These are the 10 most checked-out books in Adult Horror Fiction at KDL this month!
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11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must reacclimate to 1960s culture and befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald. By the best-selling author of Full Dark, No Stars. Catalog Link |
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77 Shadow Street by Dean Koontz Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths. Catalog Link |
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Breathless by Dean Koontz Isolating himself in the Colorado Rockies, craftsman Grady Adams encounters a pair of beautiful furred animals that challenge everything he and a local veterinarian understand about the natural world, a discovery for which they are targeted by government forces. Catalog Link |
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Just After Sunset: Stories by Stephen King A collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in “The New Yorker,” “Playboy,” and “McSweeney’s,” in a volume that includes such tales as “The Gingerbread Girl” and “N.” Catalog Link |
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The Passage: A Novel by Justin Cronin A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop. Catalog Link |
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Under the Dome: A Novel by Stephen King The small town of Chester’s Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town’s more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling everything within the Dome. Catalog Link |
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Odd Hours by Dean Koontz Haunted by dreams of a powerful red tide, Odd Thomas, accompanied by two otherworldly sidekicks—his dog Boo and the Chairman of the Board—is drawn to a small California coastal town, where nothing is at it appears and where he confronts overwhelming and sinister forces out to stop his quest. Catalog Link |
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War by Max Brooks An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. Catalog Link |
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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith Reveals the hidden life of the 16th U.S. president, who was actually a vampire hunter, obsessed with the complete elimination of the undead, and uncovers the role vampires played in the birth, grown and near-death of the nation. By the #1 best-selling author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Catalog Link |
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The Dead Town (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 5) by Dean Koontz In this thrilling conclusion to the Frankenstein series, the last of the survivors in Rainbow Falls, Montana, band together to brave the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world, discovering the full scope of Victor Frankenstein’s nihilistic plan to remake the future. Catalog Link |