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Spooky Book of the Day: October 2

Posted by Dana on 10.02.2010 at 9:32 pm

Yeah – I’m going vampire today… what of it? I know it’s only Day 2, but it had to be done! Enjoy today’s creeptastic selection:

THE STRAIN by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

From the Publisher:

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan’s Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.

The Strain

They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.

In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.

In two months—the world. Read more…

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Welcome to Spooky Book a Day Month

Posted by Dana on 10.01.2010 at 12:59 pm

The wind is howling, the floorboards are creaking and the lights are flickering. Lock the doors, bar the windows and get the candles ’cause a storm is coming. A storm of literary spookiness that is. Here at Better World Books, October is the month for all things creepy. We’ve got goblins, ghosts, witches, zombies, monsters and of course vampires roaming the warehouse and we’re about to send them your way.

Be afraid… be very afraid.

And then quit being so dramatic and enjoy today’s Spooky Book of the Day:

THE WITCHING HOUR by Anne Rice

Seemed only right to start with witches and Anne Rice!

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW called it a “huge and sprawling tale of horror.”

FROM THE PUBLISHER: “Demonstrating once again her gift for spellbinding storytelling, Anne Rice makes real for us a great dynasty of four centuries of witches–a family given to poetry and incest, murder and philosophy, a family that over the ages is itself haunted by a powerful, dangerous, and seductive being called Lasher who haunts the Mayfair women.