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All Hallow's Eve 13by Vivian Vande VeldeISBN 0152055762 (0-15-205576-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Hallow's Eve 13'Book summary:A boy is trapped in a possessed car that has stalled in the path of an oncoming train. A girl is dragged into a crypt during a field trip to an eighteenth-century cemetery. A group of friends meet their fate after an unsettling visit with a backwoods psychic. And that's just the beginning.Celebrated author Vivian Vande Velde is at her spine-tingling best in this collection of thirteen scary stories, all of which take place on Halloween night. With tales that range from the disturbing to the downright gruesome, this is one collection that teens will want to read with the lights on . . . and the doors locked.[via]More editions of All Hallow's Eve 13:
Allies of the Nightby Darren ShanISBN 0316106534 (0-316-10653-4)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Anansi Boys: Library Editionby Neil GaimanISBN 0060515198 (0-06-051519-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Anansi Boys: Library Edition'Book summary:One of fiction's most audaciously original talents, Neil Gaiman now gives us a mythology for a modern age -- complete with dark prophecy, family dysfunction, mystical deceptions, and killer birds. Not to mention a lime.
Anansi Boys
God is dead. Meet the kids.When Fat Charlie's dad named something, it stuck. Like calling Fat Charlie "Fat Charlie." Even now, twenty years later, Charlie Nancy can't shake that name, one of the many embarrassing "gifts" his father bestowed -- before he dropped dead on a karaoke stage and ruined Fat Charlie's life.
Mr. Nancy left Fat Charlie things. Things like the tall, good-looking stranger who appears on Charlie's doorstep, who appears to be the brother he never knew. A brother as different from Charlie as night is from day, a brother who's going to show Charlie how to lighten up and have a little fun ... just like Dear Old Dad. And all of a sudden, life starts getting very interesting for Fat Charlie.
Because, you see, Charlie's dad wasn't just any dad. He was Anansi, a trickster god, the spider-god. Anansi is the spirit of rebellion, able to overturn the social order, create wealth out of thin air, and baffle the devil. Some said he could cheat even Death himself.
Returning to the territory he so brilliantly explored in his masterful New York Times bestseller, American Gods, the incomparable Neil Gaiman offers up a work of dazzling ingenuity, a kaleidoscopic journey deep into myth that is at once startling, terrifying, exhilarating, and fiercely funny -- a true wonder of a novel that confirms Stephen King's glowing assessment of the author as "a treasure-house of story, and we are lucky to have him."
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Antibodiesby Kevin J. Anderson, Chris CarterISBN 0061056243 (0-06-105624-3)
Softcover, Harper Prism
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Antibodies'Book summary:Mulder and Scully are on a tense search for a black labrador named Vader. The dog may hold the key to untold advances in medicine, but the scientist investigating the case has gone into biological meltdown with uncontrollable murderous impulses. [via]
The Best of Pulphouseby Kristine Kathryn RuschISBN 0312083173 (0-312-08317-3)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Betweenby Tananarive DueISBN 0060819847 (0-06-081984-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Between'Book summary:Multiple time-lines and alternate branching destinies are more often associated with science fiction than horror, but in this first novel by an African-American woman, a man who has cheated death finds that his ability to walk through doorways in time brings dark forces into his life. Due employs a lucid, almost stately, prose style to evoke an escalating sense of menace toward a middle-class American family with connections to Ghana. Dreams? Madness? Ghosts? A racist killer? What is happening to these people? [via]
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Beyond Blackby Hilary MantelISBN 0312426054 (0-312-42605-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Black'Book summary:[via]A New York Times Notable Book of the YearColette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the spiritual world torments her. When they meet at a fair, Alison invites Colette at once to join her on the road as her personal assistant and companion. Troubles spiral out of control when the pair moves to a suburban wasteland in what was once the English countryside. It is not long before the place beyond black threatens to uproot their lives forever. This is Hilary Mantel at her finest--insightful, darkly comic, unorthodox, and thrilling to read.More editions of Beyond Black:
Black Windby F. Paul WilsonISBN 031293064X (0-312-93064-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Caligari's Children: The Film As Tale of Terrorby Siegbert Saloman PrawerISBN 030680347X (0-306-80347-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Club Dumasby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Sonia SotoISBN 0151001820 (0-15-100182-0)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Club Dumas'Book summary:Fallen angels, satanic manuals, and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas among others--this is the stuff of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's engrossing novel The Club Dumas. Set in a world of antiquarian booksellers where dealers would gladly betray their own mothers to get their hands on a rare volume, The Club Dumas is a thinking person's thriller: in addition to a riveting plot, the book is full of intriguing details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text. Woven through these meditations is enough murder, sex, and the occult to keep both the hero, Lucas Corso, and the reader hopping.
As in his previous novel, The Flanders Panel, set in the world of art restoration, Mr. Pérez-Reverte has written a literary thriller to tease both the intellect and adrenaline gland. Lucas Corso makes a complex, ultimately sympathetic hero, and there's plenty to delight in the intricate twists and turns the story takes before the mystery of The Club Dumas is finally solved. [via]
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The Club Dumasby Sonia Soto, Arturo PTrez-ReverteISBN 015603283X (0-15-603283-X)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Club Dumas'Book summary:Fallen angels, satanic manuals, and a passion for the works of Raphael Sabatini and Alexandre Dumas among others--this is the stuff of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte's engrossing novel The Club Dumas. Set in a world of antiquarian booksellers where dealers would gladly betray their own mothers to get their hands on a rare volume, The Club Dumas is a thinking person's thriller: in addition to a riveting plot, the book is full of intriguing details that range from the working habits of Alexandre Dumas to how one might go about forging a 17th-century text. Woven through these meditations is enough murder, sex, and the occult to keep both the hero, Lucas Corso, and the reader hopping.
As in his previous novel, The Flanders Panel, set in the world of art restoration, Mr. Pérez-Reverte has written a literary thriller to tease both the intellect and adrenaline gland. Lucas Corso makes a complex, ultimately sympathetic hero, and there's plenty to delight in the intricate twists and turns the story takes before the mystery of The Club Dumas is finally solved. [via]
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Dagonby Fred ChappellISBN 0312906765 (0-312-90676-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Holmesby Loren D. EstlemanISBN 0140056653 (0-14-005665-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Dragon under the Hillby Gordon HoneycombeISBN 0091130301 (0-09-113030-1)
Hardcover, Hutchinson
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The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Filmby Barry Keith GrantISBN 0292727941 (0-292-72794-1)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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The Face in the Frostby John Bellairs, Marilyn FitschenISBN 0020165811 (0-02-016581-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Fatalisby Jeff RovinISBN 0312981201 (0-312-98120-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Fausto / Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 9583007722 (958-30-0772-2)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc
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The Fencing Masterby Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Margaret Jull CostaISBN 0151001812 (0-15-100181-2)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fencing Master'Book summary:In The Club Dumas, Arturo Pérez-Reverte explored the labyrinthine world of antiquarian book dealers, spicing his tale of mystery and murder with characters straight out of Paradise Lost and The Three Musketeers. Next came The Flanders Panel, a brilliant puzzle comprised of art, chess, and untimely death whose resolution lies in a painting by a Flemish master. In The Seville Communion, Pérez-Reverte turned his sights on the tangled politics of the Roman Catholic Church as an appropriate backdrop--for murder. In his fourth novel translated into English, the Spanish writer changes centuries (if not his focus on homicide), returning to the mid-1800s to follow the exploits of Don Jaime Astarloa, the eponymous fencing master.
The year is 1866 and revolution is brewing in Spain. The corrupt Bourbon queen, Isabella II, is slowly losing her grip on power as equally corrupt exiled politicians vie to be her successor in a new republic. Against this background of political upheaval, Don Jaime goes about his business, teaching a dying art to a dwindling number of students. This is a man who resists changing times; to a friend he explains, "I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling to a set of values that do not depreciate with time. Everything else is the fashion of the moment, fleeting, mutable. In a word, nonsense." But then Adela de Otero--a woman with a mysterious past and an amazing talent for swordplay--comes into his life, and Don Jaime's world is turned upside down. As always, Pérez-Reverte offers literary excellence, a thumping good mystery, and fascinating insight into an arcane practice, in this case, fencing. Though the 19th-century politics in the book may resonate more with a Spanish audience than with English readers, the moral at the heart of The Fencing Master is universal: "to be honest, or at least honorable--anything, indeed, that has its roots in the word honor." In this, Don Jaime and Arturo Pérez-Reverte both succeed. --Alix Wilber [via]
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The Forbidden: A Vampire Huntress Legendby L. A. BanksISBN 0312336225 (0-312-33622-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forbidden: A Vampire Huntress Legend'Book summary:The Body of a Goddess...with the Heart of Hell itself.[via]
The devil is a dead-beat dad and his consort Lilith couldn't care less. A stolen embryo stirs in Lilith's womb and a plan pulses through her veins: To unleash her child from the gates of hell--as soon as she destroys the only two vampire hunters who can possibly stop her...
THE FORBIDDENDamali Richards is a woman-child in a world running with blood, depravity and demons. Turned by her lover, Carlos Rivera, and brought back again, Damali clings to the one measure of purity that was handed down to her through generations of the wise, gifted and strong. Now, through the power of magic, through the ache of desire and the touch of her lover, Damali is on a journey from the streets of Philadelphia to the ancient earth of Africa. With a small army, with Carlos and with her own mad skills, she might just save the world from the demon seductress who wants her and her faith obliterated--before Armageddon begins...More editions of The Forbidden: A Vampire Huntress Legend:
Ground Zeroby Kevin J. AndersonISBN 0061056774 (0-06-105677-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood, Valerie MartinISBN 0307264602 (0-307-26460-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.
Like Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant. [via]More editions of The Handmaid's Tale:
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The Haunting of Toby Juggby Dennis WheatleyISBN 009907270X (0-09-907270-X)
Hardcover, Arrow Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Haunting of Toby Jugg'Book summary:Toby Jugg's courage in the air has won him a DFC. But now he faces the most terrifying challenge of his life for, in the quiet corridors of Llanferdrack House, a ghastly conspiracy is moving towards its climax. The author also wrote "The Devil Rides Out" and "The Satanist". [via]
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The Heart of Darknessby Joseph Conrad, R. G. HampsonISBN 0140186522 (0-14-018652-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Heart of Darkness'Book summary:A masterpiece of twentieth-century writing, Heart of Darkness exposes the tenuous fabric that holds "civilization" together and the brutal horror at the center of European colonialism. Conrad's crowning achievement recounts Marlow's physical and psychological journey deep into the heart of the Belgian Congo in search of the mysterious trader Kurtz.[via]
@JungleFever Heading down to Africa on a boat. Too hot! I get the creeping sense this job isnt going to be as cushy as they made it sound.
The natives seem unhappy. Some are even violent! Why dont they appreciate how much weve done for them? Ungrateful welfare leeches, I say!
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- The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140281630 (0-14-028163-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312114915 (0-312-11491-5)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312159013 (0-312-15901-3)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140180907 (0-14-018090-7)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140240179 (0-14-024017-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140431683 (0-14-043168-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0312030266 (0-312-03026-6)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press - The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140186522 (0-14-018652-2)
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- The Heart of Darkness: ISBN 0140281630 (0-14-028163-0)
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Heart of Darknessby Ross C. Murfin, Joseph ConradISBN 0312007612 (0-312-00761-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness'Book summary:If asked to describe the way in which the study of literature is changing, most of us willing to venture an answer would say that it is becoming more theortical. Without some kind of theoretical underpinning, literary criticism runs the riskof being impressionistic, even illogical [via]
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Heart of Darkness and Other Talesby Joseph Conrad, Cedric WattsISBN 0192801724 (0-19-280172-4)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Heart of Darkness and Other Tales'Book summary:Set in an atmosphere of mystery, this novel tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet the remarkable Mr Kurtz. The other three tales also appraise the glamour and rapacity of imperial adventure and display insights into human nature and the bases of civilization. [via]
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The Hunchback of Notre Dameby Victor Hugo, Robin WaterfieldISBN 0140382534 (0-14-038253-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame'Book summary:The story and characters in Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame have resonated with succeeding generations since its publication in 1831. It has tempted filmmakers, and most recently animators, who have exploited its dramatic content to good effect but have inevitably lost some of the grays that make the original text so compelling.
From Victor Hugo's flamboyant imagination came Quasimodo, the grotesque bell ringer; La Esmeralda, the sensuous gypsy dancer; and the haunted archdeacon Claude Frollo. Hugo set his epic tale in the Paris of 1482 under Louis XI and meticulously re-created the
day-to-day life of its highest and lowest inhabitants. Written at a time of perennial political upheaval in France, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame is the product of an emerging democratic sensibility and prefigures the teeming masterpiece Les Misé rables, which Hugo would write thirty years later.
He made the cathedral the centerpiece of the novel and called it Notre-Dame de Paris. (It received its popular English title at the time of its second translation in 1833.) Hugo wrote that his inspiration came from a carving of the word "fatality" in Greek that he had found in the cathedral. The inscription had been eradicated by the time the book was published, and Hugo feared that Notre-Dame's Gothic splendor might soon be lost to the contemporary fad for tearing down old buildings. Notre-Dame has survived as one of the great monuments of Paris, and Hugo's novel is a fitting celebration of it, a popular classic that is proving to be just as enduring.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was foundedin 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foun-dation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with affordable hard-bound editions of important works of liter-ature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torchbearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau-gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices.
Jacket paintings: (front) detail from Notre Dame by Paul Lecomte, courtesy of David David Gallery/SuperStock; (spine) Victor Hugo, 1833, by Louis Boulanger of Giraudon/Art Resource, N.Y. [via]More editions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
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Hunters of the Dusk: the Saga of Darren Shanby Darren ShanISBN 0316000981 (0-316-00098-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hunters of the Dusk: the Saga of Darren Shan'Book summary:The pursuit begins...
Darren Shan, the Vampire Prince, leaves Vampire Mountain on a life or death mission.
As part of an elite force, Darren searches the world for the Vampaneze Lord. But the road ahead is long and dangerous - and lined with the bodies of the damned. [via]More editions of Hunters of the Dusk: the Saga of Darren Shan:
Immoral Tales : European Sex and Horror Movies, 1956-1984by Cathal Tohill, Pete TombsISBN 031213519X (0-312-13519-X)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Jinn: A Novelby Matthew B. J. DelaneyISBN 0312327056 (0-312-32705-6)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jinn: A Novel'Book summary:It is May 1943. On the remote island of Bougainville, in the South Pacific, a squad of United States Marines beats their way through the thick jungle. Theyve landed to do battle with the Japanese soldiers on the island, but in short order, they begin to realize that the forbidding battleground holds an ancient secret a hundred times more terrifying than any enemy army---especially when they start finding the bodies.[via]
Flash-forward to July 2008. In the slums---and the skyscrapers---of Boston, a new kind of depraved serial killer is stalking human prey and terrifying the city. The bodies have been found posed and mutilated in bizarre ways that the two police officers in charge of the case have never seen before---and never want to see again. Are the two scenarios connected?
Detectives Jefferson and Brogan have no idea that to solve the biggest case of their careers, their investigation must take them around the world and through time and history---from a mysterious salvaged submarine with a shocking secret, to an inhumane prison where the inmates are even more scared than usual of the Pit, and finally back to the beginning: the sinister island in the South Seas where something inhuman has been biding its time 
The Kill Riffby David J. SchowISBN 0312930658 (0-312-93065-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Killing Me Softlyby Gardner R. DozoisISBN 0061053287 (0-06-105328-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killing Me Softly'Book summary:A collection of erotic stories by popular authors is presented by the editor-in-chief of Isacc Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and features a theme of true love from beyond the grave. [via]
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Legendsby Robert Silverberg, Stephen King, Robert Jordan, Terry GoodkindISBN 0312867875 (0-312-86787-5)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Legends'Book summary:Acclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered 11 of the finest writers in fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series, and the results are wonderful. From Stephen King's opening piece set in his popular Gunslinger universe to Robert Jordan's early look at his famed Wheel of Time saga, each of these stories is exceptionally well written and universally well told. The authors here include King, Jordan, and Silverberg himself, as well as Terry and Lyn Pratchett, Terry Goodkind, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tad Williams, George R.R. Martin, Anne McCaffrey, and Raymond E. Feist. This is not only a great book in and of itself, but it's also a perfect way for fantasy fans to find new novels and authors to add to their "to read" lists. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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The Letter, the Witch, and the Ringby John Bellairs, Richard EgielskiISBN 0140363386 (0-14-036338-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letter, the Witch, and the Ring'Book summary:John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, young readers have crept, crawled, and gone bump in the night with the unlikely heroes of these Gothic novels: Lewis Barnavelt, Johnny Dixon, and Anthony Monday. Now, the ten top-selling titles feature an updated cover look. Loyal fans and enticed newcomers will love the series even more with this haunting new look! [via]
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Lost Girlsby Andrew PyperISBN 0006480764 (0-00-648076-4)
Softcover, HarperFlamingoCanada
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost Girls'Book summary:"There is nothing more overrated in the practice of criminal law than the truth." So begins the first chapter of Lost Girls, Andrew Pyper's highly acclaimed debut novel. As the story opens, that maxim is embodied by its main character, Bartholomew Crane, an amoral, cocaine-abusing defence lawyer. His drive to win seems less a matter of competition or ego than some sort of neurotic imperative. Crane's unsavoury bosses, Lyle, Gederov, and Associate, (or Lie, Get 'Em Off, and Associate, as the joke goes), hand him his first murder trial, a grotesque case involving the disappearance of two schoolgirls in Northern Ontario. The accused is the doomed girls' English teacher, who recently ended up on the losing end of a custody battle involving his young daughter. When Crane arrives in Murdoch, Ontario, he finds his client, one Thomas Tripp, either unable or unwilling to cooperate. He must then contend with a variety of strange and very suspicious townsfolk as he attempts to unearth the facts himself. His discovery of the town's dark legend unleashes Crane's own demons, causing him to lose track of reality and the case and sending him down an unfamiliar path: a search for the truth.
Pyper's legal background brings authenticity to the story, but his real gift is for language. Beginning with its remarkably seductive prologue, Lost Girls is far more beautifully written than your average crime story. A national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 1999, Lost Girls established Pyper as one of Canada's literary stars. --Moe Berg [via]
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Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 9583004472 (958-30-0447-2)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc
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The Matrixby Jonathan AycliffeISBN 0061006599 (0-06-100659-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Matrix'Book summary:Immersing himself in the ancient studies of magic after the tragic death of his wife, scholar Andrew Macleod becomes consumed by a passion for knowledge and becomes the unwitting apprentice of the menacing Duncan Milne. [via]
A Matter of Tasteby Fred SaberhagenISBN 0312850468 (0-312-85046-8)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Naomi's Roomby Jonathan AycliffeISBN 0061004138 (0-06-100413-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naomi's Room'Book summary:Not long after his daughter Naomi is abducted and then found murdered in a field, Charles Hillenbrand begins hearing sinister whispers in the night, and he soon tries to uncover the truth behind his daughter's demise. [via]
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Notre-Dame De Parisby Victor Hugo, John Sturrock, John SurrockISBN 0140443533 (0-14-044353-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notre-Dame of Paris'Book summary:At the center of Hugo's classic novel are three extraordinary characters caught in a web of fatal obsession. The grotesque hunchback Quasimodo, bell-ringer of Notre-Dame, owes his life to the austere archdeacon, Claude Frollo, who in turn is bound by a hopeless passion to the gypsy dancer Esmeralda. She, meanwhile, is bewitched by a handsome, empty-headed officer, but by an unthinking act of kindness wins Quasimodo's selfless devotion. Behind the central figures moves a pageant of picturesque characters, including the underworld of beggars and petty criminals whose assault on the cathedral is one of the most spectacular set-pieces of Romantic literature.
Alban Kraisheimer's new translation offers a fresh approach to this monumental work by France's most celebrated Romantic authors. [via] 
The Panic Handby Jonathan CarrollISBN 0312146981 (0-312-14698-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Prestigeby Christopher PriestISBN 0312858868 (0-312-85886-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prestige'Book summary:The Washington Post called this "a dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: seances, multiple narrators, a family curse, doubles, a lost notebook, wraiths, and disembodied spirits; a haunted house, awesome mad-doctor machinery, a mausoleum, and ghoulish horrors; a misunderstood scientist, impossible disappearances; the sins of the fathers visited upon their descendants." Winner of the 1996 World Fantasy Award, The Prestige is even better than that, because unlike many Victorians, Priest writes crisp, unencumbered prose. And anyone who's ever thrilled to the arcing electricity in the "It's alive!" scene in Frankenstein will relish the "special effects" by none other than Nikola Tesla. [via]
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby James Hogg, Karl MillerISBN 0141441534 (0-14-144153-4)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner'Book summary:Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing the stranger as Satan, is prevented by the subtlety of the novel's structure from finally deciding whether, for all his vividness and wit, he is more than a figment of the boy's imagination. This edition reprints the text of the unexpurgated first edition of 1824, later 'corrected' in an attempt to placate the Calvinists. [via]
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions of a Justified Sinnerby John Carey, James HoggISBN 0192553194 (0-19-255319-4)
Hardcover, Oxford U.P.
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THE PRIVATE MEMOIRS
AND CONFESSIONS
OF A JUSTIFIED SINNER
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
WITH A DETAIL OF CURIOUS TRADITIONARY FACTS, AND
OTHER EVIDENCE, BY THE EDITOR
By
James Hogg
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Seance for a Vampireby Fred SaberhagenISBN 0312855621 (0-312-85562-1)
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Son of the Endless Nightby John FarrisISBN 0312744684 (0-312-74468-4)
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The Steppe and Other Stories, 1887-1891by Anton Chekhov, Ronald Wilks, Donald RayfieldISBN 0140447857 (0-14-044785-7)
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Symphonyby Charles L. GrantISBN 0312862741 (0-312-86274-1)
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Tap, Tapby David Lozell MartinISBN 0312958358 (0-312-95835-8)
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Trials of Deathby Darren ShanISBN 0316000957 (0-316-00095-7)
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Unleash the Nightby Sherrilyn KenyonISBN 0312934335 (0-312-93433-5)
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The Vampire Princeby Darren ShanISBN 0316000973 (0-316-00097-3)
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The Vengeance of the Witch-Finderby John Bellairs, Brad Strickland, Edward GoreyISBN 0140375112 (0-14-037511-2)
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Wielandby Charles Brockden BrownISBN 0156966808 (0-15-696680-8)
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Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Jay FliegelmanISBN 0140390790 (0-14-039079-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist'Book summary:Set in rural Pennyslvania in the 1760s, this tale of horror and mystery is based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family. The author employs Gothic devices and sensational features such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism. Fiendish Carwin uses his influence over Clara Wieland and her family, destroying the order and authority of the small community in which they live. The novel examines some fundamental issues crucial to the survival of democracy in the new American republic. The unfinished sequel, Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, traces Carwin's career as a follower of the utopist Ludloe. [via]
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Wieland; Or the Transformation and Memoirs of Carwin, the Biloquistby Charles Brockden Brown, Emory ElliottISBN 0192836803 (0-19-283680-3)
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Witch Houseby Evangeline WaltonISBN 0020262426 (0-02-026242-6)
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The Witchesby Roald Dahl, Quentin BlakeISBN 0141301104 (0-14-130110-4)
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The bond between the boy and his grandmother becomes the centerpiece of the tale--a partnership of love and understanding that survives even the boy's unfortunate transformation into a mouse. And once the two have teamed up to outwitch the witches, the boy's declaration that he's glad he's a mouse because he will now live only as long as his grandmother is far more poignant than eerie.
Of course, there's adventure here along with Dahl's trademark cleverness and sense of the grotesque. Dahl also communicates some essential truths to children: if they smoke cigars, they'll never catch cold, and, most importantly, they should never bathe, because a clean child is far, far easier for a witch to smell than a dirty one. (Ages 7 to 10, or read aloud to younger children) [via]
Women of Darknessby Kathryn PtacekISBN 0312930968 (0-312-93096-8)
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The X-Files Ground Zeroby Kevin AndersonISBN 0061056200 (0-06-105620-0)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Zod Wallopby William Browning SpencerISBN 0312136293 (0-312-13629-3)
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