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2) Imaginary
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From Blumhouse comes a chilling tale of childhood and repressed memories of the past. After Jessica moves back into her childhood home in Louisiana with her family, the reappearance of an imaginary friend from her youth sets in motion a threatening scavenger hunt with Jessica's stepdaughter, Alice. As Jessica's memories begin to surface, aided by cryptic stories from an elderly neighbor about a portal to the spirit world, she realizes the imaginary...
4) Perpetrator
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Jonny Baptiste is a reckless teen sent to live with her estranged Aunt Hildie. On the event of her 18th birthday, she experiences a radical metamorphosis: a family spell that redefines her called Forevering. When several teen girls go missing from her new school, a mythically feral Jonny goes after the Perpetrator.
5) The Shining
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A man, his son and wife become the winter caretakers of an isolated hotel where Danny, the son, sees disturbing visions of the hotel's past using a telepathic gift known as 'The Shining.' The father, Jack Torrance, is underway in a writing project when he slowly slips into insanity as a result of cabin fever and former guests of the hotels ghost's. After being convinced by a waiter's ghost to correct the family, Jack goes completely insane.
6) The Birds
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Humans must flee for their lives as birds try to stage a bloody attack on the civilized world.
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While investigating the mysterious death of a diver, scuba instructor Anne Kimbrough makes a horrific discovery: Piranha-like fish, with wings that enable them to fly, are responsible. As the body count rises, Anne desperately tries to convince the resort's manager to call off the annual fish fry on the beach, but he’s determined to give his guests the ultimate 'feeding frenzy'.
9) Seizure
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Edmund sees his recurring nightmare come to chilling life one weekend evening when he and his family and friends are terrorized and killed off one by one by the Queen of Evil and her servants, a dwarf named Spider, and a giant scar-faced strongman call Jackal.
10) Psycho
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An unsuspecting victim visits the Bates Motel and falls prey to one of cinema's most notorious psychopaths - Norman Bates.
12) The Night Guest
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In this eerie and ensnaring English debut novel set in contemporary Reykjavik, Idunn knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something's not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven't revealed any cause. One, Night Idunn falls asleep with a watch on, and wakes up to find shes walked over 40,000 steps in the night. What is happening when shes asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why wont...
13) Cape Fear
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Fourteen years after being imprisoned, vicious psychopath Max Cady emerges with a single-minded mission: to seek revenge on his attorney. Sam Bowden. Realizing he is legally powerless to protect his beautiful wife Leigh and his troubled teenage daughter Danielle against Max's relentless psychological torment, Sam resorts to unorthodox measures, leading to an unforgettable action packed showdown.
14) Bury Your Gays
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When the executives at the studio for his TV series want to kill off the gay characters in the upcoming season finale, Misha refuses, and soon he realizes that he's just put a target on his back. Meanwhile, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him through the hills above L.A. Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future - before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good.
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Perfect for fans of Riley Sager and Grady Hendrix, Stephen Graham Jones' newest book is a classic slasher story with a twist. 1989, Lamesa: a small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton - and a place where everyone knows everyone elses business. So it goes for 17-year-old Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Jones is a Blackfeet Native American. From the author of the 'Indian...
16) Sleepy Hollow
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A New York magistrate orders Ichabod Crane to travel to the small town of Sleepy Hollow to investigate two murders. Crane is determined to apprehend the Headless Horseman and prove him to be a flesh-and-blood mortal.
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In this debut horror novel, our protagonist comes to in a basement, tied to a chair, with a man looming over her. But someone has a knife. We follow her as she emerges from captivity into an unnamed, nightmarish city, seeking some meaning to her new reality. As figures emerge from the night, some offering sanctuary, and others judgement, she keeps moving, making her way through this fever dream of a narrative. Nour Abi-Nakhoul lives in Toronto, ON....
18) The Queen
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Nick Cutter returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth. Cutter lives in Toronto, ON. From the author of #HorrorBookTok sensation 'The Troop' (which is currently being developed for film with producer James Wan) and 'The Handyman Method'.
20) Cronos
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A tale about the seductiveness of the idea of immortality. Kindly antiques dealer Jesus Gris happens upon an ancient golden device, and soon finds himself possessor and victim of its sinister, addictive powers, as well as the target of a mysterious, crude American named Angel.
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