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The Damnation Game

  • Author: Clive Barker
  • Publisher: Warner Books
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When you read a quote from Stephen King saying Clive Barker is the future of horror then you know you’re in for a treat when you pick one of Barker’s books up. But would The Damnation Game disappoint?

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Odd Thomas

  • Author: Dean Koontz
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Odd Thomas is a short order cook and can see the dead. Through Deans Koontz’s layering of information about his life we learn why Odd is a good name for Odd Thomas.

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One Door Away From Heaven

  • Author: Dean R. Koontz
  • Publisher: Headline
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Micky is a young woman with an unpleasant history. Leilani is a nine-year-old girl with an unpleasant present. But the fates have brought them together and maybe, just maybe, Micky can find peace by freeing Leilani from her terrible fate. A fate imposed by a famous believer in bioethics called Preston Maddoc, and his drug [...]

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Gerald’s Game

  • Author: Stephen King
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Gerald’s Game is set around a lakeside holiday cabin in the USA. A married couple, Jessie and Gerald, have gone there for a ‘naughty’ break. However, during the game that Gerald likes to play Jessie realises that she’s had enough. She wants him to stop, but he doesn’t stop. And quick as a flash Jessie [...]

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The Piaculum

  • Author: Richard C. Gray
  • Publisher: iUniverse Inc.
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The Piaculum is set in some unspecified time, but could be interpreted as a future Earth. At one time there was great technology in place but it was all destroyed during some form of catastrophe. This world is populated by two tribes of people, the Mone and the Kathe. The two tribes share a joint [...]

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The Shining

  • Author: Stephen King
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Jack Torrance and his family have been going through troubled times. He lost his job through alcohol, so when his friend found there was an opportunity for work their troubles appeared to be over, at least for a while. However, the job was to look after an old hotel over the winter where they’ll be [...]

Domain

  • Author: James Herbert
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Domain is set in ‘the not to distant future…’ in London. The unthinkable has happened. Someone has pushed-the-button and unleashed hell on Great Britain. London has been hit by at least five nuclear bombs, which have levelled this once proud capital and all but annihilated its citizens. When the sirens sounded panic gripped most, but [...]

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Weaveworld

  • Author: Clive Barker
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
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The Seerkind, a magical race, needed somewhere to hide or face extinction. Using all their strongest raptures they wove their most valuble posessions, their favourite places and themselves into a carpet. This way the evil force set against them would be unable to find them. But, the land of the Cuckoos (humans) is a dangerous [...]