Books like 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.
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The Hellbound Heart
Frank Cotton, a man who has tried every pleasure, solves an antique puzzle box that promises more and summons the beings called Cenobites, and later, when his brother Rory and Rory's wife Julia move into the house, Julia finds that Frank is not entirely gone.
Books of Blood: Volume One
The first collection of the stories that made Barker's name, framed as tales written in blood on the skin of a fake medium, from a butcher at work on the late-night New York subway to two Yugoslav villages that build giants out of their own people.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
The Troop
Five fourteen-year-old Boy Scouts and their scoutmaster are camping on a remote island off Prince Edward Island when an emaciated stranger arrives carrying something that begins to get inside them, in Lord of the Flies crossed with body horror.
The Last Werewolf
Jake Marlowe, two hundred years old and, he is told, the last werewolf alive, has a month until the hunters come for him, and is tired enough to let them.
Uzumaki
In the small coastal town of Kurouzu-cho, teenager Kirie Goshima watches her neighbours become obsessed with spirals, starting with her boyfriend's father, as the pattern takes hold of the town in ever stranger and more horrible ways.
Mexican Gothic
In 1950s Mexico a glamorous socialite travels to a decaying mountain mansion after her newly married cousin writes that her English husband's family is poisoning her, and finds the house has designs of its own.
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.
The Lamb
Margot grows up in a house in the woods with a mother who takes in lost strangers and eats them, and loves her anyway, until a beautiful woman named Eden arrives in a snowstorm and changes the household.
Carrion Comfort
Nina, Melanie and Willi, three old friends with the power to take over other people's minds, meet each year in Charleston to compare the deaths they have caused, while Saul Laski, a psychiatrist who survived a Nazi camp, hunts the officer who once used him as a puppet.
Between Two Fires
In 1348, as plague and worse things spread across France, Thomas, a disgraced knight turned brigand, takes charge of an orphaned girl who has visions and escorts her towards Avignon while the fallen angels make war on creation.
Needful Things
A new shop called Needful Things opens in Castle Rock, Maine, and its courtly owner, Leland Gaunt, sells each customer the thing they most desire for a small price and a little prank to play on a neighbour.