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- Exquisite Corpse
Poppy Z. Britestandalone novel1996
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Exquisite Corpse is a horror novel by American writer William J. Martin. The protagonist of the story is Andrew Compton, an English convicted homosexual serial killer, cannibal and necrophiliac. Brite has described it as "a necrophilic, cannibalistic, serial killer love story that explores the seamy politics of victimhood and disease."
- The Backwoods
Edward Leestandalone novel2005
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A backwater prostitute strangled half to death and buried alive. Children scampering into the woods to play–and never return. Women raped and murdered, men strung up and butchered in place–all for sport. Corpses buried and corpses dug up, and bodies found...with parts missing. Welcome home, Patricia... But it's more than home that awaits Patricia when she returns to the quiet backwoods town where she grew up. Lust-driven frenzy and sultry dreams spark the most erotic obsessions, while something wanton stalks her from the darkest heart of the night. As the bodies pile up and the blood pours, the blackest secrets are revealed. Has the town she calls home really been cursed. No. It's been blessed. By a nameless evil older than sin. Welcome to... THE BACKWOODS!
- 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)
- 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.
- Flesh
Richard Laymonstandalone novel1987
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No one in town has ever seen anything like it: a slimy, mobile tube of glistening yellow flesh with dull, staring eyes and an obscene, probing mouth. But the real horror is not what it looks like, or what it does when it invades your flesh—but what it makes you do to others.
- 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.
- Deadweight
Robert Devereauxstandalone novel1994
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The literary pinnacle of splatterpunk horror, Robert Devereaux's Deadweight, re-released, combines scenes of viciousness and unrelenting depravity with the sensitive portrayal of a victimized woman who triumphs over the abusive husband she has sent to his grave and inadvertently resurrected.
- Dracula
universe144 books1897
Start hereDracula · Start here
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"Come freely. Go safely. And leave something of the happiness you bring" — so the Count greets his guest at the threshold of the Carpathians, and the great door shuts behind. Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) is the wellspring of the modern vampire: the account of a centuries-old Transylvanian nobleman who quits his crumbling castle for the crowded lodging-houses of London, and the handful of ordinary people — a young solicitor, a doctor of the mad, a professor of stranger learning — who must piece together what he is before he makes the whole city his fold. It is told wholly in fragments: journal entries, letters, telegrams, ships' logs, phonograph cylinders, each hand recording only its own sliver of the dark. Around that single novel a whole crypt of continuations has grown, raised by many writers across a century. Fred Saberhagen's Dracula Sequence hands the Count the microphone, retelling the old events from his own wry, aggrieved lips and following him into later intrigues. Robert Lory's brisk 1970s Dracula Horror Series revives him as a reluctant weapon turned against fouler things; Peter Tremayne's trilogy reaches back along his bloodline; and further sequels, a Quincey Morris spin-off, and Dracula's Children carry the shadow onward. This is a loose shared world built upon a public-domain figure, not one governed continuity — each author remakes him as villain, antihero, or sympathetic narrator. Begin, always, with Stoker's original; the letters and the mounting dread stand entirely on their own. From there follow whichever door tempts you — Saberhagen's The Dracula Tape for the monster's own confession, Lory or Tremayne for tales that never glance back at the Borgo Pass again.
- 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.
- Funland
Richard Laymonstandalone novel1989
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Funland is a 1989 novel by Richard Laymon. Set in the resort community of Boleta Bay, a violent gang of unknown assailants is assaulting the guests of the titular amusement park.
- The Lair of the White Worm
Bram Stokerstandalone novel1911
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A huge snake or dragon from prehistoric times survives in England, with intelligence and the ability to transform into a lady.
- Beast House Chronicles
series4 books1980
completed
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Richard Laymon's Beast House Chronicles began with his 1980 debut novel The Cellar, a splatterpunk horror story built around the Beast House, a haunted property hiding something far worse than a ghost. The sequels The Beast House and The Midnight Tour, plus the novella Friday Night in Beast House, keep returning new casts of victims to the same house and the creature underneath it. The series is defined by Laymon's blunt, high-body-count style rather than slow-burn dread.
- Exorcist
series6 books1971
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William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist (1971) follows two Catholic priests trying to save a twelve-year-old girl from a violent demonic possession, and became the basis of the acclaimed 1973 film. Blatty returned to the story in 1983 with Legion, in which police detective Bill Kinderman's investigation of a string of ritual murders leads him back to the aftermath of that exorcism and the fate of Father Karras; Legion was later filmed as The Exorcist III. Other Exorcist books are tie-in and franchise material rather than further novels by Blatty himself.
- Slaughterhouse Moan
Daniel J. Volpestandalone novel2025
similar bydarkhorrorsplatterpunkadult only
● "The Winslow Farm is a dying slice of Americana. Run by Bellah Winslow, the "Princess of Pork," and has seen better days, and along with her deformed daughter Hattie, Beulah performs unspeakable acts to keep the farm running. Meanwhile, Davey, with the threat of jail looming, he needs to secure a job to keep his probation officer off his case. He soon realizes by being a farmhand, jail might not be the worst fate. Also, JD, Ari, Rich, and Danielle have a flat tire, and that puts a damper on their plans. With limited funds, and nowhere to turn, the teens find themselves stuck in an old hunting cabin on the Winslow Farm. They soon find out that the screams from the slaughterhouse are nothing compared to what lurks in the woods." ― paraphrased from this book's product page on Amazon.com as 2025-10-10.
- I Am Legend
Richard Mathesonstandalone novel1954
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The last human survivor of the vampire epidemic has to maintain his defences against their onslaught, while attempting to research the cause and possibly solution to the plague. Robert Neville is the last living man on Earth... but he is not alone. Every other man, woman and child on the planet has become a vampire, and they are hungry for Neville's blood. By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilization. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn. How long can a man survive like this?
- 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.
- One Rainy Night
Richard Laymonstandalone novel1991
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Richard Carl Laymon was an American author of suspense and horror fiction, particularly within the splatterpunk subgenre.
