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Hildur Knútsdóttir''s The Night Guest is an eerie and ensnaring story set in contemporary Reykjavík that's sure to keep you awake at night.Iðunn is in yet another doctor''s office. She knows her constant fatigue is a sign that something''s not right, but practitioners dismiss her symptoms and blood tests haven''t revealed any cause.When she talks to friends and family about it, the refrain is the same have you tried eating better? exercising more? establishing a nighttime routine? She tries to follow their advice, buying everything from vitamins to sleeping pills to a step-counting watch. Nothing helps.Until one night Iðunn falls asleep with the watch on, and wakes up to find she's walked over 40,000 steps in the night . . .What is happening when she's asleep? Why is she waking up with increasingly disturbing injuries? And why won't anyone believe her?

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A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! A Bram Stoker Award Nominee!A terrifying Gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father''s love, Johnny Compton''s The Spite House is a stunning debut by a horror master in the makingThe Babadook meets A Head Full of Ghosts in Texas Hill Country.Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. When he comes across an ad for a caretaker for the Masson House, Eric hopes they have finally caught a lucky break. The owner of the most haunted place in Texas is looking for proof of paranormal activity. All they need to do is stay in the house and keep a detailed record of everything that happens thereprovided the house's horrors don't drive them all mad, like the caretakers before them.The job calls to Eric, not just because of the huge payout, but because he needs access to the secrets of the spite house. If

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The Last of Us meets Bird Box in Sunny Moraine''s Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage.ONE LOOK CAN KILL.Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive.But when a new neighbor moves in down the road, Riley's overwhelming need for human contact makes her throw caution to the wind. Somehow, in this world where other people can mean a gruesome, bloody death, Ellis makes her feel safe. As they grow closer, Riley's grip on reality begins to slip and she can no longer fight her deepest desires.All Riley wants to do is look.A refreshingly original take on dystopian fiction, Moraine''s latest is as haunting as it is thought provoking. Booklist (STARRED review)

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Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology.USA Today BestsellerBest Horror Books of 2024 (so far)EsquireMost Anticipated Books of 2024GoodreadsAnna has two rules for the annual Pace family destination vacations: Tread lightly and survive.It isn't easy when she's the only one in the family who doesn't quite fit in. Her twin brother, Benny, goes with the flow so much he's practically dissolved, and her older sister, Nicole, is so used to everyoneincluding her blandly docile husband and two kidsfalling in line that Anna often ends up in trouble for simply asking a question. Mom seizes every opportunity to question her life choices, and Dad, when not reminding every

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Evil in Me is bestselling author Brom''s newest novel of possession, damnation, and rock ''n'' roll, where one woman must get the world singing in order to save her soul.This devilish tale includes nearly two dozen of Brom's immersive paintings and brilliant endpapersAspiring musician Ruby Tucker has had enough of her small rural town and dysfunctional family. But a falling out with her best friend and bandmate has killed her dreams of escaping and making it big in the Atlanta punk scene.While helping her eccentric neighbor organize his religious artifacts, an ancient ring clamps down on her fingerpossessing her with the spirit of a blood-thirsty demon. There's no exorcizing it unless hundreds of people chant a spell to set Ruby free. And what's worse, the ring is a beacon for evil, drawing an unimaginably wicked mob straight to Ruby, hungry for her flesh. If Ruby can get her band back together, she has a shot at salvation. It''s

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This World is Not Yours by USA Today bestseller Kemi Ashing-Giwa is the perfect blend of S.A. Barnes'' space horror and Cassandra Khaw''s beautiful but macabre worlds. An action-packed, inventive novella about a toxic polycule consumed by jealousy and their attempts to survive on a hostile planet.After fleeing her controlling and murderous family with her fiancée Vinh, Amara embarks on a colonization project, New Belaforme, along with her childhood friend, Jesse.The planet, beautiful and lethal, produces the Gray, a self-cleaning mechanism that New Belaforme's scientists are certain only attacks invasive organisms, consuming them. Humans have been careful to do nothing to call attention to themselves until a rival colony wakes the Gray.As Amara, Vinh, and Jesse work to carve out a new life together, each is haunted by past betrayals that surface, expounded by the need to survive the rival colony and the planet itself.There's more

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Relentlessly creepy and fantastically atmospheric...Ghost Station is space horror at its best.The New York TimesA crew must try to survive on an ancient, abandoned planet in the latest space horror novel from S.A. Barnes, acclaimed author of Dead Silence.An abandoned planet. A hidden past. A deadly danger.Psychologist Dr. Ophelia Bray has dedicated her life to the study and prevention of Eckhart-Reiser syndrome (ERS)the most famous case of which resulted in the brutal murders of twenty-nine people. It's personal to her, and when she's assigned to a small exploration crew who recently suffered the tragic death of a colleague, she wants to help. But as they begin to establish residency on an abandoned planet, it becomes clear that the crew is hiding something. And Ophelia's crewmates are far more interested in investigating the eerie, ancient planet and unraveling the mystery behind the previous colonizers' hasty departure th

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A Best Horror Book of the Year (Esquire)! A Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout.It was supposed to be the perfect summer.Carmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance for them to connect with their roots.Then, an accident at the worksite unearths a stash of rare, centuries-old artifacts. The disaster costs Carmen her job, cutting the family trip short.But something malevolent and unexplainable follows them home to New York, stalking the Sanchez family and heralding a coming catastrophe. And it may already be too late to escape what's been awakenedThey were worshiped by our ancestors.Now they are forgotten.

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