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| The Hollow Dead by Darcy CoatesIn this creepy fourth entry in the Gravekeeper series, seer and graveyard worker Keira Collis fights to reclaim her lost memories and stop the shadowy organization Artec from harnessing the energy of the dead. Try this next: the Royal Street novels by Karen White. |
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The Devil's Pocketbook by Ross JefferyErik and Lara are in mourning for their daughter, who was born “incompatible with life”. To get away from their suffocating grief and the ever-present shadow their daughter has cast in their lives since passing, and desperately trying to recover their increasingly rocky relationship, they take a trip to the seaside town of Polperro, in Cornwall. But no sooner have they arrived, than they realize that their grief cannot be so easily eluded. Drawn to the waters, Erik and Lara discover a large Devil's Pocketbook, and inside: the miracle child they could never have. Scylla.
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| The House of Last Resort by Christopher GoldenBram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden's compelling latest stars an American couple who move to a remote Italian town and purchase an opulent yet abandoned estate that was once owned by the Catholic Church. What secrets lie within its crumbling walls? For fans of: The Chrysalis by Brendan Deneen; The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig. |
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Everything the darkness eats : a novel
by Eric LaRocca
After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible for the bizarre disappearances soon begins to learn of a current of unbridled hatred simmering beneath the guise of the town's idyllic community--a hatred that will eventually burst and forever change the lives of those who once found peace in the quiet town of Henley's Edge.
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| What Feasts at Night by T. KingfisherWorld-weary soldier Alex Easton returns to their family home in Gallacia, where they find the caretaker dead from lung disease and rumors swirling in the village about an entity that steals people's breath. This second creepy entry in T. Kingfisher's bestselling Sworn Soldier series (following What Moves the Dead) will appeal to fans of evocative gothic novels like Marielle Thompson's Where Ivy Dares to Grow. |
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| The Haunting of Velkwood by Gwendolyn KisteTwenty years after surviving a cosmic event that turned everyone in her hometown into ghosts, Talitha Velkwood returns to the site of the haunting to confront past traumas and reckon with horrors both real and supernatural in this character-driven latest from the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Rust Maidens. Try this next: The Wonder State by Sara Flannery Murphy. |
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Ghost Station
by S. A. Barnes
While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness.
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| Womb City by Tlotlo TsamaaseIn a near-future Botswana where consciousness transfers are routine and implanted microchips keep people under constant surveillance, architect Nelah Bogosi-Ntsu occupies a body that used to belong to someone else. When she rebels against her controlling husband, she threatens both her own future and that of her unborn child. Tlotlo Tsamaase's "mind-bending and potent blend of Afrofuturist science fiction and horror" (Publishers Weekly) will appeal to fans of The Perishing by Natashia Deón and Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels. |
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Indian burial ground
by Nick Medina
When the facts surrounding her boyfriend Roddy's apparent suicide don't add up, Noemi, suspecting something sinister is stalking their tribal lands, relies on help from her uncle, who has returned to the reservation, bringing with him secrets, horror and what might be the key to determining Roddy's true cause of death.
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The salt grows heavy
by Cassandra Khaw
On the run, a mermaid is joined by a mysterious plague doctor with a darkness of their own and when they stumble upon a village of ageless children thirsty for blood, they must embrace the cruelest parts of their true nature to survive.
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