Candles Burning Tabitha King & Michael McDowell FIC KING Calliope "Calley" Dakin is just seven when HORROR: her beloved father is tortured, murdered, and dismembered by two women with no Stories To Leave You Shivering In The Dark discernible motivation. In the aftermath, Calley and her mother find themselves caught up in inexplicable events that exile The Ruins them to Pensacola Beach, where- in a Scott Smith house that's a dead ringer for Calley's late FIC SMITH great- grandmother's house- a woman Two American couples, just out of awaits their presence. For Calley is no college, enjoy a pleasant, lazy beach normal little girl. holiday together in Mexico. On an impulse, they go off with newfound friends in search The Silent Land of one of their group--the young German, who, in pursuit of a girl, has headed for the Graham Joyce remote Mayan ruins, site of a fabled FIC JOYCE archeological dig. Then the searchers-- In the French Pyrenees, a young married moving into the wild interior--begin to couple is buried under a flash avalanche suspect that there is an insidious, horrific while skiing. Miraculously, Jake and Zoe dig "other" among them... their way out from under the snow-- only to discover the world they knew has been overtaken by an eerie and absolute silence. Kraken Their hotel is devoid of another living soul. China Mieville Cell phones and land lines are cut off. An evacuation as sudden and thorough as this FIC MIEVILLE Billy Harrow is a dedicated scientist who leaves Jake and Zoe to face a terrifying never imagined being caught up in intrigue, situation alone. They are trapped by the but after he successfully preserves a giant storm, completely isolated, with another squid, he comes to the attention of the catastrophic avalanche threatening to bury Krakenists, an obscure cult that worships them alive… again. squids. When the giant squid mysteriously disappears from the museum in the middle of A Dark Matter the day, Billy is drawn into the world of cults, magic, and Armageddon.

FIC STRAUB The charismatic Spenser Mallon, a campus guru in the 1960s, attracts the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local The Dead Path meadow, the only thing that remains is a Stephen M. Irwin gruesomely dismembered body - and the FIC IRWIN shattered souls of all who were present. Years After the death of his wife, Nicholas Close later, one man attempts to understand what becomes haunted, literally, by ghosts. Torn happened to them all by writing a book about by guilt and fearing for his sanity, he returns this horrible night, and through this process he home to Tallong, Australia, and becomes begins to examine the unspeakable events entangled in a disturbing series of that have haunted every one of them ever disappearances and murders--both as a since. As each of the old friends tries to come suspect and as the next victim of the to grips with the darkness of the past, they find malignant evil lurking in the heart of the themselves face-to-face with the evil triggered woods. so many years earlier.

The Association Bentley Little FIC LITTLE The Ridge Barry and Maureen Welch are thrilled to Michael Koryta exchange their chaotic California lifestyle for FIC KORYTA the idyllic confines of Bonita Vista, a ritzy From the lighthouse he built on top of a gated community in the unincorporated ridge in an eastern Kentucky forest, Wyatt fictional town of Corban, Utah. But as Bonita French makes two rambling phone calls Vista residents, they're required to become about murder and suicide. When Chief Deputy Kevin Kimble and journalist Roy members of the neighborhood Homeowners' Darmus find him dead in the lighthouse and Association, a meddling group that uses its discover old photographs and maps with authority to spy on neighbors, eradicate pets names written on them, they realize Wyatt and dismember anyone who fails to pay has been collecting information that relates association dues and fines. Maureen, an to mysterious and deadly local events that accountant, and Barry, a horror writer who is date back decades. As more disturbing banned by the association from writing at events occur, Kimble and Darmus find they are confronting an old, old evil. home, soon find themselves trapped in the kind of deranged world that Barry once believed existed only within the safety of his imagination. The Devil’s Labyrinth The Caretaker of Lorne John Saul Field FIC SAUL Dave Zeltserman A troubled teenager struggling to cope with FIC ZELTSERMAN the loss of his father, Ryan McIntyre is sent Jack Durkin is the ninth generation of to St. Ignatius Catholic School, an institution Durkins who have weeded Lorne Field with a good reputation for dealing with for nearly 300 years. Though he and his troubled teens. Two boys have disappeared wife Lydia are miserable and would like from St. Isaac, and by the end of Ryan's nothing more than to leave, Jack must first week at St. Isaac, one of the missing wait until his son has come of age to tend boys has been killed by police while committing bloody murder. During week the field on his own. It’s an important job, two, Ryan finds the corpse of the other though no one else seems to realize it. missing boy in the underground tunnels For, if the field is left untended, a horrific beneath the school. Father Sebastian, a monster called an Aukowie will grow. A psychologist-priest at the school, is also an monster capable of taking over the exorcist, and has been using the students entirety of America in just two weeks. of St. Isaac’s to test out an ancient summoning rite that allows an exorcist Or so it is said... control of the evil to be found in anyone. Creepers Mister B. Gone FIC MORRELL Clive Barker On a cold October night, five people FIC BARKER gather in a rundown motel on the Jersey A medieval devil speaks directly to the shore to make preparations to break into a reader, his tone murderous one moment, nearby abandoned hotel-- built by a seductive the next, in a memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has reclusive millionaire during Asbury Park's embedded himself in the very words of this golden days-- but the group of urban tale of terror, turning the book itself into a explorers, joined for the evening by a dangerous object, laced with menace only reporter, are unprepared for the danger, too ready to break free and exert its terror, and death awaiting. power.

The Terror Hawkes Harbor FIC SIMMONS Sir John Franklin is leader of the 1840’s S.E. Hinton Franklin expedition, the search for the FIC HINTON Northwest Passage, and captain of the Jamie Sommers is orphaned at the age of Erebus. He is also an aging fool. Francis eight in 1950 and sent to live with some Crozier, his second in command and nasty nuns until graduating as a troubled captain of the Terror, is a competent young man to a life at sea. After surviving sailor, but embittered after years of seeing a number of life-threatening adventures as lesser men with better connections given a gem smuggler in exotic ports, he ends preferment over him. With their two ships up in the small town of Hawkes Harbor on quickly trapped in pack ice, their voyage is the Delaware coast, where he stumbles a disaster from start to finish. Madness, into a situation so dire his entire life is mutiny and cannibalism follow. And then changed in a manner of minutes. His new there's the monstrous creature from the employer, the mysterious Grenville ice, the thing like a polar bear but many Hawke, lord of Hawkes Hall, is a Vampire. times larger, possessed of a dark and vicious intelligence.

Swan Song The Night Strangers Robert McCammon FIC MCCAMMON Chris Bohjalian In a nightmarish, post-holocaust world, FIC BOHJALIAN an ancient evil roams a devastated After he crashes his plane into Lake America, gathering the forces of human Champlain, killing most of the passengers, greed and madness, searching for a Chip Linton moves into a new home with child named Swan who possesses the his wife and twin daughters and soon finds gift of life. himself being haunted by the dead passengers, all while his wife wonders why the strange herbalist denizens of the town have taken such an interest in her daughters.