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The Green Mile: The Screenplay by Frank Darabont
Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsTells the story of John Coffey, a death row inmate who exhibits supernatural powers that make the guards and prisoners around him reexamine their... -
The Shawshank Redemption: Different Seasons by Stephen King
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTim Robbins and Morgan Freeman star in The Shawshank Redemption, now a major motion picture from Columbia based on the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption in Different Seasons by Stephen King. A prisoner exacts a revenge and escape so meticulous, so brilliant, that no one suspects his plan. . . -
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... -
The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures by Mike Ashley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe biggest collection of new Sherlock Holmes stories since Sir Arthur Conan Doyle laid down his pen - nearly 200,000 words of superb fiction featuring the Great Detective by masters of historical crime, including Stephen Baxter, H. R. F. Keating, Michael Moorcock and Amy Myers. Almost all the stories here are specially written; the cases presented in the order in which Holmes solved them... -
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Angels and Demons / The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #1-2) by Dan Brown
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 42 ratingsEnter the labyrinthine world of internationally bestselling author Dan Brown with his first two spellbinding thrillers featuring Robert Langdon:Angels and DemonsWhen a groundbreaking scientist is found brutally murdered, world renowned Harvard professor Robert Langdon is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared on to the dead man's chest... -
The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"Gillian Flynn is the real deal, a sharp, acerbic, and compelling storyteller with a knack for the macabre." —Stephen KingThis exclusive ebook collection brings together the three novels from bestselling author Gillian Flynn. A #1 New York Times bestseller, Gone Girl is an unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong... -
King Stakh’s Wild Hunt by Uladzimir Karatkevich
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKing Stakh's Wild Hunt tells the tale of Andrey Belaretsky, a young folklorist who finds himself stranded by a storm in the castle of Marsh Firs, the seat of the fading aristocratic Yanovsky family. Offered refuge by Nadzeya, the last in the Yanovskys’ line, he learns of the family curse and terrible apparitions that portend her early death and trap her in permanent, maddening fear... -
The Hannibal Lecter Trilogy by Thomas Harris
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRed Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal - the three international bestsellers that provided literature with one of its most memorable characters - now available in one volume... -
Purgatory by Victor Methos
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsJon Stanton should have been living the good life: a beautiful fiancé, a successful career, a home in paradise. But his job in Homicide has served up a bad case of insomnia and hallucinations, and just as his body, mind, and spirit are about to break, he begins investigating an intriguing series of merciless murders... -
The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis volume contains a collection of some of the best short stories ever written by Edgar Allan Poe. A master of the macabre, Poe exhibits his literary prowess in these classic short stories... -
Nicu II and Victoria's Incestuous Romance by Kenneth Jarrett Singleton
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith love for one another resting within their inseparable hearts, and a secret occupying their active, yet silent souls, seventeen-year-old Prince Nicu II and his sixteen-year-old sister Victoria, First Princess of Exubertis, must make a choice between their incestuous love affair, and the maintaining of stability within their royal family... -
SORRY CAN'T SAVE YOU: A Mystery Novel by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ... one of the best books I've read this year!What if you thought your husband was a murderer? The man you loved, the man who gave you two beautiful children and a perfect life. What if no one believed you? Laurie Davis is the mother of two children, struggling to keep her family together since her husband, Ryan, went to war and came back changed. His PTSD is evident... -
Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories by Roald Dahl
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThese five short stories offer a selection of Dahl's adult writing. Parson's Pleasure is a country tale, A Piece of Cake, a wartime reminiscence, Lamb to the Slaughter a story of vengeful murder, and the remaining two, The Bookseller and The Butler, are on favorite themes of greed and snobbery... -
Dusk Corners by Dan Padavona
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt takes a killer to catch a killer.Logan Wolf was the Behavioral Analysis Unit's most-respected profiler. Then a serial killer murdered his wife and tore his life apart. Now he's a vigilante fugitive, hiding from the FBI while he hunts the nation's deadliest criminals.When a college student and her boyfriend vanish in West Texas, Wolf suspects the Devil's Rock killer... -
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Lost Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHere are treasures! This is no ordinary anthology of Poe items but a unique collection of tales that in most cases have not appeared in print for well over a century and that will be completely new to all but a few Poe specialists... -
A Long December by Richard Chizmar
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1996, Richard Chizmar's debut short story collection, Midnight Promises, was a finalist for the World Fantasy Award. Publishers Weekly called it "a sterling collection" while singling out "The Silence of Sorrow" as "an understated masterpiece."Two years later, Subterranean Press published a mini-collection from Chizmar entitled Monsters and Other Stories... -
The Lighthouse by Ron Ripley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEx-marine Shane Ryan is a ghost hunter whose troubled past haunts him almost as much as the ghosts he encounters in the line of duty. He’s the best. And his reward for excellence? The punishment of being in high demand for jobs to eradicate the worst kind of ghosts – the kind that kill... -
The Lime Works: A Novel (Vintage International) by Thomas Bernhard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor five years, Konrad has imprisoned himself and his crippled wife in an abandoned lime works where he’s conducted odd auditory experiments and prepared to write his masterwork, The Sense of Hearing. As the story begins, he’s just blown the head off his wife with the Mannlicher carbine she kept strapped to her wheelchair... -
Rumah Lebah by Ruwi Meita
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMala, gadis kecil berusia enam tahun yang terobsesi dengan ensiklopedia. Dia hanya membaca buku ensiklopedia dan selalu mengurutkan buku satu sampai buku terakhir dari sisi kiri ke sisi kanan. Dia juga tertarik dengan beruang.Di rumah, Mala hanya tinggal bersama orangtuanya, tetapi dia selalu membicarakan enam orang asing yang hidup bersama di dalam rumahnya... -
Ungu Karmila by Ramlee Awang Murshid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsATAS nama cinta... mahligai impian itu dibina. Vila Sepi menjadi mahar kasih Arif terhadap isterinya, Karmila. Namun, tragedi dahsyat memusnahkan kegembiraan yang dikecapi.Beberapa tahun berlalu... vila yang ditinggalkan dikatakan berhantu. Jikon, seorang pemuda Orang Asli bagai digamit memasuki vila itu. Akhirnya, dia menjadi korban pertama.Setelah itu, mistik di vila itu tiba-tiba sepi... -
The Dead Girls by Jorge Ibargüengoitia
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis is the first appearance in English of a Mexican novelist of enormous talent. His brilliant novel is based on fact: the discovery in the yard of a small-town brothel of the corpses of six prostitutes... -
Selected Writings by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratings'And much of Madness and more of Sin And Horror the Soul of the Plot'This selection of Poe's critical writings, short fiction and poetry demonstrates his intense interest in aesthetic issues, and the astonishing power and imagination with which he probed the darkest corners of the human mind... -
The Best of Mystery: 63 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense by Alfred Hitchcock
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThese 63 spine-tingling stories originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery magazine, and in the words of the master himself, they'll "make your blood run cold." Hitchcock coolly serves up cool cops, clever gangsters, bodies stuffed in trunks, kidnappings, adulterous affairs, murder, and espionage, and the resulting thrills are positively delicious... -
The Edogawa Rampo Reader by Edogawa Rampo
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdogawa Rampo (pseudonym of Hirai Tarō, 1894-1965) is the acknowledged grand master of Japan's golden age of crime and mystery fiction. He is also a major writer in the tradition of Japanese Modernism, and exerts a massive influence on the popular and literary culture of today's Japan... -
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Spirits of the Dead: Tales and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEdgar Allan Poe's tales and poems draw the reader into an unsettling world of mystery and fear.In 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether', 'A Predicament', 'The Angel of the Odd' and other stories, characters are caught up in macabre situations, often with horrifying results... -
Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Pit and the Pendulum...The Purloined Letter...The Tell-Tale Heart...A Descent into Maelstrom...and six other choice chillers by the acknowledged master of mystery, fantasy, and horror. These ten absorbing stories, selected by a famed anthologist of science-fiction and the supernatural, prove that even after a century Poe's imagination still works it macabre magic... -
The Best American Noir Of The Century by Otto Penzler, James Ellroy
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn his introduction, James Ellroy writes, "Noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of the hard-boiled school of fiction…It's the nightmare of flawed souls with big dreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing that goes bad."Ellroy & Penzler mined the past century to find this treasure trove of thirty-nine stories... -
From These Ashes: The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown by Fredric Brown
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA collection of all 118 short science fiction and fantasy stories of one of the masters of the vignette, all his short works except two which were rewritten into parts of a novel. Introduction by Barry N. Malzberg. Dustjacket art by Bob Eggleton... -
Doll House by John Hunt
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 18 ratings"A book of the year!" –Buried in a Book"This book is not for the faint of heart. It's deliciously dark and gruesome." –Where the Reader Grows"All you girls were less than human. Playthings in a twisted doll house."Olivia is taken from the sidewalk near her college and thrown into a van... -
Estudio en escarlata/El sabueso de los Baskerville by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsLa popularidad de Sherlock Holmes ha sido inmensa e incesante... si muchos le parodiaron (a Conan Doyle) casi todos los escritores posteriores han moldeado sus héroes conforme a uno de los poliédricos aspectos del gran Sherlock. Este dejó de ser un personaje literario, se convirtió en una criatura viviente y borró la memoria de su creador... -
The Murders in the Rue Morgue: And the Purloined Letter [With CD (Audio)] by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDo your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve... -
Island of the Dolls by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTHE CREEPIEST ISLAND ON EARTHDeep within an ancient Aztec canal system on the outskirts of Mexico City lies Isla de las Munecas...a reportedly haunted island infested with thousands of decrepit dolls.While there to film a television documentary, several friends discover a brutal murder... -
Memento Mori by Jonathan Nolan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA man named Earl has anterograde amnesia. Because of his inability to remember things for more than a few minutes, he uses notes and tattoos to keep track of new information... -
The Good Sisters by Helen Phifer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings‘So frightening I had to stop reading it at night’ – Judy (Netgalley)The chilling new horror from bestselling author, Helen Phifer 1933, Mother Superior Agnes offers sanctuary to a desperate young woman fleeing for her life. Only to wake in the morning to discover a terrible fate has befallen one of the Sisters – in a room locked from the inside... -
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Hush, My Darling by Leigh Kenny
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"As evidenced by her dazzling debut, Cursed, Kenny is a bright new voice in modern horror, one that is poised to take the genre by storm."Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Kin and Sour Candy.In pursuit of peace and family ties, American tourist Megan goes on a road trip around Ireland. When she becomes stranded deep in the mountains, the Brogan family come to her rescue... -
The Mentor by Lee Matthew Goldberg
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKyle Broder has achieved his lifelong dream and is an editor at a major publishing house.When Kyle is contacted by his favorite college professor, William Lansing, Kyle couldn’t be happier. Kyle has his mentor over for dinner to catch up and introduce him to his girlfriend, Jamie, and the three have a great time. When William mentions that he’s been writing a novel, Kyle is overjoyed... -
Stone Mattress by Margaret Atwood
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” SelectionThe author of such towering novels as The Handmaid’s Tale, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood proves her imaginative prowess dazzles just as vividly in her short fiction... -
The Allingham Minibus by Margery Allingham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second posthumous collection, again of eighteen stories. Only a few concern Mr Campion, but there is a bonus for those who have a sneaking fondness for the egregious Thos. T. Knapp (featured in Mystery Mile). 'A Quarter of a Million' is a novella, first published as The Mystery Man of Soho in 1933, telling of one of his early escapades... -
Eye for an Eye by Graham Masterton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsMeet DS Katie Maguire. With her bright green eyes and short red hair, she looks like an Irish pixie. But she is no soft touch. In this exclusive short story, Ireland's most fearless detective hunts down a priest-killer in county Cork... -
No Doors, No Windows by Harlan Ellison
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYOU HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT FEAR ITSELF! The only trouble is, fear comes in so many different shapes and sizes these days. It comes as rejection by a beautiful woman. It comes in the brutalization of your love by an amoral man... -
The White South by Hammond Innes
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHuman conflict lies behind the tragedy unfolded in this epic story of the indomitable courage and endurance of a handful of English and Norwegians plunged through unforeseen circumstances into a fight with the pitiless forces of nature... -
Spellbinders in Suspense by Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Bloch
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTable of contents:"The Chinese Puzzle Box" by Agatha Christie"The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell"The Birds" by Daphne du Maurier"Puzzle For Poppy" by Patrick Quentin"Eyewitness" by Robert Arthur"Man From The South" by Roald Dahl"Black Magic" by Sax Rohmer"Treasure Trove" by F... -
Opowieści miłosne, śmiertelne i tajemnicze by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOto jedna z najobszerniejszych polskich edycji opowiadań Edgara Allana Poe: trzydzieści siedem utworów w klasycznych przekładach i w unikalnym wyborze, obejmującym teksty niewznawiane od przedwojnia... -
Minority Report and Other Stories by Philip K. Dick, Keir Dullea
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsViewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. This collection includes stories that will make you laugh, cringe...and stop and think... -
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Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, Gilbert Adair
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn this powerful and brutal short story, Leskov demonstrates the enduring truth of the Shakespearean archetype joltingly displaced to the heartland of Russia. Chastened and stifled by her marriage of convenience to a man twice her age, the young Katerina Lvovna goes yawning about the house, missing the barefoot freedom of her childhood, until she meets the feckless steward Sergei Filipych... -
The Haunting of Rachel Harroway, Book 2 by J.S. Donovan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHaunted by a serial killer, Detective Rachel Harroway and her partner Jenson Peak race against the clock to find the murderer’s true killer before he subjects Rachel to an eternity of torment... -
Dark Revelations by Anthony E. Zuiker
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe conclusion to the groundbreaking Level 26 trilogy, a series of edgy, unconventional thrillers about an FBI operative tasked with the ultimate search-and-destroy mission: to take down the world's most dangerous serial killers. Anthony E... -
The Haunting of Sunshine House by Dominika Best
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIs the evil lurking in Sunshine House human or something much worse? Once an exclusive Hollywood hotel catering to the likes of Rudolf Valentino and other great stars of the Silent Film Era, the Bockerman Hotel now is the Sunshine House, an assisted living home for seniors. And its residents are dying…in droves... -
Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories That Scared Even Me by Alfred Hitchcock
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCollection of scary and macabre fiction from a variety of genres. It includes the entire text of John Wyndham's novel of alien invasion, Out of the Deeps, and 24 short stories by American or British authors, all written in the 20th century. Authors represented include T. H. White, Donald E. Westlake, Theodore Sturgeon, Thomas M. Disch, Ellis Peters, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Margaret St... -
ILUSANITI by Adib Zaini
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsILUSANITIIni kisah sekumpulan kawan.Lama sudah kenal secara online.Untuk kali pertama mereka bertemu.Seorang mati bunuh diri selepas itu.Ataupun ada konspirasi yang mereka tidak tahu.Nisan siapa bakal diukir lagi?Ingatan semakin hilang setiap hari.Tidur dipenuhi dengan mimpi ngeri...
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