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<item><title><![CDATA[The big book of Necon / edited by Bob Booth.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[A major horror anthology calls for a killer lineup, and this 30th anniversary tribute to the Northeast Horror and Fantasy Convention features more than 50 works of fiction and nonfiction by past attendees and guests who represent the best and darkest of the genre's practitioners. Among the highlights are Stephen King's The Old Dude's Ticker, a retelling of Poe's The Tell-tale Heart as the rant of a homicidal Vietnam vet, and Peter Straub's Response from a Surprised but Pleased Recipient, which takes the form of creepy answers to a marketing survey. Essays and illustrations by numerous horror and dark fantasy notables round out the volume. Though mostly not convention-themed, these works easily showcase the impressive array of talents that have helped make Necon an annual highlight for horror's pros and semipro]]></description>
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</item><item><title><![CDATA[Nightmares & dreamscapes. Volumes 1, 2 and 3 [sound recording] / by Stephen King.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[This short story collection features stories of vampires, lurking spirits and ordinary individuals driven to unthinkable extremes by the perversities of fat]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[King, Stephen, 1947-]]></author>
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</item><item><title><![CDATA[Audrey's door / Sarah Langan.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas.  No stranger to tragedy at thirty-two -- a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother's hopeless dementia -- Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey's own increasing instability that's to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . .]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Langan, Sarah.]]></author>
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</item><item><title><![CDATA[The vampire archives : the most complete volume of vampire tales ever published / edited with an introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreward by Kim Newman ; preface by Neil Gaiman.]]></title>
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<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0307473899]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[Vampire stories / Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited by Robert Eighteen-Bisang & Martin H. Greenberg.]]></title>
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<author><![CDATA[Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930.]]></author>
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</item><item><title><![CDATA[Feeding ground / Sarah Pinborough.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[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 horrifi]]></description>
<author><![CDATA[Pinborough, Sarah, 1972-]]></author>
<link><![CDATA[http://catalog.kcls.org/search/i=0843962933]]></link>
</item><item><title><![CDATA[The mammoth book of best new horror. Volume twenty / edited and with an introduction by Stephen Jones.]]></title>
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</item><item><title><![CDATA[Lovecraft unbound : twenty stories / edited by Ellen Datlow.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The 16 new and four reprint stories Datlow (Poe) assembles for this outstanding tribute anthology all capture what Dale Bailey praises as horror master H.P. Lovecraft's gift for depicting the universe as "inconceivably more vast, strange, and terrifying than mere human beings can possibly imagine." Bailey and Nathan Ballingrud, in "The Crevasse," evoke this alien sensibility through an Antarctic expedition's glimpses of an astonishingly ancient prehuman civilization preserved in the polar ice. Laird Barron's "Catch Hell" depicts a Lovecraft-type backwoods community in the grip of a profoundly creepy occult mythology. Selections range in tone from the darkly humorous to the sublimely horrific, and all show the contributors to be perceptive interpreters of Lovecraft's work. Readers who know Lovecraft's legacy mostly through turgid and tentacled Cthulhu Mythos pastiches will find this book a treasure trove of literary terrors]]></description>
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