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I hunt killers
by Barry Lyga
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad" but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
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Unsub : a novel
by Meg Gardiner
A psychological thriller inspired by the unsolved case of the Zodiac Killer follows the efforts of a young detective who resolves to apprehend the serial murderer who destroyed her family and terrorized a city 20 years earlier. By the Edgar Award-winning author of China Lake.
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The only good Indians : a novel
by Stephen Graham Jones
A novel that blends classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. 50,000 first printing.
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Full throttle : stories
by Joe Hill
The best-selling author of Strange Weather presents 13 short stories of supernatural suspense, including “Throttle,” co-written by Stephen King, in which a trucker is caught in a sinister dance with motorcycle outlaws in the Nevada desert.
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The fireman : a novel
by Joe Hill
When a bizarre virulent plague breaks out throughout the world's major cities, causing victims to spontaneously combust, a dedicated nurse resolves to survive until her baby is born and receives protection from a mysterious infected man who uses his fire symptoms to help others.
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My lovely wife
by Samantha Downing
A seemingly typical suburban husband discloses the secret ways that his wife of 15 years and he keep their marriage alive and chase away domestic boredom by orchestrating creative ways to get away with murder.
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The bunker diary
by Kevin Brooks
Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and torturedby their unseen captor
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Normal
by Graeme Cameron
A seemingly mild-mannered, neighborly man who kidnaps young women and holds them in a cage in his basement meets a grocery store checkout girl who becomes his ultimate target before he intends to cease his violent activities.
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A world without you
by Beth Revis
A teen boy suffering from the delusion that he can travel through time becomes obsessed with saving his girlfriend, a depressed girl with a tragic past and the superpower of invisibility. By the best-selling author of the Across the Universe series.
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The girl with all the gifts
by Mike Carey
A little girl who is detained by the military, restrained in a wheelchair and goes to school while heavily guarded doesn't truly understand why she is special until it is up to her to save the world.
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Rotters
by Daniel Kraus
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
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Beautiful Darkness
by Fabien Vehlmann
Kerascoët’s and Fabien Vehlmann’s unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët’s delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy take over. Beautiful Darkness is a harrowing look behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society.
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The troop
by Nick Cutter
Leading a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a traditional weekend camping trip, scoutmaster Tim Riggs encounters a disturbing, voraciously hungry intruder in the woods who infects the troop with a bioengineered disease.
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A noise downstairs : a novel
by Linwood Barclay
Battling PTSD and depression after an accidental stumble into a murder scene, a college professor begins writing his novel on a vintage typewriter that he comes to believe is possessed and somehow linked to the crime he survived.
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I remember you : a ghost story
by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords, three friends set to work renovating a rundown house. But soon, they realize they are not as alone as they thought. Something wants them to leave, and it's making its presence felt. Meanwhile, in a town across the fjord, a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son. When the two stories collide, the terrifying truth is uncovered.
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Baby teeth
by Zoje Stage
An ailing woman fights to protect her family from her mute daughter's psychologically manipulative schemes, which are complicated by her doting husband's denial about their daughter's true nature.
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Little darlings
by Melanie Golding
Discounted by everyone when after the traumatizing birth of her twins she is threatened by a mysterious being, an exhausted mother risks the unthinkable when she becomes convinced that her infants have been replaced by changelings.
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Let the right one in
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
In the aftermath of the bizarre murder of a local bully, twelve-year-old Oskar theorizes that the killing was an act of revenge and wonders about the nighttime activities of a new next-door neighbor.
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Six scary stories
by Elodie Harper
Number 1 best-selling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology. Reader beware: the stories will make you think twice before cuddling up to your old soft toy, dipping your toe into the water or counting the spots on a leopard.
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The devil in silver : a novel
by Victor D. LaValle
Landing in a budget-strapped mental institution after being accused of a crime he does not remember, self-proclaimed hero Pepper is assaulted by a monstrous creature that has been attacking patients but that the hospital staff does not believe exists, a situation that compels Pepper to rally three fellow inmates in a fight for survival.
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We have always lived in the castle
by Shirley Jackson
My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise, I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cap mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead...
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