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"Supernatural suspense at its finest...The best thing about The Hunger is that it will scare the pants off you." —The New York Times Book Review "Deeply, deeply disturbing, hard to put down, not recommended reading after dark."—Stephen King. A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America's most fascinating historical moments: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party.

From the author of New York Times bestseller House of Hollow comes a darkly seductive witchy thriller where, though both men and demons lurk in shadows, girls refuse to go quietly into the night. An instant New York Times bestseller. Three girls, one supernatural killer on the loose. Zara Jones believes in magic because the alternative is too painful to consider—that her murdered sister is gone forever and there is nothing she can do about it. Rather than grieving and moving on, Zara decides she will do whatever it takes to claw her sister back from the grave—even trading in the occult.

New York Times Best Seller — A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across the city.

An ocean-drenched, atmospheric horror debut! Liv's best friend disappears on their first night aboard their dream semester-at-sea program—but is he really sick, like everyone says, or is something darker lurking beneath the water? It should have been the trip of a lifetime. When Liv lands an all-expenses-paid opportunity to study aboard the luxury cruise ship The Eos for a semester, she can’t believe her luck. Especially since it will offer her the chance to spend time with Will, her ex–best friend, who’s barely spoken to her since the night their relationship changed forever.

Vampires... they ache, they love, they thirst for the forbidden. They are your friends and lovers — and your worst fears. “A major new voice in horror fiction... an electric style and no shortage of nerve.” — Booklist. At a club in Missing Mile, N.C., the children of the night gather, dressed in black, searching for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to an ancient, deathless truth about his father — and himself.

National bestseller • Blue skies, empty land—and enough wide-open space to hide a horrifying secret. A woman with a past, a mysterious trunk, a town on the edge of nowhere, and an “absorbing, powerful” (BuzzFeed) new vision of the American West, from the award-winning author of The Changeling. “Propulsive . . . LaValle combines chills with deep insights into our country’s divides.”—Los Angeles Times. One of BookPage’s ten best books of the year • Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and Locus Award • Longlisted for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.

Dolores Reyes' Eartheater is an "outstanding" (New York Times) synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Named a Must-Read and One of the Best Books by TIME, Vulture, Boston Globe, Cosmopolitan, Wired, and more. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, this is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth -- a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death.

"A haunted house thriller packed with cryptic mystery, dark humor, and bone-chilling twists." --Ryan Douglass, New York Times bestselling author of The Taking of Jake Livingston -- The Haunting of Hill House meets Sadie in this "genuinely terrifying" (School Library Journal, starred review) psychological thriller following two teen girls navigating the treacherous past of a mysterious mansion ten years apart. Daisy sees dead people--something impossible to forget in bustling, ghost-packed Toronto.

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award in Translated Literature — a wildly original debut from a rising star of Korean literature—surreal, chilling fables that take on the patriarchy, capitalism, and the reign of big tech with absurdist humor and a (sometimes literal) bite. Pre-order Your Utopia, the new book written by Bora Chung and translated by Anton Hur, coming February 2024! From an author never before published in the United States, Cursed Bunny is unique and imaginative, blending horror, sci-fi, fairy tales, and speculative fiction into stories that defy categorization.

An instant USA Today bestseller — A Best Book of 2024 (NPR). From Gretchen Felker-Martin, the acclaimed author of Manhunt, comes a vicious new novel about a group of teens who must stay true to themselves while in a conversion camp from hell. "A soaring, boundless ode to queer survival. It's flat-out mesmerizing." —Paul Tremblay, author of The Pallbearers Club. Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin. In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it.