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- Witch House
Evangeline Waltonstandalone novel1945
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Witch House is a fantasy novel by American writer Evangeline Walton. It was published in 1945 by Arkham House in an edition of 3,000 copies. It was the first full-length novel to be published by Arkham House and was listed as the initial book in the Library of Arkham House Novels of Fantasy and Terror. An expanded version, with a newly written 20,000-word prologue, was published in England in 1950. In 2013, Centipede Press issued the first American edition of this revised version, also including previously unpublished writings by Walton and several of her short stories.
- 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.
- The Thief of Always
Clive Barkerstandalone novel1992
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Ten-year-old Harvey Swick is bored out of his mind when a stranger named Rictus offers him a way out: Holiday House, a place where every season of the year -- Christmas, Halloween, summer -- arrives in a single glorious day, one after another. Once inside, Harvey meets fellow children Wendell and Lulu, the elderly caretaker Mrs. Griffin and her cats, and settles into a routine of enchantment that starts to feel too perfect. Their host, the mysterious Mr. Hood, never appears, rumors about a figure called Carna keep surfacing, and something in the nearby lake is very wrong. One of Clive Barker's best-known standalone books, written for younger readers.
- The House That Jack Built
Graham Mastertonstandalone novel1996
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When he and his wife stumble across a derelict house, "Valhalla", Craig Bellman becomes fascinated by it, even to the extent of trying to buy it, regardless of local tales which say the house is dogged by tragedy. As Craig becomes more obsessed day by day, injury and death return to "Valhalla"
- Shadowmancer
series2 books2002
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In G. P. Taylor's Shadowmancer, an evil clergyman, Reverend Obadiah Demurral, seeks two powerful amulets called the Keruvim that would let him command the elements and remake the world in his image. A band of young people in 18th-century Whitby race to stop him before he succeeds, in a story steeped in occult ritual and Christian mythology. The direct sequel, The Curse of Salamander Street, picks up where the first book leaves off with a new supernatural threat loose in London.
- Shutter
Courtney Alamedastandalone novel2015
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Seventeen-year-old Micheline Helsing is a tetrachcromat, able to see ghosts in color and capture them on film, but when a routine hunt goes awry, Micheline is infected with a curse known as a soulchain and if she is unable to exorcise the entity in seven days, she will be destroyed, body and soul.
- The Third Grave
David Casestandalone novel1981
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The Third Grave is a fantasy horror novel by author David Case. It was published by Arkham House in 1981 in an edition of 4,158 copies. It was Case's first book published by Arkham House. The novel was reissued in paperback by Valancourt Books in 2019.
- Book of the Art
series3 books1989
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The Art was meant to be a trilogy about a hidden order guarding the boundary between our world and Quiddity, a dream-sea shared by all sleeping minds, but Clive Barker only completed two of its three volumes. The Great and Secret Show follows a decades-long feud between two men who discover Quiddity's power - one seeking to harness it, the other to protect it - with consequences that distort reality itself; Everville continues the story a generation later. The planned third volume was never published.
- Puppet Graveyard
Tim Curranstandalone novel2012
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"Five months after her sister Gloria disappeared, Kitty Seevers receives a lock of Gloria's hair in the mail. No return address. Just a cryptic message that brings Kitty to the Bamboo Lounge and into the twisted realm of ventriloquist Ronny McBane and his dummy, Piggy. Kitty descends into a haunted place where reality is frayed, where the puppetmaster and puppet seem to have reversed roles--a nightmare place where a dummy moves and speaks when his master is nowhere near him. Kitty suspects not only is there something wrong with McBane and his dummy, but a greater evil is at work as those named by the dummy are dying horrible deaths. And now she has been named by the same soul-eater that destroyed her sister." -- quoted from Amazon.com's product page for this book on 2017-06-17
- The Vampire Chronicles
series15 books1976
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The Vampire Chronicles is a series of Gothic vampire novels and a media franchise, created by American author Anne Rice, that revolves around the fictional character Lestat de Lioncourt, a French nobleman turned into a vampire in the 18th century.
- 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.
- Fiend
Alma Katsustandalone novel2025
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Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call. The Berisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they’ve always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. They’re blessed. At least that is what Zef, the patriarch, has always told his three children. And each of them knows their place in the family—Dardan, as the only male heir, must prepare to take over as keeper of the Berisha secrets, Maris’s most powerful contribution, much to her dismay, will be to marry strategically, and Nora’s job, as the youngest, is to just stay out of the way. But when things stop going as planned, and the family blessing starts looking more like a curse, the Berishas begin to splinter, each hatching their own secret scheme. They didn’t get to be one of the richest families in the world without spilling a little blood, but this time, it might be their own.
- The Fury
series4 books1976
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John Farris's The Fury centers on a teenage girl and boy with escalating psychic and telekinetic powers who become targets of a covert government program trying to weaponize them. The 1976 novel, adapted into Brian De Palma's 1978 film, gave rise to a string of later sequels following the same family's psychic bloodline across decades. Farris writes it as paranoid conspiracy thriller as much as horror, with the powers themselves treated as a violent, destabilizing force.
- Rosemary Reilly
series2 books1967
completed
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Rosemary's Baby follows a young wife in a Gothic Manhattan apartment building who grows increasingly convinced that her elderly neighbors, and even her own husband, are part of a conspiracy surrounding her pregnancy. Ira Levin returned to the character thirty years later in the 1997 sequel Son of Rosemary. Together the two novels form a short, self-contained horror series about faith, control, and motherhood.
- Comes the Blind Fury
John Saulstandalone novel1980
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WorldCat: When Michelle comes to visit on Paradise Point, she sees the hand of a blind girl who died a century ago, reaching out to her from the swirling mists.
- Stephen King multiverse
universe46 books1967
Start hereThe Gunslinger · Start here
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The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed. So begins the long walk of Roland Deschain, last of an order of knight-errant pistoleers, across a land that has "moved on" — where the compass points drift, dead machines rot toward sentience, and the weave of what's real wears thin. His quest is the Dark Tower itself: a spire standing at the hub of every world that exists, the linchpin that holds all of them back from ruin. Roland's road runs eight volumes, from The Gunslinger through the closing Dark Tower, with the later, interleaved tale The Wind Through the Keyhole folding a story-within-a-story back into his youth. Along the way he draws a ka-tet — a fellowship bound by fate, not choosing — through doorways between worlds: a heroin-shackled New Yorker, a woman of two minds, a boy who dies twice. The Tower is also the secret axle around which the wider shelf of King's work turns; threads from The Stand, 'Salem's Lot and beyond wind quietly toward it. Expect a mongrel of Western, high fantasy, horror and decayed science fiction, told in a dusty, incantatory dialect all its own — ka, thankee-sai, the world that has moved on. This is King at his most mythic and most personal, a decades-spanning circle that rewards a patient reader. Begin at the beginning: The Gunslinger, then walk forward in publication order. There are other worlds than these — but this door opens first.
- The Wicked Heart
Christopher Pikestandalone novel1993
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He did not want to kill. Dusty Shame was a high school senior, and a serial killer. Already he has murdered three young women, and he has more planned. Yet Dusty did not want to hurt anybody. There was something inside him, or perhaps outside him, that compelled him to kill. Sheila Hardolt has lost her best friend to Dusty's insane attacks. It will be her task to probe the clues Dusty has left at the site of each of his murders. Clues that will point her into the past -- to a time when a large portion of mankind lost all sense of decency. There she will find the seed of Dusty's evil compulsion, the Wicked Heart, and the reason why it did not die the first time it was destroyed.
- Fairy Tale Anthologies
series7 books1993
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Fairy Tale Anthologies gathers Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling's series of adult short-fiction anthologies retelling classic fairy tales, beginning with Snow White, Blood Red (1993) and continuing through Black Thorn, White Rose, Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears and further volumes. Each book commissions new stories from a rotating set of authors reworking familiar tales, often into darker, more adult territory than their source material. The volumes are linked by editorial concept and theme rather than a continuing plot or cast.
- Superstitious
R. L. Stinestandalone novel1995
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Superstitious is a 1995 horror novel by author R. L. Stine. This was the first adult novel by Stine, most famous for writing children's fiction such as the Goosebumps series. This book deals with Sara Morgan, who falls in love with Liam O’Connor. It was published on September 14, 1995 by Grand Central Publishing in the United States.
