Tak! quoted Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?
In New …
In Kellner Books on the Upper East Side of New York City, a few minutes before his death, John Webber was reading The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Tak! quoted When among Crows by Veronica Roth
This isn’t the forest guardian’s usual haunt.
Tak! quoted Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
Content warning child death
Her son dies in a childsized bed, big enough for him but barely enough to hold her and her husband who cling to the edges, folding themselves small so they fit one on each side of him.
This is the story of a serial killer. A stolen child. Revenge. Death. And an …
Today is the anniversary of Little Girl With Popsicle.
Tak! quoted Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
My head is throbbing again, a white-hot line of pain from the back of my skull down to the right side of my jaw, and a dead man is signaling me from across the common room.
— Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Tak! quoted The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
There are creatures in the water of Con Dao. To the locals, they're monsters. To …
The plastic awning of the café streamed with rain.
Tak! quoted Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt
A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …
Long after the House is gone, it’s there.
Tak! quoted After The Revolution by Robert Evans
What will the fracturing of the United States look like? After the Revolution is an …
Manny smiled at the way the British journalist’s face blanched as the old Toyota hit the pothole.
Tak! quoted The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #3)
When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for …
There were not so many places to lurk in the scholars’ residence on Thanma Street.
— The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses by Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti, #3)
Tak! quoted Feed Them Silence by Lee Mandelo
What does it mean to "be-in-kind" with a nonhuman animal? Or in Dr. Sean Kell-Luddon’s …
The portable surgery unit hulked at the edge of a tract field, ringed by four-byfours and a lone Jeep.
Tak! quoted The Tusks of Extinction by Ray Nayler
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.
…
Damira followed the blood down the hill.
Tak! quoted A House With Good Bones by T. Kingfisher
"Mom seems off."
Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns …
There was a vulture on the mailbox of my grandmother’s house.
Tak! quoted Time Shelter by Angela Rodel
A 'clinic for the past' offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer's sufferers: each floor reproduces …
At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created.
Tak! quoted Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #2)
Mallory Viridian would rather not be an amateur detective, and fled to outer space to …
A sentient space station should have perfect temperature, Mallory Viridian thought.
— Chaos Terminal by Mur Lafferty (The Midsolar Murders, #2)
Tak! quoted A Season of Monstrous Conceptions by Lina Rather
Lina Rather's A Season of Monstrous Conceptions is an eldritch historical fantasy of midwifery, monstrosity, …
Content warning infant death
Sarah knew Rebecca's babe was dead as soon as the head slid free, from the look on Mistress June's face.