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Apparitions
By Adam Pottle, Marissa Van Uden. 2023
"An intensely unsettling read." -David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED XVIOLENCE WAS HIS FIRST LANGUAGE. After years…
of imprisonment, a Deaf teen escapes his father's basement. Bloody, alone, and without language, he stumbles through the Saskatchewan prairie until he lands in an isolated psychiatric facility, where he meets Felix, another Deaf teen, who eagerly teaches him Sign Language. As the two grow closer, the ambitious and cunning Felix begins to see his pupil less like an individual and more like a mind that he can mold in his own image, and as his ego grows, his plans to break free from the facility become increasingly more dangerous.Told entirely from a Deaf perspective, Apparitions is a powerful story like no other. With prose compared to Cormac McCarthy and Jack Ketchum, this is horror literature at its finest.Cold: A Novel
By Drew Hayden Taylor. 2024
INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLERA tragic plane crash that leaves two women stranded and fighting for their lives kicks off this sweeping…
and hilarious novel from award-winning writer Drew Hayden Taylor that blends thriller, murder mystery, and horror with humour and spectacle.Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders, with clues that conspicuously lead her to both Elmore and Paul. And then there's Fabiola Halan, former journalist-turned-author and famed survivor of a plane crash that sparked a nationwide tour promoting her book. What starts off as a series of subtle connections between isolated characters quickly takes a menacing turn, as it becomes increasingly clear that someone—or something—is hunting them all.Taking tropes from the murder mystery, police procedural, thriller, and horror genres, Drew Hayden Taylor weaves a pulse-pounding and propulsive narrative with an intricate cast of characters, while never losing the ability to make you laugh.A Bucket of Stars
By Suri Rosen. 2023
A story of two kids trying to save the world they know and heal the families they have.It’s the summer…
of 2003 and thirteen-year-old astronomer Noah Cooper has just moved to Queensport, a small town with a vast amateur sky full of stars. There he meets Tara Dhillon, a lonely girl and aspiring filmmaker. When the two team up to produce an astronomy movie and enter a film contest, they discover a secret plan to turn their rural hamlet into a huge subdivision.Noah and Tara must use their unique skills to identify the culprits who plan on paving over the historic county — and try to save the infinite beauty of the stars. As if that’s not enough to have at stake, Noah needs to win the prize money to buy a new telescope for his unemployed father — an ex-astronomer who’s almost given up on the stars, as well as life on earth.Touching on themes of activism, environmental anxiety and mental health, A Bucket of Stars will have readers cheering for Noah, a boy whose head is in the stars, and Tara, a girl who lives in a world of digital images — and their special bond that just might mend the world around them.Version Control (The Reckoner Rises #2)
By David Robertson. 2022
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the image descriptions, which are included in the body and narration of the text. "With Cole barely clinging to life, Eva fearlessly takes the lead to investigate Mihko's horrific experiments. But where's Brady? After learning that Mihko reinstated the Reckoner Initiative, Cole and Eva confront Mihko head-on. But a vicious battle with Mihko's newest test subject leaves Cole close to death, and Eva must continue their investigation without him. With Brady missing and Cole in recovery, Eva is on her own. When Eva stumbles across Mihko's secret laboratory, she finds her worst nightmares come to life. What new terrors has Mihko created? And can Eva find Brady before it's too late?"--Back coverBreakdown (The Reckoner Rises #1)
By David Robertson. 2020
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the image descriptions, which are included in the body and narration of the text. Acclaimed writer, David A. Robertson, delivers suspense, adventure, and humour in this stunningly illustrated graphic novel continuation of The Reckoner trilogy. Cole and Eva arrive in Winnipeg intent on destroying Mihko Laboratories. Their plans change when a new threat surfaces, and Cole has terrifying visions. Are these just troubled dreams or are they leading him to a terrifying truth? Will Eva be able to harness her powers to continue the investigation without him?Night-Gaunts: and Other Tales of Suspense
By Joyce Carol Oates. 2018
Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: &“Oates&’ spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.&”―Booklist In the…
title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing all their secret tastes and poisons than Oates herself—as demonstrated in these six stories. One tale opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper&’s Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In &“The Long-Legged Girl,&” an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgwood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband&’s latest conquest? In &“The Sign of the Beast,&” when a former Sunday school teacher&’s corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder—but is he really responsible? And another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in &“Night-Gaunts,&” a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft. &“Consummately well-written, stylistically dashing...forthrightly nightmarish.&”―Kirkus ReviewsB.P.R.D. Omnibus Volume 8
By Chris Roberson, Mike Mignola, John Arcudi. 2023
The B.P.R.D. continues to lead the defense against the apocalyptic Ogdru Hem from Japan to America, as the team splits…
up and Kate is possessed.Howards and a team of agents find themselves attempting to liberate a small town that holds secrets from Howard's Hyperborean past.Elsewhere, B.P.R.D. field agent Ashley Strode attempts to purge a demon from a 100-year-old exorcist, setting her on a path to battling a demon who is kidnapping and eating children.Inferno: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural
By Pat Cadigan, Lucius Shepard, K. W. Jeter, Christopher Fowler, Joyce Carol Oates, P. D. Cacek, Jeffrey Ford, Elizabeth Bear, Terry Dowling, Stephen Gallagher, John Grant, Laird Barron, Nathan Ballingrud, Conrad Williams, Mark Samuels, Glen Hirshberg, Lee Thomas, Paul Finch, Simon Bestwick, Mike O'Driscoll. 2007
This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear. To create this…
volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would &“provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of fear so palpable that the reader feels impelled to turn up the lights very bright and play music or seek the company of others to dispel the fear.&” Mission accomplished. The resulting collection draws together some of the most powerful voices in the field: Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard, to name a few. Each author approaches fear in a different way, but all of the stories&’ characters toil within their own hell.Winner of the 2008 World Fantasy Award, International Horror Guild Award, and Shirley Jackson Award for Best Anthology.Little Deaths: 22 Tales of Horror and Sex
By Douglas Clegg, Pat Cadigan, Barry N. Malzberg, Lucius Shepard, K. W. Jeter, Nicola Griffith, Joyce Carol Oates, M. John Harrison, Kelley Eskridge, Kathe Koja, Melanie Tem, Harry Crews, Stephen Dedman, Richard Christian Matheson, Nicholas Royle, Lucy Taylor, Joel Lane, Jack Womack, J. Calvin Pierce, Sarah Clemens, Wayne Allen Sallee. 1994
A World Fantasy Award–winning anthology of erotic horror stories, including dark tales of desire by Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen Dedman,…
Harry Crews, and others. The title of this acclaimed anthology comes from the French term &“la petite mort,&” a seventeenth-century euphemism for orgasm. It was thought that part of a man&’s life-force was drained from him each time he climaxed. In Little Deaths, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow collects twenty-two stories that explore the connection between sex and death. These stories range from the erotic to the psychological, all against a backdrop of horror. Authors include Lucy Taylor, Nicola Griffith, Kathe Koja, Richard Christian Matheson, Lucius Shepard, and many more.The Dark: Ghost Stories
By Tanith Lee, Lucius Shepard, Charles L. Grant, Joyce Carol Oates, Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Ford, Kelly Link, Daniel Abraham, Kathe Koja, Terry Dowling, Stephen Gallagher, Jack Cady, Glen Hirshberg, Sharyn McCrumb, Gahan Wilson, Mike O'Driscoll. 2014
This award-winning horror anthology is the &“yardstick by which future ghost fiction will be measured&”—featuring Tanith Lee, Joyce Carol Oates,…
and others (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Award-winning anthologist Ellen Datlow—praised by William Gibson as &“the genre&’s sharpest assembler of strange, dark fictions&”—is determined to prove that ghost stories still possess the power to chill modern readers to the marrow. So she reached out to a list of varied and talented authors and invited them to scare the heck out of her. The resulting anthology redefines the ghost story, venturing beyond the accustomed tropes and into horror&’s true realm: the unknown. The Dark takes a nuanced and disquieting look at the tormented and unquiet dead; the darkness in us, the living; and the sometimes tenuous boundary between the two. Under the covers of The Dark, you will find a gathering of sixteen unique ghost stories, deftly penned by authors versed in the argot of the damned, including Ramsey Campbell, Jeffrey Ford, Glen Hirshberg, Kelly Link, Sharyn McCrumb, Lucius Shepard, and Gahan Wilson. This is the stuff nightmares are made of.Winner of the International Horror Guild Award for Best Anthology of the YearFire (Fog, Snow, and Fire #3)
By Caroline B. Cooney. 1990
A Maine teenager fights to escape the clutches of her evil guardians once and for all in the thrilling conclusion…
of this spooky trilogy. In just eighteen days the semester will be over, freeing Christina and her friends from the terrible Schooner Inne and the Shevvingtons, their creepy hosts during the school year. They&’ll leave the mainland for the safety of Burning Fog Isle for the summer—and since the Shevvingtons may be moving out of town next year, the island kids could be free of them forever. But then Christina begins sleepwalking, and doing odd things like leaving lit candles around the house, carrying around pockets full of matches, and doodling flames into her textbooks—or so claim the Shevvingtons. Can Christina survive their insane tricks until the school year ends? Or will they use all eighteen days to make Christina&’s life a living—and fiery—hell? No matter how hard you try, there&’s no escaping this addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Face on the Milk Carton. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Caroline B. Cooney including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.Witch Twins and the Ghost of Glenn Bly (Witch Twins #4)
By Adele Griffin. 2004
Can the witch twins rid Glenn Bly castle of its terrifying ghost?Claire and Luna Bundkin are thrilled when they find…
out their grandparents have been invited to an all-seniors golf tournament in Scotland, and they want the twins to come along. Claire and Luna can&’t wait to set eyes on a real Scottish castle, with horses, armor, and tea at four o&’clock. But this castle offers one amenity they weren&’t expecting—a ghost! Claire, Luna, and their grandmother are all witches, and Grandy is better at popping ghosts than any other five-star witch. Claire and Luna may only be one-and-a-half-star witches, but they&’re about to get a tutorial in ghost-busting that they&’ll never forget. This ebook features a personal history by Adele Griffin including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s own collection.A beautiful ghost appears to a troubled teen and shows her the heartbreaking secrets of her family&’s past Fifteen-year-old Teresa has…
fallen in love—with a ghost. The handsome man that she&’s passed on the street a few times captures her attention, and she thinks he notices her too. But when the man suddenly appears inside her home, hovering in the air and passing through solid furniture, Teresa realizes this isn&’t going to be a typical crush. The ghost is Brother Rush, a man tied to Teresa&’s past, who has come to show her the ways her life has special meaning, and that her problems at school and at home are not what they seem.The Drifter
By Richie Tankersley Cusick. 1994
A girl and her mother try to make a new home in a house with a chilling pastThough Carolyn&’s mother…
never expected to inherit Glanton House from long-lost Aunt Hazel, she wants to make the most of the opportunity. Planning to turn the creaky waterfront mansion into a hotel, she moves Carolyn down to the seashore. But this house has a nightmarish history. As the story goes, Captain Glanton spent so long at sea that his wife, believing him dead, took a new lover. When her husband finally returned, her new love—a mysterious drifter—brutally murdered him, and she went mad with grief. It is said her ghost still haunts Glanton House, awaiting her husband&’s return. Carolyn is terrified: Are the strange stains that cover the attic walls the marks of a ghost? And who is Joss Whitcomb, the icy-palmed handyman who wants a job at the new hotel? And why is no one sure what actually happened to Aunt Hazel? The answers to Carolyn&’s questions lie in the sea, and in its chilling siren song.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Richie Tankersley Cusick including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.My Soul to Keep: My Soul To Keep My Soul To Steal Reaper (Soul Screamers #3)
By Rachel Vincent. 2010
Kaylee has one addiction: her very hot, very popular boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no…
one else. Nothing can come between them.Until something does.Demon breath. No, not the toothpaste-challenged kind. The Netherworld kind. The kind that really can kill you. Somehow the super-addictive substance has made its way to the human world. But how? Kaylee and Nash have to cut off the source and protect their friends—one of whom is already hooked.And so is someone else…Relatos de la noche
By Uriel Reyes. 2023
¿TE ATREVES A LEERLAS A SOLAS? ¿Es más punzante el sonido que el silencio? En estas páginas, Uriel Reyes ha…
vertido relatos escalofriantes en los que la noche se presenta afilada y solitaria. Esa noche cae como un pesado cuchillo sobre la realidad que abre una grieta hacia lo paranormal. El rechinar de una puerta, un cristal roto, una voz distorsionada… con la puesta del sol, estas cosas sufren una metamorfosis literal y metafórica que nos empujan hacia un miedo sofocante. Estos son sucesos que uno quisiera contar a susurros, como para no invocaralgo terrible. Las historias de estas páginas carecen de explicaciones y, sin duda alguna, desearás que nunca te ocurran a ti. “PREPÁRATE PARA EMBARCAR EN UN VIAJE A TRAVÉS DE LAS SOMBRAS, DONDE CADA HISTORIA SE CONVIERTE EN UN ESPEJO QUE REFLEJA NUESTROS MIEDOS Y ANHELOS MÁS PROFUNDOS.”-ANDRÉS VARGAS “RUZO”There&’s trouble brewing of mythic proportions, making the residents of Kersville go mer-mad, in this sixteenth adventure in the Desmond…
Cole Ghost Patrol series!Something is fishy at the Kersville Aquarium and it&’s not just the fish. Okay, it is the fish, but there&’s a bigger mystery lurking in the water. It&’s slimy. It&’s sneaky. And it sings an eerie song so strong that no one ever escapes! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.The Show Must Demon! (Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #18)
By Andres Miedoso. 2023
A demon takes the stage in this eighteenth spooky adventure in the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series!What&’s worse than dealing…
with a demon? Being onstage in a school play with one in front of a live audience! Join Desmond and Andres as they act their way through the most cursed school play ever. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on every page, the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.Never a Doll Moment (Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol #19)
By Andres Miedoso. 2023
You&’re never too old to play with dolls in this nineteenth spooky adventure in the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol series!A…
slumber party at Grandma Cole&’s house turns into a never-sleep-again party, and it&’s not because of all the sugar and sweets waiting for Andres and Desmond. Nope. Who can get any shut-eye in a house full of haunted dolls? With easy-to-read language and illustrations on every page, the Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol chapter books are perfect for emerging readers.Grumbones
By Jenn Bennett. 2023
Pixar&’s Coco meets Neil Gaiman in this &“terrifically eerie and atmospheric…a skillful mix of scary, sweet, and silly&” (Booklist) middle…
grade novel about a girl whose quest to ensure her deceased grandmother is resting peacefully leads her to the magical and perilous kingdoms of the underworld.Everyone in Whispering Pines knows their town is full of ghosts, but Helena Novak hasn&’t seen a trace of her late grandmother, Babi. Helena and her best friend, Ben, spend most of their free time in the cemetery, yet no amount of gifts on Babi&’s grave has lured her spirit out. But someone else has been paying attention. Helena feels she&’s being followed, and one day, all Babi&’s grave gifts disappear. When Helena and Ben investigate, they find a secret door in a crypt that leads to the underworld itself. The sprawling subterranean world is a maze of eerie kingdoms, piercing castles, creepy forests, swirling seas, and crowded marketplaces full of unsavory characters. While the living can visit, if they get lost—or taken by the mysterious Nightmare—they won&’t be able to leave. Despite the danger, Helena is set on finding her grandmother and seeing for herself that Babi is doing well in this strange place. So when eccentric underworld guide Grumbones offers to help Helena and Ben find their way, they think it&’s their lucky break. Sure, he looks like Santa&’s skinny evil brother and some of the memento mori spilling out of his pockets look awfully familiar, but better a slightly suspicious helper than none at all…right?