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- Rose Madder
Stephen Kingstandalone novel1995
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Rose Madder is a horror/fantasy novel by American writer Stephen King, published in 1995. It deals with the effects of domestic violence and, unusually for a King novel, relies for its fantastic element on Greek mythology. In his memoir, On Writing, King states that Rose Madder and Insomnia are "stiff, trying-too-hard novels."
- Dreamrider
Barry Jonsbergstandalone novel2006
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Michael Terny is at his seventh school in four years and he knows that whatever he does, he will be ridiculed and pushed around. Michael is the fat kid. But Michael is also a lucid dreamer--he can recognize when he is dreaming and make the dream unfold exactly as he wants. Here he is safe and completely in control. Safe that is, until he finds the dream world and real world colliding . . . and a passage between the two promises more power than he has ever imagined. With the help of an unexpected friend at his new school, Michael plans how to use his power--to reward the good and wreak vengeance on the wicked. . . . But is Michael really in control? Nothing is quite as it seems in this book, and the shocking ending will have readers furiously flipping back to begin reading again with opened eyes.From the Hardcover edition.
- The Damnation Game
Clive Barkerstandalone novel1985
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Marty Strauss is a compulsive gambler fresh out of prison when he's hired as bodyguard for Joseph Whitehead, a reclusive tycoon whose fortune and continued existence trace back to a bargain struck decades earlier, during World War II, with a man named Mamoulian. That bargain is coming due: Mamoulian, who commands powers reaching well past death, wants what he's owed, and Whitehead's household -- his wife, his daughter Carys, his previous bodyguard -- is caught in the middle of a decades-old debt finally being called in. Marty, out of his depth from the start, finds himself the only one willing to stand against Mamoulian. Clive Barker's first novel.
- Effective Engineering Solutions
series37 books1995
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The Ice Limit follows a team hired by an eccentric billionaire to recover what looks like the largest meteorite ever found, off a remote island near Cape Horn, only to discover, as they flee across the Antarctic seas aboard a retrofitted tanker, that they've actually excavated something alive. Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child wrote it as a standalone techno-thriller in 2000; it later fed into their separate Gideon Crew series rather than getting a direct sequel of its own.
- Finders Keepers (Stephen King)
series7 books2014
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The books gathered here follow Holly Gibney, who first appeared as a supporting character in Stephen King's Bill Hodges trilogy (Mr. Mercedes, Finders Keepers, End of Watch) before graduating into her own strand of stories: a major role in The Outsider, then top billing in the novella If It Bleeds and the novels Holly and Never Flinch, where she works as a private investigator taking on cases with a supernatural edge. The mix of true-crime procedural instincts and creeping horror is a hallmark of King's later work with the character.
- Ghost Monster
Simon Clarkstandalone novel2009
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The local children call it "ghost monster," a disturbing mosaic on a mausoleum wall in the old cemetery. For centuries the grim portrait has imprisoned the spirits of the notorious Justice Murrain and his vicious gang of misfits. But now somone has taken the portrait, and the spirits of the sadists are free to enjoy the darkest of pleasures.
- The Invisible Man
series6 books1897
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The Invisible Man is H. G. Wells's 1897 science fiction novel about Griffin, a scientist who works out how to make living tissue invisible and tests the process on himself, only to discover he has no way to reverse it. Unseen and increasingly cut off from other people, he turns to theft and violence while trying to survive and find a cure, making the book as much about his moral collapse as about the invisibility premise itself. It's a single self-contained novel; the two listed titles here are duplicate editions rather than separate books.
- Grim Reaper mysteries
series5 books2009
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After a bad car accident, Casey Maldonado hits the road and finds herself unable to shake an unwelcome companion: Death itself, which won't take her but won't leave her alone either. Judy Clemens's Grim Reaper mysteries follow Casey as her wandering keeps landing her in small towns hiding real crimes, starting with a struggling Ohio farm community where a supposed suicide looks more like a cover-up. It's amateur-sleuth mystery with a wry supernatural conceit rather than straight horror.
- 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)
- Heart-Shaped Box
Joe Hillstandalone novel2007
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Heart-Shaped Box is the debut horror novel by American author Joe Hill. The book was published on February 13, 2007, by William Morrow.
- Ghost Music
Graham Mastertonstandalone novel2008
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The dead can't punish those who killed them, but they can enlist the aid of the living to seek revenge ...
