January 2018 list by Bonnie Bradford
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Angler in Darkness
by Edward M. Erdelac
Spanning nearly a decade of fishing in the sunless depths of the imagination, some of these short stories are brought to light here for the first time. Here Blackfoot Indians hunt the undead, the fate of nations is decided by colossal monsters, a salaryman learns the price of abandoning his own life, and even the Angel of Death tells his story. Eighteen "catches" from an angler in darkness.
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Brokeheart
by Kevin Wolf
Fleeing his ruined reputation, frontier newspaper man Kepler arrives in the Colorado mining town of Brokeheart in the hopes of making a fresh start. As he begins to report the goings on of Brokeheart and the conditions at the mine, Kepler attracts attention from all quarters. As tension thickens, a spate of mysterious deaths trouble Kepler. Though the sheriff and townspeople wave them off as accidents and suicide, the disturbing marks on the bodies leave Kepler wondering if something more sinister is going on.
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Colonial Horrors: Sleepy Hollow and Beyond
by Graeme Davis
A collection of supernatural horror and suspense stories focuses on tales from the colonial era and features the work of Cotton Mather, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, and H. P. Lovecraft.
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Dawn in Damnation
by Clark Casey
Buddy Baker is a dead man. Literally. After gunning down more men than Billy the Kid, then being hung by a rope necktie for his crimes, the fast-drawing fugitive reckoned he'd earned himself a nonstop ticket to hell. Instead, he finds himself in Damnation: a gun-slinging ghost town located somewhere between heaven and hell. There are no laws in Damnation. Only two simple rules: If you get shot, you go directly to hell. If you stay alive without shooting anyone for one year, you just might get into heaven.
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Dead Scared
by Ivan Blake
Who knew the dead have more to fear from the living than the living have to fear from the dead? Certainly not 17-year-old Chris Chandler, not before his family moved to Bemishstock, Maine in the autumn of 1985. Chris admits that his family’s many moves has turned him into a lonely, brooding nutcase, and he has only survived the soul-sucking experience by remaining virtually invisible. Then suddenly one day, after a couple of totally stupid mistakes, Chris finds himself trapped between two nightmarish forces—a grave robber and a vengeful demon—and he must defeat both or end up a corpse himself and cursed for all eternity.
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Mary Rose
by Geoffrey Girard
Mary Rose Moreland and Simon Blake are the perfect couple. Then Simon learns of Mary Rose's baffling childhood disappearance. Obsessed with finding out what happened, as Mary Rose's grow more erratic Simon needs to unlock the truth about her past. Mary Rose is author Geoffrey Girard’s chilling and modern take on a classic ghost story originally written by J. M. Barrie. For years, master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock attempted to adapt Mary Rose into a film but was never successful. With this novel, Girard taps into the nightmarish fears that inspired both Barrie and Hitchcock, while also bringing the story to the present day with his own unique voice.
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The Secret Life of Souls
by Jack Ketchum & Lucky Mckee
Eleven-year-old actress Delia Cross is beautiful, talented, charismatic. A true a star in the making. Her days are a blur of hard work on set, auditions and tutors. Her family―driven, pill-popping stage mother Pat, wastrel dad Bart, and introverted twin brother Robbie―depends on her for their upscale lifestyle. Delia in turn depends on Caity, her beloved ginger Queensland Heeler―and loyal friend―for the calming private space they share. Delia is on the verge of a professional breakthrough. But just as the contracts are about to be signed, there is a freak accident that puts Delia in the danger zone with only Caity to protect her.
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