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More Deadly Than the Male : Masterpieces from the Queens of Horror by Graeme DavisHistory alert: 26 scary stories from renowned female authors originally published between 1830 and 1908.The highlights: Includes stories by Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and forgotten writers like Mary Cholmondely and Charlotte Riddell.Author alert: Check out Graeme Davis' other book "Colonial Horrors" for more tributes to historical horror.
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| The Mansion by Ezekiel BooneWhat it's about: Tech developer Billy Stafford has fallen on hard times. When his billionaire former partner, Shawn Eagle, asks Billy to troubleshoot Eagle's new smart home AI software Nellie, Billy's curiosity (and the promise of a big paycheck) prompts him to accept.
Ghost in the machine: Nellie's menacing glitches exacerbate the discord between the embittered Billy and the arrogant Shawn, unearthing long-buried secrets...and wreaking deadly havoc.
Who it's for: technophobes and fans of Stephen King's The Shining. |
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The Bone Keeper by Luca VesteThe past: Twenty years ago, four teenagers went exploring in the local woods, trying to find to the supposed home of The Bone Keeper. Only three returned. The present: Now, a woman is found wandering the streets of Liverpool, horrifically injured, claiming to have fled the Bone Keeper.Book buzz: "Urban legend meets serial killer thriller - a terrifying book that walks the line between crime and horror, not unlike Thomas Harris's best work"- Stuart Neville
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| Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth... by Shelley JacksonThe premise: In 1919 Massachusetts, the worlds of the living and the dead overlap at the Sybil Joines Vocational School, where children with speech impediments find their "gifts" exploited to channel ghosts.
What happens: After a star pupil vanishes, Joines must confront a suspicious public -- and her own tragic past -- as she prepares to recover the child from the land of the dead.
What's inside: evocative newspaper articles, photographs, and diagrams heighten the novel's richly imaginative Gothic atmosphere. |
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| Mouthful of Birds: Stories by Samanta SchweblinWhat it is: a surreal collection of 20 translated short stories that is as darkly humorous as it is disturbing.
Don't miss: The nightmarish "Headlights," in which hundreds of jilted brides sit abandoned on the side of a highway, offers witty gender commentary and an ending that is "a slug in the gut" (Library Journal).
Author alert: Argentine author Samanta Schweblin is a Man Booker International Prize finalist for her thought-provoking debut novel, Fever Dream. |
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There's something in the water...
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The hook: Following a tremendous undersea disturbance of the earth's crust, scientists rush to discover the cause, only to find that it's not just an earthquake
The catch: An enormous predatory creature that would dwarf Jules Verne's giant squid from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Book buzz: Library Journal calls it: "Pulp horror of the highest caliber."
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| Into the Drowning Deep by Mira GrantUnder the sea: Marine biologist Victoria Stewart lost her sister seven years ago when the Atargatis disappeared while filming a mermaid mockumentary. Joining the crew for a new voyage, she hopes to discover what really happened to her sister on that fateful expedition.
Read it for: killer mermaids!
Series alert: Into the Drowning Deep is the sequel to the grim novella Rolling in the Deep, which charts the voyage of the Atargatis. |
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Thirteen days by Sunset Beach by Ramsey CampbellThe premise: It's Ray and Sandra's first family vacation to Greece! Only the skies are cloudy and they seem to be followed by locals everywhere they go. For fans of: H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Prince George's County Memorial Library System 9601 Capital Lane Largo, Maryland 20774 301-699-3500www.pgcmls.info/ |
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