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Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead : return to Woodbury
by Jay R Bonansinga
She has weathered over four years of the apocalypse. She has done things that she would not have dreamt of doing in her darkest nightmares. But she has survived. And now, she has staked a claim in the plague-ravaged city of Atlanta. It is a safe haven for her people, rising high above the walker-ridden streets, a place of warmth and comfort. But for Lilly Caul, something is missing... She still dreams of her former home—the quaint little village known as Woodbury—a place of heartache as well as hope. For Lilly, Woodbury, Georgia, has become a symbol of the future, of family, of a return to normal life amidst this hell on earth. The call is so powerful that Lilly decides to risk everything in order to go back... to reclaim that little oasis in the wilderness. Against all odds, against the wishes of her people, Lilly leads a ragtag group of true believers back across the impossible landscape of walker swarms, flooded rivers, psychotic bands of murderers, and dangers the likes of which she has never known. Along the way, she discovers a disturbing truth about herself. She is willing to go to the darkest place in order to survive, in order to save her people, in order to do the one thing she knows she has to do: Return to Woodbury.
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Colonial Horrors : Sleepy Hollow and Beyond
by Graeme Davis
This anthology of classic colonial suspense fiction plunges deep into the native soil from which American horror literature first sprang. While European writers of the Gothic and bizarre evoked ruined castles and crumbling abbeys, their American counterparts looked back to the Colonial era’s stifling religion and its dark and threatening woods. Pioneers of American horror fiction are presented afresh in this breathtaking volume for today’s reading public. Some will have heard the names of Increase and Cotton Mather in association with the Salem witch trials, but will not have sought out their contemporary accounts of what were viewed as supernatural events. By bringing these writers to the attention of the contemporary reader, the book will help bring their names―and their work―back from the dead.
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| The Last to See Me by M DresslerThe Last to See Me portrays a parallel universe where ghosts are recognized as real, but the living do everything they can to eradicate them. Having dwelt for a century as a ghost in a grand California mansion called Lambry House, Emma Rose Finnis finally must come to terms with a ghost hunter. Set on a dramatic, foggy, wave-battered coastline, Emma's residence offers a perfect atmosphere for a spooky story, while her timelines in life and death alternate compellingly in this gripping tale of star-crossed lovers. |
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| The Grip of It by Jac JemcAfter their previously ideal relationship falters, Julie and James decide they need to start anew in a different dwelling. They purchase a run-down Victorian house in a quiet area, ignoring the odd noises they hear when they view it -- but there's more to the house than meets the eye. Nor is the couple's relationship all sweetness and light. This classically Gothic-style tale twists and turns as it recalls the literary mastery of Henry James. |
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Food of the Gods
by Cassandra Khaw
It’s not unusual to work two jobs in this day and age, but sorcerer and former triad soldier Rupert Wong’s life is more complicated than most. By day, he makes human hors d’oeuvres for a dynasty of ghouls; by night, he pushes pencils for the Ten Chinese Hells. Of course, it never seems to be enough to buy him a new car—or his restless, flesh-eating-ghost girlfriend passage from the reincarnation cycle—until opportunity comes smashing through his window. In Kuala Lumpur, where deities from a handful of major faiths tip-toe around each other and damned souls number in the millions, it’s important to tread carefully. Now the Dragon King of the South wants to throw Rupert right in it. The ocean god’s daughter and her once-mortal husband have been murdered, leaving a single clue: bloodied feathers from the Greek furies. It’s a clue that could start a war between pantheons, and Rupert’s stuck in the middle. Success promises wealth, power and freedom, and failure... doesn’t.
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Beast : A Novel
by Paul Kingsnorth
Beast plunges you into the world of Edward Buckmaster, a man alone on an empty moor in the west of England. What he has left behind we don’t yet know. What he faces is an existential battle with himself, the elements, and something he begins to see in the margins of his vision: some creature that is tracking him, the pursuit of which will become an obsession. This short, shocking, and exhilarating novel is a vivid exploration of isolation, courage, and the search for truth that continues the story set one thousand years earlier in Paul Kingsnorth’s bravura debut novel, The Wake. It extends that book’s promise and confirms Kingsnorth as one of our most daring and rewarding contemporary writers.
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Strange Is the Night
by S. P. Miskowski
Over cocktails an executive describes to a friend the disturbing history of a strangely potent guardian angel. A young mom tries to perfect and prolong her daughter’s childhood with obsessive parenting. A critic’s petty denouncement of an ingénue’s performance leads to a theatrical night of reckoning. A cult member makes nice for a parole board hearing years after committing an infamous crime.A multiple Shirley Jackson Award nominee, S.P. Miskowski serves up an uncompromising collection of thirteen modern tales of desire and self-destruction.
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The Murders of Molly Southbourne
by Tade Thompson
For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she's been watching herself die. Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical to her in every way and intent on her destruction. Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also knows that as long as she survives she'll be hunted. No matter how well she follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to stop the tide of blood, or will she meet her end at the hand of a girl who looks just like her?
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| What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror by David WongHang on to your reading glasses! Author David Wong returns in this complicated tale, vividly populated with supernatural creatures and the three main characters from Wong's previous novels (John Dies at the End and This Book Is Full of Spiders). You don't need to have read the first two books to enjoy this one, but get ready for abundant expletives, rivers of gore, and creepy absurdity. Oh -- and perceptive commentary on contemporary life. |
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Cursed, Haunted, Possessed!
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| No One Gets Out Alive by Adam NevillHaving run away from home at age 19, Stephanie Booth finds a cheap room to rent in Birmingham, England...and soon realizes that the house is haunted. Not only that, but the live humans who run the place are dangerous sadists. Who is more threatening: the ghosts, or the landlord and his cousin? Author Adam Nevill skillfully cranks up the fear and the tension, adding twists and switchbacks that will keep you turning the pages. |
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| Touch by Claire NorthIn Touch, author Claire North depicts possession with an unusual quirk: the soul or spirit of a murder victim can inhabit the body of a living human and easily move into yet another person at a mere touch. Meanwhile, a society dedicated to eliminating these ghosts tries to kill the people whose bodies they're inhabiting. The narrator, an entity called Kepler, seeks revenge against the ghost-killers in this fast-paced, thought-provoking consideration of the meaning of human existence. |
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| Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul TremblayWhat really happened the night 13-year-old Tommy disappeared from a site called Devil's Rock in a local park? Baffled by the failure of the state police to turn up leads, his mother and younger sister become even more frightened when strange shadows that resemble Tommy appear, and pages of his journal mention a mysterious past event. Did Tommy die, and is his ghost trying to communicate with his mother? Award-winning author Paul Tremblay infuses normal small-town life with paranormal manifestations in this dread-inducing narrative. |
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