Guillermo del Toro

Christopher Golden

Dark & beautifully illustrated "guidebook"  that explores the faeries and folk horror elements that were portrayed in Guillermo del Toro's spooky movie. First Edition. The dust jacket has regular shelf wear but the book itself is 'Like New'.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)


An illustrated novel that dives into the world of the 2010 Miramax film "Don't be Afraid of the Dark." The movie is a PG-13 thriller written and produced by Guillermo del Toro, starring Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes, about a young girl sent to live with her father and his girlfriend. They move into a historic New England house, which is secretly inhabited by a brood of small creatures. These creatures seem at first to be playful figments of his daughter's imagination, but quickly turn into a deadly threat.

The book, co-written by Guillermo Del Toro and Christopher Golden, takes place a hundred years before the movie begins. It chronicles the travels and adventures of a young nature scientist who begins to understand there's more to the world than science understands.




Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: Blackwood's Guide to Dangerous Fairies

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Elizabeth Kostova

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

An "innovative" (The New Yorker) retelling of the story of Dracula. Told with the flourish and poise of a talented storyteller, Kostova turns the age-old tale into a compelling "late night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle) When a young woman discovers a cache of ancient letters, she is thrown into the turbulent history of her parents' dark pasts. Uncovering a labyrinthine trail of clues, she begins to reconstruct a staggering history of deceit and violence. Debut novelist Elizabeth Kostova creates an adventure of monumental proportions, a relentless tale that blends fact and fantasy, history and the present, with an assurance that is almost unbearably suspenseful and utterly unforgettable.

The Historian

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Marquis de Sade

Will McMorran

Thomas Wynn

Extremely disturbing book. Trigger warning for basically all forms of abuse. Condition is Like New because I purchased it new and only got 60pgs in before calling it quits.  

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A new translation of Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel

This horrible but hugely important text has influenced countless individuals throughout history- Flaubert and Baudelaire both read Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his writings; and feminists such as Simone de Beauvoir and Angela Carter clashed over him. This new translation brings Sade's provocative novel into Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite the debate around this most controversial of writers.

The 120 Days of Sodom

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Brom

Spooky novel about witchessss. With wicked illustrations.

"Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector.

The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil.

To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help.

Together, they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan – one that threatens to destroy the entire village, leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake." - Google books description



Set in Colonial New England, Slewfoot is a tale of magic and mystery, of triumph and terror as only dark fantasist Brom can tell it. Connecticut, 1666: An ancient spirit awakens in a dark wood. The wildfolk call him Father, slayer, protector. The colonists call him Slewfoot, demon, devil. To Abitha, a recently widowed outcast, alone and vulnerable in her pious village, he is the only one she can turn to for help. Together, they ignite a battle between pagan and Puritan – one that threatens to destroy the entire village, leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in their wake. This terrifying tale of bewitchery features more than two dozen of Brom’s haunting full-color paintings and brilliant endpapers, fully immersing readers in this wild and unforgiving world.

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

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Joyce Carol Oates

Hardcover short story collection in excellent condition.

From the inner flap of dust jacket:
 "Obsession with loss, fear of betrayal, and sudden violence plague the characters who inhabit these twenty-two stories in Will You Always Love Me? Joyce Carol Oates uses her talent like a scalpel to cut swiftly and precisely through the surface of everyday life to lay bare the powerful, perilous emotional currents swirling below. In the title story, a woman's rage over the savage murder of her sister years ago crowds out all reason and hope of happiness. A respectable suburban matron becomes her son's accomplice in sexually humiliating a glamorous new neighbor in the prize-winning "The Goose-Girl." In all of the stories-characters, male and female, young and old, rich and poor, sophisticated and naive-come to vivid life in a world of dangerous truths and fateful consequences. Joyce Carol Oates's uncanny eye for physical detail, her flawless ear for American speech, and her X-ray vision of the human heart and psyche make the stories she tells indelibly and inescapably real."

Obsession with loss, fear of betrayal, and sudden violence plague the characters who inhabit these twenty-two stories in Will You Always Love Me? Joyce Carol Oates uses her talent like a scalpel to cut swiftly and precisely through the surface of everyday life to lay bare the powerful, perilous emotional currents swirling below. In the title story, a woman's rage over the savage murder of her sister years ago crowds out all reason and hope of happiness. A respectable suburban matron becomes her son's accomplice in sexually humiliating a glamorous new neighbor in the prize-winning "The Goose-Girl." In all of the stories-characters, male and female, young and old, rich and poor, sophisticated and naive-come to vivid life in a world of dangerous truths and fateful consequences. Joyce Carol Oates's uncanny eye for physical detail, her flawless ear for American speech, and her X-ray vision of the human heart and psyche make the stories she tells indelibly and inescapably real.

Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories

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Colson Whitehead

Stephen O'Connor

Pasha Malla

Marisa Silver

Lydia Davis

Anthology of 4 stories with cool cover art.

From the publishers: 
"In our second issue, published in October 2009, National Book Award and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling comedian. Stephen O’Connor transports us to a cabin in the woods, where a young woman attempting to finish her dissertation in solitude becomes increasingly convinced she’s not alone. Pasha Malla follows a young writer as he explores how tragedy influences art—and how life falls short of it. Marisa Silver tells the tale of three sisters who perceive the truth about their parents through the eyes of some unexpected visitors. Finally, Man Booker winner and National Book Award finalist Lydia Davis’s solitary narrator acutely details the behavior of three cows who live in a pasture just across the road. Cover art by the Clayton Brothers: Rob Clayton and Christian Clayton."

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

In Electric Literature's Autumn 2009 anthology of short fiction, Colson Whitehead charts the rise to fame of a truth-telling comedian. Stephen O'Connor transports us to a cabin in the woods, where a young woman attempting to finish her dissertation in solitude becomes increasingly convinced she's not alone. Pasha Malla follows a young writer as he explores how tragedy influences art-and how life falls short of it. Marisa Silver tells the tale of three sisters who perceive the truth about their parents through the eyes of some unexpected visitors, and Lydia Davis' solitary narrator acutely details the behavior of three cows who live in a pasture just across the road.

Electric Literature No. 2

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Michael Cunningham

Jim Shepard

Lydia Millet

T. Cooper

Diana Wagman

Anthology of 4  stories with a cool cover. 

From the publisher: 
"Electric Literature is just that, electric—great stories that grab you. Revisit our June 2009 debut issue, featuring the first published excerpt from Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Cunningham’s novel By Nightfall (excerpted under the working title Olympia), as well as fiction from some of America’s most innovative and important contemporary writers, including Jim Shepard (whose story from the issue, “Your Fate Hurtles Down at You,” was included in The O. Henry Prize Stories), T Cooper, Pulitzer finalist Lydia Millet, and Diana Wagman. Their stories are charged with wit, incident, and emotional gravity right from the first sentence."

A literary anthology featuring writing by: Michael Cunningham Jim Shepard T. Cooper Lydia Millet Diana Wagman

Electric Literature No. 1

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Bram Stoker Awards Winner:

Gemma Files gifts us a collection of short spooky stories that are driven by deeply fleshed out characters. In these stories you'll find dark versions of angels, ancient artifacts being unearthed in a backyard, and in my favorite story of the bunch there is a familial cult that's trying to birth the antichrist. For fans of weird fiction and horrorlit.

*New & unread copy*



Blood From the Air

Limited Hardcover Edition (only 300 copies printed)

Stefan Grabinski, or the "Polish Poe" as some have nicknamed him, was an early master of the weird tale. In this beautiful short story collection you'll find stories that have been translated for the first time in English. A new introduction from the modern giant in weird fiction, Brian Evenson.

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Orchard of the Dead & Other Macabre Tales

Laird Barron

Gorgeous Hardcover Edition. EX LIBRARY COPY

"The Croning is a devastating exploration of dementia and a possible cause, and a deeply disturbing imagining of a modern day Rumpelstiltskin. Reading it is like being eaten from the inside out by termites. You have the gnawing sense that something is wrong, you feel ill...." - Karon Warren

Laird Barron's incredible novel in which he lets us in on the secrets of his Old Leech Mythos.



Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence, haunting us from the darkness looming beyond our firelight. Black magic, weird cults and worse things loom in the shadows. The Children of Old Leech have been with us from time immemorial. And they love us... Donald Miller, geologist and academic, has walked along the edge of a chasm for most of his nearly eighty years, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now, all things must converge. Donald will discover the dark secrets along the edges, unearthing savage truths about his wife Michelle, their adult twins, and all he knows and trusts. For Donald is about to stumble on the secret... ...of The Croning. From Laird Barron, Shirley Jackson Award-winning author of The Imago Sequence and Occultation, comes The Croning, a debut novel of cosmic horror. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

The Croning

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"The Croning is a devastating exploration of dementia and a possible cause, and a deeply disturbing imagining of a modern day Rumpelstiltskin. Reading it is like being eaten from the inside out by termites. You have the gnawing sense that something is wrong, you feel ill...." - Karon Warren

Laird Barron's incredible novel in which he lets us in on the secrets of his Old Leech Mythos.

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John Hornor Jacobs

Chuck Wendig

Two terrifying cosmic horror novellas complete this offering by John Horner Jacobs. In the foreword Chuck Wendig makes an apt comparison between Clive Barker and Jacobs. For fans of H.P. Lovecraft and Clive Barker.

EX LIBRARY BOOK as shown in last picture.

Two Tales of Cosmic Horror

The award-winning and critically-acclaimed master of horror returns with a pair of chilling tales—both never-before-published in print—that examine the violence and depravity of the human condition. Bringing together his acclaimed novella The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and an all-new short novel My Heart Struck Sorrow, John Hornor Jacobs turns his fertile imagination to the evil that breeds within the human soul. A brilliant mix of the psychological and supernatural, blending the acute insight of Roberto Bolaño and the eerie imagination of H. P. Lovecraft, The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky examines life in a South American dictatorship. Centered on the journal of a poet-in-exile and his failed attempts at translating a maddening text, it is told by a young woman trying to come to grips with a country that nearly devoured itself. In My Heart Struck Sorrow, a librarian discovers a recording from the Deep South—which may be the musical stylings of the Devil himself. Breathtaking and haunting, A Lush and Seething Hell is a terrifying and exhilarating journey into the darkness, an odyssey into the deepest reaches of ourselves that compels us to confront secrets best left hidden.

A Lush and Seething Hell

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Howard Philip Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft is perhaps the most influential horror author of all time. Here is a small paperback filled with some lesser known stories he wrote in collaboration with other authors. 

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A collection of short stories by the influential horror writer

The Horror in the Museum

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Jon Padgett

Jon Padgett created an online forum focusing on discussions about Thomas Ligotti's work and then went on to write his own Ligottian tales. This is his first and only collection of short stories. 

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With themes reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti, and Bruno Schulz, but with a strikingly unique vision, Jon Padgett's The Secret of Ventriloquism heralds the arrival of a significant new literary talent.


Padgett's work explores the mystery of human suffering, the agony of personal existence, and the ghastly means by which someone might achieve salvation from both. A bullied child who seeks vengeance within a bed's hollow box spring; a lucid dreamer haunted by an impossible house; a dummy that reveals its own anatomy in 20 simple steps; a stuttering librarian who holds the key to a mill town's unspeakable secrets; a commuter whose worldview is shattered by two words printed on a cardboard sign; an aspiring ventriloquist who spends a little too much time looking at himself in a mirror. And the presence that speaks through them all.

The Secret of Ventriloquism

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Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti is the master of atmospheric weird fiction and in his second collection we witness him get into his cosmic horror bag. Horror Lit at its finest. This is a first edition hardcover. 

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

His Lives and Works

Grimscribe

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Stephen Graham Jones has sky-rocketed into mainstream with his slasher novels like 'The Only Good Indians' and 'My Heart is a Chainsaw', and rightfully so. His two collections of short stories are a little more niche but their quality is undeniable. This is the latest of his two collections, and from the first press run. Each story is accompanied by a spooky illustration as shown in the last picture.

After The People Lights Have Gone Off

As the collection's title states, these are the best short stories that Michael Marshall Smith has penned when he's dabbling in the Horror. Subterranean Press, Out Of Print.

The Best of Michael Marshall Smith

Richard Gavin

Collection of short stories that ooze eerie folk horror. For fans of Thomas Ligotti and Weird Fiction. EMBOSSED as shown in last picture but other than that it's in excellent condition. Horror Literature at its finest.

Tales of Pastoral Darkness

From the preeminent author of At Fear s Altar and the occult manifesto The Benighted Pathcomes Sylvan Dread, Richard Gavin's fifth collection of preternatural tales. Bound within are thirteen nightmares exploring the Sinister Pastoral, the dominion which prevails at the intersection of mortal reckoning and the primoridum of malevolent Nature. As a meditation on the forces of predation and parasitism, monstrous fecundity and decay, and those hidden folk who occupy the spaces between the branches, Sylvan Dread evokes the primeval wood the place where all dreams and nightmares begin. In this isolate copse we witness the excavation of abominations long earthbound, the twilight of the rational, and the forgotten violence of the Dionysian Rite."

Sylvan Dread

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Centipede Press numbered limited edition. 

For fans of Weird Fiction here is a collection of short stories that range from horror to pulp to sci-fi. 

Out Of Print. 

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Guillermo del Toro; Christopher Golden

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark: Blackwood's Guide to Dangerous Fairies

Elizabeth Kostova

The Historian

Marquis de Sade

The 120 Days of Sodom

Brom

Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery

Joyce Carol Oates

Will You Always Love Me? And Other Stories

Colson Whitehead; Stephen O'Connor; Pasha Malla; Marisa Silver; Lydia Davis

Electric Literature No. 2

Michael Cunningham; Jim Shepard; Lydia Millet; T. Cooper; Diana Wagman

Electric Literature No. 1

Gemma Files

Blood From the Air

Stefan Grabinski

Orchard of the Dead & Other Macabre Tales

Laird Barron

The Croning

Laird Barron

The Croning

John Hornor Jacobs

A Lush and Seething Hell

H.P. Lovecraft

The Horror in the Museum

Jon Padgett

The Secret of Ventriloquism

Thomas Ligotti

Grimscribe

Stephen Graham Jones

After The People Lights Have Gone Off

Michael Marshall Smith

The Best of Michael Marshall Smith

Richard Gavin

Sylvan Dread

Bob Leman

Feesters in the Lake

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