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The Art of Darkness: A Treasury of the Morbid, Melancholic and Macabre (Art in the Margins #2) By S. Elizabeth Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9780711269200
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Published: Frances Lincoln - September 20th, 2022

The Art of Darkness is a visually rich sourcebook featuring eclectic artworks that have been inspired and informed by the morbid, melancholic, and macabre.

Throughout history, artists have been obsessed with darkness – creating works that haunt and horrify, mesmerise and delight, and play on our innermost fears.


It Came from the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror By Joe Vallese (Editor), Carmen Maria Machado (Contribution by), Bruce Owens Grimm (Contribution by) Cover Image
By Joe Vallese (Editor), Carmen Maria Machado (Contribution by), Bruce Owens Grimm (Contribution by)
$25.95
ISBN: 9781952177798
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Published: Feminist Press - October 4th, 2022

Through the lens of horror--from Halloween to Hereditary--queer and trans writers consider the films that deepened, amplified, and illuminated their own experiences.Horror movies hold a complicated space in the hearts of the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings.


Toil and Trouble: A Women's History of the Occult By Lisa Kröger, Melanie R. Anderson Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9781683692911
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Published: Quirk Books - October 25th, 2022

​​A celebration of magical women and nonbinary people in American history, from Salem to WitchTok.


Devil House: A Novel By John Darnielle Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250862884
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Published: Picador - October 4th, 2022

From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling.


Yours Cruelly, Elvira: Memoirs of the Mistress of the Dark By Cassandra Peterson Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780306874383
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Published: Hachette Books - October 4th, 2022

The woman behind the icon known as the undisputed Queen of Halloween, reveals her full story, filled with intimate bombshells, told by the bombshell herself. The paperback includes 32 new images and an original poem composed by Cassandra when she was 16, perfect for fans to collect.

At only eighteen months old, Cassandra Peterson reached for a pot on the stove and doused he


House of Hunger By Alexis Henderson Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593438466
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Published: Ace - September 27th, 2022

WANTED - Bloodmaid of exceptional taste. Must have a keen proclivity for life’s finer pleasures. Girls of weak will need not apply.

A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching.


Reluctant Immortals By Gwendolyn Kiste Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982172350
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - August 23rd, 2022

2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist
2023 Bram Stoker Award Finalist for Superior Achievement in a Novel

For fans of Mexican Gothic, from three-time Bram Stoker Award–winning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes a novel inspired by the untold stories of forgotten women in classic literature—from Lucy Westnera, a victim of Stoker’s Dracula, and Be


Patricia Wants to Cuddle By Samantha Allen Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9781638930044
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Published: Zando - June 28th, 2022

One of the Best Books of 2022
NPR - Them - Lit Hub - CrimeReads - Book Riot - Chicago Review of Books

"A one-of-a-kind queer horror comedy for people who watch The Bachelor and The X-Files back-to-back." --Kirkus Reviews


All the Living and the Dead: From Embalmers to Executioners, an Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work By Hayley Campbell Cover Image
$29.99
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ISBN: 9781250281845
Published: St. Martin's Press - August 16th, 2022

A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people—morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners—who work in it and what led them there.


Cackle By Rachel Harrison Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593202036
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Published: Berkley - August 30th, 2022

A darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants from a witch who may be too good to be true, from the author of The Return.
 


Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke And Other Misfortunes By Eric LaRocca Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781803361499
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Published: Titan Books - September 6th, 2022

"Amongst the Top 50 Horror Books of All Time" - Cosmopolitan

Three dark and disturbing horror stories from an astonishing new voice, including the viral-sensation tale of obsession, Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke. For fans of Kathe Koja, Clive Barker and Stephen Graham Jones. Winner of the Splatterpunk Award for Best Novella.


Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin By Megan Rosenbloom Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781250800169
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Published: Picador - October 19th, 2021

On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those bound in human skin. Would you know one if you held it in your hand?


The Hacienda By Isabel Cañas Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780593436691
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Published: Berkley - May 3rd, 2022

Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into their clutches...


Mestiza Blood By V. Castro Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781787586161
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Published: Flame Tree Press - January 25th, 2022

A short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions centered around the Chicana experience. The stunning, star-reviewed V.


The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine By Lindsey Fitzharris Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780374537968
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Published: Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giro - October 2nd, 2018

Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing
Short-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize
A Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers Weekly

A Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian

"Warning: She spares no detail!" —Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake


Nightmare Fuel: The Science of Horror Films By Nina Nesseth Cover Image
$25.99
ISBN: 9781250765215
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Published: Tor Nightfire - July 26th, 2022

Nightmare Fuel by Nina Nesseth is a pop-science look at fear, how and why horror films get under our skin, and why we keep coming back for more.

Do you like scary movies?
Have you ever wondered why?

Nina Nesseth knows what scares you. She also knows why.


Gothic: An Illustrated History By Roger Luckhurst Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780691229164
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Published: Princeton University Press - November 16th, 2021

A richly illustrated history of the Gothic across a wide range of media, including architecture, literature, and film


Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology By Jess Zimmerman Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780807055540
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Published: Beacon Press - March 8th, 2022

A fresh cultural analysis of female monsters from Greek mythology, and an invitation for all women to reclaim these stories as inspiration for a more wild, more “monstrous” version of feminism


The Lost Village: A Novel By Camilla Sten, Alexandra Fleming (Translated by) Cover Image
By Camilla Sten, Alexandra Fleming (Translated by)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250803290
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Published: Minotaur Books - February 22nd, 2022

*BEST MYSTERY/THRILLER FOR THE YEAR* for NPR

"Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets." - New York Times book review

"[A] scary, highly entertaining debut...that pays homage to Shirley Jackson." - South Florida Sun Sentinel


My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy #1) By Stephen Graham Jones Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781982137649
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Published: Gallery / Saga Press - March 29th, 2022

Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel

In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares.


The Final Girl Support Group By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593201244
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Published: Berkley - June 14th, 2022

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

VOTED GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD BEST HORROR NOVEL OF 2021

A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

“The horror master…puts his unique spin on slasher movie tropes.”-USA Today


Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction By Grady Hendrix Cover Image
$26.99
ISBN: 9781594749810
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Published: Quirk Books - September 19th, 2017

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a nostalgic and unflinchingly funny celebration of the horror fiction boom of the 1970s and ’80s.
 


The Last Final Girl By Stephen Graham Jones Cover Image
$17.23
ISBN: 9781621050513
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Published: Lazy Fascist Press - September 16th, 2012

"The Last Final Girl is like Quentin Tarantino's take on The Cabin in the Woods. Bloody, absurd, and smart. Plus, there's a killer in a Michael Jackson mask." - Carlton Mellick III, author of Apeshit

Life in a slasher film is easy. You just have to know when to die.


Mostly Dead Things By Kristen Arnett Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781947793835
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Published: Tin House Books - April 21st, 2020

The celebrated New York Times Bestseller

A Best Book of the Year pick at the New York TimesNPRThe New YorkerTIMEWashington PostOprahmag.comThrillistShelf Awareness, Good Housekeeping and more.


Final Girls: A Novel By Riley Sager Cover Image
$9.99
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ISBN: 9781524745080
Published: Dutton - February 26th, 2019

THE NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

“If you liked Gone Girl, you’ll like this.”—Stephen King

 
Ten years ago, six friends went on vacation. One made it out alive….
 


Plain Bad Heroines: A Novel By Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman (Illustrator)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780062942869
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Published: William Morrow Paperbacks - October 5th, 2021

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit.


Fangs By Sarah Andersen Cover Image
$16.99
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ISBN: 9781524860677
Published: Andrews McMeel Publishing - September 1st, 2020

A New York Times bestselling love story between a vampire and a werewolf by the creator of the enormously popular Sarah's Scribbles comics.

Elsie the vampire is three hundred years old, but in all that time, she has never met her match.


My Sister, the Serial Killer: A Novel By Oyinkan Braithwaite Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525564201
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Published: Anchor - July 30th, 2019

WINNER OF THE LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR MYSTERY/THRILLER • “A taut and darkly funny contemporary noir that moves at lightning speed, it’s the wittiest and most fun murder party you’ve ever been invited to.” —MARIE CLAIRE


The Gilda Stories By Jewelle Gomez, Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Jewelle Gomez, Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Afterword by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9780872866744
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Published: City Lights Books - March 29th, 2016

*Recommended by Reese Witherspoon's Book Club

*Voted One of Book Riot's Most Influential Queer Books & Horror Novels of All Time

Before Buffy, before Twilight, before Octavia Butler's Fledgling, there was The Gilda Stories, Jewelle Gomez's sexy vampire novel.


Revenge of the She-Punks: A Feminist Music History from Poly Styrene to Pussy Riot By Vivien Goldman Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781477316542
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Published: University of Texas Press - May 7th, 2019

As an industry insider and pioneering post-punk musician, Vivien Goldman’s perspective on music journalism is unusually well-rounded.


Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story By Alice Bag Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781936239122
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Published: Feral House - September 27th, 2011

The proximity of the East L.A. barrio to Hollywood is as close as a short drive on the 101 freeway, but the cultural divide is enormous. Born to Mexican-born and American-naturalized parents, Alicia Armendariz migrated a few miles west to participate in the free-range birth of the 1970s punk movement.


Eileen: A Novel By Ottessa Moshfegh Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143128755
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Published: Penguin Books - August 16th, 2016

Soon to be a major motion picture, starring Anne Hathaway

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize


Savage Appetites: True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession By Rachel Monroe Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781501188893
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Published: Scribner - July 7th, 2020

A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession.

In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obses


The Low, Low Woods (Hill House Comics) By Carmen Maria Machado, Dani Strips (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Carmen Maria Machado, Dani Strips (Illustrator)
$17.99
ISBN: 9781779513120
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Published: DC Comics - September 21st, 2021

From New York Times bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado (Her Body And Other Parties, In The Dream House) comes a story so horrifying you won't dare to forget!

There's something in the woods...


Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Stories of Horror By Lincoln Michel, Nadxieli Nieto (Editor) Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781948226622
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Published: Catapult - October 13th, 2020

]A collection of horror–inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers—edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder.


The Lady from the Black Lagoon By Mallory O'Meara Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781335010131
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Published: Hanover Square Press - March 3rd, 2020

2019 SCIBA Book Award Winner for Biography

A Hugo and Locus Award Finalist

Winner of the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award

The
Los Angeles Times Bestseller

A Thrillist Best Book of the Year

A Book Riot Best Book of 2019


Literary Witches: A Celebration of Magical Women Writers By Taisia Kitaiskaia, Katy Horan (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Taisia Kitaiskaia, Katy Horan (Illustrator)
$20.00
ISBN: 9781580056731
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Published: Seal Press - October 10th, 2017

An NPR Best Book of 2017

Celebrate the witchiest women writers with an inventive guidebook that pairs imaginative vignettes with whimsical, folkloric illustrations.


Literary Witches reimagines visionary writers as witches: both are figures of formidable creativity, empowerment, and general badassery.


From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death By Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Caitlin Doughty, Landis Blair (Illustrator)
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393356281
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - October 9th, 2018

A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller

“Doughty chronicles [death] practices with tenderheartedness, a technician’s fascination, and an unsentimental respect for grief.” —Jill Lepore, The New Yorker