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Act of Loveby Joe R. LansdaleISBN 0786702885 (0-7867-0288-5)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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All Hallow's Eveby Charles WilliamsISBN 0802812503 (0-8028-1250-3)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'All Hallow's Eve'Book summary:Charles Williams had a genius for choosing strange and exciting themes for his novels and making them believable and profoundly suggestive of spiritual truths. All Hallows' Eve is the story of a man and woman whose love was so great it could bridge the gap of death; of evil so terrible as to be unmentionable, of a vision so beautiful it must be true. [via]
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Baroness of Bloodby Elaine BergstromISBN 0786901462 (0-7869-0146-2)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Baroness of Blood'Book summary:Witnessing the beheading of her father by a conquering overlord, a young baroness pledges revenge despite the new ruler's just ways, and ingratiates herself to a high position while devising evil plans as a vampire of souls. Original. 75,000 first printing. [via]
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Bitter Ends: The Selected Stories of Robert Blochby Robert BlochISBN 0806512016 (0-8065-1201-6)
Hardcover, Carol Publishing Group
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Blood Kinby Ronald KellyISBN 078601413X (0-7860-1413-X)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Blood Red Dawn: The Vampire Legacyby Karen E. TaylorISBN 0786014725 (0-7860-1472-5)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Bloodwindby Charles L. GrantISBN 0812518292 (0-8125-1829-2)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Chessmen of Doomby John BellairsISBN 0803707290 (0-8037-0729-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Closerby Dennis CooperISBN 080213212X (0-8021-3212-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Complete Stories of Robert Blochby Robert BlochISBN 0806511443 (0-8065-1144-3)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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Crimes of Passionby Ramsey Campbell, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, Jeff Gelb, Michael GarrettISBN 0786016507 (0-7860-1650-7)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crimes of Passion'Book summary:This ninth installment in the Hot Blood series shows no sign of flagging imagination on the part of the contributors--not surprisingly, because the concept of erotic horror encompasses everything dark and sensual that can happen between two beings (human or otherwise). In fact, in a time when only a few original (or mostly original) anthologies are published each year, Jeff Gelb's and Michael Garrett's has become one to bank on. The 13 stories in Crimes of Passion include three reprints (all from relatively obscure publications such as The Ontario Review) and 11 original tales, by such authors as Ramsey Campbell, Greg Kihn, Lawrence Block, Brian Hodge, Brian Lumley, Tom Piccirilli, and Joyce Carol Oates. There's not a bad story in the bunch, and several are strikingly effective--such as Kihn's acid-tripping nightmare in late '60s San Francisco, Hodge's Bram-Stoker-nominated tale about a woman who dives so far into submissive prostitution she seems to break through into an alternate reality, and Oates's superb portrait of a promiscuous drifter on a mission from God. --Fiona Webster [via]
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Cruel Winterby Anthony IzzoISBN 0786017325 (0-7860-1732-5)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Dark Masquesby J. N. WilliamsonISBN 0786014555 (0-7860-1455-5)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Devil's Catby William W. Johnstone, Kensington Publishing Corporation StaffISBN 0786010053 (0-7860-1005-3)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Dominionby Fred SaberhagenISBN 0812523865 (0-8125-2386-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Doom Cityby Charles L. GrantISBN 0812518667 (0-8125-1866-7)
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The Doom of the Haunted Operaby John Bellairs, Brad StricklandISBN 0803714645 (0-8037-1464-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Double Shadowby Clark Ashton SmithISBN 0809533677 (0-8095-3367-7)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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The Dracula Book of Great Vampire Storiesby Leslie ShepardISBN 0806505656 (0-8065-0565-6)
Hardcover, Citadel Press
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Edgar Allan Poeby Edgar Allan Poe, Brod Bagert, Carolynn CobleighISBN 0806908203 (0-8069-0820-3)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edgar Allan Poe'Book summary:"Gr. 5 Up...spacious format; a wide variety of poems; and colorful, interpretive illustrations...."--SLJ. "The format is admirable: a handsome sampler of poems, with a short introductory essay, unfamiliar words briefly defined in footnotes, and a few prefatory sentences for each poem to establish context and aid interpretation. 13 of Poe's more accessible poems appear here, including The Raven,' The Bells,' Eldorado,' and Annabel Lee.'...concludes with passages from short stories that highlight Poe's mastery of prose....Cobleigh provides atmospheric art: an arresting picture of The Raven,' a cadaverous ghoul in The Bells,' and a depiction of the narrator of The Tell-Tale Heart' as a deranged Wee Willy Winky."--Kirkus Reviews. ". . . creepy, unnerving, chilling, and fascinating. . ."--Buzz Weekly. 48 pages (all in color), 8 1/2 x 10.[via]More editions of Edgar Allan Poe:
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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Frances McCarthyISBN 0812034481 (0-8120-3448-1)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights'Book summary:A guide to reading "Wuthering Heights" with a critical and appreciative mind encouraging analysis of plot, style, form, and structure. Also includes background on the author's life and times, sample tests, term paper suggestions, and a reading list. [via]
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Essential Marvel Horror 1by Chris Claremont, John Warner, Steve Gerber, Gary Friedrich, Mike FriedrichISBN 078512196X (0-7851-2196-X)
Softcover, Marvel Enterprises
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Eveby Tamara ThorneISBN 078601539X (0-7860-1539-X)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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Fahrenheit 451by Ray BradburyISBN 077403288X (0-7740-3288-X)
Softcover, Coles Pub Group Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fahrenheit 451'Book summary:In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury's classic, frightening vision of the future, firemen don't put out fires--they start them in order to burn books. Bradbury's vividly painted society holds up the appearance of happiness as the highest goal--a place where trivial information is good, and knowledge and ideas are bad. Fire Captain Beatty explains it this way, "Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs.... Don't give them slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman [via]
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Faustby Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Barker FairleyISBN 0802016685 (0-8020-1668-5)
Hardcover, University of Toronto Press
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Fear the Feverby Graham Masterton, Edward Lee, Jeff Gelb, Michael GarrettISBN 0786016493 (0-7860-1649-3)
Softcover, Pinnacle Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear the Fever'Book summary:Fear the Fever, the seventh of the provocative Hot Blood anthology series, is the hottest yet. Your blood will boil as you peruse P.J. Caceks Bram Stoker award-winning story Metalica and Graham Mastertons Stoker- nominated story The Secret Shih Tan. Emmy and Nebula Award winning writer Alan Brennert brings Fantasies to the Hot Blood series, while Jack Ketchum and Edward Lee join forces for the unforgettable Love Letters from the Rain Forest. Lucy Taylor and Bruce Jones are among the other contributors. 17 steaming, sizzling, brilliant pieces of original erotic horror fiction. [via]
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Fight Clubby Chuck PalahniukISBN 0805076557 (0-8050-7655-7)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fight Club: A Novel'Book summary:The only person who gets called Ballardesque more often than Chuck Palahniuk is, well... J.G. Ballard. So, does Portland, Oregon's "torchbearer for the nihilistic generation" deserve that kind of treatment? Yes and no. There is a resemblance between Fight Club and works such as Crash and Cocaine Nights in that both see the innocuous mundanities of everyday life as nothing more than the severely loosened cap on a seething underworld cauldron of unchecked impulse and social atrocity. Welcome to the present-day U.S. of A. As Ballard's characters get their jollies from staging automobile accidents, Palahniuk's yuppies unwind from a day at the office by organizing bloodsport rings and selling soap to fund anarchist overthrows. Let's just say that neither of these guys are going to be called in to do a Full House script rewrite any time soon.
But while the ingredients are the same, Ballard and Palahniuk bake at completely different temperatures. Unlike his British counterpart, who tends to cast his American protagonists in a chilly light, holding them close enough to dissect but far enough away to eliminate any possibility of kinship, Palahniuk isn't happy unless he's first-person front and center, completely entangled in the whole sordid mess. An intensely psychological novel that never runs the risk of becoming clinical, Fight Club is about both the dangers of loyalty and the dreaded weight of leadership, the desire to band together and the compulsion to head for the hills. In short, it's about the pride and horror of being an American, rendered in lethally swift prose. Fight Club's protagonist might occasionally become foggy about who he truly is (you'll see what I mean), but one thing is for certain: you're not likely to forget the book's author. Never mind Ballardesque. Palahniukian here we come! --Bob Michaels [via]
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Softcover, Henry Holt & Co - Fight Club: ISBN 0805076476 (0-8050-7647-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry - Fight Club: A Novel: ISBN 0805076557 (0-8050-7655-7)
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The Figure in the Shadowsby John Bellairs, Mercer MayerISBN 0803749163 (0-8037-4916-3)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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Firebugby Robert BlochISBN 0812515781 (0-8125-1578-1)
Softcover, Tor Books
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From Dusk Till Dawnby Quentin Tarantino, Robert KurtzmanISBN 0786881755 (0-7868-8175-5)
Softcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'From Dusk Till Dawn'Book summary:The screenplay of Tarantino's film "From Dusk until Dawn", this is the story of two kidnappers who use a lapsed preacher and his two teenage children as human shields in their escape to Mexico. Mayhem ensues when they encounter a group of creatures who exist only from dusk until dawn. [via]
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Ghostsby Noel HyndISBN 0786014865 (0-7860-1486-5)
Softcover, Kensington Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ghosts'Book summary:When Academy Award-winning actress Annette Carlson buys an old house in Nantucket, she discovers that the place is haunted by a malevolent spirit, who threatens not only Annette, but the entire community. By the author of Zigzag. [via]
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Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Versionby C. F. MacIntyreISBN 0811200566 (0-8112-0056-6)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Version'Book summary:Goethe said that all his works were "one long confession," and certainly into Faust, this greatest masterwork of German literature, on which he worked sixty years, he welded his own search for meaning of existence and of the soul.
From the wager between God and Mephistopheles and the pact Faust makes with the latterthat this genial, urbane devil could have his soul if ever Faust became satisfied with any experience or knowledge Mephistopheles could show himthe drama unfolds in scenes that are human and compelling, that hold the reader by their despair and ecstasy, their tender love, passionate desire and wisdom, but also by their gaiety, humor, and irony. As Faust proceeds with his devilish guide, it is his striving for understanding that becomes important, not the attainment, and in fact this is what saves him in the end.
Part I of Faust, which Goethe published twenty-four years before its sequel, deals with Faust's journey through the everyday world and his love for Gretchen. It is made especially memorable in this translation, which Victor Lange, Chairman of the Department of German at Princeton, has called "certainly the most usable and most appealing Faust translation in English. It is modern without losing the dignity of the original and is perhaps the only translation that conveys something of the freshness and poetic vitality of Goethe's own speech." [via]More editions of Goethe's Faust: Part 1 A New American Version:
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsby J. K. Rowling, Mary GrandPréISBN 0786222735 (0-7862-2273-5)
Hardcover, Thorndike Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'Book summary:What makes the Harry Potter series so successful? Maybe it's the fact that J.K. Rowling doesn't write children's books, she writes children's stories, more in the tradition of the Brothers Grimm than Dr. Seuss. The exploits of Harry and his friends captivate even the shortest attention spans by engaging the imagination with vivid characters and fast-moving action, instead of trying to merely catch the eye with colorful pictures or pop-up effects. Not surprisingly, the Potter tales sound wonderful read aloud, and adapt to the audiobook format extremely well. Broadway actor Jim Dale's impressive vocal range gives each character in the book its own distinctive voice--a considerable task, given the pantheon of witches, warlocks, ghosts, ghouls, dwarves, and elves that Harry encounters in his second outing. And thankfully, since the book is read unabridged, no one's favorite character is omitted. Engaging for children without being childish, the audio version of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is worthy addition to the deservedly popular series. (Running time: 9 hours, 7 CDs) --Andrew Nieland [via]
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The Headless Cupidby Zilpha Keatley SnyderISBN 0808539639 (0-8085-3963-9)
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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequencesby Truman CapoteISBN 0785777636 (0-7857-7763-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences'Book summary:"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks. [via]
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In Hollow Housesby Gary BraunbeckISBN 0786916362 (0-7869-1636-2)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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In the Midst of Lifeby Ambrose G. BierceISBN 0806505516 (0-8065-0551-6)
Softcover, Citadel Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Midst of Life'Book summary:Some of the most chilling and macabre tales in the English language can be attributed to American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce. His books include "Can Such Things Be: Tales of Horror and the Supernatural", as well as "The Devil's Dictionary". He has also penned scathing views of frontier life and its lawlessness, and the most caustic treatises on war.
"In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians" represents Bierce's short stories written in and around the time of the Civil War. These include "A Horseman in the Sky", "Chickamauga", "The Applicant", "A Holy Terror", "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"-- perhaps his most famous story of all,-- and 21 other disturbing tales. Their message about the horrors of war lives on vividly to this day. [via]
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The Journal of Professor Abraham Van Helsingby Allen C. KupferISBN 0765355264 (0-7653-5526-4)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Kiss of Deathby Daniel RhodesISBN 0812517113 (0-8125-1711-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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The Loved Deadby H. P. LovecraftISBN 0786704454 (0-7867-0445-4)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Loved Dead'Book summary:H.P. Lovecraft, aside from devising his own works in his Cthulhu Mythos cycle, also collaborated in his day with many younger writers of the uncanny and eerie. Available for the first time in paperback, this collection features stories to which the master of horror added his own ingenious touch.[via]More editions of The Loved Dead:
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Macbethby William Shakespeare, Alan DurbandISBN 0812035712 (0-8120-3571-2)
Softcover, Barrons Educational Series Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Macbeth'Book summary:One of Shakespeare's greatest, but also bloodiest tragedies, was written around 1605/06. Many have seen the story of Macbeth's murder and usurpation of the legitimate Scottish King Duncan as having obvious connection to contemporary issues regarding King James I (James VI of Scotland), and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. King James was particularly fascinated with witchcraft, so the appearance of the witches chanting "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" at the opening of the play seemed particularly topical, as was Macbeth's betrayal of Banquo, from whom James claimed direct descent.
However, the play is clearly far more than a piece of royal entertainment. It is also a fast-moving and dramatically satisfying piece of theatre. Macbeth's existential struggle between loyalty to his King and his "Vaulting ambition" is fascinating to watch, as his is struggle with Lady Macbeth, and her own terrifying refusal of her maternal role. The play shows an intensification of Shakespeare's interest in mothers and their effect upon ruling masculinity, and also contains some of the most memorable speeches in the entire canon, including Macbeth's reflections that ultimately life "is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing". --Jerry Brotton [via]
The Mammoth Book of Draculaby Stephen JonesISBN 0786704284 (0-7867-0428-4)
Softcover, Running Press Book Publishers
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Masters of Darknessby Dennis EtchisonISBN 0812517628 (0-8125-1762-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Masters of Darkness'Book summary:This anthology contains: Neither Brute Nor Human by Karl Edward Wagner; The End of the Carnival by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; Camps by Jack Dann; Saturday's Shadow by William F. Nolan; Armaja Das by Joe Haldeman; Preparations for the Game by Steve Rasnic Tem; Third Wind by Richard Christian Matheson; Teeth Marks by Edward Bryant; Sea Change by George Clayton Johnson; The Test Tube; and Doctor of Dreams (2 poems) by Ray Russell; The Words that Count by Ramsey Campbell; Flash Point by Gardner Dozois; Dance of the Dead by Richard Matheson; The Animal Fair by Robert Bloch; and The Dead Man by Ray Bradbur [via]
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Masters of Darkness IIIby Dennis EtchinsonISBN 0812517660 (0-8125-1766-0)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Midnight Pleasuresby Robert BlochISBN 0812515749 (0-8125-1574-9)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Naked Lunchby William S. Burroughs, Barry Miles, James GrauerholzISBN 0802140181 (0-8021-4018-1)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Naked Lunch'Book summary:"He was," as Salon's Gary Kamiya notes, "20th-century drug culture's Poe, its Artaud, its Baudelaire. He was the prophet of the literature of pure experience, a phenomenologist of dread.... Burroughs had the scary genius to turn the junk wasteland into a parallel universe, one as thoroughly and obsessively rendered as Blake's."
Why has this homosexual ex-junkie, whose claim to fame rests entirely on one book--the hallucinogenic ravings of a heroine addict--so seized the collective imagination? Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch in a Tangier, Morocco, hotel room between 1954 and 1957. Allen Ginsberg and his beatnik cronies burst onto the scene, rescued the manuscript from the food-encrusted floor, and introduced some order to the pages. It was published in Paris in 1959 by the notorious Olympia Press and in the U.S. in 1962; the landmark obscenity trial that ensued served to end literary censorship in America.
Burroughs's literary experiment--the much-touted "cut-up" technique--mirrored the workings of a junkie's brain. But it was junk coupled with vision: Burroughs makes teeming amalgam of allegory, sci-fi, and non-linear narration, all wrapped in a blend of humor--slapstick, Swiftian, slang-infested humor. What is Naked Lunch about? People turn into blobs amidst the sort of evil that R. Crumb, in the decades to come, would inimitably flesh out with his dark and creepy cartoon images. Perhaps the most easily grasped part of Naked Lunch is its America-bashing, replete with slang and vitriol. Read it and see for yourself. [via]
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Neanderthalby John DarntonISBN 0786208244 (0-7862-0824-4)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Neanderthal'Book summary:In the remote mountains of central Asia, an eminent Harvard archeologist discovers something extraordinary. He sends a cryptic message to two colleagues. But then, he disappears. Matt Mattison and Susan Arnot--once lovers, now academic rivals--are going where few humans have ever walked, looking for a relic band of creatures that have existed for over 40,000 years, that possess powers man can only imagine, and that are about to change the face of civilization forever. [via]
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Necroscopeby Brian LumleyISBN 0765316099 (0-7653-1609-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Night of the Living Dummy IIIby R. L. StineISBN 0785775390 (0-7857-7539-0)
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No Blood Spilledby Les DanielsISBN 0812509323 (0-8125-0932-3)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Out of Space And Timeby Clark Ashton Smith, Jeff VandermeerISBN 0803293526 (0-8032-9352-6)
Softcover, Univ of Nebraska Pr
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Pearl in the Mistby V. C. AndrewsISBN 0783811640 (0-7838-1164-0)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Prince Ombraby Roderick MacLeishISBN 0765342448 (0-7653-4244-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince Ombra'Book summary:The World has found its new hero.[via]
The problem? Bentley Ellicott is only a kid.
Bentley has secret powers. And he's going to need them. Bentley is a hero - the thousand and first to be exact - in a long line of heroes that has stretched all the way back to antiquity. Heroes like Arthur and Hercules.
And now: Bentley.
That's because there is an evil in the world that never dies. Its name is Prnce Ombra. When Prince Ombra arises a hero is called upon to battle him. One day when Bentley is grown he will be that hero.
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The Prisonby R. Patrick GatesISBN 0786016396 (0-7860-1639-6)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Prodigyby Noel HyndISBN 0786006145 (0-7860-0614-5)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewingby Isabel Cristina PinedoISBN 0791434427 (0-7914-3442-7)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing'Book summary:In Recreational Terror, Isabel Cristina Pinedo analyzes how the contemporary horror film produces recreational terror as a pleasurable encounter with violence and danger for female spectators. She challenges the conventional wisdom that violent horror films can only degrade women and incite violence, and contends instead that the contemporary horror film speaks to the cultural need to express rage and terror in the midst of social upheaval.
Through interpretations of a number of horror films including The Thing, The Wizard of Gore, The Stepfather, and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Pinedo looks at how the postmodern elements of the contemporary horror film produce the conditions for recreational terror. [via]
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Sacrificeby Graham MastertonISBN 0812521978 (0-8125-2197-8)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Scare Careby Graham MastertonISBN 0812510976 (0-8125-1097-6)
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Scream Queenby Edo Van BelkomISBN 0786015624 (0-7860-1562-4)
Softcover, Kensington Publishing Corporation
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The Screwtape Lettersby C. S. LewisISBN 0805420401 (0-8054-2040-1)
Softcover, B & H Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Screwtape Letters'Book summary:This adaptation of C.S. Lewis's biting satire received a 1999 Grammy nomination for best spoken-word performance, and it's easy to see why--the story fits the format perfectly. It's relatively brief (the unabridged reading takes a mere four hours), and contains only one character--the demon Screwtape, who writes letters to his novice nephew Wormwood, instructing him on how to best tempt his "patient" (a wayward soul on earth) into the bosom of "our Lord below."
Obviously, the book wasn't written with former Monty Python John Cleese in mind, but it's hard to imagine a better Screwtape. Cleese's voice provides the perfect vehicle for Lewis's dry, razor-edged wit. His uncanny comic timing and ability to milk each phrase for maximum effect betray an infectious enthusiasm for the story. It's clear that he's having a great time reading, and it's impossible not to laugh along with him. This inspired pairing of two of the 20th century's greatest wits makes for a meditation on the dark side of spiritual guidance that's as relevant and funny today as it was in Lewis's war-torn England. (Running time: 4 hours, 3 cassettes) --Andrew Neiland [via]
The Screwtape Letters & Screwtape Proposes a Toastby C. S. LewisISBN 0809436590 (0-8094-3659-0)
Softcover, Time-Life Books
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The Screwtape Letters/Book & Study Guideby C. S. LewisISBN 0800783360 (0-8007-8336-0)
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Seaharp Hotelby Charles GrantISBN 0812518705 (0-8125-1870-5)
Softcover, Tor Books
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Selected Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poeby Edgar Allan PoeISBN 0804900086 (0-8049-0008-6)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Shades Of Evilby Hugh B. CaveISBN 0809531526 (0-8095-3152-6)
Softcover, Wildside Pr
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Sins of the Fleshby Don Davis, Jay DavisISBN 0812516796 (0-8125-1679-6)
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Skull Sessionby Daniel HechtISBN 0783803400 (0-7838-0340-0)
Hardcover, G K Hall & Co
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Something Stirsby Charles L. GrantISBN 0812513037 (0-8125-1303-7)
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Stranger With My Faceby Lois DuncanISBN 0807218340 (0-8072-1834-0)
Softcover, Listening Library
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The Thrill of Fear: 250 Years of Scary Entertainmentby Walter M. KendrickISBN 0802132464 (0-8021-3246-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Toastby Charles StrossISBN 0809556030 (0-8095-5603-0)
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Toast: And Other Rusted Futuresby Charles StrossISBN 0809500256 (0-8095-0025-6)
Softcover, Cosmos Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Toast: And Other Rusted Futures'Book summary:Short story collection containing such gems as "Antibodies," "Bear Trap," "Extracts from the Club Diary," "A Colder War," "TOAST: A con report," "A Boy and His God," "Ship of Fools," "Dechlorinating the Moderator," "Yellow Snow", "Big Brother Iron", "Lobsters". [via]
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Tragedy of Macbethby William ShakespeareISBN 0804910022 (0-8049-1002-2)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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The Trolley to Yesterdayby John BellairsISBN 0803705816 (0-8037-0581-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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Twice-Told Talesby Nathaniel HawthorneISBN 0804900663 (0-8049-0066-3)
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Unholy Child: A Novelby Catherine BreslinISBN 0803792611 (0-8037-9261-1)
Hardcover, Dial Press
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Vampire of the Mists: The Ravenloft Covenantby Christie GoldenISBN 0786941243 (0-7869-4124-3)
Softcover, Wizards of the Coast
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Voodoo Childby Michael ReavesISBN 0812519930 (0-8125-1993-0)
Softcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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War in Heavenby Charles WilliamsISBN 0802812198 (0-8028-1219-8)
Softcover, Eerdmans Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'War in Heaven'Book summary:"The telephone was ringing wildly," begins Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven, "but without result, since there was no-one in the room but the corpse." From this abrupt--and darkly humorous--start, Williams takes us on a 20th-century version of the Grail quest, with an Archdeacon, a Duke, and an editor playing the old Arthurian roles. Throughout, Williams reminds us that these legends were above all about divine, not just human, romance. While filled with marvels and black magic, the novel also suggests that the devil just might be what the face of God looks like to those who have sought destruction, just as that face is love to those who have sought love. The choice, Williams affirms, is always ours. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Wuthering Heightsby Emily Bronte, Jane Bingham, Darrell WarnerISBN 0794505732 (0-7945-0573-2)
Softcover, Edc Pub
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This edition of Wuthering Heights includes a Biographical Note and Foreward by Teresa Nielsen Hayden.
The dark, wild gypsy orphan Heathcliff loved only one person on earth, beautiful, willful Cathy Earnshaw. But Cathy's brother Hindley--the cruel, drunken master of Wuthering Heights--hated and abused the orphan; their rich neighbors at Thrushcross Grange, Edgar Linton and Isabella Linton, reviled the boy. They all conspired to force Heathcliff and Cathy apart, first as playmates, then as lovers, and at last to drive Heathcliff away.
Years passed. Heathcliff returned a rich man--and found Cathy had married Edgar. Like a sullen demon, the gypsy vowed to ruin Wuthering Heights and the Grange, to plague his tormentors, to relentlessly hound and ruin the Earnshaws, the Lintons, even their children--until he won back the woman he loved.
Which would never be.
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