Kim Newman
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Hollywood, the late 1930s. Raymond Chandler writes detective stories for pulp magazines, and drinks more than he should. Boris Karloff plays monsters in the movies. Together, they investigate mysterious matters in a town run by human and inhuman monsters. Joh Devlin, an investigator for the DA's office who scores high on insubordination, enlists the pair to work a case that threatens to expose Hollywood's most horrific secrets. Together they will...
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Anno Dracula volume 4
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Vampiric journalist Kate Reed is a member of a secret cabal of anarchists called the Council of the Seven Days who have sworn to overthrow the despotic rule of the Prince Regent, Count Dracula. However when Kate learns of Council's plot to bomb Dracula's planned Tin Jubilee celebrations and the subsequent backlash that action would unleash she is forced to make a decision. One that could make her the enemy of not only the Council, the State but also...
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Anno Dracula volume 1
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1895. Prince Dracula has ruled Great Britain for ten years, spreading vampirism through every level of society. On the eve of Dracula's Jubilee, radical forces gather to oppose the tyrant. Kate Reed, vampire journalist and free-thinker, takes a seat on the revolutionary Council of Seven Days, though she learns that the anarchist group harbors a traitor in its midst. The Grey Men, Dracula's dreaded secret police, have been ordered to quash all resistance...
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Anno Dracula volume 5
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Framed for an attempt to blow up Dracula's Tin Jubilee river procession, Kate Reed is now running for her undead life, pursued by Dracula's secret police force. Meanwhile, the Lord of Strange Deaths and his cohorts have used the commotion to commit the 'crime of the Century'. Now Kate Reed, Irman Vep and Fah Lo Suee must team up for one final battle with the true architect of the terrorist plot before facing the ultimate evil of COUNT DRACULA himself…...
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Anno Dracula volume 2
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When the inaugural meeting of the Council of Seven Days is raided by Dracula's feared secret police, Kate Reed is rescued by Fah Lo Suee, daughter of the mysterious crime lord known only by some as the Lord of Strange Deaths. Meanwhile Penelope Churchward visits the Tower of London to meet the infamous, Graf von Orlock, Dracula's supreme bogey man.
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Anno Dracula volume 3
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Whilst London prepares to celebrate Prince Dracula's 10th anniversary, his secret police force, The Grey Men are purging the streets of any and all political malcontents and miscreants, including the Council of Seven Days – an anarchist cell. Meanwhile, vampiric journalist Kate Reed and the surviving members of the Council are now running for the lives following a police raid on their headquarters and are unaware that the Grey Men have secreted...
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Anno Dracula volume 1
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For a dark decade, Dracula has ruled the British Empire, unchecked. Now, on the verge of his Tin Jubilee, forces are gathering to challenge his insidious reign. In London, vampire journalist Kate Reed has been summoned to a meeting with the Council of the Seven Days, a secret cabal dedicated to destroying Dracula. Meanwhile, the sinister Lord of Strange Deaths is planning to use the Jubilee celebrations for his own nefarious act of sedition. This...
11) Scanners
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Criterion collection volume 712
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After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
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Criterion collection volume 35
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Suspense classic that influenced the 1960 movie, Psycho, by Alfred Hitchcock. Tells the story of a sadistic headmaster of a Parisian boarding school who is murdered by his wife and mistress, whom he has mistreated. The women dump his body in a swimming pool. When the pool is drained, the body has disappeared. Then come reports of sightings, terrifying his killers.