Face the Night

Rookie sketch artist Adriana just drew the wrong face. A face with no name, with no voice, but with one hell of a secret...\nAdriana Krause has a talent for bringing subjects to life. Until she draws a rotting, mangled face instead of the described suspect. Shocked, she realizes she's drawn the man who haunts her nightmares. No one has seen this face before—except Adriana.\nWith few allies on the force, Adriana is alone in her pursuit of the hellish figure from her dreams, while battling her father—the mayor—as he tries to take custody of her young son. She needs this job to save her family, but now the unknown man is all she can draw.\nWhen her nightmares become waking dreams that lead to a series of violent outbursts, Adriana turns to near strangers for help. She must keep her son, unlock the mysteries of this strange face, and uncover one of the darkest secrets ever buried in her small town.\n"Great for fans of My Heart Is a Chainsaw." (BookLife)\n"Reminiscent of early works by Stephen King and Peter Straub." (Kirkus, starred)\n"Like a grown-up version of Stranger Things." (IndieReader)\nThis gripping thriller will lure readers into the false comfort of small-town life, before dropping the kind of scares that'll make your nightmares rival Adriana's.\n"Outstanding...An impressive, complex horror tale—two (rotting) thumbs up." - Kirkus Reviews, starred

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Lastufka, Alan

Mystery

Shortwave Media

HOFFER AWARD WINNER * 2022 BEST COMMERCIAL FICTION\n"Outstanding...An impressive, complex horror tale—two (rotting) thumbs up." - Kirkus Reviews, starred\nShe has an eerie gift for drawing faces. Will one terrifying vision tear apart everything she loves?\nOhio, 1987. Adriana Krause hasn't slept in weeks. Desperate for work to keep her three-year-old son out of her powerful father's controlling clutches, her vivid illustrations land her a job as a police sketch artist. But the only image she can draw is the shockingly mangled visage from her recurring nightmare.\nWith her disturbed nights spiraling into violent episodes, Adriana's unique talents pull her into the tight-knit small-town's buried secrets. And now fearing she'll lose her little boy to the madness sucking her down, she's convinced that the monstrous likeness she can't stop scrawling holds the answer to a brutal crime.\nCan this struggling mother solve a dark puzzle before her family is destroyed?\nFace the Night is a bone-chilling supernatural thriller. If you like complex characters, lived-in settings, and tension dripping from every page, then you'll be transfixed by Alan Lastufka's gripping tale.\nBuy Face the Night today to survive until dawn!\n"Suspenseful... shocking... engaging small-town thriller. Great for fans of My Heart Is a Chainsaw." (BookLife)\n"Reminiscent of early works by Stephen King and Peter Straub." (Kirkus Reviews, starred)\n"Like a grown-up version of Stranger Things." (IndieReader)

Ode to Murder: A Larkin Day Mystery (Larkin Day Mystery Series)

Literature & Fiction

Dieker, Nicole

Genre Fiction

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Obsolescence: A Dark Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Anthology

27 Brand-New Tales of Technological Terror! All leaps in technology are scary. Mysterious. Misunderstood. Until they slowly creep into our daily lives and become impossible to get rid of, like an evolving parasite. The unique camera lens that exposes hidden monsters. The blue-collar robot that would do anything to not become obsolete. The app that knows your needs better than you know them yourself. In OBSOLESCENCE, technology gets repurposed, subverted, and redefined. Featuring a special foreword by Naomi Grossman, star of American Horror Story. With new stories from. . . <ul> <li>Kealan Patrick Burke</li> <li>Adam Cesare</li> <li>Clay McLeod Chapman</li> <li>Johnny Compton</li> <li>Rob Hart</li> <li>Laurel Hightower</li> <li>Gabino Iglecias</li> <li>Ai Jiang</li> <li>Eric LaRocca</li> <li>Christi Nogle</li> <li>Hailey Piper</li> <li>Sara Tantlinger</li> <li>. . .and more!</li> </ul>

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Have You Decided on Your Question: A Novelette

Croal, Lyndsey

Thrillers & Suspense

"Terrifying...You'll never again trust what's looking back at you."-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Ghost Eaters and Quiet Part Loud &#65279;"A clever look at an unsettling legend, with one of the best kills I've read in years." -Johnny Compton, author of The Spite House If the remainder of your life was only as long as your ability to avoid your own reflection, how long would you last? An hour? A day? Perhaps a week? It's been said that at the core of every legend lies a seed of truth. For four American tourists vacationing in Greece, this is a lesson learned the hard way. When the group sets out to find a subterranean pool that's rumored to be the one by which the demi-god Narcissus once wasted away in self-obsession, what started as a fun excursion quickly escalates into a full-blown nightmare. After looking into the waters of the pool, they come to find their own reflections have become infected by an ancient evil. As they're picked off one-by-one by a malevolence that resides in the reflective world, those remaining race to find a way to bring the nightmare to an end before it takes them all. In the meantime, all they'll have to do is avoid their own reflections.

Narcissus: A Novella

Godfrey, Adam

"Moving, brilliant, and certified 100% human." -Samit Basu, author of Turbulence If you have the opportunity to give up humanity for efficiency, mechanical invincibility, and to surpass human limitations. . . would you? Ai is a cyborg, under the guise of an AI writing program, who struggles to keep up with the never-blinking city of Emit as it threatens to leave all those like her behind.

I Am AI: A Novelette

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Jiang, Ai

Science Fiction

Wilted Pages is a new Dark Academia anthology filled with gloomy buildings, hidden histories, secret societies, lurking shadows, futuristic boarding schools, corrupt systems, gothic aesthetics, occult learning and forbidden texts... And that's only your first semester.\nWilted Pages features new stories by: Hussani Abdulrahim Octavia Cade Amber Chen Brian Evenson Cyrus Amelia Fisher Jennifer Fliss Ana Hurtado Gabino Iglesias R.J. Joseph Jo Kaplan John Langan R.B. Lemberg Premee Mohamed Suzan Palumbo Marisca Pichette Michael A. Reed Ayida Shonibar Simo Srinivas Steve Rasnic Tem

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