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| The Brink by James S. Murray and Darren Wearmouth What happens: After subterranean creatures escape from the New York City subway, former mayor Tom Cafferty and his team must save the world from apocalypse -- and the secret organization that may be responsible for the carnage.
Series alert: The Brink is the 2nd in the bestselling Awakened series.
Book buzz: Crucible author James Rollins calls The Brink "a white-knuckled rollercoaster." |
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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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The snakes : a novel
by Sadie Jones
What it's about: A family visit at a snake-infested hotel in Burgundy is complicated by a new husband's insecurities about his psychologist wife's wealthy parents, difficult personal secrets and a brutal tragedy. By the award-winning author of The Outcast.
You may also like: You may also like The Night Ocean by Paul LaFarge.
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Adaptations and Retellings
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| The Haunting of Sunshine Girl by Paige McKenzieWhat it's about: Young Adult Horror Fiction. 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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The child thief
by Brom
What it's about: Young Adult Horror Fiction. An award-winning artist and first-time author reveals the world of Peter Pan through the eyes of Nick, a fatherless teen whose dreams of wonderland are replaced by the gritty reality of life and death, as Peter’s recruits are forced into a lethal battle where the line between good and evil is blurred, forcing Nick to take care of himself if he wants to survive ... and find a way home.
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Nightmares & dreamscapes
by Stephen King
What's in this: A new collection of short stories, several being published for the first time, offers a spine-tingling journey to the nightmare world created by a master of sheer terror and grotesque imagination.
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King Rat
by China Mieville
What it's about: Saul has been set up to take the blame for his father's murder, until King Rat breaks him out of prison and introduces him to the strange and fantastic world that exists beneath the streets of London.
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Midian unmade : tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed
by Joseph Nassise
What it's about: Set in the world of Clive Barker's cult film masterpiece, Nightbreed, a brand-new horror anthology tells the stories of the Nightbreed after the fall of their city, Midian, and features contributions from Karl Alexander, Amber Benson, Nancy Holder, Seanan McGuire and many others.
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The Beauty
by Aliya Whiteley
What it's about: Somewhere away from the cities and towns, in the Valley of the Rocks, a society of men and boys gather around the fire each night to listen to their history recounted by Nate, the storyteller. Requested most often by the group is the tale of the death of all women.
They are the last generation.
One evening, Nate brings back new secrets from the woods; peculiar mushrooms are growing from the ground where the women's bodies lie buried. These are the first signs of a strange and insidious presence unlike anything ever known before...
About the author: Aliya Whiteley was born in Devon in 1974, and currently lives in Sussex with her husband, daughter and dog. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction and has been published in places such as The Guardian, Interzone, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Black Static, Strange Horizons, and anthologies such as Fox Spirit's European Monsters and Lonely Planet's Better than Fiction I and II. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice, and won the Drabblecast People's Choice Award in 2007. Her novella, The Beauty, was shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award and a Sabotage Award, and appeared on the Honors List for the James Tiptree Jr Award.
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Brandon, Mississippi 39042
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