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| The Hollow Dead by Darcy CoatesIn this creepy 4th entry in the Gravekeeper series, seer and graveyard worker Keira Collis fights to reclaim her lost memories and stop the shadowy organization Artec from harnessing the energy of the dead. Try this next: the Royal Street novels by Karen White. |
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| The House of Last Resort by Christopher GoldenBram Stoker Award-winning author Christopher Golden's compelling latest stars an American couple who move to a remote Italian town and purchase an opulent yet abandoned estate that was once owned by the Catholic Church. What secrets lie within its crumbling walls? For fans of: The Chrysalis by Brendan Deneen; The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig. |
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| Island Witch by Amanda JayatissaIn a 19th-century Sri Lankan village, Amara, the daughter of the local demon-priest, fights to clear her father's name after a series of brutal jungle attacks leave multiple men dead. This atmospheric novel by the author of You're Invited is inspired by Sri Lankan folklore. For fans of: Lone Women by Victor LaValle; Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas. |
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| What Feasts at Night by T. KingfisherWorld-weary soldier Alex Easton returns to their family home in Gallacia, where they find the caretaker dead from lung disease and rumors swirling in the village about an entity that steals people's breath. This 2nd creepy entry in T. Kingfisher's bestselling Sworn Soldier series (following What Moves the Dead) will appeal to fans of evocative gothic novels like Marielle Thompson's Where Ivy Dares to Grow. |
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You glow in the dark : stories
by Liliana Colanzi Serrate
"The seven stories of You Glow in the Dark unfold in a Latin America wrecked and poisoned by human greed, and yet Colanzi's writing-at once sleek and dense, otherworldly and intensely specific-casts an eerily bright spell over the wreckage. Some stories seem to be set in a near future; all are superbly executed and yet hard to pin down; they often leave the reader wondering: Was that realistic or fantastic? Colanzi draws power from Andean cyberpunk just as much as from classic horror writers, and this daring is matched by her energizing simultaneous use of multiplicity and fragmentation-the book's stylistic trademarks. Freely mixing worlds, she uses the Bolivian altiplano as the backdrop for an urban dystopia and blends Aymara with Spanish. Colanzi nevergets bogged down; she can be brutal and direct or light-handed and subtle. Her materials are dark, but always there's the lift of her vivid sense of humor. You Glow in the Dark seizes the reader's attention (from the title on) and holds it: this is a book that announces the arrival of a major new talent"
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| Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny MoraineSunny Moraine's suspenseful apocalyptic horror novel centers on a virus in which eye contact causes murderous rage among the afflicted, starring an isolated young woman whose chance encounter with a stranger could threaten the peace she's worked so hard to build. For fans of: The Last of Us; Bird Box by Josh Malerman; The Violence by Delilah S. Dawson. |
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| Womb City by Tlotlo TsamaaseIn a near-future Botswana where consciousness transfers are routine and implanted microchips keep people under constant surveillance, architect Nelah Bogosi-Ntsu occupies a body that used to belong to someone else. When she rebels against her controlling husband, she threatens both her own future and that of her unborn child. Tlotlo Tsamaase's "mind-bending and potent blend of Afrofuturist science fiction and horror" (Publishers Weekly) will appeal to fans of The Perishing by Natashia Deón and Richard K. Morgan's Takeshi Kovacs novels. |
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| Midnight on Beacon Street by Emily Ruth VeronaIn 1993 suburban New Jersey, babysitter Amy and her two young charges grapple with an escalating serious of strange phenomena over the course of a single night. Emily Ruth Verona's fast-paced debut is "a giddy exercise in nostalgia" (Publishers Weekly) that will appeal to fans of Halloween, Grady Hendrix novels, and The Babysitter Lives by Stephen Graham Jones. |
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