The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief
By: Joseph P. Laycock
4.25
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
By: Margot Adler
4.00
Format: 646 pages, Paperback
Now fully revised-the classic study of Neo-Paganism Almost thirty years since its original publica… read more
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- religion
- nonfiction
"The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life."-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
"When a person assumes that his or her revelation is the only true one, it only says that this person has had very few religious revelations and hasn't realized how many there are."-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
"I have noticed that many intellectuals turn themselves off the instant they are confronted with the words witchcraft, magic, occultism, and religion, as if such ideas exert a dangerous power that mig…"-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
"I have noticed that many intellectuals turn themselves off the instant they are confronted with the words witchcraft, magic, occultism, and religion, as if such ideas exert a dangerous power that mig…"-Margot Adler, Drawing Down the Moon: Witches, Druids, Goddess-Worshippers, and Other Pagans in America
3. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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- religion
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"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
4. Looking for Jake
By: China Miéville
3.77
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
What William Gibson did for science fiction, China Miéville has done for fantasy, shattering old pa… read more
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- horror
"Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote."-China Miéville, Looking for Jake
"It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I've not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I was, already. How long …"-China Miéville, Looking for Jake
5. From Hell
By: Alan Moore , Eddie Campbell , Pete Mullins
4.19
Format: 576 pages, Paperback
"I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim… read more
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- horror
"It would seem we are to suffer an apocalypse of cockatoos - William Gull"-Alan Moore, From Hell
"I am not man so much as syndrome; as a voice that bellows in the human heart. I am rain. I cannot be contained"-Alan Moore, From Hell
"Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate."-Alan Moore, From Hell
"Where comes this dullness in your eyes? How has your century numbed you so? Shall man be given marvels only when he is beyond all wonder?"-Alan Moore, From Hell
6. Psycho
By: Robert Bloch
4.00
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more
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7. The Hedge Knight: The Graphic Novel
By: George R.R. Martin , Ben Avery , Mike S. Miller
4.71
Format: 595 pages,
Set one hundred years before the events in George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice … read more
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8. The Crow
By: James O'Barr
4.01
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
Eric has returned from the dead, driven only by hate and the need to wreak revenge on those who kil… read more
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9. Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
By: Colin Dickey
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history, Ghostland takes readers on a road trip through… read more
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- horror
"Surely ghosts will follow wherever there is bad record keeping"-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"The dead are watching, whether or not we choose to listen to their stories."-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"Our brains are hardwired to think in terms of place and to associate psychic value or meaning to the places we inhabit."-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
"A ghost story’s reduction of a complex moment or the history of building into a series of cliches is reproduced in beautifully staged photos that fetishize the past without truly representing it. “Ru…"-Colin Dickey, Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
10. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler
4.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more
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11. Erasure
By: Percival Everett
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
"Thelonious (Monk) Ellison has never allowed race to define his identity. But as both a writer and … read more
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12. People of Darkness (Leaphorn & Chee, #4)
By: Tony Hillerman
4.26
Format: None pages, Paperback
Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man's wi… read more
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13. The Dead Zone
By: Stephen King
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Also see: Alternate Cover Editions for this ISBN [ACE] - Johnny, the small boy who skated at br… read more
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14. Hangsaman
By: Shirley Jackson
4.40
Format: 304 pages,
HANGSAMAN is Miss Jackson's second novel. The story is a simple one but the overtones are immediate… read more
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15. A Storm of Witchcraft: The Salem Trials and the American Experience
By: Emerson W. Baker
5.00
Format: 29 pages,
Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most l… read more
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16. The Sundial
By: Shirley Jackson
4.18
Format: 411 pages, Paperback
Aunt Fanny knows when the world will end.... Aunt Fanny has always been somewhat peculiar. No one i… read more
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17. A Haunting on the Hill
By: Elizabeth Hand
3.35
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand come… read more
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18. In Bloom
By: Paul Tremblay
3.08
Format: 35 pages, Kindle Edition
There’s something in the water in this hallucinatory short story by Paul Tremblay, bestselling auth… read more
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19. It Waits in the Woods
By: Josh Malerman
3.72
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
Some chilling campfire tales ring too true to ignore. For one young woman, an urban legend calls he… read more
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20. The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)
By: Matt Ruff
3.94
Format: 305 pages, Hardcover
“Another virtuoso blend of horror, action, and humor. . . . Fans will find this a worthy sequel.”— … read more
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21. How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (The Siege, #2)
By: K.J. Parker
4.11
Format: 354 pages, Paperback
This is the story of how the City was saved, by Notker the professional liar, written down because … read more
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"She drank her wine, looking at me over the rim of her glass. It's a mannerism that has made her very popular with men over the years, and I guess it's like the violin: you have to keep practicing eve…"-K.J. Parker, How to Rule an Empire and Get Away with It (The Siege, #2)
22. 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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23. A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
By: Mark Dawidziak
3.62
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A biography of Edgar Allan Poe that examines the renowned author’s life through the prism of his my… read more
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- horror
"I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends will call it.' -- EDGAR ALLAN POE"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
"The glow of the fireside poets failed to warm a world coping with the cold realities of a new century. Their light faded as we became less sure of comforting messages and more intrigued by Poe's trou…"-Mark Dawidziak, A Mystery of Mysteries: The Death and Life of Edgar Allan Poe
24. Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
By: Marion Gibson
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, vivid global history of witch trials across Europe, Africa, and the Americas, told t… read more
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- nonfiction
"James looks like he's waiting to mug old ladies, which of course is one way of looking at a witch trial."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"Witch trials were not just misogynist festivals of torture and hatred; they also directly facilitated the building of empire."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
"As with later witch trials, like the ones in Salem, flexing normal court processes in response to a powerful authority can lead to mass injustice..."-Marion Gibson, Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials
25. README.txt
By: Chelsea Manning
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
An intimate, revealing memoir from one of the most important activists of our time. While workin… read more
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"With enough grief, adrenaline, and fear we can all become amoral- even malevolent."-Chelsea Manning, README.txt
26. Whisper Down the Lane
By: Clay McLeod Chapman
3.57
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the McMartin preschool trials and the Satanic Panic of the ‘80s, the critically acclaim… read more
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"What happens if you believe in a lie, believe it with every fiber of your body? Does it become real, somehow? Does the lie become the truth? Your truth?"-Clay McLeod Chapman, Whisper Down the Lane
"I'm crying because I have nothing...nothing left for you.' This made the witness very sad. He didn't want to be left out, so he began to cry, too. 'Wait', the gray boy said. 'For you, my brightest di…"-Clay McLeod Chapman, Whisper Down the Lane
27. God's Monsters: Vengeful Spirits, Deadly Angels, Hybrid Creatures, and Divine Hitmen of the Bible
By: Esther J. Hamori
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
The Bible is teeming with monsters. Giants tromp through the land of milk and honey; Leviathan swim… read more
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- nonfiction
- horror
28. Dark Carnivals: Modern Horrors and the Origins of American Empire
By: W. Scott Poole
3.80
Format: 425 pages, Hardcover
From Invasion of the Body Snatchers to Get Out, Dark Carnivals tells the panoramic story of the fil… read more
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- horror
29. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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30. Saturation Point
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
3.93
Format: 165 pages, Hardcover
A group of scientists and soldiers are hunted by mysterious enemies in a terrifying new climate thr… read more
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31. The Exorcist Effect: Horror, Religion, and Demonic Belief
By: Joseph P. Laycock
4.25
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The Exorcist Effect is a fascinating historical study of the ongoing relationship between horror mo… read more
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