January 2020 list by Bonnie Bradford
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The Dark Game
by Jonathan Janz
Ten writers are selected for a writing retreat with the most celebrated author in the world, but what they do not know is that they are signing up for the "Dark Game," a lethal contest pitting them against one another.
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Ghosts of Berlin: Stories
by Rudolph Herzog
In these hair-raising stories from the celebrated filmmaker and author Rudolph Herzog, millennial Berliners discover that the city is still the home of many unsettled—and deeply unsettling—ghosts. And those ghosts are not very happy about the newcomers.
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The Homecoming
by Andrew Pyper
After learning from their father's will that to claim their inheritance they must stay at the family estate for thirty days with their troubled mother and sister, two brothers are drawn into a world of dark revelations and long-kept secrets.
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The Laws of the Skies
by Grégoire Courtois
Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive. Part fairy tale, part horror story, this macabre fable takes us through the minds of all the members of this doomed party, murderers and murdered alike.
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Little Darlings
by Melanie Golding
Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: at night in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own…creatures. Yet no one saw anything. And everyone thinks she’s imagining things.
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The Poison Thread
by Laura Purcell
A thrilling Victorian gothic horror tale about a young seamstress who claims her needle and thread have the power to kill. The story Ruth Butterham has to tell of her deadly creations—of bitterness and betrayal, of death and dresses—will shake all belief in rationality, and the power of redemption. Can Ruth be trusted? Is she mad, or a murderer?
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The Post
by Kevin A. Muñoz
Ten years after the world’s oil went sour and a pandemic killed most of the population, those who survived share the world with what are known as hollow-heads: creatures who are no longer fully human.
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Psychotopia
by R. N. Morris
A game for the times we live—and die—in. Enter Psychotopia, level one. Create your own boutique psychopath, then deceive, manipulate and be ruthless, spreading mayhem and destruction to reach the next levels.
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The Survival of Molly Southbourne
by Tade Thompson
Who was Molly Southbourne? What did she leave behind? A burnt-out basement. A name stained in blood. Bodies. A set of rules that no longer apply. If Molly wants to survive, she'll need to run, hide, and be ready to fight. There are people who remember her, who know what she is and what she's done. Some want her alive, some want her dead, and all hold a piece to the puzzles in her head. Molly Southbourne series
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Twelve Nights at Rotter House
by J. W. Ocker
A travel writer who focuses on the paranormal and his best friend arrange to spend 13 nights in the notorious Rotterdam Mansion to develop material for a new novel. But encounter more than they planned, when screams erupt and mysterious figures appear in the night.
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