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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 In 2013, Centipede Press issued the first American edition of this revised version, also including previously unpublished writings by Walton and several of her short stories.
- The Vampire Chronicles
series15 books1976
completed
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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.
- 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.
- Europa Suite
series2 books2003
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Kim Wilkins' Europa Suite opens with The Autumn Castle, in which a woman's ordinary life is upended when the childhood friend she lost — abducted as a girl into a realm of magic and myth — unexpectedly returns, bringing old jealousies and betrayals that threaten to destroy them both. Giants of the Frost continues the loosely linked suite in the same vein.
- 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.
- Verdigris Deep
Frances Hardingestandalone novel2007
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Verdigris Deep is a children's fantasy novel by Frances Hardinge. It concerns three children who fall into the power of a "well witch" after stealing coins from a wishing well. They are given various powers to grant the wishes of others. While many of the wishes seem harmless they all eventually lead to perilous fates. It was originally published by Macmillan in the UK in 2007 and released in the United States a year later under the title Well Witched.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Weaveworld
Clive Barkerstandalone novel1987
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Weaveworld is a 1987 dark fantasy novel by English writer Clive Barker. It is about a magical world, known as the Fugue, which has been hidden inside a carpet to safeguard it from both inquisitive humans and hostile supernatural foes. Two humans become embroiled in the fate of the Fugue, attempting to save it from those who seek to destroy it. The book was nominated in 1988 for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
- Anna Korlov
series2 books2011
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Kendare Blake's YA horror duology follows Cas Lowood, who has spent three years continuing his late father's work of hunting and dispatching violent ghosts, until he meets Anna, a ghost far more dangerous, and more sympathetic, than any he's faced. Anna Dressed in Blood and its sequel Girl of Nightmares follow Cas as his professional detachment gives way to a bond that complicates everything he thought he knew about his calling.
- 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.
- Alex Stern
series4 books2019
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Leigh Bardugo's Alex Stern series follows Galaxy 'Alex' Stern, a survivor and college dropout offered a scholarship to Yale in exchange for policing the eight secret societies that practice occult magic on campus, as a member of the shadowy organization Lethe. The opening novel, Ninth House, establishes her as an outsider gifted with the ability to see ghosts; the sequels continue her investigation into the societies' abuses and the murder that first drew her into Lethe's world. It is a dark fantasy series blending campus intrigue with horror.
- 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"
