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NEW RELEASE Special Order: The author has agreed to sign/inscribe books for a $5 fee. If you should like to add this to your order, please send a note whether you would like a simple autograph or a custom inscription—perfect for gifts! First Edition, First Printing. Unpaged [189 p.] From the back: Abhorrent: A Collection travels down dark, twisted pathways. The collection of thirteen stories does not tread lightly and clutches at the depths of the macabre. Readers be warned, these are not for the faint of heart. These stories tend to make the heart race and the mind question the strangers that walk beside us. [NOTE: Book is shipping from USA, so orders in the USA will have the shipping discounted to $8.50 and orders in Canada will require an extra shipping charge of $4.00.]

39 p.; one illustration.Stain to p.vi (see image) and very mild shelfwear, otherwise Near Fine. From the back: A young man named Atrum has a haunting dream that he cant seem to understand. As he tries to understand this recurring dream, the events in his life takes a similar turn. He meets a girl named Stella, who he realizes is the only focus of his dream. As he spends more and more time in her company, his life takes an epic turn. Tragedy hits and Atrum slowly learns what he needs to, to make his reality less of a nightmare and to start controlling his own life, and to live his dreams. Alongside his friends Ray , Stella and Hao, Atrum changes the fate of everyone's lives. Question is, if Atrum is saving everyone from the beasts that spawned from darkness, who will save him from his own dark mind?

499 p. Very mild shelfwear to edges, otherwise Fine / As New. From back cover:IN THE BOWERS FILES NOVELS, FBI SPECIAL AGENT PATRICK BOWERS HAS STOPPED SOME OF THE MOST VICIOUS SERIAL KILLERS EVER IMAGINED. NOW, IN THE LATEST EXCITING INSTALLMENT, AUTHOR STEVEN JAMES TAKES READERS BACK TO BOWERS'S TERRIFYING BEGINNING.Milwaukee, 1997. In a city reeling from the crimes of Jeffrey Dahmer, a series of gruesome kidnappings and mutilations draws authorities into a case like nothing they've ever seen. Cops think a Dahmer copycat is on the loose. But Patrick Bowers, working as a homicide detective, suspects this is more than an ode to the infamous cannibal. When he discovers that the shocking acts reference some of the most notorious and macabre killers in our nation's history, the investigation spirals into a nightmare of manipulation, brutality, and terror.Wielding groundbreaking investigative techniques, Bowers must now face off with a killer who will stop at nothing to get his message out to the world.… Read More

317 p. Mild wear to extremities and spine (see images, the top was missed in scan, but is in a similar state as bottom edge/heel) with faint "6" stamp to bottom foredge and faint water stains to top and bottom corners, otherwise Very Good+ with pages remaining clean, clear, and tightly bound. From front cover: What were the doctors doing to the children? The scariest medical thriller since Coma! From back cover: THEY WANTED TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE AFRAID TO IMAGINE Fritz and Beth Engstrom wanted to know what had happened to their child whom the clinic pronounced dead–for Beth was sure she still lived. Writer Pete Collins wanted to know what the little lost boy he had found was trying to tell him–and what was behind the terror in his tortured eyes. Attendant Julie Lind wanted to know what was really going on in the place where she worked, and why the behavior of the children there seemed so strange. All of them would do anything to find out the terrifying secret that no one would believe....

RARE. 27 p.; ill. Ex-library (the now-defunct Junto Local 91 Radical Library of Winnipeg) with stamp, sticker, and number in pen to covers. Very mild shelfwear with extremely light soiling to covers, and staples beginning to rust, but remains internally Fine. An artistic zine consisting largely of comics and reviews. Its stand-out features include a very professional-looking comic by Dr. Anderson, titled "One Day at the Mortuary", and an illustrated article about the COBRA group (artists from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam).

First Edition stated. Minor wear to extremities and slight curl to front cover, with a faint "8" stamp to bottom foredge, otherwise Near Fine, clean, clear and tightly bound. From back cover: Every old house has a legacy. And through the spirit of a single, small girl the legacy of a single, old house will stand revealed in all its raw and murderous evil. Nothing can put the evil to rest except one solitary, unnameable act. An act that, whatever the terror, whatever the cost, only the innocent can accomplish.

First two books of trilogy. Book 1 - 382 p. ; generously illustrated. Near Fine, very minor edgewear in some places and corner of rear cover has slight dogear.Book 2 - 428 p. ; generously illustrated. Fine / As New. From the back cover of Miss Peregrine's...:"A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story." —John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss… Read More

Second Printing stated. 148 p.; ill. Gray hardcover, with gilt lettering to black cloth spine, has minor edgewear and fading, a tiny brown mark to ffep, and expected aging to pages, but is otherwise Near Fine. Dust jacket, which shows some aging and edgewear, including sunning, small tears, chips, and abrasions, is housed in a protective removable plastic sleeve to prevent further wear. Please see listing images.From the dust jacket: In his eighty-first year our greatest living philosopher, shortly after winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, has turned to fiction. "A few words may be in order," writes Lord Russell, "to mitigate any surprise that might be felt. I do not think that the reader's surprise to find me attempting stories can be greater than my own. For some reason entirely unknown to me I suddenly wished to write the stories in this volume, although I had never before thought of doing such a thing. I am incapable of critical judgment in this field and I do not know whether the stories have… Read More

First Edition (UK). 227 p.; ill. Black cloth hardcover shows minor edgewear and slight bumping, a small mark to foredge, and slightly shaken, but otherwise tightly bound in Fine condition with clear illustrations (see list of illustrations). Price-clipped dust jacket shows moderate wear, including closed tears and some minor chipping, but is housed in a removable protective sleeve to prevent further wear. From dust jacket: "The eight studies in his new volume are frequently gruesome. Ghouls will have their fill of the macabre. Nevertheless, horror has not been the aim. Every case Mr. Smith-Hughes selects—with an exploration of the surrounding human circumstances —has some special interest from the point of view of justice. His chief interest is for minds not depraved, but enlightened" —Liverpool Daily Post. Mr. Smith-Hughes has proved his ability to wear the mantle of the late William Roughead with his previous books Unfair Comment and Eight Studies in Justice. His new collection of criminals is… Read More

First thus. 160 p.; ill. ; includes Book Group Reading Notes. Very minor wear to covers/edges, otherwise Near Fine.A special edition printed for a city-wide reading campaign with exclusive sketches by Cam Kennedy and an introduction by Ian Rankin. The Book Group Reading Notes discuss "shilling shockers", the author's inspiration, how it relates to the sci-fi genre, etc.From the back cover:"Born of a nightmare" and "produced in white-hot haste", the first manuscript of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, was thrown into a fire, but the second telling of this dark, gothic tale became a publishing sensation in 1886.John Utterson, a respectable London lawyer, is drawn into a gruesome tale as he uncovers strange connections between his old friend, the brilliant scientist Dr Henry Jekyll, and the brooding stranger, Edward Hyde. As he investigates Jekyll's mysterious life he uncovers a truly terrifying story of deception ...

242 p. Very Good full-colour illustrated dust jacket has mild shelfwear, including a nick to top of spine and small (1cm) tear to top edge of front. Book itself is Near Fine, with only mild bumping to tip and heel of spine. Tightly bound (appears unread).

550 p. Book is worn on the outside with some superficial tears/nicks, and a few dog-ears, but the text block from the title page to the end of the book is in great condition, clean and bright. Sequel to Interview with the Vampire. As with the first book in the series, the novel begins with a frame narrative. After over a half century underground, Lestat awakens in the 1980s to the cacophony of electronic sounds and images that characterizes the MTV generation. Particularly, he is captivated by a fledgling rock band named Satan's Night Out. Determined both to achieve international fame and end the centuries of self-imposed vampire silence, Lestat takes command of the band (now renamed "The Vampire Lestat") and pens his own autobiography. The remainder of the novel purports to be that autobiography: the vampire traces his mortal youth as the son of a marquis in pre-Revolutionary France, his initiation into vampirism at the hands of Magnus, and his quest for the ultimate origins of his undead species.… Read More

First (Dell) Printing. 244 p. Very very minor wear to covers, otherwise Near Fine. Winner of the Vicky Metcalf Award for a Body of Work, Witchery Hill brought Katz a nomination for the Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award. From back cover: Mike Lewis is excited about spending the summer with his journalist father on the Channel Island of Guernsey. There he mets his father's friend, Tony St. George, and his wife, Janine, a native of the island, and Lisa, Tony's daughter.At first, Lisa doesn't care for Mike's company, but they join forces when Mike learns that Lisa believes a coven of witches meets each Friday night at a prehistoric tomb on the hill behind her father's house. What's most shocking is that Lisa is certain that her stepmother is one of the witches. It's difficult for Mike to accept the idea of real witchery. But as one terrifying event leads to another, Mike can no longer deny that some force is out to destroy Tony and Lisa. Is it after him too?