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• Out There Screaming

  An Anthology of New Black Horror

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  Edited by Jordan Peele, 19 Black authors redefine what it means to be afraid. This is a master-class in horror, preying on everything we think we know about our world.

• Mister Magic

  a Novel

  White, Kiersten,

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  Thirty years after a tragic accident shut down production of the classic children's program Mister Magic, the five surviving cast members have done their best to move on, though they have spent their lives searching for the happiness, the friendship…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Sheep

  Harrison, Rachel, 1989-

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  The night she gets fired from her unglamorous restaurant job, Vesper finds an invitation to a family wedding. She knows she has to go, even if it means reuniting with the staunchly religious community from which she defected.

• The Reformatory

  a Novel

  Due, Tananarive, 1966-

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  In the Jim Crow South, 12-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., who can see ghosts, is sent to The Reformatory where boys forced to work to remediate their so-called crimes have gone missing, while his sister Gloria rallies everyone in Florida to get him…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Small Angels

  a Novel

  Owen, Lauren, 1985-

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  Chloe and Sam are getting married in Sam's hometown, a tiny British village home to the even tinier Small Angels chapel and the eerie Mockbeggar woods. Kate, Sam's sister, is loath to return for the wedding to the site of the worst tragedies of her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Silver Nitrate

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  Combining real history with unsettling magic, Moreno-Garcia effortlessly ties explorations of misogyny, addiction, antisemitism and racism into a plot that never falters from its breakneck pace.

• The September House

  Orlando, Carissa,

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  A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes haunted, no matter the cost. No matter that her husband has decided he can't take the hauntings, no matter that the walls drip blood every September and no matter that she has to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Horse

  Wurth, Erika T.,

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  When Kari is given a bracelet haunted by her mother, it inadvertently calls up both her mother's ghost and a monstrous entity.

• Camp Damascus

  Tingle, Chuck,

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  The God-fearing community with a heart of gold and nestled high up in the mountains hosts Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed "most effective" gay conversion camp in the country. Rose buys into the ideology until she begins vomiting bugs and seeing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ghost Eaters

  a Novel

  Chapman, Clay McLeod,

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  Erin has spent most of her adult life entwined with Silas, moving from a romantic attachment into a codependent friendship. Now, she's just trying to keep him alive after years of addiction. Following his overdose, she learns of a drug which enables…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lone Women

  a Novel

  LaValle, Victor, 1972-

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  In 1915, Adelaide Henry flees her California hometown following the death of her parents, for which she feels responsible. She takes with her a mysterious steamer trunk that she insists must remain locked. As she adjusts to her new life, she finds…Read moreRead more of this annotation

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