Horror genre books (196)
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Hammers on Bone by Cassandra Khaw EN
MalaysiaDescription:
Cassandra Khaw bursts onto the scene with Hammers on Bone, a hard-boiled horror show that Charles Stross calls "possibly the most promising horror debut of 2016." A finalist for the British Fantasy award and the Locus Award for Best Novella! John Persons is a private investigator with a distasteful job from an unlikely client. He’s been hired by a ten-year-old to kill the kid’s stepdad, McKinsey. The man in question is abusive, abrasive, and abominable. He’s also a monster, which makes Persons the perfect thing to hunt him. Over the course of his ancient, arcane existence, he’s hunted gods and... continue
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Her Body and Other Parties : Stories by Carmen Maria Machado EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is al... continue
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Country: Europe / 
Netherlands
Netherlands
Description:
"Originally published as Hex in 2013 by Luitingh-Sijthoff in Amsterdam"--Colophon.
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House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland EN
AustraliaDescription:
'A gorgeous, grisly modern fairy tale.' - THE GUARDIAN 'Dark and delicious. House of Hollow hums with malice and mystery. I devoured it whole.' - KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE ** SHORTLISTED FOR THE YA BOOK PRIZE 2022 ** The Hollow sisters - Vivi, Grey and Iris - are as seductively glamorous as they are mysterious. They have black eyes and hair as white as milk. The Hollow sisters don't have friends - they don't need them. They move through the corridors like sharks, the other little fish parting around them, whispering behind their backs. And everyone knows who the Hollow sisters are. Because one d... continue
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Hundert Augen by Samanta Schweblin DE
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Sie haben Häuser in Hongkong infiltriert, Geschäfte in Vancouver, die Straßen Sierra Leones, Marktplätze in Oaxaca, Schulen in Tel Aviv, Schlafzimmer in Indiana. Sie sind überall. Sie sind hier. Sie sind wir. Sie sind keine Haustiere, Geister oder Roboter. Sie sind wirkliche Menschen. Aber wie kann sich jemand, der in Berlin ist, frei durch ein Wohnzimmer in Sydney bewegen? Und wie kann jemand in Bangkok mit deinen Kindern in Buenos Aires frühstücken, ohne dass du davon weißt? Besonders wenn diese Person komplett anonym ist, unbekannt und unauffindbar? Samanta Schweblin erzählt vom Vertrauen i... continue
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I Am Behind You by John Ajvide Lindqvist EN
SwedenDescription:
A supernatural superthriller from the author of Let the Right One In Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has gone too. This is a place with no sun. No god. Just four families remain. Each has done something to bring them here - each denies they deserve it. Until they see what's coming over the horizon, moving irrevocably towards them. Their worst mistake. Their darkest fear. And for just one of them, their homecoming. This gripping conceptual horror takes you deep into one of the most macabre and unique imagina... continue
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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea EN
Country: North America / United States of America
United States of America
Description:
There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her b... continue
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things : A Novel by Iain Reid EN
Country: North America / 
Canada
Canada
Description:
Includes Reader's Guide with discussion questions.
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Island Witch by Amanda Jayatissa EN
Sri LankaDescription:
"Every once in a while, a book comes along that drops you into another world and takes you places you never could imagine. This is that book. An astounding accomplishment!" —R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Set in 19th century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, the daughter of a traditional demon-priest—relentlessly bullied by peers and accused of witchcraft herself—tries to solve the mysterious attacks that have been terrorizing her coastal village. Being the daughter of the village Capuwa, or demon-priest, Amara is used to keeping mostly to herself. Influenced by the new religious pr... continue