Kevin Andrew

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

West Virginia

For over a decade a small town has been plagued by a serial killer known as the Death Dealer, who has never been caught, and speculation of who the individual is has faded with time. Now a mimic killer has recently appeared mocking the killings of the Death Dealer. A community is now in panic and desperate for answers. A young woman named Lilly keeps having nightmares of her own father killing people. With the disappearance of her best friend Alex, Lilly now fears that she has become a victim of the Death Dealer, and so she will do anything to save her, even if that means accusing her own father of Alex's abduction. Now Lilly must carefully investigate every possible avenue to uncover the truth, even if the truth opens up a dark past.

Lilly

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Not A Good Fit at This Time

Phil Klay

Library dropout with covering as pictured

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

A collection of short stories by a former Marine captain and Iraq veteran focuses on the complexities of life for soldiers on the front lines and after, exploring themes ranging from brutality and faith to guilt and survival in such stories as "After Action Report" and "Money as Weapons System."

Redeployment

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Ryu Murakami

A pulsating cult-favorite psycho-thriller soon to be a major motion picture starring Christopher Abbott and Mia Wasikowska

*One of Literary Hub's "Ten Works of Literary Horror You Should Read (Even if You Don't Think You Like Horror)"*



Kawashima Masayuki is a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his loving wife, Yoko, and their baby girl. Outwardly, their lives are a picture of happiness and contentment, but every night while his wife sleeps Kawashima creeds from him bed and watches over the baby's crib with an ice pick in his hand and an almost visceral desire to use it.

One night, as this struggle unfolds once more, Kawashima makes a decision to confront his demons and sets into motion an uncontrollable chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder. The follow-up to In the Miso Soup from a cult favorite writer, Piercing confirms Murakami as the master of the psycho thriller--terrifying, sickening, and utterly gripping

Piercing

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Amelia Gray

Stories

A new collection of short stories from the author of AM/PM includes tales about a woman who creeps through her home's ductwork, a carnivorous reptile who destroys a town and a medical procedure that unearths a religious artifact.

Gutshot

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Tim Meyer

Take a trip up the Black Hill, where shapeless things await your arrival. Bring back a piece of some lost world. Stop an ancient monster from feasting on innocent minds. Travel back through time to stop the apocalypse. Enter portals into alternate realities and avoid the wrath of unseen gods. Cosmic calamities. Bloodthirsty beasts. Science gone wrong. It's all here for you, beyond the Black Star Constellations.From the fingertips of Tim Meyer, author of the award-winning short novel, The Switch House, comes twenty-two terrifying stories of the weird and unnatural. Black Star Constellations collects previously published stories as well as thirteen brand new tales.

Black Star Constellations

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Mr. Wicker

25 Gates of Hell

Danielle Vega

Nikki Loftin

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Fresh out of rehab for oxycodone addiction, Casey and some of her friends attend an all-night rave called Survive the Night in the New York City subway, and find themselves fighting for their lives because drugs are not the only danger here--something is using the rave to attract victims, and some of them will not be coming back.

Survive the Night

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Amanda Leanne

Life for me and mine was set. Wood Women, witches to many, had a cycle. There were only two Wood Women alive at a time, a mother and her daughter. As the daughter beget her own, her mother would cease to be. But that wasn't the only circle that justified our life. The town was ours and we belonged to them. The crops flourished and the seasons changed, as was our want. We wove the tapestry of the town, trimmed the frayed threads, added the new ones, removed those that had faded, and kept the picture beautiful and trapped within a bubble of our making. They knew only of which we wanted them to, no more or less, . As stories are often about a change, a disruption, so is this one. The circle of the lives of the Wood Women, the life of the town, and the sphere we had built to keep it all contained in was challenged, attacked, and eventually severed. There was another darkness in the night, untouched by moon and fire, and it held the secrets that would be our undoing.

Sever the Circle

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Kiersten White

A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition turns deadly in this dark supernatural thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White.
 
"The suspenseful plot combines elements of Thomas Tryon's classic Harvest Home, Netflix's Squid Game, and the social commentary of Jordan Peele's film oeuvre and mixes these with a revelatory pacing reminiscent of Spielberg's Jaws."--Booklist

The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught.

The prize: enough money to change everything.

Even though everyone is desperate to win--to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past--Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she's an expert at that.

It's the reason she's alive and her family isn't.

But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes that this competition is even more sinister than she imagined, and that together might be the only way to survive.

Fourteen competitors. Seven days. Everywhere to hide but nowhere to run.

Come out, come out, wherever you are.

Hide

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Greg Sisco

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In Nightmares We're Alone presents three interconnected tales of terror and otherworldly horrors: Good Little DollyA young girl is stalked by the hypnotic eyes of her mother's new doll. GrowthA womanizing con artist can no longer contain the plants that sprout from his fingernails. That Thing We Don't Quite SeeA bitter woman is haunted by the cryptic messages on her dead father's typewriter.

In Nightmares We're Alone

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Kenneth J. Harvey

Pages of book look a little worn as pictured, but in otherwise great condition

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

A Novel

When the maritime village of Bareneed is beset by mythic sea creatures, a bizarre suffocating plague, and other strange events, divorced father Joseph Blackwood works against time to save his only daughter. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

The Town That Forgot How to Breathe

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Duncan Ralston

Horror Stories

Evil lurks IN EVERY DARK CORNER...Horror, tragedy and comedy collide in the third diabolical collection of horror from Duncan Ralston, author of Ghostland and WOOM, featuring the stories: Head - A hitman takes a flight with his latest victim's severed head in a bowling bag.The Boats - A rich man takes a twisted form of revenge on the man sleeping with his wife.Prick - A sentient appendage terrorizes an apartment complex. The Burden - A scientist pushes much further than she should while researching a way to communicate with her father despite his debilitating disease.The Passion of the Robertsons - A religious couple kidnap an atheist to teach him the true meaning of Christmas, no matter how hard he struggles.Where the Monsters Live (a novella) - A father goes undercover in a sex offender colony seeking revenge on the man who abused his daughter.Imaginary Monsters (a screenplay) - A psychologist moves to the small town of Dark Pines, where his patients' inner demons manifest as terrifying monsters in reality.Take an unforgettable journey into a world of nightmares. But be warned... you can't unsee what you'll find in the dark.

In Every Dark Corner

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Jeremy Bates

From USA Today and #1 Amazon bestselling author Jeremy Bates comes the second book in the all-new WORLD'S SCARIEST LEGENDS series. In 1954, at the start of the Cold War, the Soviet military offered four political prisoners their freedom if they participated in an experiment requiring them to remain awake for fourteen days while under the influence of a powerful stimulant gas. The prisoners ultimately reverted to murder, self-mutilation, and madness. None survived. In 2018, Dr. Roy Wallis, an esteemed psychology professor at UC Berkeley, is attempting to recreate the same experiment during the summer break in a soon-to-be demolished building on campus. He and two student assistants share an eight-hour rotational schedule to observe their young Australian test subjects around the clock. What begins innocently enough, however, morphs into a nightmare beyond description that no one could have imagined--with, perhaps, the exception of Dr. Roy Wallis himself.

The Sleep Experiment

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Tim Johnston

“The Current is a rare creature: a gripping thriller and page-turner but also a masterwork of mood and language—a meditation on memory and time. You’ll want to go fast at the same time you’ll be compelled to savor each and every word.” —Ivy Pochoda, author of Wonder Valley Tim Johnston, whose breakout debut Descent was called “astonishing,” “dazzling,” and “unforgettable” by critics, returns with The Current, a tour de force about the indelible impact of a crime on the lives of innocent people. In the dead of winter, outside a small Minnesota town, state troopers pull two young women and their car from the icy Black Root River. One is found downriver, drowned, while the other is found at the scene—half frozen but alive. What happened was no accident, and news of the crime awakens the community’s memories of another young woman who lost her life in the same river ten years earlier, and whose killer may still live among them. Determined to find answers, the surviving young woman soon realizes that she’s connected to the earlier unsolved case by more than just a river, and the deeper she plunges into her own investigation, the closer she comes to dangerous truths, and to the violence that simmers just below the surface of her hometown. Grief, suspicion, the innocent and the guilty—all stir to life in this cold northern town where a young woman can come home, but still not be safe. Brilliantly plotted and unrelentingly propulsive, The Current is a beautifully realized story about the fragility of life, the power of the past, and the need, always, to fight back.

The Current

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Tim Hoelscher

S. L. Harris

Eddie Generous

Gwen C. Katz

Matthew Pritt

Jonathan Louis Duckworth

K. C. Grifant

Nikki R. Leigh

Eric Raglin

A. K. Dennis

Alex Woodroe

Tom Jolly

Tim Lebbon

Sara Tantlinger

Gordon B. White

J. R. McConvey

Carter Lappin

Joanna Koch

Alexis DuBon

An Anthology of Ecological Horror

Pollution. Extinction. Warming. Sea level rise... Mother Nature heard our crimes and found us guilty.

Field Notes from a Nightmare is an anthology of ecological horror, containing 18 stories from some of the strongest voices in indie horror.

Edited by Alex Ebenstein; with a Foreword from New York Times-Bestselling author Tim Lebbon

Cover art and interior illustrations by David Bowman

Stories from:

 * A.K. Dennis
 * Alexis DuBon
 * Jonathan Louis Duckworth
 * Eddie Generous
 * KC Grifant
 * S.L. Harris
 * Tim Hoelscher
 * Tom Jolly
 * Gwen C. Katz
 * Joe Koch
 * Carter Lappin
 * Nikki R. Leigh
 * J.R. McConvey
 * Matthew Pritt
 * Eric Raglin
 * Sara Tantlinger
 * Gordon B. White
 * Alex Woodroe

Field Notes from a Nightmare

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Pete Mesling

In these collected tales of terror, you will visit worlds familiar and foreign, witness frights credible and extraordinary ... encounter villains human and otherworldly. If the stories have one common attribute, it is that they deliver suspense like a burning fuse while putting forward a distinguishable and consistent literary voice, a kind of rope handrail in a dark cave that keeps spelunkers just assured enough to continue moving from one unknown to the next. It may not be the magnitude of the darkness explored here that is of greatest interest, however, but the fact that unexpected moments of humanity, courage, and thoughtfulness are allowed to gain a foothold from time to time, often against seemingly impossible odds. Jagged Edges & Moving Parts may be an exploration of the darkest corners of our shared existence, but it is also rooted in a belief that if people can be as ruthless as monsters, they can also be every bit as astonishing.

Jagged Edges & Moving Parts

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Sam Quinones

The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

Winner of the NBCC Award for General Nonfiction Named on Amazon's Best Books of the Year 2015--Michael Botticelli, U.S. Drug Czar (Politico) Favorite Book of the Year--Angus Deaton, Nobel Prize Economics (Bloomberg/WSJ) Best Books of 2015--Matt Bevin, Governor of Kentucky (WSJ) Books of the Year--Slate.com's 10 Best Books of 2015--Entertainment Weekly's 10 Best Books of 2015 --Buzzfeed's 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2015--The Daily Beast's Best Big Idea Books of 2015--Seattle Times' Best Books of 2015--Boston Globe's Best Books of 2015--St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Best Books of 2015--The Guardian's The Best Book We Read All Year--Audible's Best Books of 2015--Texas Observer's Five Books We Loved in 2015--Chicago Public Library's Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma to main streets nationwide, an explosive and shocking account of addiction in the heartland of America. In 1929, in the blue-collar city of Portsmouth, Ohio, a company built a swimming pool the size of a football field; named Dreamland, it became the vital center of the community. Now, addiction has devastated Portsmouth, as it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America--addiction like no other the country has ever faced. How that happened is the riveting story of Dreamland. With a great reporter's narrative skill and the storytelling ability of a novelist, acclaimed journalist Sam Quinones weaves together two classic tales of capitalism run amok whose unintentional collision has been catastrophic. The unfettered prescribing of pain medications during the 1990s reached its peak in Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, its new, expensive--extremely addictive--miracle painkiller. Meanwhile, a massive influx of black tar heroin--cheap, potent, and originating from one small county on Mexico's west coast, independent of any drug cartel--assaulted small town and mid-sized cities across the country, driven by a brilliant, almost unbeatable marketing and distribution system. Together these phenomena continue to lay waste to communities from Tennessee to Oregon, Indiana to New Mexico. Introducing a memorable cast of characters--pharma pioneers, young Mexican entrepreneurs, narcotics investigators, survivors, and parents--Quinones shows how these tales fit together. Dreamland is a revelatory account of the corrosive threat facing America and its heartland.

Dreamland

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Laline Paull

This brilliantly imagined debut tells the story of Flora 717, a devout young worker bee who finds herself in possession of a deadly secret Flora 717 is a sanitation worker, a member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, where work and sacrifice are the highest virtues and worship of the beloved Queen the only religion. But Flora is not like other bees. With circumstances threatening the hive's survival, her curiosity is regarded as a dangerous flaw, but her courage and strength are assets. She is allowed to feed the newborns in the royal nursery and then to become a forager, flying alone and free to collect nectar and pollen. A feat of bravery grants her access to the Queen's inner sanctum, where she discovers mysteries about the hive that are both profound and ominous. But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all—daring to challenge the Queen's preeminence—enemies abound, from the fearsome fertility police who enforce the hive's strict social hierarchy to the high priestesses jealously wedded to power. Her deepest instincts to serve and sacrifice are now overshadowed by a greater power: a fierce maternal love that will bring her into conflict with her conscience, her heart, and her society—and lead her to perform unthinkable deeds. Thrilling, suspenseful, and spectacularly imaginative, The Bees and its dazzling young heroine will forever change the way you look at the world outside your window.

The Bees

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Laura Kat Young

A suspenseful small-town horror novel of oppression, heartbreak and buried anguish - Shirley Jackson meets Never Let Me Go with the wild west setting of Westworld.

When Lady Mae turns 18, she'll inherit her mother's job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five's guilty residents as payment for their petty crimes. An index finger taken for spreading salacious gossip, a foot for blasphemy, no one is exempt from punishment. 
 
But one day Winona refuses to butcher a six-year-old boy. So their leaders, known as the Deputies, come to Lady Mae's house, and, right there in the living room, murder her mother for refusing her duties.
 
Within twenty-four hours, now alone in the world, Lady Mae begins her new job. But a chance meeting years later puts her face to face with the Deputy that murdered her mother. Now Lady Mae must choose: will she flee, and start another life in the desolate mountains, forever running? Or will she seek vengeance for her mother's death even if it kills her?
 
A devastating, alarming page-turner infused with melancholy, humanity - and society's maddening acceptance in the face of horror.

The Butcher

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Leila Slimani

Sam Taylor

"Fascinating . . . Adèle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood--the idea that you can have it all or should at least die trying--and detonated it." --The New York Times Book Review "[A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book." --Entertainment Weekly From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--as well as Sex and Lies and In the Country of Others, her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Adèle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.

Adèle

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Alma Katsu

Some light wear at the spine as pictured, otherwise in great condition

We All Know the Story of the Titanic ... Don't We?

Someone - or something - is haunting the Titanic. Deaths and disappearances have plagued the vast liner from the moment she began her maiden voyage on 10 April 1912. Four days later, caught in what feels like an eerie, unsettling twilight zone, some passengers - including millionaire Madeleine Astor and maid Annie Hebbley - are convinced that something sinister is afoot. And then disaster strikes. Four years later and the world is at war. Having survived that fateful night, Annie is now a nurse on board the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic , refitted as a hospital ship. And she is about to realise that those demons from her past and the terrors of that doomed voyage have not finished with her yet ...

The Deep

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*there is a small spot on the top of the dust jacket as shown in the last photo, in otherwise fantastic shape

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

Apple Best Books of 2021 * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction * Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal * Shortlisted for the Zocalo Book Prize From the New York Times bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores the terrifying next stages of the opioid epidemic and the quiet yet ardent stories of community repair. Sam Quinones traveled from Mexico to main streets across the U.S. to create Dreamland, a groundbreaking portrait of the opioid epidemic that awakened the nation. As the nation struggled to put back the pieces, Quinones was among the first to see the dangers that lay ahead: synthetic drugs and a new generation of kingpins whose product could be made in Magic Bullet blenders. In fentanyl, traffickers landed a painkiller a hundred times more powerful than morphine. They laced it into cocaine, meth, and counterfeit pills to cause tens of thousands of deaths—at the same time as Mexican traffickers made methamphetamine cheaper and more potent than ever, creating, Sam argues, swaths of mental illness and a surge in homelessness across the United States. Quinones hit the road to investigate these new threats, discovering how addiction is exacerbated by consumer-product corporations. “In a time when drug traffickers act like corporations and corporations like traffickers,” he writes, “our best defense, perhaps our only defense, lies in bolstering community.” Amid a landscape of despair, Quinones found hope in those embracing the forgotten and ignored, illuminating the striking truth that we are only as strong as our most vulnerable. Weaving analysis of the drug trade into stories of humble communities, The Least of Us delivers an unexpected and awe-inspiring response to the call that shocked the nation in Sam Quinones’s award-winning Dreamland.

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Kevin Andrew

Lilly

Adam Hulse

Not A Good Fit at This Time

Phil Klay

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Piercing

Amelia Gray

Gutshot

Tim Meyer

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David Viergutz

Mr. Wicker

Brian Keene, Jill Girardi,Brian Scutt, et al

25 Gates of Hell

Danielle Vega; Nikki Loftin

Survive the Night

Amanda Leanne

Sever the Circle

Kiersten White

Hide

Greg Sisco

In Nightmares We're Alone

Kenneth J. Harvey

The Town That Forgot How to Breathe

Duncan Ralston

In Every Dark Corner

Jeremy Bates

The Sleep Experiment

Tim Johnston

The Current

Tim Hoelscher; S. L. Harris; Eddie Generous; Gwen C. Katz; Matthew Pritt; Jonathan Louis Duckworth; K. C. Grifant; Nikki R. Leigh; Eric Raglin; A. K. Dennis; Alex Woodroe; Tom Jolly; Tim Lebbon; Sara Tantlinger; Gordon B. White; J. R. McConvey; Carter Lappin; Joanna Koch; Alexis DuBon

Field Notes from a Nightmare

Pete Mesling

Jagged Edges & Moving Parts

Sam Quinones

Dreamland

Laline Paull

The Bees

Laura Kat Young

The Butcher

Leila Slimani; Sam Taylor

Adèle

Alma Katsu

The Deep

Sam Quinones

The Least of Us

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