Eerie Books

Horror, Books, and Horror Books

Eerie Books is now closed, but we've kept the site live because it might be of interest to someone somewhere for some reason.

Eerie Books was located at 205 N. Ballard Street in Wylie, TX, and the store was open from 2am to 6pm Tuesday through Saturday. (Sometimes we opened early, and sometimes we stayed late, so if you were in the neighborhood and craved horror books, you could have felt free to stop by to see if we were there.) Our phone number was 972-442-9393. Eerie Book was Texas' only all horror books store, and we featured horror books for the casual reader and for the serious collector. We also carried horror movies, horror board games and RPGs, horror t-shirts, and horror artwork.

Updated on November 13, 2011

We closed our doors for new business, but we're still live here on the Internet. Our plan is to expand and change the focus of the site so that it's more of an informational resource than a website for a store. (Makes sense since we closed the store, right?) Thanks to all of the very fine customers, friends, and businesses who helped support our little horror bookstore for the last few years.

The horror book club still meets, but Forrest Jackson is now hosting the group. He operates Rosedale Rare Books in Dallas, Texas, so if you have questions about the book club, please contact him there. We will not be maintaining updates for the activities of the horror book club on this site anymore. (As Forrest was fond of pointing out on occasion after occasion, I didn't do such a great job of updating the book club information here on the site anyway.)

Updated on September 22, 2011

We're in the process of closing the store. If you're interested in buying some of our stock at incredibly reduced rates, you can check out our eBay listings here.

Also, don't let vision problems stop you from reading your favorite horror books. You can get contacts and continue to enjoy your favorite books from Eerie Books.

Updated on November 8, 2010

Horror Book Club

Horror Books The horror book club has chosen its selections for the next few meetings. You can buy copies of each of these books at the store. They are, in order of when we'll be discussing them:

December 2, 2010 - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
January 6, 2011 - At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
February 3, 2011 - Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Walking Dead

The Walking Dead has been hugely popular on AMC, so we're making all of our editions of the graphic novel collections available at a huge discount. The cover price for these books is $14.99, but mention that you saw this special on our Internet site, and you can buy your copies for $9.99. NO ONE is offering a lower price on these collections in brand-new condition--not even Wal-mart or Amazon.

Hours of Operation

Also, please note that even though our posted hours are from 2pm to 6pm, we're often open as early as 9am or 10am, and we sometimes stay open after 6pm. (What can I say? We're whimsical.) Feel free to stop by if you're in the neighborhood, or you can call to see if we're in.

Gourmet Soda Pop Selection

We also now offer over 24 different varieties of soda pop, including multiple gourmet sodas. Prices vary, but stop in for one of the largest selections of soft drinks in Wylie, Texas.

Updated on May 13, 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010 -- Horror author John Everson is doing a signing at the bookstore from 6:30pm until whenever. Last month's book club selection was The 13th, so if you were at the last book club meeting, be sure to come get your copy of the book signed.

We'll also have several of John Everson's other books available, as well as food and drink.

(Also please note that we've updated the book club page.)

Updated on November 3, 2009

Thursday November 5 at 6:30pm, the Wylie Horror Books Reading Club is meeting. Please join us for wine, beer, pizza, and discussion of the novel Some of Your Blood by Theodore Sturgeon.

Saturday, November 7 is National Bookstore Day. To celebrate, we're giving away a $100 shopping spree. To enter the contest for the $100 shopping spree, just email me (randyray at gmail dot com) with your answer to the question, "What do I like most about my local bookstore?" We'll select the winner on Saturday night, and we'll post the winner's name here on the website.

We've begun listing our weekly best selling horror books on our blog, so be sure to check that out.

Newly arrived horror books worth checking out include:

Hellbound Hearts is an anthology of short stories inspired by Clive Barker's Hellraiser universe. Authors represented in the anthology include Neil Gaiman, Steve Niles, Tim Lebbon, and Kelley Armstrong.
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies by Michael D. Spradlin is here just in time for Christmas. Imagine if all your Christmas carols were written about zombies. Then you'd have this terrific little book of zombie Christmas carols
Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead is a new anthology of 32 short stories about zombies, including stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Max Brooks, and Ray Bradbury. It's over 694 pages and the price is only $19.95, so it's one of the best value horror books in stock right now.
The Mammoth Book of Wolf Men: The Ultimate Werewolf Anthology is the latest anthology in the "Mammoth Book Of" series of anthologies edited by Stephen Jones. It features werewolf tales from authors including Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, and Dennis Etchison.
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears by Stephen T. Asma just came in too. It's a beautiful hardbound nonfiction book that looks at the cultural history of monsters and what role they play in our thoughts and attitudes.
Hollywood Monster: A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams is the autobiography of Robert Englund. You might know Robert Englund better as the original Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street movies.
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks is a humorous book by Nina Harrison, a fifteen year old vampire still living with her mother.

Updated on July 31, 2009

Please join us on August 16, the 32nd anniversary of Elvis's death. Johnny Harra will appear from noon to 3pm. We'll be raffling off copies of Bubba Ho-Tep.

Johnny Harra has been performing as Elvis since 1977, and has been hailed as the greatest Elvis impersonator alive by Burt Reynolds, Dick Clark, and The Dallas Morning News. He also appeared in the only movie about Elvis sanctioned by the Elvis Presley estate, This Is Elvis.

Bubba Ho-tep is the title of a novella by Joe Lansdale which was later made into a movie directed by Don Coscarelli. The movie features Bruce Campbell as Elvis. Mysterious deaths plague the Shady Rest Nursing Home, and it's up to an ornery, elderly Elvis and a black JFK to defeat a 3000 year old Egyptian mummy.

We now carry the Wylie High School reading list:

That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton (8th grade)
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (9th)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (10th)
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (8th)
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (9th)
The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (10th)
The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl (11th)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (11th)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas (11th)
How to Read Literature Like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster (12th)
The Road by Cormac McCarthy (12th)
50 Battles that Changed the World: The Conflicts that most influenced history by William Weir (10th)
The Broken Spears: the Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico by Miguel Leon-Portilla (10th)

Updated on May 30, 2009

We're running three big in-store specials right now:

All used paperback books are $1.50 or less through the end of June. This is a great opportunity to pick up "reading copies" of some classic horror books, including Stephen King, Clive Barker, V.C. Andrews, Dean Koontz, and more.

All customers who come in to the store and sign up for our mailing list receive a $10 gift certificate to be used on their next visit to the store. The gift certificates are good for $10 toward anything in the store: horror books, horror movies, horror games, horror t-shirts, horror artwork, anything. Where else are you going to get a deal like this?

By popular request, we are making some of the paintings and artwork in the store available to purchase. Please stop by and take a look at our available artwork.

Here are our latest upcoming events:

Thursday, June 4, 2009 - Book Club Discussion of Dead Until Dark at 6:30pm.
Saturday, June 27, 2009 - Brian Moreland will be appearing and signing copies of his book Shadows in the Mist.
Saturday, July 4, 2009 - Angeline Hawkes will be returning to Eerie Books for a 2nd signing at noon.
Saturday, July 18, 2009 - The "Vampire Versus Werewolves" Signing with Steve Wedel and Gabrielle Faust at noon.

Some of our featured horror books this month include:

121 To Pennsylvania by Kealan Patrick Burke - These are autographed, limited first editions of this 550 page collection of short fiction from one of the hottest young authors in the horror book scene today. Only 1000 of these books have been made available, so this is a real gem of a collector's item.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - I'm sure you've wondered what Pride and Prejudice would have been like if it had taken place during a zombie invasion. I know that I have. Luckily, this book, which is 85% the same as the original novel, is here to answer that question for us. Highly recommended.

Updated on May 18, 2009

Please join us for the ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, May 21 at noon!

Eerie Books opened its doors on Saturday, October 18, 2008 as Texas' only all horror bookstore. Eerie Books carries both used and new horror books, including both hardcover and soft cover books. In addition to horror books, Eerie Books also carries horror movies on DVD (both new and used) and other horror collectibles, like comic books, games, and artwork.

New Horror Books and Speculative Fiction

We've added thousands of new horror books in the last month or so. Please come by to see some of our new horror books. We have plenty of copies of all of the Twilight books and the Sookie Stackhouse novels. We also just got in several issues of the quarterly Weird Tales revival from the 1990's.

Some of our new featured authors' books include:

Jane Austen & Seth Graham-Smith - Yes, we now have plenty of copies of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The book contains 85% of the original text of the novel Pride and Prejudice. The other 15% of the novel features the fighting zombies stuff. Worth getting your hands on, and they're selling out fast!
Thomas Ligotti - One of our upcoming book club choices this year is My Work Is Not Yet Done, a fascinating and creepy look into the work-life of someone who's not too dissimilar from the rest of us.
Lucius Shepard - We just stocked copies of The Best of Lucius Shepard, Viator, andTrujillo. (Lucius Shepard is one of my favorite writers, even though his writing wouldn't be considered strictly "horror". You should definitely read his work if you haven't.)
Richard Matheson - Noir, Duel, and more.
China Mieville - Iron Council, Looking for Jake, and more.

New Horror Movies & DVDs

My Bloody Valentine 3-D is available now on Blu-ray, and so is Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. You might also be interested in picking up a copy of Twilight. And season 1 of HBO's True Blood just became available too.

My recommendation though is a movie called Let the Right One In, which is a vampire movie unlike any other vampire movie you've ever seen. Let the Right One In was featured on all kinds of yearly "best-of" lists, and justifiably so. It's a fantastic movie.

New Italian Horror Movies and Asian Horror Movies

We just got a whole pile of new Italian horror movies and Asian horror movies in stock. Some of the titles we now have in stock, and their prices, are included below:

New Italian Horror Movies List - Lucio Fulci Italian Horror

Lucio Fulci's The Beyond $25
Dario Argento's Suspiria $20
Lucio Fulci's The House By The Cemetery $15
Lucio Fulci's Touch of Death $20
Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2 - This is the 25th anniversary edition for $30.Lucio Fulci's
Manhattan Baby $13

New Asian Horror Movies List

A Snake of June $15
Evil Dead Trap $25
Evil Dead Trap 2 $13
Doppelganger $15
The Maid $20
Kichiku $25
Organ $25
Spider Forest $15
Phone $15
Tokyo Gore Polic $20

Please come by and ask us where the Italian horror movies and Asian horror movies are. We'll be glad to help you find them.

Wylie Texas Book Club

We're launching a Wylie, Texas Horror Book Club that will meet on the first Thursday of every month, starting with our first meeting on November 6, 2008. Click on the "Horror Book Club" link at the top of the page for more details. (Also, just because we're in Wylie doesn't mean that it's strictly a "Wylie Book Club". If you live in Murphy, consider us a "Murphy Book Club" and come on over. If you live in Farmersville and like to read and discuss horror books, then consider us a "Farmersville Book Club" and come on over. If you live in Sachse, then you can think of us as a "Sachse Book Club", then come on over. Anyone who lives close enough to come to the book club meetings is more than welcome to join us on the first Thursday of every month. (And we will be serving refreshments and stuff.)

Gift Ideas

Our top selling and most popular horror books are perfect for the holiday gift season. These are some of the coolest gifts a horror books fan would like to receive this Christmas:

Any of the Twilight books by Stephanie Meyer
Any of the Sookie Stackhouse novels by Charlaine Harris. (These are also known as the "Southern Vampire Mysteries; HBO's True Blood is based on these novels.)
Stephen King's new collection of short fiction, Just After Sunset, which is his first collection of short fiction in over six years.

New Horror Books and Movies

We've received several shipments of new horror books and movies this week, so even if you were here for the grand opening, you should come by to check out some of the new horror books and movies we have in stock. Some of the cool stuff that came in this week includes:

Several Chuck Palahniuk novels, including Haunted and Lullaby.
Almost every Stephen King novel in existence.
Nonfiction books like The Horror Book of Lists and Danse Macabre.

We also got some brand new copies of some horror movies on DVD, including:

Scanners
Needful Things
The Howling and The Howling 2 - Your Sister's a Werewolf

Grand Opening Celebration

Eerie Books celebrated its grand opening on Saturday, October 18, 2008 by giving away free horror movies and free horror books to the first 100 visitors to the store that day.

The store also offered free refreshments.

Angeline Hawkes Signing

Bram Stoker nominated horror & fantasy author, Angeline Hawkes appeared on Saturday, October 18 at Eerie Books as part of the grand opening celebration. She signed her newly released collection, Symphony for the Forgotten from Daverana Enterprises.

Angeline Hawkes received a B.A. in Composite English Language Arts in 1991 from Texas A&M University - Commerce. She was appointed 2007 Alumni Ambassador for the Texas A&M University-Commerce Literature Department. She has publication credits dating from 1981.

Angeline's collection, The Commandments, received a 2006 Bram Stoker Award nomination. . Her story, “In Waters Black the Lost Ones Sleep”, is featured in the 2007 Origins Award nominated anthology, Frontier Cthulhu from Chaosium. Her latest fantasy series is entitled: Tales of the Barbarian Kabar of El Hazzar. Symphony for the Forgotten, from Daverana Enterprises, is Angeline’s newest horror collection. She has seen the publication of her novels, novellas, fiction in 35+ anthologies, several collections, and short fiction in various publications. Angeline is an active member of HWA and the Robert E. Howard UPA [REHupa]. Visit her websites at www.angelinehawkes.com and www.fulbrightandhawkes.com.

Horror Writers

The first in our series of articles about horror writers can be found here:

About Us

Eerie Books is owned and operated by local Wylie, Texas husband and father Randy Ray. His wife and kids think that Eerie Books is going to be "really cool, but kinda scary".

Randy Ray, Horror Books Fan

Randy Ray