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  Midnight on Beacon Street - A Novel

  Emily Ruth Verona

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  “Midnight on Beacon Street is a lot of things. It’s a taut thriller about a babysitter and two kids surviving one weird night. It’s a celebration of classic horror movies. It’s a creepy narrative that involves a ghost and late night home break-ins. And, most important, it’s a lot of fun. . . Verona plays with home invasion tropes by delivering a tale with multiple breaches, each offering differing types of frights. . . With its feverish pacing and startling plot twists, this is an impressive debut.” — New York Times Book Review 
  “My nineties heart was warmed and thrilled by Emily Ruth Verona’s debut novel, Midnight on Beacon Street. The shade of Shirley Jackson haunts this page-turner, which abounds in classic horror movie references, both revisiting and critiquing the tale of a babysitter left alone with kids she may or may not be able to protect. I loved every minute of it.” —Polly Stewart, author of The Good Ones 
  A suspenseful and entertaining debut thriller—and love letter to vintage horror movies—in which a teenager must overcome her own anxiety to protect the two children she’s babysitting when strangers come knocking at the door. 
  October 1993. One night. One house. One dead body. 
  When single mom Eleanor Mazinski goes out a for a much-needed date night, she leaves her two young children—sweet, innocent six-year-old Ben and precocious, defiant twelve-year-old Mira—in the capable hands of their sitter, Amy. The quiet seventeen-year-old is good at looking after children, despite her anxiety disorder. She also loves movies, especially horror flicks. Amy likes their predictability; it calms the panic that threatens to overwhelm her. 
  The evening starts out normally enough, with games, pizza, and dancing. But as darkness falls, events in this quaint suburban New Jersey house take a terrifying turn—unexpected visitors at the door, mysterious phone calls, and by midnight, little Ben is in the kitchen standing in a pool of blood, with a dead body at his feet. 
  In this dazzling debut novel, Emily Ruth Verona moves back and forth in time, ratcheting up suspense and tension on every page. Chock-full of nods to classic horror films of the seventies and eighties, Midnight on Beacon Street is a gripping thriller full of electrifying twists and a heartwarming tale of fear and devotion that explores our terrors and the lengths we’ll go to keep our loved ones safe.

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  The Queen of Sorrow

  Rachel Lawson

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  Sorrow 
  Astra Queen of Vampires was born of the union of two monsters a mad killer for a mother and a evil sorcerer for a father he mother was under a spell until she was born so sad was her mother by her marriage to the hated enemy of her people and bearing his child she named her child Sorrow. 
  The pair were murdered by a lunatic themselves when Sorrow was a baby. 
  Her uncle raise her with his own children who didn't have powers like their mother a fate from a parallel world and their father a necromancer and enchanter Sorrow's uncle. She later became not just a vampire but their queen. It was Sorrow's uncle who named her Astra as it was a better name for a child to forget her sad start in life with a new name her old name it was like a man being called Sue nothing a man could life down. 
  She later married a friend Max Starfire the Sun's King and had a child called- Astra known as Astry. She would never give her child a bad name like herself. Astry was a vampire/ werewolf like her mother and father. 
  Not alive or dead something in between. 
  They were day walkers Max, Astra and their daughter. 
  Strange creatures neither vampire nor werewolf they were 
  Includes stories with Sorrow or Astra Queen of Vampires from my the Magicians series 
  Narrated by the author and guest narrating Addison Fell as Alexa in Bad Omens

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  The Willows

  Algernon Blackwood

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  The Willows by Algernon Blackwood is a haunting masterpiece of early supernatural fiction, blending psychological horror with the eerie majesty of nature. Set along the remote banks of the Danube River, the novella follows two travelers whose peaceful canoe journey turns into a terrifying encounter with unseen forces lurking in the marshlands. As the willows seem to shift and whisper with unnatural intent, the boundary between reality and another dimension begins to dissolve. Atmospheric, suspenseful, and deeply unsettling, this story is a foundational work of weird fiction that profoundly influenced authors like H.P. Lovecraft.

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  Gates of Okinawa

  Keith Hayden

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  “In Okinawa, doors to hell open at the last bell” 
  Military spouse Zena Marlowe must be losing her mind. Her star students skip class, fights break out unexpectedly, and then there's the blood. A lot of it. That river of red thrusts her down a macabre path of madness. 
  When Zena and a group of students discover disturbing experiments at their school, deadly demons stir around and within them. Soon the gates of hell fling themselves open, unleashing otherworldly creatures from Japanese lore whose aims put Zena, her students, and all of Okinawa in peril. 
  As she struggles with her own fears and secrets, Zena's adventure takes her from tip to tip of the island in a sweat-inducing sub-tropical nightmare. She risks her career, relationships, life, and her very soul to confront the ghosts at the gates. Foreign and domestic forces pursue her and her allies at every treacherous step. 
  Deep in the caves, cliffs, forests and seas of 沖縄 night creatures of legend rise from eons of slumber - and they're hungry for the flesh of a new world. Can Zena survive Okinawa's supernatural invasion, or will she lose everything - including her final thread of faith - to the ユーリー that threatens to consume the island? 
  For fans of "Stranger Things" and "Ring" by Koji Suzuki, "Gates of Okinawa" is your next read!

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  The Fall of the House of Usher

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  An unnamed narrator approaches the house of Usher on a “dull, dark, and soundless day.” This house—the estate of his boyhood friend, Roderick Usher—is gloomy and mysterious. The narrator observes that the house seems to have absorbed an evil and diseased atmosphere from the decaying trees and murky ponds around it. He notes that although the house is decaying in places—individual stones are disintegrating, for example—the structure itself is fairly solid. There is only a small crack from the roof to the ground in the front of the building. He has come to the house because his friend Roderick sent him a letter earnestly requesting his company. Roderick wrote that he was feeling physically and emotionally ill, so the narrator is rushing to his assistance. The narrator mentions that the Usher family, though an ancient clan, has never flourished. Only one member of the Usher family has survived from generation to generation, thereby forming a direct line of descent without any outside branches. The Usher family has become so identified with its estate that the peasantry confuses the inhabitants with their home. 
  The narrator decides to read to Roderick in order to pass the night away. He reads “Mad Trist” by Sir Launcelot Canning, a medieval romance. As he reads, he hears noises that correspond to the descriptions in the story. At first, he ignores these sounds as the vagaries of his imagination. Soon, however, they become more distinct and he can no longer ignore them. He also notices that Roderick has slumped over in his chair and is muttering to himself. The narrator approaches Roderick and listens to what he is saying. Roderick reveals that he has been hearing these sounds for days, and believes that they have buried Madeline alive and that she is trying to escape.

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  Rose’s Story - A Prequel to the...

  Per Jacobsen

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  When Randall Morgan returned to East Alin and found a dead man hanging from a lamppost in the first STRUNG book, he had been away for two weeks, and the world he came back to had already gone to hell. Rose Lavine, on the other hand, was there when it all began. She saw it happen. 
  This is her story. 
  ROSE’S STORY is a prequel to Per Jacobsen's STRUNG trilogy. It tells the story of Rose Lavine's personal tragedy while also offering insight into what happened during the fourteen terrible days leading up to the events in STRUNG.

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