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Build your taste profile and get better suggestions. You've rated 0 of 25 books. Want more suggestions? Launch Quick Rate- Interview with the Vampire
By Anne Rice, 1976
ISBN 0345409647
Interview with the Vampire is a vampire novel by Anne Rice written in 1973 and published in 1976. It was the first novel to feature the enigmatic vampire Lestat, and was followed by several sequels, collectively known as The Vampire Chronicles. A film version, Interview with the Vampire: The...
- The Shining
By Stephen King, 1977
ISBN 0743437497
Terrible events occur at the isolated Overlook Hotel. It's a place where the guests are deceased but not necessarily departed, high in the wintry Rocky Mountains in the off season. A family checks in so the father can write, and terror lurks behind every door. Their son, who has psychic powers but...
- Dracula
By Bram Stoker, 1897
ISBN 0743477367
A true masterwork of storytelling, Dracula has transcended generation, language, and culture to become one of the most popular novels ever written. It is a quintessential tale of suspense and horror, boasting one of the most terrifying characters ever born in literature: Count Dracula, a tragic...
- It
By Stephen King, 1986
ISBN 9781101138113
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil...
- Frankenstein
By Mary Shelley, 1818
ISBN 0743487583
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by Mary Shelley. The title of the novel refers to a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful...
- Pet Sematary
By Stephen King, 1983
ISBN 0743412281
When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son -- and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly cat. But the nearby woods hide a...
- The Silence of the Lambs
By Thomas Harris, 1988
ISBN 0099446782
As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Bill," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a man confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him. That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual...
- The Vampire Armand
By Anne Rice, 2000
ISBN 0345434803
See the difference, read #1 bestselling author Anne Rice in Large Print* About Large PrintAll Random House Large Print editions are published in a 16-point typefaceIn the latest installment of The Vampire Chronicles, Anne Rice summons up dazzling worlds to bring us the story of Armand - eternally...
- Nightmares & Dreamscapes
By Stephen King, 2009
ISBN 1439102562
The haunting collection that comes from the unique place where Ripley's Believe It or Not! ® meets The Twilight Zone: Stephen King's unparalleled imagination....Nightmares & Dreamscapes includes the tale "Dolan's Cadillac," soon to be a feature film starring Christian Slater, Wes Bentley, and...
- Skeleton Crew
By Stephen King, 1986
ISBN 0451168615
Twenty-two stories from the "wildly imaginative" #1 Bestselling Author In this brilliant collection of stories, Stephen King takes readers down paths that only he could imagine....A supermarket becomes the place where humanity takes its last stand against unholy destruction...a trip to the attic...
- The Exorcist
By William Peter Blatty, 2000
ISBN 0061007226
In the aftermath of World War II, Lankester Merrin finds himself in the remote Turkana region of Kenya. Haunted by memories of the war, he has taken a sabbatical from the priesthood and journeyed far from his native Holland. He has come to lead the archaeological excavation of a mysterious...
- I Am Legend
By Richard Matheson, 1954
ISBN 0765318741
Robert Neville spends his days as the last living man on Earth hunting the dark places for the monsters that humanity has become. He spends his nights locked away in his fortified home with his record player cranked to the maximum to cover the voices of the undead that scream for his blood. As he...
- Hearts In Atlantis
By Stephen King, 2000
ISBN 0671024248
In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest and confront their own collective heart of darkness. In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam", two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the...
- Red Dragon
By Thomas Harris, 2009
ISBN 0425228223
A second family has been massacred by the terrifying serial killer the press has christened “The Tooth Fairy.” Special Agent Jack Crawford turns to the one man who can help restart a failed investigation—Will Graham. Graham is the greatest profiler the FBI ever had, but the physical and...
- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
By Seth Grahame-Smith, 2009
ISBN 9781594743344
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
By Ray Bradbury, 1999
ISBN 0380977273
Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A...
- Phantoms
By Dean Koontz, 2002
ISBN 0425181103
A tale of an abandoned town and the unimaginable truth behind its silence... Now with a new afterword, Dean Koontz explains the impact Phantoms had on his career.
- The Haunting of Hill House
By Shirley Jackson, 2006
ISBN 0143039989
The classic supernatural thriller by an author who helped define the genre First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill...
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
By Victor Hugo, 1831
ISBN 0451527887
This extraordinary historical novel, set in Medieval Paris under the twin towers of its greatest structure and supreme symbol, the cathedral of Notre-Dame, is the haunting drama of Quasimodo, the hunchback; Esmeralda, the gypsy dancer; and Claude Frollo, the priest tortured by the specter of his...
- The Historian
By Elizabeth Kostova, 2009
ISBN 0316070637
In this riveting debut of breathtaking scope, a young girl discovers her father's darkest secret and embarks on a harrowing journey across Europe to complete the quest he never could -- to find history's most legendary fiend: Dracula.
- The Lottery and Other Stories
By Shirley Jackson, 2005
ISBN 0374529531
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites...
- The Hellbound Heart
By Clive Barker, 2007
ISBN 0061452882
Frank Cotton's insatiable appetite for the dark pleasures of pain led him to the puzzle of Lemarchand's box, and from there, to a death only a sick-minded soul could invent. But his brother's love-crazed wife, Julia, has discovered a way to bring Frank back—though the price will be bloody and...
- Lost Souls
By Lisa Jackson, 2008
ISBN 0739494538
New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson delivers her most harrowing novel yet as a young woman's determined hunt for a serial killer draws her into a twisted psychopath's unspeakable crimes. Twenty-seven-year-old Kristi Bentz is lucky to be alive.
- Silk
By Caitlin R. Kiernan, 2002
ISBN 0451459008
Despite its title, there's nothing smooth or sexy about this skin-crawling debut from Kiernan, an author with one helluvan imagination and a startling lack of inhibition. At the center of this modern gothic horror story is Spyder Baxter, a deeply troubled young woman haunted by terrifying memories...
- Carrion Comfort
By Dan Simmons, 2009
ISBN 0312567073
The second novel by World Fantasy Award-winner Simmons is a 636-page epic that draws on a variety of genres--horror, science fiction, political thriller, Hollywood roman a clef. It centers around a small number of "mind vampires" who can subjugate other people to their wills, read their minds...
