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• Lotería

  Pelayo, Cynthia,

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  There are 54 cards in the Lotería game, and for this short story collection you will find one unique story per card based on a Latin American myth, folklore, superstition, or belief--with a slant towards the paranormal and horrific.

• The Hole

  a Novel

  P'yŏn, Hye-yŏng, 1972-

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  A man wakes paralyzed from a car accident that kills his wife. He's taken care of solely by his mother-in-law, who begins to show erratic behavior as she digs up her daughter's prized garden.

• The Only Good Indians

  a Novel

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Peter Straub's 'Ghost Story' meets Liane Moriarty's 'Big Little Lies' in this American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.

• Wonderland

  Hillier, Jennifer,

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  Vanessa Castro's first day as deputy police chief of Seaside, WA, is off to a bang. The unidentifiable homeless man rotting inside the tiny town's main tourist attraction is strange enough, but now a teenage employee--whose defiant picture at the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Missing Season

  French, Gillian,

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  Whenever another kid goes missing in October, the kids in the old factory town of Pender know what is really behind it: a monster out in the marshes that they call the Mumbler.

• The Reformatory

  a Novel

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead.

• The Hunger

  a Novel

  Katsu, Alma,

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  A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. As members of the group begin to disappear, the survivors start to wonder if the evil that has unfolded around them…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beneath the Rising

  Mohamed, Premee,

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  When Johnny invents a clean reactor that could eliminate fossil fuels and change the world, she awakens primal, evil Ancient Ones set on subjugating humanity.

• The Girl From the Well

  Chupeco, Rin,

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  A chilling story of a Japanese ghost looking for vengeance and the possessed boy who has no choice but to trust her.

• As I Descended

  Talley, Robin,

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  Tapping a dark power to prevent the favorite candidate of a distinguished educational prize from winning, school power couple Maria and Lily unleash fatal energies that blur the lines between reality and madness.

• White Is for Witching

  Oyeyemi, Helen

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  When Miranda Silver brings a friend home, her small town's hostility toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house, and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed.

• Frankenstein in Baghdad

  a Novel

  Saʻdāwī, Aḥmad,

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  After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.

• Certain Dark Things

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Here in the city, heavily policed to keep the creatures of the night at bay, Domingo is another trash-picking street kid, just hoping to make enough to survive.

• The Merry Spinster

  Tales of Everyday Horror

  Lavery, Daniel M.,

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  Sinister and inviting, familiar and alien all at the same time, this short story collection twists traditional children's stories and fairy tales with elements of psychological horror, emotional clarity, and a keen sense of feminist mischief.

• To Break a Covenant

  Ames, Alison (Young adult author),

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  The ex-mining town of Moon Basin relies on its haunted reputation to bring in tourists, but there's more truth to the rumors than most are willing to admit, and the mine still has a hold on everyone who lives there.

• Such a Pretty Smile

  DeMeester, Kristi,

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  Known only as The Cur, he leaves no traces, save for the torn bodies of girls, on the verge of becoming women, who are known as trouble-makers.

• The Ballad of Black Tom

  LaValle, Victor, 1972-

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  When he delivers an occult tome to a reclusive sorceress in the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the attention of things best left sleeping.