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Beyond King and Koontz
All titles shelved in Fiction collection, except as noted: SF=science fiction.
- Bierce, Ambrose
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(1970)The classic American master of horror.
- Blackwood, Algernon
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(reprinted 2002)There was something alive and hunting in the north woods as vast as a world. . . . a legend, the Wendigo. The hunter of men.
- Bradbury, Ray
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(1962)Three hours after midnight, one week before Halloween, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show rolls into Green Town, Illinois. A carnival like no other, it feeds on the dreams and weaknesses of those drawn to its eerie attractions.
- Grant, Charles
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(1999)The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse gather on an island, where War prepares to lead them to Earth's ultimate doom. A handful of no-longer ordinary humans, accidentally transformed by the Horsemen themselves, are ready to stand against them. Earth's fate will be decided.
- Jackson, Shirley
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(1959)The four visitors at Hill House-- some there for knowledge, others for adventure-- are unaware that the old mansion will soon choose one of them to make its own.
- Lovecraft, H. P.
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(1963)Sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft's most horrifying visions, including Lovecraft's masterpiece, The Shadow Out Of Time--the shocking revelation of the mysterious forces that hold all mankind in their fearsome grip.
- March, William
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(reprinted 1997)What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? The spine-tingling tale of little Rhonda Penmark had a tremendous impact on the thriller genre and generated a whole perdurable crop of creepy kids.
- Masterson, Graham
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(2004)A spate of unexplained fires spreads across Los Angeles, killing indiscriminately, tearing up the city, destroying people's faith. There seems no probable cause for the fires - arson and murder are not suspected - but surely they can't have been started by something as fanciful as spontaneous combustion. Can they?
- Matheson, Richard
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(2003)""Duel" is only one of the classic suspense tales in this outstanding collection of stories by the Grand Master of Horror, which also contains Matheson's legendary first story, "Born of Man and Woman."
- McCammon, Robert
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(1991)This tale of an 11-year-old's struggle between innocence and evil begins with the discovery of a gruesome murder and ends with the revelation that, even in Zephyr, Alabama, life is not safe and simple--and most things and people are not what they seem to be.
- Poe, Edgar Allen
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(1992)The master of the macabre.
- Preston, Douglas
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(1995)Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms, and autopsies reveal that the killer cannot be human.
- Rice, Anne
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(1990)This is the story of a family of witches--a family given to poetry and incest, to murder and philosophy, a family that is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous and seductive being.
- Saul, John
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(2001)College student Jeff Converse, falsely convicted of a brutal crime, finds himself beneath the streets of Manhattan. Here, a population of invisible homeless is the prey of someone who makes this forsaken civilization a private killing ground. Now Jeff must move heaven and earth to escape a living hell.
- Siodmak, Curt
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(reprinted 1999)SFDr. Patrick Cory, unable to save the life of W.H. Donovan after a plane crash, keeps his brain alive through an illegal experiment.
- Simmons, Dan
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(2002)Having sabotaged his career and his marriage, Dale Stewart returns to Elm Haven, his boyhood home, and moves in to the one-time residence of his friend who died in an "accident" in 1960. But Dale is not alone--he's been followed by private demons who twist his reality into horrifying new forms.
- Spector, Craig
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(2005)A truly original metaphysical thriller---gory and intense, satisfying and unique--"Underground" is a startling vision of the nightmare dimension from one of the true masters of the genre.
- Stoker, Bram
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(reprinted 1997)The classic vampire tale.
- Straub, Peter
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(2003)A chilling, edge-of-your-seat story about the persistence of evil--told with tantalizing audacity by the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Black House" and "Ghost Story."
- Wilson, Eric
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(2005)Clay harbors a shocking secret; he can foresee the exact date that a person will die merely by touching their skin. While Clay races against time to prevent these deaths, a sinister plot dating back to the 1917 Russia of Rasputin and the Romanovs unfolds.