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Stillhouse Lake
by Rachel Caine
After her husband is revealed to be a serial killer, Gina Royal assumes a new identity and moves to remote Stillhouse Lake, but when threatening letters arrive, Gwen does everything she can to protect her kids from a menacing stalker
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Meddling kids
by Edgar Cantero
The surviving members of a forgotten teen detective club and their dog reunite as broken adults to embark on a wacky effort to solve a terrifying cold case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison. By the author of The Supernatural Enhancements.
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Down among the sticks and bones
by Seanan McGuire
A stand-alone fantasy in the world of Every Heart a Doorway shares the story of Jack and Jill before they tumbled into Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, relating their experiences in a childhood world of monsters, mad scientists and fateful choices
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The silent corner : a novel of suspense
by Dean R. Koontz
A first entry in a two-part novel of suspense finds shattered widow Jane Hawk investigating the inexplicable truth behind her happy and successful husband's suicide and is rendered a fugitive when she discovers that powerful enemies are somehow forcing accomplished and popular people to end their lives. By a best-selling author. (suspense).
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| The Only Child by Andrew PyperCan a nameless man accused of a heinous crime in modern New York really be two centuries old and the model for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and Frankenstein? Psychiatrist Lily Dominick is driven to investigate this claim...especially because the monstrous man also says he's her father. After he escapes from the psychiatric hospital, she pursues him to Eastern Europe -- but she, too, is being followed! "Gothic fans, rejoice!" says Toronto's Globe and Mail about Canadian author Andrew Pyper's expert homage to 19th-century literature. |
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| The Loney by Andrew Michael HurleyReferring to a Bible verse (Matthew 9:32–34) that suggests that healing can come from the Devil rather than God, The Loney explores a series of events from the first-person narrator's childhood. As an adult, the narrator, nicknamed "Tonto," sees a news report that reminds him of the annual Easter pilgrimages his family made to a remote English coastal area. Realizing that secrets he had thought long buried might be revealed, he decides to write down his own version of the disturbing occurrences before anybody else does. This leisurely paced, lyrical, and haunting tale won the 2015 Costa Book Award for First Novel. |
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| We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonIn author Shirley Jackson's classic We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Mary Catherine "Merricat" Blackwood explains her family's story. Merricat is obsessive-compulsive and fascinated by witchcraft, her sister Constance is a recluse, and their uncle Julian is an invalid. Merricat is content with their isolation until Cousin Charles arrives and begins harassing her, until she deals with him in shocking fashion. Throughout, Jackson portrays the Blackwood house as one of the story's characters, intensifying the brooding quality of this intricate gothic novel. |
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| The Quick by Lauren OwenFans of Victorian-set gothic horror, vampire tales with large casts of characters, London's creepy, dark streets, and leisurely, elegant writing will appreciate this immersive read. In her debut, novelist Lauren Owen recounts the tale of a young poet from Yorkshire who goes to London -- and disappears. When his sister goes looking for him, she discovers a group of amateur vampire hunters trying to stop the murderous plots of a socially elite occult society. If you enjoyed Bram Stoker's original Dracula or Charles Palliser's Rustication, you won't want to miss this. |
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