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Bloodalcohol  by Michael Botur

Bloodalcohol

Michael Botur

"A South island road trip turns murderous as a dangerous drifter smells a secret in her co-dependence pal. Millionaire Kiwi conservationists learn too late how little Mother Nature cares for mankind. A Far North teen confronts the terrifying truth about why...

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They lurk  by Ronald Damien Malfi

They lurk

Ronald Damien Malfi

Skullbelly: "A private detective is hired after three teenagers disappear in a forest and uncovers a terrible local secret."--Publisher.

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October screams

October screams

Brave enough to ring our doorbell? Immerse yourself in a world of Halloween horrors with this anthology from some of the best horror writers today. It's time to carve pumpkins, don your costumes, and explore macabre tales that will send shivers down your...

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Doomsday match  by Jeff Wheeler

Doomsday match

Jeff Wheeler

"Jonathan Roth and his family are invited to a luxury retreat in Cozumel, unaware that they will be used as pawns in an ancient Mayan ritual designed to bring about the apocalypse."--Publisher.

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The secrets of insects  by Richard Kadrey

The secrets of insects

Richard Kadrey

"The Secrets of Insects is the first short story collection by Richard Kadrey. Covering more than 20 years of his career, these tales take readers from the plains of Siberia to a decimated Los Angeles, from Hell to long forgotten cities, from hidden murder...

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Indian ghost stories

Indian ghost stories

"Spirits, ghosts, demons and jackals, all conjure the tales of the unique and original culture of South Asia. A delightful collection of stories from South Asia, some extending back to early cultures of the Indus river."--Publisher.

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Japanese ghost stories

Japanese ghost stories

"Many of the ghost stories of Japan came to the fore during the Edo period with its famous woodblocks of ukiyo-e, the floating world. This new collection of Japanese ghost stories brings together fantastic tales of vengeful spirits, man-eating demons,...

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Nestlings  by Nat Cassidy

Nestlings

Nat Cassidy

"Ana and Reid needed a lucky break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any...

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The winter spirits

The winter spirits

"These twelve stories - authored by some of today's most loved and lauded writers of historical and gothic fiction - are all centred around Christmas or Advent, boldly and playfully re-imagining a beloved tradition for a modern audience. Taking you from a...

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Remains to be told

Remains to be told

"Uncanny disturbances, death, and the dank breath of the native bush. Remains to be Told: Dark Tales of Aotearoa is mired in the shifting landscape of the long white cloud, and deeply imbued with the myth, culture and character of Aotearoa-New Zealand. Laced...

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Exercise bike  by Carlton Mellick

Exercise bike

Carlton Mellick

"There is something wrong with Tori Manetti's new exercise bike. It is made from flesh and bone. It eats and breathes and poops. It was once a billionaire named Darren Oscarson who underwent years of cosmetic surgery to be transformed into a human exercise...

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The bad box  by Carlton Mellick

The bad box

Carlton Mellick

""Little Benny isn't very good at taking tests. It's not that he's a stupid kid or doesn't pay attention in class. It's just that he's absolutely terrified of failure. It doesn't matter how hard he studies. He gets so nervous that he freezes up and his mind...

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The sanctuary  by Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya

The sanctuary

Gustavo Eduardo Abrevaya

"When their car breaks down outside of the small Argentinian village of Los Huemules, indie filmmaker Álvaro and his wife, muse, and lead actress Alicia consider it a minor inconvenience. Seeking shelter in the town's lone motel, they settle in for a night of...

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Christmas and other horrors

Christmas and other horrors

"Even though many celebrate the winter solstice as a time of joy, a darker tradition of ghost tales and horror stories resides in the long winter nights. This anthology of all new stories scours the world for the unholy, the dark, the dangerous. Alongside...

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The pale house devil  by Richard Kadrey

The pale house devil

Richard Kadrey

"Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries--one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living. When a job goes bad in New York, they head west to wait for the heat to cool down. There, a young woman named Tilda Rosenbloom hires...

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A haunting in the Arctic  by C. J. Cooke

A haunting in the Arctic

C. J. Cooke

"1901. On board the Ormen, a whaling ship battling through the unforgiving North Sea, Nicky Duthie awakes. Attacked and dragged there against her will, it's just her and the crew - and they're all owed something only she can give them. 1973. Decades later,...

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No child of mine  by Nichelle Giraldes

No child of mine

Nichelle Giraldes

"When Essie Singh and her husband, Sanjay, move into their new home, they expect to do renovations, they don't expect to be confronted with a curse that threatens both their relationship and Sanjay's life. Essie has always seen herself as someone defined by...

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A light most hateful  by Hailey Piper

A light most hateful

Hailey Piper

"Three years after running away from home, Olivia is stuck with a dead-end job in nowhere town Chapel Hill, Pennsylvania. At least she has her best friend, Sunflower. Olivia figures she'll die in Chapel Hill, if not from boredom, then the summer night storm...

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Bluebeard's castle  by Anna Biller

Bluebeard's castle

Anna Biller

"Judith is a successful novelist from a good family, even if that family favors her more beautiful sister. Her desperate yearning for romance appears close to satisfaction when she meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a wedding on the Cornish coast....

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Palace of shadows  by Ray Celestin

Palace of shadows

Ray Celestin

"Samuel Etherstone, a penniless artist, is adrift in London. His disturbing art is shunned by patrons and critics alike, his friend Oscar Wilde is now an exile living in Paris, and a personal tragedy has taken its toll. So when he is contacted by a mysterious...

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A haunting on the hill  by Elizabeth Hand

A haunting on the hill

Elizabeth Hand

"The first authorised sequel to Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House. Playwright Holly Sherwin is close to her big break. Having received a grant to develop her new play, all she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. Then on a weekend...

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Come closer  by Sara Gran

Come closer

Sara Gran

"There was no reason to assume anything out of the ordinary was going on. Strange noises in the apartment. Impulsive behaviour. Intense dreams. It wasn't like everything went wrong all at once. Shoplifting. Fighting. Blackouts. There must be a reasonable...

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Nefando  by Mónica Ojeda

Nefando

Mónica Ojeda

"Six young artists share an apartment in Barcelona: Kiki Ortega, a researcher writing a pornographic novel; Iván Herrera, a writer whose prose reveals a deeply conflicted relationship with his body; three siblings, Irene, Emilio, and Cecilia, who quietly...

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Firestarter  by Stephen King

Firestarter

Stephen King

"A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter. A pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift. A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon...

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An ordinary violence  by Adriana Chartrand

An ordinary violence

Adriana Chartrand

"A chilling horror novel about a young Indigenous woman haunted by the oppressive legacies of colonization. Dawn hasn't spoken to her brother, Cody, since he was sent to prison for a violent crime seven years ago. Now living in a shiny new Toronto condo, Dawn...

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Black River Orchard  by Chuck Wendig

Black River Orchard

Chuck Wendig

"It's autumn in Harrow, but something is changing in the town besides the season. Because in that town there is an orchard, and in that orchard grows a new sort of apple - strange and beautiful, with skin so red it's nearly black. Take a bite of one of these...

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Bad dolls  by Rachel Harrison

Bad dolls

Rachel Harrison

"In this new collection of four horror stories, author Rachel Harrison explores themes of body image, complicated female friendship, heartbreak, and hauntings. In "Reply Hazy, Try Again," an indecisive young woman finds a mysterious Magic 8 Ball that might...

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Rose Madder  by Stephen King

Rose Madder

Stephen King

"Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she...

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Brainwyrms  by Alison Rumfitt

Brainwyrms

Alison Rumfitt

"When a transphobic woman bombs Frankie's workplace, she blows up Frankie's life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers, pushing away her friends. Then, she meets Vanya....

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Last to leave the room  by Caitlin Starling

Last to leave the room

Caitlin Starling

"The city of San Siroco is sinking. The basement of Dr. Tamsin Rivers, the arrogant, selfish head of the research team assigned to find the source of the subsidence, is sinking faster. As Tamsin grows obsessed with the distorting dimensions of the room at the...

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What hides in the cellar  by Graham Masterton

What hides in the cellar

Graham Masterton

"After a South London man is shot and killed, his wife swears that the offender didn't have feet. Then a teacher is murdered at a local school and her pupils insist they saw disembodied legs hanging from the ceiling. These murders are neither straightforward...

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Bloom  by Delilah S. Dawson

Bloom

Delilah S. Dawson

"Rosemary meets Ash at the farmers' market. Ash - precise, pretty, and practically perfect - sells bars of soap in delicate pastel colors, sprinkle-spackled cupcakes stacked on scalloped stands, beeswax candles, jelly jars of honey, and glossy green plants. Ro...

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Carrie  by Stephen King

Carrie

Stephen King

"Carrie White is no ordinary girl. Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis. To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie- the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues. But events will take a decidedly...

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Desperation  by Stephen King

Desperation

Stephen King

"Welcome to Desperation. Once a thriving copper mining town in the middle of the Nevada desert, Desperation is now eerily abandoned. It's the last place that travellers like the Carver family, bound for vacation, and writer Johnny Marinville, astride his...

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Mosaic  by Catherine (Horror author) McCarthy

Mosaic

Catherine (Horror author) McCarthy

"When Robin Griffiths embarks upon the restoration of a stained-glass window in a thirteenth-century church, little does she comprehend the stakes involved. The more slivers of glass she pieces together, the more she realizes things are not what they appear to...

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Edenville  by Sam Rebelein

Edenville

Sam Rebelein

"After publishing his debut novel to disappointing sales and reviews, Campbell P. Marion is struggling to find inspiration for a follow-up. When Edenville College invites him to join as a writer-in-residence, he's convinced that his bad luck has finally taken...

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Knock knock, open wide  by Neil Sharpson

Knock knock, open wide

Neil Sharpson

"Driving home late one night, Etain Larkin finds a corpse on a pitch-black country road deep in the Irish countryside. She takes the corpse to a remote farmhouse. So begins a night of unspeakable horror that will take her to the very brink of sanity. She will...

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Red River seven  by A. J. Ryan

Red River seven

A. J. Ryan

"A man awakes on a boat at sea with no memory of who or where he is. He's not alone-- there are six others, each with a unique set of skills. None of them can remember their names. All of them possess a gun. When a message appears on the onboard computer--...

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My darling girl  by Jennifer McMahon

My darling girl

Jennifer McMahon

"Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call. Mavis, Alison's estranged mother, has been diagnosed with cancer...

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Bag of bones  by Stephen King

Bag of bones

Stephen King

"Novelist Mike Noonan, still grieving the death of his wife after four years, retreats to Sara Laughs, his isolated summer home, but the peace he is seeking slips even further from his grasp when he finds the community in the grip of a powerful millionaire,...

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Midnight is the darkest hour  by Ashley Winstead

Midnight is the darkest hour

Ashley Winstead

"In her small hometown, librarian Ruth Cornier has always felt like an outsider, even as her beloved father rains fire-and-brimstone warnings from the pulpit at Holy Fire Baptist. Unfortunately for Ruth, the only things the townspeople fear more than the God...

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Finders keepers  by Stephen King

Finders keepers

Stephen King

"Wake up, genius." So begins King's instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just...

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Insomnia  by Stephen King

Insomnia

Stephen King

"Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Each night he awakens a little earlier until he's barely sleeping at all. During his late night vigils and walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. He sees coloured...

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Let him in  by William Friend

Let him in

William Friend

""Daddy, there's a man in our room..." Alfie wakes one night to find his twin daughters at the foot of his bed, claiming there's a shadowy figure in their bedroom. When no such thing can be found, he assumes the girls had a nightmare. He isn't surprised that...

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And then she fell  by Alicia Elliott

And then she fell

Alicia Elliott

"On the surface, Alice is exactly where she should be in life: she's just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her ever-charming husband Steve - a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her own Mohawk culture- i s nothing but supportive; and...

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The collector  by Laura Kat Young

The collector

Laura Kat Young

"Lieutenant Dev Singh dutifully spends his days recording the memories of people who, struck with incurable depression, will soon have their minds erased in order to be more productive members of society. After all, the Bureau knows what's best for you. At...

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Black sheep  by Rachel Harrison

Black sheep

Rachel Harrison

"A cynical twentysomething must confront her cultish family in this fiery, irreverent novel from the national bestselling author of Such Sharp Teeth and Cackle. Vesper Wright is in hell. The night she gets fired from her unglamorous restaurant job, she comes...

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Spirits of the dead  by Keith Gilman

Spirits of the dead

Keith Gilman

"Death has followed husband and father Jon Levande his whole life. Now his daughter Marie is fatally ill, and the doctors are stumped. When his job of restoring old buildings leads him to St. Cecelia cathedral and the sinister Rector, he receives a proposition...

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Red rabbit  by Alex Grecian

Red rabbit

Alex Grecian

"Sadie Grace is wanted for witchcraft, dead (or alive). And every hired gun in Kansas is out to collect the bounty on her head, including bona fide witch hunter Old Tom and his mysterious, mute ward, Rabbit. On the road to Burden County, they're joined by two...

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Schrader's chord  by Scott Leeds

Schrader's chord

Scott Leeds

"After his estranged father's mysterious death, Charlie Remick returns to Seattle to help with the funeral. There, he discovers his father left him two parting gifts: the keys to the family record store and a strange black case containing four ancient records...

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The September house  by Carissa Orlando

The September house

Carissa Orlando

"A thrilling psychological horror debut about a woman who is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes haunted, no matter the cost ... You can survive anything. That's what Margaret tells herself when the walls of her house start to drip blood...

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Long past midnight  by Jonathan Maberry

Long past midnight

Jonathan Maberry

"Five-time Bram Stoker Award-winner Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of the Pine Deep Trilogy, weaves a chilling web of small-town terrors, local legends, and hair-raising haunts set in the eerie world of Pine Deep, Pennsylvania. Eleven...

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The night house  by Jo Nesbø

The night house

Jo Nesbø

"In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, no one...

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Bride of the tornado  by James Kennedy

Bride of the tornado

James Kennedy

"In a midwestern town, a high school girl's life starts to change as the adults in town begin talking about a mysterious event known as Tornado Day and the girl finds herself drawn to the strange boy known only as the tornado killer."--

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Fever house  by Keith (Novelist) Rosson

Fever house

Keith (Novelist) Rosson

"When leg-breaker Hutch Holtz rolls up to a rundown apartment complex in Portland, Oregon to collect overdue drug money, a severed hand is the very last thing he expects to find stashed in the client's refrigerator. Hutch quickly realizes that the hand induces...

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Pre-approved for haunting  by Patrick Barb

Pre-approved for haunting

Patrick Barb

"A collection of weird, dark stories and millennial anxieties. In this new collection, Patrick Barb explores themes of family found and lost, media consumption and the dangers of runaway nostalgia, the supernatural in our lives, and the impact of violence in...

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What kind of mother  by Clay McLeod Chapman

What kind of mother

Clay McLeod Chapman

"After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced to return to her hometown of Brandywine, Virginia, with her seventeen-year-old daughter. With nothing to her name, she scrapes together a living as a palm reader at the local farmers market....

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Hemlock Island  by Kelley Armstrong

Hemlock Island

Kelley Armstrong

"Laney Kilpatrick has been renting her vacation home to strangers. The invasion of privacy gives her panic attacks, but it's the only way she can keep her beloved Hemlock Island, the only thing she owns after a pandemic-fueled divorce. But broken belongings...

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The lonely lands  by Ramsey Campbell

The lonely lands

Ramsey Campbell

"Joe Hunter has begun to adjust to the loss of his wife when he hears her calling from beyond, 'Where am I?' His urge to help leads him into her afterlife, which is made up of their memories. Even the best of those is no refuge from the restless dead, and Joe...

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Dead ends  by Marc E. Fitch

Dead ends

Marc E. Fitch

"No one is safe. The residents of a small, forgotten neighborhood are being watched, stalked and harassed by someone or something, and it seems they are powerless to stop it, sending them down an all-too-real path of self-destruction and insanity. As the fear,...

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Not forever, but for now  by Chuck Palahniuk

Not forever, but for now

Chuck Palahniuk

"Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey,...

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The vision  by Dean R. (Dean Ray) Koontz

The vision

Dean R. (Dean Ray) Koontz

"Mary Bergen is a clairvoyant, able to forsee murders that will happen in the near future, but unable to prevent them from taking place. And now she is up against a power that is stronger than her own, a power that is taking her over, a power that is trying to...

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Riding the nightmare  by Lisa Tuttle

Riding the nightmare

Lisa Tuttle

"These weird and often frightening tales showcase Lisa Tuttle's unique ability to disturb and unnerve her readers."--Publisher.

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The darkness surrounds us  by Gail Lukasik

The darkness surrounds us

Gail Lukasik

"Nurse Nellie Lester can't escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit mansion on a desolate Michigan island, convinced the island holds the secret to her mother's murky past. The only problem? Her...

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Holly  by Stephen King

Holly

Stephen King

"[This] marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End...

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Everything the darkness eats  by Eric LaRocca

Everything the darkness eats

Eric LaRocca

"An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn...

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Vampire hunter D omnibus. Book three  by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Vampire hunter D omnibus. Book three

Hideyuki Kikuchi

Graphic novel

"The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D., where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind's nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. Yet...

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Shadows of Pnath  by Josh (Joshua M.) Reynolds

Shadows of Pnath

Josh (Joshua M.) Reynolds

"A brave few fight against the ancient entities lurking at the edge of our reality, whose powers would lay waste to our world... Notorious thief Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she once stole in order to put them...

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Spin a black yarn  by Josh Malerman

Spin a black yarn

Josh Malerman

"Five novellas of horror and speculative fiction from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box: -A sister insists to her little brother that "Half the House Is Haunted" by a strange presence. But is it the house that's haunted-or their childhoods? -In...

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The haunted  by Bentley Little

The haunted

Bentley Little

"The Perry family's new house is perfect - except for the weird behavior of the neighbors, and that odd smell coming from a dark corner in the basement. Then there's the strange man who appears and disappears in the house. Pity no one warned the family about...

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Vampires of El Norte  by Isabel Cañas

Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas

"As the daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico, Nena knows a thing or two about monsters - her home has long been threatened by tensions with Anglo settlers from the north. But something more sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of...

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The handyman method  by Nick Cutter

The handyman method

Nick Cutter

"When a young family moves into an unfinished development community, cracks begin to emerge in both their new residence and their lives, as a mysterious online DIY instructor delivers dark subliminal suggestions about how to handle any problem around the...

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Glass children  by Carlton Mellick

Glass children

Carlton Mellick

"Mellick returns with an absurd dystopian tale about the downfalls of modern parenting. The children of the glass generation are the most sensitive, fragile, entitled, spoiled, lazy, selfish little brats that human society has ever produced. Part of this is...

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Wild spaces  by S. L. Coney

Wild spaces

S. L. Coney

"An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to...

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Verushka  by Jan Stinchcomb

Verushka

Jan Stinchcomb

"Someone is stalking Devon Woodward. They've been there all along, since before she was born, going back to her grandmother's time. Waiting for her. Watching. And the people who should be able to help, her own parents, are making everything worse. Devon is...

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Here in the night  by Rebecca Turkewitz

Here in the night

Rebecca Turkewitz

"The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced. With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, Here in the Night investigates the joys and constraints of...

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Lotería  by Cynthia Pelayo

Lotería

Cynthia Pelayo

"The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance - similar to bingo. However, in Lotería instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images. There are 54 cards in the Lotería game, and for this short story collection you will find...

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The ravening deep  by Tim Pratt

The ravening deep

Tim Pratt

"A nightmarish power unleashed from the depths infiltrates Arkham in this nautical-horror pulp adventure from the acclaimed Arkham Horror game world When dissolute fisherman Abel Davenport discovers an ancient temple in the deep ocean, he under the influence...

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You always try to kill me in your dreams  by Carlton Mellick

You always try to kill me in your dreams

Carlton Mellick

"Dreams shouldn't kill you. If you die in a dream you should be fine in real life. But that's not what Elias learns once he moves in with a girl named Roe who has the terrible habit of pulling people into her dreams with her whenever she falls asleep. Although...

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Her little flowers  by Shannon (Novelist) Morgan

Her little flowers

Shannon (Novelist) Morgan

"Francine Thwaite has lived all her fifty-five years in her family's ancestral home, a rambling Elizabethan manor in England's Lake District. No other living soul resides there, but Francine isn't alone. There are ghosts in Thwaite Manor, harmless and...

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Camp Damascus  by Chuck Tingle

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle

"Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed "most effective" gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret...

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Extended stay  by Juan Martinez

Extended stay

Juan Martinez

"In a rundown neighborhood in the heart of Las Vegas, the Alicia hotel awakens and beckons to the most vulnerable-those with something to hide. After his parents are killed in a horrific roadside execution, Alvaro flees his home in Colombia and finds work as a...

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Silver nitrate  by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silver nitrate

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

"Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though...

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Whisperwood  by Alex Woodroe

Whisperwood

Alex Woodroe

"A journey into the wild woods with a character who just needs a break-- and the terrible things that stare back at her. Whisperwood is a small town deep in the woods that's not on any maps. Nobody goes there. And nobody ever comes out. To Anna, Whisperwood is...

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Bunny  by S. E. Tolsen

Bunny

S. E. Tolsen

For fans of Stephen King and Stranger Things. Two eyes bore into him from across the room. They're not her eyes. They're the same colour and shape, but they're not her eyes. 'I see you.' Silas didn't have a happy childhood. Aunt Bunny made sure of that. But...

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The beast you are  by Paul Tremblay

The beast you are

Paul Tremblay

"A collection of the most terrifying and fascinating creatures. These are tales of tragedy, love and loss, gruesome monsters and mythical beasts."--Publisher.

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Leviathan  by Greig Beck

Leviathan

Greig Beck

"Cate Granger and Jack Monroe are enjoying life far away from the deep-sea horrors of their past. But the ghosts still haunt them. Russian billionaire and former friend, Sonya Borashev, tells them of a newly discovered cave in Antarctica that leads deep...

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Dead of winter  by Darcy Coates

Dead of winter

Darcy Coates

"Eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run. From bestselling author Darcy Coates comes Dead of Winter, a remote cabin in the snowy wilderness thriller that will teach you to trust no one. There are eight strangers. One killer. Nowhere left to run. When...

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Natural beauty  by Ling Ling Huang

Natural beauty

Ling Ling Huang

"In this sly, surprising, and razor-sharp debut novel, a virtuoso pianist gives up her future as a musician to work at a high-end wellness store in New York City where the pursuit of beauty comes at a staggering cost. Our narrator is the youngest student at...

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At the end of every day  by Arianna Reiche

At the end of every day

Arianna Reiche

"Delphi has spent years working at a vast and iconic theme park in California after fleeing a trauma in her rural hometown. But following the disturbing death of a beloved Hollywood starlet on the park grounds, Delphi is tasked with shuttering it for good....

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The militia house  by John Milas

The militia house

John Milas

"It's 2010, and the recently promoted Corporal Loyette and his unit are finishing up their deployment at a new base in Kajaki, Afghanistan. Their duties here are straightforward-loading and unloading cargo into and out of helicopters-and their days are a mix...

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Night's edge  by Liz Kerin

Night's edge

Liz Kerin

"I'm always careful not to disturb mom. A rude awakening can definitely set her off, especially if she wakes up hungry. I can't forget what she is. What she could do to me." Having a mom like Izzy meant Mia had to grow up fast. No extracurricular activities,...

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Boys in the valley  by Philip Fracassi

Boys in the valley

Philip Fracassi

"St. Vincent's Orphanage for Boys. Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life...

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Burn the negative  by Joshua Winning

Burn the negative

Joshua Winning

"Arriving in L.A. to visit the set of a new streaming horror series, journalist Laura Warren witnesses a man jumping from a bridge, landing right behind her car. Here we go, she thinks. It's started. Because the series she's reporting on is a remake of a '90s...

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The edge of sleep

The edge of sleep

"What if the whole world fell asleep...and didn't wake up again? Dave Torres, a night watchman in a placid coastal town, knows all about sleep troubles. Since childhood, he's battled terrors and nightmares. Sometimes those battles leak into his waking life,...

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The magpie coffin  by Wile E. Young

The magpie coffin

Wile E. Young

"The year is 1875 and outlaw Salem Covington has spent the last twenty years collecting stories, possessions, and lives. Nicknamed 'The Black Magpie' for his exploits during the war, Salem has carved a bloody trail across the western territories. Informed that...

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Thinner  by Richard Bachman

Thinner

Richard Bachman

"Billy Halleck, a lawyer with a happy family needs to lose some weight, or he's headed for a serious heart-attack. But after a car accident in which a young gypsy girl is killed, he suddenly finds he can't stop losing weight - and it might just kill...

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Maeve fly  by CJ Leede

Maeve fly

CJ Leede

"By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child's favorite ice princess. By the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary...

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The wishing pool and other stories  by Tananarive Due

The wishing pool and other stories

Tananarive Due

"In her first new book in seven years, Tananarive Due further cements her status as a leading innovator in Black horror and Afrofuturism American Book Award-winning author Tananarive Due's second collection of stories ranges from horror to science fiction to...

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No one will come back for us  by Premee Mohamed

No one will come back for us

Premee Mohamed

"Here there be gods and monsters - forged from flesh and stone and vengeance - emerging from the icy abyss of deep space, ascending from dark oceans, and prowling strange cities to enter worlds of chaos and wonder, where scientific rigor and human endeavour is...

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