Horror

House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition (Paperback)

By Mark Z. Danielewski

$26.00

ISBN: 9780375703768

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Published: Pantheon - March 7th, 2000

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This is a novel written as a documentary which is written by a blind man about videos of a shape-changing House that he obviously couldn’t see, which could also have been completely fabricated to make a great premise for the blind man’s opus, which we’ll never know because he’s deceased and so  we can’t ask him, which is then edited by a complete stranger to the blind man and the project who becomes fanatically obsessed with learning the truth of the matter, but also professes in his increasingly schizophrenic tirades that he tends to lie a lot.

 

With me so far?

 

Come along, then. We’ll pick up the stragglers later.

 

The house of title fame belongs to a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist named Will Navidson who resides in this quaint countryside abode with his wife and two children. Everything seems just fine and dandy until  the hallway appears.

 

This hallway doesn’t connect two rooms. Rather, it branches off a living room wall and extends into total darkness. It is dark, featureless, and eerily cold. The general consensus is that it’s giving everyone the heebie-jeebies. So of course, Navidson busts out the camera and goes exploring. The walk from the living room entryway to the wall inside takes him five and a half minutes to complete. Sufficiently creeped-out, the family did the only sensible thing they could do: they boarded up the hole and stuck a door on it. Not surprisingly, this doesn’t help. Unable to contain his curiosity, Navidson opens the door for a peek only to find that the hallway has stretched out even farther.

 

Soon, they discover an entire catacomb of corridors and chambers has manifested behind the living room wall. Navidson hires a team of explorers to investigate the area. When they don’t return, he and his own team move in to rescue them. What they step into is a dark and foreboding place whose architectural make-up alters and moves while they’re inside. Where the darkness had once been utterly silent, now an otherworldly growl begins to draw nearer.

 

But what Navidson and his team find in the darkness isn’t a growling monster, it’s more terrifying than that. What they find in the darkness is what slowly drives poor Johnny Truant insane, it’s what we can assume made the blind man so obsessed with Navidson’s story, and what probably drove him a bit crazy, too. The madness they uncover  starts being mimicked by the book itself, with strange cross-outs, entire missing sections, incessant and disrupting footnotes, backwards print, and formatting that makes the writing near impossible to read.

 

Even though you’re positive you’re reading a novel and it’s fiction and you know in your noggin that the Navidson Record doesn’t exist, even though the characters in the book are themselves doubtful anything occurring is real at all, even though it makes no sense that a blind man would review a video documentary, even though there’s that ever-present Johnny Truant who has a penchant for fabricating wild, elaborate stories, what they find there in the darkness will make you keep the night light on. Even more frighteningly, you probably won’t be sure why.

 

And if that hasn’t convinced you, pick up the book and flip to the middle. Trust me on this one. - Nikki 

 

 

 

The Honeys (Hardcover)

By Ryan La Sala

$18.99

ISBN: 9781338745313

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Published: PUSH - August 16th, 2022

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A delightfully creepy horror novel set at a secretive summer camp and a profound exploration of grief, privilege, and genderfluidity. - Alyssa 

Wrath (Hardcover)

By Sharon Moalem, Daniel Kraus

$27.99

ISBN: 9781454945222

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Published: Union Square & Co. - October 11th, 2022

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Jurassic Park meets fluffy designer pets in the heart of New York City. - Nikki 

 

Gallant (Hardcover)

By V. E. Schwab

$18.99

ISBN: 9780062835772

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Published: Greenwillow Books - March 1st, 2022

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Olivia Prior has spent her entire life within the gray walls of Merilance School for Girls seeing ghouls and feeling like an outsider, the only connection to her family being her mother’s mysterious rambling diary. But when Olivia is summoned to the family estate by her estranged uncle, she soon realizes that her family is hiding a dark secret about the deaths of many of its members, and is thrust into a world where the lines between dreams and reality blur, where a seemingly innocent crumbling garden wall has a malevolent air around it, and where a family bloodline is the only thing keeping an ancient hungry entity from devouring the rest of Olivia’s family - and even the rest of the world.

Fans of Coraline, Stranger Things and gothic horror will enjoy this book about a family bound to a house - and the terrifying monster held on the other side of a crumbling garden wall that has more to it than meets the eye.

Read this one with a night light and make sure you check under your bed for ghouls before going to sleep! With creeping horror and dread, this book had me utterly transfixed and I read it in one sitting into the darkest parts of the night. - Jessi 

 

The Book Eaters (Hardcover)

By Sunyi Dean

$26.99

ISBN: 9781250810182

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Published: Tor Books - August 2nd, 2022

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THE BOOK EATERS by Sunyi Dean is a completely original monster story about a mother's love and the lengths she will go to to protect her son. Devon is born into an insular patriarchal community of book eaters, who get sustenance by consuming written matter. But sometimes another kind of child is born. A monstrous child whose insatiable hunger can only be sated by feeding on the minds of others. 

 

THE BOOK EATERS is the story of a mother's love for her child, and fight to bring him a better life. Dean has told an incredible story of breaking away and sacrificing everything you have for a child that needs you more than anything. An amazing weird dark fantasy book that will stay with you long after you have put it down. - Vickie 

The Silent Companions: A Novel (Paperback)

By Laura Purcell

$17.00

ISBN: 9780143131632

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Published: Penguin Books - March 6th, 2018

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Newly widowed and pregnant Elsie comes to live at her late husband's rundown estate, where deeply unsettling occurrences begin happening after she finds a painted wooden "companion" behind a locked door .Dripping with Victorian gothic aesthetic and told from multiple points of view and time periods, the relentless dread in this novel builds and builds and never lets up, culminating in ghastly scenes that, years later, still give me nightmares. (You'll never look at cardboard cutouts or splinters the same way again.) - Jessie