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What is the appeal of Horror Books? Let’s face it, some of them are awfully scary! Yes, of course, that’s the point – but why is that the point? Why do people spend their well-earned money, and time, on something that can only cause discomfort? This is, apparently, an age old question and one which psychologists seem to enjoy mulling over. But I know what I enjoy about horror stories and I wonder how many people share my view: I remember trying to read a collection of ghost stories when I was a young lad. They terrified me. To the point that I lost sleep over them. I could only read them during the day – not at night! – and I’d hide the book away so I couldn’t see it at night. I’m not sure how scary the stories really were, but I was clearly rather sensitive about ghost stories!
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What I remember at the time was that I kept going back to that book and trying to read another of the stories. As I look back, I realise I was challenging myself: literally ‘facing my fears’.
Over the years, I realise that much of my ‘enjoyment’ of horror stories – whether that’s horror books or movies – was for that reason. But as I matured and became less easily scared, I found that I enjoyed ‘testing’ myself against the experience. Reading or watching to see whether it scared me. Using horror almost as a ‘canary down the mine’ (although the mine would be the horror and me the canary). Searching to discover what scares me now! Not much does, admittedly – although the daily news does a good job!
But the search for my own, perhaps undiscovered, fears, is a part of the role of horror stories, for me. Like an exercise in self-therapy and self-discovery. I wonder how many other people share this approach?
Whatever your reason for enjoying (can we describe it as ‘enjoyment’?) horror fiction, there is plenty to choose from. And some absolute masters of the written word are responsible for some of the very best. We cannot mention horror without mentioning Stephen King, of course, but the list of writers is long, varied, and full of household names.
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The chilling classic Horror Book – The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Stephen King’s Modern classic horror story – The Shining
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The Haunting of Sunshine House
Is 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...
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I Meant What I Said!
Nadia Rhamani could kill you with a word. She didn't know why her words were so powerful. No one else in her family could do what she did, but ever since she was a child she could send a person to hell with a flip of her tongue, leaving behind her a long legacy of...
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Demonic Indemnity
Demon boss. Bloodsucking coworkers. Supernatural insurance is scary business... As the first human in 3,200 years to work in the Special Investigations Unit of Crimson Seal Insurance, Tim Lovecraft knows his days of processing run-of-the-mill claims for werewolf...
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The Twenty Days of Turin
An NPR Best Book of the Year Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create...
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Don’t Lose Your Head
When you leave for a trip, who knows you're gone from your house? Family and friends, sure. Neighbors, perhaps. So does the chauffeur who drove you to the airport. Alan Burris takes advantage of working for a car service to know when clients will be away from their...
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Ivy Granger Psychic Detective (Boxed Set)
Enter an award-winning urban fantasy world where monsters roam the streets and things aren't always what they seem. Ivy Granger Psychic Detective box set includes Books 1-3 and Bonus Prequel short story. FROSTBITE (Bonus Prequel: Ivy Granger #0.5) Everyone knows that...
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S79
★★★★★ "S79 has a super fun plot. You’ve got swamps, abandoned military base, science experiment gone wrong, conspiracy theories, urban legends, pitch dark atmosphere, snakes, gators, rednecks, revenge, and a pretty epic...
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Fight Like a Man
As a prepper, Grayson Rowan was prepared for almost anything. ... anything other than being totally alone when the shinola hits the fan. While he sat back and watched the United States rattle swords with Korea, play chicken with Russia, and strong-arm China, he felt...
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The Gulp
The Gulp (Tales From The Gulp #1) Strange things happen in The Gulp. The residents have grown used to it. The isolated Australian harbour town of Gulpepper is not like other places. Some maps don’t even show it. And only outsiders use the full name. Everyone...
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Infection
For fans of Stephen King's The Stand or William Forstchen's One Second After They weren't ready for the apocalypse but ready or not, it was coming... Faced with the very real possibility of extinction of the human race, Cole Evans has only one chance to save his...
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The Wolf of Ashford Manor
Angelica - beautiful and shy. Patrick had to have her.But… would she be able to tame the beast within him?Patrick Blakesley, born to a bloodline of werewolves, returned from the war a changed man. His wolf side grew, too. Mentally, he was shaper. Physically, he had...
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Come Closer
"What begins as a sly fable about frustrated desire evolves into a genuinely scary novel about possession and insanity. Hypnotic" (Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho). A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by...
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The Hellbound Heart
Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back -- though...
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Familiar Kitten Mysteries
Welcome to Coventry!Black Magic Kitten Kinsley Skeenbauer never thought she would go home. At seventeen, she’d left Coventry and didn’t look back. But after a messy divorce, she packed up her stuff and drove toward the only place that she knew would...
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Emergence
A deadly virus originating in China grips the Eastern hemisphere. Chaos reigns as the infection spreads throughout the world with alarming speed. The world's experts rush to cure it, but are they too late? CIA agent Will Reisner and his team head to the South China...
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The World of All Souls
A fully illustrated guide to Deborah Harkness's #1 New York Times bestselling All Souls trilogy -- "an irresistible... wonderfully imaginative grown-up fantasy" (People). Look for the hit TV series "A Discovery of Witches," streaming on AMC Plus, Sundance Now and...
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The Lathe of Heaven
This science fiction classic by the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author is "a rare and powerful synthesis of poetry and science, reason and emotion" (The New York Times). In a near-future world beset by war, climate change, and overpopulation, Portland resident...
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The Hellbound Heart
Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank...
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Song for a Gypsy
A riveting new fantasy, perfect for adults or teens from a bestselling author.Sara's life is drastically changed the moment a convoy of horse-drawn caravans enters the quiet Reidenburgerstrasse in Germany, where she lives with the people she thinks are her parents....
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New York 2140
New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson returns with a bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century. As the sea levels rose, every street became a canal. Every skyscraper an island. For the residents of one apartment building in...
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The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
Thirty-five uncanny and erotic tales of vampires written by supernatural fiction’s greatest mistresses of the macabre. "Fashions change, and the urbane vampire created by Byron and cemented in place by Stoker has had to move on . . . Are you, like me,...
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Positive
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome meets World War Z and I Am Legend in this thrilling tale that has it all: a compelling story, great characters, and explosive action, making Positive the ultimate zombie novel of our time.Anyone can be...
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Under a Tell-Tale Sky
A FRIGHTENINGLY REALISTIC TALE OF HARDSHIP, HEROISM, AND HOPE. A massive solar flare... A devastating global blackout... An unprecedented societal change. Nothing will ever be the same again. What if the lights go out? For good. Would you survive? In a 2015...
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A FRIGHTENINGLY REALISTIC TALE OF HARDSHIP, HEROISM, AND HOPE. A massive solar flare... A devastating global blackout... An unprecedented societal change. Nothing will ever be the same again. What if the lights go out? For good. Would you survive? In a 2015...
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Dusk of Humanity
The world has ended...…and the last of humanity must persevere.Dr. Sloan Egan never thought life after the apocalypse would be so dull.Trapped in an underground bunker. Forced to share a room with a man she can barely stand. The top surgeons in the country fighting to...
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The Devil in Silver
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review ? The Washington Post ? Publishers Weekly New Hyde Hospital's psychiatric ward has a new resident. It also has a very, very old one. Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker,...
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Gather the Daughters
Never Let Me Go meets The Giver in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off the coast. They built a radical...
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Blackbirds
The first book in the Miriam Black series: “A sassy, hard-boiled thriller with a paranormal slant” (The Guardian) about a young woman who can see the darkest corners of the future. Miriam Black knows how you’re going to die. This makes her daily...
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The Haunting of Coyote Island
A dark secret, a secluded island, and nowhere to run. When author Daisy Dawkins hits a wall of writer’s block, she seeks out a retreat at the infamous Coyote Island, home of the reclusive publishing guru Greg Bregoli. Upon her arrival at Bregoli Estate, strange...
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The Corpse Whisperer
Welcome to the world of Allie Nighthawk, corpse whisperer and bad ass zombie hunter. “If you raise deadheads, you’d better be able to put ‘em down. Nobody said it was pretty. But in this day, when vampires aren’t just for breakfast anymore,...
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Boy’s Life
An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River,...
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There's No Place Like Home
In a climate-ravaged future, it's not easy to grow up. One girl is trying her best in a story about global catastrophe and personal chaos, by the New York Times bestselling author of California. Thirteen-year-old Vic is of the Youngest Generation, fixed in...
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Moving Mars
A galaxy-altering scientific breakthrough on Mars inspires treachery and revolution in this Nebula Award-winning science fiction epic. The child of one of the oldest, most revered family-corporate units on colonized Mars, Casseia Majumdar has spent her entire life in...
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Blood on the Chesapeake
★★★★★ "A book that I could not put down. I read the last 250 pages in a single day. It grabs your attention right away and doesn't let go..." -- an Amazon Reviewer A dangerous love, the hope of never being discovered. A new...
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The Science of Stephen King
Uncover the theories behind the Master of Horror's macabre tales: It, The Shining, Carrie, Cujo, Misery, Pet Semetary, and so much more! Gothic media moguls Meg Hafdahl and Kelly Florence, authors of The Science of Monsters and The Science of Women in...
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Slouch Witch
Hard Work Will Pay Off Later. Laziness Pays Off Now. Let's get one thing straight - Ivy Wilde is not a heroine. In fact, she's probably the last witch in the world who you'd call if you needed a magical helping hand. If it were down to Ivy, she'd spend all day every...
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The Witch
She’s out there. She has the children. And she won’t stop until they’re dead. When tragedy strikes during a visit with their grandmother, Ryan Campbell and his sister Emily find themselves preparing for a trip to the hospital with their mother...
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The Haunted House from Hell
When Catherine Porter murders her only son and takes her own life, no one can understand why. Vilified for her crimes, she becomes synonymous with everything evil and wicked amongst the locals, and parents begin using her name to scare their errant children into...
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To Hell in a Handbasket
From the Queen of Scream comes a novel that will raise the hair on the back of your neck.To the neighbors, they're sweet old ladies. To Tim Robertson, they're his worst nightmareNot every grandmotherly type bakes cookies.What's more frightening than finding out that...
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The Municipality of Lost Souls
Vengeful souls don’t stay deadThey taunt the minds of the living until they throw themselves from clifftops.Yet death turns a profit when you drive ships onto rocks to plunder riches.Agatha knows one thing for sure: respect the dead.Especially those who did not...
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Robinson Crusoe 2244
This thrilling sci-fi twist on the Daniel Defoe classic has been remastered and re-edited since its original publication! Two centuries after mankind drove itself to the brink of extinction, a new civilization rises from the ashes of what was once Great Britain. But...
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Haunting of the Briar Rose
Jules is recovering from a recent failure when her mysterious uncle makes her an offer she can’t refuse: restore his bed and breakfast the Briar Rose. When Jules inherits the Briar Rose bed and breakfast from her strange and mysterious uncle, she thinks it will...
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Catherine House
“[A] delicious literary Gothic debut.” –THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITORS' CHOICE“Moody and evocative as a fever dream, Catherine House is the sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer with each...
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Speaks the Nightbird
Murder sparks witchcraft hysteria in this "thoughtful" and "entertaining" seventeenth-century historical mystery from a New York Times-bestselling author (Stephen King). It's 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is...
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The Horror of Briarwych Church
Seventy years ago, Briarwych Church was sealed for the second time. The great wooden door has remained shut and locked ever since. But now, in the present day, evil is stirring once more. Sent to live with new foster parents in Briarwych, Kerry and Mark soon set about...
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The Only Good Indians
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a “masterpiece” (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. Labeled “one of 2020’s buzziest...
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The Bird
Another nail-biting horror novella from the Queen of ScreamEveryone's nightmareWhen five-year-old Winnie finds a little bird that is hurt, she wants to take it in and take care of it. Her mother is reluctant. She is terrified of birds. As she rightfully should be......
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The Rib from Which I Remake the World
“A smart, deep, black magic carnie noir existential bloodbath” from the acclaimed author of Boon (Gemma Files, Shirley Jackson Award–winning author). In the shadow of World War II, the barren, dusty streets of Litchfield, Arkansas, are even...
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The Only Good Indians
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From USA TODAY bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones comes a "masterpiece" (Locus Magazine) of a novel about revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition. Labeled "one of 2020's buzziest horror novels"...
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Samhane
"Russell's debut novel SAMHANE really packs a punch. A thrill ride of visceral horror and suspense that steadily builds to a very satisfying conclusion. I enjoyed the hell out of it!" Gord Rollo, Author of Valley of The Scarecrow and The Jigsaw Man "My...
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Ékleipsis
NABE Pinnacle Award Winner for Horror. Winner of Literary Titan Gold Award. Reader Views Bronze Award for Short Stories. The sun has finally set on humanity… What happens when we give in to the darkness? Ékleipsis is a short story collection that explores...
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Parallel Ghost
When Bellwether Hospital opened its doors in 1924, it was called the Bellwether Asylum for the criminally insane. Of course, we don't call people insane anymore, we use nicer terms like mental illness, or developmentally disabled, or cognitively impaired or "on the...
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Cemetarium
Matheson Mortuaries has a secret weapon: Lucy McFadden is a mortuary assistant, who has a bulge in her pocket, and if she uses it on your dearly departed, then they may never decompose in a grave in the cemetery. It starts with blue ribbon roses, and dead cats, and...
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The Calling
From USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood, a supernatural thriller “that will become a classic” (Tim Lebbon). When eighteen-year-old Christopher Myers’ parents are murdered, something is written on his bedroom door, a mark...
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Watching the Ghosts
DI Joe Plantagenet investigates a house with a disturbing past in the fourth of this popular police procedural series Boothgate House has a sinister past. Once an asylum for the insane, serial killer Peter Brockmeister was sent there on his release from prison in...
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Autumn Bleeds into Winter
Somebody has been abducting children in Fairbanks, Alaska. One of the victims was fourteen-year-old Curtis Black's best friend Todd. Curtis saw it happen. He knows exactly who did it. But he can't prove that it was his neighbor Gerald Martin. The authorities find no...
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Dark Vanishings
Post-Apocalyptic Series of the Year Finalist - On Sale for a Limited Time THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS. Mankind vanishes. An evil presence rises. The fate of the world hangs in the balance. Tori awakens to find herself alone in her town. Her parents are missing....
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Lineage
A LIFE FILLED WITH ANGUISH Pain, horror, fear- These are the things that bestselling novelist Lance Metzger's life have been comprised of. His childhood remains a riddled wasteland of abuse by a sadistic father and the abandonment of an apathetic mother. In turn, his...
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Do I Bother You at Night?
They say nothing ever happens in Kansas. Sylvester Petersen used to think so too. That is, until a mysterious new neighbor moves in next door, seemingly out of nowhere. His handful of friends – people who tried to help him cope with the sudden death of his wife...
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Shadow on the Stairs
How will you die? Dr. Atwell knows. He knows how everyone will die, even the ones he won't kill himself. He also knows about all your clones. You didn't really think you were the original, did you? He's even traveled back in time to bring...
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