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BKLYN BookMatch: If You Like Stephen King, Clive Barker, Harlan Ellison

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The darkest part of the woods
Ramsey Campbell.
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"A forest haunted by a horror older than time and channeled by one unfortunate family is the foundation of this gripping horror extravaganza" -- Publisher's Weekly

The book of lost things
John Connolly.
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Taking refuge in fairy tales after the loss of his mother, twelve-year-old David finds himself violently propelled into an imaginary land in which the boundaries of fantasy and reality are disturbingly melded.

A scanner darkly
Philip K. Dick.
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In a paranoid future, a reluctant undercover cop is ordered to spy on a group of drug users. The targets? His friends, his roommates... and himself.

The ocean at the end of the lane
Neil Gaiman.
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"Returning to his childhood home in the English countryside for a funeral, the unnamed middle-aged narrator of this haunting, lyrical fable finds himself drawn to an ordinary-looking farmhouse that's anything but." - NoveList

Horns
Joe Hill.
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After his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and an incredible new power which he uses in the name of vengeance.

Odd Thomas
Dean Koontz.
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Odd Thomas works as a fry cook in a small desert town. He has the power to commune with the dead -- which comes in handy when the arrival of a mysterious traveler threatens to spark a cosmic cataclysm.

Bird box
Josh Malerman.
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In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them--but is it man, animal, or monster?

The house of small shadows
Adam Nevill.
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Catherine Howard is an auction evaluator who gets a chance at a treasure trove in a remote estate. But from the moment Catherine sees Red House and meets reclusive heir Edith Mason, she knows something is wrong.

The fall of the House of Usher & other stories
Edgar Allan Poe.
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A collection of fourteen of the author's best-known tales of mystery and the macabre.

A dark matter
Peter Straub.
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Old friends try to come to grips with the darkness of the past--a secret ritual that left behind a gruesomely dismembered body--and find themselves face-to-face with the evil they helped create.