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Mazywood
by Tananarive Due
When Johnny--a filmmaker and grandson of the famous Black actress Mazelle Washington--brings his family to Mazywood, the secluded California mountain lodge left behind by his grandmother, he expects a quiet retreat. Instead, he uncovers a legacy of rage, secrets, and terror that has haunted his family for generations. As a young Black actress whose career spanned from the 1920s to the 1940s, Mazelle brushed shoulders with giants like Lena Horne, Clark Gable, and Hattie McDaniel. But beneath her public appearance, she carried a secret she had kept and nurtured since she was a child, when a dark wish came true and changed the course of her life forever. Now, fifty years after Mazelle's death, Johnny finds himself confronting the truth she buried--and the consequences she left behind. For a monster lurks outside Mazywood, hidden for generations, and Johnny brought his family to its hunting grounds.
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Sometimes I Scare Myself: A Collection of Horror
by Jeneva Rose
Three horror stories. A dinner party. A quiet house. A roadside stop. You'll recognize the setup. You won't recognize what comes next. A thirtieth birthday dinner turns deadly after someone hires a medium for a playful seance. When the ritual spirals out of control and the medium dies, the guests cover it up--unaware that leaving the seance unfinished has allowed something dark to cross over. The Nightmare HouseThe Dalton family moves into what they believe is their forever home, in the quiet town of Tillington--until the house whispers, the neighbors watch, and no one believes the one person who knows something is wrong. Newly postpartum, Kristin Dalton soon uncovers a horrifying truth: Every family who has lived in this house has died or disappeared.All Curses Are FinalOn the way to a remote winter cabin, a group of friends stops at a roadside store with a hand-painted warning: All items cursed. Curse lifted at time of sale. They laugh it off--until one of them discovers an item in her bag she never paid for. As a storm traps them inside the cabin and bodies start to pile up, paranoia takes hold and suspicion turns inward.
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| Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel HarrisonShaken after a run-in with her ex-fiancé at a mutual friend’s wedding, Willa Sullivan’s night goes from bad to worse when a masked figure kills everyone at the reception. But then Willa wakes up…and discovers she’s re-living the day of the wedding. Stuck in a time loop in which she is killed in increasingly disturbing ways, Willa alone must fight back to unmask the killer and save herself and her friends. Try this next: Lucky Day by Chuck Tingle |
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| Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (editors)This creepy and visceral follow-up to bestselling Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology collects 21 horror stories from established and emerging Indigenous authors, including Stephen Graham Jones, Ramona Emerson, and Tommy Orange. It’s “a rare sequel that is better than its predecessor,” says Library Journal. Try this next: Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror edited by Cynthia Pelayo. |
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The Calamities
by Chuck Wendig
Mourning Mayne knows he'll one day bear the duty of managing his family's vast empire of wealth and power. But the feckless Mourning has always struggled to accept this legacy of cruelty, domination, and exploitation . . . and something even darker. Because the Maynes are no ordinary family: Hidden in our world are the fiends--half-human, half-demon, and possessed of a dark magic born from buying human souls--and the Maynes are one of the oldest and most influential fiendish families. But when Mourning's estranged father, the formidable and terrifying Hadrian Mayne, demands that Mourning return to the fold, he has to decide whether to accept his legacy and embrace his role in the family or to forge his own destiny, and with it, change the course of the world. Because along the way home, he will meet Key, a black-market seller of human souls, and Quinn, an artist who may hold the dark truth behind the fate of the fiends. Alone, they have all struggled with the darkness of their natures . . . but together, they might find a path out of the shadows.
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The Secret Dinner
by Raphael Montes
Four childhood friends, eager for a taste of city life, swap rural Brazil for an apartment in Copacabana, Rio. But they have no idea of the fate that awaits them there. . . . Dante, Piglet, Miguel, and Hugo are your average students trying to make ends meet with part-time jobs, excited about the bright futures at their fingertips. So when their rent skyrockets, they struggle to keep their new lives and big dreams afloat. They need to make money however they can. In order to keep their apartment, the friends adopt an unorthodox plan and are soon sucked into a dark world of secret dinner parties catering to the twisted fantasies of Rio's elite.
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