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New Moon

New Moonベラ・スワンにとって、自分の命よりも大切なことが一つある。それはエドワード・カレンだ。しかし、吸血鬼と恋に落ちることは、ベラが想像していたよりも危険なことだった。エドワードはすでに悪魔のような吸血鬼の魔の手からベラを救い出していたが、今や二人の危険な関係が彼らにとってかけがえのないものすべてを脅かし、トラブルはまだ始まったばかりかもしれないと気づく……

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeMr. Gabriel Utterson is a serious, austere lawyer living a humdrum life in Victorian London. Yet there is a strange clause in his friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll's will: should he disappear for more than 3 months, everything will be inherited by Hyde. But after Edward Hyde's darker nature is revealed one dark winters night, Mr. Utterson begins to investigate the connection between the two men, and finds the dark secret binding them closer then he could have ever thought imaginable. Adapted countless times in film, some times in video game form, and referenced countless times in popular culture, here is the story that started it all: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde!

You´re not supposed to die tonight

You´re not supposed to die tonightCharity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But the last weekend of the season, Charity's co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity's role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they'll need figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?

The weight of blood

The weight of bloodWhen Springville residents—at least the ones still alive—are questioned about what happened on prom night, they all have the same explanation … Maddy did it. An outcast at her small-town Georgia high school, Madison Washington has always been a teasing target for bullies. And she's dealt with it because she has more pressing problems to manage. Until the morning a surprise rainstorm reveals her most closely kept secret: Maddy is biracial. She has been passing for white her entire life at the behest of her fanatical white father, Thomas Washington. After a viral bullying video pulls back the curtain on Springville High's racist roots, student leaders come up with a plan to host the school's first integrated prom as a show of unity. The popular white class president convinces her Black superstar quarterback boyfriend to ask Maddy to be his date, leaving Maddy wondering if it's possible to have a normal life. But some of her classmates aren't done with her just yet. And what they don't know is that Maddy still has another secret … one that will cost them all their lives. "

Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave

Mystery James Digs Her Own Grave13-year-old Mystery—who was abandoned in a cemetery and raised in a funeral home—is plagued by sleep paralysis and the smell of ghosts, but she's used to that. Even though her life might seem "strange" on the outside, she loves it. That is until a priceless heirloom goes missing and her family's funeral home is in danger of being shut down. To clear her Tia's good name, Mystery embarks on an adventure to figure out what really happened to the misplaced necklace. But to do so, she must contend with the angry patriarch of the town’s wealthiest family, a sleep paralysis demon, a graverobber, and the ghastly half-vampire, half-ghost that’s lurking in the Old Ellis Town Cemetery.

It came from the trees

It came from the treesThe wilderness is in Jenna’s blood. Her Pap was the first Black park ranger at Sturbridge Reservation, and she practically knows the Owlet Survival Handbook by heart. But she’s never encountered a creature like the one that took her best friend Reese. Her parents don’t believe her; the police are worthless, following the wrong leads; and the media isn’t connecting the dots between Reese’s disappearance and a string of other attacks. Determined to save her friend, Jenna joins a new local scout troop, and ventures back into the woods. When the troop stumbles across suspicious huge human-like footprints near the camp, scratch marks on trees, and ominous sounds from the woods, Jenna worries that whatever took Reese is back to take her too. Can she trust her new scout leader? And will her new friend Norrie—who makes her laugh and reminds her so much of Reese—believe her? After the unthinkable happens, the scouts, armed with their wits and toiletries, band together to fight the monster and survive the night.

Ghostroots

Ghostroots`Pemi Aguda opens her collection of twelve stories with the chilling tale of a woman who uncannily resembles her sinister, deceased grandmother. When the woman shows a capacity for deadly violence, she wonders—can evil be genetic, passed from generation to generation? Set in Lagos, Nigeria, Aguda’s stories unfold against a spectral cityscape where the everyday business of living—the birth of a baby, a market visit, a conversation between mothers and daughters—is charged with an air of supernatural menace. In “Breastmilk” a new mother’s inability to lactate takes on preternatural overtones. In “24, Alhaji Williams Street” a mysterious disease wreaks havoc with frightening precision. In “The Hollow,” an architect stumbles on a vengeful house.

Listen to your sister

Listen to your sisterTwenty-five year old Calla Williams is struggling since becoming guardian to her brother, Jamie. Calla is overwhelmed and tired of being the one who makes sacrifices to keep the family together. Jamie, full of good-natured sixteen-year-old recklessness, is usually off fighting for what matters to him or getting into mischief, often at the same time. Dre, their brother, promised he would help raise Jamie–but now the ink is dry on the paperwork and in classic middle-child fashion, he’s off doing his own thing. And through it all, The Nightmare never stops haunting Calla: recurring images of her brothers dying that she is powerless to stop. When Jamie’s actions at a protest spiral out of control, the siblings must go on the run. Taking refuge in a remote cabin that looks like it belongs on a slasher movie poster rather than an AirBNB, the siblings now face a new threat where their lives–and reality–hang in the balance. Their sister always warned them about her nightmares. They really should have listened.

When the Beckoning Comes

When the Beckoning ComesMore than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. With every mile she traveled, she distanced herself from her past: from her best friend Celine, mocked by their town as the only white girl with black friends; from her old neighborhood; from the eerie Woodsman plantation rumored to be haunted by the spirits of slaves; from the terrifying memory of a ghost she saw that terrible day when a dare-gone-wrong almost got Jesse—the boy she secretly loved—arrested for murder. But now Mira is back in Kipsen to attend Celine’s wedding at the plantation, which has been transformed into a lush vacation resort. Mira hopes to reconnect with her friends, and especially, Jesse, to finally tell him the truth about her feelings and the events of that devastating long-ago day. But for all its fancy renovations, the Woodsman remains a monument to its oppressive racist history. The bar serves antebellum drinks, entertainments include horrifying reenactments, and the service staff is nearly all black. Yet the darkest elements of the plantation’s past have been carefully erased—rumors that slaves were tortured mercilessly and that ghosts roam the lands, seeking vengeance on the descendants of those who tormented them, which includes most of the wedding guests. As the weekend unfolds, Mira, Jesse, and Celine are forced to acknowledge their history together, and to save themselves from what is to come.

Rootwork

RootworkSet in a small parish in Louisiana in 1889, Rootwork follows sisters, Betty, Ann and Pee Wee. When school lets out for the summer, the girls head off to stay with their hoodoo-practicing aunt, Theodora, an empowered woman equally feared and revered by the local townspeople. They learn how to make “hot foot powder” and the secrets of a good “black cat bone”. Need to get back at an enemy? A little goofer dust will help that. The girls delight in their new hoodoo adventure, until a tragic event strikes, involving the malicious town sheriff, transforming not only their lives but also the sisters themselves. A story of love, folk magic, redemption and independence, Rootwork explores the strength of family and the darker side of the heart.

Weird Black Girls

Weird Black GirlsA rural town finds itself under the authoritarian sway of a tree that punishes children. A pair of old friends navigate their fraught history as strange happenings escalate in a Mexican restaurant. A pair of narcissistic friends wreak havoc on an activist community. An aloof young man finds himself living through his lover’s memories. And a day of LARPing takes a cosmic turn. In each of the seven stories in this collection, characters pursue their obsessions on paths to glory and destruction while around them their worlds twist and warp, oscillating between reality and impossibility. On display throughout is Cotman’s ability to reveal truths about the human experience—about friendship, love, betrayal, bitterness—through whimsy, horror, and fantasy. Elegiac in tone, imaginative and humorous in their execution, the character-driven stories in Weird Black Girls challenge, incite, and entertain.

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

I, Tituba, Black Witch of SalemAt the age of seven, Tituba watched as her mother was hanged for daring to wound a plantation owner who tried to rape her. She was raised from then on by Mama Yaya, a gifted woman who shared with her the secrets of healing and magic. But it was Tituba's love of the slave John Indian that led her from safety into slavery, and the bitter, vengeful religion practiced by the good citizens of Salem, Massachusetts. Though protected by the spirits, Tituba could not escape the lies and accusations of that hysterical time.

Beauty in the Blood

Beauty in the BloodSarah Toomey is afraid she's losing her mind. Ever since her mother’s death, she's found herself acting upon strange urges, losing track of time, and coming to in odd places. There’s a dark force that seems to be haunting her, and leaving death in its wake. Yvonne Howard has reinvented herself. After years of unhappiness as a guard in a women’s prison she’s finally pursuing her passion for cooking. But when an ex-inmate reaches out and asks her to investigate the inmate’s brother’s death, then ends up killed herself, Yvonne is pulled into the same dangerous world Sarah is inhabiting—a world of chaos, death, and a curse that dates back to the Civil War.

I'll Make a Spectacle of You

I'll Make a Spectacle of YouZora Robinson es una ambiciosa estudiante de posgrado en el programa de sus sueños, Estudios Apalaches en la Universidad de Bricksbury. Cuando su asesor de tesis le sugiere que investigue el folclore local sobre una bestia que deambula por los bosques que rodean el campus, Zora descubre a una población local poco dispuesta a hablar con un forastero. Al profundizar en la historia de la bestia, descubre una supuesta sociedad secreta llamada los Guardianes, que tiene tenues vínculos con la bestia... y con el propio Bricksbury. Zora pronto se ve acosada por visiones, y su conexión con la realidad comienza a flaquear mientras lucha por descubrir qué es real y qué es folclore. Pero cuando un estudiante desaparece, Zora comienza a preguntarse si los Guardianes alguna vez se disolvieron. Hay algo en el bosque y tiene los ojos puestos en Zora.

White Is for Witching

White Is for WitchingEn una vasta y misteriosa casa en los acantilados cerca de Dover, la familia Silver se tambalea por el agujero que les han abierto en el corazón. Lily se ha ido y sus gemelos, Miranda y Eliot, y su esposo, el amable Luc, lloran su ausencia con una intensidad tácita. La casa tampoco está bien, cruje, refunfuña y confunde malignamente a los visitantes en sus laberínticas habitaciones, forzando la cosecha de manzanas de invierno en el jardín cuando las ramas deberían estar desnudas. Generaciones de mujeres habitan sus paredes. Y Miranda, con su nuevo gusto por la tiza y su agudo sentido de los espíritus, está más en sintonía con ellas que con su hermano y su padre. Los abandona lentamente, se aleja de ellos, y cuando una noche oscura desaparece por completo, los supervivientes quedan para contar su historia.

Where the Dead Brides Gather

Where the Dead Brides GatherAmbientado en Nigeria, narra la historia de Bata, una niña de once años atormentada por pesadillas, despierta una noche y se encuentra de pie, de guardia ante la puerta de su prima. Su piel, cabello y ojos se han vuelto de un blanco deslumbrante, que ni siquiera el curandero puede sanar. Su prima se casará a la mañana siguiente, pero solo si logra escapar del ataque asesino de una novia fantasma, que estuvo comprometida con su novio. Durante la noche, Bata lucha contra el vengativo fantasma y finalmente lo vence antes de desplomarse. Al despertar, no recuerda nada de lo sucedido. Y cuando el curandero intenta exorcizar las entidades que se aferran a su cuerpo como resultado de su posesión sobrenatural, Bata muere en la alfombra de exorcismo. Ahí comienza su viaje. Mmuọ-Ka-Mmuọ, el recolector de fantasmas del reino espiritual, la lleva a Ibaja-La, el reino de las novias muertas. Allí se encuentra con los fantasmas de novias de todas las culturas que murieron trágicamente antes de casarse, tanto las bondadosas como las malévolas. Bata recibe poderes secretos para luchar contra las malvadas novias fantasmas antes de ser enviada de vuelta al reino humano, donde deberá aprender a usar sus nuevas habilidades mientras se esfuerza por proteger a sus seres queridos.

Down Came the Spiders

Down Came the Spiders¿Puedes correr más rápido que ocho patas? Andi, de doce años, adora todo lo relacionado con las arañas: son criaturas fascinantes. Así que, cuando encuentra una especie que nunca había visto en la fiesta de Halloween de un compañero de clase, se pone contentísima. Hasta que las arañas empiezan a comportarse de forma inusual y amenazante. Se camuflan increíblemente bien, saltan más alto de lo que ella jamás ha visto, y sus redes son fuertes. Quizás incluso lo suficientemente fuertes como para atrapar a una persona... Andi y sus amigos Carly y Devon intentan encontrar a un adulto que los ayude, pero se ponen nerviosos: los padres que los acompañan han sido inmovilizados por las arañas. Como los únicos que saben lo que ocurre, Andi, Carly y Devon tendrán que enfrentarse a las arañas ellos mismos, ¡antes de que sea demasiado tarde!

Blacktop Wasteland

Blacktop WastelandBeauregard "Bug" Montage: esposo, padre, honesto mecánico de coches. Pero una vez fue conocido, desde Carolina del Norte hasta las playas de Florida, como el mejor conductor de escape de la Costa Este. Al igual que su padre, desaparecido hace muchos años. Tras una serie de calamidades financieras (agravadas por los prejuicios raciales del pequeño pueblo donde vive), Bug participa a regañadientes en un audaz robo de diamantes para resolver sus problemas de dinero y enmendarse de una vez por todas. Sin embargo, cuando todo sale terriblemente mal, se ve envuelto en un sórdido submundo que amenaza todo y a todos sus seres queridos...

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