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| Gwendy's Magic Feather by Richard Chizmar; foreword by Stephen KingWhat it's about: Years after a sinister gift-giving box wreaked havoc on her childhood, 37-year-old Gwendy finds it in her possession again.
What happens next: Returning to her hometown of Castle Rock for the holidays, Gwendy contemplates harnessing the box's power to cure her mother's cancer and solve a rash of local disappearances.
Series alert: This unsettling 2nd entry in the Gwendy series follows the novella Gwendy's Button Box, co-written with Stephen King. |
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A House of Ghosts
by William Ryan
At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, armaments manufacturer Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons, both of whom died at the front. Then, when a storm descends, they find themselves trapped on the island. Soon one of their number will die, for Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one.
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Hex Life : Wicked New Tales of Witchery
by Christopher Golden
Featuring brand-new stories written by popular female fantasy authors, including Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine and Sherrilyn Kenyon, these are tales of witches, wickedness, evil and cunning. Stories of disruption and subversion by today’s women you should fear. These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions!
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A Lush and Seething Hell : Two Tales of Cosmic Horror
by John Hornor Jacobs
The award-winning master of horror presents two chilling stories—The Sea Dreams It Is the Sky and My Heart Struck Sorrow—that blend together the psychological and the supernatural while examining the violence and depravity of the human condition.
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Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead : Typhoon
by Wesley Chu
In a high-stakes thriller, set in the expansive world of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series, three different people in China—a rural farmer, an urban military veteran and an American student—are caught in the typhoon of undead as chaos erupts.
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Horror Spotlight: Graphic Novels
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Tomie
by Junji Itō
The complete classic horror series, now available in a single deluxe volume. Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale who can seduce nearly any man and drive him to murder, even though the victim is often Tomie herself. But her lovers soon realize that no matter how many times they kill her, the world will never be free of Tomie.
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Evolution: Origins of Species
by James Asmus
Human evolution has taken millions of years to get to this stage. But next week, we become something new. Around the world, humanity is undergoing rapid and unpredictable changes, and only three individuals seem to notice that their world is being reborn. But what can they do about it?
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Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
by Anthony Bourdain
On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge.
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Beautiful Darkness
by Fabien Vehlmann; illustrated by Kerascoët
What happens: Elfin Princess Aurora and her companions' whimsical adventures take a sinister turn when they leave the rotting corpse they've been living in and step into a woodland sanctum that is anything but.
Art alert: Bright, lush watercolors underscore this macabre tale's eerie and disturbing tone.
Who it's for: readers who appreciate fractured fairy tales and the cutthroat intrigue of Lord of the Flies.
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Weird Detective
by Fred Van Lente
The only man capable of fighting the terrors that plague New York City, Detective Sebastian Greene, may not be a man at all. Greene's partner, Detective Sana Fayez, is becoming suspicious of his actions but with a new, deadly threat loose on the streets, they'll need to work together if they want to solve the case
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