| Meddling Kids by Edgar CanteroIn Meddling Kids, Catalonian author Edgar Cantero portrays a reunion of old friends who decide to complete some unfinished business in the resort town where they spent their summers as kids. While pitting good against evil, Cantero pays homage to H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos, the bumbling but resourceful gang in Scooby-Doo (yes, there are four kids and a dog), and a full range of road trip, haunted house, and reclusive wizard tropes. This gripping escapade (with touches of quirky humor) will have you rooting for the sympathetic, well-drawn kids -- now adults -- as your knuckles all turn white. |
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Burntown : a novel
by Jennifer McMahon
In Ashford, Vermont—aka "Burntown"—Eva "Necco" Sandeski's mother dies under mysterious circumstances and her boyfriend is murdered, leading Necco to believe that her mother was right all along about her deceased father's questionable past as a secretive inventor. By the New York Times best-selling author of The Winter People."
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| You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann; translated by Ross BenjaminDuring a mountain vacation with his wife and young daughter that's supposed to help him write, a screenwriter finds distractions instead of an environment conducive to maintaining his creative focus. Recording these distractions in the notebook intended for his new screenplay, the narrator discusses his growing emotional distance from his wife, amusing anecdotes about his four-year-old...and creepy phenomena, warnings, and terrifying nightmares. By the time his dread motivates him to leave, it may be too late. In a starred review, Kirkus Reviews declares that author Daniel Kehlmann "creates a sense of existential dread that transcends the typical ghost story." |
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| The Dark Net: A Novel by Benjamin PercyThere's a dark net in reality, but in The Dark Net author Benjamin Percy injects supernatural evil into the communications technology that handles such things as movie pirating, drug trafficking, and other criminal activities. He also adds futuristic devices such as a special prosthetic that enables one character, 12-year-old Hannah, to see. Percy's combination of techno-thriller and demonic possession explores what happens when demons cross from the electronic communications network into flesh-and-blood Portland, Oregon. Valiant humans, led by the blind Hannah, must beat back this attempt to subjugate humankind. This fast-paced and gruesome adventure will keep you on the edge of your seat. |
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Dark tales
by Shirley Jackson
"For the first time in one volume, a collection of Shirley Jackson's scariest stories, with a foreword by PEN/Hemingway Award winner Ottessa Moshfegh After the publication of her short story "The Lottery" in the New Yorker in 1948 received an unprecedented amount of attention, Shirley Jackson was quickly established as a master horror storyteller. This collection of classic and newly reprinted stories provides readers with more of her unsettling, dark tales, including the "The Possibility of Evil" and "The Summer People." In these deliciously dark stories, the daily commute turns into a nightmarish game of hide and seek, the loving wife hides homicidal thoughts and the concerned citizen might just be an infamous serial killer. In the haunting world of Shirley Jackson, nothing is as it seems and nowhere is safe, from the city streets to the crumbling country pile, and from the small-town apartment to the dark, dark woods. There's something sinister in suburbia. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series toprovide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators"
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| High Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread by Joyce Carol OatesBram Stoker Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates, who's skilled at literary fiction as well as horror, explores the heights and depths of human character in these disturbing stories. The narrator of "The Home at Craigmillnar" wonders if an elderly nun's death was from her heart condition...or something else. Several tales, including "The Rescuer" and "Demon," portray extremes of family dysfunction, while some (especially the title story "High Crime Area") reveal the risks that come from total strangers. Favoring ambiguous conclusions, Oates ruffles the previously serene seas of our consciousness. |
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Edgar Allan Poe : the best of his macabre tales complete and unabridged
by Edgar Allan Poe
Although best known for his classic gothic horror tales such as "The Pit and the Pendulum", or "The Premature Burial", Edgar Allan Poe also wrote contemporary science fiction such as "The Balloon-Hoax", and mystery thrillers like "The Murders in the Rue Morgue". This title features 73 short stories that give an introduction to Poe's work.
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Zombies! zombies! zombies!
by Otto Penzler
The editor of The Vampire Archives presents an extensive anthology of zombie stories that spans classic and modern periods and features the works of such writers as Stephen King, H. P. Lovecraft and W. B. Seabrook. Original.
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