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Undertow by Elizabeth Bear

Posted on February 18, 2019

Against a backdrop of corporate and political intrigue, environmental and cultural pillaging, and the unraveling of the very fabric of reality, an assassin, a knowledge broker, and a “conjure man” betray, bedevil,…

Don’t Leave Home

Posted on February 16, 2019

An American artist who has made a series of dioramas of the scenes of mysterious disappearances is invited to the Irish home of a former priest involved in one of the vanishings,…

A Field in England

Posted on February 15, 2019

A band of deserters from the English Civil War are compelled by an alchemist (with the assistance of some psychedelic mushrooms) to dig a hole in search of buried treasure. Things get…

The Alchemist Cookbook

Posted on February 9, 2019

Sean lives in a trailer in the woods with his cat Kaspar, working on alchemical experiments with plans to raise a demon and gain worldly wealth. His sanity and health deteriorate, and…

The People Under the Stairs

Posted on February 8, 2019

When 13-year-old “Fool”‘s family is threatened with eviction, he joins a pair of robbers who are planning an ill-conceived heist of the landlord’s house. The home, however, is an insane fortress with…

Velvet Buzzsaw

Posted on February 7, 2019

An assistant at an LA art gallery discovers a cache of strange and disturbing paintings when her reclusive neighbor dies. The paintings become the focus of much interest among art collectors and…

The Case of the Bloody Iris (Why Are There Strange Drops of Blood on Jennifer’s Body?)

Posted on February 3, 2019

Jennifer is a fashion model on the run from her estranged husband and a sex cult. She moves into an apartment building with a friend where two women were recently murdered, one…

All the Colors of the Dark

Posted on February 1, 2019

Jane is tormented by her mother’s murder when she was a child, by a recent car crash that claimed her unborn child, and by terrifying nightmares of a blue-eyed knife-wielding killer. Her…

Strip Nude for Your Killer

Posted on February 1, 2019

After a fashion model dies during an abortion, people linked to her modeling agency start to die at the hands of a heavy-breathing killer dressed in black leather. This is a paint-by-numbers…

Ghostkeeper

Posted on January 30, 2019

Three friends snowmobiling in the Canadian Rockies become stranded at an apparently abandoned hotel. But the hotel is not abandoned: a mysterious old woman lives there, and she’s not alone. This is…

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