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Difficile la vita di Patricia Campbell: divisa tra un marito troppo impegnato col lavoro, i figli e l'anziana suocera, la sua unica oasi felice è un gruppo di lettura di libri true crime. Un giorno al gruppo si unisce James Harris, bello, misterioso e sensibile, che fa sentire alla donna cose ormai non provate da anni. Eppure c'è qualcosa di strano in lui: non ha un conto in banca, non esce durante il giorno e la suocera di Patricia sostiene di averlo conosciuto da ragazza. Quando alcuni bambini scompaiono senza che la polizia faccia nulla, Patricia e le amiche sospettano che James sia un serial killer.

Quando Louise viene a sapere della morte improvvisa dei suoi genitori, l'ultima cosa che vorrebbe fare è tornare nella loro casa di famiglia. I motivi sono molteplici: prima di tutto, non vuole lasciare la figlia piccola con il suo ex compagno e volare a Charleston. In secondo luogo, non vuole affrontare quella casa, piena zeppa dei ricordi della carriera accademica del padre, e di burattini e bambole da cui sua madre era ossessionata. Inoltre, non vuole rassegnarsi a vivere senza le due persone che meglio di chiunque altro al mondo l'hanno conosciuta e amata.

È il 1988: Abby e Gretchen, studentesse al secondo anno di liceo, sono migliori amiche fin dai tempi della quarta elementare. Insieme sognano, parlano, respingono i ragazzi troppo disinvolti, ascoltano musica, stringono e sciolgono alleanze all'interno del microcosmo scolastico, eccetera. Tutto più o meno nella norma, insomma. Ma, dopo una serata di esperimenti lisergici, chiacchiere e bagni nel fiume con altre compagne di scuola finita in modo abbastanza disastroso, Gretchen comincia a comportarsi in modo, come dire?...diverso.

Something strange is happening at the Orsk furniture superstore in Cleveland. Every morning, employees arrive to find broken Kjerring wardrobes, shattered Brooka glassware, and vandalized Liripip sofa beds—clearly someone, or something, is up to no good. To unravel the mystery, five young employees volunteer for a long dusk-till-dawn shift and encounter horrors that defy imagination.

Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip.

In this chilling collection, five acclaimed authors invite you into a world where the supernatural hides in plain sight. Look closely, and you’ll find it: lurking within an ancient tree, stalking an idyllic beach, and whispering through a friend’s letter. Your curiosity is exactly what it’s been waiting for.

In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives…but what happens after? Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, Grady Hendrix’s latest is a fast-paced, frightening...

In the 1990s, heavy metal band Durt Wurk was poised for breakout success - but then lead singer Terry Hunt embarked on a solo career and rocketed to stardom as Koffin, leaving his fellow bandmates to rot in obscurity. Two decades later, former guitarist Kris Pulaski works as the night manager of a Best Western - she's tired, broke, and unhappy. Everything changes when a shocking act of violence turns her life upside down, and she begins to suspect that Terry sabotaged more than just the band.

Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.

When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s academic career and her mother’s lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn’t want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world.

The year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since the fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question.

‘Chillingly addictive’ – Cosmopolitan AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘I did an evil thing to be put in here, and I’m going to have to do an evil thing to get out.’ In this twisted, unforgettable horror, a group of young girls turn to a dark, ancient magic. From Grady Hendrix, New...

Marcus grew up believing his father killed his mother—then blamed it on the boogeyman under the bed. Always leave the lights on, his father warned, or the boogeyman will get you. Marcus still heeds the superstition, especially when he invites his new girlfriend over. Is Marcus haunted by a creature or has he just inherited his father’s murderous delusions? The night will tell.

Dos jóvenes estudiantes de Secundaria, llamadas Abby y Gretchen, se tienen la una a la otra como mejores amigas desde los tiempos de la infancia. Pero en una noche de juerga en la que se bañan desnudas todo les sale espantosamente mal y Gretchen, a partir de entonces... cambia. Está siempre de mal humor. Irritable. Y empiezan a sucederse extraños incidentes en los que, invariablemente, Gretchen está implicada. Abby empieza a investigar y se adentra en un misterio sobrecogedor...

Cuando la historia llegue a su momento culminante, el destino de Abby y Grechen girará en torno a una única pregunta

El best seller del nuevo maestro del terror, Grady Hendrix. Cuando Louise se entera de que sus padres han muerto, teme volver a casa. No quiere dejar a su pequeña con su ex y volar a Charleston. No quiere enfrentarse al domicilio familiar, donde se amontonan los restos de la vida académica de su padre y de la constante obsesión de su madre por los títeres y los muñecos. No quiere aprender a vivir sin las dos personas que mejor la han conocido y más la han querido del mundo entero.

Florida, 1971. Fern es una adolescente que, al quedar embarazada, es enviada a una institución donde las familias esconden a sus hijas para que den a luz en secreto y entreguen a sus bebés. Las chicas llevan una vida controlada y monótona. Pero todo cambia cuando Fern descubre un libro sobre brujería oculto en una biblioteca ambulante. Intrigadas, las jóvenes comienzan a practicar hechizos, descubriendo un poder que nunca habían experimentado. Lo que comienza como un juego para resistirse a un sistema que las quiere invisibles pronto se transforma en una revolución mágica.

Gathering ten modern masters of the strange and unsettling, Unquiet Guests sets fire to the blueprints and reimagines the haunted house from the foundations up. From dreamlike visions of an abandoned future mansion to a sentient building grown tired of its owners, these rooms echo with whispers of the disenfranchised and the lost.

Una sátira brillante sobre la exploración espacial y el fracaso estadounidense. Melville, Carolina del Sur, se ha quedado sin dinero, sin empleos, sin esperanza y, ahora, sin astronautas. Para empezar, solo tenía dos, y uno de ellos está atrapado en la abandonada Estación Espacial Internacional después de que su misión saliera mal. Con el presupuesto de la NASA reducido al mínimo, no hay nadie que lo traiga de vuelta, así que todos prefieren ignorar este vergonzoso símbolo del fracaso estadounidense y dejarlo morir. Pero su primo, Walter Reddie, no piensa permitirlo.

"Superb ... a perfect horror for our imperfect age.” – The New York Times AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER They were never girls, they were witches . . . . They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to the Wellwood House in St...

A Patricia Campbell su existencia nunca le ha parecido tan insignificante. Su marido es un adicto al trabajo, sus hijos adolescentes tienen su propia vida, su suegra senil necesita cuidados constantes, y siente que siempre va un paso por detrás de su interminable lista de cosas por hacer. Lo único que la mantiene viva es su club de lectura, un pequeño grupo de mujeres de Charleston unidas por su amor a las novelas de crímenes reales. En esas reuniones se habla de todo: desde la familia Manson a asuntos de sus propias familias.