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| The Chill by Scott CarsonWhat it's about: Seventy-five years after the village of Galesburg was flooded to build the Chilewaukee Reservoir (aka "The Chill"), descendants of the area's displaced residents find themselves contending with vengeful spirits lurking in the water's murky depths.
Book buzz: Inspired by true events, this suspenseful novel penned by the pseudonymous Scott Carson counts Stephen King among its fans.
Try this next: For another creepy novel about a small town reckoning with the sins of its past, check out Thomas Olde Heuvelt's Hex. |
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| The Boatman's Daughter by Andy DavidsonWhat it is: a violent and atmospheric Southern Gothic set in a fictional Arkansas bayou.
Starring: hardscrabble 21-year-old Miranda Crabtree, reluctant ferrywoman to an unstable preacher whose sinister criminal enterprises she can no longer overlook.
Read it for: a tense, world-building fable populated by monsters both human and supernatural. |
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| The Deep by Alma KatsuAll aboard! Four years after surviving the sinking of the Titanic, Irish nurse Annie books passage on its sister ship, the Britannic, where she encounters the same eerie phenomena that plagued the fateful voyage.
Want a taste? "Some days, she wakes from nightmares of black water rushing into her open mouth, freezing her lungs to stone."
Why you might like it: Though both voyages' outcomes will already be well known to readers, Alma Katsu imbues her well-researched novel's evocative dual timeline with nail-biting suspense. |
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Cold Storage : a novel
by David Koepp
What it's about: A debut novel by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park follows the desperate mission of a Pentagon bioterror operative and two unwitting security guards to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism.
Book buzz: This book is "...a rich, textured, and downright impossible-to-put-down story that will rock horror-thriller fans' world." -- Booklist Online, June 2019
You may also like: "Daniel Kraus, author of Rotters (2011) and Scowler (2013), is just the ticket for readers whose pulses start pounding at the very thought of a killer fungus." -- Booklist Online, June 2019
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Pandemonium
by Daryl Gregory
What it's about: In a strange world in which entities--including pop-cultural avatars such as Truth, The Captain, and Little Angel--possess ordinary men, women, and children, Del Pierce is desperate to escape the entity known as the Hellion that is trapped inside his head and struggling to escape, only to discover that he may hold the key to eliminating the plague of possession forever. A first novel.
Book buzz: "Believable characters, a multilayered plot and smooth prose define Gregory's darkly ambitious debut novel." -- Publishers Weekly, September 2008
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| Outcast Volume 1: A Darkness Surrounds Him by Robert Kirkman; illustrated by Paul AzacetaWhat it's about: brooding demon-magnet Kyle Barnes' violent misadventures in exorcism, for which he has a reluctant aptitude.
Art alert: Paul Azaceta's bold and shadowy artwork ramps up the tension in this slow-burning graphic novel.
Series alert: Outcast kicks off the titular ongoing series created by The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman; a TV adaptation starring Patrick Fugit (Almost Famous) ran for two seasons on Cinemax. |
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Four Dominions
by Eric Lustbader
What happens? Emma and Bravo Shaw rescue the Testament of Lucifer from nefarious hands as the Fallen awake and exert their corrupt influence on the highest ranks of power.
Series alert: This is Book 3 in the Bravo Shaw Series. It is followed by The Sum of All Shadows, the finale of the series.
Author note: ERIC VAN LUSTBADER is the author of The Testament, The Fallen, and many New York Times bestselling thrillers. l. He and his wife live on the South Fork of Long Island.
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| A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay15 years ago: Desperate to make ends meet in the wake of their teen daughter Marjorie's apparent demonic possession, the suburban Barrett family allowed a reality TV crew to film the girl's exorcism.
Now: Marjorie's sister Merry recounts the tragic ordeal to a journalist, attempting to puzzle out what really happened to her older sibling.
Movie buzz: Antlers director Scott Cooper will helm a forthcoming film adaptation starring Margaret Qualley (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). |
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