February 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford |
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Angel of the Underground
by David Andreas
When three children in a Catholic group home are brutally murdered, the survivors are hurried into separate foster homes across Long Island. Robin has spent the past several years under religious care, and is now thrust into a new, dysfunctional family with no spiritual beliefs. And the murders continue. Now Robin fears she may become the next victim.
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The Broken Girls
by Simone St. James
Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants. It's called Idlewild Hall. In the small town nearby, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted.
Vermont, 2014. Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death. Twenty years ago, her body was found near the ruins of Idlewild Hall. And Fiona can't shake the suspicion that something was never right about that place.
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The Case of the Deadly Doppelganger
by Lucy Banks
Only a few months have passed since the day Kester Lanner forced an angry ghost through the spirit door, but business prospects for Dr. Ribero's supernatural agency haven’t improved. Things are looking grim when the agency lands a new contract. The same mysterious clue links the horrendous deaths at Lyme Regis: the victims all see a double of themselves before dying. Dr Ribero's Agency of the Supernatural series, book 2.
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The Dead Road
by Seth Patrick
Described as CSI meets The Sixth Sense, this trilogy takes place in our world, but with a chilling twist: certain people have the ability to wake the recently dead for testimony to be used in court. The use of these so-called Revivers has long been a routine part of police investigation. But things are changing... something vast and dangerous is hiding in the dark. The Reviver trilogy, book 3.
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The Ghost Notebooks
by Ben Dolnick
When Nick and Hannah decide to move from New York City to the tiny upstate town of Hibernia, they just need a change. Hannah takes a job as live-in director of the Wright Historic House. At first, life in this old, creaky house feels cozy, but then Hannah begins to have trouble sleeping and she hears whispers in the night. When Hannah goes missing, Nick's frantic search will uncover the hidden legacy of Wright House.
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The Hunger
by Alma Katsu
Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Now, as members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if there really is something disturbing, and hungry, waiting for them in the mountains....
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The Job of the Wasp
by Colin Winnette
A new arrival at an isolated school for orphaned boys quickly comes to realize there is something wrong with his new home. He hears chilling whispers in the night, his troubled classmates are violent and hostile, and the Headmaster sends cryptic messages, begging his new charge to confess. Then the corpses start turning up.
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Sherlock Holmes and the Miskatonic Monstrosities
by James Lovegrove
It is 1895, and more than a decade of combating eldritch entities has cost Dr. John Watson his beloved wife Mary, and nearly broken the health of Sherlock Holmes. Yet the companions do not hesitate when they are called to the infamous Bedlam lunatic asylum, where they find an inmate speaking R’lyehian, the language of the Old Ones. Holmes and Watson must uncover the truth, and learn who is behind the Miskatonic monstrosity. The Cthulhu Casebooks series, book 2.
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Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse
by H. G. Bells
Remember what it’s like to go an entire night without sleep? What if sleep didn't come the next night? Or the night after? What if rest might never come again? How slowly might the world fall apart? How long would it take for a society without sleep to descend into chaos? Before the Longest Day, the world record was eleven days without sleep. It turns out most of us can go much longer.
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Widow's Point
by Richard Chizmar and Billy Chizmar
This is a bad place. I don't think people are meant to live here. Thomas Livingston is the acclaimed author of books about the supernatural. This evening he will be locked inside the Widow's Point Lighthouse for the weekend, with no way of contacting the outside world, searching for material for his next bestseller. And although no human has stepped inside for nearly three decades, Livingston will not be alone.
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