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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
"This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on
gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while
creeping me all the way out. So good."-Zakiya Dalila Harris, author
of The Other Black Girl Now in paperback, Steel Magnolias meets
Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about a
women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to
their small Southern town. Bonus features: * Reading group guide
for book clubs * Hand-drawn map of Mt. Pleasant * Annotated
true-crime reading list by Grady Hendrix * And more! Patricia
Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a
workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile
mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind
on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her
book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their
love of true crime. At these meetings they're as likely to talk
about the Manson family as they are about their own families. One
evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an
elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James
Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he
makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in years. But when
children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written
off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is
more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a
monster of a different kind-and Patricia has already invited him
in. Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia's
life and try to take everything she took for granted-including the
book club-but she won't surrender without a fight in this
blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.
Acester (known as Ayster) is one of England's oldest cathedrals. It
is also home to a startling assortment of ghosts. They include a
bishop's skeleton, a mischievous imp, a Jacobean actor, an
eighteenth-century murderer, a woman in a mirror, a legless and an
eyeless ghost, a mysterious chorister, and an ugly spider.
Meanwhile, alongside the ghosts, the busy life of a modern
cathedral goes on, spiced by the sparrings between a rather vague
Dean and a very acerbic Canon. This is a book for all who love
stories of ghosts and clergy life in the Church of England.
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Weyward
Emilia Hart
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Three women, five centuries, one spellbinding story
In the present day, Kate flees a traumatic relationship to the Cumbrian
cottage she inherited from her great-aunt; but the cottage hides
secrets of its own.
In 1942, Violet rebels against her father’s ideas of a ‘proper young
lady’ … until he takes matters into his own hands.
In 1619, Altha is on trial for witchcraft, implicated in the gruesome
death of a local man.
Three women they tried to cage – but Weyward women belong to the wild.
And they cannot be tamed…
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