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Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClose your doors and cabinets tight, or Jack will climb out to see you tonight.The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago... -
![Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan]()
Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLong ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a distant memory.A young family brings the forgotten theater to life with a new, modern vision for its future, but strange troubles plague them... -
![Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz]()
Dark Rivers of the Heart / Sole Survivor / Intensity by Dean Koontz
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDean Koontz is one of the world's top-selling authors with total worldwide sales of his novels at 225 million copies! He achieves what few writers can: he creates books that consistently jump to the top of the bestseller lists in both hardcover and paper... -
![Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Greatest Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDelve into the dark and mesmerizing world of Edgar Allan Poe, where suspense and terror reign supreme. In this collection of his greatest works, experience the haunting brilliance of The Raven, as a lone narrator confronts a mysterious visitor in a chilling tale of loss and madness. Enter the macabre depths of The Tell-Tale Heart, where a murderer's guilt manifests in haunting paranoia... -
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![M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: A Novelization by Peter Lerangis, M. Night Shyamalan]()
M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense: A Novelization by Peter Lerangis, M. Night Shyamalan
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThis is the novelization of the box office hit "The Sixth Sense" about a terrified boy with a huge secret and a tormented child psychologist who needs a shot at redemption. Both are trapped in a world where nothing is what it seems... -
![The Midnight Book Club Super Box Set by Jeremy Bates]()
The Midnight Book Club Super Box Set by Jeremy Bates
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUSA TODAY and #1 AMAZON bestselling author Jeremy Bates brings you the complete collection of the award-winning Midnight Book Club short novels, which have been praised for their fast-paced plots and brilliant twists. As a bonus, you also get a digital copy of the runaway bestseller The Taste of Fear, which has garnered more than 500 five-star reviews... -
![Icefire by Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens]()
Icefire by Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-Stevens
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSix nuclear warheads buried beneath an Antarctic ice shelf, when detonated, will cause a 400mph tidal wave that will annihilate the entire Pacific Rim. This is a plan of calculated evil and when it begins, only two people will survive the initial destruction of the ice station... -
![Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris]()
Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
![The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami]()
The Dream Hotel by Laila Lalami
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Laila Lalami—the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist and a “maestra of literary fiction” (NPR)—comes a riveting and utterly original novel about one woman’s fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance... -
![The Gala by Amy Tackett]()
The Gala by Amy Tackett
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Great Gatsby meets The Last Housewife in this dark, psychological thriller.Are you ready to play, Cole?Two years after the death of his fifteen-year-old daughter, investigative reporter Cole Sloane is still struggling to cope. Between the PTSD episodes, crippling depression, and a trial separation from his wife, he’s flailing, especially at work...Categorized as:
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![Ghost Rider by Greg Cox]()
Ghost Rider by Greg Cox
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen he was seventeen, motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze proved he would do anything to save his terminally ill father -- even make a deal with the sinister Mephistopheles that would cost him everything, from the woman he loved, the beautiful Roxanne Simpson, to Johnny's own immortal soul.Years later, as Roxanne reenters Johnny's life, Mephistopheles returns to collect on his part of the deal... -
![Sleeper Cell by Jeffrey Anderson]()
Sleeper Cell by Jeffrey Anderson
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen people start dying of unexplainable symptoms in Los Angeles, the government turns to Biodefense, a top-secret agency against bioterrorism. For the five members of the team, what they thought could never happen has come to pass: a nanotechnological weapon of mass destruction has been set loose... -
![Leila by Prayaag Akbar]()
Leila by Prayaag Akbar
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEvery year on Leila's birthday Shalini kneels by the wall with a little yellow spade and scoops dry earth to make a pit for two candles. One each for herself and for Riz, the husband at her side.But as Shalini walks from the patch of grass where she held her vigil the man beside her melts away... -
![Dr. Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath]()
Dr. Haggard's Disease by Patrick McGrath
Rated: 3.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn two novels and one short story collection, Patrick McGrath has established himself as the foremost master of the "new gothic." He has been compared by The New York Times to Poe, Wilde, Kafka, and Robert Louis Stevenson and hailed as "an ingenious manipulator of discomfort and suspense." In Dr... -
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![Becoming My Sister by V.C. Andrews]()
Becoming My Sister by V.C. Andrews
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLike everyone else in Palm Springs, Gish idolizes her smart, beautiful, kind older sister. Even their parents compare Gish unfavorably to Gloria—threatening to send her to boarding school once the more perfect sister leaves for college.But Gloria has an unwavering love for Gish, even if that connection belies a weariness with her own accomplishments... -
![The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by Neil Gaiman]()
The Sandman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by Neil Gaiman
Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe Sandman is the universally lauded masterwork following Morpheus, Lord of the Dreaming--a vast hallucinatory landscape housing all the dreams of any and everyone who's ever existed. Regardless of cultures or historical eras, all dreamers visit Morpheus' realm--be they gods, demons, muses, mythical creatures, or simply humans who teach Morpheus some surprising lessons...Categorized as:
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![Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis]()
Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCollects issues 13-27 of the original series as well as 14 pages of additional content.As the series hurtles towards its conclusion, Snow initiates the second part of his comeback plan to stop The Four, makes a startling revelation about his past, and uncovers information on the world's first moon shot .. -
![Batman, Volume 3: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder]()
Batman, Volume 3: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAfter having his face sliced off, The Joker makes his horrifying return to Gotham City; shaking Batman to his core! But even for a man who’s committed a lifetime of murder, he’s more dangerous than ever before... -
![Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is it - the long-awaited fourth and final graphic novel collecting the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful, hundred year old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely powerful but bored woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines... -
![Absolute Planetary Book One by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
Absolute Planetary Book One by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsCollecting the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful, hundred year old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely strong but bored woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines... -
![Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller]()
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 67 ratingsThis masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker man. Together with inker Klaus Janson and colorist Lynn Varley, writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in his saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, ten years after the Dark Knight's retirement...Categorized as:
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![Batman (2011-2016) #14 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV]()
Batman (2011-2016) #14 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Joker is back and somehow more sinister than ever! What caused this change? And can even Batman stop a Joker so driven and dangerous? “Death of the Family” part 2... -
![Black Hammer: Library Edition, Volume 1 by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston]()
Black Hammer: Library Edition, Volume 1 by Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe first chapter of the highly acclaimed, Eisner Award-winning superhero saga in deluxe, oversized hardcover format... -
![Planetary, Volume 2: The Fourth Man by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
Planetary, Volume 2: The Fourth Man by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWarren Ellis improves on his already outstanding stories and characters in the second collection of Planetary: The Fourth Man. While scraping their way through their investigations, the three archaeologists of mystery, enigmatic themselves, deal with their own past and learn more about the creepy metahumans lurking behind practically every oddity on the planet... -
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![The Punisher MAX, Vol. 5: The Slavers by Garth Ennis]()
The Punisher MAX, Vol. 5: The Slavers by Garth Ennis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn a pitch-black Brooklyn night, in a dead-end alley, Frank Castle brutally dispatches a crew of Albanian thugs menacing a young woman. Her name is Viorica, she's from Moldavia, and when she tells Frank her story, that's when the real killing starts!Collects Punisher #25-30... -
![Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto, 松本直也]()
Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto, 松本直也
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation... -
![The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno]()
The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1 by James Tynion IV, Álvaro Martínez Bueno
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWith Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the face of horror in modern comics—now get ready for his most ambitious story yet, alongside his Detective Comics partner Álvaro Martínez Bueno! Everyone who was invited to the house knows Walter—well, they know him a little, anyway. Some met him in childhood; some met him months ago... -
![Watchmen #6 by Alan Moore]()
Watchmen #6 by Alan Moore
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe history of Rorschach! Confined in prison, Rorschach is under the watch of psychiatrist Dr. Long, who delves into the misunderstood hero’s past. Learn what dark secret turned this troubled man from renegade hero to vengeful vigilante... -
![Batman (2011-2016) #15 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV]()
Batman (2011-2016) #15 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratings“Death of the Family” part 3. The Joker’s attacks have taken their toll on Batman and his allies, and now they have to face the impossible. Plus: in the backup feature, witness The Joker’s confrontation with the Riddler as the horror of The Joker’s plan is revealed... -
![The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by James Robinson, Wade Von Grawbadger]()
The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by James Robinson, Wade Von Grawbadger
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe classic super-hero series STARMAN, starring a Gen-X super-hero, is re-presented in high quality format.The super-heroic legacy of Starman is renewed in these stories, in which Jack Knight - antiques collector and dealer - inherits the name and powers of his father's old Starman identity from his older brother, who has been assassinated...
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