Best Horror Writers Today - April 2024

Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers (Now Write! Series)

Featuring speculative fiction-writing exercises from Harlan Ellison (R), Piers Anthony, Ramsey Campbell, Jack Ketchum, screenwriters of The Twilight Zone and Star Trek: The Next Generation, and many more. The fifth volume in the acclaimed Now Write! writing-guide series offers a full toolbox of advice and exercises for speculative fiction writers hoping to craft an engaging alternate reality, flesh out an enthralling fantasy quest, or dream up a bloodcurdling plot twist, including:-Harlan Ellison (R), on crafting the perfect story title-Jack Ketchum, on how economy of language helps create a ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 039916555X
• ASIN: 039916555X
• ISBN: 039916555X
• Brand: Tarcher
• Manufacturer: TarcherPerigee

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Erik Larson—author of #1 bestseller In the Garden of Beasts—intertwines the true tale of the 1893 World's Fair and the cunning serial killer who used the fair to lure his victims to their death. Combining meticulous research with nail-biting storytelling, Erik Larson has crafted a narrative with all the wonder of newly discovered history and the thrills of the best fiction.

• ASIN: 0375725601
• UPC: 884510967318
• ASIN: 0375725601
• ISBN: 0375725601
• Brand: Erik Larson
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Homegoing

Winner of the PEN/ Hemingway AwardWinner of the NBCC's John Leonard AwardShortlisted for the British Book Award - Debut of the YearA New York Times Notable BookA Washington Post Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, Time, Oprah.com, Harper’s Bazaar, San Francisco Chronicle, Mother Jones, Esquire, Elle, Paste, Entertainment Weekly, the Skimm, PopSugar, Minneapolis Star Tribune, BuzzFeed, The Guardian, Financial Times  Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101971061
• ASIN: 1101971061
• ISBN: 1101971061
• Brand: VINTAGE
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Beloved

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadStaring unflinchingly into the abyss of slavery, this spellbinding novel transforms history into a story as powerful as Exodus and as intimate as a lullaby. Sethe, its protagonist, was born a slave and escaped to Ohio, but eighteen years later she is still not free. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where so many hideous things happened. And Sethe’s new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1400033411
• ASIN: 1400033411
• ISBN: 1400033411
• Brand: Morrison, Toni
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Shirley Jackson: Novels and Stories (The Lottery / The Haunting of Hill House / We Have Always Lived in the Castle)

In one volume: The Haunting of Hill House, The Lottery, and much more, including We Have Always Lived in the Castle, now a major motion picture starring Taissa Farmiga and Sebastian Stan"The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable," writes A. M. Homes. "It is a place where things are not what they seem; even on a morning that is sunny and clear there is always the threat of darkness looming, of things taking a turn for the worse." In this Library of America volume Joyce Carol Oates, our leading practitioner of the contemporary Gothic, presents the essential works of Shirley Jacks... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1598530720
• ASIN: 1598530720
• ISBN: 1598530720
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

The Underground Railroad (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner) (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestseller from Colson Whitehead, a magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad for Cora; an outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is coming into womanhood—where even greater pain awaits. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01A4ATV0A
• ASIN: B01A4ATV0A
• Manufacturer: Anchor

The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft (Chartwell Classics)

The Complete Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes, that have influenced some of today's important writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson, Guillermo del Toro, and Neil Gaiman. Included in this volume are The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath," "A... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0785834206
• ASIN: 0785834206
• ISBN: 0785834206
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Chartwell Books

Through the Eyes of a Lion: Facing Impossible Pain, Finding Incredible Power

What will you do when the unthinkable happens in your life?Her parents called her Lenya Lion because of her ferocious personality and hair that had been wild and mane-like since birth. But they never expected that, five days before Christmas, their five-year-old daughter would suddenly go to heaven after an asthma attack. How do you walk out of an emergency room without your daughter?In Through the Eyes of a Lion, Pastor Levi Lusko shares the eye-opening truth of the power of hope in a world that is often filled with pain, suffering, and loss. He says, "This book isn't a manual for grieving,... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0718032144
• UPC: 884704031801
• ASIN: 0718032144
• ISBN: 0718032144
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

Rock-a-bye Baby (Horror Stories from Denmark Book 1)

A horrifying psychological thriller. If you like American Psycho you’ll love this novella.Lisa Rasmussen just had a baby and everything in her life seems perfect at this point. Only she wishes that everyone else around her would be as flawless as she is and stop getting in her way. And if they won't listen, then she'll make them.ROCK-A-BYE BABY is Willow Rose when she is at her most horrifying. Every page of this book is oozing with dread. “This serial killer makes Hitchcock's "Norman Bates" look like a good guy!" - Amazon reviewer

• ASIN: B00CNXR8H0
• ASIN: B00CNXR8H0
• Manufacturer: BUOY MEDIA

All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, Book 1)

The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthy's Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself.  With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.  Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction.

• ASIN: 0679744398
• ASIN: 0679744398
• ISBN: 9780679744399
• Brand: Vintage
• Manufacturer: Vintage

You'll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

 You’ll get through this.It won’t be painless.It won’t be quick.But God will use this mess for good.Don’t be foolish or naïve.But don’t despair either.With God’s help, you’ll get through this. You fear you won't make it through. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will never stop, the pain will never leave. In the pits, surrounded by steep walls and aching reminders, we wonder: Will this gray sky ever brighten? This load ever lighten?In You'll Get Through This, pastor and New York Times best-selling author, Max Lucado offers sweet assurance. ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0718031512
• ASIN: 0718031512
• ISBN: 0718031512
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

On Desperate Ground: The Marines at The Reservoir, the Korean War's Greatest Battle

"Superb...A masterpiece of thorough research, deft pacing and arresting detail...This war story — the fight to break out of a frozen hell near the Chosin Reservoir — has been told many times before. But Sides tells it exceedingly well, with fresh research, gritty scenes and cinematic sweep."—Washington PostFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and In the Kingdom of Ice, a chronicle of the extraordinary feats of heroism by Marines called on to do the impossible during the greatest battle of the Korean WarOn October 15, 1950, General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Com... [Read More]

• ASIN: B078VWRSXM
• ASIN: B078VWRSXM
• Manufacturer: Doubleday

There There: A novel

• ASIN: 0525520376
• ASIN: 0525520376
• ISBN: 0525520376
• Manufacturer: Knopf

Ricochet Joe [Kindle in Motion] (Kindle Single)

Can an ordinary guy make extraordinary choices in a battle between humanity and unearthly evil?Joe Mandel is a perfectly ordinary guy from a perfectly ordinary town—a college student and community volunteer who dreams of one day publishing a novel. When a series of strange intuitions leads him to a crime in progress, Joe jumps headlong into danger without hesitation. In the aftermath, he wonders about the uncanny impulse that suddenly swept over him.Until new friend Portia Montclair, the strangely wise daughter of the local police chief, explains to him what sent him ricocheting around town... [Read More]

• ASIN: B077YX73SK
• ASIN: B077YX73SK
• Manufacturer: Amazon Original Stories

Oryx and Crake (The MaddAddam Trilogy)

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleOryx and Crake is at once an unforgettable love story and a compelling vision of the future. Snowman, known as Jimmy before mankind was overwhelmed by a plague, is struggling to survive in a world where he may be the last human, and mourning the loss of his best friend, Crake, and the beautiful and elusive Oryx whom they both loved. In search of answers, Snowman embarks on a journey–with the help of the green-eyed Children of Crake–through the lush wilderness that was so recently a great city, until powerful corporation... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0385721676
• ASIN: 0385721676
• ISBN: 0385721676
• Brand: Anchor Books
• Manufacturer: Anchor

Tales Of Terror: 200 Horror Movies

Originally released as a motion picture in

• UPC: 35433209
• Color: YOther
• Rating: 5.0

Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft

"H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."--Stephen King"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear

• UPC: 470079
• Rating: 4.467

Blood Lite : An Anthology of Humorous Horror Stories Presented by the Horror Writers Association

In the tradition of "Shaun of the Dead" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" comes a frightfest of horrifying and hilarious stories from members of the Horror Writers Association, featuring "New York Times"-bestselling authors Charlain Harris,

• UPC: 9852320
• Rating: 3.25

Children of the Night : The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to Present

In 1969, Little, Brown and Company published The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, edited by Langston Hughes - the classic compendium of African-American short fiction from 1897 to 1967. Now, a quarter of a

• UPC: 53328607

George Orwell's Guide Through Hell : A Psychological Study of Nineteen Eighty Four (the Milford Series. Popular Writers of Today, V. 41)

It is difficult now to recall the enormous impact that George Orwell's classic dystopia, Nineteen Eighty-Four, had on the psyche of the western world. Written by a dying man in the grimmest of circumstances, the

• UPC: 53373730

The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2018 Edition

The supernatural, the surreal, and the all-too real . . . tales of the dark. Such stories have always fascinated us, and modern authors carry on the disquieting traditions of the past while inventing imaginative

• UPC: 760717475

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 21 - eBook

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers.As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most

• UPC: 292533892
• Rating: 3.0

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 - eBook

The year's best, and darkest, tales of terror, showcasing the most outstanding new short stories and novellas by both contemporary masters of the macabre and exciting newcomers.As ever, this acclaimed anthology also offers the most

• UPC: 105547658
• Rating: 4.0

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 2003 - eBook

The finest exponents of horror fiction writing today, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Graham Joyce, Paul McCauley, Stephen Gallagher, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Basil Cooper, Glen Hirshberg, Jay Russell, feature in the world's

• UPC: 721899426
• Rating: 4.0

Best Horror from Fantasy Tales - eBook

This illustrated collection includes stories by the world's leading masters of the macabre, including Clibe Barker, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber and Dennis

• UPC: 307299235