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Let the Right One In
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
It is autumn 1981 when the inconceivable comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenage boy is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day.
But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night.
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Ninth House
by Leigh Bardugo
"Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend one of the world's most prestigiousuniversities on a full ride. What's the catch, and why her? Still searching for answers, Alex arrives in New Haven tasked by her mysterious benefactors with monitoring the activities of Yale's secret societies. Their eight windowless "tombs" are the well-known haunts of the rich and powerful, from high-ranking politicos to Wall Street's biggest players. But their occult activities are more sinister and more extraordinary than any paranoid imagination might conceive. They tamper with forbidden magic. They raise the dead. And, sometimes, they prey on the living.
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The Girl with All the Gifts
by Mike Carey
A little girl who is detained by the military, restrained in a wheelchair and goes to school while heavily guarded doesn't truly understand why she is special until it is up to her to save the world.
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American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis
In a black satire of the eighties, a decade of naked greed and unparalleled callousness, a successful Wall Street yuppie cannot get enough of anything--including murder.
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The Silence of the Lambs
by Thomas Harris
FBI Academy trainee Clarice Starling comes face to face with the ultimate evil when she enlists the aid of murderer Hannibal Lecter in the FBI's search for a serial killer known only as "Buffalo Bill," in a tenth anniversary edition of the best-selling thriller.
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NOS4A2
by Joe Hill
When Charles Talent Manx, an unstoppable monster who transforms children into his own terrifying likeness, kidnaps her son, Victoria McQueen, the only person to ever escape his unmitigated evil, must engage in a life-and-death battle of wills to get her son back.
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The Woman in Black
by Susan Hill
Published to coincide with the release of a major motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe, a classic ghost story set in a small English community follows the experiences of an up-and-coming solicitor who while endeavoring to settle a deceased client's affairs is haunted by bizarre phenomena before he is approached by a ghostly figure.
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The Deep
by Alma Katsu
Surviving the sinking of the Titanic, Annie takes a job as a nurse on the Britannic before encountering a fellow survivor who forces her to reckon with past demons.
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor.
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Dead of Night
by Jonathan Maberry
Injected by a prison doctor with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake after death, a condemned serial killer experiences unforeseen, contagious side effects and emerges from his grave to begin a murderous rampage that is combated by two small-town cops.
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Hell House
by Richard Matheson
An aging millionaire seeking proof of life after death employs an unusual team of of investigators to probe the mysteries of the supposedly haunted and evil Belasco House.
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The Winter People
by Jennifer McMahon
Coming of age in an old farmhouse, 19-year-old Ruthie begins a search for her agoraphobic mother and discovers the century-old diary of the farmhouse's long-ago resident, a grieving mother who died under mysterious circumstances.
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The Dead House
by Billy O'Callaghan
Escaping to the rugged west coast of Ireland where she restores an old cottage, Maggie, a successful young artist recovering from an abusive relationship, invites her friends up for a weekend during which an old Ouija board summons something sinister that becomes a force of inescapable horror. Winner of the Irish Book Award.
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Suicide Woods: Stories
by Benjamin Percy
A latest collection by the award-winning author of Thrill Me demonstrates his use of disparate influences as themes, in a volume that includes the tale of a therapy group whose drastic session in the woods has fatal consequences.
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The Family Plot
by Cherie Priest
When a potentially lucrative historic property is offered to her father's salvaging company, Dahlia is alarmed when graves are found on the property and the estate's owner goes missing just as a series of bizarre events reveal that the crew is being targeted by hostile forces.
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The Silent Companions
by Laura Purcell
While residing in her late husband’s crumbling estate to see out her pregnancy, newly widowed Elsie is met with resentment and hostility from both the servants and local villagers and soon discovers that she is not alone when she finds a wooden figure that bears a startling resemblance to her—and whose eyes seem to follow her where she goes.
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Frankenstein in Baghdad
by Amad Sa'dw
Hadi, an eccentric scavenger in U.S.-occupied Baghdad, collects human body parts and cobbles them together into a single corpse, but discovers his creation is missing just as a series of strange murders begins to plague the city.
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I Remember You: a Ghost Story
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
A tale based on a true story finds three friends targeted by a malevolent presence while trying to renovate an old house in the Icelandic Westfjords, while a local doctor uncovers an elderly suicide victim's obsessions.
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Baby Teeth
by Zoje Stage
An ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature.
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Ghost Story
by Peter Straub
Questions arise concerning the connections between a strangely detached young girl's captivity in a seedy Florida motel, a death that occurs at a party for a visiting actress, and a young California instructor's obsession with one of his students.
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Disappearance at Devil's Rock
by Paul Tremblay
A family is shaken to its core after the mysterious disappearance of a teenage boy in this eerie tale, a blend of literary fiction, psychological suspense, and supernatural horror.
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The End of Temperance Dare
by Wendy Webb
When she discovers that Cliffside Manor, where she is the new director of a renowned artists’ retreat, has a dark past as a tuberculosis sanatorium, Eleanor Harper, a former crime reporter, soon realizes that her predecessor chose her and her group for a reason.
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Over Your Dead Body
by Dan Wells
John and Brooke hitchhike through the Midwest hunting down the last of the Withered, getting closer to a vicious killer who manages to thwart them at every turn, in the fifth novel of the series following The Devil's Only Friend.
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Zone One
by Colson Whitehead
In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies, survivor efforts to rebuild are focused on Manhattan, where civilian team member Mark Spitz works to eliminate remaining infected stragglers and remembers his horrifying experiences at the height of the zombie plague.
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