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Baby teeth by Zoje StageAn ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature. Reviewers say: "We Need to Talk About Kevin meets Gone Girl meets The Omen....a twisty, delirious read that will constantly question your sympathies for the two characters as their bond continues to crumble." (Entertainment Weekly).
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Sawkill Girls
by Claire Legrand
Beware of the woods and the dark, dank deep. He’ll follow you home, and he won’t let you sleep.
Meet Marion, Zoey, and Val, the Sawkill Girls. Their stories come together on the island of Sawkill Rock, where gleaming horses graze in rolling pastures and cold waves crash against black cliffs. Where kids whisper the legend of an insidious monster at parties and around campfires. Where girls have been disappearing for decades, stolen away by a ravenous evil no one has dared to fight… until now.
Meet the author: Claire Legrand is an American writer of children's and young adult literature. Sawkill Girls is her latest YA work with a chilling edge.
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| Flight or Fright by Stephen King (editor) and Bev Vincent (editor)What it is: a nail-biting anthology about air travel that will have even the most grounded of readers searching for the nearest emergency exit.
Contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, Dan Simmons, and co-editor Stephen King (who has a lifelong fear of flying).
Don't miss: In E. Michael Lewis's "Cargo," a crew transporting dead bodies after the Jonestown massacre begins hearing noises coming from the cargo bay. |
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The last time I lied : a novel
by Riley Sager
What it's about: An artist who witnessed the disappearance of her bunkmates at summer camp as a young girl accepts an opportunity to return to Camp Nightingale as a painting instructor and tries to discover what really happened to her friends.
Author alert: Riley Sager is the bestselling author of Final Girls.
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| Teen Frankenstein by Chandler BakerWhat it's about: Texas high schooler Victoria "Tor" Frankenstein's Nobel Prize aspirations are put to the test when she accidentally kills -- and subsequently reanimates -- a teenage boy.
Series alert: Teen Frankenstein is the 1st in the young adult series High School Horror, followed by Teen Hyde and Teen Phantom.
Reviewers say: "a bleak, grisly story with a healthy dose of atmospheric horror" (Publishers Weekly). |
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| The Only Child by Andrew PyperWhat it is: a tense, gripping homage to classic monster tales; a globetrotting cat-and-mouse thriller.
Starring: driven forensic psychiatrist Lily Dominick (who's no stranger to violence) and her new patient Michael, who claims to be 200 years old and the inspiration for Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, and Mr. Hyde.
Author alert: Andrew Pyper is the bestselling author of The Demonologist. |
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Monster : a novel of Frankenstein by Dave ZeltsermanWhat it's about: Broken on the wheel and left for dead, he awakens on a lab table, transformed into an abomination. Friedrich must go far to take his revenge — only to find his tormentor, Victor Frankenstein, in league with the Marquis de Sade, creating something much more sinister deep in the mountains. Twisting a classic tale: Paranormal and gripping in the tradition of the best work of Stephen King and Justin Cronin, Monster is a gruesome parable of control and vengeance, and an ingenious tribute to one of literature’s greatest.
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| Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary ShelleyWhat it is: Mary Shelley's classic parable of mad scientist Victor Frankenstein and the creature he brings to grotesque and dangerously intelligent life, presented in its original edition.
Why it matters: A formative work of Gothic horror, Frankenstein is also widely regarded as one of the earliest works of science fiction.
Did you know? The result of a "ghost story" writing competition between Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron, Frankenstein was published anonymously when Shelley was only 20 years old. |
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NEA Big Read: Monster Ball Finale Central Library 660 W. 5th St. Winston Salem, NC 27101 Come celebrate the end of our NEA Big Read by attending our Monster Ball Finale on Saturday, October 20 from 6pm - 9pm at the Central Library. Guests are encouraged to dress up as characters from "Pretty Monsters" or from their favorite fantasy, sci-fi, or horror novel. There will be food, music, dancing, and prizes for the best costumes. The party is free, but attendees must have a ticket. Call your local branch for more information on tickets.
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Paranormal Genre Interest Group Walkertown Branch Library 2969 Main St. Walkertown, NC 27051 Tuesday, October 30, 6:30pm - 8pm Meet others and listen to author Dr. J. David Michaels as he leads a lecture on Defense Against the Darkness. At this Halloween meeting, costumes are welcome! Attendees can bring their questions and we will explore the answers. Call the library at 336-703-2990 for more info.
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Forsyth County Public Library 660 West Fifth Street Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27101 336-703-2665www.forsythlibrary.org |
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