Bentley Little
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Diese Universität erteilt den Studenten eine Lektion …
An der berühmten Universität von Kalifornien hat ein neues Semester begonnen und plötzlich bricht auf dem Campus der pure Wahnsinn aus. Brutale Vergewaltigungen, Folter, Suizid und Morde häufen sich.
Die beiden Studenten Jim und Faith suchen nach einer Erklärung. Bald entdecken sie etwas wirklich Furchterregendes. Offenbar gibt es eine unheimliche Macht, die den Campus zu eigenständigem...
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The +Horror Library+ anthologies are internationally praised as a groundbreaking source of contemporary horror short fiction stories-relevant to the moment and stunning in impact-from leading authors of the macabre and darkly imaginative.
Filled with Fears and Fantasy. Death and Dark Dreams. Monsters and Mayhem. Literary Vision and Wonder. Each volume of the +Horror Library+ series is packed with heart-pounding thrills and creepy contemplations as...
3) The walking
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Miles Huerdeen becomes obsessed with the "walkers", dead people who are following a strange compulsion.
4) The town
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In this new novel by an author Stephen King calls "the master of suspense, " a man returns to the quaint Arizona community of his youth, only to find that something so bad once happened there that no one goes out after dark. Now, this evil is showing itself in the nightmares of the man's young son.
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Cathy was six when the man next door killed his wife and himself.
It was early morning and she was playing outside when she heard the first shot.
And then another shot. And another.
The sounds echoed around the neighborhood like thunder. People came out of their houses to see what was happening.
Later, she saw the blood and the bodies....Now, the house is no longer vacant. Someone new has moved in. Something terrible is happening to the neighbors....
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For the town of Randall, Arizona, the terror starts quietly, oddly-a senile woman in her eighties becomes pregnant. Then the town's beloved minister mysteriously disappears, leaving his church and home hideously defiled by blasphemous obscenities scrawled in blood. Farmers going out to their fields in the morning find their herds of goats slaughtered. Then, as the terror intensifies, the farmers themselves are massacred. The town begins to smell of...
7) The Bank
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"We know who you are! Can your current bank say that? We pride ourselves on providing unparalled service to all of our customers. We're looking forward to banking with YOU!" In the small town of Montgomery, Arizona, Kyle Decker's book shop is barely breaking even. When a bank opens in the empty storefront next door, he hopes the new establishment will bring in more foot traffic. Trouble is, nobody has ever heard of The First People's Bank, and the...
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Darkness is descending on the small town of Rio Verde, Arizona. An evil older than time is rising from the desert, waiting for night to fall and a reign of terror to begin... Brad Woods has performed a lot of autopsies, but never one like this. The body is purged of all blood. Fear has made Sue Wing run from the darkened school and into night, a fear so powerful she can only name it using the Cantonese myths of her grandmother: Cup-hu-girngsi... the...
9) The Resort
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Bram Stoker award-winner Bentley Little cordially invites you to The Resort.
Welcome to The Reata, an exclusive spa isolated in the Arizona desert. Please ignore the strange employees and that unspeakable thing in the pool. And when guests start disappearing, pretend it isn't happening. Enjoy your stay, and relax. Oh...and lock yourself in after dark.
Opulent doesn't begin to describe the Arizona getaway where Lowell Thurman, his wife Rachel, and...
10) The Policy
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After his divorce, Hunt Jackson decides to start over in Tucson, where an old buddy fixes him up with his wife's friend, Beth. The attraction is immediate, and they're married a few months later. But Hunt's happiness is marred by his bizarre encounter with an insurance agent whose insistence that Hunt increase his coverage sounds, incredibly, like a threat. The agent - tall, gaunt, oddly dressed in an old-fashioned suit and fedora - is himself a menacing...
11) The Circle
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"The shrine. How does it operate? Do you just pray to it or do you have to bring it something or what?"
In this unsettling novella by Bentley Little, many strange occurrences unsettle the inhabitants of William Tell Circle:
For Helen, a knock on the door brings an unexpected visitor along with lavish gifts, and it seems all her wishes have been granted...but at what cost?
For young Frank and his friends, a fabled neighborhood shrine may answer...
12) Gloria
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Considering she had just attended her mother's funeral, Gloria Jaymes never expected to see the woman again, but then her dead mom shows up at her house.Gloria's mom is... different. She's younger than when she died, dressed in clothes from the 1980s. And nobody else in Gloria's family seems to recognize her.As Gloria tries to figure out the reason for her mother's reappearance and the odd behaviors the woman begins to exhibit other bizarre events...
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A haunting tale of a missing girl that could only have come from the mind of Bram Stoker Award-winning author Bentley Little. The festival was intended as a getaway from UCLA for Gary, his girlfriend, Joan, and their friends. But soon after they arrive, Joan vanishes. Calls to her parents' home yield only dead air. Her school records are gone. And there's no evidence that Joan, or even her roommate, ever existed. Most disturbing of all is what they...
14) The Vanishing
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In Beverly Hills, a wealthy CEO goes on a bloody rampage and videotapes the slaughter. He leaves behind a chilling cryptic message..."This is where it begins."
Miles away, an alarmed mother receives an unsettling letter from her estranged husband, stained with bloody fingerprints.
And all across California, children are becoming affected by a monstrous change-and their parents, by a mounting fear.
Social worker Carrie Daniels and reporter Brian...
15) The Academy
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"Master of the macabre"* Bentley Little offers a new lesson in fear with this terrifying horror novel. With a promise of more freedom and a chance to get out from under the thumb of a reactionary school board, the teachers of Tyler High have voted to become a charter school. Instructors and parents alike are thrilled with the prospect of independence. And yet... The formerly laid-back principal has become unusually strict. And with her toadying secretary,...
16) The ignored
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Cemetery Dance Publications
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2017.
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429 pages ; 21 cm
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"Bob Jones is your ordinary guy, with a good job and a pretty girlfriend. Yet Bob does have one problem. Nobody notices him, nobody remembers him. In a life where the common man goes unrecognized, Bob Jones is completely ignored. One day Bob Jones is noticed. He is remembered. The person who finally sees Bob is a stranger who calls himself Philipe, and Bob may end up wishing he had remained unseen because what Philipe has in mind is something horrible....
17) The store
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Signet Books
Pub. Date
c1998
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431 p. ; 17 cm.
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Bill Davis is the onlyman in Juniper, Arizona, who senses that there is something rotten about a giant retailer's new branch and its creepy employees, and when his daughters take jobs at The Store, he is forced to act.
18) The haunted
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Berkley
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2020.
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Berkley trade paperback edition.
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347 pages ; 21 cm
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Julian and Claire Perry and their two children, Megan and James, have made the move to a bigger, nicer home in their city's historic district. But something isn't right. The neighbors seem reluctant to visit. Claire can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Megan receives increasingly menacing and obscene texts. And James is having terrible dreams. No wonder, considering what he's seen in the corner of the basement, staring at him and...
19) After Death
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Death. Who has not considered their own mortality and wondered at what awaits, once our frail human shell expires? What occurs after the heart stops beating, after the last breath is drawn, after life as we know it terminates?
Does our spirit remain on Earth while the mortal body rots? Do remnants of our soul transcend to a celestial Heaven or sink to Hell's torment? Are we offered choices in an individualized afterlife? Can we die again in the hereafter?...