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Alien Sex : 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasyby Ellen Datlow, Harlan Ellison, Pat Murphy, Larry Niven, Lewis ShrinerISBN 0451451422 (0-451-45142-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alien Sex : 19 Tales by the Masters of Science Fiction and Dark Fantasy'Book summary:Nineteen erotic tales of love and aliens feature the writings of such popular authors as Harlan Ellison, Pat Murphy, Larry Niven, Connie Willis, Philip Jose+a7 Farmer, and Lewis Shiner. Reprint. [via]
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Art in the Bloodby P. N. ElrodISBN 0441859453 (0-441-85945-3)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Art in the Blood'Book summary:Being a vampire isn't as glamorous as it sounds . . . Jack Fleming, Anerican journalist, was bitten by the wrong girl--and Jack joined the living dead. Eccentric detective Charles Escott helps Jack solve any strange cases that happen along . . . and now Jack and Charles investigate the case of the talented young artist whose life is suddenly cut short. [via]
The Autumn Castleby Kim WilkinsISBN 044661663X (0-446-61663-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroixby Stephen KingISBN 0451190556 (0-451-19055-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix'Book summary:Time has run out for one of the inmates at the Cold Mountain penitentiary. Eduard Delacroix is set to take that final walk down the Green Mile. But first he must say good-bye--to the guards, to his fellow inmates, and to a strange creature that forever changed his life. Little does he know of the terrible fate that awaits him, and of a devilish plan of revenge.
Nothing you have ever read can prepare you for Stephen King's boldest exercise in terror, a multi-part serial audiobook that begins on Death Row and burrows inward to the most horrific secrets of the heart. Put yourself in Stephen King's hands, and feel the grip get tighter and tighter. [via]
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The Beast Within : A Gabriel Knight Mysteryby Jane JensenISBN 0451456211 (0-451-45621-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Beast Within : A Gabriel Knight Mystery'Book summary:Just as Gabriel Knight is finally settling into his ancestral home in Germany, he is called upon in his role as schattenjagger, or "shadow hunter", to help solve the savage killing of a young girl. The authorities claim it was a wolf escaped from the zoo, but the townspeople say it is a werewolf. Gabriel soon becomes certain the answer lies within an exclusive hunting club in Munich that celebrates the nature of the beast. As his loyal assistant Grace delves into the past to discover the truth, Gabriel finds himself ensnared in a sinister trap, in which the beast within himself becomes the greatest threat of all! [via]
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Beauty's Punishmentby Anne Rice, A.N. RoquelaureISBN 0452281431 (0-452-28143-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beauty's Punishment'Book summary:The delicious and erotically charged sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty[via]
This sequel to The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty, the first of Anne Rice's (writing as A.N. Roquelaure) elegantly written volumes of erotica, continues her explicit, teasing exploration of the psychology of human desire. Now Beauty, having indulged in a secret and forbidden infatuation with the rebellious slave Prince Tristan, is sent away from the Satyricon-like world of the Castle. Sold at auction, she will soon experience the tantalizing punishments of "the village," as her education in love, cruelty, dominance, submission, and tenderness is turned over to the brazenly handsome Captain of the Guard. And once again Rice's fabulous tale of pleasure and pain dares to explore the most primal and well-hidden desires of the human heart. Preceding the visceral eroticism of E.L. James Fifty Shades of Grey and Sylvia Day's Bared to You, and even more haunting than her own novel Belinda, this second installment is not to be missed.More editions of Beauty's Punishment:
Beauty's Punishmentby Rice AnneISBN 0452266629 (0-452-26662-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Beneath the Skinby Savannah RusseISBN 0451220633 (0-451-22063-3)
Softcover, Signet
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Beowulfby Burton RaffelISBN 0451527402 (0-451-52740-2)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:The epic poem of war and adventure.
Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death.
* Burton Raffel's modern language translation from the original Old English remains the most celebrated introduction of the poem to students and the general reader alike
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Beowulfby Beowulf, R.K. GordonISBN 0486272648 (0-486-27264-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beowulf'Book summary:Finest heroic poem in Old English celebrates character and exploits of Beowulf, a young nobleman of the Geats, a people of southern Sweden. Narrative combines mythical elements, Christian and pagan sensibilities, actual historical figures and events to create a striking work of great power and beauty. Genealogies.[via]More editions of Beowulf:
Blood Gamesby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 0446613797 (0-446-61379-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Blood on the Waterby P. N. ElrodISBN 044185947X (0-441-85947-X)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Brown Girl in the Ringby Nalo HopkinsonISBN 0446674338 (0-446-67433-8)
Softcover, Aspect
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Brown Girl in the Ring'Book summary:This is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel, which came to attention when it won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. It tells the story of Ti-Jeanne, a young woman in a near-future Toronto that's been all but abandoned by the Canadian government. Anyone who can has retreated from the chaos of the city to the relative safety of the suburbs, and those left in "the burn" must fend for themselves. Ti-Jeanne is a new mother who's trying to come to grips with her as- yet-unnamed baby and also trying to end her relationship with her drug-addict boyfriend Tony. But a passion still burns between the young lovers, and when Tony runs afoul of Rudy, the local ganglord, Ti-Jeanne convinces her grandmother Gros-Jeanne to help out. Gros-Jeanne is a Voudoun priestess, and it's clear that Ti-Jeanne has inherited some of her gifts. Although Ti-Jeanne wants nothing to do with the spirit world, she soon finds herself caught up in a battle to the death with Rudy and the mother she thought she lost long ago. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Carrion Comfortby Dan SimmonsISBN 0446359203 (0-446-35920-3)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Carrion Comfort'Book summary:The Past...Caught behind the lines of Hitlers Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face-to-face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazis themselves.... The Present...Compelled by the encounter to survive at all costs, so begins a journey that for Saul will span decades and cross continents, plunging into the darkest corners of twentieth-century history to reveal a secret society of beings who throughout the ages may exist behind the worlds most horrible and violent events. Killing from a distance, they are people with the psychic ability to use humans: read their minds, subjugate them to their wills, experience through their senses, and force them to acts of unspeakable aggression. Each year, three of the most powerful of this hidden order meet to discuss their triumphs of bloodshed and destruction. But at this reunion, something will go terribly wrong. Sauls quest is about to reach its elusive object, drawing hunter and hunted alike into a struggle that will plumb the depths of mankinds attraction to violence, and determine the future of the world itself. [Carrion Comfort is] one of the few major reinventions of the vampire concept, on a par with Jack Finneys Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Richard Mathesons I Am Legend, and Stephen Kings Salems Lot. DAVID MORRELL [via]
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Children of the Nightby Dan SimmonsISBN 0446364754 (0-446-36475-4)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Coffey on the Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451190572 (0-451-19057-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coffey on the Mile'Book summary:The Green Mile is creatively packaged as a six-part series of small paperbacks--serial fiction for a new age. The story, set during the Great Depression, tells of John Coffey, an African American convicted of rape and murder who awaits his death in a Southern prison. Coffey has strange powers, and the creepy characters in the prison have their own views of his gifts, and of God's. The mystery is enhanced by the succession of installments. [via]
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Coffey's Handsby Stephen KingISBN 0451190548 (0-451-19054-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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The Collector of Hearts : New Tales of the Grotesqueby Joyce Carol OatesISBN 0452280249 (0-452-28024-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Darkside : Horror for the Next Millenniumby John PelanISBN 0451456629 (0-451-45662-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Dead Man Risingby Lilith SaintcrowISBN 0446616710 (0-446-61671-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Dead of Lightby Chaz BrenchleyISBN 0450610039 (0-450-61003-9)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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Desperationby Stephen KingISBN 0451188462 (0-451-18846-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desperation'Book summary:A notice to those who feel that Stephen King has lost his magic touch: Desperation is the genuine goods. The ensemble cast of ordinary Americans thrown together by chance, including a disgruntled alcoholic writer and a child who is wise beyond his years, may be a bit too familiar. But the nearly deserted Nevada mining town with an enormous haunted mine pit and an abandoned movie theatre where the survivors hang out makes for a striking battleground, and the grisly action rarely flags. Best of all, though, are the characters of Tak, the ancient body-hopping evil who emerges from the mine, and of "God"--whom the New York Times describes as "the edgiest creation in Desperation. Remote, isolated, ironic, shrouded behind disguises, perhaps 'another legendary shadow,' this deity forms a sly foil, and an icy mirror, to Tak." [via]
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The Dragon Delasangreby Alan F. TroopISBN 0451458710 (0-451-45871-0)
Softcover, Roc
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Dragon Moonby Alan F. TroopISBN 0451459202 (0-451-45920-2)
Softcover, Roc
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Even Vampires Get the Bluesby Katie MacalisterISBN 045121823X (0-451-21823-X)
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Firestarterby Stephen KingISBN 0451167805 (0-451-16780-5)
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Forged By Fireby Janine CrossISBN 0451461282 (0-451-46128-2)
Softcover, Roc
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From the Borderlands: Stories of Terror and Madnessby Thomas F. MonteleoneISBN 0446610356 (0-446-61035-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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A Girl in a Swingby Richard George AdamsISBN 0451163060 (0-451-16306-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Glorianaby Michael MoorcockISBN 0446691402 (0-446-69140-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gloriana'Book summary:A fable satirizing Spenser's "The Fairie Queen" and reflecting the real life of Elizabeth I, tells of a woman who ascends to the throne upon the death of her debauched and corrupted father, King Hern. Gloriana's reign brings the Empire of Albion into a Golden Age, but her oppressive responsibilities choke her, prohibiting any form of sexual satisfaction, no matter what fetish she tries. Her problem is in fact symbolic of the hypocrisy of her entire court. While her life is meant to mirror that of her nation - an image of purity, virtue, enlightenment and prosperity - the truth is that her peaceful empire is kept secure by her wicked chancellor Monfallcon and his corrupt network of spies and murderers, the most sinister of whom is Captain Quire, who is commissioned to seduce Gloriana and thus bring down Albion and the entire empire. [via]
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Gloriana, or the Unfulfilled Queenby Michael MoorcockISBN 0445208627 (0-445-20862-7)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Greywalkerby Kat RichardsonISBN 045146107X (0-451-46107-X)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Greywalker'Book summary:When Harper comes to in the hospital, she begins to feel a bit ...strange. She sees things that can only be described as weird-shapes emerging from a foggy grey mist, snarling teeth, creatures roaring.[via]But Harper's not crazy. Her "death" has made her a Greywalker-able to move between our world and the mysterious, cross-over zone where things that go bump in the night exist. And her new gift (or curse) is about to drag her into that world of vampires and ghosts, magic and witches, necromancers and sinister artifacts. Whether she likes it or not.
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Guardianby John SaulISBN 0449223043 (0-449-22304-3)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Haunting of Hill Houseby Shirley JacksonISBN 0446310360 (0-446-31036-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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The Heart of a Witchby Judith HawkesISBN 0451197224 (0-451-19722-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Heat Strokeby Rachel CaineISBN 0451459849 (0-451-45984-9)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heat Stroke'Book summary:Mistaken for a murderer, Weather Warden Joanne Baldwin is hunted down and killed by her colleagues. Reborn as a Djinn, she senses something sinister entering earth's atmosphere-something that makes tomorrow's forecast look deadly. [via]
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Ill Windby Rachel CaineISBN 0451459520 (0-451-45952-0)
Softcover, Roc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ill Wind'Book summary:First in the new Weather Warden series...
Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now, she's trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So, she's resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life...
Her only hope is Lewis, the most powerful warden known. Unfortunately, he's stolen not one but three bottles of Djinn-making him the most wanted man on earth. Still, she's racing hard to find him-before the bad weather closes in fast... [via]More editions of Ill Wind:
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The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Editionby H. G. Wells, Brian Wilson AldissISBN 0460872583 (0-460-87258-3)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Doctor Moreau: Library Edition'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0451529898 (0-451-52989-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Island of Dr Moreau'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
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Itby Stephen KingISBN 0451169514 (0-451-16951-4)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It'Book summary:They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. What was it? Read It and find out...if you dare! [via]
Julian's Houseby Judith HawkesISBN 0451168879 (0-451-16887-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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King of the Greyby Richard A. KnaakISBN 0446364630 (0-446-36463-0)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King of the Grey'Book summary:Mysterious, half-imagined, half-real phantoms take possession of a Chicago commuter named Jeremiah Todtmann, make him their leader, and force him to give them form and substance. [via]
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Kitty And the Midnight Hourby Carrie VaughnISBN 0446616419 (0-446-61641-9)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kitty And the Midnight Hour'Book summary:Vampires. Werewolves. Talk Radio. [via]
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Kitty Takes a Holidayby Carrie VaughnISBN 0446618748 (0-446-61874-8)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kitty Takes a Holiday'Book summary:After getting caught turning wolf on national television, Kitty retreats to a mountain cabin to recover and write her memoirs. But this is Kitty, so trouble is never far behind, and instead of Walden Pond, she gets Evil Dead. When werewolf hunter Cormac shows up with an injured Ben O'Farrell, Kitty's lawyer, slung over his shoulder, and a wolf-like creature with glowing red eyes starts sniffing around the cabin, Kitty wonders if any of them will get out of these woods alive... [via]
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Knights of the Bloodby Katherine KurtzISBN 0451454073 (0-451-45407-3)
Softcover, Roc
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Knights of the Bloodby Scott MacMillan, Katherine KurtzISBN 0451452569 (0-451-45256-9)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Kushiel's Justiceby Jacqueline CareyISBN 0446500038 (0-446-50003-8)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Lifeblood 100by P. N. ElrodISBN 0441847765 (0-441-84776-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Light My Fireby Katie MacalisterISBN 0451219821 (0-451-21982-1)
Softcover, Signet Eclipse
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Long Walkby Stephen King, Richard BachmanISBN 0451196716 (0-451-19671-6)
Softcover, Signet
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Lovedeathby Dan SimmonsISBN 0446600776 (0-446-60077-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Midnight Harvestby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 044661341X (0-446-61341-X)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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The Mouse on the Mileby Stephen KingISBN 0451190521 (0-451-19052-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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New Year's Eveby Lisa GrunwaldISBN 0446674036 (0-446-67403-6)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Night Journeyby Stephen KingISBN 0451190564 (0-451-19056-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Night Journey'Book summary:Paul Edgecombe and his fellow guards take a huge gamble by taking convicted killer John Coffey away from Death Row in the dead of night to bring him to the bedside of a woman writhing in torment. [via]
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Nightmares & Dreamscapesby Stephen KingISBN 0451180232 (0-451-18023-2)
Softcover, Signet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nightmares & Dreamscapes'Book summary:Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Stephen King disagrees: "My deeply held conviction is that story must be paramount.... All other considerations are secondary--theme, mood, even characterization and language."
These fine stories, each written in what King calls "a burst of faith, happiness, and optimism," prove his point. The theme, mood, characters, and language vary, but throughout, a sense of story reigns supreme. Nightmares & Dreamscapes contains 20 short tales--including several never before published--plus one teleplay, one poem, and one nonfiction piece about kids and baseball that appeared in the New Yorker. The subjects include vampires, zombies, an evil toy, man-eating frogs, the burial of a Cadillac, a disembodied finger, and a wicked stepfather. The style ranges from King's well-honed horror to a Ray Bradbury-like fantasy voice to an ambitious pastiche of Raymond Chandler and Ross MacDonald. And like a compact disc with a bonus track, the book ends with a charming little tale not listed in the table of contents--a parable called "The Beggar and the Diamond." --Fiona Webster [via]
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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Storiesby Oscar Wilde, Raby, Peter (AFT), Gary SchmidgallISBN 0451530454 (0-451-53045-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories'Book summary:"Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin." In their ideal of an exquisitely sensitive temperament that thrills to fine shadings in sensation, the principles of the aesthetic (or "decadent") movement are well suited to the tale of terror. No story exemplifies this better than Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. The sparkling wit and zest for life of Wilde's characters combine with cold-blooded acts of horror to generate a deliciously twisted sense of elegance and evil, civilization and degradation. Oscar Wilde, like Edgar Allan Poe, shows us that what we find loathsome and frightening can also be beautiful. [via]
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The Rest Falls Away: The Gardella Vampire Chroniclesby Colleen GleasonISBN 0451220072 (0-451-22007-2)
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Rose Madderby Stephen KingISBN 0451186362 (0-451-18636-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rose Madder'Book summary:After 14 years of being beaten, Rose Daniels wakes up one morning and leaves her husband -- but she keeps looking over her shoulder, because Norman has the instincts of a predator. And what is the strange work of art that has Rose in a kind of spell? In this brilliant dark-hued fable of the gender wars, Stephen King has fashioned yet another suspense thriller to keep readers right at the edge. [via]
Rosemary's Babyby Ira LevinISBN 0451194004 (0-451-19400-4)
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Shadowed by Wings: Book Two of the Dragon Temple Sagaby Janine CrossISBN 0451461029 (0-451-46102-9)
Softcover, Roc
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Shifterby Judith Reeves-Stevens, Garfield Reeves-StevensISBN 0451450183 (0-451-45018-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Editionby Stephen KingISBN 0451169530 (0-451-16953-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition'Book summary:In 1978, science fiction writer Spider Robinson wrote a scathing review of The Stand in which he exhorted his readers to grab strangers in bookstores and beg them not to buy it.
The Stand is like that. You either love it or hate it, but you can't ignore it. Stephen King's most popular book, according to polls of his fans, is an end-of-the-world scenario: a rapidly mutating flu virus is accidentally released from a U.S. military facility and wipes out 99 and 44/100 percent of the world's population, thus setting the stage for an apocalyptic confrontation between Good and Evil.
"I love to burn things up," King says. "It's the werewolf in me, I guess.... The Stand was particularly fulfilling, because there I got a chance to scrub the whole human race, and man, it was fun! ... Much of the compulsive, driven feeling I had while I worked on The Stand came from the vicarious thrill of imagining an entire entrenched social order destroyed in one stroke."
There is much to admire in The Stand: the vivid thumbnail sketches with which King populates a whole landscape with dozens of believable characters; the deep sense of nostalgia for things left behind; the way it subverts our sense of reality by showing us a world we find familiar, then flipping it over to reveal the darkness underneath. Anyone who wants to know, or claims to know, the heart of the American experience needs to read this book. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Straight on 'Til Morningby Christopher GoldenISBN 0451202767 (0-451-20276-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Straight on 'Til Morning'Book summary:In this chilling new novel, award-winner Christopher Golden reimagines the Peter Pan myth with a terrifying twist-as "the new boy in town" arrives with a strange plan for his friends... [via]
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Strange Wineby Harlan EllisonISBN 0446306592 (0-446-30659-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Publishing
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Strangewoodby Christopher GoldenISBN 0451197658 (0-451-19765-8)
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Swords and Deviltryby Fritz LeiberISBN 0441791980 (0-441-79198-0)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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Swords and Ice Magicby Fritz LeiberISBN 0441791964 (0-441-79196-4)
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Tempting Fateby Chelsea Quinn YarbroISBN 0451118650 (0-451-11865-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Them Bonesby Howard WaldropISBN 0441805574 (0-441-80557-4)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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The Tooth Fairyby Graham JoyceISBN 0451184351 (0-451-18435-1)
Hardcover, Signet Books
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Touched by Venomby Janine CrossISBN 0451460790 (0-451-46079-0)
Softcover, Roc
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Traitor to the Bloodby Barb Hendee, J. C. HendeeISBN 0451460901 (0-451-46090-1)
Softcover, Roc
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The Two Dead Girlsby Stephen KingISBN 0451190491 (0-451-19049-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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They were sisters, and the picture-perfect image of innocence. No one understood their brutal deaths, not even the man who killed them. But John Coffey is about to gain a new insight, about his life in prison, and about the one man who will walk him down that green mile [via]More editions of The Two Dead Girls:
V for Vendettaby David Lloyd, Alan MooreISBN 0446391905 (0-446-39190-5)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
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War for the Oaksby Emma BullISBN 0441870732 (0-441-87073-2)
Softcover, Putnam Berkley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War for the Oaks'Book summary:Emma Bull's debut novel, War for the Oaks, placed her in the top tier of urban fantasists and established a new subgenre. Unlike most of the rock & rollin' fantasies that have ripped off Ms. Bull's concept, War for the Oaks is well worth reading. Intelligent and skillfully written, with sharply drawn, sympathetic characters, War for the Oaks is about love and loyalty, life and death, and creativity and sacrifice.
Eddi McCandry has just left her boyfriend and their band when she finds herself running through the Minneapolis night, pursued by a sinister man and a huge, terrifying dog. The two creatures are one and the same: a phouka, a faerie being who has chosen Eddi to be a mortal pawn in the age-old war between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts. Eddi isn't interested--but she doesn't have a choice. Now she struggles to build a new life and new band when she might not even survive till the first rehearsal.
War for the Oaks won the Locus Magazine award for Best First Novel and was a finalist for the Mythopoeic Society Award. Other books by Emma Bull include the novels Falcon, Bone Dance (second honors, Philip K. Dick Award), Finder (a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award), and (with Stephen Brust) Freedom and Necessity; the collection Double Feature (with Will Shetterly); and the picture book The Princess and the Lord of Night. --Cynthia Ward [via]
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We Have Always Lived in the Castleby Shirley JacksonISBN 0445083212 (0-445-08321-2)
Softcover, Grand Central Pub
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Wild Bloodby Nancy A. CollinsISBN 0451454324 (0-451-45432-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)
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You Slay Meby Katie MacalisterISBN 0451411528 (0-451-41152-8)
Softcover, Onyx Books
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