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The Fisherman by John Langan
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn upstate New York, in the woods around Woodstock, Dutchman's Creek flows out of the Ashokan Reservoir. Steep-banked, fast-moving, it offers the promise of fine fishing, and of something more, a possibility too fantastic to be true... -
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All by Laird Barron
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOver the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel, The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic... -
Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYour life is no longer recognizable, every detail corrupted by unknown forces. The harder you struggle, the more you suffer. Your words mean nothing, your actions backfire, and one by one everybody you know is sucked down with you. You are: 1) Nick 2) cursed 3) afraid all the time That's because: a) someone or b) something is after you with a vengeance... -
Murder of Angels by Caitlín R. Kiernan
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the award-winning author of Silk and Threshold...To find the solace she seeks, Niki Ky must return to the house on the side of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, to finish what her lover Spyder Baxter started. Her odyssey will take her places no human was meant to travel, and she will face creatures no human should ever have to face.. -
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The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1936, horror writer H. P. Lovecraft was broke, living alone in a creaky old house, and deathly ill. He hires a new personal assistant, Arthor Crandle, ignorant of the writer and his work.Soon Crandle is drawn into Lovecraft's unnerving world. A malevolent presence hovers on the landing. A light shines constantly from Lovecraft’s study, invisible from the street... -
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsNicholas is a would-be poet and video-store clerk with a weeping hole in his hand - weeping not blood, but a plasma of tears...It began with Nakota and her crooked grin. She had to see the dark hole in the storage room down the hall. She had to make love to Nicholas beside it, and stare into its secretive, promising depths. Then Nakota began her experiments: First, she put an insect into the hole... -
Providence by Caroline Kepnes
Rated: 3.34 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsGrowing up as best friends in small-town New Hampshire, Jon and Chloe are the only ones who truly understand each other, though they can never find the words to tell one another the depth of their feelings. When Jon is finally ready to confess his feelings, he's suddenly kidnapped by his substitute teacher who is obsessed with H.P. Lovecraft and has a plot to save humanity...
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