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I am providence : a novel
by Nick Mamatas
"For fans of legendary pulp author H. P. Lovecraft, there is nothing bigger than the annual Providence-based convention the Summer Tentacular. Horror writer Colleen Danzig doesn't know what to expect when she arrives, but is unsettled to find that among the hobnobbing between scholars and literary critics are a group of real freaks: book collectors looking for volumes bound in human skin, and true believers claiming the power to summon the Elder God Cthulhu, one of their idol's most horrific fictional creations, before the weekend is out. Colleen's trip spirals into a nightmare when her roommate for the weekend, an obnoxious novelist known as Panossian, turns up dead, his face neatly removed. What's more unsettling is that, in the aftermath of the murder, there is little concern among the convention goers. The Summer Tentacular continues uninterrupted, except by a few bumbling police. Everyone at the convention is a possible suspect, but only Colleen seems to show any interest in solving the murder. Soshe delves deep into the darkness, where occult truths have been lurking since the beginning of time. A darkness where Panossian is waiting, spending a lot of time thinking about Colleen, narrating a new Lovecraftian tale that could very well spell her doom. "
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Disappearance at Devil's Rock : a novel
by Paul Tremblay
When her 14-year-old son disappears without a trace, Elizabeth learns that the boy and his friends had been hanging out near a reputedly cursed landmark, a situation that turns eerie when she discovers his journal pages and neighbors spot his ghostly shadow throughout the town. By the author of A Head Full of Ghosts.
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The Hatching
by Ezekiel Boone
Who knew that an ancient arachnid species, dormant for over a millennium, was ready to move out and take over the world? A U.S. government entomologist in Washington, DC, and an FBI agent in Minnesota are about to find out. Swarms of black, flesh-eating critters are hatching from ancient egg sacs and wreaking havoc around the world, from Peru to China and from India to the U.S. Arachnophobes, don't touch this book, which is full of spiders. Other horror fans will eagerly turn the pages of The Hatching, which is the 1st in a planned trilogy.
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End of watch
by Stephen King
A conclusion to the best-selling trilogy that also includes the Edgar Award-winning Mr. Mercedes finds mental patient Brady Hartsfield manifesting powers to commit deadly acts without leaving his hospital room, while retired detective Bill Hodges and his partner investigate a suicide with ties to the Mercedes Massacre.
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Great Books You Might Have Missed
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Those girls
by Chevy Stevens
When tragedy strikes, the Campbell sisters, who once lived on a remote ranch in Western Canada where they worked hard and tried to stay out of the way of their father's fists, are forced to confront a horrific event from their past that left them with no choice but to change their names and create new lives. By the best-selling author of Still Missing and That Night.
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| Styx by Bavo Dhooge with Josh PachterAward-winning Flemish crime writer Bavo Dhooge busts through genre boundaries with this police procedural featuring a serial killer with an unusually gruesome M.O. and a flawed, over-the-hill cop who's been turned into a zombie. Rafael Styx is working the serial murderer case when the killer shoots him in the chest, but the now-undead detective perseveres. Replete with allusions to well-known surrealists, the history of Belgian imperialism, and hardboiled atmosphere, Styx will captivate both horror fans and lovers of gloomy, noir-style murder mysteries. |
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A Head Full of Ghosts: A Novel
by Paul Tremblay
Television 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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The night strangers : a novel
by Chris Bohjalian
After he crashes his plane into Lake Champlain, killing most of the passengers, Chip Linton moves into a new home with his wife and twin daughters and soon finds himself being haunted by the dead passengers, all while his wife wonders why the strange herbalist denizens of the town have taken such an interest in her daughters.
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Snowblind: A Novel
by Christopher Golden
Twelve years ago in New England, a gargantuan blizzard took away 18 people in the city of Coventry. Now another storm is on the way, reminding survivors of their lost friends and family and creating a disturbing sense of menace. In Snowblind, author Christopher Golden skillfully portrays the residents of the city and their relationships, as their uneasiness from memories of the previous storm and fears about the new one gradually build to pure terror. This tale is guaranteed to keep you turning pages until the twisty, terrifying finale.
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Pines : a novel
by Blake Crouch
"Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and no briefcase. The medical staff seems friendly enough, but something feels ... off. As the days pass, Ethan's investigation into the disappearance of his colleagues turns up more questions than answers. Why can't he get any phone calls through to his wife and son in the outside world? Why doesn't anyone believe he is who he says he is? And what is the purpose of the electrified fences surrounding the town? Are they meant to keep the residents in? Or something else out? Each step closer to the truth takes Ethan further from the world he thought he knew, from the man he thought he was, until he must face a horrifying fact - he may never get out of Wayward Pines alive" -- Author's website
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