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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Horror & ghost stories
In horror movies, the final girl is the one who's left standing
when the credits roll. The one who fought back, defeated the
killer, and avenged her friends. The one who emerges bloodied but
victorious. But after the sirens fade and the audience moves on,
what happens to her? Lynnette Tarkington survived a massacre
twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life
since. And she's not alone. For more than a decade she's been
meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a
support group for those who survived the unthinkable, putting their
lives back together, piece by piece. That is until one of the women
misses a meeting and Lynnette's worst fears are realized-someone
knows about the group and is determined to take their lives apart
again, piece by piece. But the thing about these final girls is
that they have each other now, and no matter how bad the odds, how
dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.
Horrific tales of fright told around a bonfire during remote
backwoods retreats are common among close friends. As each person
tests the others' ability to remain calm and resist the urge to
look over a shoulder as the sounds of nature bellow out in the
backdrop, only one may claim victory as the most frightening of the
group. Backwoods Bonfire inserts the reader into a group of friends
that unintentionally create a case study on what horror means to
them, attempting to coerce the others to believe that horror is
specific, not fluid. However, one of the friends chooses to prove
that horror is real as the fire they all gather around the
Backwoods Bonfire
The Smith-and-Smith Paranormal Agency is back and this time they
are asked to help a family named the DiMarco family rid themselves
of unwanted guests for Christmas.Bill and Erica Smith come to the
rescue of the DiMarco family but they get more than they bargained
for as they try to help the DiMarco family and the spirits haunting
their house,get the rest and peace they all so desperately need.
The award-winning author of the Hexslinger Series "explores the
world of film and horror in a way that will leave you reeling"
(Jeff VanderMeer, author of the Southern Reach Trilogy). Former
film teacher Lois Cairns is struggling to raise her autistic son
while freelancing as a critic when, at a screening, she happens
upon a sampled piece of silver nitrate silent footage. She is able
to connect it to the early work of Mrs. Iris Dunlopp Whitcomb, the
spiritualist and collector of fairy tales who mysteriously
disappeared from a train compartment in 1918. Hoping to make her
own mark on the film world, Lois embarks on a project to prove that
Whitcomb was Canada's first female filmmaker. But her research
takes her down a path not of darkness but of light-the blinding and
searing light of a fairy tale made flesh, a noontime demon who
demands that duty must be paid. As Lois discovers terrifying
parallels between her own life and that of Mrs. Whitcomb, she
begins to fear not just for herself, but for those closest to her
heart. Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel "One of
the standout horror novels of 2015 . . . From an author who has
already established herself as one of the genre's most original and
innovative voices, Experimental Film is a remarkable achievement."
-Los Angeles Review of Books "Experimental Film represents the
next, significant contribution to what is emerging as one of the
most interesting and exciting bodies of work currently being
produced in the horror field. Every film, Lois Cairns writes, is an
experiment. The same might be said of every novel. This one
succeeds, wildly." -Locus "Experimental Film is sensational. When
we speak of the best in contemporary horror and weird fiction, we
must speak of Gemma Files." -Laird Barron
Springdale,Ohio is a middle-class town nestled in southwestern
Ohio,just outside of Cincinnati.It's a quiet,sleepy town which has
a secret.In the early 1920's a man named Michael Westerly moved
into this old house on Deadman's Bluff, overlooking a graveyard,but
there was a reason Mr. Westerly chose this spot. He was into voodoo
and trying to make zombies out of the townsfolk, but when the
townsfolk got wind of this, they tried to drive him out of town,
and ultimately they lynched him, but Mr. Westerly got his
revenge,and 100 years later,the town of Springdale,Ohio was the
epicenter of a conspiracy that brought Mr. Westerly's threats to
fruition. Now the townspeople, including the Smith family,who moved
into town in the summer of 2025, to flee for their lives in the
ensuing zombie apocalypse. Can the Smiths and the townspeople of
Springdale survive the nightmare that they find themselves in, or
be swallowed up by "The Curse of Deadman's Bluff"
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