Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
By: Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
4.10
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the m…
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1. Bones & All
By: Camille DeAngelis
3.56
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Maren Yearly doesn’t just break hearts, she devours them. Since she was a baby, Maren has had w… read more
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- horror
"That night I learned there are two kinds of hunger. The first I can satisfy with cheeseburgers and chocolate milk, but there’s a second part of me, biding it’s time. It can go on like that for months…"-Camille DeAngelis, Bones & All
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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- gothic
- horror
"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
3. Reliquary (Pendergast, #2)
By: Douglas Preston , Lincoln Child
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hidden deep beneath Manhattan lies a warren of tunnels, sewers, and galleries, mostly forgotten by … read more
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- horror
4. The Masque of the Red Death
By: Edgar Allan Poe
4.06
Format: 9 pages, Paperback
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by … read more
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- gothic
- horror
"Existem cordas, nos corações dos mais indiferentes, que não podem ser tocadas sem emoção."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
"And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."-Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
5. Rosemary's Baby
By: Ira Levin
3.56
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unawar… read more
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- horror
6. Electra
By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more
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- mythology
7. Anno Dracula (Anno Dracula, #1)
By: Kim Newman
3.91
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
It is 1888 and Queen Victoria has remarried, taking as her new consort Vlad Tepes, the Wallachian P… read more
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- horror
8. The Suicide Shop
By: Jean Teulé , Sue Dyson
3.72
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
Has your life been a failure? Let's make your death a success With the twenty-first century just a … read more
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9. The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
By: Daniel James Brown
3.59
Format: 464 pages,
In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Il… read more
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10. Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident
By: Donnie Eichar
4.19
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriousl… read more
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11. The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde , Nicholas Frankel
3.82
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted "The Picture of Dorian Gray" for publication in "Li… read more
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12. The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
By: A.M. Shine
3.93
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
This forest isn't charted on any map. Every car breaks down at its treeline. Mina's is no different… read more
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- gothic
- horror
"Every grudge, if it is to stand the test of time, relies on the certainty of a selective memory."-A.M. Shine, The Watchers (The Watchers, #1)
13. The House That Horror Built
By: Christina Henry
3.22
Format: 317 pages, Paperback
A single mother working in the gothic mansion of a reclusive horror director stumbles upon terrifyi… read more
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- gothic
- horror
14. Şeytanın Çırağı
By: Shirō Hamao
3.81
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
“Sayın Savcı Tsuchida, bir katil zanlısı olarak burada tutuluyorum. Fakat belki de aslında katil be… read more
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15. Lapvona
By: Ottessa Moshfegh
3.53
Format: 313 pages, Kindle Edition
In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds h… read more
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- horror
"But such was death - it had nothing to say."-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"Blood was the wine of the spirit, was it not?"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"What scared her were other people and their immovable selfishness"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
"But Jude's piety was a kind of violent urge and not the love and peace it ought to be"-Ottessa Moshfegh, Lapvona
16. Diary Of A Murderer: And Other Stories
By: Young-ha Kim
3.74
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
It’s been twenty-five years since I last murdered someone, or has it been twenty-six? Diary of a M… read more
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"People want to understand evil. A pointless desire. Evil is like a rainbow. It retreats at the same pace as your approach. Evil is evil because you can't understand it."-Young-ha Kim, Diary Of A Murderer: And Other Stories
17. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more
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- horror
"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
18. It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
By: Joe Vallese
4.18
Format: 298 pages, Paperback
Through the lens of horror—from "Halloween" to "Hereditary"—queer and trans writers consider the fi… read more
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- nonfiction
- horror
"Androgyny doesn't look a certain way, though gender is ingrained in society such that liberal readings are applied to everyone, sprinkling gender on everything from haircuts to careers to alcoholic b…"-Joe Vallese, It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror
19. Adjustment Day
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.18
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading … read more
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- horror
"Liberation has enslaved them!"-Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
"It's just a book. It's not supposed to happen."-Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
"Hoard food and it rots. Hoard money and you rot. Hoard power and the nation rots."-Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
"Of all people, only Mr. King came close to exposing the true magic of black people,"-Chuck Palahniuk, Adjustment Day
20. Horror Movie
By: Paul Tremblay
3.45
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A chilling twist on the “cursed film” genre from the bestselling author of The Pallbearers Club and… read more
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- horror
21. Eaters of the Dead: Myths and Realities of Cannibal Monsters
By: Kevin J. Wetmore Jr.
4.10
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
Spanning myth, history, and contemporary culture, a terrifying and illuminating excavation of the m… read more
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- gothic
- cultural
- history
- religion
- nonfiction
- horror
- sociology
- mythology
- anthropology
