Jan Harold Brunvand

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New Hampshire

Presents descriptions of hundreds of urban legends and their variations, themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre, including such tales as disappearing hitchhikers and hypodermic needles left in the coin slots of pay telephones.

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends

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Koji Suzuki

Glynne Walley

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

The Inspiration for the New Major Motion Picture RINGS A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is performed. Exactly one week after watching the tape, four teenagers die one after another of heart failure. Asakawa, a hardworking journalist, is intrigued by his niece's inexplicable death. His investigation leads him from a metropolitan tokyo teeming with modern society's fears to a rural Japan--a mountain resort, a volcanic island, and a countryside clinic--haunted by the past. His attempt to solve the tape's mystery before it's too late--for everyone--assumes an increasingly deadly urgency. Ring is a chillingly told horror story, a masterfully suspenseful mystery, and post-modern trip. The success of Koji Suzuki's novel the Ring has lead to manga, television and film adaptations in Japan, Korea, and the U.S.

Ring

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Brett Milano

Adventures in Record Collecting

Vinyl Junkies

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Philip K. Dick

The Inspiration Behind Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049

THE SCIENCE FICTION MASTERPIECE BEHIND THE CULT CLASSIC FILMS BLADERUNNER AND BLADERUNNER 2049.



World War Terminus had left the Earth devastated. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard stalked, in search of the renegade replicants who were his prey. When he wasn't 'retiring' them with his laser weapon,
he dreamed of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of animal life.

Then Rick got his chance: the assignment to kill six Nexus-6 targets, for a huge reward. But in Deckard's world things were never that simple, and his assignment quickly turned into a nightmare kaleidoscope of subterfuge and deceit - and the threat of death for the hunter rather than the hunted ...

Readers have been blown away by Philip K. Dick:

'Now I understand what all the fuss is about. The guy is a visionary . . . Every paragraph launches us forward, demands our attention . . . a classic example of the finest science fiction' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'Probably my favourite Philip K. Dick book . . . set in a dystopian Earth much dilapidated after 'World War Terminus' . . . I cannot praise this book enough, it really is one of the all-time greats' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'A science fiction masterpiece . . . about a post-apocalyptic world seeking resurrection through the rediscovery of empathy. But who is more empathetic - humans or androids? What is the dividing line? The book constantly explores how far human ideas of life, death, religion and love could survive in a dark uncaring world' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

'I thought this was great and original . . . The Earth has become barely habitable due to nuclear winter, radiation and depopulation . . . a really cool story and I think only PKD could have written something of this style. I would recommend this . . . if you liked the Blade Runner movies' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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Bill Pronzini

Marcia Muller

Robert J. Randisi

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

SNOWBOUND: Around Christmas when the Sacramento heist turns sour, the three gunmen head for their Sierra Nevada safe house. With a storm approaching, the residents have no idea there are killers in their midst. Rebecca is busy dealing with her faithless husband. John and his wife Ann are getting ready for the birth of their first child. And Zachary Cain wants to drink blind over the death of his family. None are prepared for three desperate men who decide to pull the ultimate heist--and hold an entire town hostage! GAMES: Senator David Jackman needs to get away for the weekend, and he had just the spot in mind-the secluded family island off Maine. When he and his free-spirited mistress arrive, nothing seems right. The guns are missing from the house, there are dead animals, ritualistically slaughtered, and their boat is stolen. Soon, suspicion turns to terror as David and Tracy are stalked by two deadly and deranged adversaries. The Old Man had always told David that life is a game-and this could be the final one!

Snowbound; Games

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Benjamin Percy

Essays on Fiction

"In fifteen essays that challenge the notion that literary and genre fiction are mutually exclusive turns to Cormac McCarthy, Ursula K. Le Guin, Stephen King, and others to discover how contemporary writers engage plot, character, dialogue, and suspense"--Page 4 of cover.

Thrill Me

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Mike Mayo

New book. Unread. Light crease on back cover and a bumped edge. Occurred is shipping.

The Ultimate Frightfest of Movies

From atomic bombs to zealous zombies, this cinephile s guidebook reviews 1000 of the wickedest, weirdest and most terrifying films from every age of horror. With reviews on many overlooked, underappreciated gems such as Alice Sweet Alice (1976), Zombie (1979) and Daughters of Darkness (1971) as well as numerous Stephen King adaptations including Night of the Living Dead (1968) and Wolfman (2010); new devotees as well as the discriminating dark cinema enthusiast will love this big, beautiful, end all and be all guide to an always popular genre.

The Horror Show Guide

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Max Allan Collins

The assignment was simple: stake out the man's home and kill him. Easy work for a professional like Quarry. But when things go horribly wrong, Quarry finds himself with a new mission: learn who hired him, and make the bastard pay.

NOW A CINEMAX TELEVISION SERIES!

The longest-running series from Max Allan Collins, author of Road to Perdition, and the first ever to feature a hitman as the main character, the Quarry novels tell the story of a paid assassin with a rebellious streak and an unlikely taste for justice. Once a Marine sniper, Quarry found a new home stateside with a group of contract killers. But some men aren't made for taking orders - and when Quarry strikes off on his own, god help the man on the other side of his nine-millimeter...

Quarry

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Andrew Buss

How 'High Fidelity' Found Its Rhythm and Became a Movie Classic

A rollicking oral history of the making of High Fidelity and its continued influence on popular culture.

Top Five

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Michael Clark

What would you do if you just spent all of your money on a house that is haunted?In this paranormal thriller of a novel, we meet Tim Russell, who just put his last dollar on a handyman's dream house. Newly single, his plan is to live in the house as he restores it for resale. To his horror; as soon as his work starts, the ghosts begin to appear. Tim turns to his real estate agent Holly Burns to help him decide whether or not his very adult problem is solvable. He can't afford to leave and lose everything. Can they solve the mystery together before he loses his investment¿or even his life?

The Patience of a Dead Man

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Derek Raymond

Brand new copy. Crisp and unread. Great noir series.

Factory Series book #1

“A unique crime writer whose fictional world was brutal, realistic and harrowing in the extreme.”—Guardian In the three police procedurals that comprise the Factory Series, Derek Raymond has created a narrator who threatens to become a cult figure while preserving his anonymity. A loner and cynic, undervalued and underpaid, our hero is a nameless detective sergeant in the Department of Unexplained Deaths, a catch-all unit that investigates low-life crimes and is shunned by the blokes in the Serious Crimes Division of the Metropolitan Police. But our narrator, working out of the Factory, named by the villains because it has a bad reputation for doing suspects over in the interrogation rooms, is fired by a real feeling for justice. He believes that an alcoholic, found obscenely battered to death in a seedy, down-and-out part of London, deserves as much official attention as, say, a dead politician. This “nobody” becomes a somebody—a kindred spirit who left behind a strange legacy. Our cop becomes obsessed by the case. But even he could not have imagined how vicious, evil, and perversely attractive his opponent will turn out to be.

Mark Knowlton

@markknowlton

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Jan Harold Brunvand

Encyclopedia of Urban Legends

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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Bill Pronzini; Marcia Muller; Robert J. Randisi

Snowbound; Games

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Thrill Me

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The Horror Show Guide

Max Allan Collins

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Andrew Buss

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Michael Clark

The Patience of a Dead Man

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He Died with His Eyes Open

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