 | Already Dead (Joe Pitt Novel) by Charlie Huston
Buy new: £4.87 / Used from: £0.61 First in a series of excellent, deeply noirish vampire novels. Clever, graphically violent with great characters and Tarantinoesque dialogue
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 | Let the Right One in by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Buy used from: £24.95 Scandinavian masterpiece. Deeply absorbing and deeply creepy. A young boy is befrended by a vampire child. Some very disturbing subject matter.Despite having a child as protagonist its not, for kids.
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 | Twilight (Twilight Saga) by Stephenie Meyer
Buy new: £3.44 / Used from: £1.45 Don't sniff at it. Believe the hype. It is great and incredibly moving as well as an interesting twist on the vampire mythos. Start of a series.
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 | Swamp Foetus by Poppy Z. Brite
Buy used from: £0.86 In my opinion, Ms Brite is the only person who can write a great short story. These are damn fine nuggets of scare.
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 | Heart-Shaped Box (Gollancz S.F.) by Joe Hill
Buy used from: £0.01 Fabulous, breathtakingly scary ghost story! Gothic rock god buys ghost on the internet and gets way more than he bargained for.Storytelling is in Mr Hill's genes- he's the son of Stephen King.
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 | Caught Stealing by Charlie Huston
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £4.98 Dark crime tale by the sublime Mr Huston. Wincingly real violence. Story with huge twists and turns, a doozy of a mystey and a real heart. Not for the squemish. Seriously. Start of a series
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 | Ring by Koji Suzuki
Buy new: £4.48 / Used from: £0.01 Before it was a film, it was a book. And this is so much better than either the USA or Japanese films. Start of a series.
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 | The Ghost Writer by John Harwood
Buy used from: £0.01 Incredibly intricate and literary scare-fest. Starts slowly, builds wonderfully and then knocks your socks off with a jaw-droppingly frightening finale.
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 | Blood is Thicker Than Water by Wynette A. Hoffman
Buy new: £11.95 / Used from: £4.67 Little known Vampire saga by independent writer. Brutal, gripping, funny and slightly under edited- but give her a break, she published it herself.
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 | Grimoire by Kim Wilkins
Buy used from: £4.13 A great, big, satisfying chunk of clever horror from Australia's Queen of the damned! Demonic possession, betrayal, sex, literary thriller and University life collide.
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 | The Resurrectionists by Kim Wilkins
Buy used from: £4.42 What if you could return from death? What would the results be like and how desperatly would the secret be protected? Thrilling and really errie novel with great scares and a fabulous Whitby setting
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 | Working for the Devil (Dante Valentine Novels) by Lilith Saintcrow
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.75 Wonderful, spiky, kick-ass heroine and demons galore. Great alternative universe setting. Flirts with Sci-Fi slightly. Start of a series.
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 | The Devil You Know: A Felix Castor Novel by Mike Carey
Buy new: £5.59 / Used from: £0.71 A great series starts with this introduction to London exorcist Felix Castor. Outstandingly well developed characters. Good mystery and very creepy entities for Felix to battle and wisecrack at.
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 | Shadows in the Darkness by Elaine Cunningham
Buy used from: £0.05 Kind of straddles the horror/fantasy border. Female PI takes a case that leads her into the darker side of things and also leads her to question if as she has long suspected, she is more than human.
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 | Beg for Mercy by Toni Andrews
Buy used from: £2.72 If you could make people literally do what you wanted, how tempting would it be to use that power for evil? Mercey struggles with this against some very bad people. Great little thriller
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 | Stray by Rachel Vincent
Buy used from: £0.98 Shapeshifting action in the form of werepanthers. Lots of action as the shifters go up against a supernatural serial killer. Great and the start of a series.
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 | Moon Called (Mercy Thompson Novels) by Patricia Briggs
Buy used from: £1.93 Absolutely cracking werewolf and 'walker' (coyote shapeshifter) novel. Has vamps, evil witches, fey and mobsters all whirled together in an involving mystery. start of a series.
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 | The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Buy new: £5.03 / Used from: £0.01 Outstanding twist on the Dracula story. What if he was real? What if he was 'interested' in you? What if you had to find him to save the one you love? Incredibly errudite thriller. A class act.
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 | Storm Front (Dresden Case Files) by Jim Butcher
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.58 More fantasy.Harry Dresden, Wizard battles evil in many forms, always with a witty comment, great fights and unpredictable storylines. start of a great series that only gets better book by book.
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 | Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison
Buy used from: £0.01 Supernatural bounty hunter and witch Rachel along with her Vampire partner Ivy are a great pair in a quality alternative universe setting. Demons, werewolves and pixies oh my! Start of a feisty series
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 | Bitten by Kelley Armstrong
Buy new: £5.46 / Used from: £1.47 Werewolves and nefarious deeds. Start of a great series with a strong female protagonist.
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