{"product_id":"secondhand-horror-bargain-book-box-sp4261","title":"Secondhand Horror Bargain Book Box SP4261","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecondhand Horror Bargain Book Box SP4261\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNineteen dark paperbacks: Stephen King’s Misery, Richard Matheson’s Hell House, James Herbert’s The Rats, Richard Laymon, Brian Keene, Ryu Murakami, M.L. Rio and two novels by Gary A. Braunbeck. There are also two vintage science fiction titles, two Campbell Armstrong thrillers and a pair of extreme-horror novellas. Not a box for the squeamish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBander Snatch — Kevin O’Donnell Jr. — A street-gang leader in the twenty-second century fights his way up through a brutal future. A 1979 science fiction paperback with a jungle cover.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStill Forms on Foxfield — Joan Slonczewski — A colony of Quakers has lived peacefully on a distant planet for generations, and then Earth makes contact and expects them to join in. The first novel by a biologist who became a major science fiction name.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Little Monsters — ed. Roger Elwood \u0026amp; Vic Ghidalia — An anthology of stories about children of wonder and dread. A 75-cent paperback from the era when creepy-child stories were their own shelf.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeart of Darkness — Joseph Conrad — Marlow’s journey up the Congo to find Kurtz, in the Pulp! The Classics edition with a joke cover and the full original text.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHeat — Campbell Armstrong — Detective Frank Pagan and the woman terrorist he has hunted through two earlier novels meet for the last time. The end of a trilogy that began with Jig.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSawbones — Stuart MacBride — A serial killer snatches the wrong girl, a New York gangster’s daughter, and her father sends his own men after him. A short, nasty road-trip novella from the Logan McRae author.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Rats — James Herbert — Giant black rats with a taste for human flesh come out of London’s bombsites and slums. Published in 1974, it shocked the critics and sold out in weeks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePiercing — Ryu Murakami — A new father in Tokyo is terrified he will stab his baby, so he plans to kill a stranger instead. The stranger he picks has plans of her own. Short, cold and very hard to forget.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePain for Gain — Sea Caummisar — Book two of the Deadly Reality TV series: a game show where the prize money rises with the suffering. Self-published extreme horror, and the cover’s warning is meant.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHurt Bank — Sea Caummisar — Book three of the same series, with a new show and new contestants. For readers who want horror with no limits.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGhoul — Brian Keene — Summer 1984: three twelve-year-old boys build a clubhouse by the cemetery, and something underground is digging up the dead. A coming-of-age story as much as a monster one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraveyard Shift — M.L. Rio — Five insomniacs meet each night in a college-town cemetery to smoke, and one night there is a freshly dug hole. A one-sitting mystery from the author of If We Were Villains.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAgents of Darkness — Campbell Armstrong — A suspended Los Angeles cop, drinking himself out of a marriage, looks into the murder of his Filipino housekeeper. The answer is in Manila.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Indifference of Heaven — Gary A. Braunbeck — A television newsman loses his wife in childbirth on Halloween night, and then someone steals his daughter’s body. Braunbeck writes grief as well as he writes horror.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMisery — Stephen King — Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car in the snow and is rescued by his number one fan, a nurse. She is furious about how his last book ended.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Lower Deep — Tom Piccirilli — A wandering sorcerer and his demon familiar are drawn back to the coven he escaped, whose leader plans to bring on the end of the world. Dense, strange and poetic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMr. Hands — Gary A. Braunbeck — A mother whose daughter was murdered gains control of a creature with enormous hands, and points it at people who hurt children. Then she starts making mistakes.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFunland — Richard Laymon — A seaside amusement park, a plague of menacing vagrants, and a gang of teenagers who decide to clean up the boardwalk themselves. Laymon at his most popular.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHell House — Richard Matheson — Four people spend a week in the most haunted house in America, where every earlier investigator died or went mad. Stephen King calls it the scariest haunted house novel ever written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51123000443099,"sku":"SP4261","price":120.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/sp4261.jpg?v=1794529009","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/secondhand-horror-bargain-book-box-sp4261","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}