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The Shadows
by Alex North
Forced by his mother’s failing health to return to the hometown where a misfit friend committed a shocking murder 25 years earlier, Paul learns about an investigation into a local copycat before realizing he is being followed.
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Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities, & Other Horrors by Doug Murano and Michael Bailey
What happens when we make monsters? What happens when we make monsters of ourselves? Grotesque beings lurch from our darkest dreams. Vicious beasts stalk our twisted pasts. Lost souls haunt our deepest regrets. They are the blood on our hands. They are the obsessions in our heads. They are the vengeance in our hearts. They are Miscreations: Gods, Monstrosities & Other Horrors. Edited by Bram Stoker Award-winning editors Doug Murano and Michael Bailey.
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Recently Added EBooks in the Libby App
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Dracula's Child
by J.S. Barnes
What it's about: Years after they vanquished Count Dracula in Transylvania, Jonathan and Mina Harker discover their old foe is plotting his return -- and he's got nefarious plans involving their teenage son, Quincy.
Why you might like it: This fast-paced "sequel" to Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic classic unfolds via diary entries, newspaper clippings, and letters, offering a clever epistolary homage to the original.
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Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror
by Lincoln Michel
In this playful, inventive collection, leading literary and horror writers spin chilling tales in only a few pages. Each slim, fast–moving story brings to life the kind of monsters readers love to fear, from brokenhearted vampires to Uber–taking serial killers and mind–reading witches.
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The Devil and the Dark Water
by Stuart Turton
Sailing back to Amsterdam as a prisoner accused of an unknown crime, Detective Pipps relies on his faithful sidekick to help solve an onboard mystery in the new novel from the author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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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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New in Graphic Novels and Manga
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Plunge
by Joe Hill
In 1983, a state-of-the-art drilling ship, the Derleth, vanished near the Arctic Circle. Decades later, it has begun sending a distress call... Tracing the signal to a remote atoll in the Bering Strait, the Rococo oil company hires the Carpenter brothers and their salvage crew to investigate the ghost ship. Joined by a marine biologist and an oil executive, the brothers set out on a grim mission to learn what caused the disappearance and recover the bodies of the crew...only to find that the Derleth's men aren't dead! Even if they're also not quite...alive...anymore.
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The Drifting Classroom: The Definitive Edition, Viz Signature Edition
by Kazuo Umezu
Out of nowhere, an entire school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves not dead but stranded in a terrifying wasteland where they must fight to survive.
A definitive edition featuring an all-new translation and deluxe hardcover design that reestablishes Kazuo Umezz’s The Drifting Classroom as a timeless horror classic.
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Recently Added Horror DVDs
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Freaky
A seventeen-year-old girl swaps bodies with a notorious serial killer and has only twenty-four hours to undo the change before it becomes permanent
Rated R Comedy, Horror, Thriller
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Come Play
Oliver is a lonely young boy who feels different from everyone else. Desperate for a friend, he seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses Oliver's devices against him to break into our world, Oliver's parents must fight to save their son from the monster beyond the screen.
Rated PG-13 Drama, Horror, Mystery
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Spell
When a man crash lands in rural Appalachia, he is held captive by a Hoodoo practitioner, and must break free from her dark magic in order to save his family before the rise of the blood moon
Rated R Horror, Thriller
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Lovecraft Country
A Black Korean War veteran joins his uncle and his friend on a trip across 1950s America, facing both racism and horrifying monsters from H.P. Lovecraft stories
TV-MA Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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The Outsider
Follows an investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy as the case begins to involve contradictory evidence and a supernatural force.
TV-MA Crime, Drama, Fantasy
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Hoopla Movie Night: Vincent Price
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House on Haunted Hill
A millionaire offers ten thousand dollars to five people if they last all night trapped in the haunted house he rented for the party he's throwing for his fourth wife. When you consider that the millionaire is played by Vincent Price and that the film is directed by Schlock master William Castle, you can bet that everyone's in for a long, bumpy night! This super shocker of the century was a smash hit upon its 1959 release. For architecture buffs, the home used for the exteriors of the haunted house was actually designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1924!
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The Bat
Vincent Price stars in this thriller about a downtrodden country estate that becomes the site of a horrific murder. Prolific writer-director Crane Wilbur helms this feature with a cast that includes Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, and, in her last film role, Darla Hood of the Our Gang comedies. But which of them is the mysterious killer known as The Bat? You'll find out soon enough. But beware - the scream you hear may be your own!
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Theater of Blood
A demented actor uses the murders in Shakespearean plays as models for revenge against nine London critics who denied him an award as best actor
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