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• The Bewitching

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  “Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Salt Bones

  a Novel

  Givhan, Jennifer,

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  At the edge of the Salton Sea, in the blistering borderlands, something is out hunting. . . Malamar Veracruz has never left the dust-choked town of El Valle. Here, Mal has done her best to build a good life. She’s raised two children, worked hard,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Butcher's Daughter

  the Hitherto Untold Story of Mrs. Lovett

  Demchuk, David,

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  The story of the vengeful barber Sweeney Todd has gripped fans across literary, stage, and screen renditions—but little has been told of Mrs. Lovett, Todd’s partner in crime. Until now. London, 1887: At the abandoned apartment of a missing young…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Whistle

  a Novel

  Barclay, Linwood,

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  Evil has a one track mind... Annie Blunt has had an unimaginably terrible year. First, her husband was killed in a tragic hit-and-run accident, then one of the children’s books she’s built her writing and illustrating career on ignited a major…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Senseless

  Malfi, Ronald Damien,

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  What do you see...? When the mutilated body of a young woman is discovered in the desert on the outskirts of Los Angeles, the detective assigned to the case can't deny the similarities between this murder and one that occurred a year prior. Media…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• When the Wolf Comes Home

  Cassidy, Nat, 1981-

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  One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a five-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives. As they attempt to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

  a Novel

  Baker, Kylie Lee,

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  Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner, washing away the remains of brutal murders and suicides in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  This chilling historical novel is set in the nascent days of the state of Montana, following a Blackfeet Indian named Good Stab as he haunts the fields of the Blackfeet Nation looking for justice. It begins when a diary written in 1912 by a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rose of Jericho

  Grecian, Alex,

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  Something wicked is going on in the village of Ascension. A mother wasting away from cancer is suddenly up and about. A boy trampled by a milk cart walks away from the accident. A hanged man can still speak, broken neck and all. The dead are not…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• rekt

  Gonzalez, Alex, M.F.A.,

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  A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, Alex Gonzalez’s rekt traces a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here. > be me, 26 > about to end it all > feels good, man …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Lamb

  a Novel

  Rose, Lucy, 1996-

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  Margot and Mama have lived by the forest ever since Margot can remember. When Margot is not at school they spend quiet days together in their cottage, waiting for strangers to knock on their door—"strays," Mama calls them, people who have strayed…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Hungerstone

  a Novel

  Dunn, Kat,

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  For what do you hunger, Lenore? Lenore is the wife of steel magnate Henry, but ten years into their marriage, the relationship has soured and no child has arrived to fill the distance growing between them. Henry's ambitions take them out of London…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Strange Pictures

  Uketsu,

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  Structured around these nine childlike drawings, each holding a disturbing clue, Uketsu invites readers to piece together the mystery behind each and the over-arching backstory that connects them all.

• Witchcraft for Wayward Girls

  Hendrix, Grady,

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  They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood Home in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, give them up for adoption, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deadly Animals

  a Novel

  Tierney, Marie,

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  Ava Bonney is a compassionate and studious fourteen-year-old girl with a dark secret: She has an obsessive interest in the macabre and is fascinated by how dead animals decompose. The highway she lives by regularly offers up gifts of roadkill, and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• American Rapture

  Leede, CJ,

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  Never been kissed. About to get screwed. A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust. Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must survive the hellscape of the Midwest to try to save her twin brother while…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Welcome to Dorley Hall

  Greaves, Alyson,

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  What if the only way to fix toxic masculinity were to erase it entirely? Mark Vogel is like the older brother Stefan never had, but one day he disappears without a trace. A year later, after encountering a woman who looks near-identical to Mark,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn. Volume One

  Vuong, Tri,

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  Oscar Zahn is just like any other paranormal investigator—he’s working hard to make the world a better place, one exorcism at a time. So what if he’s just a floating skull wearing a trench coat? He’s still got a heart of gold! In this first…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Haunted

  Martin, Kat,

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  1898: Robbery, prostitution, and violence are commonplace in the fabulously rich copper mining city of Jerome, Arizona. But a brutal murder sets the stage for a series of strange events that will echo far into the future. 2024: Jenny Spencer’s…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

  Horvath, Patrick (Filmmaker),

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  Don’t murder the locals—this is small-town serial killer, upstanding citizen, and adorable brown bear Samantha Strong’s cardinal rule. A sea of potential victims is in the city just beyond the forest, but when you’ve worked as hard as Sam to build a…Read moreRead more of this annotation