The Auctioneer
10 best books like The Auctioneer (Joan Samson): Burnt Offerings, Growing Things and Other Stories, The Elementals, Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction, We Sold Our Souls, Elizabeth, The Reaping, Childgrave, Hell Hound, The Spirit
| Author | Robert Marasco |
| ISBN | 0440009286 |
Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire season for only $900, it's an offer that's too good to refuse. There's only one catch: behind a strange and intricately carved...
Growing Things and Other Stories
| Author | Paul Tremblay |
| ISBN | 0062679147 |
A chilling collection of psychological suspense and literary horror from the multiple award-winning author of the national bestseller The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts.
A masterful anthology featuring nineteen pieces of short fiction, Growing Things is an exciting...
| Author | Michael McDowell |
| ISBN | 0380783606 |
On a split of land cut off by the Gulf, three Victorian summer houses stand against the encroaching sand. Two of the houses at Beldame are still used. The third house, filling with sand, is empty...except for the vicious horror which is shaping nightmares from the nothingness that hangs in the dank, fetid...
Paperbacks From Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
| Author | Grady Hendrix |
| ISBN | 1594749817 |
Written in dead letters... and covered in blood!
Demonic possession! Haunted condominiums! Murderous babies! Man-eating moths! No plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable for the Paperbacks From Hell.
Where did they come from? Where did they go?...
In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success -- but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in rural Pennsylvania.
Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the...
| Author | Jessica Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1557850011 |
Elizabeth thought that she was a young girl like any other girl - until the day that she looked into the mirror and saw the truth. Her family wouldn't have believed it even if she had told them - which she had no intention of doing. Elizabeth had far different plans for them - and only God could help them. He...
4.5/5 STARS!
Bernard Taylor-I LOVE the guy! SWEETHEART, SWEETHEART is still my favorite from him, (and one of my favorite quiet horror tales of all time), but THE REAPING is another fine example of horror at its best!
An artist and father is invited out to a country manor to paint a portrait....
| Author | Ken Greenhall |
| ISBN | 0671421611 |
CHILDGRAVE is a beautifully written quiet horror story, with a sketchy small town lurking in the background. By the time the secrets of the town are revealed, it's too late for the reader to turn back.
As I get older, I find myself more and more drawn to quiet horror. I can do without gore and torture...
| Author | Ken Greenhall |
| ISBN | 0890833036 |
"What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? ... What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?"
Baxter is a sociopathic bull terrier who is on the hunt for his perfect...
| Author | Thomas Page |
| ISBN | 0892560320 |
For a schizophrenic Native American, it is the spirit guide that will lead him back to the heritage he can no longer remember....a spirit he will kill to protect.
For a wealthy businessman looking for a purpose in life, sole survivor of a chance encounter with this spirit, it is a savage beast...
| Author | Elizabeth Engstrom |
| ISBN | 0688041752 |
Sally Ann is a bright and bubbling farm girl, still caught in the thrill of a brand-new husband and a shining future ahead. When a careless exploration leaves her trapped underground, she learns to live again in the absence of everything she once knew. Even driven by love and light, Sally Ann finds the...
