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HORROR: ADULT CORE COLLECTION

Dig into a classic horror title or try an essential newer offering. These books
were specially chosen by Denver Public Library staff to highlight the wide array
of books available in the horror genre today! You'll find everything from
vampires to haunted houses to ghost stories here. Recently updated.

The Nymphos of Rocky Flats: A Novel
Acevedo, Mario

A humorous thriller follows the exploits and adventures of
ex-soldier-turned-vampire Felix Gomez, who confronts shadowy government agents,
Eastern European vampire hunters, and lustful women when he investigates an
outbreak of nymphomania at a secret government facility in Rocky Flats.
(Novelist)

Friday Black
Adjei-Brenyah, Nana Kwame

A piercingly raw debut story collection from a young writer with an explosive
voice; a treacherously surreal, and, at times, heartbreakingly satirical look at
what it’s like to be young and black in America. (Novelist)

Let Me In
Ajvide Lindqvist, John

Twelve-year-old Oskar is obsessed by the murder that's taken place in his
neighborhood. Then he meets the new girl from next door. She's a bit weird,
though. And she only comes out at night. (Novelist)

Wounds: Six Stories from the Border of Hell
Ballingrud, Nathan

Ballingrud is back with another terrifying collection of horror stories. Fans
will recognize and appreciate the careful, deliberate treatment of pain and
fear. Framed as “six stories from the border of hell,” the collection leads the
reader into New Orleans swampland, follows a traveling show staffed by ghouls,
and visits a pirate ship straight out of a nightmare. Also included is
previously published novella “The Visible Filth”... Ballingrud's rich and
terrifying worlds look very much like reality, which only enhances the terror. A
must-read for horror aficionados. (Booklist)

The Hellbound Heart
Barker, Clive

Originally published in an anthology collection called "Night Visions", this
long novella was the basis for the film "Hellraiser". Considered by many Barker
fans to be among his best, the story introduces Pinhead, the leader of a group
of hell-spawned demons called Cenobites, as he (it?) tries to secure the soul of
Uncle Frank, who foolishly thought that he could arrive at the gateway to
ultimate pleasure without traveling a path of grisly torture and pain.

Tender is the Flesh: A Novel
Bazterrica, Agustina María

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering
humans--though no one calls them that anymore. Then one day he's given a gift: a
live specimen of the finest quality. Though he's aware that any form of personal
contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her
like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost--and
what might still be saved. (Novelist)

The Exorcist
Blatty, William Peter

A Jesuit priest, unable to find plausible explanations for an eleven-year-old's
strange behavior, begins to suspect demonic possession when a young girl causes
several violent deaths.

Something Wicked This Way Comes
Bradbury, Ray

A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern
October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill
siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained.
In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to
Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister
mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of
adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke,
mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes -- and
the stuff of nightmare.

Exquisite Corpse
Brite, Poppy Z.

Escaping from prison and joining forces with a playboy murderer, serial killer
Andrew Compton targets a young runaway boy as an ideal victim in his quest to
perfect the art of creative killing. (Novelist)

Let's Play White
Burke, Chesya

White brings with it dreams of respect, of wealth, of simply being treated as a
human being. It's the one thing Walter will never be. But what if he could play
white, the way so many others seem to do? Would it bring him privilege or simply
deny the pain? The title story in this collection asks those questions, and then
moves on to challenge notions of race, privilege, personal choice, and even life
and death with equal vigor.  (Goodreads)

Fledgling
Butler, Octavia E.

A story of a young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities
lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified,
53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former
life, she must at the same time learn who wanted--and still wants--to destroy
her and those she cares for, and how she can save herself. (Novelist)

Meddling Kids: A Novel
Cantero, Edgar

With raucous humor and brilliantly orchestrated mayhem, Meddling Kids subverts
teen detective archetypes like the Hardy Boys, and Famous Five, and Scooby-Doo,
and delivers an exuberant and wickedly entertaining celebration of horror, love,
friendship, and many-tentacled, interdimentional demon spawn. "1977. The Blyton
Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx
River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake
monster--another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the
legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with
it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. 1990. The former detectives have
grown up and apart, each haunted by disturbing memories of their final night in
the old haunted house. There are too many strange, half-remembered encounters
and events that cannot be dismissed or explained away by a guy in a mask. And
Andy, the once intrepid tomboy now wanted in two states, is tired of running
from her demons"--Dust jacket flap.

Through the Woods: Stories
Carroll, Emily

Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that
features four brand-new stories and one phenomenally popular tale in print for
the first time. Emily Carroll brings you tales of old-school folklore and
horror, presented in an illustrated style that's both unsettling and deceptively
soothing. (Novelist)

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Carter, Angela

n her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber, Carter spins subversively dark and
sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding
Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them
exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic
tradition.

House of Leaves
Danielewski, Mark Z.

A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the
inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries. (Novelist)

The Devourers
Das, Indra

In modern-day Kolkata, college professor Alok Mukherjee meets a mysterious
stranger who claims to be part wolf. The stranger spins a captivating saga of
magic and monsters in Mughal India, and then asks Alok to translate an ancient
manuscript that turns out to be much more than a legend. Fans of Glen Duncan's
The Last Werewolf may enjoy this lush, lyrical debut, in which shapeshifting
storytellers weave elements of folklore and mythology into their violent and
haunting autobiographical narratives.

Hadriana In All My Dreams: A Novel
Depestre, René

On the morning of her wedding to a Haitian man from a prominent family, Hadriana
drinks a potion and collapses on the alter. She turns into a zombie and so her
wedding is now her funeral.

Empire of Wild: A Novel
Dimaline, Cherie

Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year--ever
since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument hours before
he mysteriously vanished. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit
rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways...until they have
to. That moment has arrived for Joan. Joan turns to Ajean, an elderly
foul-mouthed card shark who is one of the few among her community steeped in the
traditions of her people and knowledgeable about their ancient enemies. With the
help of the old Métis and her peculiar Johnny-Cash-loving, twelve-year-old
nephew Zeus, Joan must find a way to uncover the truth...Her life, and those of
everyone she loves, depends upon it. (Publisher)

My Soul to Keep
Due, Tananarive

Jessica believes she has it all -- a loving husband, a wonderful daughter and a
rising career as a Miami Herald reporter. David, her husband, is a master of
languages, history and jazz music. But unbeknownst to Jessica, he is also 500
years old. He belongs to the house of the Life Blood Brothers, an Ethiopian
brotherhood of immortals. (Novelist)

Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories
Enriquez, Mariana

These stunning, incandescent stories by Argentine writer Enríquez are her first
to be translated into English, and each one crackles with sophisticated
weirdness, illuminating everyday activities against the underbelly of the
macabre. “The Dirty Kid” presents an unnerving, sympathetic portrait of life on
rough city streets, in which Enríquez renders graphic details with uncanny
precision, luring readers into the brutal, repellent scene. “The Inn” deftly
balances small-town rumor, budding sexuality, and inexplicable hauntings when
two teenage girlfriends plan to prank a local innkeeper and witness the
inexplicable. “Spiderweb” takes place in an equally eerie roadside motel on the
Paraguayan border, where a truculent husband goes missing without a trace. Many
of these stories flirt with the supernatural or suggest strange coincidences,
but others embrace literary horror with cackling glee. “End of Term” takes up
the familiar trope of a possessed child and makes it new with the concise,
unsettling narration by a classmate who witnesses every step of the ensuing
unraveling. (Booklist)

Come Closer: A Novel
Gran, Sara

Her marriage to Ed is challenged by odd noises, petty squabbles, and the onset
of blackouts with no medical source, Amanda accidentally receives a book on
possession, the arrival of which coincides with increasingly bizarre events.
(Novelist)

The Vegetarian: A Novel
Han, Kang

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary,
controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture
her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether.
It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into
motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her
brother-in-law, and her sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye
obsessively defends the choice that's become sacred to her. Soon their attempts
turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, then her body, to ever more intrusive
and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre
estrangement, not only from those closest to her but also from herself.
(Publisher)

Horrorstör
Hendrix, Grady

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland,
Ohio. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjërring bookshelves,
shattered Glans water goblets, and smashed Liripip wardrobes ... To unravel the
mystery, three employees volunteer to work a nine-hour dusk-till-dawn shift. In
the dead of night, they'll patrol the empty showroom floor, investigate strange
sights and sounds, and encounter horrors that defy the imagination. (Publisher)

Locke & Key. 1, Welcome to Lovecraft
Hill, Joe

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic
doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled
and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most
terrible door of them all... (Goodreads)

Mr. Splitfoot
Hunt, Samantha

Mr. Splitfoot tracks two women in two times as they march toward a mysterious
reckoning. Ruth and Nat are orphans, packed into a house full of abandoned
children run by a religious fanatic. To entertain their siblings, they channel
the dead. Decades later, Ruth's niece, Cora, finds herself accidentally
pregnant. After years of absence, Aunt Ruth appears, mute and full of intention.
She is on a mysterious mission, leading Cora on an odyssey across the entire
state of New York on foot. Where is Ruth taking them? Where has she been? And
who -- or what -- has she hidden in the woods at the end of the road? In an
ingeniously structured dual narrative, two separate timelines move toward the
same point of crisis. Their merging will upend and reinvent the whole.
(Publisher)

Coyote Songs: A Barrio Noir
Iglesias, Gabino

A man tasked with shuttling children over the border believes the Virgin Mary is
guiding him towards final justice. A woman offers colonizer blood to the mother
of chaos. A boy joins corpse destroyers to seek vengeance for the death of his
father. (Publisher)

Uzumaki : Spiral into Horror
Itō, Junji

Kurōzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. But the
spirit that haunts it does not have a name or a body, only a shape: uzumaki, the
spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It possessed the father of
teenage Kirie's withdrawn boyfriend Shuichi, compelling him to end his life by
remaking himself in its image. It grows in ferns, in seashells, in curls of
hair, and in the twisting folds of the human brain. As events unfold, giant
snails are sighted near the high school, an eerie glow shines from the abandoned
lighthouse, mosquitoes seeking blood fly in drowsy circles, and babies seek to
return to the womb. People become obsessed with swirl shapes and kill themselves
in gruesome ways. The very smoke from the crematorium hangs in an ominous spiral
over the town, reminding everyone that even in death there is no escape from the
insane swirls! As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled
ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return! (Publisher)

The Haunting of Hill House
Jackson, Shirley

The four visitors at Hill House-- some there for knowledge, others for
adventure-- are unaware that the old mansion will soon choose one of them to
make its own.

The Only Good Indians: A Novel
Jones, Stephen Graham

An American Indian horror story of revenge on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Four American Indian men from the Blackfeet Nation, who were childhood friends,
find themselves in a desperate struggle for their lives, against an entity that
wants to exact revenge upon them for what they did during an elk hunt ten years
earlier by killing them, their families, and friends (Publisher)

You Should Have Left: A Novel
Kehlmann, Daniel

A screenwriter, his wife, and their four-year old daughter rent a house in the
mountains of Germany, but something isn't right. As he toils on a sequel to his
most successful movie, the screenwriter notices that rooms aren't where he
remembers them and finds in his notebook words that are not his own. (Publisher)

The Girl Next Door
Ketchum, Jack

Slowly being tortured to death by their aunt, whose madness is infecting the
entire neighborhood, Meg and her crippled sister, Susan, find themselves at the
mercy of a troubled boy who can either end their misery or be their salvation.
(Publisher)

Hammers on Bone
Khaw, Cassandra

John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely
client. He's been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid's stepdad, McKinsey.
The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He's also a monster,
which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his
ancient, arcane existence, he's hunted gods and demons, and broken them in his
teeth. As Persons investigates the horrible McKinsey, he realizes that he
carries something far darker. He's infected with an alien presence, and he's
spreading that monstrosity far and wide. Luckily Persons is no stranger to the
occult, being an ancient and magical intelligence himself. The question is
whether the private dick can take down the abusive stepdad without releasing the
holds on his own horrifying potential (Publisher)

The Drowning Girl: A Memoir
Kiernan, Caitlín R.

Using lovely, reflective, and funny prose, Kiernan explore a young girl’s
deviation from reality as she struggles with mental illness. Indian Morgan
Phelps, Imp to her friends, is schizophrenic and attempting to write a factual
story of the night a drowned girl appeared to her. A self-described unreliable
narrator, Imp’s fragmented mind fights her memory, which produces multiple
realities. Imp knows the drowned girl is Eva Canning and that she suddenly
appeared on the road Imp was driving, but was Eva in the form of mermaid, siren,
or wolf, and was it July or November? Attempting to write down the factual
events of an ever-shifting story drags Imp into the murky waters of insanity,
which threaten her life. The result is an excellent piece of fiction, both
startlingly original and suspenseful. (Booklist)

The Shining
King, Stephen

The Overlook Hotel, high in the mountains of Colorado, has in the past played
host to a colorful selection of visitors, from gangsters to presidents. But a
few even more extraordinary guests are in residence when Jack Torrance comes to
the Overlook with his wife, Wendy, and son, Danny, to be winter caretaker. Danny
is precognitive and telepathic, a condition that allows him to outmaneuver the
hotel's spirits of the dead that attempt to lay claim to the entire Torrance
family (Booklist)

The Graveyard Apartment
Koike, Mariko

Originally published in Japan in 1986, Koike's novel is the suspenseful tale of
a young family that believes it has found the perfect home to grow into, only to
realize that the apartment's idyllic setting harbors the specter of evil and
that longer they stay, the more trapped they become. This tale of a young
married couple who harbor a dark secret is packed with dread and terror, as they
and their daughter move into a brand new apartment building built next to a
graveyard. As strange and terrifying occurrences begin to pile up, people in the
building start to move out one by one, until the young family is left alone with
someone ... or something ... lurking in the basement. The psychological horror
builds moment after moment, scene after scene, culminating with a conclusion
that will make you think twice before ever going into a basement again.
(Publisher)

The Cipher
Koja, Kathe

"Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it
too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." When a strange hole
materializes in a storage room, would-be poet Nicholas and his feral lover
Nakota allow their curiosity to lead them into the depths of terror. "Wouldn't
it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota. Nicholas says, "We're not." But no
one is in control, and their experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very
final transformation for everyone who gets too close to the Funhole. (Goodreads)

The Ballad of Black Tom
LaValle, Victor

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it
isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the
roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He
knows what magic a suit can cast, the invisibility a guitar case can provide,
and the curse written on his skin that attracts the eye of wealthy white folks
and their cops. But when he delivers an occult page to a reclusive sorceress in
the heart of Queens, Tom opens a door to a deeper realm of magic, and earns the
attention of things best left sleeping. (Novelist)

Rosemary's Baby: A Novel
Levin, Ira

Levin...grounds his saturnalia in the everyday--actually an old apartment house
in New York city where Rosemary Woodhouse and Guy, an actor, move, not knowing
that the Bramford has quite a history--a recent infanticide in the cellar, and
longer ago, the Trench sisters lived there and conducted strange nutritive
experiments. Then there's the little old couple who live next door to Guy and
Rosemary and who may be responsible for Guy's becoming distrait and distant just
when Rosemary becomes pregnant and has terrible pain's in her stomach and a
craving for raw meat and- and- and- .... (Booklist)

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Machado, Carmen Maria

Women and their bodies, and the violence done to them, both by themselves and
others, occupy the center of Machado’s inventive, sensual, and eerie debut
horror collection. These stories use situations at once familiar and completely
strange to reveal what it is like to inhabit the female body. We see, for
example, a woman listing an inventory of her sexual encounters as humanity is
being destroyed by a plague; a shop clerk who realizes that the dresses she is
selling absorb the women who wear them; and a woman dealing with a surprise side
effect after her gastric-bypass surgery. In the most ambitious of the lot,
“Especially Heinous,” all 12 seasons of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit are
reimagined as a single and coherent, if satisfyingly creepy and surreal, tale.
The writing is always lyrical, the narration refreshingly direct, and the sex
abundant, and although the supernatural elements are not overt, every story is
terrifying. These weird tales present a slightly askew version of the world as
we know it and force us, no matter our gender, to reconsider our current life
choices and relationships. (Booklist)

Bird Box
Malerman, Josh

Brilliantly imaginative debut author Josh Malerman captures an apocalyptic
near-future world, where a mother and her two small children must make their way
down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is
following them -- but is it man, animal, or monster? Within these tracks,
Malerman, a professional musician, discusses his love of horror and invokes an
ethereal and atmospheric experience in an homage to Orson Welles à la War of
the Worlds.

I Am Legend
Matheson, Richard

Neville is essentially the last man on earth, and the loneliness of his
situation is the central part of the story. Matheson is able to communicate
Neville's emotional feelings vividly, making him very real. We gradually acquire
the story of the deaths of Neville's wife and daughter, essentially experiencing
the pain he goes through when these memories overcome him. We watch him drink
himself into a stupor as each night finds him besieged in his fortified house,
surrounded by vampires, including his old friend and neighbor, calling for him
to come out. We watch him slowly lose his grip on sanity and come very close to
giving up.

Mexican Gothic
Moreno-Garcia, Silvia

A reimagining of the classic gothic suspense novel follows the experiences of a
courageous socialite in 1950s Mexico who is drawn into the treacherous secrets
of an isolated mansion. (Novelist)

Beloved: A Novel
Morrison, Toni

Sethe, an escaped slave living in post-Civil War Ohio with her daughter and
mother-in-law, is persistently haunted by the ghost of her dead baby girl.
(Novelist)

Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales
Ogawa, Yōko

Ogawa is imaginative, seductive, and disconcerting in this piquant sequence of
11 “dark tales” chained together in unexpected ways. Things start out gently, if
spookily, with a grief-addled woman waiting to be served in a bakery. Later we
learn who was crying in the backroom and why. A schoolgirl whose mother is dying
meets her father, a “relatively well-known politician,” for the first time, then
breaks into an abandoned post office that is filled with kiwis. A young writer
is startled when her strange landlady presents her with a hand-shaped carrot. A
man who makes custom handbags slips into madness after taking on a bizarre
commission. Anger, mayhem, and murder are in the air, yet Ogawa lulls us with
psychological tenderness and evocative details until the macabre bursts forth
full strength. These are delectably fantastic, endlessly intriguing tales of
obsession, revenge, and unforeseen interconnections. (Booklist)

White is For Witching
Oyeyemi, Helen

There's something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town
of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets,
it's been home to four generations of Silver women--Anna, Jennifer, Lily, and
now Miranda, who has lived in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since
their father converted it to a bed-and-breakfast. The Silver women have always
had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and
space, and when Lily, Miranda's mother, passes away suddenly while on a trip
abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange ailments. An eating disorder starves
her. She begins hearing voices. When she brings a friend home, Dover's hostility
toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house,
and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed. (Booklist)

Interview with the Vampire
Rice, Anne

In pale-hands-I-loved-beside-the-Shalimar prose (vampires do have pale and
languid hands and this whole book  is doused in fragrances, floral or otherwise)
this tells the story of a gentle vampire, Louis. But a gentle vampire is a
little like Ferdinand the Bull. No Bela Lugosi, Louis is lonely and melancholy
after he becomes one at the age of 25, following the death of his brother. He is
taken in hand (white but not so languid) by a much awfuller vampire Lestat who
is vengeful by nature and unquenchably bloodthirsty. This all takes place in the
moss and magnolia New Orleans of 1791 but then follows Louis' experiences for
200 years as one of the "living dead." In particular his love for Claudia, the
youngster they vampirize.  (Booklist)

Frankenstein in Baghdad: A Novel
Saadāwī, Aḥmad

After he constructs a corpse from body parts found on the street, Hadi wants the
government to prepare a proper burial, but when the corpse goes missing, a
series of strange murders occur and Hadi realizes he has created a monster.

Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for
the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity.
But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human
companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear.
(Novelist)

Dracula
Stoker, Bram

After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman,
Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire.
(Novelist)

Ghost Story
Straub, Peter

What was the worst thing you've ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, New
York, four old men gather to tell each other stories--some true, some made-up,
all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet
lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale
of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And
they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever ... (Publisher)

A Certain Hunger: A Novel
Summers, Chelsea G.

Narrator Daniels chronicles her love of food, men, and the development of a
cannibalistic urge that earns her the names “MILF Killer” and “Butcher Food
Critic” in the tabloids. Written from prison, Daniels’s story gradually unfolds
in flashbacks as she acknowledges she has both “intimidating intelligence” and
“a dearth of conscience,” and that her “fondness for gratification” brought on
her downfall. Watching the hypocrisy of her parents’ supposedly perfect
Connecticut domestic bliss, Daniels learns early on that “femininity was junk”
and traditional roles of wife and mother are not for her. After college in the
1980s, she moves to Boston and writes for the Boston Phoenix. She soon leaves
for New York City, where she launches a successful career writing for lifestyle
magazines. Her work brings her to Italy, where she takes on a series of lovers
and, after accidentally killing one with her Fiat, decides to cook his liver.
The result: “delectable.” (Booklist)

The Murders of Molly Southbourne
Thompson, Tade

For as long as Molly Southbourne can remember, she's been watching herself die.
Whenever she bleeds, another molly is born, identical to her in every way and
intent on her destruction. Molly knows every way to kill herself, but she also
knows that as long as she survives she'll be hunted. No matter how well she
follows the rules, eventually the mollys will find her. Can Molly find a way to
stop the tide of blood, or will she meet her end at the hand of a girl who looks
just like her?

The Cabin at the End of the World: A Novel
Tremblay, Paul

Wen is almost eight years old, on vacation with her two dads, Andrew and Eric,
on an isolated lake in New Hampshire. While catching grasshoppers on the front
lawn, she encounters Leonard, a large man in a white button-down shirt, who asks
for help convincing her dads to let him and his friends into their home. They
have come to this secluded place with their menacing and crude weapons to stop
the world from ending, and Wen and her dads are the key to humanity’s survival.
What follows is an extremely intense, anxiety-inducing thriller that puts the
family in mortal danger while forcing them to tackle a universal dilemma—is one
life worth that of seven billion others? Alternating between unreliable
narrators, Tremblay captures the intense emotional struggle, especially in
flashbacks into the lives of the odds-defying family of Wen, Andrew, and Eric,
while dread and terror permeate every sentence. (Booklist)

Affinity
Waters, Sarah

The heroines, Selina Dawes and Margaret Prior, both embody and transcend their
era's ideal of femininity. Selina is a trance medium and a con artist who has
been imprisoned at Millbank jail after a scandal involving a young,
impressionable follower. Margaret, a sensitive woman of scholarly bent, outrages
her family by falling in love with a woman, then, after her father's death, she
attempts suicide. As a remedy for her melancholy, Margaret is sent out to do
social work, visiting with women convicts at Millbank, where she becomes
fascinated with Selina. Through Margaret's efforts to reconstruct Selina's past,
Waters illuminates the social issues surrounding spiritualism, as well as the
double standards applied to women and the prevailing attitudes toward
lesbianism. When the jail's matrons become aware of the unusual relationship
between the two women, Margaret is forced to choose between her taboo love for
the scheming Selina and the strict morality with which she was raised.
(Booklist)

Zone One: A Novel
Whitehead, Colson

In a post-apocalyptic world decimated by zombies, the U.S. government has
retreated to Buffalo, New York, and survivor efforts to rebuild are focused on
lower Manhattan. With several others, Mark Spitz works as a "sweeper" --
eliminating zombie stragglers as he struggles with PASD (Post-Apocalyptic Stress
Disorder) and recalls humanity before the apocalypse. (Novelist)

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