O terrible wife of Siva / Your tongue is drinking the blood, / O dark Mother! O unclad Mother.' It is remarkable that prior to writing this first novel, Dan Simmons had spent only two and a half days in Calcutta, a city 'too wicked to...

A telephone ringing in the dead of night signals the beginning of a journey into fear as MaryAnne Carpenter hears the shocking news: her friends the Wilkensons are suddenly, inexplicably dead, their only child, MaryAnne's godchild, ab...

First time in paperback! 14 TALES BY PATRICIA BRIGGS • VICTOR GISCHLER • HEATHER GRAHAM • JAMES GRADY • SIMON R. GREEN • CHARLAINE HARRIS • STACIA KANE • TONI L. P. KELNER • E E KNIGHT • ROCHELLE KRICH • MELISSA MA...

Peter Balsam, taking up residence as a teacher at the St. Francis Xavier school, becomes the vehicle for a lingering terror that has claimed the lives of numerous schoolgirls in Punish the Sinners, in a collection that also includes W...

For more than three decades, bestselling novelist John Saul has been summoning macabre masterpieces from the darkest realms of his imagination. With each new book, his instinct for playing upon our deepest dread has grown only stronge...

On a perfect summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, many of the citizens who live on Poplar Street are killed mysteriously, and at the center of the mystery is a young boy named Seth Garon whose supernatural powers are just awaken...

SUCH A PRETTY FACESo young, so sweet. She appeared out of nowhere, in the middle of traffic, on a busy day. A teenager with no past, no family – no memories.SUCH A LOVELY CHILDSo blond and beautiful. Carol and Paul were drawn to her...

They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body, strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, Califo...

When Stony Crawford falls in love with the beautiful Lourdes Maria Castillo, he becomes an unwitting pawn in a secret game of horror in a New England coastal town, involving a terrifying creature trapped in a summer mansion. Original.

START INTERCEPTArmies of undead have risen up across the U.S. and around the globe;there is no safe haven from the diseased corpses hungering for human flesh. But in the heat of a Texas wasteland, a small band of survivors attempt to ...

Their bites are more than deadly... The small town near the Everglades was supposed to offer Rachel and her son a fresh start. Instead it offered the start of a nightmare, when an unknown breed of flies migrated through the area, lea...

This is the way the world ends…not with a bang but a scream in the dark. It begins at dawn, when the sun rises late. Then the holes appear. The first forms in Central Park, in sight of an apartment where Repairman Jack and a man as...

"Maberry will scare the hell out of you." —Tess GerritsenThe final novel in the award-winning Pine Deep saga . . .  In the Pennsylvania town of Pine Deep, a handful of brave souls prepare for an unspeakable evil that has ...

'You can't trust anyone who sleeps with monsters'. That's what Anita Blake had always believed. But now she was sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the city. So when an arsonist began to target vampire victims, the creatures of t...

The 'steamy' (Booklist) Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel that took Laurell K. Hamilton to a whole new level is now in paperback. Includes a bonus excerpt from the next Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novel, Cerulean Sins, coming in Ja...

A Stephen King novel telling of unfair imprisonment and escape.

Four wealthy women kidnapped. Three ransoms demanded and paid. Two bodies returned, mutilated and drained of blood. One man determined to avenge the wrongs of his past. Nikki James is in San Francisco at the request of her partner...

Now a TV series on the Syfy channel airing Mondays at 10 pm / 9 pm CT. "Frisky...Tells a rather sweet love story, and suggests that being a wolf may be more comfortable for a strong, smart woman than being human." -The New ...

When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living...

When police find two skeletons locked in a bony embrace deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, Natural History Museum curator Margo Green is called in to aid in the investigation. She soon realizes that the expertise the cops w...

"Who am I? Why, I'm you. Or parts of you. The best parts. I'm the touch of Richard Speck, Ed Gein, John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, and Bin Laden in all of you. I am the thousand tiny angers and fleeting rages of your day—at the car...

He has fought the fight, and run the race.But the enemies never stop coming, and the race has no finish line.It has been three months since Captain Lee Harden found the survivors at Camp Ryder. With winter looming, Lee is on the ver...

Somewhere along Route 50 in the Nevada desert exists a dead-end town called Desperation. Those who cross the town line embark on a never-ending journey of desperation, lunacy, and terror, as they find true desperation in a town that n...

Stephen King's second book, 'Salem's Lot (1975)--about the slow takeover of an insular hamlet called Jerusalem's Lot by a vampire patterned after Bram Stoker's Dracula--has two elements that he also uses to good effect in later novels...

Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murde...

When two grotesquely deformed skeletons are found deep in the mud off the Manhattan shoreline, museum curator Margo Green teams up with the police and FBI to follow a trail of clues underground, where they face the awakening of a forg...

Chris and Cathy made such a loving home for fourteen-year-old Jory -- so handsome, so gentle. And for Bart,who had such a dazzling imagination for a nine year old. Then the lights came on in the house next door. Soon the Old Lady in ...

As a developer prepares to destroy the old Blackstone Asylum to make way for a new shopping complex, the evil and fear long hidden inside the vacant structure are unleashed on the town of Blackstone, in an omnibus edition containing a...

One of the most influential vampire novels of the 20th century, I Am Legend regularly appears on the '10 Best' lists of numerous critical studies of the horror genre. As Richard Matheson's third novel, it was first marketed as science...

In this black comedy, a reporter investigating a sudden spike in the number of infant deaths discovers a link between each of the victims--apparently all had been read a particular poem from a mysterious book found at the scene of eac...