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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.
Claire Kovalik is days away from being unemployed - made obsolete -
when her beacon repair crew picks up a strange distress signal.
With nothing to lose and no desire to return to Earth, Claire and
her team decide to investigate. What they find is shocking: the
Aurora, a famous luxury spaceliner that vanished on its maiden tour
of the solar system more than twenty years ago. A salvage claim
like this could set Claire and her crew up for life. But a quick
search of the ship reveals something isn't right. Whispers in the
dark. Flickers of movement. Messages scrawled in blood. Claire must
fight to hold on to her sanity and find out what really happened on
the Aurora before she and her crew meet the same ghastly fate.
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Dracula
(Paperback, New edition)
Bram Stoker; Introduction by David Rogers; Notes by David Rogers; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University.
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the
white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks
were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the
mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh
blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over
the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst
the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were
bloated. It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply
gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his
repletion.' Thus Bram Stoker, one of the greatest exponents of the
supernatural narrative, describes the demonic subject of his
chilling masterpiece Dracula, a truly iconic and unsettling tale of
vampirism.
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