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Piers Anthony, On a Pale Horse. Science Fiction
When Zane shoots Death, he learns that he must assume Death's place and travel the world on his pale horse to end the lives of others. Incarnations of Immortality #1.

Kelley Armstrong, No Humans Involved.
A necromancer is hired to participate in a reality show to raise the ghost of Marilyn Monroe but finds herself faced with a greater challenge. Part of a series.

Patricia Briggs, Moon Called. Science Fiction
Shapeshifting auto mechanic Mercy Thompson gets involved with the local werewolf community when she hires a young man who doesn’t realize his true nature. First in a series.

Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.
People from around the world give their accounts of what happened when zombies nearly eradicated humankind.

Jim Butcher, Storm Front.  Science Fiction
Chicago Wizard Harry Dresden helps police investigate a bizarre double murder that has supernatural overtones. Dresden Files #1.

Octavia Butler, Fledgling. Science Fiction
A woman with amnesia learns she is a genetically engineered vampire who can withstand daylight, and she tries to discover what happened to the rest of her people.

MaryJanice Davidson, Undead and Unwed. Paperback Fiction
After being killed by an SUV, a woman comes back to life to reclaim her shoe collection and learns that she may be the prophesied Queen of the Vampires.  First in a series.

Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child.
A young boy is taken by hobgoblins and is replaced with a changeling, and each boy tries to adjust to his new life.

Christine Feehan, Dark Prince. Paperback Romance
A Prince of the Carpathians—an ancient race who live in darkness—discovers a psychic woman is life mate. Dark Series #1.

Jeaniene Frost, Halfway to the Grave. Paperback Fiction
A woman who hunts vampires to avenge her mother meets a vampire who is unlike the others. Night Huntress #1.

Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere.
A London man helps a wounded girl and finds himself trapped in a mystical world beneath the city called London Below.

Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
A retelling of Jane Austen’s classic in which Elizabeth Bennet battles the undead while distracted by the arrogant Mr. Darcy.

Simon Green, Something from the Nightside. Paperback Science Fiction
John Taylor is hired to find a runaway and must enter the Nightside—a hidden realm in London where fantasy and reality intersect. Nightside #1.

Matt Haig, The Dead Fathers Club.
An 11-year-old British boy is visited by the ghost of his father, who claims that Uncle Alan murdered him to take over the family pub.

Laurell Hamilton, Guilty Pleasures.
Vampire hunter Anita Blake tries to discover who is killing innocent vampires. First in a series.

Charlaine Harris, Dead until Dark. Mystery
Mindreading waitress Sookie Stackhouse meets a vampire whose thoughts she can’t read and teams up with him to solve a murder. First in a series.

Kim Harrison, Dead Witch Walking.
Cincinnati witch and bounty hunter Rachel Morgan  is dissatisfied with her job but faces danger trying to break her contract. The Hollows #1.

Carolyn Hart, Ghost at Work. Mystery
A ghost returns to her hometown to help the pastor’s wife when a body turns up on her porch. First in a series.

John Harwood, The Séance.
After a séance that had tragic consequences, a woman is alone in the world and inherits a derelict mansion where a tragedy occurred years earlier.

Joe Hill, 20th Century Ghosts.
A collection of tales including the legendary ghost of the Rosebud theater and a human turned into a giant locust seeking revenge on his hometown.

Tanya Huff, The Enchantment Emporium. Science Fiction
Moving to Calgary to take over her late grandmother's junk shop, a charm-caster learns that she will be serving the fey community, which proves to be deeply troubled with problems.

Faith Hunter, Skinwalker. Paperback Science Fiction
Jane Yellowrock—a skinwalker who can turn into any creature she desires—is hired to hunt a powerful rogue vampire. First in a series.

Julie Kenner, Carpe Demon.
A retired demon hunter who is now a stay-at-home mom in the suburbs is called back into action when a demon turns up on the night of an important dinner party. First in a series.

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Night Pleasures.
A Dark-Hunter awakes to find himself handcuffed to a straight-laced accountant who is being hunted by a vampire. Dark-Hunter #1.

Stephen King, The Shining.
A temperamental writer who lost his teaching position accepts a job as a winter caretaker at an isolated resort hotel with a gory history.

Dean Koontz, Lightning.
A woman who has been protected all her life by a mysterious time-traveling guardian must help her protector when he is pursued by hunters.

Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian.
A girl discovers a book in her father’s library that may hold the key to the existence of Dracula.

Gregory Maguire, Wicked.
The story of the girl who becomes known as the Wicked Witch of the West in the years before Dorothy arrived in Oz.

Robert Masello, Blood and Ice.
A journalist takes an assignment to the South Pole where researchers find the bodies of a man and a woman bound with chains and sealed in a block of ice at the bottom of the ocean.

Seanan McGuire, Rosemary and Rue. Paperback Science Fiction
A private investigator who is a half-human, half-fae changling is trying to live a normal life but she is drawn back into the fae world by a murder victim's dying curse. First in a series.

Stephenie Meyer, Twilight. Science Fiction
Bella starts at a new school and is entranced by Edward—a vampire who has renounced human prey. First in a series.

David Moody, Hater.
A man tries to protect his family when people start turning into vicious killers without warning.

Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends.
While working the late shift at a supermarket, an aspiring writer meets a woman recently transformed into a vampire.

Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry.
American twins inherit a London flat near Highgate Cemetery from their late aunt, who can't seem to leave her old apartment or life behind.

Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby.
Two people whose children apparently died of SIDS set out to destroy all copies of a book containing a deadly lullaby.

Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire.
A vampire tells a reporter the chilling tale of his transformation and his long life preying on innocents.

Wendy Roberts, The Remains of the Dead. Paperback Mystery
A professional crime scene cleaner learns she has the ability to see and speak with the dead. First in a series.

Scott Sigler, Infected.
A CIA agent and a CDC epidemiologist seek the cause of a fast-spreading disease that turns people into homicidal maniacs with blue triangular growths on their skin.

Peter Straub, Shadowland.
Two prep school boys who become friends because of their shared interest in magic spend the summer at the home of one of their uncles who is a retired magician.

Guillermo del Toro, The Strain.
A CDC doctor is called in when a plane lands with most of its passengers dead and drained of blood. First in a trilogy.

J.R. Ward, Dark Lover.  Paperback Romance
A purebred vampire must help the half-breed daughter of a dead colleague through her transition. Black Dagger Brotherhood #1.

Sarah Waters, The Little Stranger.
In postwar England, a doctor is summoned to a decaying manor house to treat an injured war veteran who is convinced the house is haunted.