Week of September 17th in Books – Horror

a book of horrors A Book of Horrors by Stephen Jones

A collection of original horror and dark fantasy from the world’s best writers, including Stephen King and John Ajvide Lindqvist

Many of us grew up on The Pan Book of Horror Stories and its later incarnations, Dark Voices and Dark Terrors (The Gollancz Book of Horror), which won the World Fantasy Award, the Horror Critics’ Guild Award and the British Fantasy Award, but for a decade or more there has been no non-themed anthology of original horror fiction published in the mainstream. Now that horror has returned to the bookshelves, it is time for a regular anthology of brand-new fiction by the best and brightest in the field, both the Big Names and the most talented newcomers including:

  • Ramsey Campbell
  • Peter Crowther
  • Dennis Etchison
  • Elizabeth Hand
  • Brian Hodge
  • Caitlin R. Kiernan
  • Stephen King
  • John Ajvide Lindqvist
  • Richard Christian Matheson
  • Reggie Oliver
  • Robert Shearman
  • Angela Slatter
  • Michael Marshall Smith
  • Lisa Tuttle

A Book of Horrors will be the foremost in the field: an eclectic collection of the very best chiller fiction from across the world.

· ISBN-13: 9781250018526

· Publisher: St. Martin's Press

· Pages: 448

harbor Harbor: A Novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist

John Ajvide Lindqvist has taken the horror world by storm. His first novel, Let the Right One In, has been made into critically acclaimed films in both Sweden and in the U.S (as Let Me In). His second novel, Handling the Undead, is beloved by horror lovers everywhere. Now, with Harbor, a stunning and chilling masterpiece, Lindqvist firmly cements his place as the heir apparent to Stephen King.

One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While they are exploring the lighthouse, Maja disappears – either into thin air or under thin ice — leaving not even a footprint in the snow.

Two years later, Anders, a broken man, moves back to his family’s abandoned home on the island. He soon realizes that Maja's disappearance is only one of many strange occurrences, and that his fellow islanders, including his own grandmother, know a lot more than they’re telling. As he digs deeper, Anders begins to unearth a dark and deadly secret at the heart of this small, seemingly placid town.

As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of high-tension suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath.

· ISBN-13: 9781250012838

· Publisher: St. Martin's Press

· Pages: 528

resident evil Resident Evil: Retribution – The Official Movie Novelization by John Shirley

Resident Evil: Retribution in will be released in 3D on September 14, 2012. It is the fifth installment in the massively successful Resident Evil film series, based on the hugely popular Capcom survival horror video game series Resident Evil.
The movie stars Milla Jovovitch and Wentworth Miller and is directed by Paul W.S. Anderson.

In this official novelization, Alice fights alongside a resistance movement in the continuing battle against the Umbrella Corporation and the undead.

· ISBN-13: 9781781163153

· Publisher: Titan

· Format: Mass Market Paperback

· Pages: 320

caliban cove Resident Evil: Caliban Cove by S.D. Perry

Combat medic and biochemist Rebecca Chambers, the sole survivor of Bravo Team, joins a new S.T.A.R.S. strike force when rumor comes of another Umbrella experiment. Hidden beneath the rocky cliffs of Caliban Cove, Maine, someone is building an army of the undead.

Now the S.T.A.R.S. must battle more unspeakable horrors and stop a madman from unleashing the biohazard upon the world.

· ISBN-13: 9781781161784

· Publisher: Titan

· Format: Mass Market Paperback

· Pages: 256

city of the dead Resident Evil: City of the Dead by S.D. Perry

Leon Kennedy, a rookie cop on a new assignment, and Claire Redfield, sister of the still-missing S.T.A.R.S. member Chris, arrive at Raccoon City to discover a necropolis.

A botched attempt by the Umbrella Corporation to retrieve a devastating mutagenic weapon has resulted in a horrifying viral outbreak, transforming the city's population into the living dead. And all of them are hungry.

· ISBN-13: 9781781161791

· Publisher: Titan

· Format: Mass Market Paperback

· Pages: 366

the umbrella conspiracy Resident Evil: The Umbrella Conspiracy by S.D. Perry

Raccoon City: a remote mountain community suddenly besieged by a rash of grisly murders. At the epicenter, a dark secluded mansion belonging to the mysterious Umbrella Corporation.

Deployed to investigate the strange goings-on is the Special Tactics and Rescue Squad (S.T.A.R.S.) but what unfolds as the team penetrate the mansion's long-locked doors is terror beyond their worst nightmares.

· ISBN-13: 9781781161777

· Publisher: Titan

· Format: Mass Market Paperback

· Pages: 288

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