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  Hercule Poirot: Book 17

  Death on the Nile

  by Agatha Christie

  Young, beautiful, and rich, Linnet Doyle (used to be Ridgeway) sparks the interest of Detective Hercule Poirot when she and her new husband Simon Doyle take a cruise on the same ship as he, and he senses trouble in paradise. Reprint.
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  Insomnia

  by Stephen King

  Ralph Roberts hasn't been sleeping well lately. Every morning he wakes just a little bit earlier until pretty soon, he isn't sleeping at all. It wouldn't be so bad if not for the strange hallucinations--and the nightmares that keep coming to life.
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  Desperation

  by Stephen King

  This is knock-out classic horror about the loneliest town off Nevada's Interstate 50-and the scariest.
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 14

  Cards on the Table

  by Agatha Christie

  It was the match-up of the century. Four sleuths -- Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard, mystery writer Ariadne Oliver, Colonel Race of His Majesty's Secret Service, and the incomparable Hercule Poirot -- invited to play bridge with four specifically invited rivals, each of whom had once gotten away with murder. For the host it was irresistible entertainment -- until his own murder became part of the game. Now... (more)
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  The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film (Texas Film Studies Series)

  by Barry Keith Grant

  An undying procession of sons of Dracula and daughters of darkness has animated the horror film genre from the beginning. Indeed, in this pioneering exploration of the cinema of fear, Barry Keith Grant and twenty other film critics posit that horror is always rooted in gender, particularly in anxieties about sexual difference and gender politics. The book opens with the influential theoretical works of Linda... (more)
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  McSweeney's Quarterly Concern: Book 10

  McSweeney's Issue 10

  McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales

  by Michael Chabon

  A Vintage Contemporaries Original Includes: Jim Shepard's "Tedford and the Megalodon" Glen David Gold's "The Tears of Squonk, and What Happened Thereafter" Dan Chaon's "The Bees" Kelly Link's "Catskin" Elmore Leonard's "How Carlos Webster Changed His Name to Carl and Became a Famous Oklahoma Lawman" Carol Emshwiller's "The General" Neil Gaiman's "Closing Time" Nick Hornby's "Otherwise Pandemonium" ... (more)
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  Storm of the Century

  by Stephen King

  For the first time in Stephen King's remarkable publishing history, the master storyteller presents an all-new, original tale written expressly for the television screen. They're calling it the Storm of the Century, and it's coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five... (more)
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  The Riyria Revelations: Book 1

  The Crown Conspiracy

  by Michael J. Sullivan

  In The Crown Conspiracy, Royce Melborn, a skilled thief, and his mercenary partner, Hadrian Blackwater, make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles until they become the unwitting scapegoats in the murder of the king. Sentenced to death, they have only one way out and so begins this epic tale of treachery and adventure, sword fighting and magic, myth and legend. Whether you... (more)
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  New Tales of the Vampires: Book 1

  Pandora

  by Anne Rice

  Pandora is the first in a series of novels linked together by the fledgling vampire David Talbot, who has set out to become a chronicler of his fellow Undead.The novel opens in present day Paris in a crowded café, where David meets Pandora. She is 2,000 years old, a child of the millennia, the first vampire ever made by the great Marius. David persuades her to tell the story of her life through the... (more)
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  Deadfall Hotel

  by Steve Rasnic Tem

  Think of it as the vacation resort of the collective unconscious. The Deadfall Hotel is where our nightmares go, it’s where the dead pause to rest between worlds, and it’s where Richard Carter and his daughter Serena go to rediscover life — if the things at the hotel don’t kill them first. With the powerful prose that has earned him awards and accolades, Steve Rasnic Tem explores the roots of fear and... (more)
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  Hercule Poirot: Book 11

  Death in the Clouds

  by Agatha Christie

  Alternate title: Death in the AirIn this "crime puzzle of the first order" (New York Times), an ordinary flight to London turns extraordinary when a female passenger is shot to death with a venom-tipped dart. Even more bizarre is that the murder went unnoticed by everyone on board-- including the brilliant Hercule Poirot.
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  Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 1

  The Murder at the Vicarage

  by Agatha Christie

  'Anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe', declared the parson, brandishing a carving knife above a joint of roast beef, 'would be doing the world at large a favour!' It was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come and haunt the clergyman just a few hours later - when the Colonel is found shot dead in the clergyman's study. But as Miss Marple soon discovers, the whole village... (more)
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  The Philosophy of Horror

  by Noel Carroll

  Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon. A fan and serious student of the horror genre, Carroll brings to bear his comprehensive knowledge of obscure and forgotten works, as well as of the horror masterpieces. Working from a... (more)
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  Miss Marple Mysteries: Book 3

  The Body in the Library

  by Agatha Christie

  When the Bantry's wake to find the body of a beautiful young stranger in their library, Dolly Bantry knows there's only one person to call: her old friend Miss Marple. Who was the young girl? What was she doing in the library? And is there a connection with another dead girl, whose charred remains are discovered in an abandoned quarry? Miss Marple must solve the mystery, before tongues start to... (more)
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  From Alien to The Matrix

  Reading Science Fiction Film

  by Roz Kaveney

  The definitive survey of the most popular and influential science fiction films of our time Roz Kaveney, an expert in science fiction literature and film, has written an entertaining and enlightening new read on the genre. She explores the history of science fiction film and literature, the mythologies and recurring themes and characters across the genre, the development of special effects technology and the... (more)
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  Film/Genre

  by Rick Altman

  This text seeks to revise notions of film genre. It connects the roles played by industry critics and audiences in making and re-making genre. In a critique of major voices in the history of genre theory from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, Altman reveals the conflicting stakes for which the genre game has been played. Recognizing that the very term "genre" has different meaning for different groups, he bases his genre... (more)
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  Jack Ryan: Book 9

  Executive Orders

  by Tom Clancy

  The President is dead and the weight of the world falls on Jack Ryan's shoulders, in Tom Clancy's newest and most extraordinary work. Ryan had agreed to accept the position of Vice President only as a caretaker for a year. But when the President, most of the Cabinet, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs and the majority of Congress are killed, Ryan finds himself the new President. Around the world, unfriendly eyes... (more)
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  Danse Macabre

  by Stephen King

  The bestselling horror author of all time, Stephen King, knows better than anyone else in the world what scares you, and why. Now, in his most unusual masterpiece, he takes you on his personal tour of the dark ballroom of horror. Come. Take his arm. Let the dance begin... (from the back cover)Stephen King explores the phenomenon of horror in a century of film, television, radio, and literature. Who... (more)
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  Jack Ryan: Book 1

  Without Remorse

  by Tom Clancy

  In a harrowing tour de force, Tom Clancy shows how an ordinary man named John Kelly crossed the lines of justice and morality--to become the CIA legend Mr. Clark.
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  Jack Ryan: Book 2

  Patriot Games

  by Tom Clancy

  Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war -- the international battle of terrorism. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets in Red October,... (more)