Ann VanderMeer

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Rhode Island

What is Steampunk?

Steampunk is Victorian elegance and modern technology: steam-driven robots and space-faring zeppelins fueled by gaslight romance and mad scientists. Steampunk is trim corsets and brass goggles; The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Wizard of Oz, and The Golden Compass.

Curated by the World Fantasy award-winning team of Ann and Jeff Vandermeer, this riveting anthology lovingly collects classic steampunk stories, pop culture-fueled discussions of steampunk, and essential recommended reading lists for the discerning--or new--steampunk fan.

Steampunk

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S. T. Joshi

It takes unusual caliber of writer to deliver readers into the terrifying beyond— to Curet that are not only unsettling, but unnatural, with elements and characters that are all the more disturbing for their impossibility. From Edgar Allan Poe to Stephen King, American authors, have excelled that journeying into the supernatural. You’ll find them here, including HP Lovecraft, sure, Jackson, Ray, Bradberry, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. An unprecedented anthology of phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic writing, American Supernatural Tales celebrates our enduring need to be spooked and horrified.

As Stephen King will attest, the popularity of the occult in American literature has only grown since the days of Edgar Allan Poe. American Supernatural Tales celebrates the richness of this tradition with chilling contributions from some of the nation's brightest literary lights, including Poe himself, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and--of course--Stephen King. By turns phantasmagoric, spectral, and demonic, this is a frighteningly good addition to Penguin Classics.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

American Supernatural Tales

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Bill Pronzini

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

13 stories of dripping, creeping, gurgling, purling, trilling, oozing, seeping, gushing, deadly monsters

"13 stories of dripping, creeping, gurgling, purling, trilling, oozing, seeping, gushing deadly monsters" --

Bug-Eyed Monsters

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Maxim Jakubowski

Packed solid with seven decades of pulp action and peopled by shady operators, voluptuous molls, ruthless big shots, crooked cops, and gruff private eyes, this new collection of hard-boiled tales includes classics by such masters of the craft as Dashiell Hammett, Robert Leslie Bellem, Cornell Woolrich, and Erle Stanley Gardner, as well as some of the best modern crime fiction to be published by postwar giants like John D. MacDonald, Ross McDonald, Ed McBain, Charles Willeford, David Goodis,and James Ellroy.

The Mammoth Book of Pulp Action

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Michael Oshaugnessy

Good condition, markdown sticker on front of dust jacket.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Monster Book of Monsters

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**SELLER NOTE: This book is in extremely poor condition. Water damage, stains, and torn cover. Will send in sealed plastic bag for best possible condition.**

As always, the master of suspense can be counted on to provide delight, chills, and spine-tingling terror, as he does, as latest of the biennial Hitchcock anthologies. Here is what he has to say about the book:

“I trust that you have been profitably occupied since our last meeting. My unemployed Uncle Albert often told me that idle hands lead one to mischief. So I myself have been busy in the interim preparing this new collection for your reading pleasure.

“As you know, I am in the business of entertainment, and all the long years of relentlessly, searching for likely material, one’s appetite is up to become jaded. So the discovery of original stories, stories that can excite or delight, that will chill, or perhaps even kill, provides a rare gratification.

“Now the word ‘kill’ may of course be somewhat of an exaggeration. The printed page is not generally fatal. On the other hand, no foundation or trust that I know of has ever financed any research into this area. It is not beyond the realm of possibility. It is a biological fact that excitement makes the heart beat faster. And an accelerated heartbeat could conceivably pump an existing embolism into some critical artery. This has been known to stop the works completely.

“Caution, then, is the watchword. If you are a candidate for so gruesome of fate, you should not be here in the first place. You should donate this book at once to some worthy charity. I suggest said that you read Ferdinand the Bull or Little Women.

“A final word.

“Unlike television, the editing of this volume requires no sponsors. As a consequence, we do not have to waste time, listening to peers, hocking, deodorants or denture fixatives that permit octogenarians to chew salt-water taffy. We can get right down to the business at hand.

“So, if you please, make sure the doors locked, then double-lock it, turn the page and start to read.”

Book Club Edition

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories to be Told with the Door Open

Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, Jerome, Bixby, James Blish, Anthony Boucher, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, John W. Campbell, Arthur C. Clark, Lester del Rey, Tom Godwin, Robert A. Heinlein, Daniel Keyes, Damon Knight, C. M. Kornbluth, Fritz Leiber, Murray Leinster, Richard Matheson, Judith Merril, Lewis Padgett, Robert Silverberg, Clifford D. Simak, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, A. E. van Vogt, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Roger Zelazny

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Times, Chosen by the Science Fiction Writers of America

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 1

Brendan Deneen

Welcome to the dark side of suburbia.

Barely employed millennials Tom and Jenny Decker have to grow up fast when they lose their cheap Manhattan apartment. Leaving “the city” is hard, but the blow is softened when they stumble upon a surprisingly affordable house in the suburbs.

For Tom, the bills, the mortgage, and Jen’s unexpected pregnancy add up to terror. He’s not ready for this kind of responsibility. 

Then he finds the thing in the basement. It makes him feel like a winner even as it scrambles his senses. A new job soon has him raking in the big bucks—enough that Jen can start making her entrepreneurial dreams come true.

The Deckers’ dream home conceals more than one deadly secret. As Tom’s obsession with the basement grows, Jenny realizes that to save her family, she must expose everything. Before destroys them all.

No one ever really wants to grow up…but sometimes behaving like an adult is the only way to survive. 

Fans of 10 Cloverfield Lane and the works of David Cronenberg—or David Lynch—and spawned by Brendan Deneen’s own experiences, relocating to a New Jersey suburb with his young family, The Chrysalis combines chills, thrills, and a literal monster in the basement with commentary on love, marriage, and impending parenthood.

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

The Chrysalis

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Eric LaRocca

ORIGINAL Weird Punk Books edition, out of print and hard to find!

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Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death.

A whirlpool of darkness turns at the heart of a macabre ballet between two lonely young women in an Internet chat room in the early 2000s – a darkness that threatens to forever transform them once they finally succumb to their most horrific desires.

What have you done today to deserve your eyes?

Things Have Gotten Worse since We Last Spoke (RARE, OOP 1st EDITION)

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Jennifer McMahon

Small tear in bottom of dust jacket spine.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley's masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.

1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr. Helen Hildreth, is acclaimed for her compassionate work with the mentally ill. But when she's home with her cherished grandchildren, Vi and Eric, she's just Gran--teaching them how to take care of their pets, preparing them home-cooked meals, providing them with care and attention and love.

Then one day Gran brings home a child to stay with the family. Iris--silent, hollow-eyed, skittish, and feral--does not behave like a normal girl.

Still, Violet is thrilled to have a new playmate. She and Eric invite Iris to join their Monster Club, where they catalogue all kinds of monsters and dream up ways to defeat them. Before long, Iris begins to come out of her shell. She and Vi and Eric do everything together: ride their bicycles, go to the drive-in, meet at their clubhouse in secret to hunt monsters. Because, as Vi explains, monsters are everywhere.

2019: Lizzy Shelley, the host of the popular podcast Monsters Among Us, is traveling to Vermont, where a young girl has been abducted, and a monster sighting has the town in an uproar. She's determined to hunt it down, because Lizzy knows better than anyone that monsters are real--and one of them is her very own sister.

A haunting, vividly suspenseful page-turner from the "literary descendant of Shirley Jackson" (Chris Bohjalian, author of The Flight Attendant), The Children on the Hill takes us on a breathless journey to face the primal fears that lurk within us all.

The Children on the Hill

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Deerfield. A sleepy village untouched by time, full of quaint antiques, charming sights and friendly neighbors.

But outside of Deerfield, nature is still.

No children play around the great stone house of Winterrest; no birds fly over its ancient trees…and tales of witches and demons fill the dreams of Deerfield's children.

Now the great house is stirring, stretching, hungry. Now the huge doors open, inviting unwary victims deep inside. The warm stone walls are heaving, the floors are pulsing...now the frenzied ritual must begin...

The Tea Party

Peter Straub

A young boy passed beyond the pale of death i-and returned with no answers - except chilling clues to the ultimate mystery...

An old man spent his life solving mysteries until he wanted to know nothing more of the terror of life and the horror of death...

A beautiful girl—for whom sex held no mystery but whose fate was a question mark—was caught in a whirlpool of forces beyond her control...

Each was prey to the intrigue that shadowed them, and all the others in their trendy world of wealth, power and pleasure-an evil that reached out from the abyss of the past to haunt the present and claim the living....

Blue Rose #2

A near-fatal traffic accident and a resulting obsession with death drive ten-year-old Tom Pasmore to join his neighbor, famous retired detective lamont von Heilitz, in investigating two very different murders. Reissue.

Mystery

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Something very strange is taking place in the small town of Engles, Indiana. Greg Garrett returns home from a business trip to discover his wife and children have disappeared without a trace. One by one, more people around town have begun to simply vanish.

The skies produce a freakish rain that doesn't look - or feel - like rain at all. Dense swarms of aggressive insects attack without warning And late at night, residents are haunted by ghosts desperate to reveal their chilling secrets but unable to speak.

Engles is undergoing a terrifying transformation that could threaten not only the town, but the world outside. Who is this unseen enemy?
What is their goal? Whatever they want, one thing can no longer be denied - the Intruders have arrived.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

The Intruders

Catriona Ward

Sharp as a snakebite, Sundial is a gripping novel about the secrets we bury from the ones we love most, from Catriona Ward, the author of The Last House on Needless Street.

Rob has spent her life running from Sundial, the family’s ranch deep in the Mojave Desert, and her childhood memories.

But she’s worried about her daughter, Callie, who collects animal bones and whispers to imaginary friends. It reminds her of a darkness that runs in her family, and Rob knows it’s time to return.

Callie is terrified of her mother. Rob digs holes in the backyard late at night, and tells disturbing stories about growing up on the ranch. Soon Callie begins to fear that only one of them will leave Sundial alive...

"You can't escape what's in your blood... All Rob wanted was a normal life. She almost got it, too: a husband, two kids, a nice house in the suburbs. Far from her childhood home, Sundial, hidden deep in the wild Mojave Desert. But beneath the veneer, Rob is terrified for her oldest daughter, Callie, who collects tiny bones and whispers to imaginary friends. Rob sees a darkness in Callie, one that reminds her too much of the family she left behind. Running from her past has led her directly back to it -- what's buried at Sundial could never stay a secret forever, and Rob must risk one last trip out there to protect her family, and her future"--

Sundial

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Lauren Beukes

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?

If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe -- and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world.

If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.

"Scary as hell and hypnotic. I couldn't put it down...I'd grab it if I were you." --Stephen King A criminal mastermind creates violent tableaus in abandoned Detroit warehouses in Lauren Beukes's new genre-bending novel of suspense. Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one is unique even by Detroit's standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you're Detective Versado's geeky teenage daughter, Layla, you commence a dangerous flirtation with a potential predator online. If you're desperate freelance journalist Jonno, you do whatever it takes to get the exclusive on a horrific story. If you're Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you'll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe--and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world. If Lauren Beukes's internationally bestselling The Shining Girls was a time-jumping thrill ride through the past, her Broken Monsters is a genre-redefining thriller about broken cities, broken dreams, and broken people trying to put themselves back together again.

Broken Monsters

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Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.

At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder—until one of his victims survives.

Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth…

A masterful twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist.

Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the bright young women, burning with potential, whose lives Harper is destined to snuff out after he stumbles on a House in Depression-era Chicago that opens on to other times.

At the urging of the House, Harper inserts himself into the lives of these shining girls, waiting for the perfect moment to strike. He's the ultimate hunter, vanishing without a trace into another time after each murder -- until one of his victims survives.

Determined to bring her would-be killer to justice, Kirby joins the Chicago Sun-Times to work with the reporter, Dan Velasquez, who covered her case. Soon Kirby finds herself closing in on an impossible truth . . .

The Shining Girls

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John Goodrich

Culled from nearly a decade of work, Dark Draughts is the first collection of John Goodrich's short fiction. Discover a terrifying new god, and an old, well known one just as malicious. Encounter horror tropes broken and remade; dead and undead pharaohs, a compassionate ghoul, and a serial killer who discovers something darker than himself. Find out what happens to a man literally at war with himself. With stories set in Arkham, ancient Egypt, the blood-soaked battlefields of World War One, rural Vermont, and a hideous apocalyptic future, these stories encompass the terrors of the past as well as our fears for the future.

DARK DRAUGHTS: STRONG MEDICINE FOR WHAT AILS US ALL.

Culled from nearly a decade of work, Dark Draughts is the first collection of John Goodrich¿s short fiction. Discover a terrifying new god, and an old, well known one just as malicious. Encounter horror tropes broken and remade; dead and undead pharaohs, a compassionate ghoul, and a serial killer who discovers something darker than himself. Find out what happens to a man literally at war with himself. With stories set in Arkham, ancient Egypt, the blood-soaked battlefields of World War One, rural Vermont, and a hideous apocalyptic future, these stories encompass the terrors of the past as well as our fears for the future.Dark Draughts: Strong medicine for what ails us all.

Dark Draughts

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All David wanted was to rest and get better. He moved from Vermont to Boston to beat his cancer. Even before the boxes are unpacked, he and his best friend Sam notice an eerie presence in his new apartment building. The emaciated haunt is a roiling storm of fury with black iron claws and jagged metal teeth. She attacks David without reason of pity, leaving him in agony.

Hag is a dark, brooding novel set in a blighted personal landscape. A story of deathless rage terrible love.

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William Gay

Suspecting that something is amiss with their father's burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corrie venture to his gravesite and make a horrific discovery: their father, a whiskey bootlegger, was not actually buried in the casket they bought for him. Worse, they learn that the undertaker, Fenton Breece, has been grotesquely manipulating the dead.

Armed with incriminating photographs, Tyler becomes obsessed with bringing the perverse undertaker to justice. But first he must outrun Granville Sutter, a local strongman and convicted murderer hired by Fenton to destroy the evidence. What follows is an adventure through the Harrikin, an eerie backwoods filled with tangled roads, rusted machinery, and eccentric squatters-old men, witches, and families among them— who both shield and imperil Tyler as he runs for safety.

With his poetic, haunting prose, William Gay rewrites the rules of the gothic fairytale while exploring the classic Southern themes of good and evil.

Suspecting that something is amiss with their father’s burial, teenager Kenneth Tyler and his sister Corrie venture to his gravesite and make a horrific discovery: their father, a whiskey bootlegger, was not actually buried in the casket they bought for him. Worse, they learn that the undertaker, Fenton Breece, has been grotesquely manipulating the dead. Armed with incriminating photographs, Tyler becomes obsessed with bringing the perverse undertaker to justice. But first he must outrun Granville Sutter, a local strongman and convicted murderer hired by Fenton to destroy the evidence. What follows is an adventure through the Harrikin, an eerie backwoods filled with tangled roads, rusted machinery, and eccentric squatters--old men, witches, and families among them--who both shield and imperil Tyler as he runs for safety. With his poetic, haunting prose, William Gay rewrites the rules of the gothic fairytale while exploring the classic Southern themes of good and evil.

Twilight

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Don Miguel Ruiz

Janet Mills

In THE FOUR AGREEMENTS, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliets that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the Four Agreements offer a powertul code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

In The Four Agreements, bestselling author don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

*  A New York Times bestseller for over a decade
*  Translated into 50 languages worldwide
 
"This book by don Miguel Ruiz, simple yet so powerful, has made a tremendous difference in how I think and act in every encounter." -- Oprah Winfrey

"Don Miguel Ruiz's book is a roadmap to enlightenment and freedom." -- Deepak Chopra, Author, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success

"An inspiring book with many great lessons." -- Wayne Dyer, Author, Real Magic

"In the tradition of Castaneda, Ruiz distills essential Toltec wisdom, expressing with clarity and impeccability what it means for men and women to live as peaceful warriors in the modern world." -- Dan Millman, Author, Way of the Peaceful Warrior

The Four Agreements

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Sarah Lyddon Morrison

Sara Morrison

Here is a remarkable collection of surprisingly workable spells. It offers a unique group of spells, charms, amu-lets, talismans, and divination techniques... and even a section telling where one can obtain such ingredients (infrequently at hand in most households) as assafoetida (an herb), or bottled bat's blood. Many of the materials required for working spells are easily found in cupboards.

This is a "how-to" book and describes with considerable care just what is involved in working these enchant-ments. The many sections concerning love magic for women include supernatural ways to get him, get rid of him, get even with him, keep him; test his fidelity, and much more. And if you're planning a seduction scene and need to conjure up some assistance, the section of aphrodisiacs will show you how to turn him on or off, as the situation demands.

For men, there is a chapter on male magic, giving the ardent lover tips on guaranteeing a successful courtship and a responsive bride. For those already victims of someone else's spell, there is advice on breaking the charm and avoiding the evil eye.

The Modern Witch's Spellbook is a product of scholarly research and the author's own experiments with witchcraft.

A Guide to the Mysteries of the Occult, Explaining How to Cas Spells, Work Charms and Love-Magic, and Improve Daily Living Through Witchcraft

The Modern Witch's Spellbook

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Shaun Hamill

NOAH TURNER SEES MONSTERS.

His father saw them-and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience at the whole family operates.
Is practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors, but refuses to believe-too focused on keeping the family from falling apart.

His brilliant, older sister, Eunice, can't exorcise them from her mind, no matter how many versions of the story she commits to paper.

And his eldest sister, the dramatic, invulnerable Sydney, won't admit to seeing anything but the beckoning glow of the spotlight . . . until it swallows her up.

NOAH TURNER SEES MONSTERS. BUT, UNLIKE HIS FAMILY, NOAH CHOOSES TO LET THEM IN . . .

(In development to be a major motion picture!)

A Novel

A tender and terrifying literary horror novel, the author's debut tells the story of a family that created a haunted house attraction called the Wandering Dark and the hereditary monsters--both metaphorical and all-too-real--that haunt them.aunt them.

A Cosmology of Monsters

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Stephen King

"THIS IS BAD BEHAVIOR. I WOULDN'T HAVE EXPECTED IT OF YOU."

A living nightmare has come to Flint City, Oldahoma, as an eleven-year-old boy is found brutally murdered in a local park--an unspeakable crime that rocks local law enforcement to its core as the most heinous atrocity anyone there has ever witnessed. Equally stunning is the identity of the prime suspect: Terry Maitland, one of Flint City's most popular citizens, as well as Little League coach, English teacher, and devoted husband and father. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose own son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Multiple eyewitnesses and irrefutable evidence mean an ironclad case . . . until the investigation expands, and horrifying new details begin to emerge. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer is revealed, it will shock you as only master storyteller Stephen King can.

Now an HBO limited series starring Ben Mendelsohn!​ Evil has many faces…maybe even yours in this #1 New York Times bestseller from master storyteller Stephen King. An eleven-year-old boy’s violated corpse is discovered in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City’s most popular citizens—Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon have DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses. Their case seems ironclad. As the investigation expands and horrifying details begin to emerge, King’s story kicks into high gear, generating strong tension and almost unbearable suspense. Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy, but is he wearing another face? When the answer comes, it will shock you as only Stephen King can.

The Outsider

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis—neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse—and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip.

When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him.

But great romances are for fairy tales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina—and himself—that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a sweeping romance with a dash of magic. They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail’s most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina’s chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well-connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun, and already Nina’s debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis—neighbors call her the Witch of Oldhouse—and the haphazard manifestations of her powers make her the subject of malicious gossip. When entertainer Hector Auvray arrives to town, Nina is dazzled. A telekinetic like her, he has traveled the world performing his talents for admiring audiences. He sees Nina not as a witch, but ripe with potential to master her power under his tutelage. With Hector’s help, Nina’s talent blossoms, as does her love for him. But great romances are for fairytales, and Hector is hiding a truth from Nina — and himself—that threatens to end their courtship before it truly begins. The Beautiful Ones is a charming tale of love and betrayal, and the struggle between conformity and passion, set in a world where scandal is a razor-sharp weapon.

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The Chrysalis

Eric LaRocca

Things Have Gotten Worse since We Last Spoke (RARE, OOP 1st EDITION)

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The Children on the Hill

Charles L. Grant

The Tea Party

Peter Straub

Mystery

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John Goodrich

Hag

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A Cosmology of Monsters

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