A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching.
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Seattle Picks: Horror 2022
From creepy to eerie to downright terrifying, here's a diverse selection of recently published horror fiction recommended by our librarians. (February 2023)
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Jackal
a Novel
- A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette.
- Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. A genre-bending exploration of the…
- Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
- Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. By the time Paul discovers the cosmic truth about the stones, he may be trapped. There are other dark secrets he'll discover, and memories to confront. The Fellstones dream, but…
- V. Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience and heartache in this deeply personal short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions centered around the Chicana experience.
- Erin and her friends from college, now in their mid-twenties, are shaken by the death of Silas, one of their own. They are plunged into a waking nightmare when they take a pill Silas learned of that allows them to see-and interact with-ghosts.
- A genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung blurs the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, in which elements of the fantastic and surreal address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy…
- The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Now there's something at play on the property, and the locals whisper that the site of the old prison yard, located on what is now winery property, is cursed.
- Eric Ross, on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow, takes a job as the caretaker of a house that is reputed to be haunted, in this terrifying gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love,
- Nellie is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she intherits her grandfather's turpentine estate, a decrepit farmhouse on a thousand acres of old pine forest, where something lurks beneath the soil, ancient and hungry, with the power to…
- Infamous murderer Grayson Hale rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam, claiming the Devil made him do it. Is Hale a lunatic, or has he been telling the truth all along?
- A forensic photographer working for the Albuquerque police force sees the ghosts of crime victims who point her toward the clues the other investigators overlook. Then a furious ghost sets her on a path of vengeance.
- A father and son set out on a road trip across Argentina, devastated by the mysterious death of the wife and mother they both loved, to her family home near Iguazú Falls, where they must confront a secret society called the Order that pursues…
- Beth and Fran spend their days traveling the ravaged New England coast, hunting feral men and harvesting their organs in a gruesome effort to ensure they'll never face the same fate.
- After years away, Lucas returns uninvited to the home he was expelled from as a child, delving into a world that thrives in dirt and darkness: the world of insects.
- There are secrets yet undiscovered in the foundations of the notorious Crowder House. Vera must face them and find out for herself just how deep the rot goes.
- While preparing to film a story about the Kolyma Highway, a Siberian road built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin’s gulag, a documentary producer and his crew must fight for their survival when they are pursued down this road paved with…
- Forced to return to the small Southern town where she grew up to sell her late parents' house, Louise discovers that her and her brother's old grudges pale in comparison to the terror that still lurks within its walls.
- A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.
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