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Young women from Pinecreek, an isolated Louisiana town, try to outrun its damage in Munich, Baltimore and New York, and a shapeshifting presence that first surfaces in a stolen doll follows them wherever they go.
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The October Country
Bradbury's darkest stories, from a man who becomes obsessed with the skeleton inside him to a family of night creatures gathering for a homecoming in an Illinois house.
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Seven children in a small Maine town confront a shape-shifting evil that feeds on fear, then return as adults to finish what they started.
The Bog Wife
For generations the Haddesleys of West Virginia have buried their patriarch in the bog in exchange for a wife to carry on the line. When their father dies and no bride rises for the eldest son, his siblings start to come apart.
The Haunting of Velkwood
Talitha Velkwood was one of three girls who got out when an anomaly swallowed her suburban street in the 1980s, leaving everyone else there as ghosts. Decades later a researcher persuades her to go back in.
Mr. Mercedes
Bill Hodges, a retired detective drifting through empty days, gets a gloating letter from the unknown man who drove a stolen Mercedes into a crowd of job seekers, and starts hunting him with a teenage neighbour and an unlikely ally.
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 Twisted Ones
Mouse, a freelance editor, goes with her dog Bongo to clear out her late grandmother's hoarded house in rural North Carolina, and finds her step-grandfather's journal, which reads like the work of a madman.
The Witching Hour
A neurosurgeon is drawn into the baroque history of a New Orleans family of witches stretching back to 17th-century Scotland.
Slade House
Every nine years, from 1979 to 2015, someone slips through a small iron door in a London alley into Slade House, a grand house that should not be there, starting with a boy and his mother, and each visitor is welcomed by someone who seems to know exactly what they want.
Floating Dragon
A cloud of experimental gas leaks from a research plant over Hampstead, a wealthy Connecticut suburb, and the town's old darkness, which returns every few generations, wakes with it.
The Night Eaters: She Eats the Night
Thirty-year-old twin siblings in pandemic New York learn their Chinese-immigrant parents are not quite what their cooking-show manners suggest.
A Box Full of Darkness
Years after their youngest brother Ben vanished near the woods everyone avoids in the strange town of Fell, New York, the three estranged Esmie siblings, Violet, Vail and Dodie, come home when Ben seems to be calling them back.