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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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Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist Staff Pick This is one of the best vampire novels since Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. Although the author wrote the screenplay, too, there's still a lot that didn't find its way into the film. If you read one bloodsucking book this year make sure it's the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor Publisher Comments Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American fiction. There are thirty-one stories here in all, including twelve that do not appear in the only... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Button, Button: Uncanny Stories by Richard Matheson Publisher Comments Button, Button, which inspired a memorable "Twilight Zone" episode, is just one of a dozen unforgettable tales in this new collection by Matheson, the "New York Times" bestselling author of "I Am Legend."... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Tales of H. P. Lovecraft (P.S.) by H P Lovecraft Publisher Comments When he died in 1937, destitute and emotionally as well as physically ruined, H. P. Lovecraft had no idea that he would one day be celebrated as the godfather of modern horror. A dark visionary, his work would influence an entire generation of writers... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Black Hole by Charles Burns Publisher Comments Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon the area's teenagers, transmitted by sexual contact. The disease is manifested in any number of ways from the hideously grotesque to the subtle... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Ghost Story by Peter Straub Staff Pick A truly creepy novel that could possibly be Straub's best. In the footsteps of Ambrose Bierce, M. R. James, and Edgar Allan Poe, Ghost Story will take you down a new and frightening path. Follow it if you dare!!!... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Vintage International) by Patrick Suskind Publisher Comments An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion — his sense of smell — leads to murder. In the slums... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce by Ambrose Bierce Publisher Comments 23 modern horror stories by American master. "The Eyes of the Panther," "The Damned Thing," 21 more. "These pieces are not dated, nor are they lacking any of the narrative elements necessary to attract and hold the attention of anyone interested in the... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $2.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Publisher Comments Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods and waits... Four seekers have come to the ugly, abandoned old mansion: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of the psychic phenomenon called haunting; Theodora... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Tooth Fairy by Graham Joyce Staff Pick The Tooth Fairy is a particularly subtle literary horror novel. It is dark, erotic, filled with adolescent passions and nightmares. Joyce manages to capture the agony of unrequited love and its compensations in prose that is both freshly revealing and... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Salems Lot by Stephen King Publisher Comments Out walking alone one rainy night, Lucy becomes convinced that someone--or something--is following her. Soon she begins having terrifying visions and dreams--and she still can't shake the feeling of an unseen presence, always watching, waiting . . .... (read more) Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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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: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Dylan Dog Case Files by Tiziano Sclavi Staff Pick Witty, macabre, and hopelessly romantic, Dylan Dog is a page-turner of a classic, now finally available in graphic-novel format. But consider yourself warned: This Italian comic will probably keep you from doing anything responsible until you've finished... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $16.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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 $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library) by Oscar Wilde Staff Pick Loosely knowing the story beforehand couldn't have prepared me for the way in which it is told. There are pages, paragraphs, and sentences that are among the most eloquently written I've ever read. The Picture of Dorian Gray, in all its devious... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Clive Barker's Books of Blood 1-3 by Clive Barker Publisher Comments With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror," and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti Publisher Comments This collection features tormented individuals who play out their doom in various odd little towns, as well as in dark sectors frequented by sinister and often blackly comical eccentrics. The cycle of narratives that includes the title work of this... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Richard Brautigan: A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon, and the Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan Publisher Comments Richard Brautigan was the author of ten novels, including a contemporary classic, Trout Fishing in America, nine volumes of poetry, and a collection of stories.Here are three Brautigan novels--A Confederate General from Big Sur, Dreaming of Babylon and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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