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The Lucifer Chord by F. G. CottamResearcher Ruthie Gillespie has undertaken a commission to write an essay on Martin Mear, lead singer and guitarist with Ghost Legion, the biggest, most decadent rock band on the planet, before he disappeared without trace in 1975. Her mission is to separate man from myth -- but it's proving difficult, as a series of increasingly disturbing and macabre incidents threatens to derail Ruthie's efforts to uncover the truth about the mysterious rock star. Just what did happen to Martin Mear back in 1975? Is he really set to return from the dead, as the band's die-hard fans, the Legionaries, believe? It's when Ruthie's enquiries lead her to the derelict mansion on the Isle of Wight where Martin wrote the band's breakthrough album that events take a truly terrifying turn...
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| I Am Behind You by John Ajvide LindqvistThe grass is greener: Awakening at their campsite to find the world they knew gone, replaced with a sunless blue sky and an endlessly green landscape devoid of landmarks, four families confront the menacing physical forms of their buried traumas and desires.
Series alert: I Am Behind You is the first in a planned trilogy.
Reviewers say: "It will keep entranced and shocked readers guessing until the very end" (Library Journal). |
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| Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph FinkOn the road again: Spotting her presumed-dead wife, Alice, in the background of a news report, Keisha takes a job with the mysterious trucking company Alice worked for before her disappearance, hoping to find information about her beloved.
What sets it apart: As she becomes embroiled in an eerie otherworldly conspiracy, fully realized heroine Keisha grapples with chronic anxiety and must battle monsters both real and metaphorical.
Book buzz: This suspenseful Lovecraftian novel is based on the eponymous podcast from Welcome to Night Vale creator Joseph Fink. |
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| In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird HuntDon't go in there! Drawn into a fantastical forest in colonial New England, Goody encounters three witches who compel her to make a life-changing decision.
Is it for you? Rife with inventive shocks and vivid, nightmarish imagery, Goody's intensifying journey is both lyrical and puzzling. Want a taste? "Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." |
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| Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J.D. BarkerThen: As a boy, Bram Stoker was on death's door when his strange nanny, Ellen Crone, saved him with a bite before vanishing from his life.
Now: Years later, the seemingly ageless Ellen is spotted, sending Bram and his compatriots across Europe to investigate her connection to a sinister creature who has her in his thrall...and who wants Bram, too.
Why you might like it: Co-written by Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew, this atmospheric "prequel" to Dracula reimagines the origins of the 1897 classic -- and of Stoker himself. |
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Husk : A Contemporary Horror Novel by Dave ZeltsermanCharlie is a Husker on the prowl in the New Hampshire wilderness when he falls in love with one of them: a girl named Jill. Loving Jill means leaving the Husk clan, with its gruesome cannibalistic rituals, and that will be far more difficult--and dangerous--than Charlie could have foreseen.
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White plague
by James Abel
When a technically advanced sub carrying a lethal plague goes adrift in the Arctic, bio-terror expert Joe Rush must rescue the survivors and prevent the plague from falling into enemy hands.
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The water's edge
by Karin Fossum
When a couple discovers the body of a boy and sees a man limping away from the scene, Inspectors Konrad Sejer and Jakob Skarre make inquiries throughout the community of Solberglia and find the case complicated by another boy's disappearance and the couple's marital tensions. By the LA Times Book Prize-winning author of The Indian Bride.
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| The Ritual by Adam NevillIll-fated reunion: When four friends from university reconnect for a camping trip in a Scandinavian forest, tensions escalate when it's revealed that two members of the party aren't cut out for the task. Taking a disorienting shortcut, the group discovers a harrowing sacrificial site and a bestial predator that stalks their every move.
For fans of: The Blair Witch Project, Dreamcatcher, and Deliverance.
Book buzz: The Ritual is the basis of the Netflix Original Movie of the same name, which premiered earlier this year. |
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| The Terror by Dan SimmonsTrapped! In this well-researched and intricately plotted fictionalization of the disastrous Franklin Expedition, the crews of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus reckon with frostbite, snow-blindness, disease, mutiny...and a monstrous creature on the ice.
Reviewers say: "Outstanding" (Booklist); "One of Simmons' best" (Kirkus).
Book buzz: AMC's new horror anthology series (also called The Terror) adapted this grisly historical novel for its first season, which debuted in March 2018. |
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On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered the holy grail of medicine--a computer-engineered living creature whose organs can be implanted in any person, with no chance of transplant rejection. There's just one problem: these "ancestors" are not docile. |
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