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Wildside Press
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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The King in Yellow is a book of short stories by American writer Robert W. Chambers, first published by F. Tennyson Neely in 1895. The book is named after a play with the same title which recurs as a motif through some of the stories.
2) Jaws
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English
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It was just another day in the life of a small Atlantic resort until the terror from the deep came to prey on holiday makers. The first sign of trouble - a warning of what was to come - took the form of a young woman's body washed up on the beach.
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Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as �The Fat Controller' - a constant companion and confidant and also the obese, erudite manifestation of Ian's mental illness. As Ian's idea of fun becomes increasingly extreme, the reader is taken to a place where morality is eroded by the dull grind of modernity and everything becomes admissable.
4) Whisper
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Honford Star
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Victims all describe hearing a voice before they die gruesomely. Sometimes it?s singing an old Taiwanese song, sometimes it?s in Japanese, and sometimes it?s an anguished call for help from a loved one. Can Wu Shih-Sheng, a degenerate taxi driver in Taipei, hunt down the source of the voice that killed his wife before he becomes the next victim? Whisper is a plot-driven, Taiwanese horror story. As well as being a chilling read, Chang Yu-Ko cleverly...
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Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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In a quiet house on a quiet street Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box- and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror? Now Frank-or what is left of Frank-waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All Julia can do is bring him her unfulfilled passions? and a little...
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Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightened he may have inherited the same strange abilities as his father, Juan; a powerful medium who can open locked doors, commune with the dead, and possess the ancient forces of the Darkness.Now father and son are in flight, hunted by the Order, a group of wealthy acolytes who seek to harness the Darkness, no matter the cost. Among them, Gaspar's grandmother, whose twisted desires have already driven...
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A masterful anthology featuring 19 pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting glimpse into Paul Tremblay's fantastically fertile imagination. In 'The Teacher', a Bram Stoker Award nominee for best short story, a student is forced to watch a disturbing video that will haunt and torment her and her classmates' lives. Four men rob a pawn shop at gunpoint only to vanish, one-by-one, as they speed away from the crime scene in 'The Getaway'....
8) Coraline
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English
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When Coraline explores her new home, she steps through a door and into another house just like her own - except that it's different. It's a marvellous adventure until Coraline discovers that there's also another mother and another father in the house. They want Coraline to stay with them for ever.
9) Later
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Titan Books
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine - as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the...
10) Tales from the haunted mansion: volumes I & II: the fearsome foursome and midnight at Madame Leota's
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Disney
Pub. Date
2018
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English
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Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume I: The Fearsome Foursome In this nightmarish narration, you will hear the terrifying tales of the Fearsome Foursome-four kids who look to out-scare each other. But just wait until they hear my spooky stories. Who am I? I am Amicus Arcane, your librarian and host. Your Ghost Host. So listen along ... if you dare! Tales from the Haunted Mansion: Volume II: Midnight at Madame Leota's The Haunted Mansion's resident...
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London 1826. Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies.
12) Horror movie
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Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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The monster at the heart of a cult 90s cursed horror film tells his shocking and bloody secret history. Slow burn terror meets high-stakes showdowns, from the bestselling author of A Head Full of Ghosts and The Cabin at the End of the World. Summer, 1993 - a group of young guerrilla filmmakers spend four weeks making Horror Movie, a notorious, disturbing, art-house horror film. Steeped in mystery and tragedy, the film has taken on a mythic, cult renown,...
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Bloomsbury Reader
Pub. Date
2014
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English
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"Should any of my readers incline to a serious study of the subject, and thus come into contact with a man or a woman of Power, I feel that it is only right to urge them, most strongly, to refrain from being drawn into the practise of the Secret Art in any way. My own observations have led me to an absolute conviction that to do so would bring them into dangers of a very real and concrete nature." Dennis Wheatley THE DEVIL RIDES OUT STRANGE CONFLICT...
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2018
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English
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Seven-year-old Wen and her parents, Eric and Andrew, are vacationing at a remote cabin on a quiet New Hampshire lake. Their closest neighbours are more than two miles in either direction along a rutted dirt road. One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Thus begins an unbearably tense, gripping tale of paranoia, sacrifice, apocalypse and survival that escalates to a shattering conclusion,...
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Uncle Montague lives alone in a big house and his regular visits from his nephew give him the opportunity to relive some of the most frightening stories he knows. But as the stories unfold, a newer and more surprising narrative emerges, one that is perhaps the most frightening of all. Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, it transpires, are not so much works of imagination as dreadful lurking memories. Memories of an earlier time in which Uncle Montague...
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2022.
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English
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Timeslips. Doomsday scenarios. Killer butterflies. Eleven captivating and twisted tales of the macabre from a maestro of suspense. In FINAL COURSE, the world has descended into darkness, but a group of old friends make time for one last dinner party. Thwarted love, revenge - and something very nasty stowed in a hat box - all converge in RUNAWAY BLUES. Meanwhile, a strange piece of graffiti leads to a terrifying encounter for four school friends in...
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Night Warriors volume 1
Publisher
Head of Zeus -- an Aries Book
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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The original and terrifying start to a supernatural horror series from the master of horror himself, Graham Masterton. IT CAN FIND YOU ANYWHERE... EVEN IN YOUR DREAMS. Henry was the first to reach the girl, found sleeping on the beach, with his friends Gil and Susan. When they learn what has happened to her, they are thrown into a mystery that nightmares are made of. The young girl has been forced to host a hideous malevolence that insinuates itself...
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e-artnow ebooks
Pub. Date
2015
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English
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The Invisible Man is a science fiction novella. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body's refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible. He successfully carries out this procedure on himself, but fails in his attempt to reverse the procedure. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946), known as H. G. Wells,...
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All Hallows Hall, a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the bleak, misty moor is not a place many would choose to live. Yet the former Governer of Dartmoor Prison did just that. Now he's dead, and his estranged family are set to inherit his estate. But when the dead man's family come to stay, the atmosphere of the moors seems to drift into every room. Floorboards creak, secret passageways echo, and wind whistles in the house's famous priest hole....
20) Bad things
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Zebra
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Reprinted Edition As a boy, Rick Piper discovered he had "the sight." It was supposed to be a family myth, but Rick could see the greenjacks-the tiny mischievous demons who taunted him throughout his childhood-and who stole the soul of his twin brother Robin one Halloween night. Now a widower with two children of his own, Rick has returned home to build a new life. He wants to believe the greenjacks don't exist, that they were a figment of his own...
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