2006

Stephen King. Lisey's Story

King's most personal and powerful book to date is about the wellsprings of creativity, the temptations of madness, and the secret language of love.

2005

David Morrell. Creepers

Five "creepers", a slang term for urban explorers, and a reporter doing a story on them gather on a cold October night at a run-down motel on the Jersey shore. Frank Balenger, the reporter, isn't just looking for a story, and when the group enters the rat infested tunnel leading to the motel he realizes he'll get more than he bargained for.

2005

Charlee Jacob. Dread in the Beast

2004

Peter Straub. In the Night Room

A famous children's book author, in the wake of a grotesque accident, realizes that the most basic facts of her existence, including her existence itself, have come into question.

2003

Peter Straub. lost boy lost girl

A groundbreaking story of the persistence of evil, told with tantalizing ambiguity and structural audacity.

2002

Tom Piccirilli. The Night Class

2001

Neil Gaiman. American Gods

Shadow is a man with a past and wants nothing more now than to live a quiet life with his wife. When his wife is killed in a terrible accident, Shadow flies home for the funeral. As a raging storm rocks the plane, the strange man in the seat next to Shadow introduces himself as Mr. Wednesday. He knows more about Shadow than is possible--and he warns Shadow an even bigger storm is coming.

2000

Richard Laymon. The Travelling Vampire Show

1999

Peter Straub. Mr. X

Ned Dunstan's birthday is fast approaching, and every year on this date, Ned experiences a paralyzing seizure in which he is forced to witness scenes of ruthless slaughter perpetrated by a mysterious and malevolent figure in black whom Ned calls Mr. X.   On her deathbed, his mother tells him the truth about his father.  His determination to find out as much as he can about his absent father ignites a series of extraordinary adventures that gradually reveal the heart of both his own identity and that of his entirely fantastic family.

1998

Stephen King. Bag of Bones

A story of grief and a lost love's enduring bonds, of a new love haunted by the secrets of the past, of an innocent child caught in a terrible crossfire of natural and supernatural forces. Set in the territory King has made mythic--on the banks of Dark Score Lake in remote western Maine--"Bag of Bones" delves into the plight of 40-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan as he makes his return to the area for the first time since his wife's death. He finds his beloved town is familiar on its surface--but much changed underneath.

1997

Janet Berliner and George Guthridge. Children of the Dusk

1996

Stephen King. The Green Mile

At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers as depraved as the psychopathic "Billy the Kid" Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in "Old Sparky". Here guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over them. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, none have ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey, sentenced to death for raping and murdering two young girls. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being?

1995

Joyce Carol Oates. Zombie

Quentin P. is 31 years old, single, and the son of a well-respected college professor. He has his own apartment in the university town where he lives and attends classes at a local technical college. He is also a convicted sex offender (now out on parole) and a serial killer. In Oates's riveting new novel the reader is cunningly drawn inside Quentin's mind as he carefully plans and carries out a gruesome murder.

1994

Nancy Holder. Dead in the Water

1993

Peter Straub. The Throat

Accused of murdering his wife, James Ransom enlists the help of PI Tim Underhill.

1992

Thomas F Monteleone. Blood of the Lamb

A Jesuit priest begins to manifest supernatural powers of healing and destruction, becoming the target of a Vatican investigation as he uncovers the secret of his true identity.

1991

Robert R McCammon. Boy's Life

In 1964 in Zephyr, Alabama, Cory Mackenson and his father, Tom, witness a car plunging into Lake Saxon during a pre-dawn milk delivery.  When Tom dives down, he finds a nude, beaten corpse handcuffed to the steering wheel.  Cory sees a mysterious figure watching them at the edge of the woods but only finds a green feather where he investigates.

1990

Robert R McCammon. Mine

When her newborn son is kidnapped by a former Sixties radical with a violent, tumultuous past (her nickname is "Mary Terror''), thirtysomething yuppie Laura Clayborne takes matters into her own hands and pursues Mary across the country, pausing only for an occasional shootout or Big Mac.

1989

Dan Simmons. Carrion Comfort

1988

Thomas Harris. The Silence of the Lambs

On the loose is a psychotic killer; locked away is a psychopathic madman. To catch one, the FBI needs the other.

1987

Stephen King. Misery

Can a best-selling author escape from a psychotic nurse who wants him to respect her favorite literary character?

1987

Robert R McCammon. Swan Song