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Grimdark

Thrilling and melancholic, with a through line of female connection and courage across centuries, this ambitious and evocative novel spans three timelines—present day, 1645, and 1216—in a remote English seaside town where legends of witches and ghosts obscure an even stranger truth.

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Night & Day

A horror anthology edited by the genre’s greatest, Ellen Datlow, with one side featuring stories about what haunts the night while the other side showcases the terrors that can exist in the light of day in this new addition to the Saga Doubles series.

This anthology contains stories from some of the most evocative and bestselling writers of horror and speculative fiction.

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The Library at Hellebore

A deeply dark academia novel from USA Today bestselling author Cassandra Khaw, perfect for fans of A Deadly Education and An Education in Malice who are hungry for something more diabolical. This program is read by Audie and Earphones Award–winning narrator Natalie Naudus.

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Spider to the Fly

A true crime author helps in a desperate hunt for a killer in this dark and twisted thriller from the deviously inventive horror author that Peter Farris calls the “clear heir to Stephen King.”

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Come Knocking

When a groundbreaking theatrical performance goes horribly wrong, a deadly night reveals the dark consequences of blurring the lines between performance and reality.

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Secret Lives of the Dead

A dark folk horror tale of a deadly family curse, crime and murder that is sure to turn your blood cold, from the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Netflix’s The Silence.

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The Unseen

The Unseen is a haunting tale that walks the line between the familiar and the unknown, drawing us into a chilling narrative where reality itself feels just out of reach.

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Smile for the Cameras

An actress desperate to reclaim her fame must survive the real-life plot of the horror movie that made her famous in this psychologically twisted locked-room thriller.

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The World Turns Red

Welcome to the meat room.
At first, it’s a whisper on the edge of your consciousness.
As it gets louder, you begin to make out words—dark, sharp, dangerous words… You clap your hands over your ears to shut them out, but you can’t escape what comes from inside you.
The voice tells you to do things to yourself. Bad things. Awful things…
The longer you listen, the more they seem reasonable. Desirable.
Inevitable.
And as you reach for the nearest knife, gun, or rope, the voice speaks the last four words you’ll ever hear:
All hail the Unhigh.

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Girl in the Creek

Girl in the Creek is a pulse-pounding story about the horrors growing all around us, perfect for fans of Jeff VanderMeer and T. Kingfisher.

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Glass Girls

In this "electrifying" debut (Kathryn Harlan), a former child medium is called home to help protect her niece from possession, forcing a reckoning with the traumas of her past and the magic she left behind.

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Ten Sleep

Jordan Peele's Nope meets True Grit in Nicholas Belardes’s Ten Sleep, a supernatural modern-day western about a trio of young people on a 10-day cattle drive that leads them through a canyon haunted by ancient mysteries and savage beasts who existed long before humankind.

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The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

An instant New York Times bestseller, a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

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