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Clive Barker's Books of Blood, Volumes 1-3
by Clive Barker, John F. Sleeman
With the 1984 publication of Books of Blood, Clive Barker became an overnight literary sensation. He was hailed by Stephen King as "the future of horror," and won both the British and World Fantasy Awards. Now, with his numerous bestsellers, graphic novels, and hit movies like the Hellraiser films, Clive Barker has become an industry unto himself. But it all started here, with this tour de force collection that... (more)
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Exquisite Corpse
by Poppy Z. Brite
A gritty, dark thriller follows two killers on the loose among the demimonde of New Orleans, where the erotic thrill of murder lures them to the pleasures of the notorious French Quarter. Reprint. 15,000 first printing."
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The Light at the End
by John Skipp, Craig Spector
An adrenaline-charged tale of unrelenting suspense that sparks with raw and savage energy... The newspapers scream out headlines that spark terror across the city. Ten murders on the New York City subway. Ten grisly crimes that defy all reason -- no pattern, no m.o., no leads for police to pursue. The press dubs the fiend the "Subway Psycho"; the NYPD desperately seeks their quarry before the city erupts in mass... (more)
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Cows
by Matthew Stokoe
The most extreme cult novel of the decade - finally in paperback!
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John McCarty's Official Splatter Movie Guide Vol. II
Hundreds More of the Grossest, Goriest, Most Outrageous Movies Ever Made!
by John McCarty
The man who coined the term "splatter movie" separates the anemic from the ebullient in this all-new volume presenting hundreds of the goriest, grossest, and most outrageous films ever made. Includes summaries and commentaries on recent films as well as some which were overlooked in Volume I. Essential reading for film buffs, gorehounds, and concerned parents everywhere. 24 pages of black-and-white photographs.
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The Official Splatter Movie Guide
by John McCarty
This new book is a dream come true for splatter aficionados: a film-by-film guide to more than four hundred masterworks of blood and gore, arranged in a handy alphabetical format. 16 pages of photos.
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Chaingang: Book 1
Slob
by Rex Miller
Stephen King hails Rex Miller as "terrifying and original". Slob is his debut novel, the story of a man who thinks of himself as Death. A man wholikes to feast on human hearts, spilling blood wherever he goes. Jack Eichord is the detective who must hunt this human monster and genius killer. Years of working as a homicide detective for the Chicago Police department has hardened Eichord to things that would make... (more)
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Deep Red Horror Handbook
by Chas. Balun
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Cinema Sewer: Book 2
Cinema Sewer Volume Two
The Adults Only Guide to History's Sickest and Sexiest Movies!
by Robin Bougie
The best of the first twelve, long-out-of-print issues of the celebrated underground smash magazine Cinema Sewer. A mind-melting compilation of gonzo writing, illustration and comics about the most insane, sexy, awkward, cheesy, hilarious, upsetting and jaw-dropping movies in the history of film, Cinema Sewer joyously celebrates the sleaziest aspects of the moviegoing experience, while delving deep into bizarre... (more)
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Chaingang: Book 2
Slice
by Rex Miller
Everyone thought the killing spree was over; were they wrong! Jack Eichord, a less-than-fearless murder detective, must now come against the most deadly serial killer of his lifetime. How can this detective with fear in his soul free the city from the fear that grips each citizen? He must go beyond the law to stop this heinous criminal and all while he has a bull's-eye right on his heart.
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Jack Eichord: Book 2
Frenzy
by Rex Miller
If killing could be a profession, Frank Spain would be a master. He knows how to deal out death better than any specialist in the business, but when his daughter Tiff becomes a sex object in a nasty porno flick game, Frank is out to seek revenge like never before. Homicide Detective Jack Eichord has never been dealt such a grisly case, but as he traces evidence cross-country in pursuit of the killer, he... (more)
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The House
by Edward Lee
TWO OF EDWARD LEE'S MOST INFAMOUS NOVELLAS IN ONE BOOK! THE PIG: You know, the traditional tale of a man with big city dreams and how one wrong deal can put you in the woods filming porn with junkie whores, sexual freaks, psycho mobsters and, oh yeah...a pig. THE HOUSE: Thirty years ago a lot of very bad things happened in the way out in the woods. Things that scarred this house forever. Now Melvin is there... (more)
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Terror on Tape: A Complete Guide to over 2,000 Horror Movies on Video (Billboard Books' Entertaining and Informative)
by James O'Neill
"Terror on Tape" is a complete, comprehensive guide to over 2,000 horror films from the past 75 years that have been reissued on videotape, from mainstream masterpieces to cheesy exploitation flicks to deservedly unknown bombs.
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Off Season
by Jack Ketchum
In a nutshell, think 80's slasher flick, but the best 80's slasher flick you've ever imagined.
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Coven
by Edward Lee
Born in darkness, they arise. Seductive angels of murder, madness, and horrors beyond imagining. COVEN Bathed in moonlight, they feed their darkest hungers in a festival of perversion and death, demented orgies that serve a cruel, unspeakable will... COVEN They are irresistible sirens in black, corrupting the living and raising the dead. Now the silent town of Exham will surrender to their loving... (more)
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The Bighead
by Edward Lee
This is the author's preferred version. Including the original twenty-page ending that was intended and being published here for the first time. Also includes twenty-one full page illustrations. Who, or what, is the BIGHEAD? Could it be a supernatural psychopath? Whatever it is, it's on a roll now, raging out of the Virginia backwoods and leaving a trail of blood and horror in his wake. JERRICA, Sex-addict.. a... (more)
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The Conqueror Worms
by Brian Keene
Just in time for picnic season, Keene delivers this wild, gruesome page-turner about two elderly West Virginia good old boys menaced by giant earthworms—and worse. Octogenarian Teddy Garnett tells this story of a global flood that has left humanity in tatters. Holed up in his mountain home, Teddy and his buddy Carl Seaton struggle through daily life, puzzling over things even stranger than a 40-day rainstorm,... (more)
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Excitable Boys
by Mark McLaughlin, Brian Keene, Michael McCarty, Edward Lee, Gavin Williams, Ryan Harding, Geoff Cooper, GAK, Kelly Laymon
An original anthology inspired by the annual World Horror Convention Gross Out Contents, featuring some of it’s most audacious winners and runners up. Edited by Kelly Laymon, and featuring cover and interior artwork by GAK!
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Triage
by Matt Johnson
A whacko walking into a workplace after first making a threatening phone call ("I'm gonna get you") serves as the premise for each of the three novellas in this grisly anthology. Fans of the late Richard Laymon will revel in his characteristic mix of horror and sadism in the title story, in which a shotgun-toting psycho wreaks havoc in a law office. A secretary named Sharon flees, gains help from a stranger and... (more)
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Gore Score 2001
The Splatter Years
by Chas. Balun

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