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- Enoch Coffin
series13 books2013
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- Pet Sematary
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1983
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Pet Sematary is a 1983 horror novel by American writer Stephen King. It tells the story of a family moving to Maine and settling closer to a pet cemetery in the woods, which is home to a terrifying force that brings death and sorrow. The novel was nominated for a World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1984, and adapted into two films: one in 1989 and another in 2019 as well as several spinoffs.
- Jerusalem's Lot
series3 books1975
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Stephen King's 1975 novel 'Salem's Lot follows writer Ben Mears as he returns to his childhood town of Jerusalem's Lot, Maine, only to discover that its residents are being turned into vampires by a newly arrived stranger. It transplants Gothic vampire horror into a small New England community, tracking that community's collapse under a supernatural siege. It is a single, self-contained novel.
- Revival
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2014
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The protagonist details how his life keeps intersecting with that of the man he first met as the pastor of his church in childhood, whose experiments with electricity lead to mastery of a cosmic power which he uses to help people, until his obsession leads to physical and spiritual disaster for all.
- Borderlands (Monteleone anthologies)
series7 books1990
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- Song of Kali
Dan Simmonsstandalone novel1985
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Song of Kali is a horror novel by American writer Dan Simmons, published in 1985. The story deals with an American intellectual who travels to Calcutta, India, where he becomes embroiled in mysterious and horrific events at the centre of which lies a cult of Kapalikas that worships Kali.
- The Hungry Moon
Ramsey Campbellstandalone novel1986
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The Hungry Moon is a novel by Ramsey Campbell published in 1986.
- The Tommyknockers
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1987
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The Tommyknockers is a 1987 science fiction horror novel by Stephen King. The novel is an excursion into the realm of science fiction for King, as the residents of the Maine town of Haven gradually fall under the influence of a mysterious object buried in the woods. King has since soured on The Tommyknockers, describing it as "an awful book", due to his drug addiction while writing the novel, though acknowledges the story's potential: "There's really a good book in here, underneath all the sort of spurious energy that cocaine provides, and I ought to go back." A miniseries adaptation was released in 1993.
- The House on the Borderland
William Hope Hodgsonstandalone novel1908
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The House on the Borderland (1908) is a supernatural horror novel by British fantasist William Hope Hodgson. The novel is a hallucinatory account of a recluse's stay at a remote house, and his experiences of supernatural creatures and otherworldly dimensions.
- Floating Dragon
Peter Straubstandalone novel1983
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Floating Dragon is a horror novel by American writer Peter Straub, originally published by Underwood-Miller in November 1982 and G.P. Putnam's Sons in February 1983. The novel won the August Derleth Award in 1984.
- Books of Blood
series10 books1984
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Books of Blood is a series of six horror fiction anthologies collecting original stories written by English author, playwright, and filmmaker Clive Barker in 1984 and 1985. Known primarily for writing stage plays beforehand, Barker gained a wider audience and fanbase through this anthology series, leading to a successful career as a novelist. Originally presented as six volumes, the anthologies were subsequently re-published in two omnibus editions containing three volumes each. Each volume contains four, five or six stories. The Volume 1–3 omnibus contained a foreword by Barker's fellow Liverpudlian horror writer Ramsey Campbell. Author Stephen King praised Books of Blood, leading to a quote from him appearing on the first US edition of the book: "I have seen the future of horror and his name is Clive Barker."
- Harvest Home
Thomas Tryonstandalone novel1973
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What is the dark secret the people (especially the women!) of Harvest Home are hiding? A family tries to get out of the City and finds the perfect home for their young daughter complete with folk remedies for her allergies and sensitivities in the local wisewoman. But is there something sinister under the surface of the charming little town?
- Hell House
Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1971
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A dying millionaire wants proof, once and for all, of what happens after death, and hires physicist-turned-parapsychologist Dr. Lionel Barrett to spend a week investigating the Belasco House in Maine -- a mansion so thoroughly associated with atrocity that it's known simply as Hell House, where every previous investigation has ended in death or madness. Barrett brings his wife Edith along with two mediums, the spiritualist Florence Tanner and Benjamin Franklin Fischer, survivor of an earlier disastrous visit, whose scientific skepticism and spiritualist convictions clash from the first night inside. Richard Matheson's haunted-house novel, later filmed as The Legend of Hell House.
- If You Could See Me Now
Peter Straubstandalone novel1976
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If You Could See Me Now is a horror novel by American author Peter Straub. It is his third novel and his second work of gothic or supernatural fiction. The book was published by Jonathan Cape in June 1977 – the same London publisher who published Julia in 1976. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan published an American edition also in June 1977.
- ...And the Angel with Television Eyes
John Shirleystandalone novel2001
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WorldCat: "As a star in a popular soap opera, Max Whitman desires to expand his acting abilities to include serious parts. A series of strange occurrences, however, sidetracks Max's ambitions and sets him on an eeries path toward insight or insanity as the boundaries of reality collapse and he receives glimpses of a hidden reality populated with monsters and heroes."
- Nightmare Hour
series1 book1999
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R. L. Stine's Nightmare Hour: Time for Terror collects ten of his scariest short stories, each followed by the author's own note on where its idea came from — from a boy forced to spend Halloween in the hospital to a ghost that wants to steal a child's skin. It stands as a standalone short-story collection rather than a serialized series.
- King Sorrow
Joe Hillstandalone novel2025
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King Sorrow is a 2025 horror novel by American author Joe Hill, published by William Morrow and Company. Hill's first novel in nine years, it received positive reviews.
- The Piper's Graveyard
Ben Farthingstandalone novel2021
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● "Cessy arrives in Hamlin, West Virginia to search for her missing sister. She finds a half-empty town under siege by unexplainable threats: The dark corners of the town—attics, basements, closets—have been stretched into endless tunnels. Corpses are turning up riddled with holes—holes that slither through flesh like insectile parasites. Ghostly screams echo down from the abandoned coal mine. A mysterious voice on the radio invites Cessy to abandon her search for her sister, and make a pact with an ancient evil. Hamlin has already made that pact, and their bill is due." ― quoted from this book's Amazon product page as of 2022-02-22.
- Dead Lines
Greg Bearstandalone novel2004
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From the flaps of the Ballantine first edition: "For the last two years, Peter Russell has mourned the death of one of his twin daughters - who was just ten when she was murdered. Recent news of his best friend's fatal heart attack has now come as another devastating blow. Divorced, despondent, and going nowhere in his career, Peter fears his life is circling the drain. Then Trans comes along. The brainchild of an upstart telecom company, Trans is (as its name suggests) a transcendent marvel, a sleek, handheld interpersonal communication device capable of flawless operation anywhere in the world, at any time. "A cell phone, but not" - transmitting with crystal clarity across a newly discovered, never-utilized bandwidth... and poised to spark a new-technology revolution. When its creators offer Peter a position on their team, it should be a golden opportunity for him. If only he wasn't seemingly going mad. Everywhere Peter turns, inexplicable apparitions are walking before him or reaching out in torment. After a chilling encounter with his own lost child he begins to grasp the terrifying truth: Trans is a Pandora's box that has tapped into a frequency not of this world... but of the next. And now, via this open channel to oblivion, the dead have gained access to the living. For Peter, and for humankind, a long shadowy night of the soul has descended, bringing with it the stuff of a horrifying nightmare from which they may never awaken."
