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| Dreamland by Olivie BlakeLooking for an opportunity to break into the film industry, aspiring actress Anya Morris takes a job working as caretaker for Julian “Jude” de Witt, the epileptic adult son of movie star William de Witt. Drawn into a world of opulence and excess, Anya finds herself falling for mysterious Jude. But secrets plague the de Witt household, and Anya begins to suspect the family may be connected to a rash of murders happening throughout Los Angeles.
Fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia will want to check out this menacing modern gothic. |
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Trad Wife
by Sarah Langan
Every day, millions watch Mia Wright, the “trad wife” queen, on her idyllic 300-acre farm. But behind every perfect image is a secret. Desperate to save her tarnished career, journalist Jenny Kaplan arrives at Black Swan Farm to profile Mia, ready to write a scathing exposé. But soon, Jenny has more to contend with than staged videos. There is a horror at the heart of Black Swan, and it’s waiting just for Jenny.
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| Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel HarrisonShaken after a run-in with her ex-fiancé at a mutual friend’s wedding, Willa Sullivan’s night goes from bad to worse when a masked figure kills everyone at the reception. But then Willa wakes up…and discovers she’s re-living the day of the wedding. Stuck in a time loop in which she is killed in increasingly disturbing ways, Willa alone must fight back to unmask the killer and save herself and her friends.
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Driven
by Mason Coile
Jamie Newcross - a man haunted by ghosts in every house, condo, or apartment he moves into - hasn't been able to sleep in weeks. After planning to purchase a highly advanced self-driving car, he wakes up trapped in that same car, speeding down a dark road - and the car will not respond, nor stop, nor let him out.
Mason Coile was a pseudonym of Andrew Pyper, born in Stratford, ON. He passed away in 2025; this is his final book.
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Dive Bar at the End of the Road
by Kelley Armstrong
When five strangers’ car accidents lead them to take shelter in a backwoods dive bar, they start to notice that not everything is as it seems. There’s something in the woods, something that isn't natural - and they'll need to work together to figure out what’s happening if they have any hope of surviving the night.
Kelley Armstrong lives in Alymer, ON.
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In the Woods They Wait
by Carrie Lee South
In this enthralling debut, a park ranger in Devil’s Den becomes obsessed with the case of a missing child - a case that mirrors the disappearance of her own brother, whom she lost in the woods many years ago - and the possibility that both were taken by something vicious and unnatural that lives deep in the Ozarks.
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| Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (editors)This creepy and visceral follow-up to bestselling Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology collects 21 horror stories from established and emerging Indigenous authors, including Stephen Graham Jones, Ramona Emerson, and Tommy Orange. It’s “a rare sequel that is better than its predecessor,” says Library Journal. |
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We Are for the Dark
by Gretchen McNeil
Father Shane Ryan, former FBI analyst, is tasked with an ususual missing persons case by His Eminence Cardinal Jacobs. But after arriving on the remote Newfoundland island to investigate, joined by Constable Miriam Rideout from the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, they soon learn that something about the island isn’t right. Something evil lurks beneath the island - something ancient, eternal, and hungry.
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| Blacktail by Scott HawkinsScott Hawkins’ violent and thought-provoking folk horror/fantasy follow-up to The Library at Mount Char stars Blacktail, an orphaned wolf seeking vengeance against the humans who killed his pack. Feline sorceress Old Kitty Mother aids Blacktail in his quest, tasking him with reuniting the animal world with the sleeping Forest God. |
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Nightjars
by Michael Wehunt
Memento meets Dracula in this heart-thudding, unpredictable, and beautifully crafted novel of a man exposed for crimes he doesn't remember committing, and the monsters that dwell at the heart of us all; from celebrated and critically acclaimed author Michael Wehunt.
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American Nightmare
by Kelly McWilliams
In this haunting adult debut, a light-skinned Black man goes undercover to investigate lynchings in the Jim Crow South, only to be confronted by the very evil that has pursued him since childhood.
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Mazywood
by Tananarive Due
Award-winning author Tananarive Due returns with the follow-up to the multi-award-winning The Reformatory in this generational novel of rage. With flashbacks to Johnny’s grandmother—who brushed shoulders with giants like Lena Horne, Clark Gable, and Hattie McDaniel—this novel explores three generations, beginning with Mazelle Washington’s life as a young actress. Fifty years after Mazelle’s death, Johnny will discover the secret she kept and nurtured since she was a child, when she had a dark wish come true.
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