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Watchers by Dean Koontz
Published: 1987
Genre: Horror
Description:
Out of a government laboratory so sinister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the lives of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both "changed, changed utterly" from the ordinary animals they once were. To the scientists who fashioned them they are the end products of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence and they want them back. To the people who encounter them they spell either doom or a touching new kind of love. At the climax of this heart-stopping novel they will inevitably meet.
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Stinger by Robert R. McCammon
Published: 1988
Genre: Horror
Description:
Two aliens arrive in a remote Texas town, one an engaging waif pursued by the other, a relentless bounty-hunter sent to bring her back. The townsfolk rally around the fugitive but Stinger, the bounty-hunter, covers the town with a force-field. Noone can escape as he begins his search using replicants of the town's inhabitants - exact copies of humans but with silver claws for hands and razor blade teeth.
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Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz
Published: 1985
Genre: Horror
Description:
Slim MacKenzie sees what others cannot see. He possesses a strange, unwanted gift: the ability to look deep into the heart of darkness. Slim is a desperate figure who dare not glance behind him. He seems to find safe harbor as a worker in the Sombra Brothers Carnival. However, the creature from which Slim has been hiding from seems to have found him once more - perhaps because it has been waiting for him in the carnival from the very beginning. Slim and the carnies that befriend him will soon make a terrifying discovery: the earth is shared by something even more deadly than humankind.
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Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Published: 1987
Genre: Horror
Description:
In a world born of nuclear rage, in a world of mutant animals and marauding armies, an ancient evil roams a devastated America. . . He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye. He has gathered under his power the forces of human greed and madness, searching for a child who has the gift of life, the child named Swan. And when the mighty forces of good and evil finally clash against the nightmare landscape of the new world, no one will escape.
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The Wolf's Hour by Robert R. McCammon
Published: 1989
Genre: Horror
Description:
He is Michael Gallatin, master spy, lover - and werewolf. Able to change shape with lightning speed, to kill silently or with savage, snarling fury, he proved his talents against Rommel in Africa. Now he faces his most delicate, dangerous mission: to unravel the secret Nazi plan known as Iron Fist.
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Mordant's Need (Two Book Series) by Stephen R. Donaldson
Published: 1986, 1987
Genre: Fantasy
Description:
Terisa Morgan had been planning to spend another evening alone in her apartment when, without warning, he appeared in the mirror. Not as a reflection - he was in the mirror. At once, the glass shattered soundlessly, and a young man calling himself Geraden lay on the floor of her living room, babbling about the need for her to return with him to his world to save it from destruction. Soon Terisa finds herself caught up in a world of love and lust, power and court politics, where nothing is ever what it seems and reality intertwines with powerfully seductive illusion.
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The Belgariad (Five Book Series) by David Eddings
Published: 1982, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985
Genre: Fantasy
Description:
It all begins with the theft of the Orb that for so long protected the West from an evil god. As long as the Orb was at Riva, the prophecy went, its people would be safe from this corrupting power. Garion, a simple farm boy, is familiar with the legend of the Orb, but skeptical in matters of magic. Until, through a twist of fate, he learns not only that the story of the Orb is true, but that he must set out on a quest of unparalleled magic and danger to help recover it. For Garion is a child of destiny, and fate itself is leading him far from his home, sweeping him irrevocably toward a distant tower—and a cataclysmic confrontation with a master of the darkest magic.
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Published: 1985
Genre: Science Fiction
Description:
Aliens have attacked earth twice and almost destroyed the human species. To make sure humans win the next encounter, the world government has taken to breeding military geniuses -- and then training them to the arts of war ... The early training, not surprisingly, takes the form of "games" ... Ender Wiggin is a genius among geniuses; he wins all the games ... He is smart enough to know that time is running out. But is he smart enough to save the planet?
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The Keep by F. Paul Wilson
Published: 1981
Genre: Horror
Description:
Something is murdering the Nazi troops stationed in a remote castle high in the Transylvanian alps. Immediately an elite SS extermination squad is sent to destroy whatever enemy dares challenge the Third Reich. And the battle is joined--a battle more terrifying than anything ever experienced.
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It by Stephen King
Published: 1986
Genre: Horror
Description:
They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
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