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1) The stand
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English
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After 90% of the population of the U.S. is wiped out by a man-made plague, the survivors gradually gather into two communities, one in Boulder, Colorado, led by a saintly 108-year-old black woman, Mother Abagail, and the other in Las Vegas (where else?) under a demonic figure, Randall Flagg, "the man with no face." In the ensuing confrontation between good and evil, good triumphs--for the moment.
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Wolverine origin volume 1
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Marvel
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English
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Collects Origin (2001) #1-6. Marvel's best-kept mutant mystery revealed! Before the X-Men, before Weapon X, Wolverine's struggle with his subconscious savagery first flourished in family tragedy. Some of Marvel's most acclaimed creators unite to tell the tale that shaped mutantdom's mightiest misfit.
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KaBOOM!, a division of Boom Entertainment
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English
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"Karla and her little brother Benny accompany their Uncle Bill on a scientific expedition to study unidentified species on the remote island but after a little "bad luck" they soon discover something terrifying and deadly living in the river swamp... With nowhere to run, will Karla, Benny, and Uncle Bill survive the unimaginable and harrowing horrors of the place aptly nicknamed Beast Island?"--
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Dark Horse Manga
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English
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"A new manga adaptation of the only H.P. Lovecraft story published as a book during his lifetime, by modern horror master Gou Tanabe! In the winter of 1927-28, the isolated coastal settlement of Innsmouth, Massachusetts was assaulted by U.S. government agents-its waterfront burned and dynamited, its people taken away to internment camps. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the horror uncovered by a young antiquarian who traveled to Innsmouth...
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Avatar Press
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English
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Alan Moore's quintessential horror series has set the standard for a terrifying examination of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. It is being universally hailed as one of Moore's most realized works in which the master scribe has controlled every iota of the story, art, and presentation. The result has been a masterpiece like no other, unparalleled in tone and content, and a true must have addition to his essential works in the field.
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Providence volume 2
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Avatar Press
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English
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The second arc of Providence is unveiled in this special hardcover-only edition. Robert Black came looking for a story but what he found is a world of misery and woe. He's becoming a broken man, only beginning to accept the horrors of the Lovecraftian world are real and hiding in plain sight. Alan Moore's quintessential horror series has set the standard for a terrifying reinvention of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. It is being universally hailed as...
8) Dracula
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English
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'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house.' He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath. Yet even Count Dracula's unnerving appearance and the frightened reaction of the local peasants fail to warn Jonathan Harker, a young man from England, about his host. Little does Jonathan know that this is a land where babies are snatched for their blood and wolves...
9) Preacher
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Series
Preacher volume 5
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DC Comics/Vertigo
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English
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Heartfelt, caustic, and unapologetically profane, Preacher follows the epic journey of the Reverend Jesse Custer as he tracks down a fugitive God to make him answer for the sufferings of His own creation. From the mansions of San Francisco to the foothills of the Alps to the sawdust-strewn bars of New York City, Jesse and his friends cut a righteous path across a fallen world and through the soul of America in their quest for the divine - an effort...
10) Swamp Thing
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DC Comics
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English
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Haunted by his time as the Swamp Thing, Alec Holland tries to return to his former life, but the "Green," knowing that The Rot, a death force threatening life on Earth, is coming, tries to convince Alec to become the Swamp Thing again and save the world.
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Yen Press
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First Yen Press edition.
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English
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In a post-apocalyptic world, two lonely little sisters chance upon a strange video. To their surprise and joy, a girl with long black hair named Sadako climbs out of the TV, but little do the girls know that their new friend is a vengeful ghost who plans to kill them in a week.
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I hate this place volume 1
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Image Comics, Inc
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English
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"After inheriting a farmhouse, Trudy and Gabby are ready to start the next chapter of their lives together ... except it's already home to a mysterious force that's attracted ghosts, aliens, and all kinds of supernatural beings for decades."--
13) Monstress
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Monstress volume 4
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Image Comics, Inc
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English
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"Set in an alternate matriarchal 1900's Asia, in a richly imagined world of art deco-inflected steam punk, MONSTRESS tells the story of a teenage girl who is struggling to survive the trauma of war, and who shares a mysterious psychic link with a monster of tremendous power, a connection that will transform them both and make them the target of both human and otherworldly powers"--Amazon.com.
14) The Walking Dead
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English
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Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family is still alive and endures many horrors along the way.
15) The sandman
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Series
Sandman library volume 3
Publisher
DC Comics
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Fully recolored edition.
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English
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An attempt to summon and imprison Death, results, instead, in the capture of Morpheus, the Sandman, who must regain the tools of his powers.
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Walking Dead graphic novels volume 15
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Image Comics
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English
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Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family has survived, enduring many horrors along the way.
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Five nights at Freddy's volume 2
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Scholastic, Inc
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English
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"Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie -- whose father owned the restaurant -- and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained...
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