S.T. Gibson3.2 A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula’s brides, A DOWRY OF BLOOD is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband’s dark secrets. With the lives of everyone she loves on the line, Constanta will have to choose between her own freedom and her love for her husband. But bonds forged by blood can only be broken by death.
Джессика Лоури3.5 Perfect town. Perfect homes. Perfect families. It’s enough to drive some women mad…
In a tale inspired by real events, pregnant journalist Joan Harken is cautiously excited to follow her fiancé back to his Minnesota hometown. After spending a childhood on the move and chasing the screams and swirls of news-rich city life, she’s eager to settle down. Lilydale’s motto, “Come Home Forever,” couldn’t be more inviting.
And yet, something is off in the picture-perfect village.
The friendliness borders on intrusive. Joan can’t shake the feeling that every move she makes is being tracked. An archaic organization still seems to hold the town in thrall. So does the sinister secret of a little boy who vanished decades ago. And unless Joan is imagining things, a frighteningly familiar figure from her past is on watch in the shadows.
Her fiancé tells her she’s being paranoid. He might be right. Then again, she might have moved to the deadliest small town on earth.
Стивен Грэм Джонс3.0 У Джейд Дэниэлс нет матери, отец жесток, а окружающим на нее просто наплевать. Есть причина озлобиться на город Пруфрок и его жителей. И еще большая причина — погрузиться в собственный мир фантазий, источником которых являются фильмы ужасов… особенно те, в которых маньяк в маске мстит за причинённое зло. Джейд знает эти фильмы буквально наизусть, помнит все сценарные ходы, героев и историю создания каждого хоррора.
И она рассказывает причудливую историю родного города так, словно это сюжет одного из таких фильмов. И глубокие воды озера Индиан окрашиваются в цвет крови, и возникает маньяк-убийца. Джейд, словно живая энциклопедия убийц в масках и с мачете, бензопилами или ножами в руках, точно предсказывает развитие событий, словно творит их, оставаясь в душе испуганной маленькой девочкой, которая легко плачет, горячо любит и отчаянно хочет найти свой дом.
Lee Mandelo4.3 Andrew and Eddie did everything together, best friends bonded more deeply than brothers, until Eddie left Andrew behind to start his graduate program at Vanderbilt. Six months later, only days before Andrew was to join him in Nashville, Eddie dies of an apparent suicide. He leaves Andrew a horrible inheritance: a roommate he doesn’t know, friends he never asked for, and a gruesome phantom with bleeding wrists that mutters of revenge.
As Andrew searches for the truth of Eddie’s death, he uncovers the lies and secrets left behind by the person he trusted most, discovering a family history soaked in blood and death. Whirling between the backstabbing academic world where Eddie spent his days and the circle of hot boys, fast cars, and hard drugs that ruled Eddie’s nights, the walls Andrew has built against the world begin to crumble, letting in the phantom that hungers for him.
Mona Awad4.0 From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny, a darkly funny novel about a theater professor suffering chronic pain, who in the process of staging a troubled production of Shakespeare’s most maligned play, suddenly and miraculously recovers.
Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.
That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known.
With prose Margaret Atwood has described as “no punches pulled, no hilarities dodged...genius,” Mona Awad has concocted her most potent, subversive novel yet. All’s Well is the story of a woman at her breaking point and a formidable, piercingly funny indictment of our collective refusal to witness and believe female pain.
Ричард Чизмар3.9 1988 год. Тихий городок Эджвуд потрясен жестоким убийством пятнадцатилетней Наташи Галлахер. Утром мать зашла разбудить ее и увидела: кровать дочери пуста, окно распахнуто, на подоконнике кровь. Позже Наташу находят в лесу – задушенную, с отрезанным левым ухом. А перед домом жертвы нарисованные синим мелом «классики» с загадочной цифрой 3 в каждой клетке... Но в округе нет маленьких детей, так что это наверняка сделал убийца. И он продолжает убивать, издеваясь над полицией и ФБР, показывая, что ему известен каждый их шаг. По городу расползается слух, что зло, убивающее местных девушек – вовсе не человек... Бугимен.
Только что вернувшийся домой выпускник журфака Рич Чизмар пытается не поддаваться панике и сделать хоть что-то для поимки Бугимена. И вот он уже ощущает тайные взгляды неуловимого маньяка и необъяснимую связь с ним. Рич еще не знает, что эхо этих зловещих событий будет преследовать его много-много лет…
Стивен Кинг4.1 Джейми Конклин, живущий с матерью в Нью-Йорке, хочет быть всего лишь обычным подростком… но у него есть весьма необычный дар. Дар, который его мама настоятельно просит скрывать от других.
Джейми умеет разговаривать с теми, кого уже нет на этом свете, а значит, ему доступны секреты, ушедшие с покойным в могилу.
Однако обладание этим даром может стоить Джейми слишком дорого. В чём он скоро и убеждается, когда мамина подруга, детектив Лиз Даттон, просит его помочь разгадать последнее послание серийного подрывника. А на кону — десятки, сотни невинных жизней...
Кэтрин М. Валенте3.9 Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Everything is perfect.
It's just that he's away so much. So often. He works so hard. She misses him. And he misses her. He says he does, so it must be true. He is the perfect husband and everything is perfect.
But sometimes Sophia wonders about things. Strange things. Dark things. The look on her husband's face when he comes back from a long business trip. The questions he will not answer. The locked basement she is never allowed to enter. And whenever she asks the neighbors, they can't quite meet her gaze...
Gus Moreno3.7 "As original as it is affecting . . . left me genuinely creeped out, unsettled, and shaken. An existentially frightening book."
--Paul Tremblay, author of Survivor Song
"Hold on, this isn't a ride, it's a slide, and it doesn't care whether you're ready or not."
--Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians
A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller from Gus Moreno.
It was Vera's idea to buy the Itza. The "world's most advanced smart speaker!" didn't interest Thiago, but Vera thought it would be a bit of fun for them amidst all the strange occurrences happening in the condo. It made things worse. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the house--who ordered industrial lye? Then there was the eerie music at odd hours, Thiago waking up to Itza projecting light shows in an empty room.
It was funny and strange right up until Vera was killed, and Thiago's world became unbearable. Pundits and politicians all looking to turn his wife's death into a symbol for their own agendas. A barrage of texts from her well-meaning friends about letting go and moving on. Waking to the sound of Itza talking softly to someone in the living room . . .
The only thing left to do was get far away from Chicago. Away from everything and everyone. A secluded cabin in Colorado seemed like the perfect place to hole up with his crushing grief. But soon Thiago realizes there is no escape--not from his guilt, not from his simmering rage, and not from the evil hunting him, feeding on his grief, determined to make its way into this world.
A bold, original horror novel about grief, loneliness and the oppressive intimacy of technology, This Thing Between Us marks the arrival of a spectacular new talent.
