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Author Read Alikes: Halloween Edition  October 2021 |
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If you enjoy reading horror, suspense and the supernatural, try these authors whose titles are also accessible through Digital Library of Illinois (Overdrive and Libby apps) and Hoopla |
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Nothing but Blackened Teeth
by Cassandra Khaw
A Heian-era mansion stands abandoned, its foundations resting on the bones of a bride and its walls packed with the remains of the girls sacrificed to keep her company. It's the perfect venue for a group of thrill-seeking friends, brought back together to celebrate a wedding. A night of food, drinks, and games quickly spirals into a nightmare as secrets get dragged out and relationships are tested. But the house has secrets too. Lurking in the shadows is the ghost bride with a black smile and a hungry heart. And she gets lonely down there in the dirt.
Scheduled release date: October 19, 2021 - place holds on physical copy now.
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Dark Things I Adore
by Katie Lattari
Forty years after a deadly incident resulted from the secrets and dark ambitions of a group of outcasts at an arts camp in Maine, an art professor is threatened by his star protégé who somehow found out what happened.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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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.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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The Shadows
by Alex North
Forced by his mother’s failing health to return to the hometown where a misfit friend committed a shocking murder 25 years earlier, Paul learns about an investigation into a local copycat before realizing he is being followed.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Battle Ground
by Jim Butcher
Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of Vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders. But this time, it's different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennia is coming. And she's bringing an army. The Last Titan has declared war on the city of Chicago, and has come to subjugate humanity, obliterating any who stand in her way. Harry's mission is simple but impossible: Save the city by killing a Titan. And the attempt will change Harry's life, Chicago, and the mortal world forever.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Things We Lost in the Fire : Stories
by Mariana Enriquez
A U.S. release of an anthology of stories by a debut writer from Buenos Aires explores macabre dimensions of life in contemporary Argentina, from women who set themselves on fire to protest domestic violence to a 9-year-old serial killer who acts out in gruesome ways in her classroom.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Tokyo Ghoul Vol. 1
by Sui Ishida
College student Ken Kaneki is thrilled to be going on a date with beautiful Rize, but when the encounter turns violent, he is transformed into a human-ghoul hybrid who must learn to deal with Ghoul turf wars, Ghoul society, and his new powers.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares
by Joyce Carol Oates
A volume of six stories and novellas by the National Book Award-winning author of We Were the Mulvaneys includes the title story, in which the disappearance of a sweet blonde-haired child is linked to her mother's indiscretions, a too-obvious schoolteacher and an older student with a fascination for a Native American legend.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Fledgling
by Octavia E. Butler
Shori, a seemingly young, amnesiac girl with frightening inhuman abilities and a thirst for blood, wanders the land, unaware that she is really a genetically altered, fifty-three-year-old vampire with a unique ability to walk in the light of day and that she is the only survivor of a brutal attack on her community, searching for who she is and who wants to destroy her.
Available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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The Walking Dead Vol. 1: Days Gone Bye
by Robert Kirkman
Police officer Rick Grimes is shot on the job and wakes up a month later to find that the world that he knows is gone. Zombies have taken over and are killing and eating those who are still alive. He sets out toward Atlanta in the hope that his family is still alive and endures many horrors along the way.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Mongrels
by Stephen Graham Jones
Enduring a hardscrabble, marginalized existence with his impoverished family outside of a society that does not understand or want him, a young boy travels in the night to escape legal harassment while his family watches diligently to see if he will display the same differences that have shaped their unusual lives.
Available on Hoopla.
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Blood Sisters : Vampire Stories by Women
by Paula Guran
A tantalizing selection of stories from New York Times bestsellers Charlaine Harris, Holly Black, Nancy Holder, Catherynne M. Valente, and Carrie Vaughn, and critically acclaimed writers Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Tanith Lee, all of whom have left their indelible and unique stamps on the vampire genre. Whether they are undeniably heroes and heroines or bloodthirsty monsters (or something in between), the undead are a lively lot.
Available on Hoopla.
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The Tempest Tales
by Walter Mosley
Refusing to go to hell in spite of his technical disqualification from heaven, murdered African-American everyman Tempest Landry is sent back to Harlem, where a guiding angel tries to convince him to accept judgment, the devil attempts to win over his soul, and Tempest himself wonders if sin is the same for Black and white people.
Available on Hoopla.
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Must Love Hellhounds
by Charlaine Harris
Four bestselling paranormal authors present novellas about hellhounds, including a tales featuring paranormal bodyguards in Lucifer's realm, non-lethal vampire trackers, Cerberus leaving the underworld for the real world, and the kidnapping of a powerful vampire's niece.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby and Hoopla.
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Flowers in the Attic
by V. C. Andrews
Chris, Cathy, and the twins are to be kept hidden until their grandfather dies so that their mother will receive a sizeable inheritance, however, years pass and terrifying things occur as the four children grow up in their one room prison.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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The Turn of the Screw
by Henry James
A governess arrives at an isolated English mansion to care for two seemingly angelic but rather strange young children, and the appearance of two evil phantoms leads her to question her sanity.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Interview With the Vampire
by Anne Rice
In an interview with a reporter, a vampire, a former New Orleans plantation owner, describes his two hundred years of existence as a vampire, his relationships with Lestat and Claudia, and his feelings about the vampire world.
Physical copy available. Also available on Overdrive/ Libby.
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Billy Summers
by Stephen King
A former Iraq war vet working as an assassin-for-hire who only accepts jobs when the target is truly a bad guy seeks retirement in the new novel from the legendary best-selling author of over 60 novels.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Overdrive/ Libby now.
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The Final Girl Support Group
by Grady Hendrix
A real-life “final girl”— the one girl always left standing at the end of a horror movie — Lynette Tarkington, who survived a massacre 22 years ago, along with five other final girls, works to overcome her past until someone becomes determined to take their lives apart again, piece by piece.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Overdrive/ Libby now.
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Survive the Night
by Riley Sager
When her best friend is the third victim of a serial killer targeting college students, Charlie, deciding to leave campus, accepts a ride home from Josh Baxter and, realizing his true identity too late, must win a twisted game of cat and mouse by surviving the night.
Waitlist - place holds on physical copy or on Overdrive/ Libby now.
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