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The locals are strange and secretive, the area is remote, the truth is terrifying. Perfect for the adventerous reader with a dark side.
Little Darlings: A Novel

Melanie Golding
Format: Book

Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they're right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she's never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with...
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The Essex Serpent: A Novel

SARAH PERRY - Custom House
Format: Book

An exquisitely talented young British author makes her American debut with this rapturously acclaimed historical novel, set in late nineteenth-century England, about an intellectually minded young widow, a pious vicar, and a rumored mythical serpent that explores questions about science...
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The Ritual

Adam Nevill - St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback

When four old University friends set off into the Scandinavian wilderness of the Arctic Circle, they aim to briefly escape the problems of their lives and reconnect with one another. But when Luke, the only man still single and living a precarious existence, finds he has little left in common...
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Melmoth: A Novel

SARAH PERRY - Custom House
Format: Hardcover

For centuries, the mysterious dark-robed figure has roamed the globe, searching for those whose complicity and cowardice have fed into the rapids of history's darkest waters - and now, in Sarah Perry's breathtaking follow-up to The Essex Serpent, it is heading in our direction.It has been...
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The Lantern Men

Elly Griffiths - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: Hardcover

Everything has changed for Ruth Galloway. She has a new job, home, and partner, and she is no longer North Norfolk police's resident forensic archaeologist. That is, until convicted murderer Ivor March offers to make DCI Nelson a deal. Nelson was always sure that March killed more women...
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The Whisper Man: A Novel

Alex North
Format: Book

After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town: Featherbank.

But Featherbank has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents....
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Long Lankin

Lindsey Barraclough - Candlewick Press
Format: Book

When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their elderly aunt in the isolated village of Byers Guerdon, they receive a less-than-warm welcome. Auntie Ida is eccentric and rigid, and the girls are desperate to go back to London. But what they don't know is that their...
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The Silent Companions: A Novel

Laura Purcell - Penguin Books
Format: Paperback

When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting . . . When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge, she believed she was destined for a life...
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The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones - Gallery / Saga Press
Format: Hardcover

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood...
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Horrorstor: A Novel

Grady Hendrix - Quirk Books
Format: Paperback

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland, Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring bookshelves, shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes. Sales are down, security cameras reveal nothing, and store managers are panicking....
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The Devil Crept In

Ania Ahlborn - Gallery Books
Format: Print book

An unforgettable horror novel from bestselling sensation Ania Ahlborn - hailed as a writer of "some of the most promising horror I've encountered in years" (New York Times bestselling author Seanan McGuire) - in which a small-town boy investigates the mysterious disappearance...
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