Aliens. Poster of the 1986 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Aliens
Alan Dean Foster, 1986
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James Cameron, 1986

For 57 years, Ellen Ripley has been in stasis in an escape shuttle after destroying her ship, the Nostromo, to escape a lethal alien creature that slaughtered her crew. She is rescued and debriefed by her employers at the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, but they are skeptical of her claims that her crew found alien eggs in a derelict ship on the exomoon LV-426, as it is now the site of the terraforming colony Hadleys Hope.


Hellbound: Hellraiser II. Poster of the 1988 movie and cover of the 1986 book, The Hellbound Heart
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The Hellbound Heart
Clive Barker, 1986
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Tony Randel, 1988

In the past, British military officer Elliot Spencer is transformed into the Cenobite Pinhead after opening the Lament Configuration. Interviewed by Doctor Channard, and his assistant Kyle MacRae, she tells her account of the events, and pleads with them to destroy the bloody mattress her murderous stepmother, Julia Cotton, died upon.


The Son. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2018 book
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The Son
Florian Zeller, 2018
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Florian Zeller, 2022

When his ex-wife Kate shows up with their teenage son Nicholas, Peter’s hectic life with new partner Emma and their infant is upended.


Avenger. Poster of the 2006 movie and cover of the 2003 book
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Avenger
Frederick Forsyth, 2003
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Robert Markowitz, 2006

After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private ‘specialist’ in cases which wouldn’t reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard ‘Ricky’ Edmunds for his pa, influential rich businessman Stephen Edmonds.