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Good Girls: Motherless Children #2 (Motherless Children Trilogy #2)
by Glen HirshbergThree-time International Horror Guild and Shirley Jackson Award Winner Glen Hirshberg brings his flair for the grim, grisly, and emotionally harrowing to Good Girls, the standalone sequel to Motherless Child.Still in college, Rebecca is the “responsible one.” She keeps her friends from getting too crazy—though Human Curling is kind of out there. She’s a safety valve for Joel, her foster father, and helps out at Halfmoon House, which he runs with his wife, Amanda—Rebecca’s foster mother, who makes sure her children able to protect themselves. To take care of themselves. Mostly Rebecca takes care of everyone else. She works at the university’s crisis center, doing whatever she can to help the troubled souls who call the hotline. Until the night he calls. Jess has lost so much: her job, her home…her daughter Natalie, no longer human thanks to the creature who called himself the Whistler. She tried desperately to save Natalie, but in the end, Jess herself pulled the trigger and killed her child. Deep in mourning, Jess flees, with the remnants of her family: the man she loved, seriously injured; her infant grandson, somehow still innocent and pure. And Sophie. Natalie’s best friend, Jess’s almost-daughter, and a mother herself, though her son is dead. Sophie’s alive but not alive—half-mad, half vampire, half a person…and Jess’s responsibility.The Whistler is hunting Jess. She killed his Mother…and Natalie, who was his “destiny.” But he’s not so single-minded that he can’t have a little fun along the way, take what he needs from Rebecca’s friends and family…take Rebecca for his own….Fates collide in a small town where fear and love are two sides of the same coin and life and death lie far too close together.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Good Girls Die First
by Kathryn FoxfieldFor fans of Karen McManus' One of Us is Lying and films like I Know What You Did Last Summer, comes a gripping thriller about murder, mystery, and deception.Blackmail lures Ava to the abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier. She is one of ten teenagers, all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost. When fog and magic swallow the pier, the group find themselves cut off from the real world. As the teenagers turn on each other, Ava will have to face up to the secret that brought her to the pier and decide how far she's willing to go to survive. The teenagers have only their secrets to protect and each other to betray.Perfect for:13-18 year-old mystery fansFans of Karen McManus and Stephen King
Good Girls Don't Die
by Christina HenryA sharp-edged, supremely twisty thriller about three women who find themselves trapped inside stories they know aren&’t their own, from the author of Alice and Near the Bone.Celia wakes up in a house that&’s supposed to be hers. There&’s a little girl who claims to be her daughter and a man who claims to be her husband, but Celia knows this family—and this life—is not hers…Allie is supposed to be on a fun weekend trip—but then her friend&’s boyfriend unexpectedly invites the group to a remote cabin in the woods. No one else believes Allie, but she is sure that something about this trip is very, very wrong…Maggie just wants to be home with her daughter, but she&’s in a dangerous situation and she doesn&’t know who put her there or why. She&’ll have to fight with everything she has to survive…Three women. Three stories. Only one way out. This captivating novel will keep readers guessing until the very end.
The Good House: A Novel
by Tananarive Due*From the author of The Reformatory—A New York Times Notable Book of 2023* Award-winning author Tananarive Due's critically acclaimed story of supernatural suspense, as a woman searches for the inherited power that can save her hometown from evil forces.The home that belonged to Angela Toussaint's late grandmother is so beloved that the townspeople in Sacajawea, Washington call it the Good House. But that all changes one summer when an unexpected tragedy takes place behind its closed doors, and the Toussaint's family history—and future—is dramatically transformed. Angela has not returned to the Good House since her son, Corey, died there two years ago. But now, Angela is finally ready to return to her hometown and go beyond the grave to unearth the truth about Corey's death. Could it be related to a terrifying entity Angela's grandmother battled seven decades ago? And what about the other senseless calamities that Sacajawea has seen in recent years? Has Angela's grandmother, an African American woman reputed to have "powers," put a curse on the entire community? A thrilling exploration of secrets, lies, and divine inspiration, The Good House will haunt readers long after its chilling conclusion.
A Good House for Children
by Kate CollinsThe perfect place to destroy a family...The Reeve stands on the edge of the Dorset cliffs, awaiting its next inhabitants. Despite Orla's misgivings, her husband insists this house will be the perfect place to raise their two children.In 1976, Lydia moves to Dorset as a nanny for a family grieving their patriarch. She soon starts to hear and feel things that cannot be real, but her bereaved employer does not listen when Lydia tells her something is wrong.Separated by forty years, both Lydia and Orla realise that the longer they stay at the Reeve, the more deadly certain their need to keep the children safe from whatever lurks inside it...Nothing is quite what it seems at the Reeve, and with its pervasive atmosphere of claustrophobia and dread, Kate Collins' gothic creation will chill you to the core.
A Good House for Children: A Novel
by Kate Collins"A feminist gothic that evokes Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House." -- New York Times Book ReviewOnce upon a time Orla was: a woman, a painter, a lover. Now she is a mother and a wife, and when her husband Nick suggests that their city apartment has grown too small for their lives, she agrees, in part because she does agree, and in part because she is too tired to think about what she really does want. She agrees again when Nick announces with pride that he has found an antiquated Georgian house on the Dorset cliffs—a good house for children, he says, tons of space and gorgeous grounds. But as the family settles into the mansion—Nick absent all week, commuting to the city for work—Orla finds herself unsettled. She hears voices when no one is around; doors open and close on their own; and her son Sam, who has not spoken in six months, seems to have made an imaginary friend whose motives Orla does not trust.Four decades earlier, Lydia moves into the same house as a live-in nanny to a grieving family. Lydia, too, becomes aware of intangible presences in the large house, and she, like Orla four decades later, becomes increasingly fearful for the safety of the children in her care. But no one in either woman’s life believes her: the stories seem fanciful, the stuff of magic and mayhem, sprung from the imaginations of hysterical women who spend too much time in the company of children.Are both families careening towards tragedy? Are Orla and Lydia seeing things that aren’t there? What secrets is the house hiding? A feminist gothic tale perfectly suited for the current moment, A Good House for Children combines an atmospheric mystery with resonant themes of motherhood, madness, and the value of a woman’s work.
A Good Marriage
by Stephen KingNow a major motion picture, Stephen King's brilliant and terrifying story of a marriage with truly deadly secrets.Darcy Anderson’s husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his routine business trips when the unsuspecting Darcy looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a hidden box under a worktable and in it she discovers a trove of horrific evidence that her husband is two men—one, the benign father of her children, the other, a raging rapist and murderer. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends “A Good Marriage.”This story was originally published in Stephen King’s acclaimed collection, Full Dark, No Stars.
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
by Neil Gaiman Terry PratchettThe classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.?Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon!“Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It’s a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick.” —Washington PostAccording to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
Goodbye Mr Rat: (Hello and Goodbye: Goodbye)
by Patrick McCabeA girl from northern Indiana travels to rural Ireland; where, as she bids a friend farewell, she meets malign misfortune. Goodbye Mr Rat forms half of Hello and Goodbye: two glitzy baubles - generously stuffed with the choicest, rustiest nails, lacquered with dread, and compressed to the point of detonation. Its sister title is Hello Mr Bones.
Goodnight Stranger: A Novel
by Miciah Bay GaultShirley Jackson Award Finalist: A “deeply compelling” literary thriller about two siblings and a man who could be the brother they never knew (George Saunders, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo).Lydia and Lucas Moore are in their late twenties when a stranger enters their small world on Wolf Island. Lydia, the responsible sister, has cared for her pathologically shy brother ever since their mom’s death a decade before. They live, comfortable yet confined, in their family house by the sea, shadowed by events from their childhood.When Lydia sees the stranger step off the ferry, she feels an immediate connection. Lucas is convinced the man, Cole Anthony, is the reincarnation of their brother, who died as a baby. Cole knows their mannerisms, their home, the topography of the island—what else could that mean? Lydia is doubtful, but she can’t deny she is drawn to his magnetism, his energy, and his warmth. To discover the truth about Cole, Lydia must finally face her anxiety about leaving the island, and summon the strength to challenge Cole’s grip on her family’s past and her brother.“One of the best literary thrillers you’ll read this year.” —Cosmopolitan“Gault finesses the mechanics of her puzzle . . . an intriguing subtext about the infantilizing hazards of familial devotion.” —The New York Times Book Review“Taut, evocative . . . shows us what binds us to places and what sets us free.” —The Boston Globe“Quietly chilling . . . A suspenseful meditation on the many ways in which the past, consciously or not, shapes the present, the novel flirts with fantasy but ultimately stays grounded in the elemental realities of wind, tides, and the eroding foundations of memory.” —Booklist“Reminds me of Karen Russell, Donna Tartt, Gillian Flynn, and Marilynne Robinson all at once . . . a monster debut.” —Daniel Torday, author of The Last Flight of Poxl WestLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize
The Goon (2019-) Vol. 1: A Ragged Return to Lonely Street
by Eric PowellAfter strange adventures abroad, Goon & Franky return to find a horde of unsavory characters have filled the void left in their absence from Lonely Street.For two decades, the Goon's adventures have thrilled fans, critics, and creators with their bold creativity, classic style, and irreverent humor. This volume contains Eric Powell's highly anticipated return to his flagship series for its 20th anniversary. With never before seen bonus sketch material.
The Goon (2019-) Vol. 2: DECEIT OF A CRO-MAGNON DANDY: The Deceit of a Cro-Magnon Dandy
by Eric Powell Tom SniegoskiOne by one, the Goon has taken down the gangs who have sprung up in the Nameless Town in his absence.But he has yet to face the mysterious crime figure know as Dapper... until now. After Goon is framed for the kidnapping of the Limburger Baby, it's not just the brute force of the Neanderthal in the pinstriped suit Goon has to worry about, but the wrath of the furious town out for vengeance. But is Dapper really the one pulling the strings?
The Goon Vol. 1: Bunch of Old Crap, an Omnibus
by Eric PowellOmnibus collections of Eric Powell's Eisner Award-winning series, The Goon!The Nameless Man, the Zombie Priest, has come to town to build a gang from the undead. But even the undead fear the Goon! The Goon: Bunch of Old Crap Volume 1 collects The Goon books 0-3 (The Goon: Rough Stuff, The Goon: Nothing But Misery, The Goon: My Murderous Childhood, and The Goon: Heaps of Ruination).
The Goon Vol. 2: Bunch of Old Crap, an Omnibus
by Eric PowellFrom mad scientists to inter-dimensional flesh eating chickens to a heart breaking betrayal, Lonely Street comes under all manner of threats both tragic and hilarious in this second omnibus volume of The Goon.A mysterious new figure has entered the crime scene and is taking out the Goon's business operations one by one. As Goon struggles to keep the city's organized crime under his control, his mind is haunted by the memories of his darkest moments. This edition, packed full of bonus material, collects volumes 4-6 of Eric Powell's Eisner Award-winning series. Including what is considered by many to be the high water mark of the series, The Goon: Chinatown and the Mystery of Mr. Wicker.
The Goon Vol. 3: Bunch of Old Crap, an Omnibus
by Eric PowellFear and misery plague the nameless town on the edge of Horse-Eater's Wood.An ancient curse is drawing the most powerful and vile creatures to the town with only one hope for protection—the Goon. But when it draws an enemy thought long gone, even the Goon's lifelong foe, the Zombie Priest, is subjugated to this power's evil will.Collects The Goon Volumes 7-9 with bonus material.
The Goon Vol. 3: FISHY MEN, WITCHY WOMEN & BITTER BEER
by Roger LangridgeA stand alone Goon tale by acclaimed creative team of writer Roger Langridge (Fred the Clown, The Muppets) and artist Mike Norton (Battle Pug, Revival).When a brewing war between Mother Brewster's clan and Kaiser Fishhelm's Old Peculiar distillery breaks out, it looks to undermine the stability of the local unions. And the Goon can't have that, can he? Witches... Fish Men... and Beer! It's a calamitous mixture as the Goon and Franky try to keep the Brewer's Union in line and chaos at bay.
The Goon Vol. 4: Bunch of Old Crap, an Omnibus
by Eric PowellAfter surviving the return of Labrazio, Goon wants nothing more than to settle onto a barstool with some whiskey, but a succession of cake-mad hobo gods, snake-hurling hillbillies, and bodacious burlesque dancers have other ideas.And somewhere on Lonely Street, a resurgent Zombie Priest plots his next attack...Collects The Goon Volumes 10-12.
The Goon Vol. 5: Bunch of Old Crap, an Omnibus
by Eric PowellThe Goon's darkest chapter is collected in this volume that contains the last of the Dark Horse run.What's left of the Zombie Priest's race of witches come after the Goon, forcing him to face his nightmares or lose his town! The witch coven believe that control of Goon's town will soon be in their grasp and his tragic soul will contribute to the curse that increases their power. But has their plot destroyed the Goon or created a monster too savage for them to withstand?This edition collects The Goon Volumes 13-15 and The Goon Noir.
Goose of Hermogenes
by Ithell Colquhoun Peter Owen Eric RatcliffeThe heroine of this story (described only as "I") is compelled to visit a mysterious uncle who turns out to be a black magician who lords over a kind of Prospero's Island that exists out of time and space. Startled by his bizarre behavior and odd nocturnal movements, she eventually learns that he is searching for the philosopher's stone. When his sinister attentions fall upon the priceless jewel heirloom in her possession, bewilderment turns into stark terror and she realizes she must find a way off the island. An esoteric dreamworld fantasy composed of uncorrelated scenes and imagery mostly derived from medieval occult sources, Goose of Hermogenes might be described as a gothic novel, an occult picaresque, or a surrealist fantasy. However one wants to approach this obscure tale, it remains today as vividly unforgettable and disturbing as when it was first published by Peter Owen in 1961.
Goosebumps
by Eviano George Batuta RibeiroGoosebumps is a collection of 13 short stories guaranteed to have you wetting yourself in fear just before bedtime.
Goosebumps (Goosebumps #7, 31, 40)
by R. L. StineNight of the Living Dummy I, II and III. These stories are Goosebumps #7, #31, and #40, respectively. Discovering an old ventriloquist dummy in the trash and naming it Slappy, young Lindy inadvertently sets off a terrifying series of events, in a scary story collection that features cover art of Slappy with flashing eyes.
Goosebumps The Movie: The Movie Novel
by Scholastic R. L. StineTHE GOOSEBUMPS MOVIE captures the chills, thrills, and giggles of Scholastic's original bestselling series. Jack Black stars as author R. L. Stine. Zach, 16, has just moved from NYC to a creepy small town. He soon realizes his new neighbor, Hannah (also 16), is in danger. When he tries to rescue her, he accidentally unleashes the monsters created and brought to life by her writer father, R.L. Stine. Now it's up to Zach, Hannah, and Stine to get the monsters back in their books where they belong. Can they stop the monsters... for good?
Goosebumps Wanted: The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps)
by R. L. StineFor the first time ever, Goosebumps is in hard cover! Catch the series' most notorious characters--undead or alive... From horror master R.L. Stine come two new chilling stories in one spooky standalone: The Haunted Mask has returned and is determined to make this the worst night of your life! Where's the last place you would want to get stuck? A haunted pumpkin patch where the jack o'lanterns are after you! And watch for Goosebumps: Most Wanted, an all-new paperback series coming in the fall.
Gordath Wood
by Patrice SarathSomething strange is happening in Gordath Wood, the old woods surrounding a training stable called Hunter's Chase. The police think Lynn Romano and Kate Mossland have been murdered, but what actually occurred is much stranger. They've gone through a hole between worlds, into a medieval society at war. In a world that doesn't ordinarily have use for women, the danger is great - good thing Lynn and Kate aren't your ordinary women.
Gorel and the Pot-Bellied God
by Lavie TidharWinner – British Fantasy Award for Best Novella, 2012A legend tells of the Mirror of Falang-Et: a magical object in the city of the frog tribes, which can tell all manner of truths. . .There is only one truth Gorel of Goliris – gunslinger, addict, touched by the Black Kiss – is interested in: finding a way back home, to the great empire from which he had been stolen as a child and from which he had been flung, by sorcery, far across the World.It started out simple: get to Falang-Et, find the mirror, find what truth it may hold. But nothing is simple for Gorel of Goliris. . . When Gorel forms an uneasy alliance – and ménage à trois – with an Avian spy and a half-Merlangai thief, things only start to get complicated. Add a murdered merchant, the deadly Mothers of the House of Jade, the rivalry of gods and the machinations of a rising Dark Lord bent on conquest, and things start to get out of hand. Only one thing’s for sure: by the time this is over, there will be blood.Not to mention sex and drugs. . . or guns and sorcery.“A delightfully Weird pulp tale that could easily sit on a shelf alongside Leiber, Vance and Moorcock. . . an excellent planned and exuberantly executed fantasy” – Pornokitch