Contemporary Urban Horror

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The Strain
Guillermo del Toro
F TORO Strain #1
The story begins onboard a grounded plane that has just landed at New York's JFK airport. Police and emergency medical crews are called to investigate the possible outbreak of a mysterious disease, which has killed all but four of the plane's passengers. Unknowingly, something more ominous is responsible for the carnage, which now threatens the city and soon the entire country.

House of Leaves
Mark Z. Danielewski
F DANIELEW
When House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper. Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter
Jeffry P. Lindsay
MYSTERY LINDSAY Dexter #1
Dexter Morgan, who hides a secret life as a serial killer while working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police, is intrigued by the work of a new serial killer whose style mimics his own.

Odd Thomas
Dean R. Koontz
F KOONTZ Odd Thom #1
Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soul-mate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.

Koko

Peter Straub

F STRAUB Tim Unde #1

"KOKO..." Only four men knew what it meant. They were Vietnam vets-a doctor, a lawyer, a working stiff, and a writer. They were as different as men could be. Yet all of them were bound eternally together by a single shattering secret. And now they have been reunited, on a quest that will take them from the graveyards and fleshpots of the Far East to the human jungle of New York...as they hunt something inhuman from the past that has risen from the darkness to kill and kill and kill....