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Check out these spooky reads for October!
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The Invention of Soundby Chuck PalahniukPrivate detective Foster Gates is a father is in search of his missing daughter, and sound engineer Mitzi harbors a secret that may help him solve the case. It's Mitzi's job to create the dubbed screams used in horror films and action movies. She's the best at what she does. But what no one in Hollywood knows is the screams Mitzi produces are harvested from the real, horror-filled, blood-chilling screams of people in their death throes--a technique first employed by Mitzi's father and one she continues on in his memory--a deeply conflicted serial killer compelled beyond her understanding to honor her father's chilling legacy. Soon Foster finds himself on Mitzi's trail.
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Outcast: A Darkness Surrounds Himby Robert KirkmanKyle Barnes has been plagued by demonic possession all his life and now he needs answers. Unfortunately, what he uncovers along the way could bring about the end of life on Earth as we know it.
Collects issues 1-6.
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Mongrelsby Stephen Graham JonesEnduring a hardscrabble, marginalized existence with his impoverished family outside of a society that does not understand or want him, a young boy travels in the night to escape legal harassment while his family watches diligently to see if he will display the same differences that have shaped their unusual lives.
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The Ancestorby Danielle Trussoni Out of the blue, Alberta Monte receives a letter that claims that she's inherited a noble title, money and a castle in Italy. Even though she is a little skeptical, Bert decides that a holiday in Italy and at first, it is a dream come true. She soon learns that her ancestry has a dark side and begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets.
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Apartment 16by Adam L. G. NevillSome doors are better left closed . . . In Barrington House, an upmarket block in London, there is an empty apartment. No one goes in, no one comes out. And it's been that way for fifty years. Until the night watchman hears a disturbance after midnight and investigates. What he experiences is enough to change his life forever. A young American woman, Apryl, arrives at Barrington House. She's been left an apartment by her mysterious Great Aunt Lillian who died in strange circumstances. Rumours claim Lillian was mad. But her diary suggests she was implicated in a horrific and inexplicable event decades ago. Determined to learn something of this eccentric woman, Apryl begins to unravel the hidden story of Barrington House. She discovers that a transforming,evil force still inhabits the building. And the doorway to Apartment 16 is a gateway to something altogether more terrifying
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Hornsby Joe HillAfter his childhood sweetheart is brutally killed and suspicion falls on him, Ig Parrish goes on a drinking binge and wakes up with horns on his head, hate in his heart, and a new power which he uses in the name of vengeance
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Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Storiesby Michael SimsA multicultural treasury of Victorian-era vampire stories includes Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait," Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla," in an anthology complemented by Transylvanian superstitions and an omitted chapter from Stoker's classic. Original.
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Rise Again: A Zombie Thrillerby Ben TrippSheriff Danielle Adelman is threatened when her small town of Forest Peak is in danger of being overrun by residents who have suddenly died and become zombies and she flees across the California desert, searching for her missing sister.
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So Cold the Riverby Michael KorytaAfter he is hired by Alyssa Bradford to research the life of her 95-year-old billionaire father-in-law, Eric Shaw visits the man's hometown, where he discovers a restored hotel that has a checkered past--and a newly reawakened evil bent on revenge.
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The First Days: As the World Diesby Rhiannon FraterThe first installment of an award-winning Internet trilogy finds lawyer Katie and housewife Jenni thrown together by circumstance and fleeing for their lives when a horde of zombies takes over the world, a situation that forces the pair to become a powerful zombie-killing team in order to survive.
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Bewere the Nightby E. Sedia Kitsune. Werewolves. Crane wives. Selkies. Every culture has stories of such strange creatures -- animals turning into humans, humans shape shifting into animals. Sometimes seductive, sometimes bloodthirsty, but always unpredictable like nature itself, these beings are manifestations of our secret hearts, our desire to belong to both worlds: one tame and civilized, the other unfettered and full of wild impulse. Here are stories that will make you wish you could howl at the moon until your heart bursts with longing or feel yourself shedding your human body as easily as a snake sheds its skin. Beware the night...it migh tnot kill you, but it will certainly steal you away!
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