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The Ghost and Mrs. McClure

Spooky Sleuths & Haunted Mystery Author: Alice Kimberly The recently widowed Penelope Thornton-McClure has decided to do what she never could when her husband was alive: run from his opulent and controlling family and start her own life. It’s certainly not easy, nor are her complicated feelings about widowhood. Now that she is in the tiny town of Proofrock, living out her dream of running a bookstore with her Aunt Sadie, she thinks perhaps with time and patience, this new life will help her heal wounds and move on. That is . . . until a famous novelist comes to her [...]

2023-01-14T19:14:05-07:00January 14th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

My Heart is a Chainsaw

“Is it really winning if everybody dies?” Author: Stephen Graham Jones Jade Daniels is your proverbial, never-going-to-fit in teenager living in a small town. She’s stigmatized both by her heritage and her abusive, shiftless father. So, she seeks solace in the only place that she can find: bloody, eviscerating, slasher horror. Part of this horror obsession, of course, is a survival instinct. If you cannot escape the darkness, you might as well love it. Another part of the fixation is a hope for salvation through revenge. After all, every slasher out there has a backstory, and most of those stories show [...]

2023-01-10T18:52:18-07:00January 10th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Slewfoot

The Devil Who Became a Friend Author: Brom Abitha has problems with authority, with tradition, with piety, with a silent, docile way of life. This is a problem, considering that she lives in a Puritan colony in the New World, married to a stranger. Yet, the man she was forced to marry is not all bad. In his own way, he loves her, and he forgives her many trespasses and protects her from the vengeance of his scheming brother and the wagging tongues of the town. But when Abitha’s husband goes to examine a mysterious hole in the ground and never [...]

2023-01-01T11:58:39-07:00January 1st, 2023|Tags: , , , |
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