An “intelligent, melancholy, and terrifying” ghost story set in a picture-perfect Vermont town (Paul G. Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World). 
In 1993, teenage Claire and her twin brother, Sam, sneak out to Farmington’s old textile factory, where they’ve heard the high school kids go to party. When Sam falls into a basement window and injures himself, Claire runs for help, thinking she’s left Sam alone. But something horrible is inside the otherwise empty factory with him . . . 
Fifteen years later, Claire is working as Farmington’s librarian, secretly wrestling with her guilt after her brother’s death. She leads a quiet, lonely life—until Sam begins visiting her. 
Meanwhile, Justin, an ambitious business developer, has come to town to transform the abandoned factory into a new boutique retail location. But a painful, violent past lies behind the building’s walls that, for everyone’s sake, might be better left undisturbed . . . 
“A lyrical, haunting, and unsettling story . . . [crafted] out of the skeletons and whispers of a small town with a decidedly tragic past.” —Richard Thomas, author of Disintegration “Recalls the golden era of 1970s and 1980s horror fiction, but burnished with an entirely contemporary voice, crafted with a poet’s eye for detail and ear for language. Reminiscent of the early work of Rosemary Campbell and Charles L. Grant, simultaneously chilling and poignant, this novel and its inhabitants hauntedme long after I had uneasily put it down.” —Michael Rowe, author of Enter, Night

Almost Dark: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Trent, Letitia

Genre Fiction

Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.

Recent high-school graduate Chelsea is determined to escape her alcoholic mother and to take her beloved younger sister, Mariah, with her. After Chelsea's graduation, the girls spend summer in a seaside town with their with their no-nonsense Aunt Bobbie. As Chelsea makes clumsy forays into adulthood, Mariah grows increasingly close with a warm and nurturing married couple - a pair of artists who eventually reveal themselves to be predators. This coming-of-age summer proves deeply traumatic for both sisters, in different ways.When the FBI knocks on Chelsea's door fifteen years later, it's because Mariah has joined a cult responsible for violent crimes; it's evident that Mariah is in serious danger. Chelsea must now revisit and dissect all the painful, messy details of that long-ago summer. Understanding Mariah's choices may be Chelsea's only chance to help extract her sister from the cult - before its elusive leader, Agape, persuades Mariah to take actions that will drive the sisters permanently apart.

Summer Girls

Haunted Doll House

DARKNESS PAST MEETS DARKNESS PRESENT Claire, a private and outwardly content librarian, carries a secret: she is wracked with guilt over her twin brother Sam’s accidental death fifteen years earlier. Claire’s quiet life is threatened when Justin, an aggressive business developer, announces the renovation of Farmington’s oldest textile factory, which is the scene of Sam’s death, along with many other mysterious accidents throughout its long history. Claire not only feels a personal connection to the factory, but she also begins to receive “visitations” from her brother, which cause her to question her sanity. As Justin moves forward with his plans to renew the factory, Claire―and the town as a whole―discover that in Farmington, there is no clear line between the past and the present.

Almost Dark

United States

ChiZine Publications

When 30-something Emily Collins inherits her recently murdered Aunt's house she moves to Heartshorne, Oklahoma, to claim it and confront her family's dark past. After her dead mother begins speaking to her in dreams, Emily stumbles upon a horrible community secret that leads to terrifying revelations about the supernatural pull of Echo Lake.

Echo Lake: A Novel

Dark House Press

Edited by Richard Thomas Foreword by Chuck Wendig Cover art by Daniele Serra Interior illustrations by Luke Spooner TABLE OF CONTENTS: Wilderness by Letitia Trent Monster Season by Joshua Blair Cat Calls by Rebecca Jones-Howe Ceremony of the White Dog by Kevin Catalano The Armadillo by Heather Foster The Last Manuscript by Usman T. Malik Single Lens Reflection by Jason Metz The Mother by Nathan Beauchamp Everything in Its Place by Adam Peterson When We Taste of Death by Damien Angelica Walters Figure Eight by Brendan Detzner My Mother's Condition by Faith Gardner Fragile Magic by Alex Kane The Eye Liars by Sarah Read Searching for Gloria by W. P. Johnson And All Night Long We Have Not Stirred by Barbara Duffey Dull Boy by David James Keaton Brujeria for Beginners by Marytza Rubio Heirloom by Kenneth Cain The Owl and the Cigarette by Amanda Gowin Desert Ghosts by Mark Jaskowski Blood Price by Axel Taiari

Exigencies: A Neo-Noir Anthology

Keaton, David James

Walters, Damien Angelica

Catalano, Kevin

Detzner, Brendan