September 2024 list by Bonnie Bradford
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The Deading
by Nicholas Belardes
If you want to stay, you have to die. Baywood is on a downward spiral, as the seaside town becomes infected by a mysterious ocean-borne contagion.
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The Drowning House
by Cherie Priest
A violent storm washes a mysterious house onto a rural Pacific Northwest beach, stopping the heart of the only woman who knows what it means. Melissa and Leo will have to put aside old grudges if they want to learn about the sinister house on the beach, the man who built it, and the evil he's bringing back to Marrowstone Island.
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Ghost Camera
by Darcy Coates
When Jenine finds an abandoned polaroid camera, she playfully snaps a photo without a second thought. But there's something wrong with the image: a ghostly figure stands in the background, watching her. Fixated on her. Moving one step closer with every picture she takes.
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Heads Will Roll
by Josh Winning
After sitcom star Willow drunkenly tweets herself into infamy, her agent ships her off to Camp Castaway. Nestled deep in upstate New York, Castaway is a summer camp for adults who are desperate to leave their mistakes behind. No real names, no phones...no way to call for help.
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I Was a Teenage Slasher
by Stephen Graham Jones
A good kid in a small Texas town in 1989 finds himself cursed to kill for revenge in true slasher film-style. Find yourself rooting for a killer in this summer teen movie of a novel gone full blood-curdling tragic.
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Midnight Rooms
by Donyae Coles
England, 1840. Orabella Mumthrope, the orphaned daughter of a white man and a Black woman, never expected to marry. But her uncle has many debts, and Orabella, curious about devoted Elias Blakersby, agrees. The new bride is whisked away to Korringhill Manor, and the darkness deep within this house.
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No Road Home
by John Fram
Recently joining a televangelist's world of religion, wealth, and hate, in-law Toby is suddenly suspected or murder. But when his son starts describing a spectral figure in a black suit lurking around the house, Toby realizes this family has more than murderer to conceal—and to fear.
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Pink Slime
by Fernanda Trías
An algae bloom has poisoned the air. A secretive corporation churns out the only food anyone can afford—a revolting pink paste, made of an unknown substance. Our narrator stubbornly tends to her few remaining relationships. Yet as conditions outside deteriorate further, her commitment to remaining in place grows—even if staying means being left behind.
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Shadowland
by Peter Straub
Come back. To a dark house deep in the Vermont woods, where two friends are spending a season of horror, apprenticed to a Master Magician. Learning secrets best left unlearned. Entering a world of incalculable evil more ancient than death itself. More terrifying. And more real. Only one of them will make it through.
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Smothermoss
by Alisa Alering
In 1980s Appalachia, when the brutal murder of two hikers stuns their small community, sisters Sheila and Angie are plagued by menacing, unexplained forces and must trust each other to stop the darkness from consuming their home—and them.
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Wilderness Reform
by Matt Query and Harrison Query
Thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to a remote reform program for troubled teens by a juvenile court judge. But when he arrives at the camp, he immediately recognizes that there is something wrong. The other boys in his cabin have certain skills, which could help them unearth what is really going on in this place—and how to make it out alive.
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