Spooky Book of the Day: October 25

Posted by Dana on 10.25.2010 at 1:05 pm

I know, I know – if you’re doing spooky, you have to include Dean Koontz.  But here’s the thing people – there are tons of great spooky books out there and tons of well loved spooky book authors… and I can only do one a day… so sue me.  Today, finally… I bring you Dean Koontz:

PRODIGAL SON by Dean Koontz

From the publisher:

From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time. If you think you know the legend, you know only half the truth.

Every city has its secrets. But none as terrible as this. He is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who has traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death.

He arrives in New Orleans as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Deucalion’s path will lead him to cool, tough police detective Carson O’Connor and her devoted partner, Michael Maddison, who are tracking the slayer but will soon discover signs of something far more terrifying: an entire “race” of killers who are much more-and less-than human and, deadliest of all, their deranged, near-immortal maker: Victor Helios-once known as Frankenstein.

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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.

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