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Dark Adult Fiction September 2024 part 2 of 2 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you)   The Haunting of Moscow House, by Olesya Salnikova Gilmore (Berkley; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/4e58JLe The Hitchcock Hotel, by Stephanie Wrobel (Berkley; September 24, 2024) https://amzn.to/4esZcNY Horror Stories: Shocking Tales of Unspeakable Terror (Arcturus Gilded Classics) (Sirius; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/3zs4VED In the Garden of Monsters, by Crystal King (Mira; September 24, 2024) https://amzn.to/47kV1Bn Jekyll & Hyde: Consulting Detectives, by Tim Major (Titan Books; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/4gkRRld Memory and Bone, by J.S. Bailey (September 24, 2024) https://amzn.to/4ethQVH The Mesmerist, by Caroline Woods (Doubleday; September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/4eiqlDa The Midnight Club, by Margot Harrison (Graydon House; September 24, 2024) https://amzn.to/4gvBX7t Next Stop, by Benjamin Resnick (Avid Reader Press; September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/3Tog9AV The Night Guest, by Hildur Knútsdóttir (Tor Nightfire, September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XPDH4f Out of the Drowning Deep, by A.C. Wise (Titan Books; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/3TmqE7K Pay the Piper, by George A. Romero and Daniel Kraus (Union Square & Co; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/3TvMENx Perfectly Wicked, by Lindsay Lovise (Alcove Press; September 17, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XMq4mk The Shadow Key, by by Susan Stokes-Chapman (Harper; September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/3z4dwNQ Sleep Tight, by J. H. Markert (Crooked Lane Books, September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/4eoc7AK So Thirsty, by Rachel Harrison (Berkley; September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/4ghLxuJ Valley: The Glacian Trilogy, Book III, by Stacey McEwan (Angry Robot; September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/3TsZYCq The Vampire of Kings Street, by Asha Greyling (Crooked Lane Books, September 17, 2024) https://amzn.to/4ejKSqS The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society, by C.M. Waggoner (Ace; September 24, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XncmVN William, by Mason Coile (GP Putnam's Sons, September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/4egOKcb We Came to Welcome You, by Vincent Tirado (William Morrow; September 3) https://amzn.to/3TpsxAw The Witch of Colchis, by Rosie Hewitt (Sourcebooks Landmark; September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/4d1DEGL @darksideofthelibrary  

Adult Fiction September 2024 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you)   An Academy for Liars, by Alexis Henderson (Ace; September 17, 2024) https://amzn.to/3Znp4q7  American Ghoul, by Michelle McGill-Vargas (Blackstone Publishing; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/3B6lIhb  Bitter is the Heart, by Mina Hardy (Crooked Lane Books, September 17, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XLSwot  Bright I Burn, by Molly Aitken (Knopf; September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/4d3klNh Bringer of Dust (The Talents, book 2) by J.M. Miro (Flatiron Books, September 17, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XIyonm  Dearest, by Jacquie Walters (Mulholland Books; September 17, 2024) https://amzn.to/4dZCs8n  The Devil by Name, by Keith Rosson (Random House, September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XE3qMS  Devils Kill Devils, by Johnny Compton (Tor Nightfire, September 24, 2024) https://amzn.to/3ZrJ7Uh  Elusive, by Genevieve Cogman (Tor UK; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/47zaz4p  Evil in Me, by Brom (Tor Nightfire; September 17, 2024) https://amzn.to/47mSypW The Fallen Fruit, by Shawntelle Madison (September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XDMaax French Quarter Fright Night, by Ellen Byron (Severn House; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/47wSx2L  Gorse, by Sam. K. Horton (Solaris; September 12, 2024) https://amzn.to/3XmU8nk  Graveyard Shift: A Novella, by M. L. Rio (Flatiron Books; September 24, 2024) https://amzn.to/3MN68JL  Grimm Retold, by Tanith Lee and other authors (Speculation Publications, September 24, 2024) https://amzn.to/3B80Hml  Guillotine, by Delilah S. Dawson (Titan Books; September 10, 2024) https://amzn.to/3zaFnvN  Haunt Sweet Home, by Sarah Pinsker (Tordotcom; September 3, 2024) https://amzn.to/3AXMwAb   @darksideofthelibrary

(Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) A is for Alien Little Golden Book (July 9, 2024) The not-gory adventures of Ripley and her cat Jonesy. Even little Chestburster makes an appearance. It's an ABC book. https://amzn.to/3zXQ58L Benji Zeb Is a Ravenous Werewolf, by Deke Moulton (Tundra Books, July 2, 2024) Benji is being bullied at school, but he's actually a werewolf. His family runs a wolf sanctuary as cover. https://amzn.to/4cfBRhe Boo the Library Ghost, by Becky Paige (Dolphin Books, July 16, 2024) The library is Poppy's favorite place to go, but it's currently haunted by a ghost named Boo. Poppy thinks she knows why Boo is acting out – he can't read! She determines to help him.  https://amzn.to/3SuQ0zU The Creepening of Dogwood House, by Eden Royce (Walden Pond Press, July 30, 2024) A Southern gothic book for the middle grade readers. Hoodoo and a creepy house. https://amzn.to/4ftZSDK The Cryptid Club #4: You Don't Know Jackalope, by Michael Brumm (HarperAlley, July 9, 2024) Graphic novel; grades 1-5. https://amzn.to/3AgdVg3 Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: Welcome to Halloween Town! By Autumn B. Heath (Studio Fun International, July 9, 2024) An interactive lift-the-flap pop-up book tour of Halloweentown. https://amzn.to/4d17iNb The Ghostkeeper, by Johanna Taylor (GP Putnam, July 23, 2024) A gothic graphic novel for grades 7-9. Dorian, who can see ghosts, helps the spirits try to recover the Key to Deaths Door that has been stolen, so that they can move on. https://amzn.to/3LOkWaC Ghostly, Ghastly Tales: Frights to Tell at Night, by Anastasia Garcia (Gibbs Smith, July 30, 2024) Spooky short stories for grades 3-7. https://amzn.to/3WNYrJm The Ghosts of Nameless Island, by Carly Anne West (Andrews McMeel, July 23, 2024) Gus can see ghosts and helps them "move on." His dad goes missing and his mom moves them to Nameless Island to help renovate a house called Rotham Manor. https://amzn.to/3LOkF7K Griselda Snook's Spectacular Books, by Barry Timms (July 2, 2024) Griselda runs a Halloween themed bookstore that caters to Halloween characters. Can Henry find the right book for him? https://amzn.to/3SxExQ5 Guess Who? Boo to You! By Katie Woolley (Nosy Crow, July 2, 2024) A lift-the-flap picture book where characters take turns "booing" at each other's houses. https://amzn.to/4dn5w95 A Halloween Mystery: Scooby Doo and Friends Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024) Daphne and Velma try to figure out who sabotaged the haunted house. https://amzn.to/3yoEOxV How to Be a Ghost – A LEGO Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024) Another Halloween spooky book for little ones. https://amzn.to/4c6FR3i How do Dinosaurs Say Trick or Treat? By Jane Yolen (Scholastic Press, July 2, 2024) A rhyming book about the mischief a dinosaur might get into on Halloween. https://amzn.to/3A23AEx I Am Sally and I Am Jack (Nightmare Before Christmas) Little Golden Books (July 2, 2024) Of course Sally's book is mostly about a love story and Jack's book is full of adventure and Christmastown and Santa. I Am Santa doesn't come out until September, sheesh. https://amzn.to/4drCNjx https://amzn.to/3Wo5gQl I Am Wednesday (Addams) Little Golden Book (July 2, 2024) The entire plot of the first season of the Netflix show, in just a few cute pages. And yes, she does the Wednesday Dance! https://amzn.to/3SrGL3q I Got the Spooky Spirit, by Connie Schofield-Morrison (Bloomsbury, July 23, 2024) A picture book with carving pumpkins, leaves crunching underfoot, and a ghostly dance party. https://amzn.to/46vnMut Into the Goblin Market, by Vikki VanSickle (Tundra Books, July 30, 2024) Preschool to grade 3. A picture book based on Christina Rossetti's famous poem. https://amzn.to/3STAUV1 It Came from the Trees, by Ally Russell (Delacorte Press, July 30, 2024) A Bigfoot retelling in which a girl and her scout troop leave the safety of their camp to search for their missing friend Reese.  https://amzn.to/4dobUgh Kill the Beast, by Serena Valentino (Disney Villains Book 11) (Disney Hyperion, July 30) Gaston wants very badly to be the hero who kills the Beast in this Beauty and the Beast reimagining. https://amzn.to/3SpEtBJ The LEGO Halloween Games Book: Ideas for 50 Games, Challenges, Puzzles, and Activities (DK Books, July 2, 2024) https://amzn.to/4d66rLa Little Ghost Makes a Friend, by Maggie Edkins Willis (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024) Adorable picture book about a shy ghost who wants to make friends with the new neighbor girl next door, so he invites her over to a Halloween party. What should he wear so she'll want to be friends with him? https://amzn.to/4fsVV26 The Little Green Witch, by Linda Blackmoor (Caledonia Forest, July 22, 2024) A little witch named Wren has a talent for herbal medicine, lives in the forest and conjures spells in her kitchen. https://amzn.to/4fjpxPw Markless, by C.G. Malburi (Levine Querido, July 23, 2024) A dark fantasy for grades 7-12, featuring a society where a mark on your palm determines your magic and your worth in the society. https://amzn.to/3Ag7OZ9 Meesh the Bad Demon #2: The Secret of the Fang, by Michelle Lam (July 23, 2024) Meesh banded together with a fairy princess to save the underworld. Now an evil force wants to destroy all fox-kind. Can it be stopped? It's a graphic novel. https://amzn.to/3YJV1bZ Millie Fleur's Poison Garden, by Christy Mandin (Orchard Books, July 2, 2024) For ages preschool to grade 3. Millie comes to town and finds their gardens boring, so plants things like Fanged Fairymoss and Sneezing Stickyweed. The townsfolk call her garden poison. But some come around. The message is to be yourself, even if you're weird. https://amzn.to/4dfWdb6 Mind Over Monsters, by Betsy Uhrig (Margaret McElderry, July 16, 2024) Monsters are invading Cranberry Bog Middle School! https://amzn.to/4doEazd The Night Librarian, by Christopher Lincoln (Dial Books, July 30, 2024) Twins Page and Turner investigate a world they never knew existed, and it has something to do with their dad's copy of Bram Stoker's Dracula and characters missing from the pages of books. Middle grade series. https://amzn.to/3LKQnTa The Old Willis Place, by Mary Downing Hahn (Clarion Books, July 16, 2024) A ghost story graphic novel with a creepy house. https://amzn.to/3LLkr0Y Prunella, by Beth Ferry (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024) Prunella is born with a purple thumb instead of a green one like her parents. She prefers corpse flowers to carnations and poison ivy to petunias. Her creepy garden scares all the other kids away, until one day a peculiar weed takes hold in her garden.. https://amzn.to/3SuRAC2 The Quacken, by Justin Colon (Simon and Schuster, July 16, 2024) A monstrous duck terrorizes Cucumonga Campground. https://amzn.to/3Swi99E Stranger Things Inside, Outside, Upside Down Funko Pop Little Golden Book (July 9, 2024) Funko pop versions of Eleven, Dustin, Max, Erica, Lucas, etc. have adventures. https://amzn.to/3yiC8C2 Supernatural: An Official Spooky Picture Book, by Micol Ostow (Running Press Kids, July 16, 2024) Sam and Dean Winchester go check out the haunted Waverly Hills Boarding House after reading about it in their dad's journal. Preschool to grade 3. https://amzn.to/4dfwbVg The Tale of the Twisted Toymaker (Are You Afraid of the Dark Volume 2) by Danielle Valentine (July 23, 2024) About a twisted doll who wants something from you. Ms. Mabel's Doll Emporium can make a doll that looks just like you. But when Layla stashes the doll in her closet, she hears creepy whispering coming from it at night. https://amzn.to/3Ae5Ok5 Trick or Treat on Scary Street, by Lance Bass from Nsync (Union Square Kids, July 23, 2024) Thirteen trick-or-treaters wander down Scary Street on Halloween. https://amzn.to/3WI3wTo Trunk or Treat, by Chris Ayala-Cronos (Clarion, July 16, 2024) A picture book for kids preschool to grade 3 about the community trunk-or-treat tradition. https://amzn.to/4ftEpL8 The Twisted Tower of Endless Torment #2 (The Horrible Bag Series), by Rob Renzetti (Penguin Workshop, July 23, 2024) Middle-grade horror series about a horrible bag and the spine chilling world hidden within. Action packed. https://amzn.to/4c5tC79 ¡Vamos! Let's Celebrate Halloween and Día de los Muertos: A Halloween and Day of the Dead Celebration, by Raul the Third (Versify, July 16, 2024) Little Lobos celebrates both holidays in a festive manner. Preschool to grade 3. https://amzn.to/3A1H5zI Welcome to Scare School (1) (Scare School Diaries), by Jarrett Lerner (Aladdin Publishing, July 16, 2024) A chapter book about Bash, a ghost who isn't good at "ghost stuff" so he has to go to ghost school. Wolfgang in the Meadow, by Lenny Wen (Clarion Books, July 16, 2024) A ghost loves being in the meadow, hugging trees, stargazing etc, but also wants to become the Great Spirit of the Dark Castle and haunt it. Yet that would mean leaving his beloved meadow. https://amzn.to/4c9n4EH @darksideofthelibrary  

Show Notes for Dark Side of the Library Minisode #23: “The Hole: A Novel” by Hye-young Pyun (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) The Hole: A Novel Hye-young Pyun The Hole: A Novel Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Show Notes for Dark Side of the Library Minisode #22: For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) For the Wolf Book 1 of The Wilderwood Series by Hannah Whitten For the Wolf (The Wilderwood, 1) Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Show Notes for Dark Side of the Library Episode #17: Dark and Gothic Books Coming Out July 2021 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Non-Fiction: Abandoned London, by Katie Wignall (July 6) https://amzn.to/3zpiS1g Half Lives: The Unlikely History of Radium, by Lucy Jane Santos (July 6) https://amzn.to/3zwp2wQ Tarot and Tequila: A Tarot Guide with Cocktails, by David A. Ross (July 13) https://amzn.to/2S2F7cH The Letters of Shirley Jackson (July 13) https://amzn.to/3q068d7 The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science, by Sam Kean (July 13) https://amzn.to/3cKch7O The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer, by Dean Jobb (July 13) https://amzn.to/2SF5TYH The Escape of Jack the Ripper: The Truth About the Cover-up and His Flight from Justice, by Jonathan Hainsworth and Christine Ward-Agius (July 20) https://amzn.to/3vxulZF The Final Girl Support Group, by Grady Hendrix (July 13) https://amzn.to/2SDFDOy YA: When All the Girls are Sleeping, by Emily Arsenault (July 13) https://amzn.to/3gvQjrv Nightbitch: A Novel, by Rachel Yoder (July 20) https://amzn.to/3iIcdJL The Past is Red, by Catherynne M. Valente (July 20) https://amzn.to/35q0UhB Rovers, by Richard Lange (July 20) https://amzn.to/2UdHlXl If UR Stabby, by Kaz Windness (July 20) https://amzn.to/2SElSGz The Book of Accidents, by Chuck Wendig (July 20) https://amzn.to/3wADqC4 Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Dark Side of the Library Minisode #15 - Carrie flips through her library copy of Edward Brooke-Hitching's 2021 book "The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts and Other Literary Curiosities from History." (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) SHOW NOTES: The Madman's Library on Amazon  The Madman's Library at Goodreads The Madman's Library Review at The Guardian Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

In this minisode, I review a 1980 "escape the underground city" children's book.  (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Show Notes: This Time of Darkness, by H. M. Hoover https://amzn.to/3wzu6hp H.M. Hoover on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._M._Hoover H.M. Hoover at Fantastic Fiction https://www.fantasticfiction.com/h/h-m-hoover/   Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

"Charlotte Sometimes" minisode - The 1969 children's book that inspired the British band The Cure to write the song "Charlotte Sometimes." SHOW NOTES: (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Charlotte Sometimes, by Penelope Farmer Charlotte Sometimes novel, at Wikipedia Charlotte Sometimes lyrics Charlotte Sometimes song at Wikipedia The Cure (official website) Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Show Notes for Minisode #9: Gods and Monsters, by Christopher Bram (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) "To a new world of gods and monsters!" - Dr. Septimus Pretorius, Bride of Frankenstein (1935) Father of Frankenstein, by Christopher Bram (1995) https://amzn.to/3vjLPca Gods and Monsters by Christopher Bram (2005) https://amzn.to/3nmAYLG James Whale: A Biography or The Would-Be Gentleman, by Mark Gatiss (1995) https://amzn.to/32NWT5d James Whale: A New World of Gods and Monsters, by James Curtis (2003) https://amzn.to/3sUtocu Rent Gods and Monsters (1998) on Amazon Video https://amzn.to/3gHjqsG Buy Gods and Monsters (1998) on Blu-Ray https://amzn.to/2S8mBzd   Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Show Notes: Dark Side of  the Library Episode #8: Andrew Lang's Darkest Fairy Tales - Part 1 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) The Blue Fairy Book https://amzn.to/2QpI85w The Red Fairy Book https://amzn.to/3mOwRIc The Green Fairy Book https://amzn.to/2QubVdc The Yellow Fairy Book https://amzn.to/3wZJSmV The Pink Fairy Book https://amzn.to/3dnhfZa The Grey Fairy Book https://amzn.to/3wYqqqA Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website  

(Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Serial Killers: The Minds, Methods, and Mayhem of History's Most Notorious Murderers, by Richard Estep (April 1) https://amzn.to/31aWicZ Things We Say in the Dark short stories by Kirsty Logan (April 1) https://amzn.to/314HRqK Bela Lugosi’s Dead, by Robert Guffey (April 6) https://amzn.to/3lEMnWt For gothic homeschoolers: Spooky Problems (Mad for Math) (April 6) https://amzn.to/3r9APLR YA: House of Hollow, by Krystal Sutherland (April 6) https://amzn.to/3r9AUz9 Before the Devil Fell, by Neil Olson (April 13) https://amzn.to/2PcWGox Becoming Leidah, by Michelle Grierson (April 13) https://amzn.to/3cWuKh1 The Light of the Midnight Stars by Rena Rossner (April 13, 2021) https://amzn.to/3lG7M1n Harrow the Ninth (sequel to Gideon the Ninth) by Tamsyn Muir (April 13) https://amzn.to/3lEdfWs The Helm of Midnight, by Marina Lostetter (April 13) https://amzn.to/2NHQG6V Malice, by Heather Walter (April 13) https://amzn.to/3re3DTD The Thin Place, by C.D. Major (April 15) https://amzn.to/3scA6ev The Knights of Heliopolis graphic novel, by Alejandro Jodorowsky (April 20) Carrie: I don’t mention this because it’s a dark and spooky graphic novel, but because the author made one of my favorite films ever, Santa Sangre. https://amzn.to/3rcgCFh Mirrorland by Carole Johnstone (April 20) https://amzn.to/3lGOQ2G YA: Witches Steeped in Gold https://amzn.to/3tOQSAr Graphic Novel: Sleeping Beauties adapted from Stephen King novel, by Rio Youers and illustrated by Alison Sampson (April 20) https://amzn.to/2PmctkP Children: Tame the Beast, by DK Brantley (April 27) https://amzn.to/3f2i5M4 The End of Men, by Christina Sweeney-Baird (April 27) https://amzn.to/3lES72m Frankenstein with Bernie Wrightson illustrations (April 27) https://amzn.to/3vS3EjK Creatures of Another Age: Classic Visions of Prehistoric Monsters, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Jack London (Author), Richard Fallon (Editor)  (April 27) https://amzn.to/315ulTV The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story, by Kate Summerscale (April 27) https://amzn.to/2QpXU09 Smithy, by Amanda Desiree (April 27) https://amzn.to/3sgmBdu Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Kaiti and I chat about Norman Bates, Robert Bloch's Psycho books, Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" film and "The Bates Motel."  Show Notes for Minisode #5: Robert Bloch's Psycho Books (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) Psycho, Psycho II and Psycho House by Robert Bloch (1993 edition) Robert Bloch "Psycho" , 2010 paperback edition St. Martin’s Griffin published a book in 1995 by Paul Anthony Woods called Ed Gein, Psycho! Robert Bloch's Psycho: Sanitarium by Chet Williamson (2016) Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, by Stephen Rebello Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light, by Patrick McGilligan (2004) Scripting Hitchcock: Psycho, The Birds, and Marnie, by Walter Raubichek (2011) The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder (2009) by David Thomson Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: The Film Classics Library, by Richard J. Anobile (1974) Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins, by Charles Winecoff (1996)   Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Show Notes: Dark Fiction Coming out in Early 2021 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) The Bone Fire by Gyorgy Dragoman (Feb 23) Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science, by Erika Engelhaupt (March 2) The Werewolf in the Ancient World, by Daniel Ogden (March 7) The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner (March 2) The Last Writer, by Adriane Leigh (March 4) All the Murmuring Bones, by A.G. Slatter (March 9) The Second Bell, by Gabriela Houston (March 9) The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex (March 16) Our Last Echoes, by Kate Alice Marshall (March 16) Mike Mignola: The Quarantine Sketchbook (March 16) The Seventh Raven by David Elliott (March 16) The Whispering House by Elizabeth Brooks (March 16) The Ladies of the Secret Circus, by Constance Sayers (March 23) Norse Mythology graphic novel by Neil Gaiman (March 23) The Lost Village, by Camilla Sten (March 23) Crafts: Disney Villains Cross Stitch (March 9) Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

We recommend dark non-fiction books, from history to science to art and beyond.    Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Today Kaiti and I chat about which Stephen King books we've read, which we failed to complete or put on our DNR; which Stephen King movies made us want to read more of his books; which Stephen King books we'll prioritize reading in the next couple months, and which Stephen King books we won't care to ever read. Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Carrie and Kaiti list their Upcoming Dark Children’s and YA Books March – August 2021: YA: Down Comes the Night, by Alison Saft (March 2) https://amzn.to/3qNfbx2 YA: The Mary Shelley Club (April 13)Goldy Moldavsky https://amzn.to/3tmsOVr YA: Spells Trouble, by P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast (May 25) https://amzn.to/30SaKGu YA: The Last Windwitch, by Jennifer Adam (April 13) https://amzn.to/30Mb2yG YA: Darling, by K. Ancrum (June 22) https://amzn.to/3lkWxvl YA: The Witch Haven, by Sasha Peyton Smith (August 31 https://amzn.to/3lvKzPH The Secret Starling (June 8, 2021) https://amzn.to/2OAbI7R Children: Plentiful Darkness (August 3)Heather Kassner https://amzn.to/3vsNj4N Children: Little Golden Books coming in July – Haunted Mansion (July 13, 2021) https://amzn.to/3rM1DmC Nightmare Before Christmas (July 13, 2021) https://amzn.to/3rSTBZb Children: New edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland illustrated by Julia Sarda (June 1) Julia illustrated “Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein” https://amzn.to/3vrQf1AI Children: 1, 2, Boo – A Spooky Counting Book (July 6) Board book (by Paul Howard (Author, Illustrator) https://amzn.to/3rVXrka Frankenslime (July 13) https://amzn.to/3vrQf1A Children: Hardly Haunted, by Jessie Sima (July 20) https://amzn.to/3eMBNLO Children: Wanda’s Words Got Stuck, by Lucy Rowland (May 18) https://amzn.to/3eP8o3o Disney Mickey Mouse: Dracula (July 20) https://amzn.to/3cz4KIn Children: Starboy: Inspired by the Life and Lyrics of David Bowie, by Jamie Gigot (May 18) https://amzn.to/2ODCcp4 Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Welcome to the Dark Side of the Library! Carrie and Kaiti discuss dark and goth books released from January through the end of February.    Follow Dark Side of the Library on Facebook and on Instagram! Dark Side of the Library Website

Memories of the Lost, by Barbara O'Neal (Lake Union Publishing, July 30, 2024) Months after her mother dies, an artist sees a painting in a gallery that makes her lightheaded and dizzy. A handsome stranger comes over to help her. She later discovers a document in her mother's papers that makes her realize her whole life has been a lie. She enters into a fugue state, finds a lead to the painting that started it all, and retreats to a remote seaside village to discover the source of her uncanny inspirations. https://amzn.to/45NhdTW Midnight Rooms, by Donyae Coles (Amistad, July 2, 2024) In 1840s England, the orphaned daughter of a white man and black woman is offered marriage by a wealthy stranger. She accepts the opportunity, and is whisked off to his surprisingly decaying family manor. The servants are skittish, and she's never allowed to be outside unaccompanied. Her husband is kind, but she begins getting drowsy at dinners, having macabre nightmares and waking up hearing screams in the night. In the morning, she finds bruises on her body. https://amzn.to/3VM1QGD The Moonlight Market, by Joanne Harris (Pegasus Books, July 2, 2024) I am a huge fan of Joanne Harris and I'm extremely excited for this book. It's set in London, where young orphaned photographer Tom walks around the city photographing interesting things. He meets Vanessa. He followers her into a mysterious secret alternate world that's hiding in plain sight on the streets and rooftops of London. It's inhabited by strange colorful beings who are at war with each other – one nocturnal, and one in the light. https://amzn.to/3L8Hxyl My Mother Cursed My Name, by Anamely Salgado Reyes (Atria Books, July 30, 2024) Felicitas finally meets her estranged grandmother, who turns out to be cold, strict, and dead. The grandmother decides the only way she can cross over is to make sure her daughter is in a better place in life (work, husband, God, etc) and the only person who can hear the grandmother is Felicitas. https://www.amazon.com/My-Mother-Cursed-Name-Novel/dp/1668038005/ Nicked, by M.T. Anderson (Knopf/Doubleday, July 23, 2024) Set in Italy in 1087, where a pox is sweeping through the city. A lowly monk is visited by Saint Nicholas in his dreams; and a charismatic treasure hunter seeks the monk's help to steal a mysterious liquid from Saint Nicholas' grave to cure the plague. https://amzn.to/4eHK0xc Pink Slime, by Fernanda Trias (Scribner, July 2, 2024) Dystopian. An algae bloom has poisoned the air and a city is ravaged by plague. A mysterious corporation makes the only food people can safely eat, a disgusting pink paste made out of who-knows-what. A woman struggles to stay and survive in the city and keep her few tenuous relationships alive. https://amzn.to/3zhzQmD State of Paradise, by Laura van der Berg (Farrar Strauss Giroux, July 9, 2024) In Florida, a mysterious illness arrived, made people sick, then disappeared. Weird things start happening, and a company called Electra starts handing out a mind bending virtual reality device. A ghostwriter for a thriller author notices weird things happening, and then her sister disappears after a violent rainstorm. https://amzn.to/462WqvT Toward Eternity, by Anton Hur (HarperVia, July 9, 2024) In a near-future world, a new therapy is eradicating cancer by replacing the body's cells completely with nanites. A man who has received nanotherapy vanishes into thin air, then comes back and is changed. Nano humans thrive and begin to replicate. Sci fi book. https://amzn.to/4cpRCTE We Burn Daylight, by Bret Anthony Johnston (Random House, July 30, 2024) Star-crossed lovers fiction based on a true story at the Branch Davidian cult compound. https://amzn.to/4bsT2Lw The West Passage, by Jared Pachecek (Tordotcom, July 16, 2024) "When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the crows and went back to their chores. No successor was named as Guardian, no one took up the fallen blade; the West Passage went unguarded. Now, snow blankets Grey in the height of summer, foretelling the coming of the Beast. The too-young Mother of Grey House and the Guardian's unnamed squire set out to save their people." https://amzn.to/4bpF0ub Wilderness Reform, by Matt Query and Harrison Query (Atria Books, July 2, 2024) When naughty thirteen year old Ben is sent to a remote wilderness reform program, he immediately senses an undercurrent of menace in the too-cheerful counselors. He and the other boys in his cabin team up to make it out alive. Surprisingly this isn't a YA book. https://amzn.to/45MOYVm The X-Files: Perihelion, by Claudia Gray (Hyperion Avenue, July 30, 2024) Mulder and Scully are still reeling from the death of their son William. The FBI calls to ask their help finding a serial killer in Washington DC. The serial killer targets pregnant women, and has an uncanny power of electricity, which is why they call in Mulder and Scully. https://amzn.to/3zA0A1K

Adult Fiction July 2024 part 1 (Disclosure: Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission at no extra cost to you) The Astrology House, by Carinn Jade (Atria Books, July 16, 2024) A group of wealthy, successful Manhattanites goes to an astrology-themed retreat in this page-turning thriller. The astrologer has a dark plan for her guests, and not all of them will leave the house alive. A "beach read" type book for those of us on the darker side of life. https://amzn.to/3VOIQam The Bang Bang Sisters, by Rio Yoeurs (William Morrow, July 16, 2024) Brea, Jessie and Flo are members of a cool rock band. But they're also secretly vigilante assassins who drive their tour bus around the country dispensing justice to criminals who slipped the system. They're tracking a serial killer known as "The Wren" and only one of the sisters will survive the next 48 hours in this action packed thriller. https://amzn.to/4clmCUN The Black Bird Oracle, by Deborah Harkness (Ballantine Books, July 16, 2024) The fifth book in the 'All Souls" series featuring scholarly witch Diana Bishop and vampire Matthew de Clermont. A previously unknown aunt, Gwyneth, sends Diana a note, "It's time to come home." Diana and Matthew test their twins, Pip and Rebecca, for magic. Diana's determined not to spellbind them. https://amzn.to/3VJ84ad Briefly Very Beautiful, by Roz Dineen (The Overlook Press, July 2, 2024) Dystopian fiction where a mother flees the city with her three children during a destabilizing time of near societal collapse due to bad air, wildfires, floods, supply shortages and homegrown terror. The seemingly peaceful costal commune the family ends up at has a dark undercurrent. https://amzn.to/3RTaSAv Bright Objects, by Ruby Todd (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024) A woman searching for her husband's killer meets a mystic who believes that a recently discovered approaching comet has a divine message. https://amzn.to/3xKwet1 Bury Your Gays, by Chuck Tingle (Tor Nightfire, July 9, 2024) An LGBTQ+ horror novel set in Hollywood, with the producer of a streaming series being pressured to kill off his two gay characters "for the algorithm." And monsters from his horror movie days are stalking him and his friends! https://amzn.to/45KehaE The Deading, by Nicholas Belardes (Erewhon, July 23, 2024) A hidden evil emerges from the ocean and infects the residents of a small fishing town. Sea snails wash ashore, infecting the residents, who die and then come back changed, as "Risers." The town is isolated, and survivors have to find a way to get out of the isolated village. https://amzn.to/3RPOt7d The Dissonance, by Shaun Hamill (Knopf/Doubleday, July 23, 2024) Three students of the eccentric Professor March have been trained in a system of magic called 'The Dissonance,' which works by harnessing negative emotions such as anger and pain. Twenty years later, they're called back to their hometown to help after an idiot teenager's séance summoned a murderous entity. https://amzn.to/3RQMXBL Dracula (Arcturus Ornate Classics) by Bram Stoker (Sirius, July 2, 2024) A stunning edition of the classic vampire book. Beautiful for your bookshelves. https://amzn.to/3RQ4Lgp Echoes of Memory, by Sarah Driscoll (Kensington, July 23, 2024) A woman with post-traumatic attack amnesia witnesses a murder in the alley and writes it all down carefully in her notebook so she can remember It the next day. But by the time the police arrive, there's no body and no crime scene. The next day, she starts having flashbacks, and realizes the killer knows she's a witness.. https://amzn.to/4eHO14N The Family Experiment, by John Marrs (Hanover Square Press, July 9, 2024) A dystopian thriller set in the future UK, where the world population is soaring, but in the UK nobody can afford to start a family. For families desperate to have a child, you can pay a subscription service for access to a virtual child via a VR headset. A reality show called "The Substitute" will follow ten couples as they raise their virtual children from "birth" to age 18 though an artificially condensed nine month period. They compete to keep their virtual child, or risk it all for the chance of a "real" baby to keep. https://amzn.to/4bpfnK0 Folk Tales of the Night: Stories for Campfires, Bedtime and Nocturnal Adventures, by Chris Salisbury (The History Press, July 2, 2024) A master storyteller from the UK rewrote and respun these folk tales of stars, sea, creatures and ghosts. They're ideally shared around a campfire late at night. https://amzn.to/3RQ3w0u Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales of the Supernatural (Arcturus Gilded Classics) (Sirius, July 2, 2024) A stunningly beautiful gift edition of fifteen ghost stores by Edith Wharton, Edgar Allan Poe, Guy de Maupassant, etc. https://amzn.to/3XPdvHA The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore (Riverhead Books, July 2, 2024) In this thriller set in 1975, a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk in the cabin. A girl, Barbara, has gone missing. She's the daughter of the camp's owners, but the disturbing part is, her older brother also went missing fourteen years before, never to be found. https://amzn.to/4eLcPcc The Haunting of Hecate Cavendish, by Paula Braxton (St. Martin's Press, July 23, 2024) Part 1 in a series. Set in England in 1881. Hecate Cavendish is about to become assistant librarian at Hereford Cathedral, which houses a chained library, and a map of the medieval world. Hecate sees ghosts, and some need her help, and some are threatening her very existence. https://amzn.to/4ePh72k Heads Will Roll, by Josh Winning (G.P. Putnam's Sons, July 30, 2024) A troubled TV actress is sent to a summer camp for adult celebrities to take a break and leave their mistakes behind. There's no phones allowed, so the campers have no way to call for help when one of them goes missing and others start to lose their heads (literally). https://amzn.to/4cH8sgu Her Cruel Dahlias, by Candace Robinson (Crooked Heart Publishing, July 11, 2024)  Cricket Wakefield was brutally murdered, but the dead don't always stay dead. She's awoken from the dead a year later by a necromancer, and she joins a carnival. More women turn up dead, and they all still have the same black dahlias on her body. She must find and stop her killer before she dies again. https://amzn.to/4eQrrXC House of Shades, by Leeanne Dillsworth (Harper, July 16, 2024) A Black female doctor in 1830s Victorian London moves to a dark and foreboding house to try to cure its owner. But it's not that simple, and she begins to unearth secrets. https://amzn.to/3L9pB6x I Was a Teenage Slasher, by Stephen Graham Jones (Simon & Schuster, July 16, 2024) A teenager in a small town in Texas is cursed to kill for revenge. This is their autobiography. https://amzn.to/3RRwltM Look in the Mirror, by Catherine Steadman (Ballantine Books, July 30, 2024) Nina's father dies, leaving her an estate in the British Virgin Islands she hadn't known existed. It's a modern high-tech house with glass and marble. She's not sure how he got the money for it and why he kept it a secret. Meanwhile medical student Maria is a nanny for the super rich. She travels to a fancy house to start work, but her employers haven't arrived yet. Their only message is "Don't go in the basement." Reminds me of Bluebeard? https://amzn.to/3W3M2R3 The Lost Story, by Meg Shaffer (Ballantine Books, July 16, 2024) In this Narnia-inspired fairy tale for grownups, two boys go missing in a West Virginia forest, only to reappear six months later with no explanation for where they'd been or what happened. Fifteen years later, one is an artist with no memory of what happened, and the other a missing persons investigator who does remember the magical realm they'd gone to. They're called on to find Emilie's missing sister, lost in those same woods. https://amzn.to/3VJpy6A