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Book SynopsisTHE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of New York Times Book Review''s summer reads guaranteed to make your heart thump and your skin crawl; An Amazon Best of the Month Pick; Named a must-read summer book by The Washington Post, USA Today, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNN, New York Post, Good Housekeeping, E!, PopSugar, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and BookRiot.It?s November 1991. Nirvana''s in the tape deck, George H. W. Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it?s guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it?s to help care for his sick father?or so he says. The longer she sits in the passenger seat, the more Charlie notices there?s something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn?t want her to see inside the trunk. As they travel an empty, twisty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly anxious Charlie begins to think she?s sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie?s jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination? One thing is certain?Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots, Charlie knows the only way to win is to survive the night.

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Book SynopsisFrom theNew York Timesbestselling author ofBird BoxandMaloriecomes a haunting tale of love and mystery, as the date of a lifetime becomes a maddening exploration of the depths of the heart.?Malerman expertly conjures a fairy tale nostalgia of first love, and we follow along, all too willingly, ignoring the warning signs even as the fear takes hold.??LitReactorThe story begins: young lovers, anxious to connect, agree to a first date, thinking outside of the box.At seventeen years old, James and Amelia can feel the rest of their lives beginning. They have got this summer and this summer alone to experience the extraordinary.But they didn?t expect to find it in a house at the bottom of a lake.The house is cold and dark, but it?s also their own.Caution be damned, until being carefree becomes dangerous. For the teens must decide: swim deeper into the house?all the while falling deeper in love?Whatever they do, they will never be able to turn their backs on what they discovered together. And what they learned:Just because a house is empty, doesn?t mean nobody?s home.

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Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ? The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation. ?Every piece is strong and memorable, making this not only likely to be the best anthology of the year, but one for the ages.??The GuardianWINNER OF THE BRAM STOKER AWARD AND THE BRITISH FANTASY AWARD ? FINALIST FOR THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD AND THE LOCUS AWARD ? A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Esquire, Chicago Public Library, CrimeReadsA cop begins seeing huge, blinking eyes where the headlights of cars should be that tell him who to pull over. Two freedom riders take a bus ride that leaves them stranded on a lonely road in Alabama where several unsettling somethings await them. A young girl dives into the depths of the Earth in search of the demon that killed her parents. These are just a few of the worlds of Out There Screaming, Jordan Peele?s anthology of all-new horror stories by Black writers. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and?like his spine-chilling films?its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world . . . and redefine what it means to be afraid.Featuring stories by: Erin E. Adams, Violet Allen, Lesley Nneka Arimah, Maurice Broaddus, Chesya Burke, P. Djèlí Clark, Ezra Claytan Daniels, Tananarive Due, Nalo Hopkinson, N. K. Jemisin, Justin C. Key, L. D. Lewis, Nnedi Okorafor, Tochi Onyebuchi, Rebecca Roanhorse, Nicole D. Sconiers, Rion Amilcar Scott, Terence Taylor, and Cadwell Turnbull.

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Book SynopsisAn “ingenious, horrifying” (The Guardian) first contact story by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.”“Few books capture the obscure, elliptical way that threats move from the background to the foreground of reality like The Kraken Wakes. . . . Feels all too familiar in today’s age of anti-vaxxer disinformation and QAnon conspiracists.” —Alexandra Kleeman, from the Introduction What if aliens invaded and colonized Earth’s oceans rather than its land?Britain, 1953: It begins with red dots appearing across the sky and crashing to the oceans’ deeps. At first, many people believe that these aliens are interested in only what’s down below. But when the polar ice-caps begin to melt, it becomes clear that these beings are not interested in sharing the Earth and that humankind might just be on the brink of extinction. . . .

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Book SynopsisA young woman in need of a transformation finds herself in touch with the animal inside in this gripping, incisive novel from the author of Cackle and The Return.Rory Morris isn?t thrilled to be moving back to her hometown, even if it is temporary. There are bad memories there. But her twin sister, Scarlett, is pregnant, estranged from the baby?s father, and needs support, so Rory returns to the place she thought she?d put in her rearview. After a night out at a bar where she runs into Ian, an old almost-flame, she hits a large animal with her car. And when she gets out to investigate, she?s attacked. Rory survives, miraculously, but life begins to look and feel different. She?s unnaturally strong, with an aversion to silver?and suddenly the moon has her in its thrall. She?s changing into someone else?something else, maybe even a monster. But does that mean she?s putting those close to her in danger? Or is embracing the wildness inside of her the key to acceptance? This darkly comedic love story is a brilliantly layered portrait of trauma, rage, and vulnerability.

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Book SynopsisLaurell K. Hamilton has captivated readers with her gritty, seductive tales of vampire hunter Anita Blake for thirty bloody fantastic years. Now, in the thirtieth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series, wedding bells are ringing. But before Anita can make it to the altar, she must face an obstacle more daunting than any supernatural threat.... Necromancer Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: U.S. Marshal?Preternatural Branch. She?s faced horrifying monsters and brutal killers and come out the other side still standing. Considering how things in her life tend to go, Anita never expected her walk down the aisle with Jean-Claude to go smoothly. They?ve already been confronted with naysayers and a power-hungry ancient evil, but now Anita has to do the one thing that actually scares her: introduce her very religious, very human relatives to her fiancé?the newly crowned vampire king of America. As Anita tries to keep the peace between the family she left behind and the family she?s chosen, dark forces jump at the chance to take advantage of the chaos. With her happy-ever-after at risk and everyone?s immortal souls hanging in the balance, Anita grapples with a hard truth: Blood makes you related, but loyalty makes you family.

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