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| Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth; illustrated by Sara LautmanThen: In early 20th-century Massachusetts, a series of mysterious deaths at a girls' boarding school are linked to the provocative (and real) 1902 queer memoir The Story of Mary MacLane.
Now: On the set of a high-profile horror film about the incident, creepy phenomena begin plaguing the cast and crew.
Read it for: a sardonic metafictional storyline that blurs the lines between past and present; evocative black-and-white illustrations that capture the novel's eerie gothic tone. |
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The sinner
by J. R. Ward
What it's about: Mercenary Syn forges a passionate connection with a woman undergoing transition with no understanding of her nature, forging an unlikely alliance with Dhestroyer Butch O’Neal to stop a threat against the Omega.
Series information: This title is number 19 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
by Grady Hendrix
Starring: bored housewife Patricia Campbell, whose sole respite from her stifling life in 1990s suburban Charleston is her true crime book club.
The monster next door: When sunlight-averse James Harris moves into the neighborhood, Patricia's suspicions are dismissed as flights of fancy. But when children start disappearing, it's up to Patricia to convince her book club to help her stop James before it's too late.
Media buzz: At turns horrifying and heartwarming, this gruesome New York Times bestseller is set for a TV adaptation at Amazon Studios.
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Cardiff, by the sea : four novellas of suspense
by Joyce Carol Oates
What's in it: This haunting collection by one of the most important contemporary American writers contains four psychologically daring, chillingly suspenseful stories about women facing threats past and present.
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The nesting
by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
What it's about: Caring for the daughters of an architect who is building a high-concept, environmentally conscious home on a remote Norwegian fjord, a young nanny uncovers dangerous truths about her charges’ mother, who recently died by suicide.
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The Chill
by Scott Carson
What it's about: Seventy-five years after the village of Galesburg was flooded to build the Chilewaukee Reservoir (aka "The Chill"), descendants of the area's displaced residents find themselves contending with vengeful spirits lurking in the water's murky depths.
Book buzz: Inspired by true events, this suspenseful novel penned by the pseudonymous Scott Carson counts Stephen King among its fans.
Try this next: For another creepy novel about a small town reckoning with the sins of its past, check out Thomas Olde Heuvelt's Hex.
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Out of the attic
by V. C. Andrews
What is this: Published to mark the 40th anniversary of Flowers in the Attic, a sequel to Beneath the Attic expands on the original best-selling series and is set two generations before Corrine Foxworth locked away her children.
What it's about: Married to the handsome, wealthy Garland Foxworth following a wildfire romance, and an unexpected pregnancy, young Corrine Dixon finds her life very different from how she imagined it. Often alone in the mansion of Foxworth Hall, she can practically feel the ancestors' judgment of her as insufficient--as not a Foxworth. Stern portraits glare at her from the walls, and the servants treat her strangely. Nothing in the vast place is truly hers.
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Snow
by Ronald Damien Malfi
This is a downloadable book on CMRLS.Freading.com
What happens: When a snowstorm shuts down all of the flights in and out of Chicago, Todd and several other stranded passengers rent a jeep to drive to their respective destinations, but when they pick up a disoriented man wandering through the snow, they find themselves trapped in an inhuman nightmare.
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Night Things
by Thomas F. Monteleone
This is a downloadable book on CMRLS.Freading.com
What happens: Residents of the little town of Conora, New Mexico, are none too concerned when a local construction crew unearths a Native American burial ground; after all, Sheriff Miguel Lopez, shopkeeper Lori Danek, newspaper chief Tony Cavella, his daughter Dierdre, and the rest of the bustling community have their own lives to think about. But sometimes a bulldozer does more than move the earth . . . it opens a wound.
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Almost Dark
by Letitia Trent
This is a downloadable book on CMRLS.Freading.com
What it's about: In 1993, teenage Claire and her twin brother, Sam, sneak out to Farmington’s old textile factory, where they’ve heard the high school kids go to party. When Sam falls into a basement window and injures himself, Claire runs for help, thinking she’s left Sam alone. But something horrible is inside the otherwise empty factory with him . . .
And then: Fifteen years later, Claire is working as Farmington’s librarian, secretly wrestling with her guilt after her brother’s death. She leads a quiet, lonely life—until Sam begins visiting her.
Why you might like it: Reminiscent of the early work of Rosemary Campbell and Charles L. Grant, simultaneously chilling and poignant
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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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