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Flight or Fright
by Stephen King (editor) and Bev Vincent (editor)
What it is: a nail-biting anthology about air travel that will have even the most grounded of readers searching for the nearest emergency exit.
Contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle, Ray Bradbury, Dan Simmons, and co-editor Stephen King (who has a lifelong fear of flying).
Don't miss: In E. Michael Lewis's "Cargo," a crew transporting dead bodies after the Jonestown massacre begins hearing noises coming from the cargo bay.
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The savior
by J. R. Ward
In the venerable history of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, only one male has ever been expelled--but Murhder's insanity gave the Brothers no choice. Haunted by visions of a female he could not save, he nonetheless returns to Caldwell on a mission to right the wrong that ruined him. However, he is not prepared for what he must face in his quest for redemption. Dr. Sarah Watkins, researcher at a biomedical firm, is struggling with the loss of her fellow scientist fiance. When the FBI starts asking about his death, she questions what really happened and soon learns the terrible truth: Her firm is conducting inhumane experiments in secret and the man she thought she knew and loved was involved in the torture. As Murhder and Sarah's destinies become irrevocably entwined, desire ignites between them. But can they forge a future that spans the divide separating the two species? And as a new foe emerges in the war against the vampires, will Murhder return to his Brothers... or resume his lonely existence forevermore?
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Graveyard Mind
by Chadwick Ginther
When the dead are the last things to stay buried . . . In Winnipeg's underworld, every mortician is on the take and every revenant of myth waits to claw their way out of their tombs. The dead stay in the ground because of Winter Murray, a necromancer of the Compact. A victim of abduction and a criminal herself, Winter stalks Winnipeg's Graveside, preventing larger, more heinous crimes from spilling over into the lives of the Sunsiders, no matter what laws of gods and men she must break to do so.
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Strange weather : four short novels
by Joe Hill
Snapshot: The disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.
Loaded: A mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it. When an out-of-control summer blaze approaches the town, he will reach for the gun again and embark on one last day of reckoning.
Aloft: A young man takes to the skies to experience his first parachute jump... and winds up a castaway on an impossibly solid cloud, a Prospero's island of roiling vapor that seems animated by a mind of its own.
Rain: On a seemingly ordinary day in Boulder, Colorado, the clouds open up in a downpour of nails--splinters of bright crystal that shred the skin of anyone not safely under cover. "Rain" explores this escalating apocalyptic event, as the deluge of nails spreads out across the country and around the world.
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Adaptations and Retellings
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| Winter Tide by Ruthanna EmrysWhat it is: an inventive dark fantasy mash-up of Cthulhu Mythos and Cold War espionage and paranoia.
Starring: siblings Aphra and Caleb Marsh, the last of Innsmouth's amphibious Deep Ones, who are recruited as spies by the very government that sent their people to internment camps.
Series alert: Winter Tide is the first book in the Innsmouth Legacy series, followed by Deep Roots. |
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Carter & Lovecraft
by Jonathan L Howard
Private investigator Daniel Carter inherits a bookstore that employs bookseller Emily Lovecraft, the last known descendant of H. P. Lovecraft, and soon people start dying in impossible ways, leading Carter to discover that Lovecraft's tales of strange creatures and entities were more than just fiction, in the first installment of a series that has been optioned by Warner Bros TV. TV tie-in.
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| Hyde by Daniel LevineWhat it is: a violent reimagining of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 classic Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, this time told from the perspective of the monstrous Edward Hyde.
Read it for: a vividly drawn character study and an intense mad scientist drama that will satisfy fans of both horror and psychological suspense.
Is it for you? This ambitious novel will best be appreciated by those familiar with Stevenson's original novella -- luckily, it's included here as an appendix. |
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| The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzieWhat it's about: In this creepy young adult novel based on the YouTube series of the same name, 16-year-old Sunshine Griffith discovers that her new home in Washington state is haunted -- and that she alone may possess the power to help the restless spirits move on.
Series alert: The Haunting of Sunshine Girl is followed by The Awakening of Sunshine Girl and The Sacrifice of Sunshine Girl.
Reviewers say: "Suspenseful, exciting and endlessly entertaining" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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