Extremities

10 best books like Extremities (Kathe Koja): Flowers in the Attic, Wake, Gideon the Ninth, Necroscope, Drawing Blood, Murder of Angels, Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories, Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories, The Door to Saturn, Tortured Souls: The Legend of Primordium

Flowers in the Attic
AuthorV.C. Andrews
ISBN0743496310
Such wonderful children. Such a beautiful mother. Such a lovely house. Such endless terror!

It wasn't that she didn't love her children. She did. But there was a fortune at stake—a fortune that would assure their later happiness if she could keep the children a secret from her dying father.

So...
Wake
AuthorLisa McMann
ISBN1416953574
For seventeen-year-old Janie, getting sucked into other people's dreams is getting old. Especially the falling dreams, the naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's seen enough fantasy booty to last her a lifetime.

She can't tell anybody about what she does...
Gideon the Ninth
AuthorTamsyn Muir
ISBN1250313198
Gideon the Ninth is the most fun you'll ever have with a skeleton.

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth unveils...
Necroscope
AuthorBrian Lumley
DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES...

Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying.

In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither...
Drawing Blood
AuthorPoppy Z. Brite
ISBN0440214920
A good old haunted house story is something I've always loved, so when the narrator of this tale offered me a chance to listen to the audio in exchange for a review, I jumped at it. Poppy Z. Brite is an author I've heard a lot about and I've been wanting to read his work for quite some time. I learned a few things...
Murder of Angels
AuthorCaitlín R. Kiernan
ISBN0451459962
Ten years ago, Niki Ky and Daria Parker saw something unspeakable in an old house in Birmingham, Alabama. Daria has denied it, escaping into a frantic music career and various addictions. But Niki has not had so many distractions. Diagnosed schizophrenic, she's lost years in a haze of therapy and anti-psychotics....
Are You Loathsome Tonight?: A Collection of Short Stories
AuthorPoppy Z. Brite
ISBN1887368256
"Are You Loathsome Tonight?" is a little pricey for such a small volume (185 pages) but as a big fan of Poppy Z. Brite's work I felt it was worth splurging on. Why? Because I got a quickie update on two of my favorite lovers, Trevor and Zach from "Drawing Blood" who, as she puts it, are still in "happy, disgusting,...
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
AuthorPoppy Z. Brite
ISBN0440217989
"Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them . . . this is the voice we're going to be hearing for a long time."--Harlan Ellison

In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can't hear the music. . . Behind a dusty Georgia carny show. . . In a mausoleum...
AuthorClark Ashton Smith
ISBN1597800295
Published in chronological order, with extensive story and bibliographic notes, this series not only provides access to stories that have been out of print for years, but gives them a historical and social context. Series editors Scott Conners and Ronald S. Hilger excavated the still-existing manuscripts,...
AuthorClive Barker
Dust jacket and interior illustrations by Bob Eggleton

Tortured Souls is one of the most vividly imagined, tightly compressed novellas ever written by the incomparable Clive Barker. At once violent and erotic, brutal and strangely beautiful, it takes us into the heart of the legendary “first...
Wrong Things
AuthorPoppy Z. Brite
ISBN1931081255
This short collaborative collection contains "The Crystal Empire," an original novella by Poppy Z. Brite, "Onion," an original novella by Caitlín R. Kiernan, and "The Rest of the Wrong Things," a brand-new collaborative story by Caitlín and Poppy set in Poppy's fictional stomping grounds of Missing...
BloodAngel
AuthorJustine Musk
ISBN0451460529
In downtown Manhattan, a rising young painter is haunted by disturbing dreams...In small-town Minnesota, a teenage orphan struggles with a knowledge beyond his years-and a destiny he wants no part of...In California, young and old, hipsters and hippies, fall under the spell of a wildly charismatic...
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