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Boy's Life

Robert McCammon’s *Boy's Life* is a supernatural horror novel exploring themes of innocence and corruption through the e...

Supernatural Coming Of Age Small Town 1990S

9.0 Excellent

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Summer of Night

Dan Simmons's 1991 novel set in a 1960 Illinois small town where a group of children discover and confront an ancient ma...

Supernatural Coming Of Age Small Town 1990S

8.4 Great

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My Soul to Keep

This 1997 supernatural thriller by American author Tananarive Due explores the dark side of immortality through a secret...

Family 1990S Immortal Tananarive Due

8.3 Great

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Watchers

A 1987 thriller by Dean Koontz about a genetically enhanced golden retriever that escapes a covert government laboratory...

Government Thriller 1980S Creature

8.2 Great

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The Cipher

Kathe Koja's 1991 debut body horror novel centers on a seemingly bottomless hole that warps the minds and bodies of thos...

1990S Cosmic Horror Transgressive Kathe Koja

8.2 Great

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Odd Thomas

A 2003 novel by Dean Koontz, the first in a long-running series, about Odd Thomas, a California short-order cook who can...

Ghost 2000S Psychic Supernatural Thriller

8.0 Great

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Bag of Bones

Stephen King's 1998 ghost story about a grieving novelist who retreats to his Maine lake house and encounters supernatur...

Grief 1990S Ghost Story Haunted House

7.8 Good

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The Witching Hour

Anne Rice's 1990 novel launching the Mayfair Witches series, tracing a New Orleans dynasty of witches and their centurie...

Supernatural Family Saga 1990S Witches

7.8 Good

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Imajica

Clive Barker's 1991 epic fantasy-horror novel spanning five interconnected dimensions called Dominions, centering on a r...

Epic Dark Fantasy 1990S Cosmic

7.8 Good

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Intensity

A 1995 psychological thriller by Dean Koontz following Chyna Shepherd, who survives a night of terror as a sociopathic s...

Psychological Thriller 1990S Serial Killer

7.8 Good

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The Wolf's Hour

A 1989 horror-thriller by Robert R. McCammon featuring Michael Gallatin, a werewolf recruited by British intelligence to...

Wwii Thriller 1980S Werewolf

7.5 Good

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Phantoms

A 1983 horror novel by Dean Koontz set in a snowbound Colorado mountain town where an ancient subterranean creature has...

Mystery Small Town 1980S Creature

7.5 Good

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The Between

Tananarive Due's 1995 debut novel is a contemporary horror story about a man haunted by alternate realities and dark fam...

Supernatural Psychological 1990S Tananarive Due

7.5 Good

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Whispers

A 1980 psychological horror novel by Dean Koontz about a woman who is stalked by a man she believes she killed in self-d...

Psychological Thriller 1980S Serial Killer

7.3 Good

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Desperation

Stephen King's 1996 novel set in a Nevada mining town seized by a demonic entity, published simultaneously with its them...

Desert Supernatural 1990S Evil

7.2 Good

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Mr. X

Peter Straub's 1999 novel about a man who discovers his absent father's supernatural legacy, blending Lovecraftian horro...

Supernatural Mystery 1990S Lovecraftian

7.0 Good

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Lasher

Anne Rice's 1993 second Mayfair Witches novel, continuing the story after the spirit Lasher has taken human form and pur...

Supernatural 1990S Demon Witches

6.8 Fair

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77 Shadow Street

A 2011 horror novel by Dean Koontz in which the residents of a luxury high-rise building called the Pendleton face a rec...

Supernatural Ensemble 2010S Dean Koontz

6.8 Fair

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The Regulators

Richard Bachman (Stephen King)'s 1996 novel set in an Ohio suburb terrorized by supernatural forces, published as a them...

Supernatural 1990S Suburban Evil

6.5 Fair

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Others

A 1999 horror novel by James Herbert in which a physically deformed private detective investigating a missing baby case...

Supernatural Mystery British 1990S

6.5 Fair