January 2017 list by Darlene Nethery
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“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.” ― Stephen King
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Certain Dark Things
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
In Mexico City, where the creatures of the night are kept at bay, trash-picking street kid Domingo helps Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, escape the city when two vampires come to find her and start to raise the body count, attracting the attention of police officers, local crime bosses and the vampire community.
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Feedback: A Newsflesh Novel
by Mira Grant
Twenty years after the Risingùthe start of an infection that caused people to have a single uncontrollable impulse to feedùa team of scrappy underdog reporters relentlessly pursue dangerous truths on the presidential campaign trail while competing against the brother and sister blog superstars, the Masons.
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The Jekyll Revelation
by Robert Masello
A chilling curse is transported from 1880s London to present-day California, awakening a long-dormant fiend.
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The Motion of Puppets
by Keith Donohue
An adaptation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth follows the experiences of a Quebec translator whose acrobat wife takes shelter in a mysterious toy shop, only to be turned into a puppet and placed in a magical circle of similarly transformed puppets who come to life at night and struggle to regain human form. By the author of The Boy Who Drew Monsters.
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Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis
by Anne Rice
Via the tale of the lost realms of Atlantis, readers will come to understand its secrets, and how and why the vampire Lestat, indeed all the vampires, must reckon so many millennia later with the terrifying force of the ageless, all-powerful Atalantaya spirit. By the best-selling author of Interview With a Vampire.
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What the #@&% Is That?: The Saga Anthology of the Monstrous and the Macabre
by John Joseph Adams
Fear of the unknown--it is the essence of the best horror stories, the need to know what monstrous vision you're beholding and the underlying terror that you just might find out. Now, twenty authors have gathered to ask--and maybe answer--a question worthy of almost any horror tale: "What the #@&% is that?"
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