November 2017 list by Darlene Nethery
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"Something bad has been looking for him for a long time, he thinks, and now, at last, it is growing near." ~ from Dan Chaon's Stay Awake
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The Dreamer in Fire and Other Stories
by Sam Gafford
For a decade or more, Sam Gafford has been quietly developing a reputation as a writer willing and able to fuse supernatural horror with psychological suspense, resulting in tales of grim power and penetrating insight into aberrant states of mind.
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Georgetown Haunts and Mysteries
by Jeanne C. Stein
From the ghost of a hanged man at the old Cafe Prague to the apparition of a sobbing woman at the Rose Street Bed and Breakfast to a phantom Victorian dress whooshing through the halls at the Hamill House Museum, Georgetown is a well-known haunt for spirits of all kind. But some of the town's deepest, darkest secrets have never been revealed...until now. Prepare for nine otherworldly tales of myth and mystery that extend back to the grisly gold and silver rush days of old.
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The Last to See Me
by Mylène Dressler
Walking the coves and cliffs of her northern California village as a ghost, Emma Rose Finnis goes up against a determined hunter who has been hired to “clean” her out of her haunt, the stately Lambry mansion, and, refusing to leave the only place she has ever found peace, wages a war on the living—and the dead.
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The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women
by Stephen Jones
Prepare to arm yourself with garlic, silver bullets, and a stake. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology that every vampire fan―vampiric feminist or not―will want to drink deep from.
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The Scarlet Gospels
by Clive Barker
In The Scarlet Gospels, two of author Clive Barker's best known characters from earlier books square off in a "perversely glorious" (Booklist) good-vs-evil battle. Pinhead, the evil priest from Hell, kidnaps supernatural detective Harry D'Amour's blind friend Norma Paine, forcing Harry to confront Pinhead in the Underworld. Readers familiar with Barker's early works will be thrilled, and horror fans new to Barker will find interesting, well drawn characters, a touch of humor, and a vivid, satisfying bloodletting to rival Armageddon itself.
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Strange Is the Night
by S. P. Miskowski
Over cocktails an executive describes to a friend the disturbing history of a strangely potent guardian angel. A young mom tries to perfect and prolong her daughter's childhood with obsessive parenting. A critic's petty denouncement of an ingEnue's performance leads to a theatrical night of reckoning. A cult member makes nice for a parole board hearing years after committing an infamous crime.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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