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| I Am Behind You by John Ajvide LindqvistThe grass is greener: Awakening at their campsite to find the world they knew gone, replaced with a sunless blue sky and an endlessly green landscape devoid of landmarks, four families confront the menacing physical forms of their buried traumas and desires.
Series alert: I Am Behind You is the first in a planned trilogy.
Reviewers say: "It will keep entranced and shocked readers guessing until the very end" (Library Journal). |
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| Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph FinkOn the road again: Spotting her presumed-dead wife, Alice, in the background of a news report, Keisha takes a job with the mysterious trucking company Alice worked for before her disappearance, hoping to find information about her beloved.
What sets it apart: As she becomes embroiled in an eerie otherworldly conspiracy, fully realized heroine Keisha grapples with chronic anxiety and must battle monsters both real and metaphorical.
Book buzz: This suspenseful Lovecraftian novel is based on the eponymous podcast from Welcome to Night Vale creator Joseph Fink. |
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| Hark! The Herald Angels Scream by Christopher Golden (editor)The most wonderful time of the year? In this creepy Yuletide anthology, manipulative chimney sweeps, party-crashing cultists, and genetically modified puppies put a chilling spin on the holiday season.
Unwrap this! 18 original tales from acclaimed authors including Josh Malerman, Sarah Pinborough, Jonathan Maberry, and Kelley Armstrong.
For fans of: Tales from the Crypt and Creepshow. |
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| In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird HuntDon't go in there! Drawn into a fantastical forest in colonial New England, Goody encounters three witches who compel her to make a life-changing decision.
Is it for you? Rife with inventive shocks and vivid, nightmarish imagery, Goody's intensifying journey is both lyrical and puzzling. Want a taste? "Once upon a time there was and there wasn't a woman who went to the woods." |
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| Dracul by Dacre Stoker and J.D. BarkerThen: As a boy, Bram Stoker was on death's door when his strange nanny, Ellen Crone, saved him with a bite before vanishing from his life.
Now: Years later, the seemingly ageless Ellen is spotted, sending Bram and his compatriots across Europe to investigate her connection to a sinister creature who has her in his thrall...and who wants Bram, too.
Why you might like it: Co-written by Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew, this atmospheric "prequel" to Dracula reimagines the origins of the 1897 classic -- and of Stoker himself. |
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What You Can't See: The hero has 36 hours to rescue a technologically advanced sub carrying a lethal plague when it becomes adrift in the Artic.
Series Alert: This is the first in a series about marine doctor and bio-terror expert, Joe Rush Want a taste? "When you have a tough decision to make, the longer you wait, the harder it gets."”
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| Stranded by Bracken MacLeodIce-bound: After a catastrophic storm sends the Arctic Promise off-course, the crew falls ill to a strange flu-like ailment. Now stuck in thickening ice and fog, the few healthy crewmates set out to investigate a looming shape on the horizon.
Why you might like it: Nothing is quite as it seems in this visceral and claustrophobic thriller.
Want a taste? "The void churned and swelled, reaching up to pull them down into frigid darkness, clamoring to embrace them, every one." |
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| The Ritual by Adam NevillIll-fated reunion: When four friends from university reconnect for a camping trip in a Scandinavian forest, tensions escalate when it's revealed that two members of the party aren't cut out for the task. Taking a disorienting shortcut, the group discovers a harrowing sacrificial site and a bestial predator that stalks their every move.
For fans of: The Blair Witch Project, Dreamcatcher, and Deliverance.
Book buzz: The Ritual is the basis of the Netflix Original Movie of the same name, which premiered earlier this year. |
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| The Terror by Dan SimmonsTrapped! In this well-researched and intricately plotted fictionalization of the disastrous Franklin Expedition, the crews of the HMS Terror and HMS Erebus reckon with frostbite, snow-blindness, disease, mutiny...and a monstrous creature on the ice.
Reviewers say: "Outstanding" (Booklist); "One of Simmons' best" (Kirkus).
Book buzz: AMC's new horror anthology series (also called The Terror) adapted this grisly historical novel for its first season, which debuted in March 2018. |
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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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