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The Strain
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The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning “Pan’s Labyrinth” and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international…
The Stand
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This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.
And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world …
The Caretaker of Lorne Field
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Dave Zeltserman’s last novel was named by NPR as one of the top five crime and mystery novels of 2008 and one of “The Washington Post”’s best books of the year. “Publishers Weekly,” in a starred review, said his “breakthrough third crime novel deserves comparison with the best of James Ellroy.” And “Crimetime” calls him…
The Shining
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First published in 1977, The Shining quickly became a benchmark in the literary career of Stephen King. This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel’s past are revealed,…
Neverland
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From Douglas Clegg, “New York Times” bestselling author of “Isis,” comes a southern gothic tale of family secrets and games of innocence turned to darkness.
For years, the Jackson family has vacationed at Rowena Wandigaux Lee’s old Victorian house on Gull Island, a place of superstition and legend off the southern …
House of Leaves
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Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marg…
Interview with the Vampire
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The time is now.
We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks—as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the living dead. . .
He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when h…
The Keeper
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Some believe Bedford, Maine, is cursed. Its bloody past, endless rain, and the decay of its downtown portend a hopeless future. With the death of its paper mill, Bedford’s unemployed residents soon find themselves with far too much time to dwell on thoughts of Susan Marley. Once the local beauty, she’s now the local…
The Exorcist
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The phenomenal bestseller that inspired the classic motion picture—newly re-released in a version you’ve never seen before
So Cold the River
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It started with a beautiful woman and a challenge. As a gift for her husband, Alyssa Bradford approaches Eric Shaw to make a documentary about her father-in-law, Campbell Bradford, a 95-year-old billionaire whose past is wrapped in mystery. Eric grabs the job even though there are few clues to the man’s past—just the n…
