“In my experience, you couldn’t truly understand the secrets of a house without understanding the people living there first,” (Uketsu 19).
After the success of his last book, horror writer Uketsu has been getting inquiries from fans about their own strange buildings and if he might take a look at the floor plans to see if anything horrifying lurks in the illustrations. During his research, Uketsu finds eleven buildings that all share a terrifying history. The pieces of the puzzle are there, can you put them together? Continue reading
“I was going to get myself eaten. I could tell. It was just one of those days,” (Herman 15).
There is a threat against Princess Melilot’s life, but she’s used to it. With a scary sorceress for a stepmother that makes Melilot and her magically superior stepsisters go on more and more dangerous quests, a threat against her life is part of an ordinary day. When her stepmother commands Melilot to marry a king she’s never met, she obeys. What else is she to do? But when a hoard of spider-wolves attack her on the way to meet the king and she is rescued by twelve similar looking masked huntsmen, Melilot hides her identity and finds herself in a kingdom with strange gender tests and a talking lion, all the while finding herself falling for one of the huntsmen and her fiancé’s attractive sister. Melilot must find out who wants to kill her and the king, all while trying to avoid her stepmother’s wrath. Continue reading
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“You wished for revenge. She heard you. SHE HEARD YOU. Do you understand? SHE! HEARD! YOU!” (Smith 11).
After her Sister-Cousin dies on the Highway of Tears, a young Indigenous woman embarks on a journey with her na̱xnox to find the killer and bring justice to her and the other missing Indigenous women who have died. Continue reading
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“air escapes lungs / death punctuates / the body, this isn’t the scary part. / loving is. losing someone she loves is,” (panic wrap III, French 162).
O and Z find each other during an acid rain storm becoming travelling companions and lovers in a world fragmented into new cultures after the Memory War has ended. But despite their love O and Z are drawn to different ways of life: descended from space pirates, O yearns for the sky while Z, a forager, wishes to remain earthbound. The two must make the difficult decision of choosing their ideals over each other. Continue reading
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“Charity is not a bone thrown to a hungry dog. Charity is a bone shared with a dog when you are both hungry. And loneliness is a kind of hunger,” (Welch 242).
After an earthquake shakes the Pacific Coast of North America, animals and people are now able to understand each other, and Del Samara is struggling. After her family’s home is destroyed by a fire and struggling with addiction herself, Del leaves her children and lives in her father’s fishing cabin with her dog Manx for three years before returning to the world and finding the world has changed in ways she didn’t expect before her isolation. Continue reading
Rachel Chu is excited to spend the summer in Singapore and meet her boyfriend, Nicholas Young’s, family. They’ve been dating for two years, and while Nick has vaguely mentioned them she’s excited to see where he grew up and learn more about his family. But once landing in Singapore, Rachel is surprised to learn that Nick comes from an incredibly wealthy family, and that they are not very happy that Nick has chosen to date her. Continue reading
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“The Rites simply emerged in his thoughts, self-evident, as if he’d only forgotten them until now. The Rites he must follow to protect humankind from unspeakable suffering,” (Kliewer).
Macy Mullins doesn’t know why the caretaking job ad caught her eye, but jobless and struggling to provide for her teenaged sister Jemma after the death of their dad, she know she can’t say no when a job opportunity comes her way, even if it is strange. Still, Macy figures she can handle work as a caretaker, even if the job has it’s quirks. It’s only for three days, what’s the worse that can happen? Continue reading
Paige Mahony finds herself in the free world of Venice, outside of the Republic of Scion with six months wiped from her memory. As she finds herself back in the Domino Programme trying to recall the lost months, she must also discover what Operation Ventriloquist is and look for Arcturus Mesarthim, who may be the key to saving Italy. Continue reading
“We could devote our lives to making sense of the odd, the inexplicable, the coincidental. But most of us don’t, and I didn’t either,” (Gran).
Strange things have been happening in Amanda’s life. There is a strange tapping noise in her apartment, a memo to her boss is filled with insults towards him, she’s started smoking again and burns her husband Ed, whom she loves, with a cigarette, and she’s started dreaming of a beautiful woman with sharp teeth on a red-watered beach. The woman whispers in Amanda’s head and tells her to do thing she doesn’t want to do, but is Amanda strong enough to ignore her? Continue reading
“That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift,” (Levine 1).
When Ella of Frell is born a foolish fairy bestows her with the gift of obedience. From being told to stop crying or to hop on one foot for an entire day and a half, to chopping off her head Ella is in danger everyday for what someone may obey her to do. But Ella doesn’t let that stop her, she is determined to stop this curse, and goes on a quest to find Lucinda and get the curse removed. Continue reading
Sarah O'Connor 