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Scary Stories to Tell if You Dare 2 by Joe Oliveto
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDid you love reading classics like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark as a child? Then you'll love the second entry in the Scary Stories to Tell if You Dare series... -
![The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExplore the marvelous complexity of Lovecraft's writing—including his use of literary allusions, biographical details, and obscure references in this rich, in-depth exploration of great horror fiction from the acknowledged master of the weird, including the stories "Herbert West—Reanimator", "Pickman's Model", "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Thing on the Doorstep", "The Horror at Red Hook" and more... -
![The Stolen by Dan Padavona]()
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 Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, Barbara Hambly]()
The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, Barbara Hambly
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsOne of the most influential practitioners of American horror, H.P. Lovecraft inspired the work of Stephen King, Anne Rice, and Clive Barker. As he perfected his mastery of the macabre, his works developed from seminal fragments into acknowledged masterpieces of terror... -
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![The Anything Box by Zenna Henderson]()
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.. -
![Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors by Robert E. Howard]()
Cthulhu: The Mythos and Kindred Horrors by Robert E. Howard
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe true gods of earth existed long before our anscestors crawled mindless upon the shore: Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Nyarlathotep...insatiate, tenebrous monsters whose ultimate throne is chaos. Greatest of all is he called Cthulhu. Only in ancient, blasphemous manuscripts can that name be found.. -
![The Shadow Over Innsmouth And Other Stories Of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft]()
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... -
![Poltergeist by James Kahn]()
Poltergeist by James Kahn
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom a dimension beyond the living, a terror to scare you to deathFrom the imageless eye of the TV set, from the flickering snowy light, it calls to Carol Anne, six years old and innocent.From beyond the world of the living, reaches out in unholy anger, ripping her from the arms of her family, into the thrall of the POLTERGEIST... -
![The Maze of the Enchanter by Clark Ashton Smith]()
The Maze of the Enchanter by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis series presents Clark Ashton Smith's fiction chronologically, based on composition rather than publication. Editors Scott Connors and Ron Hilger have compared original manuscripts, various typescripts, published editions, and Smith's notes and letters, in order to prepare a definitive set of texts... -
![Out of Space and Time: Volume 1 by Clark Ashton Smith]()
Out of Space and Time: Volume 1 by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFantasmagical voyages into alien landscapes!Incredible worlds, impossibly beautiful cities, and still more fantastic creatures-Forays into the unnameable beyond the tomb-Macabre and ghoulish tales of weird-heroic fantasy and sheer terror-Clark Ashton SmithNone strikes the note of cosmic horror as well as Clark Ashton Smith... -
![Dark and Desperate Things by Kelly Martin]()
Dark and Desperate Things by Kelly Martin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsElise Morgan is about to find out that the sins of the father come back to haunt you. Running from Abel Hale seemed like a good idea at the time. Now as the only living soul in her cramped dorm room, Elise thinks maybe she's made a very bad mistake. Naked Girl, who has waited patiently, wants to tell her story. Elise's mom and Abel's mom want to be heard. And Kim Forrester.. -
![The Door to Saturn by Clark Ashton Smith]()
The Door to Saturn by Clark Ashton Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPublished in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S... -
![Eye of the Moon by Ivan Obolensky]()
Eye of the Moon by Ivan Obolensky
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn this award-winning American Gothic novel, two estranged friends, Percy and Johnny, reunite at the haunting estate of Rhinebeck where Johnny’s aunt Alice died reading an Egyptian Book of the Dead.Stumbling upon her letters and journals, they discover that her story is not what they’ve been told—not at all. Everyone has a secret, and nothing is what it seems... -
![Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison, Stephen King]()
Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison, Stephen King
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn Ellison potpourri: rewrites of tales 1st appearing in 50s pulp magazines (one a Joe L. Hensley collaboration), recent tales & four excellent nonfiction items... -
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![Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope by John Saul]()
Day of Reckoning: The Stereoscope by John Saul
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen attorney Ed Becker spots the carved antique dresser in a dusty attic, he takes it to restore. Then Ed and his young daughter, Amy, make a curious discovery: Inside one of the drawers are a set of old pictures and a stereoscope, an old-fashioned device that allows you to see images in three dimensions. Oddly, all the photos resemble their house, where Ed’s grandparents lived long ago... -
![At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft]()
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNIGHTMARE STORIES FROM THE LAND OF TOTAL FEARRenowned as one of the great horror-writers of all time, H.P. Lovecraft produced works of enduring power. Now gathered together into this omnibus volume are seven classics of screaming supernatural terror and vilest horror...Front cover illustration by Tim White.Contents:- Introduction: H. P... -
![The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3 by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Haunter of the Dark: The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus, #3 by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWARNING! YOU ARE ABOUT TO ENTER A NEW DIMENSION OF UTMOST TERRORWhen you open this book you will lost - lost in a world of dreadful nightmare brought to screaming life by the century's greatest master of adult fantasy and horror.H.P... -
![Complete Stories of Robert Bloch: Final Reckonings (Complete Stories of Robert Bloch, Volume 1) by Robert Bloch]()
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]()
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]()
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]()
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... -
![The Evil And The Pure by Darren Dash]()
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... -
![The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson]()
The Wavering Knife by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBrian Evenson's fifth story collection constructs a human landscape as unearthly as it is mundane. Replete with the brutality, primordial waste, and savage blankness familiar to readers of his earlier works, Evenson's Kafkaesque allegories entice the mind while stubbornly disordering it... -
![Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen Jones]()
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen Jones
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFollowing the phenomenal success of Necronomicon, its companion volume brings together Lovecraft’s remaining major stories plus his weird poetry, a number of obscure revisions, and some notable nonfiction, including the seminal critical essay Supernatural Horror in Literature... -
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![Nameless Cults: The Complete Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert E. Howard by Robert E. Howard]()
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]()
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'... -
![Twist of Fate: The Locket by John Saul]()
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]()
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... -
![The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft]()
The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories by H.P. Lovecraft
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe Doom That Came to SarnathIn a city of gems and riches-beyond the dreams of mortal men-a race of conquerors celebrates its triumph and reaps the horror of its glory...The Other GodsA prophet wise in the ways of the gods learns that too much knowledge can be a macabre thing...Beyond the Walls of SleepA crazed murderer blames his crime on beings from another dimension... -
![Cthulhu 2000 by Jim Turner, Various]()
Cthulhu 2000 by Jim Turner, Various
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Cthulhu 2000, a host of horror and fantasy's top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. P. Lovecraft--with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made the master proud.- The Barrens by F. Paul Wilson: In a tangled wilderness, unearthly lights lead the way to a world no human was meant to see.- His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood by Poppy Z... -
![Los mitos de Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner]()
Los mitos de Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, Henry Kuttner
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAnticipada por notables precedentes (Lord Dunsany, Ambrose Bierce, R. W. Chambers, A. Machen, Algernon Blackwood) y enriquecida posteriormente por otros escritores, corresponde sin embargo a HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT (1890-1937) el papel más importante en la invención de LOS MITOS DE CTHULHU, ciclo de narraciones de horror cósmico ambientadas en mundos primigenios de caos y espanto... -
![Blood Crazy by Simon Clark]()
Blood Crazy by Simon Clark
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSaturday is a normal day. People go shopping. To the movies. Everything is just as it should be. But not for long. By Sunday, civilization is in ruins. Adults have become murderously insane. One by one they become infected with a crazed, uncontrollable urge to slaughter the youngeven their own children. Especially their own children... -
![Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA collection of the poems by the famous American writer.Al Araaf --Alone --Annabel Lee --Bells --Bridal ballad --City in the sea --Coliseum --Conqueror worm --Dactylic couplet --Deep in earth --Dream --Dream-land --Dreams --Dream within a dream --Eldorado --Elizabeth --Enigma --Eulalie --Evening star --To F --To F-SS... -
![Midnight Graffiti by Jessica Horsting, Stephen King]()
Midnight Graffiti by Jessica Horsting, Stephen King
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA collection of new horror stories includes contributions by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, David J. Schow, Nancy Collins, and others... -
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![The Best of Robert Bloch by Robert Bloch]()
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... -
![The Apple Tree: A Short Novel and Several Long Stories by Daphne du Maurier]()
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... -
![Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz]()
Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror (Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection) by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPenny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror is an anthology of twenty tales of horror and the supernatural published in the nineteenth century. In addition to works by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins!, and other well-known writers, it features several sensationalized retellings of famous folk legends and accounts of notorious highwaymen... -
![Famous Tales of Mystery and Horror by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Famous Tales of Mystery and Horror by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLibrarian note: There is an earlier printing with a different cover using the same ISBN available on Goodreads here... -
![Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison]()
Spider Kiss / Stalking the Nightmare by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn May 1996, White Wolf announced what remains its most ambitious publishing program of a single author: 20 volumes of the collected fiction, essays, teleplays and columns of the writer The Washington Post calls "one of the great living American short story writers... -
![The Third Level by Jack Finney]()
The Third Level by Jack Finney
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:The Third LevelSuch Interesting NeighborsI’m ScaredCousin Len’s Wonderful Adjective CellarOf Missing PersonsSomething in a CloudThere Is a Tide.. -
![Third from the Sun by Richard Matheson]()
Third from the Sun by Richard Matheson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsContents:· Born of Man and Woman · vi F&SF Sum ’50 · Third from the Sun · ss Galaxy Oct ’50 · Lover, When You’re Near Me · nv Galaxy May ’52 · SRL Ad · ss F&SF Apr ’52 · Mad House · nv Fantastic Jan/Feb ’53 · F--- [“The Foodlegger”] · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories Apr ’52 · Dear Diary · ss Born of Man and Woman, Chamberlain, 1954 · To Fit the Crime · ss Fantastic Nov/Dec ’52 · Dress of... -
![The Hunger: And Other Stories by Charles Beaumont]()
The Hunger: And Other Stories by Charles Beaumont
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen "The Hunger and Other Stories" (1957) appeared, it heralded the arrival of Charles Beaumont (1929-1967) as an important and highly original new voice in American fiction... -
![The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat with a Thousand Young by Robert M. Price]()
The Shub-Niggurath Cycle: Tales of the Black Goat with a Thousand Young by Robert M. Price
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCall of the Cthulhu... -
![The Peeling & Other Terrifying Tales by Iain Rob Wright]()
The Peeling & Other Terrifying Tales by Iain Rob Wright
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe most terrifying disease ever witnessed, reimagined for 2018. A new outbreak is about to begin. The world's most deadly disease is loose, and anyone who catches it is doomed. Symptoms include coughing, sneezing, abdominal pain, and rotting of the flesh. There is no cure. Infection is 100% fatal. Stay calm. Please do not panic. The situation is under control. It is under control... -
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![The Blood House by Amy Cross]()
The Blood House by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventy-five years ago, a family of three disappeared from their remote English home. Blood was left smeared all over the floors and walls, but despite an extensive search, their bodies were never found. Now the house is ready to kill again. On the run from his creditors, Owen Richards moves his wife and daughter out to the same house... -
![Makeup by Robert McCammon]()
Makeup by Robert McCammon
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSmall-time thief Calvin Doss has bungled a job. He was supposed to steal Jean Harlow’s makeup case. But by accident, he made off with a case that belonged to a B-list horror actor from the 1940s. Little does Calvin know, the makeup case contains more than just the usual pastes and powders... -
![Mysteries of the Worm by Robert Bloch]()
Mysteries of the Worm by Robert Bloch
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRobert Bloch has become one with his fictional counterpart Ludvig Prinn: future generations of readers will know him as an eldritch name hovering over a body of nightmare texts. To know them will be to know him. And thus we have decided to release a new and expanded third edition of Robert Bloch’s Mysteries of the Worm... -
![Prime Evil by Douglas E. Winter]()
Prime Evil by Douglas E. Winter
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsPrime Evil: New Stories by the Masters of Modern... -
![The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth]()
The Shuttered Room and Other Tales of Horror by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCross frontiers of fear into chill realms of terrorStrange and terrible experiences await you in this book. A mis-spawned, murderous abomination lurking in its shuttered prison, waiting for its chance to escape... a man's mind wrenched through aeons of time and imprisoned in an alien body..
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