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Sleeping beauties : a novel
by Stephen King
A father-son collaboration envisions a near-future where the women succumb to a sleeping disease, the men revert to their increasingly primal natures and one woman, mysteriously immune, struggles to survive in an Appalachian prison town where she is treated alternately as a demon and a lab specimen.
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Coldbrook
by Tim Lebbon
In the highly secure Coldbrook research facility, scientists seek a passageway to an alternate version of Earth -- but when they find and open it, the portal admits an undead being that infects workers in the lab. Some of the zombie-contaminated researchers escape into the surrounding Appalachians, while unaffected technician Holly Wright risks entering the alternate universe. Publishers Weekly says Coldbrook's themes of human relationships contrast with the violence and death, adding "intellectual substance to what can also be enjoyed simply as a gutsy horror show." This zombie novel also offers strong character-building and unusual plot twists.
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Drifters
by John L. Campbell
The survivors of the Omega Virus band together to seek out the living amid the chaos of a destroyed civilization and encounter a new threat in the form of a hybrid monster that cannot be outrun or outwitted. By the author of Ship of the Dead. Simultaneous.
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Gwendy's button box
by Stephen King
A novel co-written by the #1 best-selling author of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams returns to the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine, to take on a terrifying man in a trim, black suit, and a girl named Gwendy who was brave enough to talk to him.
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| Stay Awake: Stories (e-book) by Dan ChaonStay Awake, a story collection by acclaimed author Dan Chaon, presents unsettling tales that explore the darkness lurking in his characters' lives. In the first story, "The Bees," a five-year-old child's screams wake his parents several times a week, but the cause of the screaming is mysterious -- and more disturbing secrets are yet to be revealed. The title story, "Stay Awake," describes a father's nearly fatal traffic accident just before his infant daughter's surgery to remove an incompletely formed conjoined twin. Other tales focus on grief over a loved one's death and similar intensely emotional events. |
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| High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread by Joyce Carol OatesBram Stoker Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates, who's skilled at literary fiction as well as horror, explores the heights and depths of human character in these disturbing stories. The narrator of "The Home at Craigmillnar" wonders if an elderly nun's death was from her heart condition...or something else. Several tales, including "The Rescuer" and "Demon," portray extremes of family dysfunction, while some (especially the title story "High Crime Area") reveal the risks that come from total strangers. Favoring ambiguous conclusions, Oates ruffles the previously serene seas of our consciousness. |
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The classic horror stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a reclusive scribbler of horror stories for the American pulp magazines that specialized in Gothic and science fiction in the interwar years. He often published in Weird Tales and has since become the key figure in the slippery genre of "weird fiction." Lovecraft developed an extraordinary vision of feeble men driven to the edge of sanity by glimpses of malign beings that have survived from human prehistory or by malevolent extra-terrestrial visitations. The ornate language of his stories builds towards grotesque moments of revelation, quite unlike any other writer
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Four summoner's tales
by Kelley Armstrong
Four bestselling authors present this terrifying collection that includes Kelley Armstrong's "Suffer the Children," in which a stranger arrives in an isolated village in 19th-century Ontario, offering to bring the children who died from an acute diphtheria outbreak back to life - for a high price. Original. 35,000 first printing.
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