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Spread Me
by Sarah Gailey
Meet our hero: Kinsey has the perfect job as the team leader in a remote research outpost. She loves the isolation and the way the desert keeps temptations from the civilian world far out of reach.
Then the trouble starts: When her crew discovers a mysterious specimen buried deep in the sand, Kinsey breaks quarantine and brings it into the hab. But the longer it's inside, the more her carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Temptation has found her after all, and it can't be ignored any longer. Kinsey's team realizes the thing they're studying is in search of a new host-and one of them is the perfect candidate.
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The Haunting of Paynes Hollow
by Kelley Armstrong
How it starts: When Samantha Payne's grandfather dies, she figures she won't even get a mention in the will. She hasn't seen him in fourteen years, not since her father took his own life after being accused of murdering a child at their lakefront cottage. But when she does attend the reading of the will, she discovers that her grandfather left her the very valuable lakefront property where the family cottage sits.
Then what happens: There's one catch: Sam needs to stay in the cottage for a month. To finally face the fact she was wrong and her father was innocent, in her grandfather's words. When her aunt goes missing a couple days into their stay, Sam begins to question everything again.
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| Snake-Eater by T. KingfisherWhat it's about: In search of a fresh start after leaving her emotionally abusive fiancé, cash-strapped Selena heads to the small desert town of Quartz Creek, Arizona to stay at her late aunt's abandoned home. But not all is as it seems in Quartz Creek, as she soon discovers she's being watched by the same malevolent creature who targeted her aunt.
For fans of: Fans of dark fantasy/horror hybrids will want to check out this suspenseful and atmospheric latest from bestselling author T. Kingfisher. |
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| A Box Full of Darkness by Simone St. JamesWhat happens: Eighteen years after the sudden disappearance of their six-year-old brother, Ben, the Esmie siblings return to their childhood home in upstate New York at the urging of Ben's ghost, hoping to find answers.
For fans of: Model Home by Rivers Solomon. |
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The Long Low Whistle
by Laurel Hightower
Meet the hero: The sound of the whistle that split Patricia's life in two still haunts her two decades later. The rift caused by her father's unsolved death haunts her. Breaking into mausoleums in the dead of night isn't how she pictured her life, but she'll do almost anything to know what happened.
Then what happens: When a group of amateur cryptid hunters shows up in her small town, Trish doesn't hesitate to take what might be her only chance to find answers, even if they're searching in the last place she should be. A sealed, abandoned mine; tight underground passages filled with unseen creatures, and impenetrable darkness await them.
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The Night That Finds Us All
by John Hornor Jacobs
Introducing the hero: Sam Vines is struggling. Her boat is up on the hard and she doesn't have enough money to get her back in the water. So it's a good thing when her former crewmate Loick asks her to help deliver a massive, hundred-year-old sailboat from Seattle to England. Sam is the only one who can handle the ship's engine, and she needs the money.
And her troubles: The ship is also probably (definitely) haunted. Wet feet slap against the wood at night. Something screams, a wail that rises up through the rigging. Sam's alcohol withdrawal has her doubting her senses, but when one crewmate disappears and another has a gruesome accident, she knows that this simple delivery job has spiraled into something sinister.
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| Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (editors); introduction by Stephen Graham JonesWhat it is: Incorporating social commentary and elements of folklore and traditional beliefs, this compelling anthology features 26 original horror tales from new and established Indigenous authors including Darcie Little Badger, Tommy Orange, and Brandon Hobson.
For fans of: After the People Lights Have Gone Off: Stories by Stephen Graham Jones. |
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| Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror by Jordan Peele (editor)What it is: Edited by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Jordan Peele (Get Out), this creepy anthology collects stories from lauded Black authors including N.K. Jemisin, Tananarive Due, Caldwell Turnbull, and more. It's "essential reading for any horror fan" (Publishers Weekly).
Try this next: The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris (nonfiction). |
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