May 15, 2013
New Arrivals · Horror Fiction
These titles were recently added to the collection of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Stoker's manuscript
May 14, 2013
Prouty, Royce.
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013.
352
"Joseph Barkely gets more than he bargains for when he agrees to authrenticate the original manuscript of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, and personally transport it to Romania"-- Provided by publisher.
The eternity cure
May 2, 2013
Kagawa, Julie.
446 pages ; 22 cm.
Cast out of Eden and separated from the boy she dared to love, Allie will follow the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from the psychotic vampire Sarren. But when the trail leads to Allie's birthplace in New Covington, what Allie finds there will change the world forever--and possibly end human and vampire existence.
The silence
May 1, 2013
Rayne, Sarah.
Sutton, Surrey, England : Severn House, 2013.
252 p. ; 23 cm.
A widowed antiques dealer travels with her young daughter to her late husband's boyhood home, a dwelling that still houses the evil from a crime perpetrated long ago.
Appalachian overthrow
April 24, 2013
Knight, E. E.
339 pages ; 24 cm.
"Captured and sold to the Kurian-allied Maynes Conglomerate to work as a slave in the coal mines of Appalachia, Ahn-Kha is angered and appalled by the dangerous working conditions and the brutal treatment inflicted upon his fellow miners. When a protest against shortages is deliberately and bloodily suppressed, Ahn-Kha sets himself against the ruling Maynes family and embarks on a trail of vengeance through the Coal Country. Finally, the people of the Coal Country are driven to the breaking point. But they now have a powerful and battle-hardened leader who is determined to forge them into an army that will wage guerrilla warfare against the Maynes family and their Kurian masters--and free the Appalachians from their tyranny"-- Provided by publisher.
Thirst.
April 11, 2013
Pike, Christopher, 1955-
New York : Simon Pulse, 2013.
441 p. ; 21 cm.
Alisa's memories have been lost. She and her friends are searching for a sacred artifact which is an ancient veil that may hold the key to mankind's salvation.
Defriended
April 4, 2013
Baron, Ruth.
New York : Point/Scholastic, 2013.
248 p. ; 21 cm.
A friend request from beyond the grave ... Jason has met the perfect girl. OK, so maybe he hasn't actually MET Lacey yet, but they talk online all the time. Yet despite spending most nights chatting, Lacey refuses to meet up in person. Suspicious, Jason starts googling, and his cyberstalking leads to a shocking discovery: According to multiple newspapers, Lacey died a year earlier. Soon, Jason finds himself enmeshed in a disturbing mystery. Has he found a way to iChat with the dead? Or is someone playing a dangerous trick? Either way, Jason has to discover the truth before it's too late. You can't put up away messages from beyond the grave ... "--From Amazon.com.
NOS4A2 : a novel
March 18, 2013
Hill, Joe.
New York : William Morrow, c2013.
692 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Ill. on lining papers.
Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it's across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing--and terrifying--playground of amusements he calls "Christmasland." Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx's unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He's on the road again and he's picked up a new passenger: Vic's own son.
John Constantine, Hellblazer : good intentions
March 1, 2013
Azzarello, Brian.
New York : DC Comics, c2002.
139 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Originally published in single magazine form as Hellblazer 151-156.
He's done hard time in prison to ease his conscience, but now it's time for John Constantine to make amends to the kin of one Richard "Lucky" Fermin.
Shattered hourglass
February 6, 2013
Bourne, J. L.
New York : Gallery Books, 2012.
vii, 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
"In a desperate bid to take back the continental United States--where hordes of undead now dominate the ravaged human population--a Navy commander leads a global mission to the heart of the pandemic. Task Force Hourglass is humanity's final hope, and his team's agonizing decisions could mean living one day more--or surrendering to the eternal hell that exists between life and death"--P. [4] of cover.
The Daylight War
February 6, 2013
Brett, Peter V.
xiv, 639 pages : 1 map ; 25 cm
On the night of the new moon, the demons rise in force, seeking the deaths of two men, both of whom have the potential to become the fabled Deliverer, the man prophesied to reunite the scattered remnants of humanity in a final push to destroy the demon corelings once and for all. Arlen Bales denies he is the Deliverer at every turn, but the more he tries to be one with the common folk, the more fervently they believe.
Dreams and shadows
February 4, 2013
Cargill, C. Robert, 1975-
New York : HarperVoyager, c2013.
viii, 433 p. ; 24 cm.
Zom-B underground
January 25, 2013
Shan, Darren.
New York : Little, Brown, 2013.
180 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Trapped : a novel of terror
January 21, 2013
Kilborn, Jack, 1970-
[United States] : [CreateSpace], 2010.
324 p. ; 24 cm.
Six wayward teenagers who'd run into trouble with the law, and their court-appointed guardians, Sara and Martin Randhurst plan to camp for three nights on a small island off of Michigan's upper peninsula. Then Martin told a campfire story about the island's history. Of the old civil war prison hidden in there, and the starving confederate soldiers who resorted to cannibalism to stay alive. Everyone thought it was funny. They even laughed when Martin pretended to be dragged off into the woods. But Martin didn't come back. And neither did Sara when she went in search of him.
21st century dead : a zombie anthology
January 21, 2013
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Zombies are good for you: an introduction / Christopher Golden -- Biters / Mark Morris -- Why mothers let their babies watch television : a just-so horror story / Chelsea Cain -- Carousel / Orso Scott Card -- Reality bites / S.G. Browne -- Drop / Stephen Susco -- Antiparallelogram / Amber Benson -- How we escaped our certain fate / Dan Chaon -- Mother's love / John McIlveen -- Down and out in dead town / Simon R Green -- Devil dust /Caitlin Kittredge -- Dead of Dromore / Ken Bruen -- All the comforts of home : a beacon story / John Skipp, Cody Goodfellow -- Ghost dog & pup : stay / Thomas E. Sniegoski -- Tic boom : a slice of love / Kurt Sutter -- Jack and Jill / Jonathan Maberry -- Tender as teeth / Stephanie Crawford, Duane Swierczynski -- Couch potato / Brian Keene -- Happy bird and other tales / Rio Youers -- Parasite / Daniel H. Wilson.
Serial killers uncut
January 21, 2013
Crouch, Blake.
[S.l. : s.n.], 2011.
421 p. ; 21 cm.
" ... twenty chapters that focus on Luther Kite, Orson Thomas, Donaldson, Charles, Alex Kork and various other characters. Luther is arguably the book's main character since readers are given insight into his life from a child all the way to adulthood, including the first meeting between Luther and Orson. The cool thing about this book is that each character is hyperlinked to a `Characters' page, where a description of their first appearance and nature is provided, which is handy to have when you are beginning each story and learning about a new character. The sequence of the stories is chronologically listed with the actual books serving as time gaps"--Amazon.com.
Slither
January 17, 2013
Delaney, Joseph, 1945-
New York : Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.
xvii, 397 p. : ill. ; 21cm.
"First published in 2012 in Great Britain by The Bodley Head, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, under the title Slither's Tale."
Slither lurks in woods and towns, hunting for human blood, but before he can feast on three lovely sisters, their dying father binds the monster to a bargain.
Rivals and retribution : a 13 to life novel
January 3, 2013
Delany, Shannon.
New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.
308 p. ; 21 cm.
Jessie Gillmansen is in trouble again and she's in for the fight of her life and Pietr's. With Marlaena's dangerous wolf pack putting more pressure on the Rusakova family, change is inevitable and when it comes, it brings a heavy price that forces Alexi into action to save his youngest brother's heart, head, and life. In the stunning conclusion of this celebrated paranormal series two werewolf families fight for control of the small town of Junction, control of each other and, most elusive of all, control of themselves
The six-gun tarot
January 2, 2013
Belcher, R. S.
New York : Tor, 2013.
364 p. ; 25 cm.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book"
"Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker's wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone's business, may know more about the town's true origins than he's letting on. A haven for the blessed and the damned, Golgotha has known many strange events, but nothing like the primordial darkness stirring in the abandoned silver mine overlooking the town. Bleeding midnight, an ancient evil is spilling into the world, and unless the sheriff and his posse can saddle up in time, Golgotha will have seen its last dawn . . . and so will all of Creation. "-- Provided by publisher.
Doktor Glass
January 2, 2013
Brennan, Thomas, 1965-
New York : Ace Books, 2012.
314 p. ; 23 cm.
"In an age of zeppelins and gyroplanes, atomics and horseless carriages, the Transatlantic Span is the industrial marvel of the nineteenth century. A monumental feat of engineering, the steel suspension bridge stretches across the Atlantic from Liverpool to the distant harbor of New York City, supported by no less than seven hundred towers. But in the shadows of its massive struts, on the docks of the River Mersey, lies a faceless corpse... Inspector Matthew Langton is still seized with grief when he thinks of Sarah, his late wife. Tortured by nightmares and afflicted by breathless attacks of despair and terror, he forces himself to focus on the investigation of the faceless man. The victim wears the uniform of the Transatlantic Span Company but bears the tattoos of the Boers--could there be a Boer conspiracy to assassinate Queen Victoria on the upcoming inauguration day of the Span? But the truth, as it begins to emerge, is far more bizarre than a political coup. As additional victims turn up--all with strange twin burn marks on their necks--Langton draws a connection between the dead man beneath the bridge and chilling rumors of the Jar Boys, soul snatchers who come under cover of night. Most frightening of all is the mythic and elusive Doktor Glass, who not only may be behind the illicit trade in souls...but may hold the key to what happened to the inspector's own beloved wife on her deathbed.."-- Provided by publisher.
Dr. Frankenstein's daughters
January 2, 2013
Weyn, Suzanne.
New York : Scholastic Press, 2013.
250 p. ; 22 cm.
Giselle and Ingrid are the twin daughters of Doctor Victor Frankenstein, but they are very different people, and when they inherit his castle in the Orkney Islands, Giselle dreams of holding parties and inviting society--but Ingrid is fascinated by her father's forbidden experiments.
Z : zombie stories
December 13, 2012
San Francisco : Night Shade Books, c2011.
296 p. ; 21 cm.
Family business / Jonathan Maberry -- The wrong grave / Kelly Link -- The days of flaming motorcycles / Catherynne M. Valente -- The barrow maid / Christine Morgan -- You'll never walk alone / Scott Nicholson -- The dead kid / Darrell Schweitzer -- Seven brains, ten minutes / Marie Atkins -- The third dead body / Nina Kirki Hoffman -- The skull-faced boy / David Barr Kirtley -- The human race / Scott Edelman -- Deepwater miracle / Thomas S. Roche.
Presents eleven short stories that explore how young people will cope with life after a zombie apocalypse.
The accursed
November 28, 2012
Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
New York : Ecco, c2013.
xiii, 669 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Map on lining papers.
The Listeners
November 21, 2012
Demchick, Harrison.
Baltimore, MD : Bancroft Press, c2012.
308 p. ; 24 cm.
Ash
November 21, 2012
Herbert, James, 1943-
New York : Tor, 2012.
692 p. ; 22 cm.
"A Tom Doherty Associates book."
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