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The Works of Edgar Allen [sic] Poe: Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsP. F Collier & Son published a five volume collection of Poe's work in hardback in 1903. This is volume 1, with a frontspiece in color from a painting by Arthur E. Becher.contains:Edgar Allan Poe, An Appreciation, by W.H.R.Life of Poe, by James Russell LowellDeath of Poe, by N. P... -
Dolores Claiborne/Insomnia/Rose Madder by Stephen King
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTitles include Dolores Claiborne, Insomnia and Rose Madder... -
The Stolen by Dan Padavona
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe night Sutter and Monica Steen leave for dinner, they never return home.Two weeks later, the police drag their bodies out of the river, sending the town into a panic.The Black River killer is back. Nobody is safe.When another person goes missing, Jefferson Gildon, a police detective with a checkered past, leads the investigation... -
The Works of Edgar Allen Poe, Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsContents:The Devil in the BelfryLionizingX-ing a ParagraphMetzengersteinThe System of Doctor Tarr and Professor FetherHow to Write a Blackwood ArticleA PredicamentMystificationDIddlingThe Angel of the OddMellonta TautaThe Duc de L'omeletteThe Oblong BoxLoss of BreathThe Man that was Used UpThe Business ManThe Landscape GardenMaelzel's Chess PlayerThe power of WordsThe Colloquy of Monos and... -
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The Tomb and Other Tales by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Tomb and other... -
The Anything Box by Zenna Henderson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDon't open The Anything Box unless you're prepared for the unexpected. The Grunder, a thing of horror which, if defeated, restores love... The Noise-Eater, created by a child out of his fevered imagination, gobbles up anything--or anyone--that makes a sound... The Coveti, residents of an alien world poisoned by the intrusion of the stranger from Earth.. -
Edgar Allan Poe: Medo Clássico by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSeguindo o padrão quase psicopata de qualidade que os leitores já esperam da DarkSide® Books, o livro é uma homenagem a Poe em todos os detalhes: da capa dura à nova tradução feita por Marcia Heloisa, pesquisadora e tradutora do gênero, além das belíssimas ilustrações em xilogravura feitas pelo artista gráfico Ramon Rodrigues... -
The Shadow Over Innsmouth And Other Stories Of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is a short novel about a weird hybrid race of humans and creatures resembling a cross between a fish and a frog, which lives in the seaside village of Innsmouth... -
Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, T.E.D. Klein
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsH.P. Lovecraft. Dagon and Other Macabre Tales. [Sauk City]: Arkham House, [1986]. Corrected fifth printing. Octavo. 448 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket... -
Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Best of Arthur Machen's short stories: The Novel of the Black Seal, The Novel of the White Powder, The Great God Pan, The White People, The Inmost Light, The Shining Pyramid, The Bowmen, The Great Return, The Happy Children, Out of the Earth, N, The Children of the Pool, The Terror... -
Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Final Reckonings (Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1) by Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBest known as the author of "Psycho", Robert Bloch is world-renowned for his stories of horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. Many of the 25 stories in this first volume of "The Complete Stories of Robert Bloch" have been unavailable for decades. The stories are in his classic style of gripping suspense, science fiction and fantasy... -
The Hawk is Dying by Harry Crews
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEverybody wanted something from George Gattling. They wanted sex and new seat covers, money and confessions, a little bit of love and a lot of answers. That's why George liked his hawk. All it asked of him was an opportunity to kill... -
Silver Scream by David J. Schow
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the broken down picture palaces to glorious neon drive-ins, from the has-been stars of yesterday to the ambitious, rapacious would-be stars of tomorrow, Silver Scream presents the best that terror has to offer. Includes works from Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, and more. Original... -
Friday the 13th by Simon Hawke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt was going to be a fun summer at Camp Crystal. The young counselors were getting ready for it while they joked about the scary rumors attached to the isolated camp.But evil was waiting in the shadows as the sun set. The laughter turned to screams...the easy living to agonized dying. For the light had gone and the wind was howling and it was--Friday the 13th... -
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The Evil And The Pure by Darren Dash
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBig Sandy is an enforcer.Clint Smith is a dealer.Kevin Tyne is a pimp.Gawl McCaskey is a thug.Four men of violence, whose lives are about to intersect. It is London, the tail-end of the year 2000. A crime lord is trying to go legit. A chemical genius is working on his illegal masterpiece. A football club is up for sale. Savagely bred hounds are baying for blood... -
Press Play by C. Lymari
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsI am the grand master. I set the rules, and I call the plays. You’re now my new puppet until I say The End. What I want is simple, one word: revenge. Don't think of me as your enemy, but don't mistake me for a friend. You are looking for answers, and I like to play games. Two steps forward and three steps back, be careful because I like to make little girls cry... -
The First Bird: Episode 2 by Greig Beck
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe South American Boreal: one of the last truly unexplored jungles on our planet. In its dark heart is an ancient crater basin, sealed in by a living cage, making it a time capsule for an ancient, deadly ecosystem.Matt Kearns, Carla Nero and a team of scientist explorers have found their way in. In the crater’s sunken interior are creatures from a primordial nightmare... -
Nameless Cults: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRobert E. Howard is the world-renowned author of the Conan series and the stories that were the basis of the recent Kull movie. He also was one of H.P. Lovecraft's frequent correspondents, and an author of many pivotal Mythos tales. This book collects together all of Howard's Mythos tales, including the tales that originated Gol-Goroth, Unausspreclichen Kulten, and Friedrich Von Junzt... -
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Stephen Hand
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn August 20th 1973, police were dispatched to a remote farmhouse in Travis County, Texas. Within the confines of a cryptic residence discovered the butchered remains of 33 victims. Brandishing a chainsaw and wearing the grotesque flesh masks of his victims, the killer became forever known as 'Leatherface'... -
Ashes to Ashes: The Dragon's Flame by John Saul
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen library assistant Rebecca Morrison comes across a beautifully ornate cigarette lighter in the shape of a fire breathing dragon, she gives it to her cousin, unwittingly igniting an evil that can only originate from the terrifying Blackstone Asylum. This is third installment in "The Blackstone Chronicles", Saul's serial novel about the horrors that plague a small New England town... -
Asylum by John Saul
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEditor Oliver Metcalf has written a provocative article on the Asylum that implies there may be a curse on the town. The community is outraged, charging him with inflaming hysteria. More urgent is the mysterious disappearance of Rebecca Morrison. As Blackstone rallies to find the missing woman, a mysterious package arrives on Harvey Connally’s front porch... -
Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJules Hartwick should be on top of the world. He has a distinguished career as president of the First National Bank of Blackstone, and his lovely daughter will soon be married. But his contentment is shattered: he's under investigation by the Federal Reserve--and that frightening audit threatens the financing of the Blackstone Center, which is slated to rise on the site of the old Asylum... -
In the Shadow of Evil: The Handkerchief by John Saul
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhile researching an historical piece on the Asylum for the town’s newspaper, editor Oliver Metcalf digs through the attic that once belonged to his father, the last superintendent of the facility. There, among the dusty medical records, Oliver discovers a beautifully embroidered linen handkerchief with an ornate “R” in one corner... -
Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror by Kirby McCauley, Dennis Etchison
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsContentsThe Late Shift by Dennis EtchisonThe Enemy by Isaac Bashevis SingerDark Angel by Edward BryantThe Crest of Thirty-six by Davis GrubbMark Ingestre: The Customer’s Tale by Robert AickmanWhere the Summer Ends by Karl Edward WagnerThe Bingo Master by Joyce Carol OatesChildren of the Kingdom by T. E. D. KleinThe Detective of Dreams by Gene WolfeVengeance Is... -
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Complete Tales and Poems with Selected Essays by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis beautiful volume showcases the full range of Poe's genius--from "The Raven" and terrifying tales like "The Pit and the Pendulum," "The Fall of the House of Usher," and "The Masque of the Red Death," to humorous sketches, the very first detective stories, early works of science fiction, and literary criticism... -
The Rude Awakening of Theodor Moody by Per Jacobsen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you do to protect the people who have given your life purpose again?After suffering a stroke, petty racist, semi-demented, and grumpy pensioner, Theodor Moody, wakes up with telekinetic abilities. During Theodor’s hospital stay, an unlikely friendship develops between him and the cleaning lady, Yuki, as he uses his newfound abilities to save her son from some school bullies... -
Beautiful Little Freaks: A Gatsby Retelling by Tylor Paige
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom top three amazon bestselling author Tylor Paige, comes a new horror romance about two star-crossed lovers whose love for a tale told 100 years ago convinces them to rewrite the ending, no matter the cost.Gatsby-The world has found me guilty of heinous crimes that aren't mine. I've been called the beautiful monster. A man with a craving for flesh, but darling, it's not your liver I want... -
Delia's Heart by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTORN BETWEEN TWO WORLDS... Atrapada entre dos mundosDelia Yebarra survived a treacherous desert crossing to protect her friend Ignacio from murder charges... -
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe New York Times bestselling Queen of Twists returns…with a family reunion that leads to murder.After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours... -
In the Shadow of the Master: Classic Tales by Edgar Allan Poe and Essays by Jeffery Deaver, Nelson DeMille, Tess Gerritsen, Sue Grafton, Stephen King, Laura Lippman, Lisa Scottoline, and Thirteen Others by Michael Connelly
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“A wonderful treat for the Poe connoisseur, or a perfect introduction to his works.”—Charlotte Observer In the Shadow of the Master is an exceptional collection of classic stories from the lord of literary darkness himself—the inimitable Edgar Allan Poe—accompanied by enthralling essays from twenty of his bestselling acolytes and admirers... -
The Best of Robert Bloch by Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:xi · Robert Bloch: The Man Who Wrote Psycho · Lester del Rey · in 1 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · ss Weird Tales Jul ’43 21 · Enoch · ss Weird Tales Sep ’46 39 · Catnip · ss Weird Tales Mar ’48 55 · The Hungry House · ss Imagination Apr ’51 79 · The Man Who Collected Poe · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries Oct ’51 97 · Mr... -
Fright Night by John Skipp, Craig Spector
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBased on the motion picture written by Tom Holland.Charley has seen the coffin and the bodies drained of blood. He knows he will be the vampire's next victim. But no one will believe him: not the police, not his girlfriend Amy, not even the school weirdo, Evil Ed... -
The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories by Daphne du Maurier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsContents:Monte VeritàVictorThe BirdsThe Apple TreeThe Little PhotographerKiss Me Again, StrangerThe Old... -
Desecrating Solomon by Lucian Bane
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratings***WARNING*** This is a dark, gothic, slightly erotic romantic thriller that contains elements that may be disturbing and offensive. Please read with caution if you are triggered by events depicting violence and various forms of abuse. On the seventh day of the seventh year... she desecrates. Evil keeps a formidable schedule in Weston, West Virginia... -
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Sinful Shadows by Jade Wilkes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere’s who I’m supposed to be, and there’s who I am….Everything changed at the Halloween party sponsored by the millionaire my mother is seeing.I was not supposed to be attracted to his unhinged son, Damon Northwood.I was not supposed to react the way I did when he taunted and teased me.Maybe his dark past can match the wretchedness of my own... -
Robin des bois by Simon Rousseau
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLes contes de notre enfance revisités... pour nourrir tous nos cauchemars !Dans ce nouveau Conte interdit redécouvrez dans une version sombre la légende anglaise de Robin des bois, datant du 13e siècle et popularisée par le dessin animé Disney. Les gentils et les voleurs s'entremêlent dans une danse endiablante.. -
Classics of the Macabre by Daphne du Maurier
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis sumptuous volume celebrates the 80th birthday of one of the best-known and most-loved storytellers in the English language today, Daphne du Maurier.Here are six masterpieces of the imagination, illustrated in glowing color by prize-winning artist, Michael Foreman... -
Strangers / The Voice of the Night / The Mask by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe author's early classic of adolescent evil, The Voice of the Night, unites with The Mask (appearing in hardcover for the first time) and Strangers for a hair-raising collection of thrillers... -
Killer, Come Back To Me by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCelebrating Ray Bradbury's centenary, this collection commemorates his finest crime stories – tales as strange and wonderful as his signature fantasy... -
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to Stay Awake By by Alfred Hitchcock
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThat master of the macabre Alfred Hitchcock has only scorn for people who dream their nights away. No one should waste those deliciously dark hours between dusk and dawn when the wind howls the loudest and the smallest sounds can reap the greatest dividends of dread... -
Tales of Terror: 58 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense by Alfred Hitchcock, Nelson DeMille
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBe afraid--be very afraid: the master of suspense is serving up 58 bloodcurdling tales for your delectation. These suspenseful stories all appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and in the words of Hitch himself, they "are guaranteed to chill and unnerve." Bill Pronzini contributes "The Arrowmont Prison Riddle," Margaret B. Maron has "A Very Special Talent," Barry M... -
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1889 Original Publisher: W... -
The House Beneath the Oak Trees by Faye Belle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPenny couldn’t believe her luck when they first arrived at Oak Tree House, the grand country estate where she would be spending the week to celebrate her sister’s 30th birthday along with her mum and aunt. Guarded by two gigantic oak trees, the empty house stands alone within Oakdene, a quiet and desolate village... -
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Teru Teru Bozu by Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKamu pernah mendengar tentang teru teru bozu?Atau kamu menggantung satu boneka itu di depan jendela kamarmu? Tentunya kamu tahu untuk apa benda itu ada di sana. Namun aku yakin, kamu tidak pernah menyangka cerita mengerikan apa yang bisa teru teru bozu hamparkandi hadapanmu. Kamu mungkin akan terkesiap ketika tahu teru-teru bozu di sekolahku punya kisah yang berbeda... -
Bone Deep: A Psychological Dark Romance by Rachael Chadwick
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsI never meant to build a life among the dead—but it was the one thing that made sense. The work was quiet, methodical. It gave me space to breathe. To keep things simple.Then Patrick Dalton walked through the door.Warm, charming, gentle, devastatingly perfect.He made my chest ache, even when I tried to keep him at arm’s length. And he made me want more... -
Small Horrors: A Collection of Fifty Creepy Stories by Darcy Coates
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSomething mimics human voices as it lures you into the woods. One of the morgue's corpses is missing. Your friend wants to meet late at night, but they're not acting like themselves. Immerse yourself in the macabre, the gothic, and the chilling with this collection of fifty short stories... -
Predators by Ed Gorman, John Gregory Betancourt
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter the indisputable success of the first Stalkers volume, Gorman and Greenberg have teamed together once again to gather Predators--a remarkable anthology of nearly two dozen stories of horror and suspense, exploring what may be the darkest theme of horror fiction: the hunter and his prey. Features Dean R. Koontz, F. Paul Wilson, and others.Contents:Hardshell Dean R... -
Prime Evil by Douglas E. Winter
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsPrime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern...
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