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Amityville Horror by Jay Anson
An account of the four weeks of terror experienced by an Amityville, Long Island, family after moving into a house in which a particularly gruesome mass murder had once been committed.
Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta
Ten-year-old Ivy Templeton is tormented by subconscious intimations of horror and her parents' struggle to protect her from Elliot Hoover, who is convinced that the child is the reincarnation of his daughter, Audrey Rose.
The Basement by Bari Wood New England aristocrat Myra Ludens is terrified of her basement, the burial site of a seventeenth-century accused witch, and soon horrific things begin to happen to anyone who has offended Myra.
Black Lightening by John Saul
In the aftermath of a deranged killer's execution, a similar series of murders picks up where the others left off, suggesting a copycat killer is on the loose, but reporter Anne Jeffers suspects that the wrong man was put to death.
The Burning by Graham Masterton
When restaurateur Lloyd Densen's fiancée joins a cult promising immortality through fire, a mistake that ends in her self-immolation, Denman takes on the cult's sadistic leader, ex-Nazi Otto Mander, who plans to rule over a Fourth Reich with the aid of his new master race.
Cabal by Clive Barker
Believing himself responsible for horrific crimes, Boone secludes himself in a remote Canadian necropolis, pursued by hunters and a woman who loves him, in a short novel accompanied by four short stories.
Cemetery of Angels by Noel Hynd
Moving their family to beautiful Southern California, Bill and Rebecca Moore find the dramatic scandal associated with their new home charming, until a series of strange and unexplainable occurrences culminates in their children's disappearance.
Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns
Suspicion, built on fear, old rumors, and old angers, grows out of control as three girls from the same small town mysteriously vanish.
Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker
Aging star Todd Pickett flees to a secret corner of Hollywood to heal from a botched bout with plastic surgery and discovers that his newfound hideaway is in fact haunted by ghosts from the 1920s.
Forbidden Zone by Whitley Strieber
Physicist Pete Kelly discovers that he is to blame for somehow releasing the monstrous creature that has come out of the depths of the unknown to threaten his pregnant wife and his entire town.
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Questions arise concerning the connections between a strangely detached young girl's captivity in a seedy Florida motel, a death that occurs at a party for a visiting actress, and a young California instructor's obsession with one of his students.
Hellfire by John Saul
When Philip Sturgess sets out to renovate a one-hundred-year-old textile mill in Westover, Massachusetts--abandoned after a terrible fire claimed eleven innocent lives--a horrifying, elemental fury, thirsting for vengeance, is unleashed.
Hideaway by Dean Koontz
After Hatch Harrison is brought back to life in an ambulance, his second chance turns into a nightmarish quest to squelch the evil he brought back from the afterlife.
The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
Members of the Nazi super-race discover a mysterious and terrible force that is far more deadly than their own power in an eerie old fortress in Transylvania.
Last Voice They Hear by Ramsey Campbell
Someone is killing happily married couples in the Windsor area, and Geoff, a successful investigative journalist on a publicity book tour, begins to fear that the murderer might be his long-missing brother Ben.
Living Blood by Tananarive Due
Struggling to rebuild her life after the disappearance of her husband and the death of her oldest daughter, Jessica discovers that her other daughter has inherited her father's immortality, so she sets out for Africa in search of guidance.
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
After marrying David, Jessica becomes haunted by the violent, mysterious deaths of those close to her and discovers that her husband has traded his humanity for immortality and is invoking a forbidden ritual to keep her and their daughter with him forever.
Naomi by Douglass Clegg
When Jake Richmond learns that Naomi, his childhood sweetheart, met her death on the subway tracks in New York City, he embarks on a journey to discover the truth behind her untimely death.
Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell
A worried father and his sassy, rebellious teenage daughter find themselves trapped within an apartment house where the voices and spirits of wrongly persecuted witches lie in torment.
Once by James Herbert
Partially incapacitated by a stroke, Thom Kindred returns to his childhood home of Castle Bracken to recuperate amid the comfort of old memories, but his return brings to life an ancient evil from which Thom's only chance of escape lies in the magical childhood world of fantasy in which he longer believes.
Others by James Herbert
Hired to find a baby stolen at birth, Nicholas Dismas, an enigmatic private investigator, follows the clue trail to Perfect Rest, a supposed home for the elderly, where he uncovers the dark secret of the Others and encounters clues to the mystery of his own existence.
Pact of the Fathers by Ramsey Campbell
When Daniella Logan, daughter of a film impresario, discovers a group of robed men performing a ritual on her father's grave, she stumbles upon a macabre pact involving her father's friends--politicians, actors, police officials, and surgeons--that calls for the sacrifice of their firstborn children.
Phantoms by Dean Koontz
When 300 residents of the little town of Snowfield, California disappear and 150 others die suddenly, a woman doctor and a dedicated county sheriff, aided by government authorities and scientists, pursue the terrifying mystery.
Resume with Monsters by William Spencer
Taking a night-shift job in Austin, Texas, in the hopes of rekindling a relationship, Philip Kenan confronts the surreal phantoms of his past and present employment situations, and seeks help from an unorthodox therapist.
A Room for the Dead by Noel Hynd
Veteran state police Detective Sergeant Frank O'Hara pursues a crazed serial killer whose crimes bear the grisly signature of Gary Ledbetter, a vicious murderer arrested by O'Hara and executed years earlier.
The Store by Bentley Little
Bill Davis is the only man in Juniper, Arizona, who senses that there is something rotten about a giant retailer's new branch and its creepy employees, and when his daughters take jobs at The Store, he is forced to act.
The 37th Mandala by Marc Laidlaw
When Derek Crowe attempts to turn the unseen mandalas into guardian spirits to enrich his bank account, the cynical New Age charlatan uncovers the reasons past occult masters have left them alone.
Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon
Reluctant to return home, Rix Usher, heir to the notorious House of Usher, nonetheless takes over ownership from his dying father and soon learns the house's legacy of depravity and bloodshed.
Whispers by Dean Koontz
Hilary Thomas, a screenwriter scarred by abuse suffered in childhood, and Tony Clemenza, an ace cop and would-be artist, plunge into a love affair while pursuing the psychopath who had brutally assaulted Hilary.
Wildwood by John Farris
A retired army colonel, his son, and a strange mountain man and his sinister wife arrive at a chateau where, a century before, a madman invited his enemies to a ball and trapped them in a living hell.
Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons
Returning to the small Illinois town of his childhood to pick up the pieces of his shattered life and regain his confidence as a writer, Professor Dale Stewart leases an empty farmhouse of a long-dead friend, who had been murdered in the summer of 1960, but instead of finding peace and quiet, he finds that the house is haunted.
You Come When I Call You by Douglas Clegg
A man called Desolation Angel brings his friends back to their hometown twenty years after the three of them committed an act of unspeakable horror.
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