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Other Realities: Horror February 2017
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| Nightmares: A New Decade of Modern Horror by Ellen Datlow, editorIn Nightmares, award-winning editor Ellen Datlow presents the 24 short stories she liked best during the decade from 2005 to 2015. Each entry presents a skillful and subtle rendering of dread, penned by authors such as Caitlin R. Kiernan ("Interstate Love Song (Murder Ballad No. 8)"), Margo Lanagan ("The Goosle"), Garth Nix ("Shay Corsham Worsted"), Gene Wolfe ("Sob in the Silence"), and Lisa Tuttle ("Closet Dreams"). In a starred review, Booklist calls this "the perfect discovery tool for readers looking for the very best of modern horror." |
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| Normal by Warren EllisIn this futuristic psychological thriller, specialists assigned to forecast the future by gazing into "the abyss" may experience psychological breakdowns. After foresight strategist Adam Dearden overloads on the abyss, he checks into a special facility for those who suffer from "abyss gaze." But instead of respite and recovery, he finds chaos after a neighboring patient disappears from his locked and sealed room, his body replaced by a 200-pound pile of live insects. Because he's the most recent arrival, Adam's the automatic suspect; he must form a defensive alliance with other patients when the government investigators arrive. Horror fans will appreciate Normal's forecast regarding the future: "Be very afraid!" |
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| The Apartment: A Novel by S.L. GreySuffering from anxiety after a home invasion, Mark and Steph, a married couple from Cape Town, decide on a getaway to Paris, using a house-exchange website to reduce the cost of the trip. But the Paris apartment has more in common with a haunted house than an idyllic retreat -- and that's before they discover the horror concealed in a closet. Returning to Cape Town (where the Parisian couple never showed up), Mark and Steph's already-shaky relationship worsens as Mark's visions of a dead girl intensify. Authored by Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg under the pseudonym S.L. Grey, The Apartment offers a cinematically descriptive combination of bad-trip vacation and terrifying madness. |
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| Only the Dead Know Burbank: A Novel by Bradford TatumAfter the end of the Great War, a Berlin teenager named Maddy Ulm wakes up undead in a hastily dug grave. After working in a circus for a time, thrilling audiences with her ability to survive deadly injuries, she discovers Berlin's film studios, then works her way to Hollywood and a career as a horror expert for the movies. Only the Dead Know Burbank's cast of characters includes historical figures Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff, as well as early horror directors James Whale and Tod Browning. Readers who enjoy being scared and early fright-film buffs should pick up this "bitingly witty and darkly vibrant" (Publishers Weekly) depiction of Maddy's existence in Hollywood's studios. |
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Fever dream : a novel
by Samanta Schweblin
A first English translation by an award-winning Spanish author follows the nightmarish experiences of a dying woman and a boy beside her hospital bed, who explore the dynamics of broken souls, toxic relationships and the power and desperation of family.
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Little heaven : a novel
by Nick Cutter
A trio of mismatched mercenaries is hired by a young woman to evaluate the safety of a boy who may have been taken against his will to a remote New Mexico backwoods settlement, where the mercenaries encounter paranoia, mistrust and insanity in the shadow of a monolithic idol. Illustrations.
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