We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.
-Stephen King.
Halloween is just round the corner, the boundaries between the realms are at their thinnest, and we are at that time of year when ghosts and ghouls,’ witches and troubled spirits are said to wander the earth. The library has a fabulous selection of spooky books for all ages and tastes. For this blog, we have decided to select some fresh blood in the form of some newly acquired fiction titles that have a darker side. Blow you’ll find frightening tales from this very year!
A title that caught our particular eye for this All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve, feast of reading is the new work from the modern maestro of horror Stephen King, called Holly. There is also a chilling debut novel from our own shores called Bunny by S. E. Tolsen. To round the chills off, there is a terrifying new anthology called A darker shade of noir : new stories of body horror by women writers .
All our selected works are sure to chill the blood, so perhaps they might be best read with the lights on full.
Holly : a novel / King, Stephen
” When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her own mother has just died, and Holly is supposed to be taking time off. But something in Penny Dahl’s desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture of bourgeois respectability: married octogenarians, devoted to each other, semi-retired lifelong academics. But they are harbouring an unholy secret in their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to Bonnie’s disappearance…” (Adapted from Catalogue)
Bunny / Tolsen, S. E.
“Silas didn’t have a happy childhood. Aunt Bunny made sure of that. But out of money and almost out of time, Silas and his girlfriend Rose are forced to return to his childhood home. Back to the darkness, back to the woods, where addiction and hedonism are disguising something much more sinister … Plagued by strange, unnerving events, Silas is drawn back into the family by an ancient presence deep in the woods. It will not let him go, and neither will Bunny…” (Adapted from Catalogue) Also available as an eBook.
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