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• Jackal

  a Novel

  Adams, Erin E.,

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  As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of the predominantly white, Rust Belt town in Pennsylvania where she grew up, but she reluctantly agrees to return for her best friend’s wedding. During the reception, the bride’s daughter…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Grey Dog

  Gish, Elliott,

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  1901: Ada Byrd — spinster, schoolmarm, amateur naturalist — accepts a teaching post in isolated Lowry Bridge, grateful to live where no one knows her secrets. Soon, Ada realizes that something beastly lives in the heart of Lowry Bridge, and it both…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Gathering

  a Novel

  Tudor, C. J.,

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  When a boy is found with all the blood drained from his body, Detective Barbara Atkins must determine if a member of the Colony, an ostracized community of vampyrs, is responsible, or if she's dealing with a twisted psychopath as she uncovers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hex

  Olde Heuvelt, Thomas, 1983-

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  In an idyllic town similar to others in upstate New York except for the fact Black Spring is home to the ghost of Katherine van Wyler, an alleged witch who was tortured and hanged in the 1600s. Eyes and lips sewn shut, she visits the town's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Mouth

  Malfi, Ronald Damien,

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  Jamie Warren, his estranged brother, and their childhood friends are drawn back to their hometown to confront their memories of a strange man who taught them strange magic that led to a terrible act that still haunts them.

• American Elsewhere

  Bennett, Robert Jackson, 1984-

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  An ex-cop inherits her mother's home in Wink, New Mexico, and discovers that the residents of the small, quiet town are even stranger than she had imagined.

• Bad Cree

  a Novel

  Johns, Jessica,

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  When her sister died, Mackenzie didn’t go home to grieve with her family. Two years later, when Sabrina starts stalking her waking life as well as her with her nightmares, Mackenzie is dragged back to a single night in their shared past and,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Break the Bodies, Haunt the Bones

  Hicks, Micah Dean,

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  Almost everyone in the dying town of Swine Hill is haunted and their relationships with their ghosts are strained at best. But when strange pig-people begin appearing in town, taking the few remaining jobs at the local pork processing plant, people…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Wonder State

  Murphy, Sara Flannery,

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  Five friends arrive back in Eternal Springs, Arkansas, the small town they all fled after high school graduation. Each is drawn home by a cryptic, two-word letter that reads, "You promised." It has been fifteen years since the summer that changed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Book of Accidents

  a Novel

  Wendig, Chuck,

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  Haunted by the tragedies in their pasts, Nate and Maddie Graves move back to their hometown and find themselves at the heart of a battle between good and evil when their son befriends a strange local boy who harbors a fascination with dark magic.

• The Haunting of Velkwood

  Kiste, Gwendolyn,

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  Talitha never really escaped the oppressive suburb she grew up in, despite not living there since the 1980s. Instead, an impossible, inexplicable event caused everything and everyone in Velkwood to vanish, aside from three young women: Brett Hadley,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle

  Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965,

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  A deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the dramatic struggle that ensues when an unexpected visitor interrupts their unusual way of life.

• The Twisted Ones

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  When a young woman clears out her deceased grandmother’s home in rural North Carolina, she finds long-hidden secrets about a strange colony of beings in the woods.

• Universal Harvester

  Darnielle, John,

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  Working for a 1990s small-community video rental store under threat by a major chain competitor, Jeremy is reluctantly drawn into a mystery involving chilling footage of criminal activity that has been recorded onto the store's VHS tapes.

• My Heart Is a Chainsaw

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  Protected by horror movies -- especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them, Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of…Read moreRead more of this annotation