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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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Ghost House
Everyone believes Tommy's best friend died in a terrible accident. Only Tommy knows that it wasn't an accident at all. He made a drunken mistake he can never take back. And now he's haunted, literally. It sounds nuts, and sometimes Tommy is not sure if he is nuts. It...
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The Widow of Pale Harbor
A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself?Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife’s death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in...
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Spinosaurus
Brett Russell is a hunter of the rarest game. His targets are cryptids, animals denied by science. But they are well known by those living on the edges of civilization, where monsters attack and devour their animals and children and lay ruin to their shantytowns.When...
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America Falls: Hell Week
"Right now, this book almost too close for comfort. Hell Week will blow you away, its fast, furious and gut punches you when you least expect it..." - Jacqueline Druga - author of the apocalyptic bestseller, Rise.Infection. Invasion. Chaos. A weaponized virus ravages...
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The Brotherhood of Merlin
One universe of magic could never contain the Knights of the Round Table... The Merlin bears his legendary title with honor. Lifetimes after KingArthur's death, the wizard will go to great lengths to protect the orphaned demi-godprophesied to carry his staff...
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Dark Carnival
"I noticed countless eyes following me. They belonged to shop-keeps closing up for the night, the homeless watching me from their makeshift beds, call girls pretending to wait for their next tricks on the corners, but all the while, wary of my every move. I didn’t...
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The Sheriff
The invaders are gone. Earth is in ruins. The strong prey on the weak. In the wastelands of what’s left, a lone gunslinger delivers his own brand of justice. Some call him lawman. Some call him madman. Some call him vigilante. Some call him killer. Some call him...
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Dark Season (Complete First Series)
"Destiny is like a river. You can block its path in one place, but it will find a way to flow around the blockage, or it will flood. Either way, it will always end up where it was going. And it is almost always going to a great ocean."Sophie Hart never thought she was...
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Deadbreak
Next Generation Indie Books Award Winner!Cities are in ruins, supplies are scarce, and brains are on the menu. To survive, Jeremiah will need his wits, a little bit of luck, and lots of ammo.Before Deadbreak—the day three years ago when the dead rose from their...
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Who Goes There? (Filmed as The Thing)
"Who Goes There?" is the novella that formed the basis of John Carpenter's film "The Thing." John W. Campbell's classic tells of an antarctic research base that discovers and thaws the ancient, frozen body of a crash-landed alien -- with terrifying results!
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The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares
Original and terrifying fiction presented by Jason Blum, the award-winning producer behind the groundbreaking Paranormal Activity, The Purge, Insidious, and Sinister franchises. Jason Blum invited sixteen cutting-edge collaborators, filmmakers, and writers to...
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The Seven Sisters Cottonwood (9 Book Omnibus)
The Seven Sisters Ultimate Cottonwood Saga, including two bonus stories. When historian Carrie Jo Jardine accepted her dream job as the chief historian at Seven Sisters in Mobile, Alabama, she had no idea what she would encounter. The moldering old plantation housed...
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Traveling with the Dead
From the New York Times–bestselling author: A vampire alliance may turn the Thames blood red in “one of the best vampire novels of the decade” (Booklist). After a career in her Majesty’s secret service, James Asher’s quiet London retirement was shattered when the...
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City
This award-winning science fiction classic explores a far-future world inhabited by intelligent canines who pass down the tales of their human forefathers. Thousands of years have passed since humankind abandoned the city—first for the countryside, then for the stars,...
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Full Wolf Moon
The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Room and Deep Storm is back with a new thriller that follows the trail of a killer who cannot exist . . . featuring Jeremy Logan, the renowned investigator of the supernatural and fantastic. Legends, no matter how...
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Crane
The Horseman is unending,his presence shan’t lessen.If you break the curse,you become the legend.Washington Irving and Rip Van Winkle had no choice but to cover up the deadly truth behind Ichabod Crane’s disappearance. Centuries later, a Crane returns to Sleepy Hollow...
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Monster Island
First in the cult classic trilogy: “A fantastic zombie novel . . . There are many layers to this zombie apocalypse, and this book just gets things rolling” (Booklist). Welcome to New York City, Population Zero? The power grid has collapsed. There is no running water,...
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The Doll-Master: And Other Tales of Terror
This Bram Stoker Award–winning collection is “certain to stick in your mind long after you’ve turned the last page” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Includes “Big Momma,” a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Short Story Here are six of Joyce...
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The Road
NATIONAL BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEThe searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive.A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to...
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Surviving The Evacuation: London
Would you survive the evacuation?The outbreak began in New York. Soon it had spread to the rest of the world. People were attacked, infected and they died. Then they came back. Nowhere is safe from the undead.As anarchy and civil war took grip across the globe,...
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Dark Retreat
Three months after life as she knows it was decimated, Megan Wolford has only one goal: protect her daughter, Caitlin, at any cost. When a mysterious illness strikes Caitlin down, Megan is forced to forage for medical supplies at a remote lodge. The last thing she...
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A Faint Whisper
How well do you really know your neighbors?The house across the street from the Cullens is vacant and soon put up for sale. When a family from out of town moves in, they have no idea that their new life in a new home won't be anything even remotely close to what they...
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The Sister Witches (Boxed Set 1)
The Sister Witches Urban Fantasy Box Set #1 includes 4 books: Once Blessed Thrice Cursed, Demon Lines, The Scarab Eater’s Daughter, and Beguiled, Bewitched, & Broken!The youngest Brodeur sister, Clementine, must untangle her dead mother’s legacy before the clock runs...
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Until the End
Now a completed series!An outbreak of The Fever has taken hold of Portland, Oregon, bringing the population to its knees. The Fever spreads and kills quickly, but the dead aren't staying dead.When her neighbor, Jordan, saves her from an infected, Alissa joins him in...
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The Vines
2014 Bram Stoker Awards finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel The dark history of Spring House, a beautifully restored plantation mansion on the outskirts of New Orleans, has long been forgotten. But something sinister lurks beneath the soil of the old...
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Hex
The English language debut of the bestselling Dutch novel, Hex, from Thomas Olde Heuvelt--a Hugo and World Fantasy award nominated talent to watchWhoever is born here, is doomed to stay 'til death. Whoever settles, never leaves. Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly...
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The Hour Before Dark
Home is where the haunt is. "Fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will appreciate this atmospheric gem." ????? "Kept me on the edge of my seat!"????? A children's game played in the dark brings on a terrifying rampage in this gothic horror page-turner by the NY Times...
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The Moon Dwellers
"One of 15 Series to Read if You Enjoyed The Hunger Games" --BuzzfeedIn a desperate attempt to escape destruction decades earlier, humankind was forced underground, into the depths of the earth, creating a new society called the Tri-Realms. After her parents and...
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The Last Survivors
Survival in Man's Second Dark AgeThree hundred years after the fall of society, the last fragments of civilization are clinging to life, living in the ruins of the ancient cities in nearly-medieval conditions. Technology has been reduced to legend, monsters roam the...
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The Mere Wife
New York Times bestselling author Maria Dahvana Headley presents a modern retelling of the literary classic Beowulf, set in American suburbia as two mothers—a housewife and a battle-hardened veteran—fight to protect those they love in The Mere Wife. From the...
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The Daughters of Despair
When Princess Ruby of Spinal is kidnapped, rumors about her abduction spread like wildfire around the kingdom. As an investigation mounts, eyewitness accounts from a variety of sources and points of view, including Princess Ruby's, soon reveal there are far more...
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His Hideous Heart
Thirteen of YA's most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe's most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with...
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The Midwives
A killer on the loose. A writer on the run. A town plagued by an ancient evil.On tour with his latest book, true crime writer Martin Savage discovers one of his most-dangerous subjects has escaped. The so-called "Witch Hunter," a delusional murderer of women and their...
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Pretty When She Dies
Amaliya wakes under the forest floor, disoriented, famished and confused. She digs out of the shallow grave and realizes she is hungry...... in a new, horrific, unimaginable way...Sating her great hunger, she discovers that she is now a vampire, the bloodthirsty...
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Edge of Magic
Tara's involvement with the Fae mafia has taken a deadly turn. To save her own life, she must steal a magical skull from the mafia's biggest rival.Professional thief and part-Fae Tara Knightley’s talent for sensing magical objects is the skill she’s been banking on...
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The Change
Death, Life, or Love—Unbounded Always Play for KeepsThere are only two ways to kill Unbounded, and fire isn’t one of them—as law school dropout Erin Radkey learns the hard way. By fluke of a recessive gene, she has become Unbounded, a nearly immortal being with...
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Haunted Castles
Part of a new six-volume series of the best in classic horror, selected by Academy Award-winning director of The Shape of Water Guillermo del ToroFilmmaker and longtime horror literature fan Guillermo del Toro serves as the curator for the Penguin Horror series, a new...
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Unpleasantness (Ghost Stories for the Depressed)
UNPLEASANTNESS: GHOST STORIES FOR THE DEPRESSED challenges the notion of the ghost story itself. Two deceased workers haunt an office until turnover and management decisions erase all memory of them. A woman is driven into a life she never wanted by a vision of her...
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Perchance to Dream
With Jordan Peele's Twilight Zone reboot arriving, read the stories that inspired some of the show's greatest episodes, including "The Howling Man"!The profoundly original and wildly entertaining short stories of a legendary Twilight Zone writer, with a foreword by...
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Lock Every Door
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of . . . Parade’s “Most Anticipated Books of Summer 2019" • PureWow’s “The Best Beach Reads of Summer 2019” • BookBub’s “Books That Will Make the Perfect Addition to Your Beach Bag This Summer”The next heart-pounding thriller...
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The Shadow of Jasper County
He has haunted this cemetery since the moment he first kicked out the nameplate at the end of the crypt in his mausoleum His name is Shepherd. He is the Shadow of Jasper county. By day the shadow sleeps with the bones in his mausoleum. At night he floats among the...
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The Haunting of Winchester Mansion
In the small town of Black Bay, a vacant, forgotten house sits atop an overlooking bluff. When Bailey and Bodhi Taylor move in and begin renovations, the house seems perfect. But things move on their own, screams echo from the basement, and Bailey sees a shadowy...
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Seed
With nothing but the clothes on his back—and something horrific snapping at his heels—Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable...
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The Source
Book Two of the Witching Savannah seriesGraceful trees and historic buildings fill Savannah, Georgia, but beneath the city's Southern splendor, its supernatural roots run deep. The members of local witch families grace the society pages...when they're not secretly...
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The Exorcist’s Apprentice
For centuries the Roman Catholic Church has employed a select few to investigate the most extreme cases of demonic possession, haunted places, and paranormal activity. Often, the calling of an Investigator is passed down from father to son.After surviving a tragic...
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Burying the Honeysuckle Girls
Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her.Adrift ever...
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Run
****WINNER of the 2012 PEI BOOK AWARDS for FICTION****Sixteen-year-old Reid thinks life is back to normal. His sister Lucy pulls herself together and cuts him free from a year of foster care. She promises to take care of him, that her new boss and her new life are...
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The Demon Dealer
The demons aren’t the scariest things in town. Would you like to own your own demon: a demon that is loyal not only to you but also to those you love? In La Puerta, you can. Wanting a demon of his own, Ted returns home to the gorgeous and despicable town of La Puerta,...
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John Landis Presents The Library of Horror
Classic haunted house ghoststories curated by world-renowned filmmaker and horror genre expert John Landis.This beautifully presented, highly collectible anthology features ghost stories that have enthralled, terrified and inspired readers decade after decade. Some...
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The Praying Mantis Bride
A deadly black widow has eliminated three husbands and counting. But Nameless knows her one weakness. To bring truth and its consequences to her crimes, the vigilante must spin a web of his own in part three of the Nameless series.Lucia—current last name,...
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Fellside
In the aftermath of a devastating fire, a prisoner is offered one chance at redemption in this haunting supernatural suspense from the author of USA Today bestseller, The Girl With All the Gifts. Fellside is a maximum security prison on the edge of the Yorkshire...
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Sleepless Nights
What are you afraid of? Face your fears with haunted houses, gothic Hellscapes, murderous psychopaths, human experiments, alien abductions, alternate dimensions, mind-warping drugs, terrifying paranormal encounters, and so much more.The Grim Reaper's scythe isn't...
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The Pawnbroker
Amid the danger and death of a decaying 19th century city, the Pawnbroker plies his trade. A man of evil temper, he craves the one thing that will bring him the fulfillment he covets.In the present day, two teenage boys explore an abandoned Tudor-style house. An eerie...
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The Pretender
A young girl slaughters her entire family in a quiet suburban neighborhood. The police say she snapped, but Soren Chase knows the truth. Having dedicated his life to hunting down the creature that murdered his best friend and left him framed for the crime eight years...
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I’m the Last Face You’ll Ever See
Take a terrifying look inside the twisted mind of a serial killer in this modern day nod to Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho.Sean’s nightmares seem psychically connected to Stephen, a loner who lives in the back of the building. After several grisly murders including a dead...
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Teenage Killer
Welcome to Brockton, New Jersey, a peaceful seashore town where nothing truly terrifying ever happened until now.After being cyberbullied for his entire senior year of high school by three of his former friends, eighteen-year-old Terrence Marshall, a loner, an...
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Passing Through
RWK Clark’s bestselling novel, venture into the mind of this obsessed insane killer, a chilling and unforgettable masterpiece of suspense.Little do they know a horrible murderer has escaped from prison just as the small town is about to get hit with a record blizzard....
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The Butterfly Tattoo
A hit-and-run leaves eleven-year-old Lee Young in a coma, his spirit on the loose and searching for the adults involved in the accident...They all think they know what Lee's spirit is after. They're all wrong. Their mistakes and misdeeds accumulate until Lee's spirit...
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Let Me In
Let Me In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival and is now an Award-winning movie in both the U.S. and Sweden!It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored...
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Run
The dead have risen, and they are hungry. Slow and plodding, they are Legion. The undead hunt the living. Stop and they will catch you. Hide and they will find you. If you have a heartbeat you do the only thing you can: You run.Survivors escape to an island...
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