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Author
Publisher
Small Beer Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A half-remembered children's TV show. A hotel that shouldn't exist. A mysterious ballad. A living flag. A group of girls goes camping. Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author Sarah Pinsker's second collection brings together her touchstones of music and memory, secret subversions and hidden messages"--
Author
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A wealthy widow has asked Sarah Winston to sell her massive collection of mysteries through her garage sale business. While sorting through piles of books stashed in the woman's attic, Sarah is amazed to discover a case of lost Hemingway stories, stolen from a train in Paris back in 1922. How did they end up in Belle Winthrop Granville's attic in Ellington, Massachusetts, almost one hundred years later?
Author
Series
Lovecraft Country volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Summer, 1957. Atticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor's escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit. Back in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life. Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil's bargain with the ghost...
8) Animalia
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Alfaguara vuelve a publicar esta antología con las fabulosas ilustraciones de Isol Misenta, que acompañan a la perfección estos relatos donde aflora lo bestial y entra en juego lo irracional. Aurora Bernárdez, amorosa albacea literaria de Julio Cortázar, reunió veintiún cuentos del escritor para formar un único colección de la fauna que habita el universo cortazariano, allí como es sabido conviven animales que conocemos con otros que sólo...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the center of Unrestricted Access is the never-before-published novella "Sun Dogs. Other stories-each with an introduction by James Rollins-are just as compelling, offering broader insight into this acclaimed master's fictional universes, including: "The Pit": a young dog is kidnapped and brutalized into becoming the bloody champion of a dog-fighting ring. But can this tortured monster find redemption and a path back to the boy who first raised...
Series
Publisher
Flame Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ghastly castles, haunted mansions, shadowy forests and long, dark corridors... This new addition to the Gothic Fantasy series is packed with tales of terror, bringing together the new and the familiar, the unusual and the unexpected. Featuring many stories from open submissions by new writers, Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories delivers a satisfying read for anyone fascinated by glimpses of the beyond: master storytellers featured include A.C. Benson,...
11) Thrillville, USA
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An amusement park employee overdoses after eating the gel of a fentanyl patch. Two homeless men discover the body of a drowned person. A woman encounters a dangerous stranger while driving her brother to rehab. Ex-lovers seek to rekindle their relationship with the aid of an earthquake. In the nine masterful stories that comprise Thrillville, USA, debut author Taylor Koekkoek depicts Americans living on the margins of society, seeking escape from...
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