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Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre by Max Brooks What it's about: After a volcanic eruption at Mt. Rainier leaves them stranded, the clueless denizens of a remote eco-community square off against displaced Sasquatches hungry for their next meal.
Why you might like it: Much like his bestselling debut World War Z, Max Brooks' gruesome latest is written as a firsthand account, featuring diary entries, interviews, transcripts, and the author's own research.
Movie buzz: Bigfoot fans, rejoice! A film adaptation is in the works. | | The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones Ten years ago: A quartet of 20-something Blackfeet men embarked on an ill-fated elk hunting trip on tribal lands meant only for the elders' use.
Now: Still processing their lingering feelings of guilt and shame all these years later, one by one the men find themselves at the mercy of a vengeful entity that stalks their every move.
What sets it apart: This incisive own voices novel explores themes of cultural identity and intergenerational trauma while offering plenty of eerie supernatural scares. | | Welcome to...High Place, a decrepit mansion in the remote 1950s Mexican countryside that's home to a racist English mining family.
What happens: After her newlywed cousin Catalina sends a letter from High Place claiming abuse, resourceful 22-year-old socialite Noemí Taboada arrives at the estate, where she's quickly swept up in its nightmarish goings-on and deadly secrets.
Want a taste? "This house is sick with rot, stinks of decay, brims with every single evil and cruel sentiment." | |
The Hunger
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Alma Katsu
A supernatural reimagining of the Donner Party story follows a group of wagon-train pioneers who navigate sanity-testing misfortunes, including the mysterious death of a little boy and a series of disappearances that cause a beautiful member of the group to be accused of witchcraft.
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The Toll : [Southern Gothic Horror with a Contemporary Twist]
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Cherie Priest
While traveling to their honeymoon canoeing trip in the Okefenokee Swamp, Titus wakes up in the middle of the road with his new wife missing after encountering a narrow road with a rickety old bridge with stone pilings.
A 2020 Locus Award finalist for best horror novel
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The Boatman's Daughter
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Andy Davidson
What it is: a violent and atmospheric Southern Gothic set in a fictional Arkansas bayou.
Starring: hardscrabble 21-year-old Miranda Crabtree, reluctant ferrywoman to an unstable preacher whose sinister criminal enterprises she can no longer overlook.
Read it for: a tense, world-building fable populated by monsters both human and supernatural.
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The City of Mirrors by Justin Cronin What it is: the epic finale to Justin Cronin's bestselling The Passage trilogy.
What it's about: One hundred years after the Easter Virus wreaked havoc on humanity, the last of the vampiric "virals" have disappeared -- until now. Can they finally be stopped once and for all?
Is it for you? Newcomers will want to pick up The Passage and The Twelve before biting into this sweeping series conclusion. | | The Fireman by Joe Hill How it begins: Pregnant nurse Harper Grayson, infected with a fungus which causes the afflicted to spontaneously combust, has just fled from her murderous husband.
Too good to be true? Harper is rescued by the titular Fireman, a mysterious superhero who takes her to a community where the infected can survive in harmony with the fungus. So...what's the catch?
Don't miss: Joe Hill's winking nods to his father Stephen King's novels. | | The Stand by Stephen King In case you missed it: This atmospheric epic is horror mainstay Stephen King's massively popular -- and just plain massive -- apocalyptic classic.
A fight to the finish: After a virus escapes from a germ warfare lab and wipes out 99% of the world's population, humanity's last remaining survivors prepare for the ultimate battle of good vs. evil.
Media buzz: A new miniseries starring Whoopi Goldberg and Alexander Skarsgård is currently in development at CBS All Access. | |
Recently Added DVD Series
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Creepshow Season One
The new anthology series based on the 1982 horror-comedy classic. A comic book comes to life in a series of twelve vignettes over six episodes, exploring terrors from murder to the supernatural and unexplainable. Haunted dollhouses, werewolves, murderous goblins, villainous trick-or-treaters, the dead, and medical marvels are just a few of the things to watch out for in this new original series from Shudder.
TV-MA Fantasy, Horror
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
A young woman, destined to slay vampires, demons and other infernal creatures, deals with her life fighting evil, with the help of her friends.
TV-14 Action, Drama, Fantasy
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Stranger Things, Season 2
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. It's 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived. Originally released on Netflix as a web television series in 2017.
TV-14 Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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Hoopla Movie Night: Horror Comedies to Stream
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Cheap ThrillsAfter a man (Pat Healy) loses his job and is served an eviction notice, he meets a couple in a bar that is willing to pay him to engage in a variety of daring activties for their entertainment.
Not Rated Horror, Dark Comedy, Suspense
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Elvira, Mistress of the Dark
Upon arriving in a small town where she has inherited a rundown mansion, a famous horror hostess battles an evil uncle, and townspeople who want her burned at the stake.
Rated PG-13 Comedy, Horror
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The Stuff
A delicious, mysterious goo that oozes from the earth is marketed as the newest dessert sensation, but the tasty treat rots more than teeth when zombie-like snackers who only want to consume more of the strange substance at any cost begin infesting the world.
Rated R Comedy, Horror, Sci-fi
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Wolfcop
Officer Lou Garou isn't the best cop in small-town Woodhaven - in fact, he's probably the worst. He mostly just looks to avoid anything that could possibly interfere with his goal of getting wasted. One evening during the night shift, Lou investigates a mysterious disturbance at the edge of town and wakes up with a pentagram carved in his chest, heightened senses and body hair that's growing at an alarming rate. To solve the mystery of his transformation, he'll have to take on a case no normal cop would be able to solve, but this half-man, half-beast is not just a cop…he's a WOLFCOP.
Not Rated Comedy, Horror
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