Books like Song of Kali
Robert Luczak, an American poet and editor, travels to Calcutta with his Indian wife and their baby daughter to collect a new manuscript by M. Das, a celebrated Bengali poet believed to have died years before.
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A Dark Matter
In 1966 a group of Madison teenagers followed a charismatic guru into a meadow for a ritual that left one boy dead. Decades later the writer Lee Harwell, married to one of them, sets out to learn what each of them saw.
Our Share of Night
A boy is chosen by a secret society that harvests children's pain, and the horror spans decades and continents in this sprawling Argentine gothic.
Rosemary's Baby
Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy, a struggling actor, move into the Bramford, an old Manhattan apartment building with a dark history, and when Rosemary becomes pregnant, the elderly neighbours who have befriended them take an unusually close interest in the baby.
Our Lady of Darkness
Franz Westen, a widowed writer of weird fiction in San Francisco, spots a pale figure waving from a hilltop he can see from his window, and comes across an old book on the haunting powers of great cities.
Revival
Jamie Morton is six in 1962 when Charles Jacobs, a young minister fascinated by electricity, arrives in his Maine town, and their paths keep crossing over the next fifty years.
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls
In the summer of 1970, fifteen-year-old Fern arrives pregnant and alone at Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, a home where families hide unwed girls until their babies can be given away, and a librarian's book on witchcraft puts power in the girls' hands for the first time.
Hell House
A dying millionaire pays a physicist, his wife and two mediums to spend a week in the Belasco House in Maine, the most haunted building on earth, to prove whether anything survives death; the last group to try it ended in murder and madness.
Lost Boy, Lost Girl
Tim Underhill returns to Millhaven after his sister-in-law's suicide, and finds his fifteen-year-old nephew Mark fixated on an empty house in the neighbourhood with a terrible history.
Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to rural Maine, where an old neighbour shows him the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery behind their house, a place that can bring the dead back, though not as they were.
The Fireman
A spore called Dragonscale is spreading across the world, marking its victims with black and gold patterns before they burst into flame, and when school nurse Harper Grayson finds the marks on herself, pregnant and abandoned, she is taken in by a hidden community and a man called the Fireman.
The Damnation Game
Marty Strauss, a gambler let out of prison on parole, is hired as bodyguard to Joseph Whitehead, a reclusive tycoon who once won a card game against a stranger in the ruins of postwar Warsaw and is now waiting for the stranger to come and collect.
The Deep
As a plague of forgetting spreads around the world, a substance found eight miles down in the Mariana Trench may cure it, and the veterinarian Luke Nelson is sent down to the research station there, where his estranged brother has stopped answering.