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The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen Dr. Warthrop goes hunting the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with a real family. But part of Will can't let go of Dr. Warthrop, and when Arkwright returns claiming that the doctor is dead, Will is devastated--and not convinced... -
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Still of Night by Jonathan Maberry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe dead rose. We fell. But not everyone thinks the war for survival is over. Heroes rise in times of crisis, and STILL OF NIGHT tells their stories… DAHLIA -a bullied high school girl with a love for edged weapons goes from victim to powerful leader as the zombie apocalypse sweeps through her world... -
![The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf: A Novel by Martin Millar]()
The Anxiety of Kalix the Werewolf: A Novel by Martin Millar
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsNow eighteen, Scottish teenage werewolf Kalix MacRinnalch is settling in London, though she still struggles with anxiety, depression, and self-abuse. Her new friends support her ? and all is fine until the Guild of Werewolf Hunters start picking off her clan, one by one. Most of the Scottish Werewolf Clan have a very low opinion of Kalix Macrinnalch, youngest daughter of the Thane... -
![Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore]()
Them Early Days - 2nd Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFood. Booze. Weapons. Armor. And any toilet paper he can find.It's been a rough time for Gus Berry. He barely survived the city of Annapolis as its population underwent a violent transformation, leaving everyone he knew or loved either dead or undead.Things aren't much better now, though. In fact, things might have become much worse...Categorized as:
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![The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells]()
The Devil's Only Friend by Dan Wells
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsJohn Wayne Cleaver hunts demons: they've killed his neighbors, his family, and the girl he loves, but in the end he's always won. Now he works for a secret government kill team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can......but the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into a full scale supernatural war...Categorized as:
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![Live and Let Drood by Simon R. Green]()
Live and Let Drood by Simon R. Green
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Secret Histories Novels combine “witty banter, tough guy standoffs, visceral fight scenes, bad guy atrocities, surprise revelations, and high stakes”* in supernatural adventures that can only come from the imagination of New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green.The name is Bond, Shaman Bond...Categorized as:
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![An Old Friend of the Family by Fred Saberhagen]()
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... -
![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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Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory
Rated: 3.81 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn 1968, after the first zombie outbreak, Wanda Mayhall and her three young daughters discover the body of a teenage mother during a snowstorm. Wrapped in the woman’s arms is a baby, stone-cold, not breathing, and without a pulse. But then his eyes open and look up at Wanda — and he begins to move... -
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Darker Things by Rob Cornell
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCraig Lockman—no one had called him that in fifteen years.Not since his days at the Agency. Not since he was trained to kill creatures that were supposed to exist only in nightmares.Yet the teenage girl on his doorstep not only knows his real name, she claims she's his daughter.Before Lockman can learn how the girl found him, he's attacked by a black-ops team of assassins... -
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Big Bad by Chandler Baker
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFor a family trying to make an isolated farmhouse into a home, fear and rage are getting harder to control in a primal short story by the New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Network and Cutting Teeth. The Strauss family is on knife’s edge. Sam is a resentful stay-at-home dad. Rachel feels the restlessness in her blood returning. Their children are getting out of hand... -
![Odd & True by Cat Winters, Nathalia Suellen]()
Odd & True by Cat Winters, Nathalia Suellen
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTrudchen grew up hearing Odette’s stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician’s curse. But now that Tru’s older, she’s starting to wonder if her older sister’s tales were just comforting lies, especially because there’s nothing fantastic about her own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio...Categorized as:
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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...Categorized as:
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Hawkes Harbor by S.E. Hinton
Rated: 3.13 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsAn orphan and a bastard, Jamie Sommers grew up knowing he had no hope of heaven. Conceived in adultery and born in sin, Jamie was destined to repeat the sins of his parents--or so the nuns told him. And he proved them right. Taking to sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner--and murderer... -
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![Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida]()
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsShy Ken Kaneki is thrilled to go on a date with the beautiful Rize. But it turns out that she’s only interested in his body—eating it, that is. When a morally questionable rescue transforms him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid, Ken is drawn into the dark and violent world of Ghouls, which exists alongside our own...Categorized as:
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![Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 7 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 7 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsGhouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way-except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers... -
![The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1 by Kaiu Shirai, 白井カイウ]()
The Promised Neverland, Vol. 1 by Kaiu Shirai, 白井カイウ
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 58 ratingsLife at Grace Field House has been good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious foods and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems…Emma, Norman and Ray are the brightest kids at the Grace Field House orphanage...Categorized as:
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Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 14 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsGhouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way—except their craving for human flesh.Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers...Categorized as:
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![Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 8 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 8 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsGhouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way-except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers... -
![Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsUnable to discard his humanity but equally unable to suppress his Ghoul hunger, Ken finds salvation in the kindness of friendly Ghouls who teach him how to pass as human and eat flesh humanely. But recent upheavals in Ghoul society attract the police like wolves to prey, and they don’t discriminate between conscientious and monstrous Ghouls... -
![Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 3 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 3 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 38 ratingsKaneki is still trying to get used to his new life when Commission of Counter Ghoul agents Mado and Amon start sniffing around for Hinami. Kaneki and Touka are going to have to get them off her tail and fast. No easy task now that Kaneki’s got to bring humans and Ghouls to a rapid truce at the same time... -
![Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 6 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 6 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsGhouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way—except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers... -
![Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 4 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 4 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsGhouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way—except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers... -
![Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 5 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul, Vol. 5 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsGhouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way—except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers... -
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![Tokyo Ghoul: re, Vol. 4 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul: re, Vol. 4 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA month has passed since Operation Auction Sweep, and business at the CCG rolls on. An intersquad task force has been formed to investigate the Tsukiyama family, and the Quinxes are part of the team. This is a huge case for the Qs, and the worst possible time for their mentor to fall apart...Categorized as:
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Tokyo Ghoul:re, Vol. 1 by Sui Ishida
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the world of Tokyo Ghoul, sometimes the only way to fight monsters is to become one…The Commission of Counter Ghoul is the only organization fighting the Ghoul menace, and they will use every tool at their disposal to protect humanity from its ultimate predator...Categorized as:
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![스위트 홈 12 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비]()
스위트 홈 12 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“우리가 여기 살아있다는 걸 꼭 기억해주세요.”마침내, 그린 홈에서의 마지막 싸움이 펼쳐진다!옥상에 도착한 생존자들은 작전대로 로프를 이용해 뒷산으로 대피하려고 하지만 아래층에서 올라오는 괴물들과 날아다니는 괴물 탓에 이마저도 쉽지 않다. 한편 현수는 위험에 처한 지수를 구하기 위해 육체의 괴물화를 용인해 괴물을 무찌르고 지수와 함께 옥상에 도착한다. 하지만 엄청난 괴물이 되어 나타난 절대 악 신중섭의 등장으로 현수와 은혁은 외롭고도 고독한 마지막 싸움을 시작한다... -
![Tokyo Ghoul: re, Vol. 3 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ]()
Tokyo Ghoul: re, Vol. 3 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOperation Auction Sweep has turned into a bloodbath as the investigators face off against the ghouls of Aoigiri Tree’s security forces. And with victory for the CCG far from assured, Investigator Toru Mutsuki must escape from behind enemy lines. His only help comes from Kuki Urie, the ex-Squad Leader of the Quinxes, whose only allegiance is to his next promotion...Categorized as:
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Tokyo Ghoul: re, Vol. 2 by Sui Ishida, 石田スイ
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHaise Sasaki is in charge of turning the unruly members of the Qs Squad into an elite counter-Ghoul unit...Categorized as:
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![스위트 홈 7 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비]()
스위트 홈 7 by Carnby Kim, 김칸비
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“밖은 정말 위험할까? 아직 희망이 있을지도 몰라!”살아남기 위한 위험천만한 작전이 시작된다!괴물화 증상으로 격리 중이었던 생존자들은 극도의 불안 속에서 점점 괴물로 변해간다. 길어지는 농성에 물과 음식도 바닥을 드러내고 마는데…. 이은혁은 그린 홈 밖이 생각보다 안전할지도 모른다며, 지하 주차장에 있는 차를 타고 다른 건물에서 물자를 조달해올 계획을 세운다...
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