Author / Title 1st Published Pages Other
Anne Rice - Interview with the Vampire 1976 340
In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving
for human blood. Anne Rice's compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker's Dracula was published in
1897. As the Washington Post said on its first publication, it is a 'thrilling, strikingly original work of the imagination ...sometimes horrible, sometimes beautiful,
always unforgettable'.
Bentley Little - The Association 2001 448
With this haunting tale, Little (The Town) proves that he hasn't lost his terrifying touch. Barry and Maureen Welch are thrilled to exchange their chaotic California
lifestyle for the idyllic confines of Bonita Vista, a ritzy gated community in the unincorporated fictional town of Corban, Utah. But as Bonita Vista residents, they're
required to become members of the neighborhood's Homeowners' Association, a meddling group that uses its authority to spy on neighbors, eradicate pets and
dismember anyone who fails to pay association dues and fines. Maureen, an accountant, and Barry, a horror writer who is banned by the association from writing at
home, soon find themselves trapped in the kind of deranged world that Barry once believed existed only within the safety of his imagination. The novel's graphic
and fantastic finale demonstrates the shortsightedness of the Association and will stick with readers for a long time. Little's deftly drawn characters inhabit a
suspicious world laced with just enough sex, violence and Big Brother rhetoric to make this an incredibly credible tale.
Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark 2001 291 True Blood
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She's quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn't get out much - not because she's not pretty -
she's a very cute bubbly blonde - or not interested in a social life. She really is . . . but Sookie's got a bit of a disability. She can read minds. And that doesn't make
her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he's tall, he's dark and he's handsome - and Sookie can't 'hear' a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's
been waiting all her life for. But Bill has a disability of his own: he's fussy about his food, he doesn't like suntans and he's never around during the day . . . Yep, Bill's
a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble - of the murderous kind. And then one of Sookie's colleagues at
the bar is killed, and it's beginning to look like Sookie might be the next victim . . .
Dan Simmons - Children of the Night 1992 464
A Romanian infant who flourishes when given the wrong blood transfusion could hold the key to a cure for AIDS and cancer, but he also shares an intimate link to a
clan of vampires.
Dan Simmons - The Hollow Man 1992 341
A journey into the dark heart of mortality which follows a bereaved young husband's downward spiral into the dark side of the human psyche.
Gardner McKay - Toyer 1998 496
A serial stalker known as Toyer who preys on the women of Los Angeles plays cat and mouse with psychotherapist Dr. Maude Garance.
Henry James - The Turn of the Screw 1898 121
The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable
housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
Ira Levin - Rosemary's Baby 1967 228
Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and
only elderly residents. Neighbours Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome the Woodhouses to the building; despite Rosemary's
reservations about their eccentricity and the weird noises that she keeps hearing, her husband starts spending time with them. Shortly after Guy lands a plum
Broadway role, Rosemary becomes pregnant and the Castavets start taking a special interest in her welfare, and as the sickened Rosemary becomes increasingly
isolated, she begins to suspect that the Castavets' circle is not what it seems...
Joe Hill - Heart Shaped Box 2008 416 Highly Recommended
Buy my stepfather's ghost' read the e-mail. So Jude did. He bought it, in the shape of the dead man's suit, delivered in a heart-shaped box, because he wanted it:
because his fans ate up that kind of story. It was perfect for his collection: the genuine skulls and the bones, the real honest-to-God snuff movie, the occult books
and all the rest of the paraphanalia that goes along with his kind of hard/goth rock. But the rest of his collection doesn't make the house feel cold. The bones don't
make the dogs bark; the movie doesn't make Jude feel as if he's being watched. And none of the artefacts bring a vengeful old ghost with black scribbles over his
eyes out of the shadows to chase Jude out of his home, and make him run for his life . . .
Joe R. Lansdale - Bubba Ho-Tep 2005 159
This is a companion book to the popular movie starring Bruce Campbell as Elvis and Ossie Davis as JFK. Stuck in an East Texas old folks home, they must face off
against a redneck mummy.
John Collier - Fancies and Goodnights 1951 440
John Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but
perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald
Dahl. With a cast of characters that ranges from man-eating flora to disgruntled devils and suburban salarymen (not that it's always easy to tell one from another),
Collier's dazzling stories explore the implacable logic of lunacy, revealing a surreal landscape whose unstable surface is depth-charged with surprise.
Kelley Armstrong - Bitten 2001 464
Elena Michaels is a model woman for the 21st century: self-assured, keenly intelligent, fighting fit. And like every modern woman, she has her secrets. Nothing
extraordinary about that. Except that Elena really is extraordinary. In fact, she may well be the most extraordinary woman alive. She is, after all, the only female
werewolf in the world...Ten years ago, against her will, Elena's lover turned her into a werewolf. Some days it feels like a gift. Most days it feels like a curse. A year
ago, she decided to live as a human. Now she has to go back to New York State, her old home. Her pack is under seige by a new group of violent, psychotic
werewolves that shows no respect for the old ways, and no respect for territory. Forced into helping her old friends, Elena soon slips back into the reassuring
camaradarie of the pack, though she struggles against her dangerous, unpredictable desires. Hunting down her enemies, Elena prowls through territories usually
barred to women. From dangerous back alleys to the dark, luscious forests of New York State, she must hunt and destroy the renegade pack before they destroy
her.
Koji Suzuki - Ring 1991 304
Stunning, cutting-edge thriller with a chilling supernatural twist from Japan's stylish new literary star. Asakawa is a hardworking journalist who has climbed his way
up from local-news beat reporter to writer for his newspaper's weekly magazine. A chronic workaholic, he doesn't take much notice when his seventeen-year-old
niece dies suddenly -- until a chance conversation reveals that another healthy teenager died at exactly the same time, in chillingly similar circumstances. Sensing a
story, Asakawa begins to investigate, and soon discovers that this strange simultaneous sudden-death syndrome also affected another two teenagers. Exactly one
week before their mysterious deaths the four teenagers all spent the night at a leisure resort in the same log cabin. When Asakawa visits the resort, the mystery
only deepens. A comment made in the guest book by one of the teenagers leads him to a particular vidoetape. When he watches it, instead of a movie he finds an
odd collection of disparate images with a portentous message at the end: Those who have viewed these images are fated to die at this exact hour one week from
now. Asakawa finds himself in a race against time -- he has only seven days to find the cause of the teenagers' deaths before it finds him. The hunt puts him on the
trail of an apocalytpic power that will force Asakawa to choose between saving his family and saving civilization.
Laurell K. Hamilton - Anita Blake Vampire Hunter Guilty Pleasures 1993 352
My name is Anita Blake. Vampires call me The Executioner. What I call them isn't repeatable. Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most
people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I've seen their victims. I carry the scars ...But now a serial killer is murdering vampires - and
the most powerful bloodsucker in town wants me to find the killer ...
Matthew Lewis - The Monk 1796 416
The Monk was so highly popular that it seemed to create an epoch in our literature', wrote Sir Walter Scott. Set in the sinister monastery of the Capuchins in Madrid,
The Monk is a violent tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The great struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main
character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows, then to sexual obsession and rape, and finally to murder in order to conceal his guilt.
Inspired by German horror romanticism and the work of Ann Radcliffe, Lewis produced his masterpiece at the age of nineteen. It contains many typical Gothic
elements - seduction in a monastery, lustful monks, evil Abbesses, bandits and beautiful heroines. But, as the Introduction to this new edition shows, Lewis also
played with convention, ranging from gruesome realism to social comedy, and even parodied the genre in which he was writing.
Richard Matheson - Hell House 1971 288
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. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Richard Matheson - Stir of Echoes 1958 224
Tom Wallace lived an ordinary life, until a chance event awakened psychic abilities he never knew he possessed. Now he's hearing the private thoughts of the
people around him - and learning shocking secrets he never wanted to know.
Scott Sigler - Infected 2008 400
CIA operative Dew Phillips, working together with CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya, race to stop the spread of a mysterious disease that is turning ordinary
people into murderers. A former football player who has become infected with the deadly bioengineered parasite may carry the cure.
Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House 1959 256
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena;
Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted assistant; Luke, the adventurous future inheritor of the estate; and Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman with a dark
past. As they begin to cope with chilling, even horrifying occurrences beyond their control or understanding, they cannot possibly know what lies ahead. For Hill
House is gathering its powers – and soon it will choose one of them to make its own.
Stephen King - Blaze 2007 288
Clay Blaisdell is one big mother, but his capers are strictly small-time until his mentor introduces him to the one big score that every small-timer dreams of: kidnap.
But now the brains of the operation has died - or has he? - and Blaze is alone with a baby as hostage. The Crime of the Century just turned into a race against time
in the white hell of the Maine woods.
Stephen King - 'Salem's Lot 1975 439
Upon its initial publication in 1975, 'SALEM'S LOT, with its 'intended echoes of Dracula ', was recognized as a landmark work. The novel has sold millions of copies
in various editions. Now, with the addition of fifty pages of material deleted from the 1975 manuscript as well as material that has since been modified by King, an
introduction by him, and two short stories related to the events of the novel, this edition represents the text as the author envisioned it.
Stephen King - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 1999 219
The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.' Trisha McFarland discovers this when she is nine years old. Trying not to be terrified. Trying
not to think that sometimes when people get lost in the woods they get seriously hurt. Sometimes they die. In Trisha's panic to get back on the track, she takes
turnings which lead her deeper and deeper into the woods. The only thing that keeps her going is her Walkman on which she listens avidly to Red Sox baseball
games, creating an imaginary friendship with her hero Tom Gordon. And as she struggles for survival and a way out, she realises she’s not alone. There’s
something else in the woods - and it’s watching her...
Stephen King - The Shining 1977 447
Danny is only five years old, but he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of an old hotel, his visions grow out of control. Cut
off by blizzards, the hotel seems to develop an evil force, and who are the mysterious guests in the supposedly empty hotel?
Whitley Strieber - The Hunger 1981 384
Eternal youth is a curse for Miriam Blaylock because everyone she loves withers and dies. Now, haunted by signs of her adoring husband's imminent demise,
Miriam sets out in search of a new partner, one who can quench her thirst for love and withstand the test of time.