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Town, by M. Ridgway
(A psychological suspense novella.) Something is haunting this place. It all might’ve started when those six teenagers died. An old fire tower collapsed, and it shook this rural town to its core. Now, the rumors run rampant. There’s talk of curses and serial killers. Since then, more mysterious deaths have left people suspicious of their neighbors in this secluded corner of Appalachia. A volatile land surveyor is in the area for temporary work and soon falls for Lucy — the girl next door who is no stranger to tragedy — and decides to stay despite the town’s dark rumors. The couple hopes to one day escape the desolate place together, but they must bide their time and avoid Lucy’s disapproving father. When Hanae, a young ambitious journalist, arrives with an obsessive interest in the twisted rumors, their plans to escape become even more complicated. As Hanae investigates, it becomes clear that something sinister is lurking in this seemingly mundane town, and her list of suspects is short. In this gripping tale of rural Appalachia, love, and obsession, the lines between reality and perception begin to blur, pushing the people of this town to desperate measures, even murder. What’s really haunting this place? Curse or killer? |
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Ro is stuck. She's just entered her thirties, she's estranged from her mother, and her boyfriend has just left her to join a mission to Mars. Her days are spent dragging herself to her menial job at the aquarium, and her nights are spent drinking sharktinis (Mountain Dew and copious amounts of gin, plus a hint of jalapeño). With her best friend pulling away to focus on her upcoming wedding, Ro's only companion is Dolores, a giant Pacific octopus who also happens to be Ro's last remaining link to her father, a marine biologist who disappeared while on an expedition when Ro was a teenager. |
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Spells and stories, urban legends and immigrant tales: the magic in Isabel Yap's debut collection jumps right off the page, from the friendship and fear building in "A Canticle for Lost Girls" to the joy in "A Spell for Foolish Hearts" to the terrifying tension of the urban legend "Have You Heard the One About Anamaria Marquez." World Fantasy Award finalist British Fantasy Award finalist Ladies of Horror Fiction Award winner Crawford Award shortlist |
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Willa Chen has never quite fit in. Growing up as a biracial Chinese American girl in New Jersey, Willa felt both hypervisible and unseen, too Asian to fit in at her mostly white school, and too white to speak to the few Asian kids around. After her parents' early divorce, they both remarried and started new families, and Willa grew up feeling outside of their new lives, too. For years, Willa does her best to stifle her feelings of loneliness, drifting through high school and then college as she tries to quiet the unease inside her. But when she begins working for the Adriens--a wealthy white family in Tribeca--as a nanny for their daughter, Bijou, Willa is confronted with all of the things she never had. |
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A singular book that explores themes of identity and justice. Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother's paintings and a drop of Jam's blood, she must reconsider what she's been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption's house. |
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