Basilisk
10 best books like Basilisk (N.M. Browne): Carmilla, Warm Bodies, The Hellbound Heart, The Monkey's Paw, Dolly, Lodestar, Everblaze, Exile, Neverseen, The Familiars
| Author | J. Sheridan Le Fanu |
| ISBN | 0809510839 |
Bloody relevant to read!
BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.
This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....
Now a major motion picture from Summit Entertainment.
R is having a no-life crisis—he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening...
| Author | Clive Barker |
| ISBN | 0061002828 |
Clive Barker is widely acknowledged as the master of nerve-shattering horror. The Hellbound Heart is one of his best, one of the most dead-frightening stories you are likely to ever read, a story of the human heart and all the great terrors and ecstasies within. It was also the book behind the cult horror...
| Author | W.W. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1583419195 |
Classic horror tale. A family and their son Herbert are visited by an old soldier named Morris. He tells them from his time in India and shows them a mysterious talisman, the monkey's paw. According to him the owner of the paw has three wishes. Since he already had three he throw the object into the fire....
| Author | Susan Hill |
| ISBN | 1846685745 |
The remoter parts of the English Fens are forlorn, lost and damp even in the height of summer. At Iyot Lock, a large decaying house, two young cousins, Leonora and Edward are parked for the summer with their ageing spinster aunt and her cruel housekeeper. At first the unpleasantness and petty meannesses...
Dark schemes unfold--and Sophie's loyalty is pushed to the limit--in this thrilling fifth book in the best-selling KEEPER OF THE LOST CITIES SERIES.
Sophie Foster is back in the Lost Cities--but the Lost Cities have changed. The threat of war hangs heavy over her glittering world, and the...
| Author | Shannon Messenger |
| ISBN | 1442445998 |
Sophie Foster is ready to fight back.
Her talents are getting stronger, and with the elusive Black Swan group ignoring her calls for help, she’s determined to find her kidnappers—before they come after her again.
But a daring mistake leaves her world teetering on the edge of war,...
| Author | Shannon Messenger |
| ISBN | 1442445963 |
Sophie Foster thought she was safe. Settled into her home at Havenfield, surrounded by friends, and using her unique telepathic abilities to train Silveny--the first female alicorn ever seen in the Lost Cities--her life finally seems to be coming together.
But Sophie's kidnappers are still...
Sophie Foster is on the run—but at least she's not alone.
Her closest friends from the Lost Cities have gone with her to join the Black Swan. They still have doubts about the shadowy organization, but the only way to find answers is to start working with them. And as they settle into their new...
| Author | Stacey Halls |
| ISBN | 0778369188 |
Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth, a noblewoman, is with child again. None of her previous pregnancies have borne fruit, and her husband, Richard, is anxious for an heir. Then Fleetwood discovers a hidden doctor’s letter that carries a dire prediction: she will not survive another birth. By chance...
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 1450562795 |
”One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed--as those...
| Author | Dean Koontz |
| ISBN | 0553807153 |
#1 New York Times bestselling author Dean Koontz delivers a thrilling novel of suspense and adventure, as the lives of strangers converge around a mystery unfolding high in the Colorado mountains—and the balance of the world begins to tilt….
In the stillness of a golden September...
| Author | James Herbert |
| ISBN | 0451073932 |
it begins so well. a contemplative old man walking along the water, witnessing a terrible catastrophe in the air. a blasted field full of wreckage, bodies, smoke, flame, and ash. a co-pilot that has mysteriously survived, completely intact except for any memories of the flight. and quaint Eton parish,...
| Author | Algernon Blackwood |
| ISBN | 1406905925 |
a rainy, windy, chilly night with nothing to do but gaze lovingly at my overly full bookcases. so why not reread one of my favorite classic horror novellas? this one is about, wait for it, The Wendigo and its prey du jour (du nuit?): some hunters and their guides. but is the story really about this so-called...
This one was a little too slow-moving for me. It didn't have much momentum for me. More of a suspense story, it reminded me a little of "The Most Dangerous Game". Stoker apparently wrote this story as a result of his honeymoon in France, and it's evident that the scenery had a creative effect on him. Although...
"The Tomb" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in June 1917 and first published in the March 1922 issue of The Vagrant. It is the first work of fiction that Lovecraft wrote as an adult.
"The Tomb" tells of Jervas Dudley, a self-confessed day-dreamer. While still a child, he discovers the...
| Author | George Sylvester Viereck |
| ISBN | 0982046707 |
One of the first psychic vampire novels of its time - where the vampire feeds off of more than just blood - The House of the Vampire is an early classic in its genre. Republished in this new edition, this Victorian novel operates in the continuum of life and death. What has been can be again, though often terribly...
Beyond the Wall of Sleep" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft written in 1919 and first published in the amateur publication Pine Cones in October 1919. Inspiration Lovecraft said the story was inspired by an April 27, 1919 article in the New York Tribune. Reporting on the New York state...
