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| No Place to Bury the Dead by Karina Sainz BorgoIn a plague-ravaged Latin American country, Angustias Romero and her husband Salveiro travel to the Third Country, a surreal purgatorial cemetery in a corrupt border town, where they hope to bury their twin infant sons. They soon discover that the Third Country's violent pull exposes the thin boundary between life and death, where "moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings." For fans of: Samanta Schweblin. |
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| Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod ChapmanWhen Noah Fairchild's parents stop returning his calls, he races to his childhood home in Richmond, Virginia, where he discovers them in a trance inflicted by a far-right cable news channel. Attempts to help them are met by physical attacks, and before long Noah and his young nephew are the only ones that remain unaffected. Can they stop this strange affliction from possessing more families before it's too late? Try this next: This Thing Between Us by Gus Moreno. |
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| The Resurrectionist by A. Rae DunlapIn 1828 Edinburgh, sheltered medical student James Willoughby joins a crew of body snatchers, where he meets and falls in love with dissectionist Aneurin "Nye" MacKinnon. The group's exploits soon put them in the deadly crosshairs of rival gangs who will stop at nothing to come out on top. For fans of: gruesome gothic novels like Anatomy by Dana Schwartz. |
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| Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady HendrixAt a home for unwed mothers in 1970 Florida, 15-year-old Fern is given a spellbook by a mysterious librarian, which she and her friends initially use to enact petty revenge on their keepers -- until they question whether they should use their newfound powers for darker purposes. This "pulpy throwback" (Kirkus Reviews) from bestselling author Grady Hendrix (How to Sell a Haunted House) offers a violent homage to Rosemary's Baby. |
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| A Guest in the House by E.M. CarrollIn Eisner Award winner E.M. Carroll's (Through the Woods) creepy latest, newly married Abby begins seeing the spirit of her husband's first wife, Sheila, suspecting that the woman's tragic death wasn't really from natural causes. Surreal black-and-white artwork complements the fantastical tone of this award-winning ode to Daphne du Maurier's gothic classic Rebecca. |
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| Tombs: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji ItoThis disturbing and darkly humorous anthology of previously published manga from three-time Eisner Award winner and pioneering Japanese horror artist Junji Ito features nightmarish, neo-gothic illustrations drawn with heavy black lines that elevate the tales' gruesomeness. For fans of: Sui Ishida and Shuzo Oshimi. |
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| The Night Eaters Book 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu; illustrated by Sana TakedaMarjorie Liu and Sana Takeda's (Monstress) Eisner Award-winning 1st in a series stars Chinese American twins Milly and Billy, whose mother forces them to clear out the abandoned house next door, the site of a grisly murder where terrifying surprises await. For fans of: The Low, Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, Dani, and Tamra Bonvillain. |
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| Something is Killing the Children: Volume 1 by James Tynion IV; illustrated by Werther Dell'Edera and Miquel Muerto In small-town Archer's Peak, children are disappearing, and the few who return share stories of the terrifying creatures who took them. Enter monster killer Erica Slaughter, the one woman who can put an end to the disappearances once and for all. Try this next: Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees by Patrick Horvath and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou. |
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