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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
For years Victor Frankenstein labors to create a new race of
intelligent beings. He spends his nights scrounging human and
animal body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital
dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory,
perfecting the creature whom, he believes, will worship him as a
god. When he succeeds, Frankenstein is horrified by the ugly
brutishness of the patchwork being he has brought to life. Rather
than exult in his accomplishment, he runs from it, retreating to
the comfort of long-neglected friends and family. Frankenstein has,
indeed, created a monster . . . not by animating dead flesh but by
abandoning his creation. Now, the monster is out for revenge.
The bones were still warm; but they were picked clean. They had even
eaten their own dead
This spine-chilling collection from Dracula creator Bram Stoker
showcases five haunting tales, including the newly discovered ‘Gibbet
Hill’. From ‘Dracula’s Guest’, thought by many to be the original
excised opening of Dracula itself, to the sinister ‘The Judge’s House,’
each gripping story will leave you breathless, perhaps afraid to turn
out the lights. Dare you explore the darkness?
A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one
kind of monster, in a dread-inducing horror novel from the
bestselling author of Alice Mattie can't remember a time before she
and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make
him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in
the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's
something in the woods that wasn't there before, something that
makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and
claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for
the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger
William. Terrible things happen when William is angry.
Lydia Millet's previous work has been shortlisted for the Pulitzer
Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize. Likewise greeted with rapturous praise, Sweet
Lamb of Heaven is a first-person account of a young mother, Anna,
fleeing her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just
launched his first campaign for political office. When Ned chases
Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two
go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer
they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical
tourists-and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. As his
pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal,
Ned begins to alter his wife's world in ways she never could have
imagined. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female
protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the
apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending
with profound implications for its characters-and for all of us.
Sporadic news reports indicate chaos and violence spreading through
US cities. An unknown evil is sweeping the planet. The dead are
rising to claim the Earth as the new dominant species in the food
chain. This is the handwritten journal depicting one man's struggle
for survival. Trapped in the midst of global disaster, he must make
decisions; choices that ultimately mean life, or the eternal curse
to walk as one of them.
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The Pawns
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Ron Gabriel
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