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Unbury Carol : a novel
by Josh Malerman
A woman prone to secret temporary comas that make her appear to be dead receives protection from a redemption-seeking former lover who would save her from being buried alive by her fortune-hunting husband. By the best-selling author of Bird Box.
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Wanderers : a novel
by Chuck Wendig
When her little sister is afflicted by a bizarre sleepwalking disorder that begins to affect people all across the country, Shana is embroiled in an apocalyptic epidemic involving a decadent rock star, a religious radio host and a disgraced scientist.
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Violet
by Scott Thomas
Returning home to Lost Lake where she lost her mother to cancer 30 years earlier, newly widowed Kris Barlow, determined to take a stand against grief along with her young daughter, is soon plunged into a nightmare when she is haunted by her long-abandoned imaginary friend. Original.
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Imaginary friend
by Stephen Chbosky
A highly anticipated follow-up to The Perks of Being a Wallflower finds a single mother’s desperate efforts to escape an abusive relationship thrown into turmoil by her son’s disappearance and reappearance days later with an imaginary friend.
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Full throttle : stories
by Joe Hill
The best-selling author of Strange Weather presents 13 short stories of supernatural suspense, including “Throttle,” co-written by Stephen King, in which a trucker is caught in a sinister dance with motorcycle outlaws in the Nevada desert.
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Elevation
by Stephen King
A timely tale about the power of finding common ground traces the story of Scott Carey, whose mysterious affliction unites the small community of Castle Rock, Maine.
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Baby teeth
by Zoje Stage
An ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature.
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The woman in the woods
by John Connolly
From internationally bestselling author and "creative genius who has few equals in either horror fiction or the mystery genre" (New York Journal of Books) comes a gripping thriller starring Private Investigator Charlie Parker. When the body of a woman--who apparently died in childbirth--is discovered, Parker is hired to track down both her identity and her missing child. In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the dead young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only searcher. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child.
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The cabin at the end of the world : a novel
by Paul Tremblay
A twist on the home-invasion horror story follows the experiences of a 7-year-old girl whose family is taken hostage in a remote cabin by men who are either the world's defenders or deranged apocalypse fanatics. 50,000 first printing.
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The hunger
by Alma Katsu
A supernatural reimagining of the Donner Party story follows a group of wagon-train pioneers who navigate sanity-testing misfortunes, including the mysterious death of a little boy and a series of disappearances that cause a beautiful member of the group to be accused of witchcraft. By the author of The Taker.
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We sold our souls
by Grady Hendrix
A has-been heavy metal artist discovers that her failed band's lead singer sold their souls in a Faustian exchange for his solo-career fame and fortune. By the award-winning author of Horrorstör.
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Flight or fright
by Stephen King
Best-selling author Stephen King presents an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong during air travel, with story contributions from Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Roald Dahl, Dan Simmons and King himself.
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Foe : a novel
by Iain Reid
In a novel set in the near-future, a rural's life is disrupted when the man is called for a distant mission, and his wife receives an unconventional replacement so he won't be missed. By the internationally best-selling author of I'm Thinking of Ending Things.
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The siren and the specter
by Jonathan Janz
Skeptic David Caine is invited by an old friend to spend a month in Alexander House, considered to be the most haunted house in Virginia, a stay that soon has him questioning his stance.
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Sleeping beauties : a novel
by Stephen King
In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one mysteriously immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.
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Meddling kids : a novel
by Edgar Cantero
The surviving members of a forgotten teen detective club and their dog reunite as broken adults to embark on an effort to solve a terrifying cold case that ruined them all and sent the wrong man to prison.
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The troop
by Nick Cutter
Leading a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a traditional weekend camping trip, scoutmaster Tim Riggs encounters a disturbing, voraciously hungry intruder in the woods who infects the troop with a bioengineered disease.
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Hex
by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth-century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children'sbeds for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear. The elders of Black Spring have virtually quarantined the town by using high-tech surveillance to prevent their curse from spreading. Frustrated by being kept in lockdown, the town's teenagers, decide to break their strict regulations and go viral with the haunting. But, in so doing, they send the town spiraling into dark, medieval practices of the distant past.
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The city of mirrors : a novel
by Justin Cronin
The conclusion to the epic adventure set in an apocalyptic America finds the colony confronting a terrifying threat in the aftermath of the destruction of the Twelve, a situation that forces Amy and her companions to confront their destinies
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Alice
by Christina Henry
A mind-bending new novel inspired by the twisted and wondrous works of Lewis Carroll...In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls which echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn't remember why she's in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood... Then, one night, a fire at the hospital givesthe woman a chance to escape, tumbling out of the hole that imprisoned her, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago. Only something else has escaped with her. Something dark. Something powerful. And to find the truth, she will have to track this beast to the very heart of the Old City, where the rabbit waits for his Alice.
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Kill creek
by Scott Thomas
After reluctantly agreeing to spend Halloween night in a haunted house at the end of a dark prairie road in Kansas, Sam McGarver, along with three other masters of horror, unknowingly awaken an entity that will stop at nothing to make them part of the Kill Creek legacy.
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Universal harvester
by John Darnielle
Working for a 1990s small-community video rental store under threat by a major chain competitor, Jeremy is reluctantly drawn into a mystery involving chilling footage of criminal activity that has been recorded onto the store's VHS tapes. By the author of Wolf in White Van.
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It devours! : a Welcome to Night Vale novel
by Joseph Fink
When her employer gives her an assignment to investigate mysterious rumblings in the desert wasteland outside of the town of Night Vale, Nilanjana Sikdar discovers a congregation of religious fanatics who are plotting a ritual that threatens the local community.
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Black mad wheel
by Josh Malerman
A Detroit band desperate to reclaim fame is recruited by the government to track down the source of a mysterious sound in the African desert, which they link to an ominous conspiracy and an enigmatic accident victim's remarkable recovery.
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The ghost bride
by Yangsze Choo
When she agrees to become a ghost bride for the wealthy Lim family's son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances, Li Lan must dive into a shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife to find the truth and, once there, must decide if she wants to return to the world of the living.
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