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Scott Crane, a professional gambler who lost an eye in a strange poker game on a houseboat on Lake Mead twenty years ago, finds that the men he played with then want to finish what they started.
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Declare
In 1963 Andrew Hale, a British academic who was a wartime spy, gets a coded phone call that sends him back to Operation Declare, the secret mission on Mount Ararat that went wrong in 1948.
Trail of Lightning
After rising waters drowned much of the world, the Navajo Nation, Dinétah, has walled itself in and its gods and monsters walk again, and Maggie Hoskie, a monster hunter, is hired to find a missing girl.
A Dark Matter
In 1966 a group of Madison teenagers followed a charismatic guru into a meadow for a ritual that left one boy dead. Decades later the writer Lee Harwell, married to one of them, sets out to learn what each of them saw.
Our Share of Night
A boy is chosen by a secret society that harvests children's pain, and the horror spans decades and continents in this sprawling Argentine gothic.
Alif the Unseen
Alif, a young grey-hat hacker in an unnamed Gulf emirate, hides his clients from the state's security service until a broken love affair puts him in its sights, along with a mysterious old book, the Thousand and One Days.
Mythago Wood
Back in England after the Second World War, Steven Huxley returns to the family house beside Ryhope Wood, the ancient forest his late father spent his life studying, where his brother is now as obsessed as their father was.
Mr. X
Every year around his birthday Ned Dunstan has a spell in which he sees a stranger committing murder. On his thirty-fifth he goes home to Edgerton, Illinois, where his mother is dying, and starts to learn who his father was.
The Changeling
Apollo Kagwa, a used-book dealer in New York, has just become a father when his wife, Emma, begins insisting that their baby is not their baby, and an act he cannot comprehend sends him across the city, and into its fairy tales, to find out why.
Ninth House
Alex Stern, a high school dropout who can see ghosts, is given a full scholarship to Yale on one condition: that she monitor the university's secret societies, whose magic is real, dark and dangerous.
Our Lady of Darkness
Franz Westen, a widowed writer of weird fiction in San Francisco, spots a pale figure waving from a hilltop he can see from his window, and comes across an old book on the haunting powers of great cities.
The Atrocity Archives
Bob Howard, an IT worker at the Laundry, the British agency that guards against horrors summoned by mathematics, wants a field job and gets one, sent to California to look after a philosopher whose research has drawn the wrong attention.
Sundial
Rob, a mother in the suburbs who fears what her older daughter Callie is becoming, drives her out to Sundial, the remote desert house where Rob grew up, and begins telling her the family's story.