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The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks Staff Pick What is it that Frank has hidden up in the attic that could possibly tell the future? What does his father keep locked away in his private study? And when will his mentally disturbed brother, who escaped from the asylum, get home? Iain Banks's first... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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House of Leaves: A Novel by Mark Z. Danielewski Staff Pick "Saints be praised, this is the best book of the new millennium. A veritable tour de force. Pynchon meets Stephen King meets Robert Hughes meets Borges meets Dante. Joycian. Jungian. Mythic. Any clich used by fawning literary critics applies. Yadda Yadda... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger Staff Pick After six long years, Audrey Niffenegger gives us a gem of a ghost story. Based around two sets of twins, Highgate Cemetery in London, a haunted flat, and long-buried secrets, this story proves even better than The Time Traveler's Wife. With a shocking... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Under the Dome by Stephen King Staff Pick Well-written, compelling, and intelligent on ethical questions, this epic is worth its daunting page count. Reminiscent of his earlier work, particularly The Stand and It, Under the Dome is Stephen King's best book in years.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs Staff Pick I love this series and couldn't wait for the third installment, Iron Kissed. It was well worth the wait! Mercy is a kick-ass hero who takes no prisoners and just happens to be a shape-shifting mechanic living in a world of werewolves, vampires, and other... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Passage by Justin Cronin Staff Pick Justin Cronin's The Passage is a marvel — an epic, post-apocalyptic vampire novel that's extremely well written and a great work of storytelling. Reminiscent in some ways of Stephen King's The Stand, but wholly unique in its approach, The Passage is... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance -- Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Seth Grahame-Smith and Jane Austen Staff Pick In Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith has paired Austen’s sublime language with the visceral, flesh-eating menace of the "dreadfuls." England was never this lively. We get sword fights, romance, a zombie plague, and, as a bonus... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Haunted Looking Glass (59 Edition) by Edward Gorey Staff Pick Thrill to the haunting tales from such classic masters as Dickens, Stevenson, and Collins. Sizzling, permeating, thoroughly scary. Gorey's illustrations make this a pleasure to read.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison Staff Pick Kim Harrison's eighth Hollows novel, Black Magic Sanction, finds our favorite witch struggling against the witches' coven that has shunned her after discovering she carries demon blood. Suddenly, it seems like everyone wants a piece of her — Nick, her... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Hardcover
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Horns by Joe Hill Staff Pick After reading Joe Hill's newest novel, Horns, I am vastly relieved: there is a successor to Stephen King. I've spent a few traumatizing moments wondering what I'd do should there not ever be another King novel or short story. Well, as long as his son... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter by A. E. Moorat Staff Pick I picked up Queen Victoria: Demon Hunter not expecting to like it very much, but was sucked in despite my reservations. This is one of the funniest books I've read in some time, and it has an amazing cast of supporting characters, any one of whom is... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore Staff Pick Christopher Moore's Lamb is an utterly hilarious take on the story of Jesus. Told from the perspective of Jesus' smart-ass best friend, Biff, it is irreverent without being disrespectful. Lamb, or any of Moore's books, would be perfect for someone who... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Terror by Dan Simmons Staff Pick This book is based factually on the missing Franklin expedition, last seen by Europeans in July of 1845. The HMS Erabus and the ill-named HMS Terror were the space shuttles of their day, and Dan Simmons spins a haunting and suspenseful tale of this... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (11 Edition) by H.p. Lovecraft Staff Pick H. P. Lovecraft created a world full of frightful and disturbing creatures that would go on to influence popular culture in ways he could never have imagined. While he graced the pages of the Weird Tales pulp magazine, his work was never published in... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (10th Anniversary Edition) by Stephen King Staff Pick Whether or not you read Stephen King's fiction, if you're interested in writing, you'll love this book. Now in a handsome paperback anniversary edition.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dead in the Family (Sookie Stackhouse #10) by Charlaine Harris Staff Pick Dead in the Family is much more character driven than the last book in Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse series. Finding a dead body on her land (no, not the one she knew was there) leads to the discovery that someone (the new Vampire King? the FBI... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny From the 1940S To Now (09 Edition) by Peter Straub Staff Pick Another indispensable collection from the American Fantastic Tales series. These short stories demonstrate the evolving themes and tone of the genre, and reveal not only what has changed in the field but what has endured, what is essential to the telling... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Passage by Justin Cronin Staff Pick Justin Cronin's The Passage is a marvel — an epic, post-apocalyptic vampire novel that's extremely well written and a great work of storytelling. Reminiscent in some ways of Stephen King's The Stand, but wholly unique in its approach, The Passage is... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Man in the Picture: A Ghost Story by Susan Hill Staff Pick I've never seen a better example of a contemporary classic in the ghostly tales category than The Man in the Picture. Hill is as eloquent as Dickens and as dark as Poe.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Silver Borne (Mercy Thompson #5) by Patricia Briggs Staff Pick Irrepressible, coyote-shifting Mercy Thompson is back and her life is changing in some good ways and a few bad ways. Silver Borne, Patricia Briggs's fifth book in this dark fantasy series, finds Mercy struggling to adjust to her new mate bond with Adam... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Hardcover
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