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Riddance: Or: The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers & Hearing-Mouth Children

Shelley Jackson · Black Balloon Publishing
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover

"Shelley Jackson is a writer of such extraordinary, uncanny power that the hair on the back of my neck stands up when I encounter her work. What an exhilarating, prickling, blistering book Riddance is! I made myself read it as slowly as possible in order to stay in as long as I could."...
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Flashback Hotel

Ivan Vladislavic · Archipelago
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback

Collects two volumes of short stories by one of contemporary South Africa's most acclaimed novelists.Ivan Vladislavić's latest collection of short stories exemplifies the sly wit and formal innovation that have gained him international acclaim.
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Fury

Rachel Vincent · MIRA
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback

Magic, fate and hope collide in the stunning conclusion of New York Times bestselling author Rachel Vincent's acclaimed Menagerie trilogy ... 1986: Rebecca Essig leaves a slumber party early but comes home to a massacre - committed by her own parents. Only one of her siblings has survived....
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Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country: and Other Stories

Chavisa Woods · Seven Stories Press
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover

"Chavisa Woods' Things to Do When You're Goth in the Country is part Flannery O'Connor, part Kelly Link: darkly funny and brilliantly human, urgently fantastical and implacably realistic. This is one of the best short story collections I've read in years, and it should...
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Only the Devil is Here

Stephen Michell · ChiZine Publications
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback

"Death knows no reunion."--When six year-old Evan is kidnapped from his foster home, he is dragged into a world of shadows, monsters, and fire. At first, all Evan can think about is how to escape from his violent captor, a man who calls himself Rook; but Evan quickly learns that...
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Nights of the Living Dead: An Anthology

JONATHAN MABERRY · St. Martin's Griffin
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback

In 1968, the world experienced a brand-new kind of terror with the debut of George A. Romero's landmark movie Night of the Living Dead. The newly dead rose to attack the living. Not as vampires or werewolves. This was something new . . . and terrifying. Since then, zombies have invaded...
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Tricks for Free

Seanan McGuire · DAW
Pages: 432
Format: Mass Market Paperback

The seventh book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans.Includes an all-new Aeslin mice novella and a map of Lowryland!Penance,...
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Godfall and Other Stories

Sandra M Odell · Hydra House
Pages: 228
Format: Paperback

In Godfall and Other Stories, writer Sandra M. Odell presents 22 stories that move from riveting to weird to horrifying, exploring dark, dark places of human (and not-so-human) beings. What happens when the gods start falling dead from the sky? Why can't a cactus marry a gila monster?...
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Uncharted

KEVIN J ANDERSON · Baen
Pages: 432
Format: Hardcover

New Alternate History Fantasy series created by New York Times best-selling author Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt.Arcane America A new world. New magic. New history. After Halley's Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event...
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You Die When You Die

ANGUS WATSON · Orbit
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback

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Priest of Bones

Peter McLean · Ace
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

"The first in an unmissable series, Priest of Bones is a fresh and compelling take on grimdark fantasy. Mashing together soldiers, gangsters, magic and war into a heady mix that is a hulking big brother to The Lies of Locke Lamora."--Anna Stephens, author of Godblind The war is over,...
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The Jim Baen Memorial Award: The First Decade

William Ledbetter · Baen
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback

CELEBRATING TEN YEARS OF THE JIM BAEN MEMORIAL SHORT STORY AWARDA DECADE OF SCIENCE FICTION EXCELLENCE Since 2007, Baen Books and The National Space Society have sponsored The Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award, to honor the legacy of Jim Baen and to promote the ideals of forward-thinking,...
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The Delirium Brief: A Laundry Files Novel

CHARLES STROSS · Tor.com
Pages: 381
Format: Hardcover

"Smart, literate, funny." -- Lev Grossman, author of The Magicians Someone is dead set to air the spy agency's dirty laundry in The Delirium Brief, the next installment to Charles Stross' Hugo Award-winning comedic dark fantasy Laundry Files series!Bob Howard's career in the Laundry,...
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The Shattered Sun

Rachel Dunne · Harper Voyager
Pages: 496
Format: Paperback

The epic sword-and-sorcery Bound Gods fantasy series comes to its dark conclusion in this thrilling story of a vibrant world whose fate lies in the hands of vengeful gods and bold warriors.The world has been plunged into darkness . . . and only the scheming priest Joros might be able to bring...
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The October Man

Ben Aaronovitch · Subterranean
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover

With this long new novella, bestselling author Ben Aaronovitch has crafted yet another wickedly funny and surprisingly affecting chapter in his beloved Rivers of London series. If you thought magic was confined to one country - think again. Trier: famous for wine, Romans and being Germany's...
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