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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places (Paperback)

By Colin Dickey

$17.00

ISBN: 9781101980200

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Published: Penguin Books - October 3rd, 2017
The Apparitionists: A Tale of Phantoms, Fraud, Photography, and the Man Who Captured Lincoln's Ghost (Hardcover)

By Peter Manseau

$27.00

ISBN: 9780544745971

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Published: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt - October 10th, 2017
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Hardcover)

By Caitlin Doughty

$24.95

ISBN: 9780393249897

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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 3rd, 2017
The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel (Paperback)

By Margaret Atwood

$15.95

ISBN: 9780385490818

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Published: Anchor - March 16th, 1998
The Motion of Puppets: A Novel (Paperback)

By Keith Donohue

$16.00

ISBN: 9781250141194

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Published: Picador - October 3rd, 2017
The Lost Book of Ghostland by Tina Bentrup

$15.95

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Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)

By Tori Telfer

$15.99

ISBN: 9780062433732

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Published: Harper Perennial - October 10th, 2017
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters (Paperback)

By Emil Ferris

$39.99

ISBN: 9781606999592

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Published: Fantagraphics Books - February 14th, 2017
Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers (Hardcover)

By Taisia Kitaiskaia, Katy Horan (Illustrator)

$20.00

ISBN: 9781580056731

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Published: Seal Press - October 10th, 2017
Haunted Nights (Paperback)

By Lisa Morton (Editor), Ellen Datlow (Editor)

$16.95

ISBN: 9781101973837

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Published: Anchor - October 3rd, 2017
The Bone Mother (Paperback)

By David Demchuk

$17.99

ISBN: 9781771484213

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Published: Chizine Publications - July 18th, 2017
Collected Ghost Stories: (owc Hardback) (Oxford World's Classics Hardback Collection) (Hardcover)

By M. R. James, Darryl Jones (Editor)

$19.95

ISBN: 9780198797364

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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - June 1st, 2017
Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1) (Hardcover)

By Seanan McGuire

$17.99

ISBN: 9780765385505

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Published: Tor.com - April 5th, 2016
Zombies: An Anthropological Investigation of the Living Dead (Paperback)

By Philippe Charlier, Richard Gray (Translator)

$18.95

ISBN: 9780813054575

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Published: University Press of Florida - September 26th, 2017
The New Annotated Frankenstein (Hardcover)

By Mary Shelley, Leslie S. Klinger (Editor), Guillermo del Toro (Introduction by)

$35.00

ISBN: 9780871409492

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Published: Liveright Publishing Corporation - August 8th, 2017
The Exorcist: 40th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)

By William Peter Blatty

$14.99

ISBN: 9780062094360

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Published: Harper Paperbacks - October 4th, 2011
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories: (Penguin Orange Collection) (Paperback)

By H. P. Lovecraft, S. T. Joshi (Editor)

$18.00

ISBN: 9780143129455

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Published: Penguin Classics - October 18th, 2016
In Cold Blood (Vintage International) (Paperback)

By Truman Capote

$16.00

ISBN: 9780679745587

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Published: Vintage - February 1st, 1994
The Family Plot: A Novel (Hardcover)

By Cherie Priest

$25.99

ISBN: 9780765378248

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Published: Tor Books - September 20th, 2016
Skitter (Hatching #2) (Hardcover)

By Ezekiel Boone

ISBN: 9781501125072

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Published: Atria Books - May 2nd, 2017
The Graveyard Book: A Novel (Paperback)

By Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean

$16.99

ISBN: 9780062081551

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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - September 27th, 2011
The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Paperback)

By Angela Carter, Kelly Link (Introduction by)

$17.00

ISBN: 9780143107613

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Published: Penguin Classics - May 26th, 2015
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries) (Paperback)

By Bret Easton Ellis

$16.00

ISBN: 9780679735779

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Published: Vintage - March 6th, 1991
Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology (Paperback)

By Jonathan Maberry, George A. Romero, Brian Keene (Contributions by), Carrie Ryan (Contributions by), David J. Schow (Contributions by), David Wellington (Contributions by), Isaac Marion (Contributions by), Jay Bonansinga (Contributions by), Joe R. Lansdale (Contributions by), John Skipp (Contributions by), Max Brallier (Contributions by), Mike Carey (Contributions by), Mira Grant (Contributions by), Neal Shusterman (Contributions by), Keith R. A. DeCandido (Contributions by), Ryan Brown (Contributions by), John A. Russo (Contributions by), Craig E. Engler (Contributions by), Chuck Wendig (Contributions by), Brendan Shusterman (Contributions by)

$17.99

ISBN: 9781250112248

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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - July 11th, 2017
My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel (Paperback)

By Grady Hendrix

$14.99

ISBN: 9781594749766

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Published: Quirk Books - July 11th, 2017
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction (Paperback)

By Grady Hendrix

$24.99

ISBN: 9781594749810

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Published: Quirk Books - September 19th, 2017
The Smile Stealers: The Fine and Foul Art of Dentistry (Hardcover)

By Richard Barnett

$35.00

ISBN: 9780500519110

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Published: Thames & Hudson - May 23rd, 2017
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Everyman's Library Children's Classics Series) (Hardcover)

By Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)

$20.00

ISBN: 9781101907979

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Published: Everyman's Library - September 5th, 2017
Ghostly Tales: Spine-Chilling Stories of the Victorian Age (Hardcover)

By Various, Bill Bragg (Illustrator)

$22.95

ISBN: 9781452159270

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Published: Chronicle Books - July 25th, 2017

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