A collection of whimsical horror tales is compiled by the Horror Writers Association and includes contributions by such popular genre authors as Jim Butcher, Charlaine Harris, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kelly Armstrong, and Sharyn McCrumb.

ORDER # H909-1   $14-50   ISBN 9781439148402 

When a group of young travelers stop in the backwater town of Hopkins Bend, they, after being captured and tortured, discover that they are the sacrifices for the annual feast to appease the half-human demon who has placed a curse on the town and its people.

ORDER # H909-2   $14-50   ISBN 9780843962925 

When nightmarish spidery creatures invade the streets of London, taking humans as their prey, a few desperate survivors band together to escape the dying city and stumble upon something even more horrific.

ORDER # H909-3   $14-50   ISBN 9780843962932 

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Mankind becomes caught in the middle of the war between the vampires, who thrive at night, killing unexpecting prey, and an amoral, clandestine government operation that will stop at nothing to inflict maximum damage upon these inhuman creatures.

ORDER # H909-4   $14-50   ISBN 9781439122273 

Sookie Stackhouse, a bar waitress with a talent for reading minds, comes to the aid of Eric, a sexy vampire with amnesia, and finds herself caught up in a deadly struggle among werewolves, vampires, and witches as she tries to save Eric from whoever took his memory and who now wants his life, in the fourth book in the series that inspired HBO's True Blood.

ORDER # H909-5   $21-90   ISBN 9780441018284 

Working their way through a bad breakup but bound by a contract to do a book on vampires, Steven and Lori learn of an infant vampire that threatens to expose the entire vampire society, prompting them to reunite to battle monsters they scarcely believe exist, a pairing the rekindles old feelings for each other.

ORDER # H909-6   $22-90   ISBN 9780312385255 

Seeking revenge on a werewolf who killed her father, Chey journeys into the uninhabited forests of Canada's northwest and is horrified when she is rendered a lycanthrope herself and forced to bond with the man she has sworn to kill, a situation that is further complicated by a team of werewolf killers.

ORDER # H909-7   $21-90   ISBN 9780307460837 

A full-length tale based on the cult online serial by the editor-in-chief of Cracked.com finds an increasing number of people changed into threatening inhuman creatures by a hallucinogen, a situation that places the fate of the world in the hands of a pair of anti-heroes.

ORDER # H909-8   $39-90   ISBN 9780312555139 

A chilling anthology of the best of modern horror fiction features tales from twenty-five masters of the genre, with such selections as Stephen King's "The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet," Dan Chaon's "The Bees," Peter Straub's "Little Red," and works by Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Carroll, and Brian Evenson, among others.

ORDER # H909-9   $22-90   ISBN 9780307386403 

An extensive anthology compiles eighty stories by genre masters from Bram Stoker and H. P. Lovecraft to Anne Rice and Stephen King, in a volume that also provides a comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction.

ORDER # H909-10   $39-90   ISBN 9780307473899 

Offers twelve vampire tales by the creator of Sherlock Holmes, including "The Captain of the Pole Star," about a medical student on an arctic voyage haunted by a heat-draining Eskimo vampire, and "The Three Gables," in which vampirism is used as a metaphor for capitalism.

ORDER # H909-11   $22-90   ISBN 9781602397972 

A first volume in a two-part anthology edited by a leading contemporary author is an authoritative treasury of horror tales from the Edwardian era through the pulp heyday of Weird Tales.

ORDER # H909-12   $54-90   ISBN 9781598530476 

A sequel cowritten by Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew and based on the original author's handwritten notes takes place twenty-five years later and finds Van Helsing's morphine-addicted protégé obsessed with countering evil forces and Quincey Harker learning disturbing truths about his parents' dark secrets in the wake of several murders.

ORDER # H909-13   $40-90   ISBN 9780525951292 

A second half of a two-part anthology is a diverse volume of short tales by leading genre authors from the latter half of the twentieth century that includes entries by such names as Shirley Jackson, Ray Bradbury, and Stephen King.

ORDER # H909-14   $54-90   ISBN 9781598530483

After her beloved brother Harvey dies after saving her from her rageful governess, Isis Villiers learns from Old Marsh, the groundskeeper on the estate of her mentally unstable grandfather where she lives, that the family burial crypt on the grounds holds mystical powers to raise the dead, and Isis wonders whether she can bring Harvey back to life.

ORDER # H909-15   $22-90   ISBN 9781593155407 

Outcast by an injury sustained from her father, foster child Sara Crane befriends a former mental patient and her art teacher and soon creates paintings of long-ago violent crimes committed by the inmates of a local asylum, a situation that is complicated by brutal attacks on two of Sarah's enemies.

ORDER # H909-16   $40-90   ISBN 9780345514240 

A new edition of the splicing of Austen's classic romance with ultra-violent zombie mayhem includes a new preface by Grahame-Smith, thirteen new full-color oil-painting illustrations, and 30 percent more zombie scenes, in a book about Elizabeth Bennet's efforts to crush a zombie plague that has befallen the village of Meryton, all while dealing with the haughty Mr. Darcy. Illustrations.

ORDER # H909-17   $39-90   ISBN 9781594744518 

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A latest edition of the collection of horror and dark-fantasy fiction also includes an overview of international selections, a thoroughly researched necrology, and a list of contact addresses for the horror fan and the aspiring horror writer, all in a volume edited by a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award.

ORDER # H909-18   $21-90   ISBN 9780762437276