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1) The patient
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"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...
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Reeve LeClaire volume 2
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"Reeve LeClaire is a college student, dammit, not Daryl Wayne Flint's victim. Not anymore-not when Reeve is finally recovering a life of her own after four years of captivity. Flint is safely locked up in Olshaker Psychiatric Hospital, where he belongs. He is walking the grounds of the forensic unit, performing his strange but apparently harmless rituals. It seems that he is still suffering the effects of the head injury he suffered in the car crash...
3) The escapees
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On the run from an asylum for the insane, a feisty young girl and a forlorn female companion embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.
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Commandant Martin Servaz thrillers volume 1
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"In a snowbound valley, deep in the French Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. The first victim is a horse: its headless, flayed body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery takes place, Diane Berg, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a high security asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. She is baffled by the slightly unorthodox methods the asylum's...
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Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon was locked away for society's protection, but psychiatric confinement has only increased her malice and ingenuity. At last free, she sets into motion an intricate plan to exact revenge on those who had her put away. Her former social worker, Isabel, and her old neighbors have moved on, but Muriel, with her talent for disguise, will infiltrate their homes and manipulate their lives, until all her enemies are...
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New York City newlyweds Jude and Mina have a seemingly perfect relationship. But things take an unsettling turn with the birth of their son. Convinced that the baby must be kept free of all contaminants, Mina develops fanatical obsessions with veganism, cleanliness, and purity that may kill the child unless Jude can stop her.
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"Slasher flicks. You know the genre. Some masked nutcase chases down and creatively murders a small group of attractive teenagers with tragically poor decision-making skills, who have unleashed the killer's repressed psychosexual anger. These moves are associated with popcorn fun. They're lowbrow entertainment to take a hot date to. But for Cassie Hack, this ain't no popcorn movie. Cassie, the daughter of the notorious Slasher known as the Lunch Lady,...
11) Harleen
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"Dr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory: mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the broken souls of Gotham City piece together their sanity she will become the one thing she fears the most: one of them. A bold new retelling of the tragic origin of Harley Quinn told through the eyes of the only person who knows her better than anyone: Harleen. It's been months since Harleen began interviewing criminals at Arkham Asylum, and she's having...
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A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries—and the chilling encounters that led to them.
From a juvenile court in Connecticut to the psychiatric wards of...
From a juvenile court in Connecticut to the psychiatric wards of...
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"Praying for revenge?Murderer Michael Hrubek has escaped. He?s finally free. And he?ll show them all, especially the woman who put him away. She called him a killer. He?ll show her what killing is all about. Praying for salvation?Lis Atcheson knows he?s out there?the man who killed two of her students. He?s haunted every sleepless night following her testimony. Now the nightmares are coming true. He?s watching?and waiting?and he?s going to take Lis...
15) Mr. Murder
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One rainy afternoon, a stranger breaks into author Martin Stillwater's house, accusing Martin of stealing his wife, his children-and his life. Claiming to be the real Martin Stillwater, the intruder threatens to take what is rightfully his. The police think he's a figment of Martin's imagination. But Martin and his family have no choice but to believe the stranger's threat. And run for their lives.
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"Meet Cassie Hack, the lone survivor of an attack by the vicious slasher known as the Lunch Lady, a killer who happened to be Cassie's mother! Now, Cassie and her monstrous partner Vlad travel the country, hunting down and killing slashers before they can leave a trail of blood and terror."--P. [4] of cover.
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Obsessed: Derek Charles is a successful asset manager for a small company. He has a beautiful wife, a wonderful marriage, and has just received a huge promotion. When an attractive temporary worker gets hired, he finds himself physically drawn to her and everything he has worked so hard for is placed in jeopardy when she starts stalking him. Includes featurettes.
Unforgettable: Tessa Connover is barely coping with the end of her marriage when her...
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"It is the House on Haunted Hill. It is the Last House on the Left. It is the place that Batman's most dangerous and psychotic villains call 'home,' and you are cordially invited to spend 24 hours within its walls. Welcome to the Arkham Asylum: Madness, 97-page special where readers will live and move and walk among the nurses, doctors, security guards, and inmates. It takes a special type of person to end up here, no matter what side of the law you're...
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Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California's Gorman State hospital, known locally as "Gomorrah," but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, was reserved for the mass murderers, serial killers, and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world. This account of his rookie year blends memoir with a narrative science, explaining...
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The two faces of Dr. Jekyll: Absorbed in research directed towards freeing the two natures of man, Dr. Jekyll degenerated into Mr. Hyde, a vengeful maniac. While Hyde wants revenge against a gambler whom his wife is in love with, Dr. Jekyll takes steps to do away with his evil self.
Scream of fear!: A young wheelchair-bound woman returns to her father's estate to find he's away on business, but she keeps seeing his dead body in various places. Her...
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