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It (Released: January 1986)
Author(s): Stephen King
Ratings and Reviews from Hardcover
Rating: 4.07 (832 Ratings, 78 Reviews)
Pages: 1168
Welcome to Derry, Maine ... It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ... They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
Genre(s): Horror, Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, Classics, Thriller, Friendship, Horror stories
The Stand (Released: January 1978)
Author(s): Stephen King
Ratings and Reviews from Hardcover
Rating: 4.15 (841 Ratings, 67 Reviews)
Pages: 1553
Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. Soon to be a television series. 'THE STAND is a masterpiece' (Guardian). Set in a virus-decimated US, King's thrilling American fantasy epic, is a Classic. First come the days of the virus. Then come the dreams. Dark dreams that warn of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in the west and the Apocalypse looms. When a man crashes his car into a petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife and daughter. He dies and it doesn't take long for the virus which killed him to spread across America and the world.
Genre(s): Classics, Fantasy, Adventure, Fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, General, Thriller, Dystopian, Good and evil
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (Released: January 2006)
Author(s): Max Brooks, Henry Rollins (Narrator), Eamonn Walker (Narrator), Ajay Naidu (Narrator), John Turturro (Narrator), Rob Reiner (Narrator), Jay O. Sanders (Narrator), Dennis Boutsikaris (Narrator), Becky Ann Baker (Narrator), Steve Park (Narrator), Frank Kamai (Narrator), Alan Alda (Narrator), John McElroy (Narrator), Carl Reiner (Narrator), Jürgen Prochnow (Narrator), Waleed Zuiter (Narrator), Dean Edwards (Narrator), Michelle Kholos (Narrator), Maz Jobrani (Narrator), Mark Hamill (Narrator)
Ratings and Reviews from Hardcover
Rating: 3.90 (834 Ratings, 63 Reviews)
Pages: None
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Prepare to be entranced by this addictively readable oral history of the great war between humans and zombies.”—Entertainment Weekly We survived the zombie apocalypse, but how many of us are still haunted by that terrible time? We have (temporarily?) defeated the living dead, but at what cost? Told in the haunting and riveting voices of the men and women who witnessed the horror firsthand, World War Z is the only record of the pandemic. The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes children who came face-to-face with the living, or at least the undead, hell of that dreadful time. World War Z is the result. Never before have we had access to a document that so powerfully conveys the depth of fear and horror, and also the ineradicable spirit of resistance, that gripped human society through the plague years.
Genre(s): Fiction, Adventure, Science fiction, General, War, Dystopian, Humor, Fantasy, Best sellers
Misery (Released: January 1987)
Author(s): Stephen King
Ratings and Reviews from Hardcover
Rating: 4.10 (676 Ratings, 65 Reviews)
Pages: 370
Novelist Paul Sheldon has plans to make the difficult transition from writing historical romances featuring heroine Misery Chastain to publishing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon's number one fan, rescues the author from the scene of a car accident. The former nurse takes care of him in her remote house, but becomes irate when she discovers that the author has killed Misery off in his latest book. Annie keeps Sheldon prisoner while forcing him to write a book that brings Misery back to life. [Source][1] [1]: https://stephenking.com/library/novel/misery.html
Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction, Horror, Motion picture plays, Literature & Fiction, Crime Fiction, Classics, Readers, Fans (Persons), German
Pet Sematary (Released: January 1983)
Author(s): Stephen King
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Rating: 3.95 (655 Ratings, 77 Reviews)
Pages: 388
The house looks right, feels right to Dr Louis Creed. Rambling, old and comfortable. A place where the family can settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seem a world away from the fume-choked dangers of the city. It's only those big trucks on the road outside which growl out$ unnerving threats. Behind the house there's a carefully cleared path up into the woods to a place where generations of local children have walked in procession with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial. A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding .. --back cover
Genre(s): Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction, Suspense, General, Horror tales, Death
'Salem's Lot (Released: January 1975)
Author(s): Stephen King
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Rating: 3.86 (666 Ratings, 69 Reviews)
Pages: 483
'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size. Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow. Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror...
Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Science fiction, Suspense, Thriller & Suspense, City and town life, Horror tales, Classics, Authors
Mexican Gothic (Released: January 2020)
Author(s): Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Voicu (Narrator), Dan Sociu (Translator)
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Rating: 3.76 (627 Ratings, 145 Reviews)
Pages: None
An isolated mansion. A chillingly charismatic aristocrat. And a brave socialite drawn to expose their treacherous secrets. . . . From the author of Gods of Jade and Shadow comes “a terrifying twist on classic gothic horror” (Kirkus Reviews) set in glamorous 1950s Mexico. After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region. Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom. Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness. And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.
Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy, Thriller, Historical Fiction, Cousins, Historical, Gothic Horror, Mystery
The Haunting of Hill House (Released: June 1959)
Author(s): Shirley Jackson
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Rating: 3.74 (578 Ratings, 82 Reviews)
Pages: 288
Hill House is an 80 year-old mansion built by long-deceased Hugh Crain. The story concerns four main characters: Dr. John Montague, an investigator of the supernatural; Eleanor Vance, a shy young woman who resents having lived as a recluse caring for her demanding invalid mother; Theodora, a flamboyant, bohemian, possibly lesbian artist; and Luke Sanderson, the young heir to Hill House, who is also the host to the others. Dr. Montague hopes to find scientific evidence of the existence of the supernatural. He rents Hill House for a summer and invites as his guests several people whom he has chosen because of their past experience with paranormal events. Of these, only Eleanor and Theodora accept. All four of the inhabitants begin to experience strange events while in the house, including unseen noises and ghosts roaming the halls at night, strange writing on the walls and other unexplained events. Eleanor tends to experience phenomena to which the others are oblivious. At the same time, Eleanor may be losing touch with reality... A finalist for the National Book Award, The Haunting of Hill House is considered as one of the best literary ghost stories published during the 20th century, even by stalwarts like Stephen King. It has been made into two feature films, a TV series and a play. Jackson's novel relies on terror rather than horror to elicit emotion in the reader, utilizing complex relationships between the mysterious events in the house and the characters' psyches. A must read!
Genre(s): Classics, Fiction, General, Literature, Literature & Fiction, Haunted House, Fiction; Occult & Supernatural; Supernatural; Thrillers, Fantasy
I Am Legend (Released: January 1954)
Author(s): Richard Matheson
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Rating: 3.93 (489 Ratings, 43 Reviews)
Pages: 312
Neville is essentially the last man on earth, and the loneliness of his situation is the central part of the story. Matheson is able to communicate Neville's emotional feelings vividly, making him very real. We gradually acquire the story of the deaths of Neville's wife and daughter, essentially experiencing the pain he goes through when these memories overcome him. We watch him drink himself into a stupor as each night finds him besieged in his fortified house, surrounded by vampires, including his old friend and neighbor, calling for him to come out. We watch him slowly lose his grip on sanity and come very close to giving up.
Genre(s): Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction, Short stories, Comics, Dystopian, Adventure, Paranormal & Urban
The Outsider (Released: January 2018)
Author(s): Stephen King
Ratings and Reviews from Hardcover
Rating: 3.88 (425 Ratings, 43 Reviews)
Pages: 496
When an eleven-year-old boy is found murdered in a town park, reliable eyewitnesses undeniably point to the town's popular Little League coach, Terry Maitland, as the culprit. DNA evidence and fingerprints confirm the crime was committed by this well-loved family man. Horrified by the brutal killing, Detective Ralph Anderson, whose own son was once coached by Maitland, orders the suspect to be arrested in a public spectacle. But Maitland has an alibi. And further research confirms he was indeed out of town that day.As Anderson and the District Attorney trace the clues, the investigation expands from Ohio to Texas. And as horrifying answers begin to emerge, so King's propulsive story of almost unbearable suspense kicks into high gear.Terry Maitland seems like a nice guy but there is one rock-hard fact, as unassailable as gravity: a man cannot be in two places at the same time. Can he?
Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction, Science fiction, Mystery, Suspense, Thriller, Murder, Children, Horror, Thriller & Suspense