Eighteenth-century Naples provides the setting for the pain, fears, resentments, desires, and triumphs of peasant-born Guido Maffeo and patrician-born Tonio Treschi, two castrati--mentor and angel-voiced student--who strive passionate...

In the fall of 1978 (between The Stand and The Dead Zone), Stephen King taught a course at the University of Maine on 'Themes in Supernatural Literature.' As he writes in the foreword to this book, he was nervous at the prospect of '...

A prequel to Monster Island finds National Guard captain Bannerman Clark investigating a wave of cannibalism that has swept across the nation's heartland and is threatening Los Angeles, a bizarre phenomenon with possible ties to a hig...

The long-time Enforcer of Washington, D.C., the vampire Olympias is suddenly faced with challenges to her authority as her devoted human servant becomes restless, a secret government project threatens to expose the existence of vampir...

From award-winning author Brian Keene comes a darkly suspenseful tale of crime and the common man–with a surprising jolt of the supernatural…Tommy O’Brien once hoped to leave his run-down industrial hometown. But mar...

A star-studded cast of readers present unabridged tales of horror and suspense from Stephen King's classic bestselling short story collection.

One hundred years ago, a bizarre creature was bricked up inside a tunnel by terrified workers. Now, in the present, Chance Matthew has just inherited a collection of strange fossils from her recently deceased geologist grandfather. Th...

Returning home to Salem, Massachusetts, to perform at a weeklong music festival, Megan O'Casey and her husband Finn come face-to-face with terror when an ominous force possesses them both, forcing them to participate in an ancient rit...

In 1984, Timmy Graco and his friends find their summer vacation plagued by terror, adventure, and evil when they stumble upon a nightmarish creature eating the dead in a local cemetery, who then starts attacking the living, forcing th...

From the Bram Stoker Award-winning "horror poet laureate" (Stephen King) When Gary's girlfriend Joan vanishes, calls to her parents' home yield only dead air. Her school records are gone. There is no longer any evidence tha...

RESURRECTION! The hungry dead have risen.  They shamble down the street.  They hide in back yards, car lots, shopping malls.  They devour neighbors, dogs and police officers.  And they are here to stay.  The real question is, wha...

Jake Richmond descends into the subways of Manhattan, looking for his lost love. Naomi went into the tunnels to destroy herself--but found an even more terrible fate awaiting her in the twisting corridors. Now Jake must find her and b...

Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader—his tone murderous one mo...

Entranced by a beautiful woman named Marianna who only seems to show up when his wife is out of the room, David is losing sight of the fact that he and his wife went to the beach house to try and save their troubled marriage. After se...

Alex and Leslie Twisden lead charmed lives-fabulous jobs, a luxurious town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, a passionate marriage. What they don't have is a child, and as they try one infertility treatment after the next, yearnin...

The Pentagon holds many secrets, but none are more deadly than what is kept hidden beneath the basement in a cryogenic freeze. It has claws that could cut a man in half and an insatiable appetite for human flesh...and someone just wok...

From Chicago to San Francisco, Boston to Seattle, every city in America has more than its fair share of ghostly inhabitants. The authors introduce these phantasmic urban figures, with a chilling collection about historic and modern d...

Trolls, he thought. That's what it was. Religious people believed God ran the world. Atheists figured it was indifferent nature. But it was trolls. Sadistic little homunculi in leather jackets with lots of zippers. Hiding behind the ...

One of the hottest up-and-coming authors, Moore has received many comparisons to Stephen King for this tale of possessed teens.

When he returns to college after winter break, Cal Prentiss is stunned to discover that someone was brutally murdered in his dorm room while he was gone, and as he sets out to find the truth about the horrible crime, he comes face to ...

When women start giving birth to carnivorous spider-like creatures that use humans as food upon their entry into this world, a group of survivors must find a way to stop the madness and save humanity. Original.

The graffiti spread through London that summer like wildfire. Its population carried on with life as usual in one of the richest cities on the planet. But beneath the surface there is change. Men and women are going missing without tr...

He was a stringy mongrel, wandering the streets of the city, driven by a ravenous hunger and hunting a prey he could not define. But he was something more. Somewhere in the depths of his consciousness was a memory clawing its way to t...

Some of today's leading masters of speculative fiction, dark fantasy, and horror contribute a collection of original tales of the macabre in an anthology that features works by Neil Gaiman, Poppy Z. Brite, Yvonne Navarro, Tanith Lee, ...

After his identity and life is stolen by a mysterious imposter, mathematician Chris Barton must elude killers as he follows a series of cryptic messages that lead him around the world to a rendezvous with an enigmatic woman. By the au...

It begins as a lark -- a harmless diversion initiated by Washington, D.C., hostess Ruth Bennett as a means of entertaining her visiting niece, Sara. But the séance conducted in Ruth's elegant Georgetown home calls something back;...

The pulse-pounding conclusion to the HATER trilogy!The war that has torn the human race apart is finally nearing its end. With most towns and cities now uninhabitable, and with the country in the grip of a savage nuclear winter, both ...

They only come when it snows, and nobody ever gets away. A group of close friends gathers at a secluded cabin in the wintry mountains of Colorado for a final holiday hurrah. Instead, it may be their last stand. First a massive blizzar...

Some of today's leading horror writers--including Stephen King, Peter Straub, Joyce Carol Oates, F. Paul Wilson, Richard Laymon, and Dennis Etchison--select some of their favorite classic tales of horror and the macabre, such as Hawth...

Mister B. Gone marks the long-awaited return of Clive Barker, the great master of the macabre, to the classic horror story. This bone-chilling novel, in which a medieval devil speaks directly to his reader—his tone murderous one mo...