Horror
From creepy to eerie to downright terrifying, here's a diverse selection of recently published horror fiction recommended by our librarians. Descriptions from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed. (Updated February 2024)
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Last to Leave the Room
Dr. Tasmin Rivers is a brilliant scientist, leading a top-secret experiment deep underground for a large corporation in San Siroco. During their research, her team discovers that everything within the city limits is slowly sinking 27 mm a month, except Tasmin’s basement, which is sinking even faster. Or is it stretching? As she becomes more obsessed with the happenings in her own home, Tasmin loses track of time, her team, and the danger facing the city, until the day a door appears in her basement, and through it walks her exact, physical double. (Booklist)
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Camp Damascus
Situated high up in the mountains, Camp Damascus offers a sin-free and "saved" life to its ultra-conservative Christian patrons as the self-proclaimed "most effective" gay conversion camp in America, while hiding a host of very unholy secrets.
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Looking Glass Sound
In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write. It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives.
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Black River Orchard
Dark magic transforms a small town when strange trees bearing magical apples begin making residents happier, more confident, more powerful and only wanting to eat more apples.
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Where the Dead Wait
Victorian explorer William Day, thirteen years after a failed expedition resulted in abandonment, betrayal and cannibalism, embarks on an uncanny journey into his past to find his missing second-in-command during which he must face up to the things he's done as the restless dead follow closely behind.
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