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| Play Nice by Rachel HarrisonAfter her estranged mother's death, influencer Clio moves into her home with the intention of selling it. Clio's mom always claimed the house was possessed, which Clio and her sisters chalked up to their mother's alcoholism. But when she finds a book detailing the house's supernatural anomalies -- the same things she now finds herself experiencing -- Clio realizes her mother may have been telling the truth after all. For fans of: How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix; The September House by Carissa Orlando. |
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| The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene (editors); introduction by Stephen KingBram Stoker Award-winning authors Christopher Golden and Brian Keene coedited this chilling anthology set within the world of Stephen King's classic 1978 postapocalyptic novel The Stand, featuring 34 original stories by Tananarive Due, Chuck Wendig, Gabino Iglesias, S.A. Cosby, and more. Try this next: Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse edited by John Joseph Adams (and featuring a story by King). |
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The Unmothers
by Leslie Anderson
Marshall, a journalist, is sent to a small town to look into an improbable rumor that a horse has given birth to a human baby. As she investigates, she discovers evidence of a murder and becomes drawn into an even deeper and stranger mystery than she expected.
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Bless Your Heart
by Lindy Ryan
It's 1999 in Southeast Texas and the Evans women, owners of the only funeral parlor in town, are keeping steady with...normal business. The dead die, you bury them. End of story. That's how Ducey Evans has done it for the last eighty years, and her progeny--Lenore the experimenter and Grace, Lenore's soft-hearted daughter, have run Evans Funeral Parlor for the last fifteen years without drama. Ever since That Godawful Mess that left two bodies in the ground and Grace raising her infant daughter Luna, alone. But when town gossip Mina Jean Murphy's body is brought in for a regular burial and she rises from the dead instead, it's clear that the Strigoi-the original vampire--are back. And the Evans women are the ones who need to fight back to protect their town. As the saying goes, what rises up, must go back down. But as unspoken secrets and revelations spill from the past into the present, the Evans family must face that sometimes, the dead aren't the only things you want to keep buried.
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A Mask of Flies
by Matthew Lyons
After a robbery goes wrong, ne'er-do-well Anne Heller battles threats both human and supernatural in this action-packed horror/crime novel by the author of A Black and Endless Sky. For fans of: The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias.
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The Night Guest
by Hildur Knútsdóttir; translated by Mary Robinette Kowal
After doctors find no cause for Reykjavík woman Iðunn's chronic exhaustion, she discovers that she has a penchant for sleepwalking, logging as many as 40,000 steps per night. Where does she go -- and what does she do -- during her nocturnal treks? Short chapters build to a propulsive finale in Hildur Knútsdóttir's unputdownable English-language debut. For fans of: The Grip of It by Jac Jemc.
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I'll Be Waiting
by Kelley Armstrong
Nicola Laughton never expected to see adulthood, being diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis as a child. Then medical advances let her live into her thirties and she met Anton. Months after they married, Anton died in a horrible car crash but lived long enough to utter five words to her, "I'll be waiting for you." That final private moment became public when someone from the crash scene took it to the press and claimed it wasn't Anton who said the words but his ghost. Since then, Nicola has been hounded by spiritualists promising closure. In the hopes of stopping her downward spiral, friends and family find a reputable medium for a séance and rent the Lake Erie beach house that Anton's family once owned. The medium barely has time to begin his work before things start happening. Nicola is haunted by nightmares of her past, because, unbeknownst to the others, this isn't her first time contacting the dead.
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Horror Movie
by Paul Tremblay
The only surviving cast member of a cursed 1990s art house horror flick titled Horror Movie finds himself involved with the reboot -- but will he make it out alive the second time around? Paul Tremblay's slow-burn love letter to horror films includes sections of Horror Movie's screenplay. Try this next: Mister Magic by Kiersten White; How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive by Craig DiLouie.
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