Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/06/2013
ISBN-13: 9780374107871
ISBN-10: 0374107874

Will Van Wyck, who passes as an adman from Detroit, actually works for the CIA in 1950s Paris. The beautiful Zoya, a babayaga (Russian witch), remembers times past and finds her current French lovers tedious. When spycraft and witchcraft cross paths, both of them are in for a wild adventure that includes Nazis, Zoya's former mentor Elga, who turns a police investigator into a flea, and an American literary wannabe. If you like horror blended with a love story, you'll love Babayaga, which Booklist praises in a starred review as "something out of the ordinary."

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Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/06/2013
ISBN-13: 9780399162954
ISBN-10: 039916295X

In Blood of the Lamb, Thomas Kelly, an American Jesuit priest living in Rome, receives an urgent assignment: find a crucial ancient manuscript, which Italian art historian Livia Pietro is also seeking. The document's contents threaten the very core of the Vatican, and its evil secret is much more profound than a theological or historical controversy -- the Church made an agreement in 1431 with a vampire organization. If you are expecting a thriller like Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, be prepared for a greater level of dread with a supernatural twist.

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Publisher: Delacorte Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/13/2013
ISBN-13: 9780345536532
ISBN-10: 0345536533

At the beginning of The Boy Who Could See Demons, ten-year-old Alex reveals that he has a demon friend named Ruen, and Ruen wants Alex to kill someone. The grown-ups think Alex is schizophrenic, so he's taken to see psychiatrist Anya Molokova. Should Alex be hospitalized, or kept with his family as his social worker urges? As Anya learns more about Alex and his missing father, her recollections of her young daughter's suicide prompt her to become personally involved with Alex's problems, and the danger to everyone escalates. In this twisty novel, author Carolyn Jess-Cooke explores the nature of mental illness while chillingly portraying supernatural evil.

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Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/18/2013
ISBN-13: 9781250021700
ISBN-10: 1250021707

In Reviver, a technique for (temporarily) reviving dead people has recently been discovered. Reviver Jonah Miller works for police investigators, who want victims to identify their killers. Whenever Jonah has revived several people, he experiences painful and terrifying visions, forcing him to take drugs to counteract the side effects. After a famous author is murdered, his daughter persuades Jonah to help her investigate his death, and they uncover secrets that lead to horrific consequences. Reviver is the 1st in a planned trilogy that will relate the further adventures of Jonah.

Publisher: Tor
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/11/2013
ISBN-13: 9780765329950
ISBN-10: 0765329956

Psychic and magician Peter Warlock, first seen in author James Swain's Dark Magic, isn't just an illusionist. Though stage magic is a useful cover, his powers are real, and he's plagued by shadow people who appear to be genuinely evil. Through his special sight, Peter has identified a serial killer and his next victim, though he doesn't know the killer's name or how to find him. An evil supernatural order behind the serial murders threatens not only Peter as he tries to find the killer, but several people dear to him. Shadow People is volume two of a trilogy, so you can expect to see more of Peter and his friends.

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Richard Matheson, author of the classic horror novel I am Legend, passed away June 23, 2013. He wrote science fiction and fantasy as well as horror, often blending the genres. His character-centered tales feature bizarre events that develop around otherwise ordinary people. If you're mourning the fact that Matheson won't be publishing any more, console yourself by reading the books listed below.

Publisher: Doubleday
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 08/07/2012
ISBN-13: 9780385534659
ISBN-10: 0385534655

In the aftermath of Grey Wednesday, everyone in the world suddenly acquires a personal ghost, typically someone from his or her past. As a detective with the police department's Nine-Ten Investigation Unit, it's Oscar Mariani's job to investigate crimes committed by individuals acting under the influence of their ghosts. When Oscar comes across the mutilated body of a young woman covered in occult symbols, his superiors warn him to back off, but he's determined to track the killer. Don't miss this "thrilling blend of horror and crime" (Booklist), which will please fans of Richard Matheson.

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/18/2012
ISBN-13: 9781250018526
ISBN-10: 1250018528

In his introduction to A Book of Horrors, editor Stephen Jones asks, "Whatever happened to menacing monsters, vicious vampires, lethal lycanthropes, ghastly ghosts and monstrous mummies?" This anthology answers his question with closets full of traditionally scary critters and purely evil geniuses -- and no romance mashups, sparkles, or other examples of what he terms "horror-lite." All 14 original stories are penned by recognized horror masters, including Stephen King, Lisa Tuttle, and Richard Christian Matheson, Richard Matheson's son. If you, too, long for straight-up terrifying tales, pick up this anthology, lock the doors, turn on all the lights, and enjoy!

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Publisher: Scribner
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 01/24/2006
ISBN-13: 9780743292337
ISBN-10: 0743292332

Sure, telemarketers can be annoying. However, while they may get on our nerves, they don't typically inspire murderous rage -- unlike the mysterious "pulse" calls that turn unwitting mobile phone users into homicidal maniacs. In this fast-paced apocalypse, mobile phones unleash global mayhem, and it's up to a small, technophobic band of "normies," like the ordinary people in Richard Matheson's novels, to stop the pandemonium before it spreads throughout humanity. Thanks to horror master Stephen King, you'll never look at your smartphone again without wondering: "Am I next?"

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Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/26/2006
ISBN-13: 9780307265432
ISBN-10: 0307265439

Cormac McCarthy's The Road is probably the best-known post-apocalyptic novel written in the last few years -- it won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and was made into a movie starring Viggo Mortensen. In a devastated world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of an unrecognizable American landscape, longing for normality and searching for means of survival. On this violent, horrific Earth, the sun is obscured by ash and the land is dead; there are few survivors, and many have resorted to cannibalism. McCarthy's bleak but elegant writing will remind Richard Matheson's fans of his works.

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 12/11/2012
ISBN-13: 9781250009852
ISBN-10: 1250009855

Kate Neuman, an American hematologist, travels to Romania to adopt an orphan who suffers from several rare diseases. When the baby, Joshua, receives a blood transfusion, his immunity is strangely boosted. Kate hopes to study his case in order to help find cures for cancer and AIDS. But once Kate reaches the U.S. with Joshua, he is kidnapped and returned to Europe, where it seems his infamous, powerful, and immortal relative -- the legendary Count Dracula -- wants to raise the babe and train him to take over the family business. Children of the Night brings a clever twist to vampire tales, much as Richard Matheson did in I am Legend.

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