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<\/a>The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Laird Barron<\/p>\nOver the course of two award-winning collections and a critically acclaimed novel,\u00a0The Croning, Laird Barron has arisen as one of the strongest and most original literary voices in modern horror and the dark fantastic. Melding supernatural horror with hardboiled noir, espionage, and a scientific backbone, Barron\u2019s stories have garnered critical acclaim and have been reprinted in numerous year\u2019s best anthologies and nominated for multiple awards, including the Crawford, International Horror Guild, Shirley Jackson, Theodore Sturgeon, and World Fantasy awards.<\/em><\/p>\n Barron returns with his third collection,\u00a0The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All.\u00a0Collecting interlinking tales of sublime cosmic horror, including \u201cBlackwood\u2019s Baby\u201d, \u201cThe Carrion Gods in Their Heaven\u201d, and \u201cThe Men from Porlock\u201d,\u00a0The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All\u00a0delivers enough spine-chilling horror to satisfy even the most jaded reader.<\/em><\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/p>\n The stark world continues to change. Each passing day twists it further, pushing the surviving humans closer to the brink of extinction. But, for the first time, there is hope.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Clare and Dorran have set their sights on returning home to Winterbourne Hall. It’s a daunting journey, but vital. Humanity needs more refuges\u2014safe areas where food can be grown without attracting the attention of the hollow ones\u2014and the old gothic manor is their best bet.<\/p>\n But their home is no longer a sanctuary. It\u2019s become a trap: carefully crafted for them, lying in wait for their return. By the time they realize just how dangerous Winterbourne has become, it\u2019s already too late.<\/p>\n The fight for survival is far from over.<\/p>\n _______________________________________<\/p>\n David Young, Deacon Price, and Beth Harris live with a dark secret. As children, they survived a religious group’s horrific last days at the isolated mountain Red Peak. Years later, the trauma of what they experienced never feels far behind.<\/em><\/p>\n When a fellow survivor commits suicide, they finally reunite and share their stories. Long-repressed memories surface, defying understanding and belief. Why did their families go down such a dark road? What really happened on that final night?<\/em><\/p>\n The answers lie buried at Red Peak. But truth has a price, and escaping a second time may demand the ultimate sacrifice.<\/em><\/p>\n _____________________________________<\/p>\n From the secret reels of a notoriously cursed cinematic masterpiece to the debauched livestreams of modern movie junkies who will do anything for clicks,\u00a0Final Cuts\u00a0brings together new and terrifying stories inspired by the many screens we can’t peel our eyes away from. Inspired by the rich golden age of the film and television industries as well as the new media present, this new anthology reveals what evils hide behind the scenes and between the frames of our favorite medium. With original stories from a diverse list of some of the best-known names in horror,\u00a0Final Cuts\u00a0will haunt you long after the credits roll.<\/em><\/p>\n NEW STORIES FROM: Josh Malerman, Chris Golden, Stephen Graham Jones, Garth Nix, Laird Barron, Kelley Armstrong, John Langan, Richard Kadrey, Paul Cornell, Lisa Morton, AC Wise, Dale Bailey, Jeffrey Ford, Cassandra Khaw, Nathan Ballingrud, Gemma Files, Usman T. Malik, and Brian Hodge.<\/em><\/p>\n _________________________________________<\/p>\n The dead won\u2019t bother you if you don\u2019t give them permission.<\/em><\/p>\n Boston, 1844.<\/em><\/p>\n Tabby has a peculiar gift: she can communicate with the recently departed. It makes her special, but it also makes her dangerous.<\/em><\/p>\n As an orphaned child, she fled with her sister, Alice, from their charlatan aunt Bellefonte, who wanted only to exploit Tabby\u2019s gift so she could profit from the recent craze for seances.<\/em><\/p>\n Now a young woman and tragically separated from Alice, Tabby works with her adopted father, Eli, the kind caretaker of a large Boston cemetery. When a series of macabre grave robberies begins to plague the city, Tabby is ensnared in a deadly plot by the perpetrators, known only as the \u201cResurrection Men.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n In the end, Tabby\u2019s gift will either save both her and the cemetery\u2014or bring about her own destruction.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n __________________________________________<\/p>\n A brutal murder, a suspect in jail, and an execution planned, but what if the wrong person is about to be killed?\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800\u2800<\/em> This book is also available in the following format:<\/p>\n __________________________________________<\/p>\n Dartmoor, with its mists, bleak winter weather and overwhelming sense of isolation, is the perfect place to build a prison. It’s not a place many would choose to live – yet the Governor of Dartmoor Prison did just that. When Herbert Russell retired, he bought All Hallow’s Hall – a rambling Tudor mansion on the edge of the moor, and lived there all his life.<\/em><\/p>\n Now he’s dead, and his estranged family are set to inherit his estate. But when the dead man’s family come to stay, the atmosphere of the moors seems to drift into every room. Floorboards creak, secret passageways echo, and wind whistles in the house’s famous priest hole. And then, on the morning the family decide to leave All Hallow’s Hall once and for all, their young son Timmy goes missing.<\/em><\/p>\n _______________________________________<\/p>\n A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire’s\u00a0Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u201cWelcome to the Hooflands. We\u2019re happy to have you, even if you being here means something\u2019s coming.\u201d<\/p>\n Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late.<\/p>\n When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to “Be Sure” before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines\u2015a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes.<\/p>\n But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem\u2026<\/p>\n ___________________________________<\/p>\n October Daye finds herself confronted with her family’s past and responsible for peace in the Kingdom of the Mists, as she plans for her wedding and for her future.<\/em><\/p>\n When October is informed that Simon Torquill\u2014legally her father, due to Faerie’s archaic marriage traditions\u2014must be invited to her wedding or risk the ceremony throwing the Kingdom in the Mists into political turmoil, she finds herself setting out on a quest she was not yet prepared to undertake for the sake of her future…. and the man who represents her family’s past.<\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n ________________________________<\/p>\n Evils both above and below ground arise once again, threatening the world and all its inhabitants with extinction in this electrifying science fiction thriller – the final novel set in the Awakened universe – from the #1 internationally bestselling author and star of television\u2019s\u00a0Impractical Jokers\u00a0and a bestselling science fiction writer.<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks to the heroics of former New York City Mayor Tom Cafferty and his team, the world is once again safe. The villainous Foundation for Human Advancement has been dismantled, the cities of the world are safe from nuclear annihilation, and Cafferty is now on a hunt to decimate every nest of creatures on the planet.<\/em><\/p>\n When Cafferty enters a nest underneath the Nevada desert, he is horrified to find it completely empty. It can only mean one thing: the battle for survival is not over. Across the planet, creatures are emerging from their subterranean homes. Now, the all-out war against humanity has begun\u2014a war in which only one apex species will survive. Humankind has finally met its match.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Cafferty knows that only one man can help him stop the onslaught. A man who is despised by the world. A man who has already caused the death of millions. A man who is a sworn enemy hell-bent on taking Tom Cafferty down forever: Albert Van Ness.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n But even this desperate move may not be enough to stop the creatures and save humanity…<\/em><\/p>\n ________________________________<\/p>\n In this terrifying ghost story based on true events, the President\u2019s late son haunts the White House, threatening all who live in it\u2014and the divided America beyond its walls. From the bestselling author of\u00a0The Homecoming.<\/em><\/p>\n The year is 1853. President-elect Franklin Pierce is traveling with his family to Washington, DC, when tragedy strikes. In an instant, their train runs off the rails, violently flinging passengers about the cabin. When the great iron machine finally comes to rest, the only casualty is the Pierces\u2019 son, Bennie. The loss sends First Lady Jane Pierce into mourning, and casts Franklin\u2019s presidency under a pall of sorrow and grief.<\/em><\/p>\n As the Pierces move into the White House, they are soon plagued by events both bizarre and disturbing. Strange sounds seem to come from the walls and ceiling, ghostly voices echo out of time itself, and visions of spirits crushed under the weight of American history pass through empty hallways. But when Jane orchestrates a s\u00e9ance with the infamous Fox Sisters\u2014the most noted Spiritualists of the day\u2014the barrier between this world and the next is torn asunder. Something horrific comes through and takes up residence alongside Franklin and Jane in the very walls of the mansion itself.<\/em><\/p>\n Only by overcoming their grief and confronting their darkest secrets can Jane and Franklin hope to rid themselves\u2014and America\u2014of the entity that seeks to make the White House its permanent home.<\/em><\/p>\n _____________________________________<\/p>\n A collection of horror-inspired flash fiction, featuring over 40 new stories from literary, horror, and emerging writers\u2014edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto, the twisted minds behind\u00a0Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery and Murder\u00a0(Black Balloon, 2018).<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n In this playful, spine-tingling collection, leading literary and horror writers spin unforgettably chilling tales in only a few pages.\u00a0Tiny Nightmares\u00a0brings to life broken-hearted vampires, Uber-taking serial killers, mind-reading witches, and monsters of all imaging, as well as stories that tackle the horrors of our modern world from global warming and racism to social media addiction and online radicalization. Writers such as Samantha Hunt, Brian Evenson, Jac Jemc, Stephen Graham Jones, Kevin Brockmeier, and Rion Amilcar Scott expand our understanding of horror fiction with inventive and blood-curdling new tales. We suggest reading with the hall light on and the bedroom door open just a crack.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n _________________________________<\/p>\n The lives of the Barretts, a normal suburban New England family, are torn apart when fourteen-year-old Marjorie begins to display signs of acute schizophrenia.<\/em><\/p>\n To her parents’ despair, the doctors are unable to stop Marjorie’s descent into madness. As their stable home devolves into a house of horrors, they reluctantly turn to a local Catholic priest for help. Father Wanderly suggests an exorcism; he believes the vulnerable teenager is the victim of demonic possession. He also contacts a production company that is eager to document the Barretts’ plight. With John, Marjorie’s father, out of work for more than a year and the medical bills looming, the family agrees to be filmed, and soon find themselves the unwitting stars of The Possession, a hit reality television show. When events in the Barrett household explode in tragedy, the show and the shocking incidents it captures become the stuff of urban legend.<\/em><\/p>\n Fifteen years later, a bestselling writer interviews Marjorie’s younger sister, Merry. As she recalls those long ago events that took place when she was just eight years old, long-buried secrets and painful memories that clash with what was broadcast on television begin to surface–and a mind-bending tale of psychological horror is unleashed, raising vexing questions about memory and reality, science and religion, and the very nature of evil.<\/em><\/p>\n This book is also available in the following formats:<\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/p>\n Join twenty-five masterful authors and talented newcomers with more than 400 pages of the disturbing, unnerving, haunting, and strange. This outstanding annual exploration of the year\u2019s best dark fiction delivers tales of deathly possession, the weirdly surreal, mysterious melancholy, and frighteningly plausible futures.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n Confront your own humanity and the fears that stir you\u2014from the darkly supernatural and painfully familiar to the disquieting terror of the unknown.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking for a new horror book to read? Try these new horror titles pulled right off the shelves at the Eastern Library. Click the links or give us a call to put them on hold. 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<\/a>Silence in the Shadows<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Darcy Coates<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/children-of-red-peak.jpg?resize=266%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Children of Red Peak<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>by Craig DiLuoie<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/final-cuts1.jpg?resize=259%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Final Cuts: New Tales of Hollywood Horror and Other Spectacles<\/a><\/strong><\/em> edited by Ellen Datlow<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/orphan-of-cemetery-hill.jpg?resize=266%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Orphan of Cemetery Hill<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Hester Fox<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>Sucker Punch\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>by Laurell K. Hamilton<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The House of a Hundred Whispers<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Graham Masterton<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/across-the-green-grass-fields.jpg?resize=260%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Across the Green Grass Fields<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Seanan McGuire<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/killing-frost1.jpg?resize=265%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Killing Frost<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Seanan McGuire<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/obliteration.jpg?resize=263%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Obliteration: An Awakened Novel\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/em>by James S. Murrary and Darren Wearmouth<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/the-residence1.jpg?resize=265%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>The Residence<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Andrew Pyper<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/tiny-nightmares1.jpg?resize=278%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>Tiny Nightmares: Very Short Tales of Horror<\/a><\/strong><\/em> edited by Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/head-full-of-ghosts1.jpg?resize=265%2C400&ssl=1\")
<\/a>A Head Full of Ghosts<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>by Paul Tremblay<\/p>\n\n
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<\/a>The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror: Volume 1<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>edited by Paula Guran<\/p>\n