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  A Prayer for the Dying - A Novel

  Stewart O'Nan

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  A deadly epidemic threatens the lives and sanity of a Civil War veteran and his family in this “new masterpiece of American literature” (Dennis Lehane). 
   
  Set in Friendship, Wisconsin, just after the Civil War, A Prayer for the Dying tells of a horrible epidemic that is suddenly and gruesomely killing the town’s residents and setting off a terrifying paranoia. Jacob Hansen, Friendship’s sheriff, undertaker, and pastor, is soon overwhelmed by the fear and anguish around him, and his sanity begins to fray. Dark, poetic, and chilling, Stewart O’Nan’s A Prayer for the Dying examines the effect of madness and violence on the morality of a once-decent man. 
   
  Praise for A Prayer for the Dying 
   
  New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year 
   
  “A Prayer for the Dying reads like the amazing, unrelenting love child of Shirley Jackson and Cormac McCarthy. It’s twisted proof that God will do worse to test a faithful man than the devil would ever do to punish a sinner.”―Chuck Palahniuk 
   
  “O’Nan again proves himself a writer of dazzling virtuosity and imagination. . . . A mesmerizing story and a brilliant tour de force.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

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  Mommy Dearest

  Willow Rose

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  Do you really know your mother-in-law? A spine-chilling horror novella from the Queen of Scream. We all know a relationship with your mother-in-law can be quite tricky from time to time. We jokingly call them things like monster-in-law. However, sometimes, there is actual truth to that joke, isn’t there? Some of them do act like true monsters, don’t they? When Crystal meets her future mother-in-law for the first time, she is excited. She knows it might be a challenge to have her live with them for an entire month, but still. It’s an old woman we’re talking about here. How much trouble can she cause? Mommy Dearest is a short story thriller from the Amazon number one best-selling author Willow Rose. It will not improve your relationship with your mother-in-law.

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  Under the Pyramids

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "Under the Pyramids" (in draft form, also published as "Entombed with the Pharaohs") is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in collaboration with Harry Houdini in February 1924. Commissioned by Weird Tales founder and owner J. C. Henneberger, the narrative tells a fictionalized account in the first-person perspective of an allegedly true experience of escape artist Harry Houdini. Set in 1910, in Egypt, Houdini finds himself kidnapped by a tour guide, who resembles an ancient pharaoh, and thrown down a deep hole near the Great Sphinx of Giza. While attempting to find his way out, he stumbles upon a gigantic ceremonial cavern and encounters the real-life deity that inspired the building of the Sphinx. Lovecraft accepted the job because of the money he was offered in advance by Henneberg. The result was published in the May–June–July 1924 edition of Weird Tales, although it was credited solely to Houdini until the 1939 reprint. Despite Lovecraft's use of artistic license, Houdini enjoyed the tale and the two men collaborated on several smaller projects prior to the latter's death in 1926. "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" has been suggested as an early influence on author Robert Bloch and as anticipating the cosmic themes in Lovecraft's later work, including "The Shunned House"

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  Dead America - El Paso: Creeping...

  Derek Slaton

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  While on a routine supply run to the east of Fort Stockton, Sparks and her team make a horrifying discovery. A million zombies marching as one down the interstate, headed towards El Paso. With time not on their side, they are forced to retreat to Fabens, where the plan for their survival begins. 
  Dead America - The Second Month series follows survivors from coast to coast as they deal with the threats posed by both the living and the undead.

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  Infection and Containment -...

  Sean Schubert

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  In the first two volumes of this zombie horror series, Anchorage, Alaska, is overrun by the undead as a band of survivors goes searching for refuge. 
   
  Infection 
   
  On the edge of the Alaskan wilderness, Anchorage is the gateway to The Last Frontier. But when a terrifying plague strikes, it becomes a deadly trap. In the aftermath of the onslaught, strangers come together for the sake of survival. But even as they form bonds among each other, hope of an eventual rescue continues to slip away. 
   
  Containment 
   
  The survivors led by Neil Jordan and Dr. Caldwell decide to join forces, placing their lives squarely in Neil’s hands. The unified group presses on in the hope that this nightmare has been contained, and there still exists a sane world free of infection. But to reach it, they must survive and escape . . .

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  Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray...

  Euripides

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  The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of hand that fooled all participants, substituted a deer for the daughter. Wafted magically away to the “Friendless Shores” of savage Tauris and installed as chief priestess presiding over the human sacrifice of all luckless foreigners, Iphigenia broods over her “murder” by her parents and longs for some Greeks to be shipwrecked on her shores so she can wreak a vicarious vengeance on them. Little does she expect her own little brother Orestes to be one of those Greeks brought to her altar.Possibly the most beautiful of the plays of Euripides, the Iphigenia in Tauris relates the final resolution of the dark tragedy of the House of Atreides. Filled with radiant imagery of sunlight and sea-foam and bird-flight (reproduced beautifully by the learned Oxford scholar Gilbert Murray), this is not a tragedy but a story with a happy ending, in which all the innocent are freed and equilibrium is restored. Despite the happy ending, this is no light romance; throughout the play the plangent tones of human sadness, homesickness, and exile remind the reader that happiness is the ephemeral thing, while sadness takes so many eternal forms.(Expatriate)

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