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All the Dead Lie Down
Kyrie McCauley • 2023
<p>The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie McCauley's contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family lineage, the ghosts of grief, and the lines we'll cross for love.</p> <p>The Sleeping House was very much awake . . .</p> <p>Days after a tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world, she receives a surprising invitation from Alice Lovelace--an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin's mother. Alice offers her a nanny position at Lovelace House, the family's coastal Maine estate.</p> <p>Marin accepts and soon finds herself minding Alice's peculiar girls. Thea buries her dolls one by one, hosting a series of funerals, while Wren does everything in her power to drive Marin away. Then Alice's eldest daughter returns home unexpectedly. Evie Hallowell is every bit as strange as her younger sisters, and yet Marin is quickly drawn in by Evie's compelling behavior and ethereal grace.</p> <p>But as Marin settles in, she can't escape the anxiety that follows her like a shadow. Dead birds appear in Marin's room. The children's pranks escalate. Something dangerous lurks in the woods, leaving mutilated animals in its wake. All is not well at Lovelace House, and Marin must unravel its secrets before they consume her.</p>
Carmilla and Laura
S D Simper • 2018
Carmilla
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu • 2019
<p><i>"To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door."</i><br></p> <p><p>Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship--until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmilla's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.</p> <p><p>Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's compelling tale of a young woman's seduction by a female vampire was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, which it predates by over a quarter century. <i>Carmilla</i> was originally serialized from 1871 to 1872 and went on to inspire adaptations in film, opera, and beyond, including the cult classic web series by the same name.</p>
The Girls Are Never Gone
Sarah Glenn Marsh • 2021
The Wicked Unseen
Gigi Griffis • 2023
<b>The new girl in town is having trouble fitting into a community that believes there’s a secret Satanic cult conducting rituals in the woods. When her crush goes missing, she starts to wonder if the town’s obsession with evil isn’t covering up something far worse. Perfect for fans of <i>Fear Street</i>!</b><br><br>From the moment Audre arrives in rural Pennsylvania, it’s clear she won’t fit in. After all, her nose ring, her horror movie obsession, and her family’s Ouija board collection aren’t likely to endear her to a town convinced there’s a secret Satanic cult conducting rituals in the nearby woods.<br><br>When the preacher’s daughter and Audre’s crush, Elle, goes missing on Halloween weekend, the town is quick to point fingers in Audre’s direction. With the cops busy harassing her family for being nonbelievers and everyone else convinced demons are to blame, Audre realizes she might be the only person who can find her friend.<br><br>But the deeper Audre digs, the weirder it gets. Has Elle fallen victim to a Satanic ritual, or is the town’s obsession with the occult covering up something even more sinister?
Blood Countess (Lady Slayers)
Lana Popovic • 2020
A YA horror novel based on Countess Elizabeth Baathory, the infamous, real-life inspiration for Countess Dracula! In 17th-century Hungary, Anna Darvulia has just begun working as a scullery maid for the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Bathory. When Elizabeth takes a liking to Anna, she’s vaulted to the dream role of chambermaid, a far cry from the filthy servants’ quarters below. She receives wages generous enough to provide for her family, and the countess begins to groom Anna as her friend and confidante. It’s not long before Anna falls completely under In 17th-century Hungary, Anna Darvulia has just begun working as a scullery maid for the young and glamorous Countess Elizabeth Baathory. When Elizabeth takes a liking to Anna, she’s vaulted to the dream role of chambermaid, a far cry from the filthy servants’ quarters below. She receives wages generous enough to provide for her family, and the Countess begins to groom Anna as her friend and confidante. It’s not long before Anna falls completely under the Countess’s spell—and the Countess takes full advantage. Isolated from her former friends, family, and fiancee, Anna realizes she’s not a friend but a prisoner of the increasingly cruel Elizabeth. Then come the murders, and Anna knows it’s only a matter of time before the Blood Countess turns on her.
To the Bone
Alena Bruzas • 2024
This gripping, shocking, and exquisitely crafted survival story reveals the truth of America's colonial history in a powerful new way—visceral and breathtaking.<br/><br/>After the long journey from England, Ellis arrives in America full of hope. James Fort is where a better life will begin for her: where she will work as an indentured servant to Henry Collins and his pregnant wife, gain financial security, and fall deeply in love with bold, glorious Jane Eddowes.<br/><br/>But as summer turns to fall, Ellis begins to notice the cracks in this new life—the viciousness of the colonists toward the Indigenous people and the terrifying anger Henry uses to control his wife and Ellis—leaving her to wonder if she has sentenced herself to a prison rather than a new home.<br/><br/>Then winter arrives and hunger grips the Fort. Ellis is about to learn that people will do whatever it takes to survive.<br/><br/>To the Bone is a riveting story of survival and horror that forcefully overturns the mythos of the American settler. It will stay with you, forever.
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Into the drowing deep
Mira Grant
Have you ever wondered why that 13-digit number on the back of a book costs $125 in the United States but is completely free in Canada and India? This book, The Global ISBN Handbook, is your 2025 guide to the International Standard Book Number. It explains everything about this global "fingerprint" for books. The ISBN is the most important cornerstone of the publishing industry. It started as a simple warehouse tool in the 1960s. Now, it is a complex digital identifier used in over 200 countries. This handbook deconstructs the entire system. It uses 15 distinct national case studies to do this. You will learn how the old 10-digit system changed to the new 13-digit one. We break down the five parts of the ISBN, from the "Bookland" prefix to the final check digit. The book explores the global governance framework, starting with the International ISBN Agency. Then, it dives deep into how different countries run their systems. You'll see the privatized, high-cost model in the United States. You'll compare it to Canada's free, government-run system. We explore the industry-led models in Brazil and Germany. We look at government-run systems in Mexico and India. We even cover the unique case of China, where the ISBN is not a simple identifier but a state-controlled publication license. The book also examines the systems in the UK , France , Russia , Japan , Australia , South Africa , Nigeria , and Egypt. Many books and websites can tell you how to get an ISBN. This handbook is the only resource that explains why the process is so different everywhere you look. It moves beyond a simple "how-to" and provides a true global analysis. It directly compares the privatized, for-profit models in the US and UK against the free, public-good systems in Canada and South Africa. You won't just learn the price; you will understand the cultural policies, market structures, and legal philosophies that shape that price. This book shows how the ISBN is a "global mirror". It reveals how a simple number can be a commercial product in one nation , a tool of cultural policy in another , and an instrument of state control in a third. This comparative insight is the missing piece for any author, publisher, or researcher trying to navigate the complex international publishing market. Disclaimer: This handbook is an independently produced resource for commentary and analysis. The author has no affiliation with the International ISBN Agency, R.R. Bowker, Library and Archives Canada, the National Press and Publication Administration, or any other national ISBN agency. This work is independently produced under the principle of nominative fair use.
Extasia
Claire Legrand • 2022
Plain Bad Heroines A Novel
Emily M. Danforth • 2020
Una novela de horror contemporáneo con una fuerte presencia sáfica, que mezcla historias de un internado femenino y una película moderna.
Sawkill Girls
Claire Legrand • 2024
Un libro de horror juvenil con protagonistas femeninas queer enfrentando una fuerza sobrenatural en una isla misteriosa.
"Lamb" (The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal) (Autographed edition!)
"Lamb" (The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal) (Autographed edition!)
Knock Knock, Open Wide
Neil Sharpson • 2023
<p><b><i>Knock Knock, Open Wide</i></b><b> weaves horror and Celtic myth into a terrifying, heartbreaking supernatural tale of fractured family bonds, the secrets we carry, and the veiled forces that guide Irish life.</b><br><br>Driving home late one night, Etain Larkin finds a corpse on a pitch-black country road deep in the Irish countryside. She takes the corpse to a remote farmhouse. So begins a night of unspeakable horror that will take her to the very brink of sanity.<br><br>She will never speak of it again.<br><br>Two decades later, Betty Fitzpatrick, newly arrived at college in Dublin, has already fallen in love with the drama society, and the beautiful but troubled Ashling Mallen. As their relationship blossoms, Ashling goes to great lengths to keep Betty away from her family, especially her alcoholic mother, Etain.<br><br>Gradually, Betty learns her lover's terrifying family history, and Ashling's secret obsession. Ashling has become convinced that the horrors inflicted on her family are connected to a seemingly innocent children's TV show. Everyone in Ireland watched this show in their youth, but Ash soon discovers that no one remembers it quite the same way. And only Ashling seems to remember its star: a small black goat puppet who lives in a box and only comes out if you don’t behave. They say he’s never come out.<br><br>Almost never.<br><br><i>When the door between the known and unknown opens, it can never close again.</i></p>
The Narrow
Kate Alice Marshall • 2023
Rules for Vanishing
Kate Alice Marshall • 2021
A House With Good Bones
T. Kingfisher • 2023
<p><b>A Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2023</b><br><b><br>A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, <i>A House With Good Bones</i> explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family. </b><br><br><i>"Mom seems off." </i><br><br>Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone.<br><br>She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and looking forward to nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, watching murder mystery shows, and guessing who the killer is long before the characters figure it out. <br><br>But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home isn’t what it used to be. Gone is the warm, cluttered charm her mom is known for; now the walls are painted a sterile white. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she’s the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above.<br><br>To find out what’s got her mom so frightened in her own home, Sam will go digging for the truth. But some secrets are better left buried.<br><br><b>Also by T. Kingfisher</b><i><br>What Moves the Dead</i><br><i>What Feasts at Night</i><br><i>Nettle & Bone</i><br><i>Thornhedge</i><br><i>A Sorceress Comes to Call</i><br><br>At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.</p>
La joven ahogada memorias
Caitlin R. Kiernan • 2014
The Salt Grows Heavy
Cassandra Khaw • 2023
Chlorine A Novel
Jade Song • 2023
Siren Queen
Nghi Vo • 2022
<p><b>"Lyrical, mesmerizing, and otherworldly. . . stunning proof that Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today. A beautiful, brutal, monstrous Hollywood fantasy.”—Taylor Jenkins Reid</b><b>, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo</i></b><br><b><br>Immortality is just a casting call away.</b><br><br><b>World Fantasy Award Finalist</b><br><b>Locus Award Finalist</b><b><br>Ignyte Award Finalist</b><br><b>An Amazon Best Book of 2022</b><br><b>One of NPR’s Best Books of 2022</b><br><b>Vulture’s #1 Fantasy Novel of 2022</b><br><b>Indie Next List Reading Group Book of 2023</b><br><br><b>Best of Year Selections at Apple Books | B&N Booksellers | LibraryReads |<i> TIME </i>Magazine | <i>Oprah Daily</i> | <i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i> | <i>Publishers Weekly</i> | Buzzfeed | <i>Chicago Review of Books</i> | LitHub | <i>Book Riot</i> | <i>Paste</i> Magazine | Geek Girl Authority | Bookish | The Mary Sue | New York Public Library | <i>Vulture </i>| <i>Locus</i> Recommended Reading List | Kobo | <i>The Quill to Live</i> | Goodreads | </b><b>L. A. Public Library | Audible</b><b> | </b><b> Amazon | NPR</b><br><br><b>An Indie Next and LibraryReads Pick</b><br><b>A Brooklyn Library Prize Finalist</b><br><br><i>It was magic. In every world, it was a kind of magic.</i><br><br>“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate to be a star. Coming of age in pre-Code Hollywood, she knows how dangerous the movie business is and how limited the roles are for a Chinese American girl from Hungarian Hill—but she doesn't care. She’d rather play a monster than a maid.<br><br>But in Luli's world, the worst monsters in Hollywood are not the ones on screen. The studios want to own everything from her face to her name to the women she loves, and they run on a system of bargains made in blood and ancient magic, powered by the endless sacrifice of unlucky starlets like her. For those who do survive to earn their fame, success comes with a steep price. Luli is willing to do whatever it takes—even if that means becoming the monster herself.<br><br><i>Siren Queen</i> offers up an enthralling exploration of an outsider achieving stardom on her own terms, in a fantastical Hollywood where the monsters are real and the magic of the silver screen illuminates every page.</p>
All That Consumes Us
Erica Waters • 2023
Not Good for Maidens
Tori Bovalino • 2022
<p><b>They’ll lure you in with fruit and gems and liquor and dancing, merriment to remember for the rest of your life. But that’s an illusion. The market is death itself.<br></b><br>Beneath the streets of York, the goblin market calls to the Wickett women—the family of witches that tends to its victims. For generations, they have defended the old cobblestone streets with their magic. Knowing the dangers, they never entered the market—until May Wickett fell for a goblin girl, accepted her invitation, and became inextricably tied to the world her family tried to protect her from. The market learned her name, and even when she and her sister left York for Boston to escape it, the goblins remembered.<br><br>Seventeen years later, Lou, May’s niece, knows nothing of her magical lineage or the twisted streets, sweet fruits, and incredible jewels of the goblin market. But just like her aunt, the market calls to her, an echo of a curse that won’t release its hold on her family. And when her youngest aunt, Neela, is kidnapped by goblins, Lou discovers just how real and dangerous the market is.<br><br>To save her, both May and Lou will have to confront their family’s past and what happened all those years ago. But everything—from the food and wares, to the goblins themselves—is a haunting temptation for any human who manages to find their way in. And if Lou isn’t careful, she could end up losing herself to the market, too.</p>
The Society for Soulless Girls
Steven Laura • 2022
<p>'TWISTY, SEXY, SMART ' - Kiran Millwood-Hargrave</p> <p>'A MODERN GOTHIC GEM' - Samantha Shannon</p> <p>'OH SO ROMANTIC' - Alexandra Christo</p> <p>'AS SEDUCTIVE AS IT IS SINISTER' - Kate Dunn</p> <p>'THE SAPPHIC DARK ACADEMIA OF DREAMS - Francesca May</p> <br> <br> <p>A dark academia thriller romance with a supernatural twist. From the winner of the Comedy Women in Print Prize</p> <p>Ten years ago, four students lost their lives in the infamous North Tower murders at the elite Carvell College of Arts, forcing Carvell to close its doors.</p> <p>Now Carvell is reopening, and fearless student Lottie is determined to find out what really happened. But when her roommate, Alice, stumbles upon a sinister soul-splitting ritual hidden in Carvell's haunted library, the North Tower claims another victim.</p> <p>Can Lottie uncover the truth before the North Tower strikes again? Can Alice reverse the ritual before her monstrous alter ego consumes her? And can they stop flirting for literally fifteen seconds in order to do this?</p> <p>Exploring possession and ambition, lust and bloodlust, femininity and violence, The Society of Soulless Girls is perfect for fans of Ace of Spaces, The Secret History and The Inheritance Games.</p>
In the Roses of Pieria
Anna Burke • 2023
<p>Award-winning author Anna Burke delivers the shivers in this daring queer dark fantasy romance that is teeming with sensuous vampires, dark academia, plant horrors, and terrifying fungal fae.</p> <p>When Clara Eden is offered a job as an archivist working for eccentric estate owner Agatha Montague, she thinks her prayers have been answered. Soon, she finds herself sucked into the world of her research, captivated by a romantic correspondence thousands of years old. But as her feelings for her employer’s assistant, Fiadh, deepen, so too does her suspicion that something about Agatha Montague isn’t quite right. Unfortunately for Clara, by the time her suspicions are confirmed, it is far too late to run.</p>
A Dark and Drowning Tide: A Novel
Allison Saft • 2024
A sharp-tongued folklorist must pair up with her academic rival to solve their mentor’s murder in this lush and enthralling sapphic fantasy romance from the New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic.<br/><br/>Lorelei Kaskel, a folklorist with a quick temper and an even quicker wit, is on an expedition with six eccentric nobles in search of a fabled spring. The magical spring promises untold power, which the king wants to harness in order to secure his reign over the embattled country of Brunnestaad. Lorelei is determined to use this opportunity to prove herself and make her wildest, most impossible dream come true: to become a naturalist, able to travel freely to lands she’s only read about.<br/><br/>The expedition gets off to a harrowing start when its leader—Lorelei’s beloved mentor—is murdered in her quarters aboard their ship. The suspects are the five remaining expedition mates, each with their own motive. The only person Lorelei knows must be innocent is her longtime academic rival, the insufferably gallant and maddeningly beautiful Sylvia von Wolff. Now in charge of the expedition, Lorelei must find the spring before the murderer strikes again—and a coup begins in earnest.<br/><br/>But there are other dangers lurking in the dark: forests that rearrange themselves at night, rivers with slumbering dragons hiding beneath the water, and shapeshifting beasts out for blood.<br/><br/>As Lorelei and Sylvia grudgingly work together to uncover the truth—and resist their growing feelings for each other—they discover that their leader had secrets of her own. Secrets that make Lorelei question whether justice is worth pursuing, and if this kingdom is worth saving at all.
Eyes Guts Throat Bones
Moïra Fowley • 2023
<p><b>'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' </b><b>KIRSTY LOGAN</b><br><br><b>'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' </b><b>KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE</b><br><br><b>'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' <i>IRISH TIMES</i></b><br><br><b>'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTH<br></b><br>The belly groan of a face unpeeled. A break-up poem recited knee-deep in bog water. An ancient burial mound rising and falling like a chest. The ghost of Stephen Gately reading the ingredients on a ham and cheese sandwich.<br><br>Startling, sinister and irresistible, Moïra Fowley's award-winning debut collection about queer, female bodies at the end of the world unravels all of our darkest impulses and deepest fears.</p>
My Dearest Darkest: Sapphic Horror
Kayla Cottingham • 2022
<p>*Bustle Best Book of March 2022</p> <p>*Buzzfeed Highly Anticipated YA Novel</p> <p>*Lambda Literary Most Anticipated LGBTQIA+</p> <p>*BookRiot Best New Dark Academia YA Book</p> <p>Wilder Girls meets The Craft in this Sapphic horror debut that asks: what price would you be willing to pay to achieve your deepest desires?</p> <p>Finch Chamberlin is the newest transfer student to the ultra-competitive Ulalume Academy... but she's also not what she seems. Months before school started, Finch and her parents got into an accident that should have left her dead at the bottom of the river. But something monstrous, and ancient, and terrifying, wouldn't let her drown. Finch doesn't know why she woke up after her heart stopped, but since dying she's felt a constant pull from the school and the surrounding town of Rainwater, like something on the island is calling to her.</p> <p>Selena St. Clair sees right through Finch, and she knows something is seriously wrong with her. But despite Selena's suspicion, she feels drawn to Finch and has a sinking feeling that from now on the two will be inexplicably linked to one another.</p> <p>One night Finch, Selena, and her friends accidentally summon a carnivorous creature of immense power in the depths of the school. It promises to grant every desire the girls have kept locked away in their insecure hearts--beauty, power, adoration--in exchange for a price: human body parts. But as the cost of their wanting becomes more deadly, Finch and Selena must learn to work together to stop the horror they unleashed, before it consumes the entire island.</p>
On Sundays, She Picked Flowers
Yah Yah Scholfield • 2022
Such Pretty Flowers
K. L. Cerra • 2023
The Dead and the Dark
Courtney Gould • 2022
Un roman fascinant qui nous parle des choses tapies dans les coins sombres, des secrets qu’on ne peut garder enfouis éternellement, et des refuges inattendus que la vie peut nous offrir.<br/><br/>Depuis des années, l’Obscur attend… et ne restera plus caché bien longtemps.<br/><br/>Il se passe des choses étranges et terribles à Snakebite, Oregon. Des adolescents disparaissent, et tous les soupçons se portent sur les chasseurs de fantôme les plus populaires de l'écran, qui viennent de débarquer en ville.<br/>Leur fille Logan comprend vite que si elle veut les innocenter, elle va devoir mener l’enquête de son côté. Car depuis leur arrivée à Snakebite, ses pères semblent multiplier les secrets…<br/>De son côté, Ashley, la petite amie du premier garçon à avoir disparu, croit sentir son fantôme la suivre… et comprend que la mystérieuse Logan est peut-être la seule qui puisse l’aider à obtenir des réponses.<br/>Unissant leurs forces pour tenter de découvrir quels êtres hantent Snakebite, les deux adolescentes découvrent, au fil de leur enquête, des vérités sur la ville, sur leurs propres familles et sur elles-mêmes, auxquelles ni l’une ni l’autre n’était préparée. Tandis que le danger s’intensifie, ce qui naît entre elles pourrait bien être une lumière au milieu des ténèbres…<br/><br/>« Imaginez la série Riverdale croisée avec L’Outsider de Stephen King, et vous aurez un aperçu de ce passionnant thriller surnaturel. » Oprah Daily
