Take a break from dusting the cobwebs and carving your pumpkins, we have an extra special staff picks filled with our spookiest and scariest stories. Check out all the hocus pocus that the MacLib team is reading this month.
Amanda’s pick: THE SPITE HOUSE by Johnny Compton | 9781250841414 | 2/7/23
Johnny Compton joins authors like Stephen Graham Jones and Silvia Moreno Garcia in diversifying the horror genre with this Southern gothic debut that’s The Babadook meets A HEAD FULL OF GHOSTS. A family on the run accepts a strange offer to be the caretaker of a haunted house. It could be a lucky break…if the house doesn’t drive them all mad like the previous caretakers.
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Emily’s pick: WHERE DARKNESS BLOOMS by Andrea Hannah | 9781250842626 | 2/21/23
The town of Bishop is known for a few things: windstorms, a field of sunflowers, and women that go missing. So when three more women disappear in the midst of a storm, no one in town questions it, the case grows cold, and life moves on, even as their daughters are left behind. But what the girls don’t know is that this town is also deadly—and now it craves their blood. This unsettling YA supernatural thriller is the perfect book to keep you up at night this Halloween season.
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Samantha’s pick: MISSING CLARISSA by Ripley Jones | 9781250801968 | 3/7/23
Two of my favorite things are true crime podcasts and YA thrillers, and there is no better time for a mashup of the two than spooky season. MISSING CLARISSA is for fans of SADIE and A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER as readers are immersed in a high school case where a cheerleader goes missing. Years later, two best friends start a podcast to unravel the story of what really happened. Weaving together themes of friendship, the media, and women taking control of their own narrative, this gripping thriller is perfect for all those looking for some extra thrills and chills.
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