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Wrist
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Nathan Adler
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From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon
and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, seven feverishly
unsettling works of suspense.. A precocious eleven-year-old, in
thrall to the mysterious black sheep of the family, climbs into his
sky-blue Chevy to be driven to an uncertain, unforgettable, fate. A
university student becomes obsessed with the murder of a female
classmate as her own sense of self deteriorates. A recent widow
grieves inside her lakefront home and fantasizes about transforming
into a great flying predator - unerring and pitiless in the hunt.
These meticulously crafted, deeply disquieting stories confront the
dangers that surround us, and the dangers that lurk within. Reviews
for Joyce Carol Oates: 'A writer of extraordinary strengths.'
Guardian 'Oates chillingly depicts the darkness lurking within the
everyday.' Sunday Express 'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary
Review 'Splendidly chilling.' Financial Times 'Visceral,
psychologically involving, and socially astute.' Booklist
From the towering imagination of Joyce Carol Oates, literary icon
and author of BLONDE, now a major motion picture, seven nightmarish
and unbearably taut tales. Marissa is an innocent girl, with hair
the colour of corn-silk. She does not hold others in strange
thrall, as some young women do, she obeys her parents, she does not
stay late after school, lingering on her walk through the swaying
heads of maize. She is the perfect sacrifice. Twice nominated for
the Nobel Prize, Oates presents an unbearably taut and terrifying
tale combining the fury of folklore and blood sacrfice with the
depths of adolescent insecurity in The Corn Maiden, a novella,
followed by six other nightmares. Reviews for Joyce Carol Oates: 'A
writer of extraordinary strengths.' Guardian 'Oates chillingly
depicts the darkness lurking within the everyday.' Sunday Express
'Both haunting and sublime.' Literary Review 'Splendidly chilling.'
Financial Times 'Visceral, psychologically involving, and socially
astute.' Booklist
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The Stand
(Paperback)
Stephen King
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Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by virus and
tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as
riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. 'THE
STAND is a masterpiece' (Guardian). Set in a virus-decimated US,
King's thrilling American fantasy epic, is a Classic. First come
the days of the virus. Then come the dreams. Dark dreams that warn
of the coming of the dark man. The apostate of death, his worn-down
boot heels tramping the night roads. The warlord of the charnel
house and Prince of Evil. His time is at hand. His empire grows in
the west and the Apocalypse looms. When a man crashes his car into
a petrol station, he brings with him the foul corpses of his wife
and daughter. He dies and it doesn't take long for the virus which
killed him to spread across America and the world.
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The Deep
(Paperback)
Alma Katsu
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1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an
isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is
to flee into the nearby Moresby Wood... unwise though that may
seem. For Moresby Wood is known to be an unnatural place, the realm
of witchcraft and shadows, where the devil is said to go walking by
moonlight... Seventeen men enter the wood. Only two are ever seen
again, and the stories they tell of what happened make no sense.
Stories of shifting landscapes, of trees that appear and disappear
at will... and of something else. Something dark. Something hungry.
Today, five women are headed into Moresby Wood to discover, once
and for all, what happened to that unfortunate group of soldiers.
Led by Dr Alice Christopher, an historian who has devoted her
entire academic career to uncovering the secrets of Moresby Wood.
Armed with metal detectors, GPS units, mobile phones and the most
recent map of the area (which is nearly 50 years old), Dr
Christopher's group enters the wood ready for anything. Or so they
think.
It's never been easier to attack Attack on Titan than with these
new, giant-sized 3-in-1 omnibus editions! If you've been waiting
for the final anime season to check out the do-or-die shonen
adventure that defined a decade, now's your chance. These new books
tuck almost 600 pages of manga behind a specially-embossed cover,
all in a larger size than the regular version. Includes Vol. 19-21
of Attack on Titan. The Survey Corps is engaged in a desperate,
final battle to retake Wall Maria and defeat the Titans once and
for all. Eren must use his new powers to seal the holes created
five years ago in the Shiganshina District gates, not to mention to
finally reach the basement of his old home and find what secrets
lie hidden there. But the most difficult part of the operation will
be surviving whatever clever traps the Colossus Titan, Armored
Titan, and Beast Titan have prepared for them! Now that Erwin is
gambling with every last human life, who will triumph?
Winner of the Comedy Women in Print Unpublished Prize! How do you
solve your own murder when you're already dead? Purgatory (noun):
1. Where the dead are sent to atone. 2. A place of suffering or
torment. 3. A youth hostel where the occupants play Scrabble and
the mattresses are paper thin. When Dave wakes up in his own
personal purgatory (St Ives Youth Hostel circa 1992), he's shocked
to discover he's dead. And worse - he was murdered. Heaven doesn't
know who did it so with the help of two rogue angels, Dave must
uncover the truth. As divine forces from both sides start to play
the game, can Dave get out of this alive? Or at the very least,
with his soul intact?
Uncover a story of the Scarlet Masks within the House of Slaughter
as the secrets of the world of Something Is Killing The Children
are laid bare! What secrets do the mysterious scribes of the Order
of St. George, the Scarlet Masks, record within the shadows of the
House of Slaughter? Enamored with stories of ancient hunters, as
well as those in his midst, Edwin Slaughter only gets to write the
stories... never live them. That is, until a legendary Oscuratype
that's taken the lives of countless children brings Edwin into the
field. Will he live to survive long enough to document his
experience, or perish with his story left untold? Delve deeper
still into the world of Something isKilling theChildren in the
second volume of the bestselling series written by co-creator and
award-winning author James Tynion IV (The Department Of Truth, The
Nice House On The Lake) and co-writer Sam Johns (Punchline)
alongside rising star artist Latizia Cadonici and co-creator
Werther Dell'Edera (Razorblades). Collects House of Slaughter
#6-10.
It's never been easier to attack Attack on Titan than with these
new, giant-sized 3-in-1 omnibus editions! If you've been waiting
for the final anime season to check out the do-or-die shonen
adventure that defined a decade, now's your chance. These new books
tuck almost 600 pages of manga behind a specially-embossed cover,
all in a larger size than the regular version. Includes Vol. 22-24
of Attack on Titan. Despite losing countless lives in the battle
against the Titans, what's left of the Survey Corps arrives at the
doorstep of Eren's family home. There, in the basement, they find
three notebooks that explain at last the origins of their walled
world. In the notebooks, Eren's father recounts a strange childhood
and an even darker history: Eighteen centuries ago, one woman
obtained the power of the Titans, provoking a racial conflict that
ripped humanity apart. The Survey Corps realizes that they have
been fumbling around in the dark...but what will they do now that
they know the horrific truth?
Jean-Paul Sartre said, 'Hell is other people.' But he was only half
right. Hell is the other people who work in the offices ofRaven and
Skull.After a week of horror and upset, six colleagues from the
Raven and Skull offices get together in the pub to exchange stories
and decide which of them has had the worst week.Each one has had a
week plagued by adultery, theft, betrayal, murder, cannibalism,
black magic and death. The stories theyshare are dark and twisted
and reflect the regular reality of Raven and Skull. Do you dare to
hear what they have to say?
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Revival
(Paperback)
Stephen King
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A spectacularly dark and electrifying novel about addiction,
religion, music and what might exist on the other side of life. In
a small New England town, in the early 60s, a shadow falls over a
small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to
see a striking man, the new minister, Charles Jacobs. Soon they
forge a deep bond, based on their fascination with simple
experiments in electricity. Decades later, Jamie is living a
nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll. Now an addict, he sees
Jacobs again - a showman on stage, creating dazzling 'portraits in
lightning' - and their meeting has profound consequences for both
men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising,
and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings. This rich and
disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most
terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a
masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.
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The Strange
(Paperback)
Nathan Ballingrud
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Ray Bradbury meets The Martian in this chilling page-turning tale
of Mars' first colony, fallen to madness after all contact with
Earth ceased, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer. Anabelle Crisp
is fourteen when the Silence arrives, severing all communication
between Earth and her new home on Mars. One evening, while she and
her father are closing the diner they run in the colony of New
Galveston, they are robbed at gunpoint. Among the stolen items is a
recording of her mother's voice, taped on the eve of a trip back to
Earth, just before the Silence descended. Driven by righteous fury
and desperation to lift her father's broken spirits, Anabelle sets
out to confront the thieves and bring back the sole vestige of her
mother. Accompanied by her loyal robotic companion, Watson; an
outcast spaceship pilot named Joe Reilly; and the hardened outlaw
Sally Milkwood, Anabelle must first pass through Dig Town, a
derelict mining community where a mineral called the Strange has
warped the residents in frightening ways, and then brave the
Martian desert. As she nears the shadowy Peabody Crater--the
epicenter of bizarre goings-on in the colonies--Mars is revealed as
a vast haunted house, infested with ghosts, alive with malignant
intent-and New Galveston, once a safe haven, nothing more than a
guttering candle in a dark world.
Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a
lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its
heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into
his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood-drinkers, is smart and
beautiful - and very dangerous. Domingo is mesmerised. Atl needs to
escape the city quickly, to get far away from the rival
narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesn't
include Domingo, but little by little, she finds herself warming up
to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. As the trail of
corpses stretches behind her, local cops and crime bosses both
start closing in. Vampires, humans, cops, and criminals collide in
the dark streets of Mexico City. Atl and Domingo stand little
chance at all of making it out alive before the city devours them
all - but they are determined to try . . . The Daughter of Doctor
Moreau, the new book from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, is available to
pre-order now.
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Firestarter
(Paperback)
Stephen King
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'Although it's difficult to believe, the sixties are not fictional;
they actually happened' (Author's Afterword) Stephen King, whose
first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the
last US troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular
writer of the TV generation. Images from that war - and the
protests against it - had flooded America's living rooms for a
decade. Hearts in Atlantis is composed of five linked stories set
in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the
sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War. Full of danger,
full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Hearts in Atlantis
will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others
to a place they have never been able to completely leave.
'Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes
sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The
Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the
counter. It bit him.' A brush with a killer hornet upends a
reverend's life. A moth wreaks a strange vengeance on an
entomologist. Bees deliver a supernatural dilemma to a
mother-to-be. This new anthology offers a broad range of stories
from the long history of insect literature, where six-legged beasts
play many roles from lethal enemies to ethereal messengers. With
expert notes on how each tale contributed to insect horror
literature, Janette Leaf and Daisy Butcher are your field guides
for a tour through classic insect encounters from the minds of
Edgar Allan Poe, E. F. Benson, Clare Winger Harris and many more.
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