| 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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Follow Me to Ground : A Novel
by Sue Rainsford
Helping her father dispense otherworldly folk remedies to heal the sick in their village, Ada pursues a forbidden affair that transforms her lover and the dangerous source of her powers.
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Voices in the Snow
by Darcy Coates
"Beware The Stillness... She can't stop running. If she stops, they'll find her. If she stops, they'll kill her. If she stops...it's all over. Clare knows she was running from something-she just can't remember what. When she wakes, aching and injured, ina stranger's gothic nightmare of a home, she can't help but feel something is after her. She's desperate to keep going, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, and there's nothing she can do but wait it out. At least the stranger seems kind...but Clare doesn't know if she can trust him. He promised they were alone here, yet she sees and hears things that convince her something else is in the rambling old house with them, lurking in the shadows, watching. Waiting. Between the claustrophobic storm and the feeling of being stalked, Clare is on edge...and as her memories of the hours before her accident begin to return, the things she saw and heard leave her with one terrible question: What is The Stillness, and why is she so afraid?"
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| All Things Bright and Strange by James MarkertStarring: suicidal 22-year-old World War I veteran and amputee Ellsworth Newberry, who's mourning the death of his wife and the loss of his professional baseball dreams.
What happens: In 1920 Bellhaven, South Carolina, all the flowers bloom, even out-of-season ones, and a mysterious “healing” chapel in the woods appears -- but things aren't as they seem. As people turn on each other, Ellsworth fights against evil forces to save the town.
For fans of: Christian supernatural fiction by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker (though the religious elements in All Things Bright and Strange are less overt). |
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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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| Over Your Dead Body by Dan WellsWhat it's about: On the prowl for the last of the Withered who killed his family, demon hunter John Wayne Cleaver is accompanied by girlfriend Brooke, who carries the souls of the dead inside her. When John's first love Marci suddenly sets up shop in Brooke's head, things get very complicated...
Series alert: Over Your Dead Body is the 5th of the fast-paced John Cleaver novels; newcomers will want to start with I Am Not a Serial Killer.
For fans of: TV's Supernatural. |
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Blood Communion : A Tale of Prince Lestat
by Anne Rice
Navigating his new leadership of the vampire world, Lestat uncovers the story of a mysterious outcast demon who he traces to 18th-century Petersburg and the court of Empress Catherine. By the best-selling author of An Interview With a Vampire.
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We Were Killers Once
by Becky Masterman
A man who has been released from prison after decades for murder pursues a handwritten document in the possession of Brigid Quinn's husband, Carlo, that ties the case to a 1959 murder made famous by Truman Capote's In Cold Blood
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