Summer Scares for Adults

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Bad Cree : a novel = ācimoiᐧn

Bad Cree : a novel = ācimoiᐧn

Johns, Jessica, author
2023

Mackenzie, a Cree millennial, wakes up clutching a pine bough she had been holding in her dream just moments earlier. When she blinks, it disappears. Mackenzie continues to accidentally bring back items from her dreams, dreams that are eerily similar to real memories of her older sister and Kokum before their untimely deaths. Desperate for help, Mackenzie returns to her mother, sister, cousin, and aunties in her small Alberta hometown. Together, they try to uncover what is haunting Mackenzie before something irrevocable happens to anyone else around her.

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Burn the negative : a novel

Burn the negative : a novel

Winning, Josh author.
2023

In this incendiary mash-up of horror and suspense, a notorious slasher film is remade...and the curse that haunted it is reawakened.

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Camp Damascus

Camp Damascus

Tingle, Chuck, author
2023

Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed "most effective" gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy. And they'll scare you straight to hell.

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Dead eleven : a novel

Dead eleven : a novel

Juliano, Jimmy, author
2023

"On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death-but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated rules..."-- Provided by publisher.

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The hacienda

The hacienda

Cañas, Isabel, author
2022

During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz's father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumours surrounding his first wife's sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. Beatriz only knows two things for certain: something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will help her.

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How to sell a haunted house

How to sell a haunted house

Hendrix, Grady, author
2023

Louise's parents have passed away, and she's returning to the small Southern town where she grew up to get their house ready to sell. It means she'll have to spend time with her younger brother-and their old grudges make that a terrifying prospect. But childhood hurts pale in comparison to the dangers posed by what still lives inside the house.

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Jackal : a novel

Jackal : a novel

Adams, Erin E., author
2022

As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. On the day of her best friend's wedding, the couple's daughter, Caroline, disappears. As a frantic search begins, Liz is the only one who notices a pattern. As Liz starts to dig through the town's history, she uncovers a horrifying secret: children have been going missing in these woods for years. All of them Black. All of them girls. With the evil in the forest creeping closer, Liz must find Caroline - or be entirely consumed by the darkness.

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Mister Magic : a novel

Mister Magic : a novel

White, Kiersten, author
2023

Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on. A surprise encounter brings the old castmates all together for a reunion. Back to the remote desert filming compound that feels like it's been waiting for them all this time. After all, they're the only ones who hold the secret of that circle, the mystery of the magic man in his infinitely black cape, and, maybe, the answers to what really happened on that deadly last day.

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My heart is a chainsaw

My heart is a chainsaw

Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-, author
2022

Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies...especially the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.

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The reformatory : a novel

The reformatory : a novel

Due, Tananarive, 1966-, author
2023

"A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he's sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead."-- Publisher's description.

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Sign here

Sign here

Lux, Claudia (Claudia Kilbourne), author
2022

Peyote Trip has a pretty good gig in the deals department on the fifth floor of Hell. When the Harrisons retreat to the family lake house for the summer, with their daughter Mickey's precocious new friend, Ruth, in tow, the opportunity Pey has waited a millennium for might finally be in his grasp. And with the help of his charismatic coworker Calamity, he sets a plan in motion. But things aren't always as they seem, on Earth or in Hell. And as old secrets and new dangers scrape away at the Harrisons' shiny surface, revealing the darkness beneath, everyone must face the consequences of their choices.

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Sisters of the lost nation

Sisters of the lost nation

Medina, Nick, author
2023

Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino - and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step - an ancient tribal myth come to life, one that's intent on devouring her whole. With strange and sinister happenings occurring around the casino, Anna starts to suspect that not all the horrors on the reservation are old. As girls begin to go missing and the tribe scrambles to find answers, Anna struggles with her place on the rez, desperately searching for the key she's sure lies in the legends of her tribe's past.

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Whalefall : a novel

Whalefall : a novel

Kraus, Daniel, 1975-, author
2023

Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand - to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid's tenacles and drawn into the whale's mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out - one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.

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What moves the dead

What moves the dead

Kingfisher, T., author
2022

"From T. Kingfisher comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher." When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves. Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all"-- Provided by publisher.

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