March 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford
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The Devil and the Deep
by multiple authors
It’s only water, so why should we fear large bodies of it? Award-winning editor Ellen Datlow shares an original anthology of horror that covers the depths of the deep blue sea. Whether its tales of murderous pirates who stalk the waters in search of treasure and blood, creatures that haunt the depths belows, or storms that can swallow you whole, the open water can be a dangerous and terrifying place.
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Glimpse
by Jonathan Maberry
Rain Thomas is a mess. Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean. Alone, discarded by her family, with only the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings as friends. Them, and the voices in her head. Unsure whether she is insane or if the world itself is broken, Rain begins a quest through a world where reality and nightmare are in a head-on collision.
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Guardian Angels and Other Monsters
by Daniel H. Wilson
A fascinating and fantastic story collection that explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and human life, examining how artificial intelligence both saves and destroys humanity.
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Mapping the Interior
by Stephen Graham Jones
Walking through his own house at night, a fifteen-year-old thinks he sees another person stepping through a doorway: the figure reminds him of his long-gone father, who died mysteriously. Following, he finds his house is bigger and deeper than he knew—the kind of place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have.
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The Silent Companions
by Laura Purcell
With her husband dead just weeks after their marriage, her new servants resentful, and the local villagers actively hostile, Elsie has only her husband’s awkward cousin for company. Or so she thinks. Then she finds a painted wooden figure—a silent companion—that bears a striking resemblance to Elsie herself. A Victorian ghost story that evokes a most unsettling kind of fear.
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Thirty-Seven
by Peter Stenson
The Survivors, their members known only by the order in which they joined, believe that sickness bears honesty, and that honesty bears change. Fueled by ritualized Cytoxan treatments, they instigate the Day of Gifts, a day that spells shocking violence and the group’s demise. Enter Mason Hues, the group’s final member and the only one both alive and free. After his release from a year of intensive mental health counseling, he expects to while away his days as quietly and unobtrusively as possible. Until...
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Unbury Carol
by Josh Malerman
Carol Evers is a woman with a dark secret. She has died many times...but her many deaths are not final: They are comas, a waking slumber indistinguishable from death. Only two people know of Carol’s eerie condition. One is her husband, Dwight, who married Carol for her fortune, and—when she lapses into another coma—plots to seize it by proclaiming her dead and quickly burying her... alive. The other is her lost love, the infamous outlaw James Moxie.
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Zero Day
by Ezekiel Boone
The world is on the brink of apocalypse. Zero Day has come. The only thing more terrifying than millions of spiders is the realization that those spiders work as one. But among the government, there is dissent: do we try to kill all of the spiders, or do we gamble on Professor Guyer’s theory that we need to kill only the queens? The Hatching series.
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