May 2021 list by Bonnie Bradford
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A Broken Darkness
by Premee Mohamed
It’s been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void. Nick is piecing his life together, helping monitor threats to humanity. One again Nick and Johnny are thrown together to fight the darkness once more… Beneath the Rising series.
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Creatures of Passage
by Morowa Yejide
Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying passengers in a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk. When her estranged great-nephew, ten-year-old Dash arrives unexpectedly at Nephthys's door bearing a cryptic note about his unusual conversations with the River Man, Nephthys must face what frightens her most.
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Reality and Other Stories
by John Lanchester
An anthology of definitive short stories by the best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure includes pieces originally published in The New Yorker, including “Signal,” an eerie tale of contemporary life and the perils of technology gone wrong.
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The Whispering House
by Elizabeth Brooks
Simmering and mysterious, The Whispering House trades in secrets: of a son haunted by his family's unsettling past, and a young woman uncovering the truth about her sister's last days. In prose lush and atmospheric, Brooks weaves a simmering, propulsive tale of art, sisterhood, and all-consuming love.
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