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Carrie / 'Salem's Lot / The Shining by Stephen King
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsStephen King is a unique and powerful writer without equal for millions of horror fans. His incredible narrative drive ensnares the reader in a web of everyday surroundings, believable situations and recognizable characters that are eventually caught up in a terrifying noose of monumental evil... -
![The Cities of Dead by Alys Arden]()
The Cities of Dead by Alys Arden
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Cities of Dead: the highly anticipated third book in Alys Arden’s spellbinding The Casquette Girls series. Old World witches collide with the French Quarter’s strangest denizens, setting off events that could tear the fabric of the Natural and Supernatural worlds, and only the most elusive, mischievous Voodoo lwa hold the key to stopping it... -
![Classics of Horror: Frankenstein Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Dracula by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker]()
Classics of Horror: Frankenstein Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde Dracula by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsClassics of Horror : Frankenstein; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr...Categorized as:
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![The Gates of Guinée by Alys Arden]()
The Gates of Guinée by Alys Arden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA trip to the Afterworld might be the end of the supernatural world.As the Ghost Drinkers seep into the crevices of the Crescent City, leeching the French Quarter of magic, the local witches are consumed with a new fight for survival. Adele has one chance to save everyone she loves, but it will mean breaking away from her coven and trusting a vampire... -
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![....Și la sfârșit a mai rămas coșmarul (...And Then The Nightmare Came At Last) by Oliviu Crâznic]()
....Și la sfârșit a mai rămas coșmarul (...And Then The Nightmare Came At Last) by Oliviu Crâznic
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the Castle of the Last Towers, the things are going really Bad.Invited at a stranger's wedding, in a castle supposed to be haunted by the devil, the fallen noble Arthur de Seragens finds himself trapped in a dangerous net of insanity, betrayal and murder... -
![Dracula + Dracula's Guest and 3 Other Horror Stories by Bram Stoker]()
Dracula + Dracula's Guest and 3 Other Horror Stories by Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThis carefully crafted ebook: “Dracula + Dracula's Guest and 3 Other Horror Stories” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker... -
![Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural by Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye,]()
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural by Marvin Kaye, Saralee Kaye,
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA gripping, chilling collection of 47 stories and six poems, dating back to Shelley and Stevenson, but also including modern masters... -
![Bound By Blood: Volume 1 (Bound By Blood, #1) by Shane K.P. O'Neill]()
Bound By Blood: Volume 1 (Bound By Blood, #1) by Shane K.P. O'Neill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“A war rages on around us every day. The struggle to save all mankind. The ultimate evil.”As his moment of death looms Dracula suffers the ultimate betrayal. The champion of the Catholic faith in Eastern Europe realises it is Lucifer who is coming to claim him. However, Lucifer does not want his soul. Instead he bites into Dracula’s neck and then offers his own blood to drink... -
![The People's Will by Jasper Kent]()
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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![A Drop of Anguish by Stacey Trombley]()
A Drop of Anguish by Stacey Trombley
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI might be a magicless human, but I won't be easy prey.Everyone at Shadow Hills Academy thinks they know who I am. Canadice Montgomery, a weak magicless human whose only claim to power was her relationship with the demon prince, Jarron.The girl who's so desperate for power, she'd be willing to kill her peers in a deadly competition... -
![Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu by J. Sheridan Le Fanu]()
Best Ghost Stories of J.S. Le Fanu by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHere are 16 classic ghost stories: "Carmilla" (perhaps the classic vampire thriller), "Green Tea", "The Familiar", "The Haunted Baronet", "Madam Crowl's Ghost", "The Dead Sexton", "An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House" plus nine others. Half these stories never published before in U.S... -
![Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season One Vol. 1 by Joss Whedon]()
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Script Book Season One Vol. 1 by Joss Whedon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis volume contains the first six scripts from the first season of the television programme Buffy the Vampire Slayer. These scripts are the shooting drafts, and contain production notes, cut dialogue and different scenes... -
![Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria by David Brian, J. Sheridan Le Fanu]()
Carmilla: The Wolves of Styria by David Brian, J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIs it ever possible for the undead to find true love? You'll find no definitive answer here. Be aware of this much though: When werewolves and vampires clash; there can be no winners.When fate draws together the lives of two young women, their mutual attraction quickly flourishes into a bond which threatens the boundaries of social etiquette in 1860s Styria... -
![Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! by Brian Lumley]()
Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes! by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom the fertile mind of Brian Lumley: Weird heroes and weirder worlds!Harry Keogh: Necroscope and Other Weird Heroes!Vampires. Elder Gods. Nightmares. Mysterious elixirs. Wines capable of transporting the drinker-literally-to another world. Fossils that dream of rending flesh between their teeth. These wonders, and many more, spring from the fertile imagination of Brian Lumley... -
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![Dracula by Jack Kelly, Bram Stoker]()
Dracula by Jack Kelly, Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor generations, readers have enjoyed classic literature. They have delighted in the romance of Jane Austen, thrilled at the adventures of Jules Verne, and pondered the lessons of Aesop. Introduce young readers to these familiar volumes with Great Illustrated Classics. In this series, literary masterworks have been adapted for young scholars... -
![Dracula by Tania Zamorsky, Bram Stoker]()
Dracula by Tania Zamorsky, Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDracula, that compelling creature of the night, continues his neck-biting ways in a version of the novel that children will devour. Moving from Transylvania to London, the timeless vampire serves up thrills and chills as he imprisons and terrorizes the innocent Jonathan Harker, and then goes after his fiancee, Mina, and her friend Lucy. From creepy, insect-eating Renfield to Dr... -
![Last Train from Perdition by Robert McCammon]()
Last Train from Perdition by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEver on the hunt for LaRouge, Lawson still travels by night, but no longer alone. Crack-shot, whip-smart Ann has become his companion, on her own search for her vampire-taken father and sister. Lawson has been summoned from New Orleans and the Hotel Sanctuaire to Omaha by a wealthy man who needs his son retrieved from a band of outlaws... -
![Dracula Volume I by Bram Stoker]()
Dracula Volume I by Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWidely read across the world, "Dracula" is regarded as one of the most popular and feared characters in the literature. The protagonist Jonathan Harker notices several strange incidents while visiting the mysterious Count Dracula. Set in late nineteenth century, it is in the form of diary entries, letters and a few newspaper clippings. Full of suspense, it is an all-time classic horror story... -
![Dracula: Classics Retold by Mike Stocks, Barry Jones]()
Dracula: Classics Retold by Mike Stocks, Barry Jones
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTruthful retellings of classic stories, clearly written in a modern, approachable style for young readers. Include informative notes on the authors and original texts...Categorized as:
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![The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmes by Loren D. Estleman]()
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.. -
![Classics of Horror: Dracula & Frankenstein by Bram Stoker, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley]()
Classics of Horror: Dracula & Frankenstein by Bram Stoker, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsDRACULA is an 1897 epistolary novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. It was 1st published as a hardcover in 1897 by Archibald Constable & Co. Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel & invasion literature... -
![Vampire: The Masquerade Revised by Mark Rein-Hagen, Phil Brucato]()
Vampire: The Masquerade Revised by Mark Rein-Hagen, Phil Brucato
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThey stalk in the shadows, moving gracefully and unseen among their prey. They are the blood-drinking fiends of whispered legends - Kindred, Cainites, the Damned. Above all, they are vampires. Their eternal struggle, waged since the nights of Jericho and Babylon, plays itself out among the skyscrapers and nightclubs of the modern world... -
![The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life by Michael Talbot, Thomas Walker]()
The Delicate Dependency: A Novel of the Vampire Life by Michael Talbot, Thomas Walker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEver since Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the vampire has evolved from the ferocious blood-sucking fiend as portrayed in the penny dreadfuls such as Varney the Vampyre into a strangely alluring, erotic figure promising eternal life. But, it’s eternal life with a horrifying price attached, the overwhelming need to feast on the blood of the living... -
![The Oldest Living Vampire on the Prowl by Joseph Duncan, Rod Redux]()
The Oldest Living Vampire on the Prowl by Joseph Duncan, Rod Redux
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Your life will last only as long as our conversation,” I said gently. “You will share some of your life with me, and then I will share some of my life with you. If you lie to me, about anything, I will know it. My senses are a thousand times more sensitive than your own... -
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![With Teeth by Brian Keene]()
With Teeth by Brian Keene
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor a group of middle-aged friends, the trip into the forest was supposed to be simple. All they had to do was find a place to set up their criminal enterprise, and all of their financial problems would be solved. But now, night is falling, and with the darkness comes something else. Something fast. Something ferocious. Something... with teeth... -
![Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow]()
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsParis, 1914. American adventurer Sam Carter boards the Orient Express, departing France in style after an impulsive decision to desert the Foreign Legion. British diplomat Lucas Avery is already nursing a drink in the smoking car, resenting his assignment to the distant Ottoman Empire... -
![A Dose of Agony by Stacey Trombley]()
A Dose of Agony by Stacey Trombley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe final installment of the Shadow Hills Relentless series.They say the games have only just begun, but I'm here to end them once and for all.A civil war is brewing in the Under World, lead by the same villain who stole my sister from me. Jarron must return to his world for damage control, leaving me alone at Shadow Hills Academy again... -
![Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula by Stephen Seitz]()
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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![From Dusk Till Dawn: A Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino]()
From Dusk Till Dawn: A Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe screenplay of Tarantino's film "From Dusk until Dawn," this is the story of two kidnappers who use a lapsed preacher and his two teenage children as human shields in their escape to Mexico. Mayhem ensues when they encounter a group of creatures who exist only from dusk until dawn... -
![Dracula and Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker]()
Dracula and Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis e-book publication is unique which includes compilation of two classics, Dracula and Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker. A new table of contents with working links has been included by a publisher. This edition has been corrected for spelling and grammatical errors... -
![Mother of Chaos (Princess Dracula) by John Patrick Kennedy, Carlos Quevedo]()
Mother of Chaos (Princess Dracula) by John Patrick Kennedy, Carlos Quevedo
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTo summon an Angel of Hell…Ruxandra Dracula, a 250-year-old vampire, wants nothing to do with the fallen angel that created her. But when fellow vampire Kade tells her a group of magicians in Moscow is going to summon that angel, Ruxandra knows she must try to stop them.In Moscow, Ruxandra finds herself caught in a web of political and supernatural intrigue...Categorized as:
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![By the Pale Moonlight by Jennifer Hendren]()
By the Pale Moonlight by Jennifer Hendren
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMakenna Wilhelm knows all of her friends have their quirks, but when Ty shows up naked in her yard one morning, she finds it beyond weird. Stranger still are the deep gashes across Ty’s chest and his sudden ability to hear and smell things that no human should.During a moonlit night, Ty’s secret is revealed... -
![Teeth of Beasts by Marcus Pelegrimas]()
Teeth of Beasts by Marcus Pelegrimas
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHorrible things move through the shadows of our world--bloodsuckers, Full Bloods and mongrel beasts, shapeshifters and minor freaks. For centuries creature hunters known as Skinners have protected humankind. But who protects the Skinners . . . from madness?Unbeknownst to the human population, a pestilence is raging through an unseen community of low-level monstrosities... -
![61 A.D. by David McAfee]()
61 A.D. by David McAfee
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBritannia, 61 A.D. For ten years, Taras has lived in the young city of Londinium, feeding off the city’s underbelly. But now Theron, his old enemy, has come looking for revenge, and Taras’ nights of living in relative peace are about to end.Yet not even Theron can slip into town unnoticed, and the Council of Thirteen sends Ramah to deal with the two renegades once and for all...Categorized as:
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![Beautiful Familiar by Amy Cross]()
Beautiful Familiar by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA stormy night. A broken down car on a remote Scottish moor. A woman trapped miles from nowhere, who finally spots a light in the distance. Yet even as she makes her way toward Strathfield Castle, Catherine Meadows has no idea that her arrival is anticipated. Strathfield is home to one of the last great vampires... -
![HOLLOW by Celina Myers]()
HOLLOW by Celina Myers
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMia feels stuck. The only talents she has ever had - the ability to see ghosts - dried up when she was a child. She knows there must be something more for her out there, but what? Then one day a tragic series of events kills her and she soon discovers she has been turned into a vampire. She must choose between two vampire families - and two unexpected loves... -
![Invaders by Brian Lumley]()
Invaders by Brian Lumley
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsThree great vampires--two Lords and a Lady--arrive on an unsuspecting Earth that teems with defenseless humans, easy prey for the marauding vampires. But humanity has defenders. Though the necroscope is gone, the psychically gifted men and women of E-Branch move swiftly against the vampire infestation... -
![Dust Devils by Jonathan Janz]()
Dust Devils by Jonathan Janz
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBeware when the vampires come to town! When traveling actors recruited his wife for a plum role, Cody Wilson had no idea they would murder her. Twelve-year-old Willet Black was just as devastated the night the fiends slaughtered everyone he loved. Now Cody and Willet are bent on revenge, but neither of them suspects what they’re really up against. For the actors are vampires... -
![Children of the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis]()
Children of the Vampire by Jeanne Kalogridis
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt is Amsterdam, 1871, twenty-five years before the start of Stoker's novel, and twenty-five years following Arkady Tsepesh's flight from his family's ancestral castle with his wife and young son, Stefan, after learning that he and his family are bound by an ancient covenant to serve their ancestor, Prince Vlad Tsepesh, who is also known as Dracula... -
![Lord of the Vampires by Jeanne Kalogridis, Elizabeth Jane Miller]()
Lord of the Vampires by Jeanne Kalogridis, Elizabeth Jane Miller
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter the death of his half brother, Stefan, at the hands of Vlad Tsepesh--also known as Dracula--and after the destruction of his vampire father, Arkady, also at the hands of Vlad, Abraham van Helsing has traveled the world slaying many vampires... -
![The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories by Alan Ryan, Fritz Leiber]()
The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories by Alan Ryan, Fritz Leiber
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Penguin Book of Vampire Stories is the definitive collection of short tales of those deadly bloodsuckers. Editor Alan Ryan includes a wide range of talents here, from Bram Stoker to Robert Bloch to Tanith Lee... -
![I Travel by Night by Robert McCammon]()
I Travel by Night by Robert McCammon
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor Lawson, the horrors that stalked the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh were more than just those of war. After being forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge, Lawson chose to cling to what remained of his humanity and fought his way free of the Dark Societys clutches... -
![The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman]()
The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler, Kim Newman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself...Categorized as:
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![Guide to the Sabbat by Justin Achilli]()
Guide to the Sabbat by Justin Achilli
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShadows of the Elders War The Sabbat are depraved monsters, reveling in their Damned state and herding the kine about them like cattle. Or so it would seem to the uninitiated. In truth, the Sabbat wage a secret war on the elders, struggling night after night to free themselves from the tyranny of the dread Antediluvians and the Jyhad itself... -
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![The World on Blood by Jonathan Nasaw]()
The World on Blood by Jonathan Nasaw
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNasaw's stunningly original novel introduces readers to a group of contemporary "blood addicts" in Northern California who have for the last 20 years--under the leadership of charismatic and cheerfully immoral multi-millionaire James Whistler and erstwhile intelligence officer and horror novelist Nick Santos--been satifying their boundless thirst for blood... -
![Clanbook: Malkavian Revised by Ethan Skemp, Jess Heinig]()
Clanbook: Malkavian Revised by Ethan Skemp, Jess Heinig
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Circle of ChaosThe childer of Malkav bear two curses: undeath and madness. From emotionless sociopaths to raving lunatics and everything in between, the Malkavians nonetheless command startling insight... -
![The Angry Angel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro]()
The Angry Angel by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn a distant age of brutal chaos, young Kelene is her family's salvation. An exquisite, golden-haired child just entering womanhood's embrace, she is blessed -- and cursed -- with a great gift: the protection of the Militant Angels...Categorized as:
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![Hottest Blood by Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett]()
Hottest Blood by Jeff Gelb, Michael Garrett
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTerror never felt this sexy! Graham Masterton, Bentley Little, Rex Miller, Elizabeth Massie, David Schow, Matthew Costello, John Shirley, Thomas Tessier, Grant Morrison and other established masters, as well as rising stars in the galaxy of horror writers, weave riveting tales of sex and terror... -
![Vamps: Deadly Women of the Night by Martin H. Greenberg, Théophile Gautier]()
Vamps: Deadly Women of the Night by Martin H. Greenberg, Théophile Gautier
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSixteen short stories by Stephen King, William Tenn, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, August Derleth, Richard Matheson, Tanith Lee, and others deal with the nightmarish theme of female vampires...Categorized as:
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![Vampyre by Cornelius Van Helsing]()
Vampyre by Cornelius Van Helsing
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsVampyre! The name alone strikes terror into the hearts of most mortals . . . but not Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing--a doctor by profession but secretly a vampyre expert and hunter extraordinaire. Lucky for us, he recorded everything he discovered about the hideous undead in his nineteenth-century journal . . . or did he? His trusted companion Gustav deWolff has a slightly different story to tell...
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