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Desire and violence intertwine where art becomes obsession and morality erodes beyond recognition.
Exquisite Corpse
Horror · LGBTQIA+ · Thriller
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Desire and violence intertwine where art becomes obsession and morality erodes beyond recognition. In Exquisite Corpse, escaped killer Andrew Compton forges a dangerous connection with another predator, drawing them toward a shared fixation on control and destruction. Set between London and New Orleans, the novel confronts extreme horror, transgression, and the seductive logic of cruelty with unflinching intimacy.
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From the acclaimed author ofLost Souls, Drawing Blood,andWormwood comes the provocative and thrilling serial killer novel that #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub calls “a guidebook to hell.”
To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the ambition of bringing his art to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his own art to limits even Compton hadn’t previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim.
Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London’s Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of New Orleans’s French Quarter, Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. With “intelligence, sweep, nerve, knowledge, and deeply unsettling erotic power” (Dennis Cooper, author of Frisk), Exquisite Corpse is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.
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Domestic routine begins to warp when exhaustion, isolation, and desire collide, blurring the line between metaphor and transformation.
Nightbitch
Literary Fiction · Psychological Fiction
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Domestic routine begins to warp when exhaustion, isolation, and desire collide, blurring the line between metaphor and transformation. In Nightbitch, an artist turned stay at home mother becomes convinced her body is changing in ways she cannot explain. As her identity fractures, the novel explores motherhood, creativity, and suppressed rage through psychological horror and darkly surreal literary fiction.
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In this blazingly smart and voracious debut novel, an artist turned stay-at-home mom becomes convinced she's turning into a dog. • "A must-read for anyone who can’t get enough of the ever-blurring line between the psychological and supernatural that Yellowjackets exemplifies." —Vulture
One day, the mother was a mother, but then one night, she was quite suddenly something else...
An ambitious mother puts her art career on hold to stay at home with her newborn son, but the experience does not match her imagination. Two years later, she steps into the bathroom for a break from her toddler's demands, only to discover a dense patch of hair on the back of her neck. In the mirror, her canines suddenly look sharper than she remembers. Her husband, who travels for work five days a week, casually dismisses her fears from faraway hotel rooms.
As the mother's symptoms intensify, and her temptation to give in to her new dog impulses peak, she struggles to keep her alter-canine-identity secret. Seeking a cure at the library, she discovers the mysterious academic tome which becomes her bible, A Field Guide to Magical Women: A Mythical Ethnography, and meets a group of mommies involved in a multilevel-marketing scheme who may also be more than what they seem.
An outrageously original novel of ideas about art, power, and womanhood wrapped in a satirical fairy tale, Nightbitch will make you want to howl in laughter and recognition. And you should. You should howl as much as you want.
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A carefree summer fractures the moment violence intrudes, turning nostalgia into dread and survival into a test of endurance.
The Summer I Died
Horror · Thriller · Psychological Thriller
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A carefree summer fractures the moment violence intrudes, turning nostalgia into dread and survival into a test of endurance. When college student Roger Huntington reunites with his friend Tooth, a routine outing becomes a brutal confrontation with a sadistic killer. The Summer I Died delivers extreme horror rooted in friendship, fear, and the slow realization that escape may demand transformation as much as resistance.
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The cult thriller novel is back in this all new edition which features the original text as it was meant to be published! Dubbed one of "The Most Intense Horror Novels" ever written by many horror review sites, The Summer I Died is the first book in the Roger Huntington saga and has been optioned for film.
Please be warned: This book contains depictions of torture and graphic violence.
When Roger Huntington comes home from college for the summer and is met by his best friend, Tooth, he knows they're going to have a good time. A summer full of beer, comic books, movies, laughs, and maybe even girls. The sun is high and the sky is clear as Roger and Tooth set out to shoot beer cans at Bobcat Mountain. Just two friends catching up on lost time, two friends thinking about their futures. . . two friends suddenly thrust into the middle of a nightmare. Forced to fight for their lives against a sadistic killer with an arsenal of razor sharp blades and a hungry dog by his side. If they are to survive, they must decide: are heroes born, or are they made? Or is something more powerful happening to them? And more importantly, how do you survive when all roads lead to death?
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A war without a visible enemy forces soldiers to question what they are truly fighting.
Androne
Dystopian · Sci-Fi · Hard Sci-Fi · Military Sci-Fi
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A war without a visible enemy forces soldiers to question what they are truly fighting. Androne follows Sergeant Paxton Arés, a remote pilot deployed after a catastrophic global attack rewrites modern warfare. As rumors, loyalty, and fear collide in an unknowable desert conflict, Paxton’s search for truth becomes personal. This is near-future military science fiction centered on uncertainty, duty, and the consequences of fighting a war no one understands.
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Humanity’s new war is an enigma, with an enemy threat beyond all imagination, in this near-future novel of mind-blowing adventure where the fate of the world rests in the choices of one ordinary soldier.
In one terrifying event called the Ninety-Nine, all major military installations on earth were eviscerated. But by whom? Foreign powers, AIs, ETs? Every conceivable adversary was ruled out. Reeling from massive casualties and amid hundreds of conspiracy theories, humanity creates Andrones: bipedal android drones piloted remotely by soldiers who will never again need to be on the field of battle. Newly minted Androne pilot Sergeant Paxton Arés has now been deployed into a fight against an enemy no one understands or has ever seen.
Passing mostly uneventful days patrolling an unidentified desert, Paxton spends time communicating with his pregnant girlfriend back home and reflecting on his impending fatherhood. But as he is drawn deeper into military camaraderie and begins quickly rising up the ranks on the strength of his father’s military legacy, Paxton starts to question the swirling rumors about the nature of the conflict. What he’s encountered in the shifting dunes—something inexplicable, indomitable—fills him with the fear that whatever is out there is destined to win.
Whether it’s curiosity, ambition, or a newfound paternal instinct, Paxton has a driving need to understand the dangerous truths of this strange, invisible war. And the choices he must make have the power to change everything.
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A reluctant conscript stumbles into a war he never asked to fight.
Mercury Rising
Sci-Fi · Alien Invasion · First Contact · Space Opera
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A reluctant conscript stumbles into a war he never asked to fight. Mercury Rising follows Brooklyn, an ordinary man framed for murder and forced into Earth’s orbital defenses during an alien conflict that has already rewritten history. As space battles and buried conspiracies collide, survival demands more than obedience. This is an alternate-history science fiction novel driven by dark humor, escalating stakes, and the realization that the real threat may be closer than it appears.
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Top Gun in space!
An alternative history with aliens, an immortal misanthrope and SF tropes aplenty
The year is 1975 – Robert Oppenheimer has invented the Atomic Engine, the first human has walked on the moon, and Jet Carson and the Eagle Seven have sacrificed their lives to stop alien invaders.
Brooklyn, however, just wants to keep his head down, pay his mother’s rent, earn a little scratch of his own, and maybe get laid sometime. Simple pleasures! But life is about to get real complicated when a killer with a baseball bat and a mysterious box of 8-track tapes sets him up for murder.
So, his choices are limited – rot away in prison or sign up to defend the planet from the assholes who dropped a meteorite on Cleveland. Brooklyn crosses his fingers and picks the Earth Orbital Forces, believing that after a few years in the trenches – assuming he survives – he can get his life back. Unfortunately, the universe has other plans.
Brooklyn is launched into a quest to save humanity, find his true family, and grow as a person – while simultaneously coping with high-stakes space battles, mystery science experiments and the realisation that the true enemies perhaps aren’t the tentacled monsters on the recruitment poster… Or are they?
File Under: Science Fiction [ Little Green Men | Injection | Below the Crust | The Truth is out There ]
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When a papal conclave vanishes behind sealed doors, faith collides with fear and secrecy.
The Last Conclave
Mystery · Historical Mystery · Historical Thriller
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When a papal conclave vanishes behind sealed doors, faith collides with fear and secrecy. The Last Conclave follows journalist Cal Donovan as the disappearance of the Church’s most powerful figures exposes a conspiracy rooted in centuries of hidden doctrine and violence. As history, belief, and ambition converge, this is a Vatican thriller driven by institutional secrecy, moral reckoning, and the danger of truths long suppressed.
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A vanished conclave. An empty Sistine Chapel. And a secret buried for eight centuries.
From internationally bestselling author Glenn Cooper comes a gripping Vatican conspiracy thriller that has already topped the charts in Italy.
When Pope John XXIV is found dead in his bed just two years after his election, the world braces for a new conclave. But as the cardinal electors are sealed inside the Sistine Chapel, something unthinkable happens.
Hours pass. No smoke rises. No vote is announced.
And when Vatican Secretary of State Elisabetta Celestino breaks protocol to open the doors—she finds the chapel empty. The cardinals have vanished without a trace.
CNN religion expert Cal Donovan is on-site to cover the conclave, but soon finds himself swept into a global investigation. As panic spreads and theories abound, Cal uncovers a chilling trail leading back to a centuries-old order—one that has waited in the shadows to cleanse the sins of the Church... with blood.
Ancient secrets. Ruthless power. And a final reckoning that will shake the foundations of faith.
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A search for freedom becomes a confrontation with isolation and consequence.
Into the Wild
Biographies & Memoirs
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A search for freedom becomes a confrontation with isolation and consequence. Into the Wild traces the journey of Christopher McCandless, who abandoned comfort, money, and identity in pursuit of a life stripped to its essentials. Through careful reporting and reflection, Jon Krakauer examines the ideals, contradictions, and risks that shaped McCandless’s choices. This is narrative nonfiction focused on self-reliance, obsession, and the thin line between transcendence and self-destruction.
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die.
"It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly
McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention.
Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.
Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless.
When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.
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Decay becomes impossible to ignore when loneliness and obsession begin to physically manifest.
I Will Rot Without You
Horror
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Decay becomes impossible to ignore when loneliness and obsession begin to physically manifest. After a breakup leaves his apartment crawling with sentient mold and invasive insects, Ernie drifts through a collapsing city as a catastrophic storm approaches. I Will Rot Without You blends surreal horror and emotional disintegration, using body decay as a lens for grief, desire, and the fear of being left behind.
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WHEN THE WORLD FALLS APART AND YOUR BODY STARTS TO ROT, LET THE ROACHES LEAD.
Meet Ernie. His life is a mess. Gretchen's gone, and the apartment they once shared in this grey, grim city is now overrun with intelligent mold and sinister bugs.
Then his neighbor Dee shows up, so smart and lovely. If he can just get past the fact that her jealous boyfriend could reach out of her blouse and punch him in the face at any moment, this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
Unfortunately for all involved, a Great Storm is coming and it will wash away everything we've ever known about the human heart.
"I WILL ROT WITHOUT YOU is like Cronenberg's THE FLY if it had been directed by Frank Zappa and Bruce Bickford. Nightmarishly rich in vision, absurdly and painfully hilarious, sorrowfully poignant, and bristling with outrageous surprises that never ever ever stop coming till it's done." - John Skipp, from his introduction
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A strange sickness spreads quietly at first, rewriting behavior before erupting into violence.
Infected
Post-Apocalyptic · Horror
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A strange sickness spreads quietly at first, rewriting behavior before erupting into violence. When a former football player discovers growing welts and invasive voices inside his own body, he becomes the most valuable clue in a national outbreak. Infected blends medical thriller tension with body horror, tracking a man forced into an intimate battle with a parasite that thinks, plans, and wants something from him.
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A terrifying thriller that will crawl beneath your skin . . . and leave fresh blood on every page.
“Fraught with tension . . . Invasion of the Body Snatchers meets The Hot Zone.”—Rocky Mountain News
Across America a mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving, paranoid murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and even their own families.
Working under the government’s shroud of secrecy, CIA operative Dew Phillips crisscrosses the country trying in vain to capture a live victim. With only decomposing corpses for clues, CDC epidemiologist Margaret Montoya races to analyze the science behind this deadly contagion. She discovers that these killers all have one thing in common—they’ve been contaminated by a bioengineered parasite, shaped by a complexity far beyond the limits of known science.
Meanwhile Perry Dawsey—a hulking former football star now resigned to life as a cubicle-bound desk jockey—awakens one morning to find several mysterious welts growing on his body. Soon Perry finds himself acting and thinking strangely, hearing voices . . . he is infected.
The fate of the human race may well depend on the bloody war Perry must wage with his own body, because the parasites want something from him, something that goes beyond mere murder.
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Fear creeps into ordinary days when danger feels close to home.
The List of Suspicious Things
Literary Fiction · Mystery · Thriller
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Fear creeps into ordinary days when danger feels close to home. As girls vanish in a Yorkshire town, twelve-year-old Miv turns to lists and observation to make sense of a world reshaped by illness, secrets, and change. Investigating with her best friend becomes a way to hold on to home and certainty. This mystery blends childhood perspective, community tension, and emotional discovery.
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THE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!
"A quietly moving and intimate tale about family mysteries in a small town." —People magazine
"We'll make a list. A list of all the people and things we see that are suspicious. And then… we'll investigate them."
Twelve-year-old Miv is panicking. Life has been complicated since her mom got sick, and now her dad is talking about wanting to move their family away from the town Miv has lived in her whole life—because of the murders. Young women are dying, everyone is afraid, and no one knows who the culprit might be.
But as far as Miv is concerned, leaving Yorkshire and her best friend Sharon simply isn't an option, no matter the dangers lurking round their way; or the strangeness at home that started the day Miv's mum stopped talking. Perhaps if she could solve the case of the disappearing women, they could stay after all?
So, Miv and Sharon decide to make a list: a list of all the suspicious people and things on their street. People they know. People they don't. But their search for the truth reveals more secrets in their neighborhood, within their families—and between each other—than they ever thought possible. What if the real mystery Miv needs to solve is the one that lies much closer to home?
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A public image of devotion collapses with devastating speed.
The Perfect Father
Biographies & Memoirs · True Crime
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A public image of devotion collapses with devastating speed. This true crime account traces the Watts family tragedy, following the disappearance of Shanann Watts and her children and the unraveling of the man who claimed to love them. As the investigation exposes deception beneath curated normalcy, the narrative examines control, violence, and the danger of mistaking appearance for truth in modern family life.
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In The Perfect Father, New York Times bestselling author John Glatt reveals the tragedy of the Watts family, whose seemingly perfect lives played out on social media—but the truth would lead to a vicious and heartbreaking murder.
In the early morning hours of August 13th, 2018, Shanann Watts was dropped off at home by a colleague after returning from a business trip. It was the last time anyone would see her alive. By the next day, Shanann and her two young daughters, Bella and Celeste, had been reported missing, and her husband, Chris Watts, was appearing on the local news, pleading for his family’s safe return.
But Chris Watts already knew that he would never see his family again. Less than 24 hours after his desperate plea, Watts made a shocking confession to police: he had strangled his pregnant wife to death and smothered their daughters, dumping their bodies at a nearby oil site. Heartbroken friends and neighbors watched in shock as the movie-star handsome, devoted family man they knew was arrested and charged with first degree murder. The mask Chris had presented to the world in his TV interviews and the family’s Facebook accounts was slipping—and what lay beneath was a horrifying image of instability, infidelity, and boiling rage.
In this first major account of the case, bestselling author and journalist John Glatt reveals the truth behind the tragedy and constructs a chilling portrait of one of the most shocking family annihilator cases of the 21st century.
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Violence cuts across social lines, pulling damaged lives into the same brutal orbit.
Triptych
Mystery · Thriller · Police Procedural · Psychological Thriller
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Violence cuts across social lines, pulling damaged lives into the same brutal orbit. In Triptych, a string of murders links Atlanta’s suburbs and inner city, forcing a volatile detective, a conflicted vice cop, and an unlikely ex-con onto the same trail. As the investigation tightens, personal failures and buried resentments shape every choice, turning the case into a study of power, rage, and consequence.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Features a new introduction on the origins of the Will Trent novels and Triptych’s place in the series
“Crime fiction at its finest.”—Michael Connelly
From Atlanta’s wealthiest suburbs to its stark inner-city housing projects, a killer has crossed the boundaries of wealth and race. And the people who are chasing him must cross those boundaries, too. Among them is Michael Ormewood, a veteran detective whose marriage is hanging by a thread—and whose arrogance and explosive temper are threatening his career. And Angie Polaski, a beautiful vice cop who was once Michael’ s lover before she became his enemy. But unbeknownst to both of them, another player has entered the game: a loser ex-con who has stumbled upon the killer’s trail in the most coincidental of ways—and who may be the key to breaking the case wide open.
In this gritty, gripping firecracker of a novel, the author of the bestselling Grant County, Georgia, series breaks thrilling new ground, weaving together the threads of a complex, multilayered story with the skill of a master craftsman. Packed with body-bending switchbacks, searing psychological suspense and human emotions, Triptych ratchets up the tension one revelation at a time as it races to a shattering and unforgettable climax.
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