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"It was dawn, and the zombies were stumbling through the parking lot, streaming toward the massive beige box at the far end." ~ from Grady Hendrix' Horrorstör
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The crooked house
by Christobel Kent
Alison, the only survivor of unspeakable horror, decides to confront her past to overcome the trauma of what happened by returning to her old hometown where she discovers that the townspeople were all somehow involved in her family's murder.
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| Lovecraft Country by Matt RuffTo the surprise of Atticus Turner, the African-American hero of Lovecraft Country, supernatural forces exacerbate white supremacy in 1954 Massachusetts. When Atticus goes looking for his missing father, he and his friends discover a menacing cult whose leader wants to use Atticus to maximize his power. Even worse than this threat, however, is the racist treatment they face -- worse than anything found in H.P. Lovecraft's fiction. Bringing together occult and normal dangers, author Matt Ruff creates an irresistibly "provocative, chimerical novel" (Booklist, starred review). |
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| Interior Darkness: Selected Stories by Peter StraubIn Interior Darkness, multiple Bram Stoker Award-winning author Peter Straub collects 16 short stories and novellas to please his fans and introduce himself to new readers. From classic "don't go to the attic" situations to characters who are either not-dead or sort-of-alive, Straub delivers anxiety, scary ambiguity, and gross-out moments. Some stories feature characters from Straub's novels: "Blue Rose" stars Harry Beevers (from Koko) as a small boy; "Mallon the Guru" offers the back story of Spencer Mallon from A Dark Matter. The Washington Post says that this collection is "for those who love horror -- and even those who don't." |
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| The Passenger: A Novel by F.R. TallisDeep under the North Sea, a German World War II submarine receives the order to pick up a couple of prisoners from a stranded ship. Soon after they're on board, mayhem breaks out, and once the violence ends, matters only get worse, gradually escalating in weirdness and dread. The claustrophobia of U-boat duty can be unpleasant enough, but when paranormal entities invade the closed system, hewing to routine isn't adequate to cope with the danger. Submarine novel fans willing to go along with a supernatural premise and horror buffs who enjoy subtle, elegantly written tales should try diving into The Passenger. |
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The prisoner of Hell Gate : a novel
by Dana I. Wolff
"Karalee Soper, a graduate student at Havermeyer University's school of public health, grew up hearing tales of her heroic great grandfather, George A. Soper, who tracked down and locked away Irish immigrant cook Mary Mallon--the infamous disease carrierwho came to be called Typhoid Mary. So when partying on a pleasure cruise with her closest friends, she finds herself in an area of the East River known as Hell Gate--in sight of the long-uninhabited island where Mary languished bitterly for decades--andcan't resist the temptation to sneak ashore for a secret visit. Soon five curious and precocious twentysomethings are wandering among the macabre ruins of abandoned Riverside Hospital. Budding experts on the history of communicable disease, these students think they've mastered everything there is to know about Typhoid Mary and North Brother Island. But they don't know who tends the garden by the crumbling greenhouse. They don't know about the ghosts of the General Slocum shipwreck. They don't know the intentions of the hermit woman who offers to cook them dinner. And, worst of all, they know nothing of the sinister history lurking in the DNA of Karalee Soper, who will soon learn to her horror that the real prisoner of Hell Gate is the person she least suspects"
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Cursed, Haunted, Possessed!
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| Bliss House: A Novel by Laura BenedictAfter losing her husband in an explosion that also disfigured her daughter Ariel, Rainey Bliss Adams moves back to her family's Virginia foothills home town and buys the elegant mansion that her ancestor built. Soon, the house's reputation for violence and madness bears itself out, leading to a murder investigation, ghostly apparitions, and the revelation of a horrendous, long-suppressed secret. For more on the malevolent history of Bliss House, try the sequel, Charlotte's Story, which takes place about a generation later. |
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| This House is Haunted: A Novel by John BoyneIn 1867 London, 21-year-old Eliza Caine's father dies, and she must look for a means of income. Responding to an advertisement, she takes a job as a governess at Gaudlin Hall in Norfolk -- but a mysterious power opposes her even before she gets there. Once she arrives, she finds that there are no parents and few or no servants, and her two charges are very odd children. Clearly, something is deeply wrong, and Eliza must discover the house's evil secrets before it's too late. With literary nods to gothic horror traditions, This House is Haunted provides a "subtle, satisfying tale of ghostly terror" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| Horrorstör: A Novel by Grady HendrixIn Horrorstör, Orsk, the "all-American furniture superstore in Scandinavian drag," serves its customers' needs from cradle to grave. At Location #00108 in Cleveland, Ohio, a group of employees -- sorry, "partners" -- volunteer to spend an overnight shift investigating strange, possibly paranormal events inside the store. From dusk until dawn, a band of misfits -- armed with nothing but the promise of double overtime -- must attempt to survive until morning as they navigate the ever-creepier showroom floor while evading murderous specters. Intriguing but progressively more sinister illustrations of Orsk's wares illustrate this solidly scary story. |
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No one gets out alive
by Adam L. G Nevill
Finding an affordable room for rent, Stephanie moves to the cheap Perry Bar neighborhood of Birmingham, but when she begins to hear people in the night who aren't there when the light comes on, she knows she must find a way out
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| A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel by Paul TremblayTelevision reality show producers are always looking for a new twist. How about a demon-possessed teenage girl and her otherwise normal suburban family? In A Head Full of Ghosts, a writer interviews the girl's younger sister, Merry, 15 years after the television series ends. The interview releases Merry's repressed memories of the events, and her recollections clash with the version depicted on the reality show. Reminiscent of William Peter Blatty's The Exorcist, Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, and other classic tales of haunting and possession, this suspenseful novel "is a work of deviously subtle horror" (Publishers Weekly). |
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