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After Midnight : Thirteen Tales for the Dark Hours
by Daphne Du Maurier
This chilling collection showcases Daphne du Maurier's masterful gothic storytelling, featuring iconic tales like“The Birds” and“Don't Look Now” alongside lesser-known gems that explore obsession, madness and the eerie depths of human nature.
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We are always tender with our dead
by Eric LaRocca
After three faceless intruders commit unspeakable violence on Christmas morning, the haunted residents of Burnt Sparrow, New Hampshire—especially teenage Rupert Cromwell—must reckon with grief, family fracture, and the disturbing realization that vengeance offers no salvation from the town's deepening horror.
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Exiles : a novel
by Mason Coile
When a Mars colony mission arrives to find its setup crew of robots fractured and one missing, the astronauts must unravel conflicting accounts of what happened, in the new novel by the author of William.
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The Midnight Shift : The Korean Bestselling Cult Novel
by Seon-ran Cheon
When a string of suspicious deaths at a hospital is dismissed as coincidence, determined officer Su-Yeon investigates alone, uncovering unsettling clues and joining forces with a vampire hunter who believes a supernatural predator is targeting the building's most vulnerable residents.
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Acquired Taste
by Clay McLeod Chapman
This chilling collection of 25 darkly witty stories explores addiction, paranoia, and cultural rot, from a Vietnam vet with a monstrous hunger to a haunted news network, offering a terrifying, timely glimpse into the horrors beneath everyday life.
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Fiend
by Alma Katsu
"Historical horror maven Alma Katsu turns her talents to the modern world for the first time, in this terrifying tale about an all-powerful family with an ancient evil under its thumb. Imagine if the Sackler family had a demon at their beck and call. TheBerisha family runs one of the largest import-export companies in the world, and they've always been lucky. Their rivals suffer strokes. Inconvenient buildings catch on fire. Earthquakes swallow up manufacturing plants, destroying harmful evidence. Things always seem to work out for the Berishas. They're blessed. At least that is what Zef, the patriarch, has always told his three children. And each of them knows their place in the family-Dardan, as the only male heir, must prepare to take over as keeper of the Berisha secrets, Maris's most powerful contribution, much to her dismay, will be to marry strategically, and Nora's job, as the youngest, is to just stay out of the way. But when things stop going as planned, and the family blessing starts looking more like a curse, the Berishas begin to splinter, each hatching their own secret scheme. They didn't get to be one of the richest families in the world without spilling a little blood, but this time, it might be their own"
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Good and Evil and Other Stories
by Samanta Schweblin
A haunting collection of tales that explore the fragile line between the ordinary and the uncanny, revealing characters caught in moments of eerie transformation, moral ambiguity and quiet dread that lingers just beneath the surface of everyday life.
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Tantrum
by Rachel Eve Moulton
After giving birth to Lucia, a ravenous, unsettling baby with a devilish glint, Thea struggles with growing dread, resurfacing childhood trauma, and the terrifying possibility that her daughter's monstrous hunger could consume the world around her.
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An Evil Premise
by T. Marie Vandelly
When a bizarre accident leaves her sister, bestselling author Deidre Baldwin, in a coma and suffering from a grotesque skin malady, Jewel rushes to her bedside. Though the sisters are not close, she is determined to do what she can for Deidre. Staying at her sister's apartment, Jewel stumbles upon an unfinished manuscript, the one that Deidre was rushing to complete for her publisher. When Deidre's literary agent calls in a panic, Jewel--a self-published writer herself, desperate for a break--suggests she can finish it by the deadline. But the story is unsettling. It begins with a writer looking for inspiration, who finds an unclaimed manuscript. But said manuscript is just a series of protagonists who feel compelled to act out their heinous contributions to the grisly plot. Jewel is determined not to be scared off, but the novel hits a little close to home. She tries to tell herself she's being paranoid, but swears she can hear someone typing when she's not at the desk, and somehow the word count of the novel keeps going up. Her skin begins to itch. Terrified of losing her sanity, but equally terrified of losing her one shot at success, Jewel tries to find a story somewhere in the carnage, even as her rash becomes worse and she starts to have not-so-neighborly thoughts about her neighbors. Is this what happened to Deidre? Did the manuscript drive her mad? Infect her somehow? Jewel finds herself hoping her sister never wakes up. And fearing what will happen if Deidre does ...
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The end of the world as we know it : new tales of Stephen King's the Stand
by Christopher Golden
Set during and after the events of The Stand, this authorized anthology gathers original stories from acclaimed writers who expand on the novel's apocalyptic world, exploring survival, morality, and human resilience amid civilization's collapse and the uncertain rebuilding that follows.
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Centerville, OH 45459
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