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- 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.
- Necroscope
series26 books1982
completed
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Brian Lumley's Necroscope opens an eighteen-book horror saga (1982-2017) centered on Harry Keogh, a man who can speak with the dead. Harry turns that gift against Thibor Ferenczy, a vampire buried since the Middle Ages, and against Ferenczy's agent Boris Dragosani, a Soviet spy who has learned to tear secrets from corpses in pursuit of world domination. Later volumes follow Harry's descendants and successors through further wars against the vampiric Wamphyri, across sequel trilogies and story collections.
- The Dark
James Herbertstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: It came like a malignant shadow with seductive promises of power. And somewhere in the night, a small girl smiled as her mother burned. Asylum inmates slaughtered their attendants. In slimy tunnels, once-human creatures gathered. Madness raged as the lights began to fade and humanity was attacked by an ancient, unstoppable evil.
- The Loveliest Dead
Ray Gartonstandalone novel2006
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The Kellar family finds their illusions of starting over shattered when they discover that their new home harbors an unimaginable evil as the dead, determined to destroy the living, come to life.
- Phantoms
Dean R. Koontzstandalone novel1983
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A doctor and her young sister find all the residents of their town have been brutally slaughtered by a giant intelligent synctial organism millions of years old, whose periodic emergences from its underground lair to feed cause events ranging from mass disappearances to mass extinctions. In order to defeat it and save humanity, they must outwit it.
- The Night Boat
Robert R. McCammonstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: The story begins with a vividly written prologue in which a German U-boat--sometimes known as an "Iron Coffin"--Attacks an unsuspecting merchant vessel, and is itself attacked by a pair of Allied sub chasers. The action then shifts to the present day and to the idyllic Caribbean island of Coquina, where life is about to change in unimaginable ways. David Moore, a young man with a tragic and haunted past, is skin-diving in the waters off Coquina, searching for the salvageable remnants of shipwrecks. He accidentally detonates a long-unexploded depth charge, uncovering and releasing a submarine that has lain beneath those waters, virtually intact, for decades. The battered vessel that rises to the surface contains a bizarre and terrifying cargo that will transform a once peaceful island into a landscape of unrelenting nightmare. The Night Boat is a story of cannibalism, ancient voodoo curses, and shambling, undead entities filled with a bottomless rage and an equally bottomless hunger. But it is also the story of a past that refuses to die, that lies in wait just beneath the surface of the unsuspecting present.
- Soulless
Christopher Goldenstandalone novel2008
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The attempt of three powerful mediums to open up communication between the living and the dead has disastrous consequences when every corpse within a three-hundred-mile radius of New York City is animated and begins to prey on the living.
- Johnny Dixon and the Professor
series13 books1983
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Johnny Dixon is a fictional American boy featured in a series of twelve children's gothic horror novels, 1983 to 1999, written by John Bellairs or his successor Brad Strickland. In each book, 12-year-old Johnny and his group of friends face and overcome evil forces usually bent on ending the world. Alternatively, Johnny Dixon is the book series.
- Carrie
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1974
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In one way or another, everybody abused Carrie. This sixteen-year-old misfit was forbidden everything that was young and fun by her fanatical mother. She was teased and taunted by her classmates, misunderstood by her teachers, and given up as hopeless by almost everyone. But Carrie had a secret: She possessed terrifying telekinetic powers that could make inanimate objects move, a lighted candle fall, or a door lock. Carrie could make all kinds of startling bizarre, and malevolent things happen. (WorldCat)
- Blood Feast of the Ghoul God
Brian G. Berrystandalone novel2024
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● "Encased in stone, the Ghoul God awaits resurrection from its servitors' hands. During a raid on a seemingly innocent abbey, a mercenary team acquires the 'Relic'. Unknown to the team sent to retrieve this object of antiquity, it possesses a latent power of domination over weak and vulnerable minds. Now, on their way back to the US, an event onboard the plane sends it plunging into the backwater swamps of Brackenville, a pinpoint, no-nothing town on the map. As the days pass, bodies are turning up in appalling numbers for the small town." ― paraphrased from this book's product page on Amazon.com as of 2024-09-24.
- Rats
series4 books1974
completed
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The Rats, James Herbert's 1974 debut novel, imagines a plague of giant mutant rats overrunning London, told through a rotating cast of victims and survivors in the tradition of British disaster horror. It was followed by two sequels, Lair and Domain, which widen the outbreak first to the countryside and then to a besieged, apocalyptic city, completing a three-book trilogy.
- Carrion
Gary Brandnerstandalone novel1986
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Synopsis - He is the nation’s new hero. For he possesses the most awesome sill any man can master – he can reach beyond the grave and reawaken the dear departed. He can bring the dead back to life! But their souls no longer inhabit their resurrected bodies. The creatures that now walk the earth are carrion – dead flesh! They are mindless things that only know he is responsible for their agony… As their bodies decay into hideous travesties of what they once were, they have only one mission left – To destroy their savior.
- The Shining
series5 books1977
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Stephen King's 1977 novel The Shining follows the Torrance family as winter caretakers of the isolated, malevolent Overlook Hotel, where father Jack is gradually consumed by the hotel's influence while his young son Danny's psychic "shining" draws its attention. Doctor Sleep (2013) picks up the story decades later, following Danny as an adult still marked by that childhood ordeal. Together the two form a horror duology spanning nearly forty years of real-world publication.
- The Descent
Jeff Longstandalone novel1999
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The Descent is a 1999 science fiction/horror novel by American author Jeff Long. It describes the discovery and exploration of an extensive labyrinth of tunnels and passages stretching throughout the Earth's upper mantle, found to be inhabited by a malicious species of alternately-evolved troglofauna hominids.
- Cell
Stephen Kingstandalone novel2006
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In Cell, King taps into readers fears of technological warfare and terrorism. Mobile phones deliver the apocalypse to millions of unsuspecting humans by wiping their brains of any humanity, leaving only aggressive and destructive impulses behind. Those without cell phones, like illustrator Clayton Riddell and his small band of "normies," must fight for survival, and their journey to find Clayton's estranged wife and young son rockets the book toward resolution.
- Toxic Shadows
Tim Curranstandalone novel2004
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"Cut River, Michigan. Population: 0. The town the Devil built. Once it was a sleepy backwater town and once there were people in it. Then a lurking pestilence ate the flesh from its bones. A pestilence born in the smoldering graveyards of nameless, forgotten battlefields. And now there is only a shifting darkness in Cut River, a darkness populated by hideous shadows that pretend to be people. Seven strangers will arrive. If they can stay alive until dawn, they'll survive. But to do that will mean engaging in a bloody war of attrition against the things that crawl and hunt in the night. Things that wear the faces of men, women, and children. Toxic Shadows. Welcome to Cut River. Welcome to the graveyard. War is Hell." — quoted from this book's product page on Amazon and its Severed Press printing's back cover.
- Night Things
Thomas F. Monteleonestandalone novel1980
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Amazon: One could hardly expect the residents Conora, New Mexico, to be too disturbed when a nearby construction crew unearthed a Native American burial ground; after all, Sheriff Miguel Lopez, newspaperman Tony Cavella, shopkeeper Lori Danek, and the entire bustling community had their own lives to think about. Unfortunately, sometimes a bulldozer does more than move the earth ... it opens a wound. And the people of Conora had no idea about, nor any way to prepare for, the ancient terror that was loosed upon their small town.
- Walkers
Gary Brandnerstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: Joana was one of the dead. But she was brought back to life! That's when people began trying to kill her ... nice people ... the last people in the world anyone would suspect of being capable of murder?people who were already dead
