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Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome

Garth Marenghi • 2022

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle • 2023

<p><b>INSTANT <i>USA TODAY</i> & INDIE BESTSELLER </b><br>A Best Book of 2023 (<i>Vulture</i>) and a Best Horror Book of 2023 (<i>Esquire, Library Journal</i>) • A Bram Stoker Award Nominee and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award finalist!<br><b><br>Chuck Tingle's debut, </b><b><i>Camp Damascus,</i> is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.</b><br><br>Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold.<br><br>Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy.<br><br>And they’ll scare you straight to hell.<br><br>Also by Chuck Tingle:<br><i>Lucky Day</i><br><i>Bury Your Gays</i><br><i>Straight</i></p>

Bury Your Gays

Chuck Tingle • 2024

<p><b>The instant <i>USA Today</i> bestseller by Chuck Tingle about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead. </b><br><br><b>Named o</b><b>ne of the Best Horror Books of 2024 </b>(<i>Esquire, Parade, </i>and<i> Library Journal) </i>• <b>Winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel </b>• <b>A Lambda Literary Award finalist!</b><br><br>Misha knows that chasing success in Hollywood can be hell.<br><br>But finally, after years of trying to make it, his big moment is here: an Oscar nomination. And the executives at the studio for his long-running streaming series know just the thing to kick his career to the next level: kill off the gay characters, "for the algorithm," in the upcoming season finale. <br><br>Misha refuses, but he soon realizes that he’s just put a target on his back. And what’s worse, monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends through the hills above Los Angeles. <br><br>Haunted by his past, Misha must risk his entire future—before the horrors from the silver screen find a way to bury him for good.<br><br><b>"Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary, <i>Bury Your Gays</i> brings a sledgehammer down on tired tropes and makes a masterpiece of their guts."</b>—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of <i>Black Sheep</i><br><br>Also by Chuck Tingle<br><i>Lucky Day<br></i><i>Camp Damascus</i><br><i>Straight</i></p>

Bartleby, The Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street

Herman Melville • 2013

1984

George Orwell • 1961

<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Goodbye to Berlin

Christoph Isherwood • 1977

No Longer Human

Osamu Dazai • 1973

<p> Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. </p><p>Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, where he becomes a "clown" to mask his alienation, and eventually lead to a failed suicide attempt as an adult. Without sentimentality, he records the casual cruelties of life and its fleeting moments of human connection and tenderness.</p><p>Still one of the ten bestselling books in Japan, No Longer Human is an important and unforgettable modern classic: "The struggle of the individual to fit into a normalizing society remains just as relevant today as it was at the time of writing." (The Japan Times)</p>

Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Neil Gaiman • 2006

Celtic Mythology: A Concise Guide to the Gods, Sagas and Beliefs

Hourly History • 2016