Elric Brothers! Once, Edward and Alphonse Elric were willing to do anything to become alchemists. But when they tried to use their newfound skills to resurrect their dead mother, they broke a taboo and encountered something more terrifying than death itself. Now, hardened by years of military training, Edward and Alphonse have returned to the woman who first taught them alchemy. -
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![Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 by Hajime Isayama]()
Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 by Hajime Isayama
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsThe Desperate Battle Begins! For the past century, what's left of mankind has hidden in a giant, three-walled city, trapped in fear of the bizarre, giant humanoids known as the Titans. Little is known about where they came from or why they are bent on consuming humankind, but the sudden appearance of an enormous Titan is about to change everything.. -
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Berserk, Vol. 12 by Kentaro Miura
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe Band of the Hawks’ rescue of their leader, Griffith, has brought them no ease. Broken beyond healing, a frail ghost of his former glory, Griffith is now more an object of pity than a man, and the Hawks, who’ve grimly hung together under duress and death during his absence, are now on the verge of splintering to the winds... -
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Berserk, Vol. 13 by Kentaro Miura
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Band of the Hawk may have been the most formidable band of fighters around, but when matched up against an army of abyssal monstrosities, earthly fighting skills don t amount to a hill of beans... -
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 12 by Hajime Isayama
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTHE CHASE IS ON! Erwin and the Survey Corps desperately mount a rescue operation to take Eren back from the Colossus Titan and Armored Titan... -
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 10 by Hajime Isayama, 諫山 創
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsFORTRESS OF BLOOD With no combat gear and Wall Rose breached, the 104th scrambles to evacuate the villages in the Titans' path. On their way to the safety of Wall Sheena, they decide to spend the night in Utgart Castle... -
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 18 by Hajime Isayama, Hajime Isayama
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsAVE MARIA The Survey Corps has overthrown the Royal Government and swept away the tyranny of the king. The next step: Move to retake Wall Maria, with the helpf of a newly-discovered metallic ore and Eren’s miraculous Titan hardening powers... -
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 7 by Hajime Isayama, Hajime Isayama
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsTURNING ON THEIR OWN!The Survey Corps sets a cunning trap to capture the mysterious Abnormal Titan that broke through their ranks... -
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Berserk, Vol. 5 by Kentaro Miura
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsHe is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a warrior of legendary prowess — relentless, fearless, merciless. As cold and brutal as the iron of the massive sword he wields. Bent on revenge against the unholy forces that have branded him for sacrifice, but especially on Griffith, one of the demon lords of the Godhand... -
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Berserk, Vol. 6 by Kentaro Miura
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsBack in the day, Guts the Black Swordsman was a top slayer for The Band of the Hawk, an elite mercenary unit led by Griffith, whose calm demeanor and callow beauty belied his fighting prowess and steel will... -
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Berserk, Vol. 4 by Kentaro Miura
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsNow that the evil Count has been killed and dragged to Hell by the demon lords of the Godhand, Guts, the Black Swordsman, hooks up with his former benefactor, the mercenary Gambino. But it’s a deadly reunion, one that nearly takes Guts’ life... -
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Berserk, Vol. 11 by Kentaro Miura
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe Band of the Hawk -- what's left of them -- are on the run, Guts and Casca having rescued the Hawks' leader, Griffith, from the horrors of the King of Midland's dungeons. Starved, tortured mercilessly and imprisoned in an iron mask, Griffith hangs to life and sanity by a thread.. -
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 9 by Hajime Isayama
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsHUMANITY'S WORST NIGHTMARE Eren is still resting from his brutal fight with the female Titan, when word reaches the interior that the impossible has happened: Wall Rose itself has been breached, and Titans are pouring through the gap! The emergency casts new urgency over Armin and Hange's questions about how the walls were built, and what humanity can do to restore them.. -
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Pandora Hearts, Volume 2 by Jun Mochizuki, Guido Rosano
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsOz Vessalius may have survived his stint in the Abyss, but he is no closer to discovering the truth behind the “sin” for which he was condemned. On the advice of a mysterious man who appeared to him when Alice regained the first of her memories, Oz, along with Alice and Pandora’s Raven, embarks on a mission to investigate the site of his disastrous coming-of-age ceremony in search of answers... -
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Berserk, Vol. 3 by Kentaro Miura
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsGuts, the feared Black Swordsman, finishes his desperate battle with the monstrous Count, cutting and blasting him to gory scraps when the presence of the Count's daughter makes the monster hesitate. But Guts won't even have the time to clean his gigantic sword when the Count's dying pleas activate the Behelit, summoning the five God Hands, demon lords of immeasurable power...Categorized as:
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Berserk, Vol. 1 by Kentaro Miura
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsCreated by Kenturo Miura, Berserk is manga mayhem to the extreme - violent, horrifying, and mercilessly funny - and the wellspring for the internationally popular anime series. Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, Berserk asks for no quarter - and offers none! His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers... -
![Attack on Titan, Vol. 14 by Hajime Isayama]()
Attack on Titan, Vol. 14 by Hajime Isayama
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsERWIN'S GREATEST GAMBLE Commander Erwin has finally come to a decision: Putting their own wealth and position ahead of the survival of humanity, the royal government is no longer fit to lead...
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