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Dust Bath Revival

Dust Bath Revival

by Marianne Kirby

Paperback,

16-year-old Henrietta Goodness — Hank to all that know her — has heard all the stories about how the Dust made the dead rise. She's heard about how life changed.

But that was a long time ago, and Hank is ready for another normal dry and dusty Florida summer— that's the plan, at least, until an itinerant tent revival rolls in, with one of the risen dead in a cage.

  • In 'Dust Bath Revival,' The True Fantasy Is A World Without Shame
Leena Krohn: The Collected Fiction

Leena Krohn: The Collected Fiction

by Leena Krohn

Hardcover, 834

Collects stories, novels and appreciations of a legendary Finnish speculative fiction author — including several never-before-published English translations.

  • Finnish Authors Heat Up The Speculative Fiction World
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Vermilion

A Novel

by Molly Tanzer

Paperback, 386

Gun-slinging, chain-smoking Lou Meriwether is a psychopomp, tasked with guiding spirits who've lost their way. Author Molly Tanzer sets Lou's adventures against a gritty, spooky alternate version of the Wild West, full of villains alive and undead.

  • NPR's Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2015's Great Reads
  • 'Vermilion' Finds New Magic In The Old West
We Are For the Dark

We Are For The Dark

by Robert Aickman and Elizabeth Jane Howard

Hardcover, 258

The 1951 debut of "strange stories" master Robert Aickman, co-written with novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard. Contains six stories: "The Trains," "The View" and "The Insufficient Answer" are by Aickman, while "Three Miles Up," "Left Luggage" and "Perfect Love" are by Howard.

  • 'New Strange' Stories Hold A Chilling Mirror To Life
The Shining Girls

The Shining Girls

by Lauren Beukes

Hardcover, 375 pages

The sole survivor of a time-traveling serial killer who began his murder spree in Depression-era Chicago tries to hunt him down in 1989 along with help from an ex-homicide reporter.

  • NPR's Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2013's Great Reads
  • Secrets Of The Universe: 5 Great SF And Fantasy Summer Reads
  • Reader Advisory: 'Shining Girls' Is Gruesome But Gripping
Joyland

Joyland

by Stephen King

Paperback, 288

In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

  • Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared
Breed

Breed

by Scott Spencer and Chase Novak

Hardcover, 320 pages

A couple obsessed with their infertility travels to Slovenia to have an unusual and painful procedure that results in horrible consequences they manage to hide until their twins, Adam and Alice, turn ten years old and start asking questions.

  • Scary Parents Both Fertile And Feral In 'Breed'
  • 'Breed': A Pseudonym To Pen A Tale Of Horror
  • Exclusive First Read: Black-Comic Horror In 'Breed'
Books of Blood

Books of Blood

Volumes One to Three

by Clive Barker

Paperback, 507 pages

From a power-invested ancient Roman statue that steals souls to long-dead movie stars resurrected to serve the forces of evil, these three collections of short stories combine the extraordinary with the ordinary, to create a nightmarish world of terror and the macabre

  • Slaughter In The Subway: A Tale Of New York Terror
It

It

by Stephen King

Paperback, 1138 pages

It began—and ended—in 1958 when seven desperate children searched in the drains beneath Derry for an evil creature, but in 1985, Mike Hanlon, once one of those children, makes six phone calls and disinters an unremembered promise that sets off the ultim

  • Grotesque Horror Through A Kid-Sized Window
H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft

Tales

by H. P. Lovecraft and Peter Straub

Hardcover, 838 pages

This collection of short stories by H.P. Lovecraft includes "The Outsider," "Cool Air," "Pickman's Model" and "The Dreams in the Witch House."

  • New Volume Collects Lovecraft Tales
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