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  Agent Pendergast: Book 9

  Cemetery Dance

  by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child

  Pendergast-the world's most enigmatic FBI Special Agent-returns to New York City to investigate a murderous cult. William Smithback, a New York Times reporter, and his wife Nora Kelly, a Museum of Natural History archaeologist, are brutally attacked in their apartment on Manhattan 's Upper West Side . Eyewitnesses claim, and the security camera confirms, that the assailant was their strange,... (more)
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  Dark Harvest

  by Norman Partridge

  A Midwestern town. You know its name. You were born there. It's Halloween night, 1963. Every boy between the ages of sixteen and nineteen has been locked up for the last five days. Now, starving and wild, they're hitting the streets armed with baseball bats, pitchforks, and two-by-fours studded with nails. They're ready to go nose-to-nose with a legend. He's the reaper that grows in a cornfield,... (more)
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  Madman Stan and Other Stories

  by Richard Laymon

  The only surprises in this nifty story collection from Laymon are the intentional twists in nearly every tale. Laymon cognoscenti will get just what they expect from this celebrated and castigated writer: shock, suspense, sexual violence and prose as sharp as a slap. The 20 entries include recycled material (e.g., from Night Visions 7 , which Wiater edited) as well as unpublished stuff. The lead-off tale, "The... (more)
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  Robert Bloch's Psychos

  by Robert Bloch, Billie Sue Mosiman, W. D. Gagliani

  Featuring a never-before-published short story from Stephen King and edited by the world-renowned and award-winning author of "Psycho", Robert Bloch, this collection includes 22 masterworks harvested by the Horror Writers Association. Stephen King toe-tags a stiff who's still very much alive, and going under the knife, in "Autopsy Room Four". Richard Christian Matheson clocks the final minutes of a man at the... (more)
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  The Year's Best Horror Stories (DAW): Book 21

  The Year's Best Horror Stories XXI

  by Karl Edward Wagner

  TERRIFYING STORIES THAT WILL LEAVE YOU SHUDDERING AT EVERY BARELY GLIMPSED SHADOW --Once again, Karl Edward Wagner has dared to prowl where many fear to tread, seeking out the finest tales of terror by such masters of malice and mayhem as Ramsey Campbell and Ed Gorman -- haunting and harrowing legends calculated to strike fear in the hearts of even the most stalwart readers.A photographer whose... (more)
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  Best New Horror: Book 13

  Best New Horror 13

  Mammoth Book of Best New Horror

  by Stephen Jones, Paul J. McAuley

  The award-winning Best New Horror anthology series—winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Critics Guild Award—has now reached its thirteenth spectacular volume and to mark the event, Stephen Jones has chosen only the very best short stories and novellas by the horror genre’s finest exponents and by new discoveries in the field. Contributors to this volume include Gala Blau, Ramsey Campbell,... (more)
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  October Dreams

  A Celebration of Halloween

  by Richard Chizmar, Robert Morrish

  Classic novellas, never-before-published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear: Dean Koontz € Peter Straub € Poppy Z. Brite € Rick Hautala € Steve Rasnic Tem € Elizabeth Engstrom € Thomas Ligotti € Gary A. Braunbeck € Jack Ketchum € Thomas F. Monteleone € Hugh B. Cave € Simon Clark € Christopher Golden... (more)
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  California Sorcery

  by William F. Nolan, William Schafer

  Nine original stories and three classic reprints from the renowned authors of "the California school": Ray Bradbury • Richard Matheson • Harlan Ellison • Ray Russell • Charles Beaumont • George Clayton Johnson • Robert Bloch • John Tomerlin • Chad Oliver • Charles E. Fritch • William F. Nolan • Jerry Sohl
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  Toybox

  by Al Sarrantonio

  Little Selene was bored. And then came the mysterious Toyman, carrying a very special toybox, filled with wonders and terrors beyond imagination. As Selene peered into the toybox, the stories tumbled out: a quiet little girl whose horrible secret bursts forth at a Halloween party ... a doll made of corn that hides a very nasty surprise ... a depraved celebration for the last vampire ... All of these and many... (more)