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The Beast House by Richard Laymon.
The waxworks were so realistic.
Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loose, clawed from the stripped, ripped corpses. Men, women, children, slaughtered, mangled...
The old woman who showed them round was well-practised in her grim, money-spinning take of the mysterious beast that has killed and killed again. Of course it was all in the past and all nonsense. Anyone would agree to that.
Until, trapped, they heard, then smelled and felt the white, night-time creature that had come, grunting and spittle-slicked, for their bodies, their blood.
B=
Breeding Ground by Sarah Pinborough
Fantastic book about spiders with a growing intelligence and a plan to take over humankind. Scary as hell.
SYNOPSIS:
Life was good for Matt and Chloe. They were in love and looking forward to their new baby. But what Chloe gave birth to isn t a baby. It isn t even human. It s an entirely new species that uses humans only for food and as hosts for their young.
As Matt soon learns, though, he is not alone in his terror. Women all over town have begun to give birth to these hideous creatures, spidery nightmares that live to kill and feed. As the infestation spreads and the countryside is reduced to a series of web-shrouded ghost towns, will the survivors find a way to fight back? Or is it only a matter of time before all of mankind is reduced to a Breeding Ground.
P.S. The sequel, Feeding Ground, is even better and scarier.
Ken wrote: "B = The Beast House by Richard Laymon.
The waxworks were so realistic.
Bodies torn and chewed. Blood blackly-encrusting open wounds. Flaps of skin hanging loos..."
You already broke the rules!
If people post books that start with the same letter, that's OK. Just more books to promote and add to our lists.
Damn! I read those instructions and then broke the rules anyway!
D =
Dracula the Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker.
Bram Stoker's Dracula is the prototypical horror novel, an inspiration for the world's seemingly limitless fascination with vampires. Though many have tried to replicate Stoker's horror classic—in books, television shows, and movies—only the 1931 Bela Lugosi film bore the Stoker family's support. Until now.
Dracula The Un-Dead is a bone-chilling sequel based on Bram Stoker's own handwritten notes for characters and plot threads excised from the original edition. Dracula The Un-Dead begins in 1912, twenty-five years after Dracula "crumbled into dust." Van Helsing's protégé, Dr. Jack Seward, is now a disgraced morphine addict obsessed with stamping out evil across Europe. Meanwhile, an unknowing Quincey Harker, the grown son of Jonathan and Mina, leaves law school for the London stage, only to stumble upon the troubled production of "Dracula," directed and produced by Bram Stoker himself.
The play plunges Quincey into the world of his parents' terrible secrets, but before he can confront them he experiences evil in a way he had never imagined. One by one, the band of heroes that defeated Dracula a quarter-century ago is being hunted down. Could it be that Dracula somehow survived their attack and is seeking revenge? Or is there another force at work whose relentless purpose is to destroy anything and anyone associated with Dracula?
Dracula The Un-Dead is deeply researched, rich in character, thrills and scares, and lovingly crafted as both an extension and celebration of one of the most classic popular novels in literature
Bunny, after a few pages, do you want me to delete the conversational posts and leave nothing but the alphabetical list?
Tressa wrote: "Bunny, after a few pages, do you want me to delete the conversational posts and leave nothing but the alphabetical list?"...and remove the rule-breakers..those guys are fools!
I'm gonna leave your stupid mistake up forevuh.
Tressa wrote: "Bunny, after a few pages, do you want me to delete the conversational posts and leave nothing but the alphabetical list?"Sure you can if you want, don't stress over it though - Im sure you have better things to do with your time. haha!!!
And yes, please LEAVE the rule breakers so that they may forever be reminded of their inability to follow directions! hahahaa
Every Dead Thing 
Every Dead Thing by John Connolly.
Another excellent foray into the mind of Charlie Parker.
"Hailed internationally as a page-turner in a league with the fiction of Thomas Harris, this lyrical and terrifying bestseller is the stunning achievement of an "extravagantly gifted" (Kirkus Reviews) new novelist. John Connolly superbly taps into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York City to the American South, and finds his buried instincts -- for love, survival, and, ultimately, for killing -- awakening as he confronts a monster beyond imagining."
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PRISON by R Patrick Gates
Tim Stage is fresh from the correctional officers' training facility as the newest recruit to walk the walls of The Hill. But he's been there before--in disturbing dreams that have him wandering through the building's eerie hallways. Even stranger is the increasingly erratic behavior of the inmates, who appear to be suffering varying degrees of madness. As a dense fog rolls in to enshroud the facility, Tim begins to uncover The Hill's darkest secrets--one more horrific than the next. It is now terrifyingly clear that the prisoners are channeling the spirits of the patients who once lived there. They want freedom just as much as their human hosts--and they believe Tim is their key.
Rosemary's BabyHaven't read this yet, but it's one I'd love to get to someday. Plus it's a classic....and starts with 'R' haha.
The TommyknockersDouble T's lol :-P
I think this is a great book. Very underrated...I'm not sure why it get's so much hate.
[book:Xombies|196783haven't read this but rather enjoyed the second, which works as a stand alone.
Your Heart Belongs to Me I suppose this might be more of a suspense novel, but because it's by Dean Koontz I think it should still fit in with the horror genre :-)
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Lets see how many times we can get through the alphabet using horror book titles...
I recently did something kind of like this for my youtube channel and it was a blast, so I thought doing it here would be fun AND help me find some new books, maybe. wooo!
You can see my video of going through my books here if you want - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZDKS5...
but I am changing up the rules a bit to work for this group.
The object of this game: is to see how many horror titles we can post while going through the alphabet. So each person will post ONE book, and the next will post ONE each corresponding to the alphabet. For example I will be starting us off with the letter A and the next person to post needs to post a book with the letter B and so on and so forth...
the rules to consider:
1. Please LINK to your title right here on goodreads so we can easily check out the reviews, add it to our wishlist, etc...
2. Your reply MUST include the ENTIRE title. So books starting with the word THE can ONLY be used for the letter T etc...
3. Please try to stay in the Horror genre. I realize some books are labeled horror but are actually more suspense/thriller, thats fine. Just don't post something that is OBVIOUSLY not horror.
HINT: If its got Fabio on the cover, chances are it aint scary. {O.o}
4. This is not required but feel free to share some info about the book like synopsis or if you've read it - did you like it etc. This is for fun but its also to help us find some new books to read so feel free to include some info!
Are you ready?
I'll start us off with letter A
A=
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
*I have not read this one yet, but it has been on my wishlist a while. With reviews calling it "exceptional" and "haunting"... I really hope to pick it up soon.
SYNOPSIS:
The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.
But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...
This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.
It wants the truth