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A House at the Bottom of the Lake
by Josh Malerman
Discovering an extraordinary house at the bottom of a lake in their Michigan community, two teens fall passionately in love while struggling to choose between the property’s ethereal freedoms and the safety of the world above.
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Rafael
by Laurell K. Hamilton
Vampire hunter Anita Blake must help one of her closest allies – Rafael, the king of the Dark Crown Clan and leader of the St. Louis wererats – complete a dangerous mission.
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The Residence
by Andrew Pyper
After losing her son in a train derailment, First Lady Jane Pierce contacts the most notable spiritualists of the day to connect with him in a séance and instead brings forth a malevolent spirit.
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| Bluebeard's First Wife by Ha Seong-nan; translated by Janet HongWhat it is: a disturbing and darkly humorous collection of 11 short stories exploring trauma, grief, and fraught relationship dynamics, penned by Korean author Ha Seong-nan (Flowers of Mold).
For fans of: stories that peel back the thin veneer of normalcy to expose the everyday horrors of the mundane, like Ottessa Moshfegh's Homesick for Another World.
Don't miss: the haunting "Star-Shaped Stain," about a woman visiting the site of an accident that killed her daughter one year earlier. |
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The Hole
by Hye-yng P'yn; translated by Sora Kim-Russell
After being widowed, paralyzed and disfigured in a bad car accident, Ogi must rely on his grieving mother-in-law for care and is left neglected and alone while he watches her mysteriously destroying his late wife’s garden and obsessively digging holes.
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Little Star
by John Ajvide Lindqvist; translated by Marlaine Delargy
Rescuing and raising an abandoned baby girl in the woods, a man enters the child in a singing competition when she develops an astonishingly beautiful voice, a performance that leads to the girl's encounter with another youngster with whom she triggers a horrifying force. By the author of Let the Right One In.
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Spiral
by Kōji Suzuki; translated by Glynne Walley
A powerful sequel to The Ring finds the virus from the first novel mutating while Ando, a physician, faces a difficult choice--find a cure for the deadly new strain or use the information he has gathered to help bring his drowned son back from the dead.
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The Twenty Days of Turin
by Giorgio De Maria; translated by Ramon Glazov
An investigator navigates a netherworld of occultists as he tries to connect unexplained events to an underground library of the past, where lonely citizens had met to read one another's dairies—an endeavor that had led to nighttime massacres and the Library's erasure from history.
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| That Time of Year by Marie NDiaye; translated by Jordan StumpWhat it's about: While vacationing with his family in an isolated French village, Herman's wife and son mysteriously disappear.
What happens next: Herman's only hope of finding his loved ones is to ingratiate himself with the locals, whose cheerful indifference to his plight gradually reveals their unsettling motivations.
Reviewers say: "Part ghost story, part satiric horror, this gorgeously eerie book will keep you holding your breath even past the end" (Kirkus Reviews). |
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