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Secret Santa
by Andrew Shaffer
What it's about: A tale set during the horror genre boom of the 1980s finds a publishing manager ordered to find a superstar author capable of competing with the era’s leading writers, before office hazing implodes a Secret-Santa gift exchange.
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The Patient
by Jasper DeWitt
What it's about: A young, overconfident psychiatrist chronicles in a series of online posts his new job at a mental asylum, where he catastrophically attempts to treat a profoundly disturbed patient who has been in the hospital since early childhood.
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Night of the Mannequins
by Stephen Graham Jones
Starring: Texas teen and unreliable narrator Sawyer, who crafts a twisted plan to best an unusual adversary.
How it began: "Manny," the department store mannequin Sawyer and his friends posed in a movie theater as a prank, has come to life and is hell-bent on killing off the kids one by one.
Read it for: a fast-paced and darkly humorous homage to slasher films.
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| Plain Bad Heroines--Book Coming Soon by Emily M. Danforth; illustrated by Sara Lautman
Click here for eBook from the Blue Ridge Download Consortium or find it in the Libby appThen: 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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| What it is: a fast-paced techno-thriller set in the small Oregon town of Turner Falls, where a biotech company loses control of an experiment with devastating potential fallout for the town and the entire human race.
For fans of: apocalyptic stories that combine elements of horror with social satire, such as Wanderers by Chuck Wendig or Mira Grant's Newsflesh series.
Reviewers say: "unputdownable" (Publishers Weekly); "heart-pounding and deeply unsettling" (Booklist). |
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| Welcome to... Shudder-to-Think, Pennsylvania, a small coal-mining community beset by an illness that causes women to forget the grotesqueries they've witnessed.
Starring: best friends El and Vee, two queer teenage girls investigating the bizarre goings-on in their town.
Art alert: Dani's darkly expressive and scratchy artwork complements the graphic novel's creepy tone. |
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Recently Added Graphic Novels
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Basketful of Heads
by Joe Hill
When her boyfriend is kidnapped by an escaped group of criminals, June grabs a strange Viking axe and beheads the attackers, which leads to the unexpected, forcing June to uncover the truth about the weapon she is wielding
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The Dollhouse Family
by M. R. Carey
Alice loves to talk to her dolls, and her dolls and dollhouse love to talk back. When Alice is six, she is given a beautiful antique dollhouse. When things in her life get scary, Alice turns to her dolls and dollhouse for comfort. One day, they invite her to come play inside with them. As Alice's life is turned upside down in the "big" world, she is always welcomed home to the little world inside the dollhouse; the house will even grant her a wish if she agrees to live with them! Follow Alice through the door of the dollhouse and into the demon's den
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Daphne Byrne
by Laura Marks
When grieving, support can come in many ways. For Daphne, it came as a demon. Turn-of-the-century New York is a growing metropolis for many, but not for Daphne Byrne. After her father's death, her mother is drawn to a spirtualistic group that claims to speak to the dead. Daphne sees through their act right away, but something from the other side sees her too. Or someone? Daphne finds herself in new company, Brother. He offers support and encourages Daphne to stand up for herself...and to use the powers he has too
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Something Is Killing the Children: Volume One
by James Tynion
When the children of Archer's Peak, a sleepy town in the heart of America, begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories, impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only one who sees what they can see
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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina : The Crucible
by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
On her sixteenth birthday Sabrina Spellman is forced to choose between her unearthly destiny and her mortal boyfriend Harvey, but Madame Satan has other plans for the young sorceress
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Ash vs. Evil Dead: The Complete First Season
Ash has spent the last thirty years avoiding responsibility, maturity, and the terrors of the Evil Dead until a Deadite plague threatens to destroy all of mankind and Ash becomes mankind's only hope.
TV-MA Action, Comedy, Fantasy
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Follows the adventures of a young woman with supernatural abilities who strives to defeat Charlie Manx, an immortal who feeds on the souls of children and holds them in a place known as Christmasland
TV-14 Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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Evil: Season One
A forensic psychologist teams up with a Catholic seminarian and a contractor to investigate occult phenomena and its relation to science and the supernatural
TV-14 Crime, Drama, Horror
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Channel Zero: Candle Cove
A child psychologist investigates how the disappearance of his twin brother and other children many years ago is connected to a strange children's television show they used to watch at the time.
TV-14 Crime, Drama, Fantasy
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Hoopla Movie Night: A Holiday Slayride
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A Christmas Horror Story
It's the season of joy, peace, and goodwill… unless you live in Bailey Downs. Last Christmas Eve, two teens came to a grisly end in a school basement. Now, one year later, a new set of horrors has come to town. As three friends explore the site of the massacre, a malevolent spirit is determined to keep them there forever. One of the first cops to the scene of the bloody murders has new complications as his seven-year-old son exhibits terrifying and violent behavior. And when a local family seeks reconciliation with an estranged aunt for the wrong reasons, they suddenly find themselves running in terror from Krampus, the demonic anti-Santa Claus. Not even St. Nick is immune to the terror as he fights back against a horde of zombie elves. This is destined to be a holiday no one will ever forget….
Not Rated Horror, Fantasy, Mystery
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Better Watch Out
When you think the suburbs, you think safety, but this holiday night the suburbs are anything but safe. Ashley (Olivia DeJonge) thought this babysitting job was going to be an easy night, but the night takes a turn when dangerous intruders break in and terrorize her and the twelve-year-old boy, Luke (Levi Miller), she's caring for. Ashley defends her charge to the best of her ability only to discover this is no normal home invasion.
Rated R Comedy, Crime, Horror
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Jack Frost
When his prison transport collides with a truck full of "genetic material," condemned serial killer Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald) is inexplicably transformed into a terrifying, murderous snowman.
Rated R Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
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