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| The Remaking by Clay McLeod ChapmanLegend has it: In 1931 Pilot's Creek, Virginia, Ella Louise Ford and her young daughter Jessica are burned at the stake for witchcraft, an act that will have chilling reverberations for decades to come.
What sets it apart: Based on a real urban legend, The Remaking unravels the tale of "The Witch Girl of Pilot's Creek" via a 1951 campfire story, a 1971 B-movie, its 1990s meta remake, and a present-day podcast, charting the evolution of the eerie tale as it's shaped by generations of storytellers. |
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| The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek by Rhett McLaughlin & Link Neal What it's about: In 1992 Bleak Creek, North Carolina, teens Rex and Leif investigate the creepy supernatural happenings at a local reform school after their friend Alicia is sent there.
Who it's for: Peppered with pop culture references and plenty of humor, this coming-of-age tale will appeal to Stranger Things fans and readers who prefer their horror bloodless.
About the authors: Rhett McLaughlin and Link Neal are the creators and co-hosts of the YouTube comedy-talk series Good Mythical Morning and authors of the bestselling Rhett & Link’s Book of Mythicality. |
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Imaginary friend
by Stephen Chbosky
What it's about: A highly anticipated follow-up to The Perks of Being a Wallflower finds a single mother’s desperate efforts to escape an abusive relationship thrown into turmoil by her son’s disappearance and reappearance days later with an imaginary friend.
You may also like: Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay and Lost Boy, Lost Girl by Peter Straub. All three of these novels have the themes small town horror and are condsidered adult books suiable for young adults.
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Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones
by Micah Dean Hicks
The premise: In depressed Swine Hill, the dead outnumber the living, whom they possess to keep the barely functioning town afloat.
What happens: Henry is forced by his ghost to create a race of hybrid pig people that render Swine Hill's workforce obsolete. Now it's up to Henry's sister Jane (herself possessed by a telepathic ghost) to save her family before the townsfolk kill their entire family.
Read it for: a heady mix of weird fiction and allegory.
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The Pandora Room
by Christopher Golden
What it's about: When the mythological Pandora's Box is found in a subterranean Iraqi city, Department of Defense fixer Ben Walker is called in to investigate the threats coming both from the artifact itself and from the jihadist forces eager to harness its power.
Why you might like it: This eerie claustrophobic chiller offers well-developed characters, formidable human and supernatural adversaries, and pulse-pounding tension.
Series alert: The Pandora Room is the 2nd Ben Walker novel, following the Bram Stoker Award-winning Ararat.
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A cosmology of monsters
by Shaun Hamill
What it's about: Shielded by his mother and sisters from his father’s obsessive construction of a haunted house attraction, young Noah considers an ultimate sacrifice when he chooses to acknowledge a monster that his family members have tried to ignore. A first novel.
Similar authors are Mariko Koike, Ramsey Campbell, and Brendon Duffy.
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Darkness on the edge of town
by Adam Christopher
What it's about: Chief Jim Hopper reveals long-awaited secrets to Eleven about his former life as a police detective in New York City, confronting his past before the events of the hit series, Stranger Things.
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Unbury Carol
by Josh Malerman
What it is: Half weird Western, half horror, this unusual novel stars a wealthy woman who falls into comas so deep she's mistaken for dead -- which is exactly why her greedy husband is rushing her into the grave.
Who will rescue her? While Carol struggles to wake up, her former love -- an outlaw legend -- rides toward her, hunted by a horrifying hit man.
About the author: Josh Malerman is the Bram Stoker Award-nominated author of Bird Box.
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Devil's day
by Andrew Michael Hurley
What it's about: John Pentecost returns his family farm each autumn to gather the sheep down from the moors, but this year his grandfather has died, and with him the village's protection from the Devil. By the Costa First Novel Award-winning author of The Loney.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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