Secondhand Horror Bargain Book Box SP4118

Secondhand Horror Bargain Book Box SP4118

Eighteen horror paperbacks, with six Stephen Kings including It, Cujo, The Green Mile, Desperation and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Peter Straub’s Ghost Story, Matheson’s Hell House, Ramsey Campbell, Sheri Tepper, Audrey Rose, Flowers in the Attic, Feist’s Faerie Tale and the 1970s case study Sybil. The horror shelf, with the classics in it.

1. Flowers in the Attic — Virginia Andrews — Four children locked in an attic by a mother who wants an inheritance and a grandmother who thinks they’re sin, for three years. The 1979 book that every teenager read under the covers, and the incest is still shocking.
2. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon — Stephen King — A nine-year-old steps off a trail in the Maine woods and is lost for nine days with a Walkman, a Red Sox game and something following her. King’s shortest, tightest novel.
3. Cujo — Stephen King — A Saint Bernard with rabies, a Pinto that won’t start, and a mother and her four-year-old trapped in it for two days in the heat. King says he doesn’t remember writing it; it’s one of his cruellest.
4. The Green Mile — Stephen King — Cold Mountain penitentiary, 1932, and a giant called John Coffey who heals with his hands and is on death row for killing two girls. The complete serial in one volume.
5. Ghost Story — Peter Straub — Four old men in a New England town tell each other ghost stories, and the woman they killed fifty years ago comes back. King called it a monster seller, a tiger tank of a book; it’s the best American ghost novel of the century.
6. Sybil — Flora Rheta Schreiber — The 1973 case study of a woman with sixteen personalities, which created the multiple-personality boom and was later shown to be largely fabricated. A period piece either way. Penguin film tie-in.
7. GermLine — Nelson Erlick — A genetic cure for every disease, with a catch nobody noticed. Kirkus said it’s good to see someone take up the reins from Crichton, and it reads like him.
8. The Darkest Part of the Woods — Ramsey Campbell — A family drawn back to Goodmanswood, where the father went mad studying what lives in it. Campbell’s deepest folk horror; Publishers Weekly called it a gripping horror extravaganza.
9. The Bones — Sheri S. Tepper — A sequel to Blood Heritage: the horror has been hidden for generations, and the bones want out. Tepper writing horror before she was a science fiction name.
10. Audrey Rose — Frank De Felitta — A stranger tells a New York couple their daughter is the reincarnation of his, who burned to death. Not since The Exorcist, said the reviews, and the film with Anthony Hopkins came from it. Pan.
11. Faerie Tale — Raymond E. Feist — A family moves to a farmhouse in upstate New York and the woods are full of things that were there before the Puritans. Feist’s only horror novel, and some fans’ favourite of all his books.
12. Desperation — Stephen King — A Nevada mining town, a cop who isn’t one, and a thing called Tak that wears people out. The twin of The Regulators, and the one with the eleven-year-old who talks to God.
13. Blood Oath — Christopher Farnsworth — The President’s vampire: a 140-year-old bound by oath to protect whoever’s in office. Only one man can save the world, and he’s already dead. First of a series.
14. The Healer — Brown Mohamed — A gene therapy, a cure, and a doctor who discovers what it costs. Medical thriller with a DNA-helix cover.
15. Hell House — Richard Matheson — Four people spend a week in the most haunted house in America, the Belasco house, where every previous team died or went mad. King calls it the scariest haunted house novel ever written, and the ending is still a shock.
16. It — Stephen King — Seven children in Derry, a clown in the storm drain, and the same seven twenty-seven years later called back to finish it. The Pennywise film cover.
17. The Haunting of James Hastings — Christopher Ransom — He loved her. He lost her. She’s back. A widower, a stalker, and a house with his dead wife in it. From the author of The Birthing House.