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Nightmare Carnival
Nightmare Carnival Ellen Datlow · 2014 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Moderate A boy's eleventh birthday heralds the arrival of a bizarre new entourage, a suicidal diva just can't seem to die, and a washed up wrestler goes toe-to-toe with a strange new foe. All of these queer marvels and more can be found at the Nightmare Carnival! Hugo and Bram Stoker award-winning editor Ellen Datlow (Lovecraft Unbound, Supernatural Noir) presents a new anthology of insidious and… Shares Comics & graphic novels, Horror
Cover of The great and secret show
The great and secret show Clive Barker · 1989 · ★ 4.1 · 693p · ≈ 23h · Challenging To possess the greatest power of all, the Art, two man-spirits are preparing to fight using their mortal offspring. But an innocent passion between two of the children escalates the war to a new ferocity. Book One in a new three-volume series from master horror author Clive Barker. Shares Comics & graphic novels, Horror
Cover of The dark tower
The dark tower Stephen King · 1990 · ★ 4.5 · 720p · ≈ 24h · Challenging "Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room - really a chamber of horrors - in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how numerous and noxious are their foes.… Shares American Fantasy fiction, Fantasy fiction, Horror
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Outlaw of Gor John Norman · 1967 · ★ 3.6 · 237p · ≈ 7h · Moderate In this second volume of the Gorean Series, Tarl Cabot finds himself transported back to Counter-Earth from the sedate life he knows as a history professor on Earth. He is glad to be back in his role as a dominant warrior and back in the arms of his true love. Yet, Tarl finds that his name on Gor has been tainted, his city defiled and all those he loves have been made into outcasts. He is no… Shares American Fantasy fiction, Comics & graphic novels
Cover of Wolfsbane and Mistletoe
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe Charlaine Harris · 2008 · ★ 3.8 Shares American Horror tales, Fantasy fiction, Horror with this book.
Shadows of the Stanley Hotel
Shadows of the Stanley Hotel Ritesh Sonvane Shares Horror with this book.
Doctor Sleep
Doctor Sleep Stephen King From master storyteller Stephen King, his unforgettable and terrifying sequel to The Shining—an instant #1 New York Times bestseller that is “a vivid frightscape” (The New York Times)—now featuring a stunning vintage cover!Years ago, the haunting of the Overlook Hotel nearly broke young Dan Torrance’s sanity, as his paranormal gift known as “the shining” opened a door straight into hell. And even… Shares Horror
Lone Women
Lone Women Victor LaValle · 2024 · ★ 3.7 Shares Horror with this book.
Slasher Summer
Slasher Summer E. L. Chen · 2026 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate **Seven friends reunite for a weekend of fun—only to be hunted down by a cold-blooded killer. But the real horror is not being able to escape who you were in high school...** The sleepy town of Cedar Lake is best known as the shooting location of the campy ’80s horror flick *Slasher*. In high school, preppy Patrick, jock Jason, cheerleader Tiffany, stoner Freddy, goth Jennifer, and nerdy Mikey… Shares Horror
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe Thomas Ligotti · 2015 · ★ 3.9 · 448p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Ligotti eschews cheap, gory thrills for his own brand of atmospheric horror, which shocks at the deepest, existential, levels. Ligotti's stories take on decaying cities and lurid dreamscapes in a style ranging from rich, ornamental prose to cold, clinical detachment. His raw and experimental work lays bare the unimportance of our world and the sickening madness of human consciousness. Like the… Shares Horror
The Rotting Room
The Rotting Room Viggy Parr Hampton "I am ready to join the Sisterhood of Viggy after reading The Rotting Room. Time to take my vows, now that I've novitiated on this awe-inspiring novel, and commit myself to a lifelong calling of reading whatever Parr Hampton writes." -Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your EyesSister Rafaela, a newcomer to the cloistered Sisters of Divine Innocence, yearns for redemption… Shares Horror
Weaveworld
Weaveworld Clive Barker Here is storytelling on a grand scale — the stuff of which a classic is made. Weaveworld begins with a rug — a wondrous, magnificent rug — into which a world has been woven. It is the world of the Seerkind, a people more ancient than man, who possesses raptures — the power to make magic. In the last century they were hunted down by an unspeakable horror known as the Scourge, and, threatened with… Shares Horror
Bird Box
Bird Box Josh Malerman “[A] chilling debut . . . Malerman . . keeps us tinglingly on edge with his cool, merciless storytelling. . . . This earns comparisons to Hitchcock’s The Birds, as well as the finer efforts of Stephen King and cult sci-fi fantasist Jonathan Carroll.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a… Shares Horror
Basilosaurus Rising
Basilosaurus Rising Jonathan Kessler Shares Horror with this book.
The Hour Before Dark
The Hour Before Dark Douglas Clegg Home is where the haunt is. "Fans of Stephen King and Dean Koontz will appreciate this atmospheric gem." ★★★★★ "Kept me on the edge of my seat!"★★★★★  A children's game played in the dark brings on a terrifying rampage in this gothic horror page-turner by the NY Times bestselling author of Neverland and The Children's Hour. After the brutal murder of a loved one, Nemo Raglan must return to… Shares Horror
The Minimalist
The Minimalist Kailee Pedersen Shares Horror with this book.
The Devil by Name
The Devil by Name Keith Rosson Shares Horror with this book.
The Ritual
The Ritual Adam Nevill Now a Netflix Original Movie! The Ritual is Adam Nevill's horror novel depicting a group of friends lost in a remote wilderness in Sweden where something supernatural lurks. When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still… Shares Horror

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