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October 2024
 

The Haunting of Velkwood
by Gwendolyn Kiste

Three childhood friends miraculously survive the night when everyone in their suburban hometown turns into ghosts.
A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon
by Sarah Hawley

Mariel Spark is prophesied to be the most powerful witch seen in centuries of the famed Spark family, but to the displeasure of her mother, she prefers baking to brewing potions and gardening to casting hexes. When a spell to summon flour goes very wrong, Mariel finds herself staring down a demon--one she inadvertently summoned for a soul bargain. Mariel Spark knows not to trust a demon, especially one that wants her soul, but what's a witch to do when he won't leave her side--and she kind of doesn't want him to?  
Ghost Station
by S. A. Barnes

While part of a small space exploration crew on an abandoned planet, a psychologist confronts a gruesome murder and twisted secrets as she races to prevent history from repeating itself in the form of space-borne madness. 
The Witchstone
by Henry H. Neff

Meet Laszlo, eight-hundred-year-old demon and Hell’s least productive Curse Keeper. From his office beneath Midtown, he oversees the Drakeford Curse, which involves a pathetic family upstate and a mysterious black monolith. It’s a sexy enough assignment—colonial origins, mutating victims, et cetera—but Laszlo has no interest in maximizing the curse’s potential; he’d rather sunbathe in Ibiza, quaff martinis, and hustle the hustlers on Manhattan’s subway. Unfortunately, his division has new management, and Laszlo’s ratings are so abysmal that he’s given six days to shape up or he’ll be melted down and returned to the Primordial Ooze
All Hallows
by Christopher Golden

On Halloween night in 1984 Coventry, Massachusetts, four children in vintage costumes with faded, eerie makeup blend in with the neighborhood kids trick-or-treating, begging to be hidden and kept safe from The Cunning Man. 
Happy Medium
by Sarah Adler

Gretchen Acorn, a fake spirit medium, is hired to cleanse a skeptical goat farmer's property where she is shocked to find herself face-to-face with a very real ghost who wants to help the landowners avoid a long-standing curse. Original.
A Haunting on the Hill
by Elizabeth Hand

After receiving a grant to develop her play, a struggling playwright seeks a remote getaway upstate to complete her work and stumbles upon Hill House, the enormous, old, eerie house from the story created by Shirley Jackson. 
Hour of the Witch
by Chris Bohjalian

A resourceful Puritan woman in 1662 Boston plots to escape a violent marriage only to find herself targeted by her disapproving and superstitious neighbors for failing to save a child's life. 
The Ghost Illusion
by Kat Martin

After inheriting an old Victorian house in Sunderland, England, American psychologist Eve St. Clair, as the lines between life and death, reality and perception blur, hires Ransom King and his handpicked team of parapsychology investigators to truly banish her night terrors.
The Witches of Bellinas : A Novel
by J. Nicole Jones

The newest arrivals in Bellinas, a reclusive, creative community along the coast of northern California run by her husband's cousin, a famous model, Tansy grows more and more suspicious of Bellinas and increasingly desperate to save her already-fragile marriage, wanting to believe in what may only be a beautiful lie.

How to Sell a Haunted House
by Grady Hendrix

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, and she doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.
 
Most of all, she doesn’t want to deal with her brother, Mark, who never left their hometown, resents her success, and is habitually unemployed. Unfortunately, she’ll need his help to get the jam-packed house ready for sale 
 
But some houses don’t want to be sold, and their home has other plans for both of them…
Haunted Ever After
by Jen DeLuca

In the ghostly town of Boneyard Key, coffee shop owner Nick Royer and new resident Cassie Rutherford bond over shared haunted experiences and growing attraction as they navigate the spooky quirks of her historic, clearly haunted cottage. Original.
Island Witch
by Amanda Jayatissa

Amara, the daughter of a 19th century Sri Lankan village's demon-priest is accused of witchcraft and must clear her and her father's names after someone or something begins mysteriously attacking men in the jungle.


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