Bob Pastorella

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Look Out For … Kosa by John Durgin

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“With his latest, Durgin takes readers on a strange coming-of-age journey with an isolated young girl and her enigmatic and overpowering mother.”  Kosa lives in a mansion, secluded from the outside world. Her life revolves around the strict rules of her mysterious mother. These rules are the guiding principles of Kosa’s life, the basis of …

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Look Out For … My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

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“With her debut novel, van Veen presents a gothic tale of a woman with a ghastly spirit companion caught in the embrace of sapphic desire.” Ruth. Dead for centuries. Strange, and very much like a corpse. She’s a spirit companion only Roos Beckman can see, and Ruth is the light of Roos’ life. Well, she …

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Look Out For … Undead Folk by Katherine Silva

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“With her latest, Silva presents an apocalyptic tale of a woman facing horrors personal and grief-stricken in a world of darkness.” Just beyond the smoke-filled skies of a United States in the throes of an apocalypse, a woman treks the grim railroad tracks in a small town. With her only companion an undead fox, reanimated …

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Look Out For … The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower

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“With her latest, Hightower delves into a haunted family’s nightmarish past and their need to finally confront the evil that has torn them apart.” The four Lasco siblings have been through a lot. They banded together to fight a world that failed to give them protection. One hellish night marked the end of their childhood. …

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Look Out For … The Demon of Devil’s Cavern by Brennan LaFaro

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“With his latest, LaFaro returns to Buzzard’s Edge and the world of Rory Daggett with a horrifying tale of betrayal and survival.” It’s been six months since the death of Noose Holcomb, and now Buzzard’s Edge sits in an uneasy quiet. Can a town that brims with such hatred stay peaceful? Forced into exile, Rory …

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Look Out For … Withered by A.G.A. Wilmot

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“With their latest effort, Wilmot presents a teenager haunted by grief facing impossible odds to save themselves in a nightmarish supernatural war, and those they love.” Seeking a simpler life, 18-year-old Ellis moves in with their mother in Black Stone. Dealing with both the tragic death of their father and surviving an eating disorder, they …

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Look Out For … Lord of the Feast by Tim Waggoner

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“With his latest, Waggoner presents a woman searching for relatives that attempted to create their own god, and her cousin who wants to unleash the evil entity on the world.” Around twenty years ago, a strange cult conjured their own god. The Lord of the Feast was a dreadful misbegotten thing. The horrified cultists killed …

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Look Out For … The Gathering by C.J. Tudor

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“With her latest, Tudor delivers a vampyr novel set in a frozen landscape, with community tensions rising as the nights grow longer.” A small Alaska town is upended when a boy is found with his throat ripped out, no blood found in his body. It’s been twenty-five years since Deadhart have seen a killing of …

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Look Out For … All the Fiends of Hell by Adam Nevill

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“With his upcoming novel, Nevill presents an evil not of this world as a horrifying alien race arrives to end all life on earth.” Seeing the morning is no blessing. Confronting blood-red skies and hordes of predatory horrors, the scattered survivors do what they can. An occupying force—one that never came from the earth—is hellbent …

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Look Out For … Shadow of the Hidden by Kev Harrison

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“With his debut novel, Harrison presents of tale of clashing cultures and supernatural curses in a race against time to save a man and his family.” On his last day working in Turkey, Seb learns his friend, Oz, has been cursed. As superstition shifts to terror, the effects of this ancient curse comes to a …

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