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| The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo DávilaWhat it is: Perfect for fans of Edgar Allan Poe, this eerie and fantastical collection of 12 short stories is the first of prolific Mexican author Amparo Dávila's works to be translated into English.
Want a taste? "Sometimes I saw hundreds of small eyes fastened to the dripping windowpanes."
Don't miss: the nightmarish "Oscar," in which a family is powerless to stop a tyrannical cellar-dwelling creature from dictating their every move. |
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| More Deadly Than the Male: Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror by Graeme Davis (editor)What it is: a creepy anthology of women-penned psychological horror stories written between 1830 and 1908, many of them previously lost.
Who it's for: readers who appreciate subtle, bloodless scares and those interested in learning how women writers shaped the horror genre.
Did you know? Louisa May Alcott's 1869 tale "Lost in a Pyramid; or, The Mummy's Curse" was one of the earliest published mummy stories. |
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| Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones by Micah Dean HicksThe 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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| All Roads End Here by David MoodySeries alert: Set in the world of David Moody's Hater trilogy, All Roads End Here is the gripping 2nd entry in the Final War series, following One of Us Will Be Dead by Morning.
Starring: reluctant hero Matthew Dunne, who's just arrived home after spending three months traveling through violent Hater-occupied lands.
New threats: Matthew's homecoming is far from happy, and he faces constant scrutiny from his fellow refugees. With his survival instincts cranked up to 11, it's only a matter of time before tensions boil over... |
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