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The Absolute Sandman
by Brian Azzarello, Jim Lee, Neil Gaiman, Sam Kieth

ISBN 1401210821 (1-4012-1082-1)
Hardcover, DC Comics

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THE SANDMAN, written by New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman, was the most acclaimed comic book title of the 1990s. A rich blend of modern myth and dark fantasy in which contemporary fiction, historical drama and legend are seamlessly interwoven, THE SANDMAN is also widely considered one of the most original and artistically ambitious series of the modern age. By the time it concluded in 1996, it had made significant contributions to the artistic maturity of comic books and become a pop culture phenomenon in its own right.
Now, DC Comics is proud to present this comics classic in an all-new Absolute Edition format. The first of four beautifully designed slipcased volumes, THE ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 1 collects issues 1-20 of The Sandman and features completely new coloring, approved by the author, on the first 18 issues, as well as a host of never-before-seen extra material, including the complete original Sandman Proposal, a gallery of character designs from Gaiman and the artists who originated the look of the Sandman, and the original script to the World Fantasy Award-winning THE SANDMAN #19, "A Midsummer Nights Dream," together with reproductions of the issues original pencils by Charles Vess. Also included are a new introduction by DCs president Paul Levitz and a new afterword by Gaiman. [via]
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- The Absolute Sandman: ISBN 1401210821 (1-4012-1082-1)
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Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft

ISBN 0613226771 (0-613-22677-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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Annotated H. P. Lovecraft
by S. T. Joshi, H. P. Lovecraft

ISBN 0440506603 (0-440-50660-3)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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At the Mountains of Madness
by H. P. Lovecraft

ISBN 0937986690 (0-937986-69-0)
Hardcover, Grant Publisher, Incorporated, Donald M.

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The Atrocity Archives
by Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod

ISBN 1930846258 (1-930846-25-8)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr

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Charles Stross takes a departure from his epic science fiction to craft this cross between Len Deightonstyle espionage and H.P. Lovecraftian horror.

Bob Howard is a computer-hacker desk jockey, who has more than enough trouble keeping up with the endless paperwork he has to do on a daily basis. He should never be called on to do anything remotely heroic.

But somehow, he is...

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- The Atrocity Archives: ISBN 0441013651 (0-441-01365-1)
  Softcover, Ace Books
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  Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr
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Bitten
by Kelley Armstrong

ISBN 0452283485 (0-452-28348-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose ...Nature wins out. It always does.' Elena Michaels didn't know that her lover Clay was a werewolf until he bit her, changing her life forever. Betrayed and furious, she cannot accept her transformation, and wants nothing to do with her Pack - a charismatic group of fellow werewolves who say they want to help. When a series of brutal murders threatens the Pack - and Clay - Elena is forced to make an impossible choice. Abandon the only people who truly understand her new nature, or help them to save the lover who ruined her life, and who still wants her back at any cost. [via]
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- Bitten: ISBN 0452286034 (0-452-28603-4)
  Softcover, Penguin Group USA
- Bitten: ISBN 0452283485 (0-452-28348-5)
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Cthulhu 2000
by Jim Turner

ISBN 0345422031 (0-345-42203-1)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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- Cthulhu 2000: ISBN 0870541692 (0-87054-169-2)
  Hardcover, Arkham House Pub
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Danse Macabre
by Laurell K. Hamilton

ISBN 0515142816 (0-515-14281-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Fans have been waiting to sink their fangs into an all-new Anita Blake hardcover in the New York Times bestselling series.

These days, Anita Blake is less interested in vampire politics than in an ancient, ordinary dread she shares with women down the ages: she may be pregnant. And, if she is, whether the father is a vampire, a werewolf, or someone else entirely, he knows perfectly well that being a Federal Marshal known for raising the dead and being a vampire executioner, is no way to bring up a baby. [via]
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- Danse Macabre: ISBN 0425207978 (0-425-20797-8)
  Hardcover, Berkley Pub Group
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The Dark Descent
by David G. Hartwell

ISBN 0312862172 (0-312-86217-2)
Softcover, St Martins Pr

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If you could have only one anthology of dark stories, this would be the one to have. Having observed that "fans of horror fiction most often restrict their reading to books and stories given a horror category label, thus missing some of the finest pleasures in that fictional mode," David G. Hartwell assembles here 56 important tales within an insightful critical framework; his purpose is to "clear the air and broaden future considerations of horror." Several well-known classics are included, but there are also dozens of lesser-known horror tales, including many by science fiction and literary writers. Get one copy for yourself. Get another for that friend or relative who doesn't understand why you like to read horror. [via]
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- The Dark Descent: ISBN 0312930356 (0-312-93035-6)
  Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Dark Forces
by Kirby E. McCauley

ISBN 0451162218 (0-451-16221-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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- Dark Forces: ISBN 0670256536 (0-670-25653-6)
  Hardcover, Penguin USA
- Dark Forces: ISBN 0451162218 (0-451-16221-8)
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Dark Rivers of the Heart
by Dean R. Koontz

ISBN 0553582895 (0-553-58289-5)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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A man and a woman meet by chance in a bar. Suddenly they are fleeing the long arm of a clandestine and increasingly powerful renegade government agency -- the woman hunted for the information she possesses, the man mistaken as her comrade in a burgeoning resistance movement.

The architect of the chase is a man of uncommon madness and cruelty -- ruthless, possibly psychotic, and equipped with a vast technological arsenal. He is the brazen face of an insidiously fascistic future. And he is virtually unstoppable. But he has never before come up against the likes of his current quarry. Both of them are survivors of singularly horrific pasts. Both have long been emboldened by their experiences to fight with reckless courage for their own freedom. Now they are plunged into a struggle for the freedom of their country, and for the sanctity of their own lives.

Dark Rivers of the Heart is an electrifying thriller that steers us along the razor edge of a familiar, terrifying reality. [via]
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Darkfall: Library Edition
by Dean R. Koontz

ISBN 158165071X (1-58165-071-X)
Hardcover, Literary Express

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Terror strikes a snowbound town when four hideously disfigured corpses are discovered over the course of four days. Reissue. PW. [via]
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Darkness Comes
by Dean R. Koontz

ISBN 0491031521 (0-491-03152-1)
Hardcover, W.H. Allen

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Demon Seed
by Dean R. Koontz

ISBN 0425158594 (0-425-15859-4)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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In a chilling novel of artificial intelligence by the author of cold fire and twilight eyes, a computer with human-like qualities develops criminal obsessions and a capacity for violence. Reprint [via]
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- Demon Seed: ISBN 0425158594 (0-425-15859-4)
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The Face
by Dean R. Koontz

ISBN 0553584480 (0-553-58448-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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Ten-year-old Aelfric Manheim is home alone when he receives a call from a stranger with a simple and terrifying message, "There is trouble coming, young Fric...You're going to need a place to hide." Meanwhile, security chief for the Manheim estate, former detective Ethan Truman, is tailing a "deader than dead" body that got up and left the morgue when he vividly experiences his own death--twice. In The Face, Dean Koontz delivers yet another spellbinding and chilling novel, where real and imagined monsters walk the streets, ghosts travel through mirrors, and the devil makes house calls. Stalked by both real and supernatural evil, the bright and sensitive Fric, virtually orphaned by his A-list Hollywood parents, and the brave but disillusioned former detective Ethan Truman, himself suffering from the loss of his wife, must rely on their wits and each other to escape a dark and disturbing fate.
The supernatural lurks just beneath the surface of the "real" in Koontz's novels, and The Face is no exception. Ghosts, angels, demons, child predators and serial anarchists run rampant in Koontz's tale--the unsuspecting reader never knows what is real orimagined until the characters themselves know--creating a disorienting and frightening experience, and one that is vintage Koontz. Whether it's the real-life "agents of chaos" who roam the world creating mayhem and death or the phone lines that carry words of the dead to the living, this is Koontz at his most powerful and terrifying.
In The Face, Koontz has created a modern fable for adults, taking the bones from tales of old and breathing new life into the characters. Clearly written for adults, The Face nevertheless channels the wit and wisdom of Aesop as well as the violence and villainy of the Brothers Grimm. While Koontz's penchant for elaborately singsong descriptions can sometimes be grating, ultimately it helps lend this tale its folkloric quality, i.e. "The June-bug jitter, scarab click, tumblebug tap of the beetle-voiced rain spoke at the window, click-click-click." In this fable, the world is a menacing and threatening place for adults and children alike, and the naïve and uninformed go trip-trapping through life with no notion of the trolls that lurk in the dark. The moral of this story is that, good or evil, you will get what is coming to you; it's up to you to succeed or fail; you alone decide your path punishment or redemption. --Daphne Durham [via]
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- The Face: ISBN 0553802488 (0-553-80248-8)
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Forever Odd
by Dean Koontz

ISBN 1594131554 (1-59413-155-4)
Softcover, Large Print Pr

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The follow-up novel to Odd Thomas, from worldwide bestselling author, Dean Koontz. Odd Thomas, that unlikely hero, once more stands between us and our worst fears. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead -- they sought him out. As the unofficial goodwill ambassador between our world and theirs, he has a duty to do the right thing. That's the way Odd sees it, and that's why he has already won over hearts on both sides of the great divide. For though Odd lives in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, he stands between two worlds, and for him the heroic and the harrowing are everyday occurrences. A childhood friend of Odd's has disappeared and the worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body. New allies and new enemies gather around Odd, some living and some not. But the enemy he encounters is unspeakably cunning, and every sacrifice is needed to tip the balance between despair and hope as a life-changing revelation rushes towards us. In the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders ! [via]
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Funhouse
by Dean R. Koontz

ISBN 0425142485 (0-425-14248-5)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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The Funhouse
by Owen West

ISBN 0515057266 (0-515-05726-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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A story of vengeance when a young mother, having married in haste to a violent man, kills their child in belief that he is an evil creature. Her husband swears revenge, and sets out to kill any further children that she may have. First published in 1981 under the pseudonym Owen West. [via]
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H.P. Lovecraft: Tales
by H. P. Lovecraft, Peter Straub

ISBN 1931082723 (1-931082-72-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA

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Koko
by Peter Straub

ISBN 0451162145 (0-451-16214-5)
Softcover, Signet

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- Koko: ISBN 0525246606 (0-525-24660-6)
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Life Expectancy
by Dean Koontz

ISBN 0553588249 (0-553-58824-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books

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With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacya story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between.

Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. As a violent storm rages outside the hospital, Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. It's a strange vigil made all the stranger when, at the very height of the storm's fury, Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks coherently for the frist and last time since his stroke.

What he says before he dies is that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandsonfive dates whose terrible events Jimmy will have to prepare himself to face. The first is to occur in his twentieth year; the second in his twent-third year; the third in his twenty-eighth; the fourth in his twenty-ninth; the fifth in his thirtieth.

Rudy is all too ready to discount his father's last words as a dying man's delusional rambling. But then he discovers that Josef also predicted the time of his grandson's birth to the minute, as well as his exact height and weight, and the fact that Jimmy would be born with syndactylythe unexplained anomal of fused digitson his left foot. Suddenly the old man's predictions take on a chilling significance.

What terrifying events await Jimmy on these five dark days? What nightmares will he face? What challenges must he survive? As the novel unfolds, picking up Jimmy's story at each of these crisis points, the path he must follow will defy every expectation. And with each crisis he faces, he will move closer to a fate he could never have imagined. For who Jimmy Tock is and what he must accomplish on the five days when his world turns is a mystery as dangerous as it is wondrousa struggle against an evil so dark and pervasive, only the most extraordinary of human spirits can shine through. [via]
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Long Walk
by Stephen King, Richard Bachman

ISBN 0451196716 (0-451-19671-6)
Softcover, Signet

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- Long Walk: ISBN 0613173503 (0-613-17350-3)
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Lost Boy Lost Girl
by Peter Straub

ISBN 1400060923 (1-4000-6092-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group

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A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son fifteen-year-old Mark Underhillvanishes. His uncle, novelist Timothy Underhill, searches his hometown of Millhaven for clues that might help unravel this horrible dual mystery. He soon learns that a pedophilic murderer is on the loose in the vicinity, and that shortly before his mothers suicide, Mark had become obsessed with an abandoned house where he imagined the killer might have taken refuge. No mere empty building, the house whispers from attic to basement with the echoes of a long-hidden true-life horror story, and Tim Underhill comes to fear that in investigating its unspeakable history, Mark stumbled across its last and greatest secret: a ghostly lost girl who may have coaxed the needy, suggestible boy into her mysterious domain. [via]
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- Lost Boy Lost Girl: ISBN 0449149919 (0-449-14991-9)
  Softcover, Ballantine Books
- Lost Boy, Lost Girl: ISBN 1400060923 (1-4000-6092-3)
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Micah
by Laurell K. Hamilton

ISBN 0515140872 (0-515-14087-2)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group

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Mister X
by Peter Straub

ISBN 8408043196 (84-08-04319-6)
Softcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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Mr. X
by Peter Straub

ISBN 0449149900 (0-449-14990-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman

ISBN 0060557818 (0-06-055781-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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Neverwhere's protagonist, Richard Mayhew, learns the hard way that no good deed goes unpunished. He ceases to exist in the ordinary world of London Above, and joins a quest through the dark and dangerous London Below, a shadow city of lost and forgotten people, places, and times. His companions are Door, who is trying to find out who hired the assassins who murdered her family and why; the Marquis of Carabas, a trickster who trades services for very big favors; and Hunter, a mysterious lady who guards bodies and hunts only the biggest game. London Below is a wonderfully realized shadow world, and the story plunges through it like an express passing local stations, with plenty of action and a satisfying conclusion. The story is reminiscent of Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but Neil Gaiman's humor is much darker and his images sometimes truly horrific. Puns and allusions to everything from Paradise Lost to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz abound, but you can enjoy the book without getting all of them. Gaiman is definitely not just for graphic-novel fans anymore. --Nona Vero [via]
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October Country
by Ray Bradbury, Joe Mugnaini

ISBN 034532448X (0-345-32448-X)
Softcover, Ballantine Books

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Ray Bradbury's first short story collection is back in print, its chilling encounters with funhouse mirrors, parasitic accident-watchers, and strange poker chips intact. Both sides of Bradbury's vaunted childhood nostalgia are also on display, in the celebratory "Uncle Einar," and haunting "The Lake," the latter a fine elegy to childhood loss. This edition features a new introduction by Bradbury, an invaluable essay on writing, wherein the author tells of his "Theater of Morning Voices," and, by inference, encourages you to listen to the same murmurings in yourself. And has any writer anywhere ever made such good use of exclamation marks!? [via]
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Sacrament
by Clive Barker

ISBN 0061091995 (0-06-109199-5)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited

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A boy has an encounter with a man who causes extinctions of other species, so he grows up to be a man who documents (and thus appeals for a halt to) those extinctions. This dark fantasy tale is unlike Clive Barker's other recent ones: it is more tightly plotted, and more of this world. In a sequence of well-executed stories within stories (comparable to Russian dolls), Barker unfolds a compelling examination of what it means to be human, to be a man, and to be a gay man--on a planet where aging, disease, and death bring "the passing of things, of days and beasts and men he'd loved." A satisfying long novel packed with vivid images, memorable characters, and a melancholy mood that reaches for hope. [via]
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The Sandman Library
by Neil Gaiman, Kelley Jones

ISBN 1563890410 (1-56389-041-0)
Softcover, Dc Comics

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One might think that the climax of the 10-volume Sandman series would come in the last book, or even the second to last. But indeed the heart and soul of Neil Gaiman's magnum opus lies here in Brief Lives. It could be because one of the most central mysteries--that of the Sandman's missing brother--is revealed here (in fact, the plot of this volume is the search for this member of the Endless). It could be because everything that comes after this volume, however surprising or unexpected, is inevitable. But it's more because this is a story about mortality and loss, the difficulty of change, the purpose of remembering, the purpose of forgetting, and the importance of humanity. If you have wanted to find out what all the good buzz on this great comic book series is about and haven't read any Gaiman before, don't be turned off by this volume's pivotal position in the larger story of the Sandman series. This book might actually operate better as a stand-alone story, in that its depth and compassion are more condensed, pure, and brief. --Jim Pascoe [via]
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Servants Of Twilight
by Dean R. Koontz

ISBN 0913165247 (0-913165-24-7)
Hardcover, Dark Harvest Books

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Storm of the Century
by Stephen King

ISBN 067103264X (0-671-03264-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Stephen King started writing Storm of the Century as a novel, but it evolved into the teleplay of an ABC TV miniseries. Set in Maine's remote Little Tall Island, the tale is all about vivid small-town characters, feuds, infidelities, sordid secrets, kids in peril, and gory portents in scrambled letters. The calamitous snowstorm is nothing compared to the mysterious mind-reading stranger Linoge, who uses magic powers to turn people's guilt against them--when he's not simply braining them with his wolf-head-handled cane. Don't even glance at that cane--it can bring out the devil in you. Just as The Shining was concerned with marriage and alcoholism as much as it was with bad weather and worse spirits, Storm of the Century is more than a horror story. It's creepy because it's realistic.
But it's also unusually visual. Linoge's eyes ominously change color, wind and sea wreak havoc, a basketball leaves blood circles with each bounce. The 100-year storm no doubt hits harder onscreen than on the page, but the snow is a symbol of the more disturbing emotional maelstrom that words evoke perfectly. And the murders of folks we've gotten to know is entirely terrifying in print. The crisp discipline of the screenplay format makes this book better than lots of King's more sprawling novels--the end doesn't wander and the dialogue crackles. Here's the real test: It's impossible to read parts 1 and 2 and not read part 3, "The Reckoning." --Tim Appelo [via]
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Strange Highways
by Dean R. Koontz

ISBN 1568952554 (1-56895-255-4)
Hardcover, Wheeler Pub Inc

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Supernatural Horror in Literature
by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

ISBN 0486201058 (0-486-20105-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns

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This is a lively and opinionated historical essay on supernatural literature written during 1924 through 1927. Indispensable to horror fans (even for those uninterested in H. P. Lovecraft's fiction) for its superb plot summaries and subjective assessments, the book is a short history of horror from folk tales, ballads and myths of the Middle Ages, through the Gothic novel, Victorian ghost story, and American "pulp" writers. It is especially good on Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arthur Machen, and William Hope Hodgson, and includes Lovecraft's views on what makes a good horror story. E. F. Bleiler, renowned scholar of supernatural fiction, provides the introduction. [via]
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- Supernatural Horror in Literature: ISBN 0844647799 (0-8446-4779-9)
  Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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  Softcover, Dover Pubns
Throat
by Peter Straub

ISBN 0451179188 (0-451-17918-8)
Softcover, Signet

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Turn of the Screw
by Henry James, Tim Lustig

ISBN 0192834045 (0-19-283404-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr

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This text is the first-and only-modern text to follow the New York Edition, the one which had James's final authority.
Contexts includes twenty-six selections, from James's letters, notebooks, and other writings during the period 1863-1908, centering on the ghost story, the supernatural and, in particular, "my little book," The Turn of the Screw. Also reproduced are four paintings by Charles Demuth. The essays in Criticism span one hundred years, providing a rich array of perspectives on James and his story. Representing contemporary reactions are pieces by Henry Harland, John D. Barry, Oliver Elton, William Lyon Phelps, and Virginia Woolf. The section also includes landmark criticism by Harold Goddard, Edna Kenton, Edmund Wilson, Katherine Anne Porter, Robert B. Heilman, R. P. Blackmur, Maurice Blanchot, and Leon Edel. Recent, fresh approaches to James's work are presented by Tzvetan Todorov, Shoshana Felman, Henry Sussman, Bruce Robbins, Ned Lukacher, Paul B. Armstrong, and T. J. Lustig. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included. [via]
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Turn of the Screw
by Peter G. Beidler, Henry James

ISBN 0312080832 (0-312-08083-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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Henry James' short novels provide an overview of his entire career and serve as an excellent introduction to his singular art and imagination. This collection includes The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The Beast in the Jungle, An International Episode, The Aspern Papers and The Altar of the Dead. Major course adoption potential. [via]
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The Turn of the Screw: A Case Study in Contemporary Criticism
by Peter G. Beidler, Henry James

ISBN 0312406916 (0-312-40691-6)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins

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This volume presents the text of the New York Edition of Jamess classic 1898 short novel along with critical essays that read The Turn of the Screw from contemporary reader-response, psychoanalytic, gender, and Marxist perspectives. An additional essay demonstrates how several critical perspectives can be combined. As in the first edition, the text and essays are complemented by biographical and critical introductions, bibliographies, and a glossary of critical and theoretical terms. Two of the six essays are new to the second edition, as is a selection of cultural documents and illustrations.
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Two Trains Running
by Lucius Shepard

ISBN 1930846231 (1-930846-23-1)
Hardcover, Golden Gryphon Pr

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This collection of fact and fiction was inspired by the time science fiction writer Lucius Shepard spent with Missoula Mike, Madcat, and other members of a controversial brotherhood known as the Freight Train Riders of America. Shepard rode the rails throughout the western half of the United States with the disenfranchised, the homeless, the punks, the gangs, and the joy riders for the magazine article 'The FTRA Story'. That original article is presented here, along with two new hobo novellas, 'Over Yonder' and 'Jailbait'. In 'Over Yonder', alcoholic Billy Long Gone finds himself on an unusual train. As Billy travels his health improves and his thinking clears, and he arrives in Yonder -- an unlikely paradise where a few hundred hobos live in apparent peace and tranquillity. But every paradise has its price, and in Yonder, peace and tranquillity breed complacency and startling deaths. 'Jailbait' is a hardcore tale of deception, lust, revenge, and murder in the seedy underbelly of rail yards and train hopping. Madcat, who functions best in a whiskey-induced haze, must decide between solitude and companionship when he meets up with Grace, an underaged runaway. Grace, in turn, seeks the security of an older man and the life about which only young girls can dream. [via]
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson

ISBN 0140071075 (0-14-007107-5)
Softcover, Puffin

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Visitors call seldom at Blackwood House. Taking tea at the scene of a multiple poisoning, with a suspected murderess as one's host, is a perilous business. For a start, the talk tends to turn to arsenic. "It happened in this very room, and we still have our dinner in here every night," explains Uncle Julian, continually rehearsing the details of the fatal family meal. "My sister made these this morning," says Merricat, politely proffering a plate of rum cakes, fresh from the poisoner's kitchen. We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson's 1962 novel, is full of a macabre and sinister humor, and Merricat herself, its amiable narrator, is one of the great unhinged heroines of literature. "What place would be better for us than this?" she asks, of the neat, secluded realm she shares with her uncle and with her beloved older sister, Constance. "Who wants us, outside? The world is full of terrible people." Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic, burying talismanic objects beneath the family estate, nailing them to trees, ritually revisiting them. She has made "a powerful taut web which never loosened, but held fast to guard us" against the distrust and hostility of neighboring villagers.
Or so she believes. But at last the magic fails. A stranger arrives--cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune. He disturbs the sisters' careful habits, installing himself at the head of the family table, unearthing Merricat's treasures, talking privately to Constance about "normal lives" and "boy friends." Unable to drive him away by either polite or occult means, Merricat adopts more desperate methods. The result is crisis and tragedy, the revelation of a terrible secret, the convergence of the villagers upon the house, and a spectacular unleashing of collective spite.
The sisters are propelled further into seclusion and solipsism, abandoning "time and the orderly pattern of our old days" in favor of an ever-narrowing circuit of ritual and shadow. They have themselves become talismans, to be alternately demonized and propitiated, darkly, with gifts. Jackson's novel emerges less as a study in eccentricity and more--like some of her other fictions--as a powerful critique of the anxious, ruthless processes involved in the maintenance of normality itself. "Poor strangers," says Merricat contentedly at last, studying trespassers from the darkness behind the barricaded Blackwood windows. "They have so much to be afraid of." --Sarah Waters [via]
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The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead
by Max Brooks

ISBN 1400049628 (1-4000-4962-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The Zombie Survival Guide is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now. Fully illustrated and exhaustively comprehensive, this book covers everything you need to know, including how to understand zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective defense tactics and weaponry, ways to outfit your home for a long siege, and how to survive and adapt in any territory or terrain.

Top 10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack

1. Organize before they rise!
2. They feel no fear, why should you?
3. Use your head: cut off theirs.
4. Blades dont need reloading.
5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair.
6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it.
7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike.
8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert!
9. No place is safe, only safer.
10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.

Dont be carefree and foolish with your most precious assetlife. This book is your key to survival against the hordes of undead who may be stalking you right now without your even knowing it. The Zombie Survival Guide offers complete protection through trusted, proven tips for safeguarding yourself and your loved ones against the living dead. It is a book that can save your life. [via]
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