Horror 2022
From creepy to eerie to downright terrifying, here's a diverse selection of recently published horror fiction recommended by our librarians. (February 2023)
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Jackal
A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first-and she may not be the last. . . . It's watching.
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Full Immersion
A traumatised woman with amnesia finds her own dead body and sets out to uncover the truth of her demise in a race against time, sanity, crumbling realities and the ever-present threat of the Silhouette.
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Our Wives Under the Sea
Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. A genre-bending exploration of the depths of love and grief at the heart of a marriage.
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Dead Silence
Investigating a strange distress signal, Claire Kovalik and her crew discover a luxury space-liner that vanished 20 years prior and board the vessel to find words scrawled in blood, strange movements and whispers in the dark.
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Fellstones
Fellstones takes its name from seven objects on the village green. By the time Paul discovers the cosmic truth about the stones, he may be trapped. There are other dark secrets he'll discover, and memories to confront. The Fellstones dream, but they're about to waken.
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Mestiza Blood
V. Castro weaves urban legend, folklore, life experience and heartache in this deeply personal short story collection of nightmares, dreams, desire and visions centered around the Chicana experience.
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Ghost Eaters
Erin and her friends from college, now in their mid-twenties, are shaken by the death of Silas, one of their own. They are plunged into a waking nightmare when they take a pill Silas learned of that allows them to see-and interact with-ghosts.
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Cursed Bunny
A genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung blurs the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, in which elements of the fantastic and surreal address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.
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Gallows Hill
The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations. Now there's something at play on the property, and the locals whisper that the site of the old prison yard, located on what is now winery property, is cursed.
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The Spite House
Eric Ross, on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow, takes a job as the caretaker of a house that is reputed to be haunted, in this terrifying gothic thriller about grief and death and the depths of a father's love,
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