Page Turning Horror?
Discover spine-chilling reads with our list of the best page-turning horror books. Unleash terror with gripping tales that haunt long after the last page.
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A Dirty Job
by Christopher Moore
Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy. A little hapless, somewhat neurotic, sort of a hypochondriac. He's what's known as a Beta Male: the kind of fellow who makes his way through life by being careful and constant -- you know, the one who's always there to pick up the pieces when the girl gets dumped by the bigger/taller/stronger Alpha Male. But Charlie's been lucky. He owns a building in the heart of San Francisco, and runs a secondhand store with the help of a couple of loyal, if marginally insane, employees. He's married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. And she, Rachel, is about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay for a Beta. That is, until the day his daughter, Sophie, is born. Just as Charlie -- exhausted from the birth -- turns to go home, he sees a strange man in mint-green golf wear at Rachel's hospital bedside, a man who claims that no one should be able to see him. But see him Charlie does, and from here on out, things get really weird. . . . People start dropping dead around him, giant ravens perch on his building, and it seems that everywhere he goes, a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Strange names start appearing on his nightstand notepad, and before he knows it, those people end up dead, too. Yup, it seems that Charlie Asher has been recruited for a new job, an unpleasant but utterly necessary one: Death. It's a dirty job. But hey, somebody's gotta do it. Christopher Moore, the man whose Lamb served up Jesus' "missing years" (with the funny parts left in), and whose Fluke found the deep humor in whale researchers' lives, now shines his comic light on the undiscovered country we all eventually explore -- death and dying -- and the results are hilarious, heartwarming, and a hell of a lot of fun.
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After Midnight
by Richard Laymon
A young woman descends into an ever-escalating nightmare of murder and madness when her only defense against an intruder is a Civil War-era saber.
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Relic
by Douglas Preston
Relic: The #1 New York Times bestselling thriller by Douglas Preston's and Lincoln Child, with more than one million copies sold to date Just days before a massive exhibition opens at the popular New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being savagely murdered in the museum's dark hallways and secret rooms. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human... But the museum's directors plan to go ahead with a big bash to celebrate the new exhibition, in spite of the murders. Museum researcher Margo Green must find out who--or what--is doing the killing. But can she do it in time to stop the massacre?
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One Rainy Night
by Richard Laymon
A strange black rain falls on the town of Bixby and, one by one, the inhabitants fall prey to its horrifying effects. Filled with hate and rage, former neighbors become enemies with the need to kill. "If you've missed Laymon, you've missed a treat!"--Stephen King.
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November Mourns
by Tom Piccirilli
Returning to the Southern mountain town of Moon Run Hollow after serving time in prison for assaulting his sister's attacker, Shad Jenkins discovers that his sister Megan has been found dead of unknown causes and, tormented by the dark Blood Dreams from which he has suffered since childhood, must confront a nightmarish adversary whose evil permeates the hollow. Original.
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City Infernal
by Edward Lee
When Cassie's twin sister, Lissa, commits suicide, Cassie discovers she can travel to Hell to retrieve her sister's soul. Cassie thought she knew all about the Hell of legend, but finds Hell has evolved over the millennia into a bustling city full of the damned with looming skyscrapers, crowded streets, systemized evil, and atrocity as the status quo. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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The Conqueror Worms
by Brian Keene
Non-stop torrential rains have flooded most of the United States, destroying coastal cities. In West Virginia, the floods have forced mammoth carnivorous earthworms above ground to find food. Original.
