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The Beast Returns Author: Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child Deep under Manhattan there are descending mazes of tunnels. Among them, the homeless live out their lives in the dark, unmolested, removed from society. Until now. Now, there is something in the tunnels, something stalking them. Something new. Headless bodies are flushing out into the river, brought out by storms. No one cares. But when a young debutant ends up in the backflow, decapitated and partially eaten, New York rises to a fervor. While D’Agosta tries to work with his hopeless superiors, he begins to get closer to the homeless population. He [...]

The Darkness Behind Franco's Spain Author: Ruta Sepetys It’s 1957 and eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson is experiencing Madrid for the first time in The Fountains of Silence. His parents have come for an important oil well deal. While Daniel is slated to inherit the family business and follow in his mogul-father’s footsteps, he not-so-secretly cherishes a love for photography. As a matter of fact, he sees this as the trip that will let him prove himself to his father. The pictures he captures of Spanish life will be entered into a contest. He knows he will win, and that will change [...]

Gothic: An Origin Story Author: Horace Walpole My daughter told me one day that she was making a chronological list of all the horror movies ever made.  Yep, I thought, that sounds exactly like something she would do.  Because it’s something I would do, and I kicked myself for not having thought of it first.  But she wasn’t making a list of horror novels… I haven’t either, although if that information were easier to find online, I absolutely would.  What I was able to find, though, was what is considered to be the first horror novel.  Or at least the [...]