Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Kentucky

Rei would do anything for those she loves.As her best friend, Abby, struggles to cope with the sudden loss of her husband, Rei and her closest girlfriends take her to a beautiful lakeside house nestled in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, hoping that a weekend of support from long-time friends will help Abby along her road of emotional recovery.But as the young women get settled, Rei begins to notice there's something wrong with the place. Could this peaceful, idyllic location be hiding an ancient evil below the waters of the lake? Or are the problems wholly within Abby herself, who seems to be losing her grip on reality? When unexplainable, nightmarish things occur, Rei realizes this weekend getaway may turn into their last outing.

Helminth

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Nocturnal Farm

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A Press Of Feathers

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Seven Slices of Halloween Horror

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BAD APPLES 3 IS BIGGER AND BETTER THAN EVER!
"...A DELICIOUS CONCOCTION OF TALES..." - CEMETERY DANCE ONLINE

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A FRESH DELIVERY OF MACABRE TALES FOR THE HAUNTING SEASON.

FEATURING EVANS AND ADAM LIGHT, EDWARD LORN, JASON PARENT, GREGOR XANE, MARK MATTHEWS, JOHN MCNEE AND CRAIG SAUNDERS.

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NOVELLAS AND SHORT STORIES INCLUDE:


* On Halloween night, an artist intends to use humanity as his canvas, to mold flesh into his greatest masterpiece. In Adam and Evans Light's BELLE SOUFFRANCE, suffering has never been so beautiful.

* Everyone knows you are what you eat. So Cam probably shouldn't munch on those chocolate eyeballs he stole. Sins of the past are only one bite away in John McNee's CHOCOLATE COVERED EYEBALL.

* Halloween comes once a year for most people. Unfortunately for Harvey, it might be coming around a little more often in Craig Saunders' OCTOBER'S END.

* The girl behind the counter at the local costume shop reads horror novels and only horror novels. She's perfect. And she's hosting an intimate Halloween get-together in Gregor Xane's THE UNCLE TAFFY'S GIRL.

* Charli is usually lonely, but tonight she's on a bus headed to a party where she hopes the man of her dreams might finally notice her. But when a masked man enters the bus, it'll be the ride not the party she never forgets in Edward Lorn's LAST STOP.

* Christians say Halloween is a pagan holiday, and Keagan's mother doesn't think Jesus would approve of celebrating it. Little does she realize that they're about to find out if that's true from Jesus himself in Mark Matthews' BODY OF CHRIST.

* Any cornfield Halloween party filled with teenagers dressed like iconic horror villains is bound to end with murder and mayhem. But when a grim reaper throws in a twist, the killing really gets out of hand in Jason Parent's PULP




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ABOUT CORPUS PRESS:


Corpus Press is a publisher of horror and weird fiction, specializing in modern pulp that emphasizes plot over gore. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the press has garnered praise from SCREAM Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Horror Novel Reviews, Hellnotes and others for its Bad Apples: Slices of Halloween Horror series, the anthology Dead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted Love, and for its short story collections and novellas.


Horror anthologies and collections from Corpus Press:

 * Screamscapes: Tales of Terror
 * Toes Up: Horror to Die For
 * Dead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted Love

HALLOWEEN HORROR BOOKS FROM CORPUS PRESS:

 * Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories
 * Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror
 * Bad Apples 2: Six Slices of Halloween Horror
 * Bad Apples 3: Seven Slices of Halloween Horror

Bad Apples 3

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Roll the windows down, wipe the blood off your cheek, and turn the music up. Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare by Stephanie M. Wytovich is a collection spattered with dirt and blood, sage and corpses. The poems inside are confessionals and dirges, their stories the careful banter of ghosts and sinners over tequila at the bar.These pages hold the lyrics to the beautiful grotesque that Wytovich is known for, but here she writes with a raw honesty that we haven't seen from her before. This new direction takes readers to hospital rooms and death beds, shows the mask that was skinned off her face time and time again. There's a brutality to her lines that cuts with the same knife she fantasized about, her blood and tears mixed in with stanzas as she talks about suicide and abuse, heartbreak and falling in love.Written during a time when the road was her home, these poems were sung under the stars and screamed in the woods, carved into trees. They are broken bottles and cigarette butts, stale coffee and smeared lipstick, each its own warning, a tale of caution.Listen to them carefully.They very well might save your life.

Sheet Music to My Acoustic Nightmare

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Horseblood

16 Tales of Dark Fiction

Equal parts of whimsy and weird, horror and heartbreak, THAT WHICH GROWS WILD, by award-winning author Eric J. Guignard, collects 16 short stories that traverses the darker side of the fantastic. In "The House of the Rising Sun, Forever," a tragic voice gives warning against the cycle of opium addiction from which, even after death, there is no escape. In "Dreams of a Little Suicide," a down-on-his-luck dwarven man unexpectedly finds his dreams and love in Hollywood as a munchkin for filming of The Wizard of Oz, but soon those rainbow dreams begin to darken. In "A Journey of Great Waves," a Japanese girl encounters, years later, the ocean-borne debris of her tsunami-ravaged homeland, and the ghosts that come with it.... and 13 unforgettable other stories. Explore within, and discover a wild range upon which grows the dark, the strange, and the profound! **THIS BOOK WAS WINNER OF THE 2018 BRAM STOKER AWARD, THE HIGHEST LITERARY AWARD OF HORROR FICTION!

That Which Grows Wild

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Six Slices of Halloween Horror

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"THE BAD APPLES CREW IS BACK WITH...SIX ENJOYABLE HORRIFIC HALLOWEEN TALES WITH THE ODD SLICE OF HUMOR NEATLY WRAPPED UP AMONGST THE VIOLENCE AND MAYHEM." - SCREAM HORROR MAGAZINE

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The creators of the bestselling BAD APPLES: FIVE SLICES OF HALLOWEEN HORROR have returned with another batch of frightful fare. This time, they brought along a friend - Bram Stoker Award-winning author Kealan Patrick Burke.




DIVE INTO THE SEASON WITH THESE HALLOWEEN TREATS:


* Two boys enter a Halloween attraction that holds a devilish secret - but one of the boys has a surprise of his own in Edward Lorn's HALLOWEEKEND.

* Halloween was his birthday, and all poor Bob Talley wanted was for his family to be together again. This year, his wish might come true amid whispers of CANDIE APPLE, from Evans Light.

* A deserter seeks to escape the horrors of war and pave a new existence in a foreign land in Jason Parent's DIA DE LOS MUERTOS.

* Does something putrid truly reside in a small town's pumpkin patch, or is it only a local legend? Find out in Adam Light's TOMMY ROTTEN.

* An old man and his dog await Halloween visitors with candy and a shotgun in Kealan Patrick Burke's THE ONE NIGHT OF THE YEAR.

* Jimmy Stones and his Uncle Shel uncover the dark secrets of Medium, Ohio's annual Halloween puppet show in Gregor Xane's DOCTOR PROCLIVITY PROFESSOR PROPENSITY.



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ABOUT CORPUS PRESS:


Corpus Press is a publisher of horror and weird fiction, specializing in modern pulp that emphasizes plot over gore. Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, the press has garnered praise from SCREAM Magazine, Cemetery Dance, Horror Novel Reviews, Hellnotes and others for its Bad Apples: Slices of Halloween Horror series, the anthology Dead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted Love, and for its short story collections and novellas.


Horror anthologies and collections from Corpus Press:

 * Screamscapes: Tales of Terror
 * Toes Up: Horror to Die For
 * Dead Roses: Five Dark Tales of Twisted Love
   

HALLOWEEN HORROR BOOKS FROM CORPUS PRESS:

 * Doorbells at Dusk: Halloween Stories
 * Bad Apples: Five Slices of Halloween Horror
 * Bad Apples 2: Six Slices of Halloween Horror
 * Bad Apples 3: Seven Slices of Halloween Horror
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Bad Apples 2

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Several years after the incident in Nebraska that left her emotionally and physically scarred, Andrea McCloud focuses on living a normal life. But when fate intervenes, she finds herself up against paranormal activity and demonic forces once again. Her son is kidnapped by a society of men hellbent on plunging the world into eternal darkness. With the help of Danny Samson and a few new allies, Andrea must uncover the secrets surrounding her son's kidnapping and stop an apocalypse taken straight from the pages of The Book of Revelation.

Gateways: a Novel of Supernatural Demon Horror

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In this mosaic novel by C.B. Jones, an amateur journalist sets off to chronicle the encounters of a mysterious and sinister radio broadcast known as "The Rules of the Road."

The Rules of the Road

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"This is a novel I would read and reread and recommend to others. Fans of vigilante and desperado revenge will delight in this horror story." -- Horror Tree. Rebecca Crow's four-year-old son is dead, and her husband is missing. Divers find her husband's car at the bottom of a canal with their son's small, lifeless body, inside. The police have no suspects and nothing to go on but a passing mention of a man driving a van. Guilt and grief cloud Rebecca's thoughts as she stumbles towards her only mission: Revenge. James Porter knows exactly what happened to them, but he'll do anything to keep it a secret. James didn't plan to kill Rebecca's son, but he's not too broken up about it, either. There are more important things for him to worry about. He needs money, and his increasing appetite for murder is catching the attention of a nosy detective.

Come Join the Murder

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Celeste

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Devouring Dark

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It came from space...

Something virulent. Something evil. Something new. And it is infecting the town of Falls Breath.

Carried to Earth in a freak meteor shower, an alien virus has infected the animals. Pets and wildlife have turned rabid, attacking without warning. Dogs and cats terrorize their owners, while deer and wolves from the neighboring woods hunt in packs, stalking and killing their human prey without mercy.

As the town comes under siege, Lauren searches for her boyfriend, while her policeman father fights to restore some semblance of order against a threat unlike anything he has seen before. The Natural Order has been upended completely, and nowhere is safe.

...and it is spreading.

Soon, the city will find itself in the grips of mass hysteria.

To survive, humanity will have to fight tooth and nail.



This edition includes a bonus short story, Consumption

Mass Hysteria contains graphic content and is recommended for readers of extreme horror.

Mass Hysteria

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Gabino Iglesias

Translation guide included (some portions of the book are in Spanish)

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Texas

A Novel

From an award-winning author comes a genre-defying thriller about a father desperate to salvage what's left of his family--even if it means a descent into violence.

Buried in debt due to his young daughter's illness, his marriage at the brink, Mario reluctantly takes a job as a hitman, surprising himself with his proclivity for violence. After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel's cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider named Juanca, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which will leave him with either a cool $200,000 or a bullet in the skull. But the path to reward or ruin is never as straight as it seems. As the three complicated men travel through the endless landscape of Texas, across the border and back, their hidden motivations are laid bare alongside nightmarish encounters that defy explanation. One thing is certain: even if Mario makes it out alive, he won't return the same.



The Devil Takes You Home is a panoramic odyssey for fans of S.A. Cosby's southern noir, Blacktop Wasteland, by way of the boundary-defying storytelling of Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

The Devil Takes You Home

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Max Brooks

In good condition besides a stain on the back cover by the barcode 

An Oral History of the Zombie War

An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival.

World War Z

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Stephen King

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. “This is King at his best” (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch). In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.” In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute “is another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable, all at once” (The Boston Globe).

The Institute

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Victor LaValle

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Kansas

Blue skies, empty land--and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and a bracing new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling.

"If the literary gods mixed together Haruki Murakami and Ralph Ellison, the result would be Victor LaValle."--Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See

Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk opens, people around Adelaide start to disappear.

The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents, forcing her to flee California in a hellfire rush and make her way to Montana as a homesteader. Dragging the trunk with her at every stop, she will become one of the "lone women" taking advantage of the government's offer of free land for those who can tame it--except that Adelaide isn't alone. And the secret she's tried so desperately to lock away might be the only thing that will help her survive the harsh territory.

Crafted by a modern master of magical suspense, Lone Women blends shimmering prose, an unforgettable cast of adventurers who find horror and sisterhood in a brutal landscape, and a portrait of early-twentieth-century America like you've never seen. And at its heart is the gripping story of a woman desperate to bury her past--or redeem it.

Lone Women

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Isabel Cañas

The Hacienda

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Mary Higgins Clark

From Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, a thriller “that grabs you with the first paragraph and never let’s go” (USA TODAY) about a woman desperate to uncover the truth behind her beloved stepmother’s death.

At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway—one of the fashion world’s most successful photographers—is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and she invites Maggie to spend a few weeks at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala murdered, apparently by a burglar.

Heartbroken, Maggie is stunned to learn she had inherited Nuala’s stunning Victorian home...and horrified when she begins to suspect that Nuala’s death was not random but part of a diabolical plot conceived by a twisted mind. When Nuala’s dear old friend, Greta Shipley, dies suddenly of supposedly natural causes, Maggie is convinced that there is a link between these two and other recent deaths among the older women of Newport. What she doesn’t realize is that she has now become a target for the killer as well, and that each clue she uncovers brings her closer to an unimaginable fate.

From Queen of Suspense Mary Higgins Clark, a thriller "that grabs you with the first paragraph and never lets go" (USA TODAY) about a woman desperate to uncover the truth behind her beloved stepmother's death.

At a party in Manhattan, Maggie Holloway--one of the fashion world's most successful photographers--is thrilled to be reunited with her beloved stepmother. A widow now, Nuala Moore is equally delighted to see her long-lost stepdaughter, and she invites Maggie to spend a few weeks at her home in Newport, Rhode Island. But when Maggie arrives, she finds Nuala murdered, apparently by a burglar.

Heartbroken, Maggie is stunned to learn she had inherited Nuala's stunning Victorian home...and horrified when she begins to suspect that Nuala's death was not random, but part of a diabolical plot conceived by a twisted mind. When Nuala's dear old friend, Greta Shipley, dies suddenly of supposedly natural causes, Maggie is convinced that there is a link between these two and other recent deaths among the older women of Newport. What she doesn't realize is that she has now become a target for the killer as well, and that each clue she uncovers brings her closer to an unimaginable fate.

Moonlight Becomes You

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Elizabeth Kostova

California

The historian

An "innovative" (The New Yorker) retelling of the story of Dracula. Told with the flourish and poise of a talented storyteller, Kostova turns the age-old tale into a compelling "late night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle) When a young woman discovers a cache of ancient letters, she is thrown into the turbulent history of her parents' dark pasts. Uncovering a labyrinthine trail of clues, she begins to reconstruct a staggering history of deceit and violence. Debut novelist Elizabeth Kostova creates an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful and utterly unforgettable.

The Historian A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova Hardcover Very Good Pre-owned

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Mona Awad

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maine

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep? For as long as she can remember, Belle has been insidiously obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother Noelle mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s considerable debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. The stakes escalate when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a tantalizing clue about her mother’s demise, followed by a cryptic video about a transformative spa experience. With the help of a pair of red shoes, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted. There, Belle discovers the frightening secret behind her (and her mother’s) obsession with the mirror—and the great shimmering depths (and demons) that lurk on the other side of the glass. Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut in this surreal descent into the dark side of beauty, envy, grief, and the complicated love between mothers and daughters. With black humor and seductive horror, Rouge explores the cult-like nature of the beauty industry—as well as the danger of internalizing its pitiless gaze. Brimming with California sunshine and blood-red rose petals, Rouge holds up a warped mirror to our relationship with mortality, our collective fixation with the surface, and the wondrous, deep longing that might lie beneath.

Rouge

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Graham Masterton

Like new condition, no torn or dog eared pages. Excellent condition 

Forsake the living. Forget the dead. Fear the children... The brand new chilling page-turner from the master of horror. A TERRIFYING BIRTH: A young woman is rushed to the hospital with stabbing pains in her stomach. The chief surgeon delivers a living child with the face of an angel and the body of a tentacled monster. The doctors are unanimous that the baby must die. AN ESCAPE FROM THE DARK: Engineer Gemma is plunged into darkness in a tunnel beneath London. Before she escapes, a strange green light illuminates a cluster of ghostly figures. Gemma is certain they were children. A SUPERNATURAL THREAT: DC Jerry Pardoe and DS Jamila Patel of Tooting Police have investigated the occult before--but nothing as strange and horrible as what they must confront in the city sewers. Down here in the dark, where the dead come back to life, witchcraft is the only force strong enough to save you...

The Children God Forgot

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Patrick McGrath

Used copy in very good condition. No markings or folds on inside pages. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Promotional sticker on front cover.
Smoke free, cat friendly home

Pennsylvania

Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of horror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest layers of subconscious terror.

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