12Monsters, Murder, & Madness Honors
All entering 12 Monsters, Murder, and Madness Honors will read/listen to one book or podcast of your choice from the Monster reading list AND The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
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All entering 12 Monsters, Murder, and Madness Honors will read/listen to one book or podcast of your choice from the Monster reading list AND The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.
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The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his bulk, waved helplessly before his eyes." With it's startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first opening, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. A harrowing—though absurdly comic—meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction."
Subjects: Allegories; Literary fiction; Modern classics
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Battle Royale
by Koushun Takami
"In a country ruled by a ruthless totalitarian government, a group of ninth-grade students are confined to a small isolated island where they must fight each other for three days until only one survivor remains, as part of the ultimate in reality television."
Genre: Thrillers and suspense
Subjects: Violence, Competition in teenagers, Dystopias, Fifteen-year-olds, High school students, Reality television programs, Survival
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
"Esther Greenwood is brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. In her acclaimed and enduring masterwork, Sylvia Plath brilliantly draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that her insanity becomes palpably real, even rational—as accessible an experience as going to the movies. A deep penetration into the darkest and most harrowing corners of the human psyche, The Bell Jar is an extraordinary accomplishment and a haunting American classic."
Genre: Literary fiction; Modern classics; Psychological fiction
Subjects: Mental illness, Nervous breakdown, Suicidal behavior, Depression
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Dread Nation
by Justina Ireland
"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations. But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems."
Genre: Historical fantasy; Horror
Subjects: Friendship, Love, Missing persons, Oppression (Psychology), Racism, Schools, Slavery, Zombies
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Fight Club
by Chuck Palahniuk
"It follows the experiences of an unnamed protagonist struggling with insomnia. Inspired by his doctor's exasperated remark that insomnia is not suffering, the protagonist finds relief by impersonating a seriously ill person in several support groups. Then he meets a mysterious man named Tyler Durden and establishes an underground fighting club as radical psychotherapy."
Genre: Transgressive fiction
Subjects: Boxers (Sports), Fist fights, Insomnia, Love triangles, Mental illnesses, Millennialism, Secret societies, Support groups, Terrorism, Violence
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Go Ask Alice
by Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous")
"It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life. Read her diary. Enter her world. You will never forget her."
Genre: Diary novels; First person narratives; Realistic fiction
Subjects: Drug abuse, Drug addiction, Fifteen-year-old girls
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Grown
by Tiffany D. Jackson
"Korey Fields is dead. When Enchanted Jones wakes with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night, no one—the police and Korey’s fans included—has more questions than she does. All she really knows is that this isn't how things are supposed to be. Korey was Enchanted’s ticket to stardom. Before there was a dead body, Enchanted was an aspiring singer, struggling with her tight knit family’s recent move to the suburbs while trying to find her place as the lone Black girl in high school. But then legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots her at an audition. And suddenly her dream of being a professional singer takes flight. Enchanted is dazzled by Korey’s luxurious life but soon her dream turns into a nightmare. Behind Korey’s charm and star power hides a dark side, one that wants to control her every move, with rage and consequences. Except now he’s dead and the police are at the door. Who killed Korey Fields? All signs point to Enchanted."
Genre: Thrillers and suspense; First person narratives
Subjects: Amnesia, Celebrities, Control (Psychology), Dominance (Psychology), Fame Misogyny, Murder, Sexual Assault, Rhythm and blues musicians, Sex crimes, Singers, Teenage girls
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The Hollow Girl
by Hillary Monahan
"Bethan, apprentice to a Welsh Roma witch, is harrassed by the son of the clan's chieftan and then, after a brutal assault against her and a friend, must collect grisly objects to save her friend's life."
Genre: Fantasy fiction; Horror
Subjects: Assault and battery, Magic, Sexual Assault, Revenge, Romanies, Seventeen-year-old girls, Teenage girls, Violent crimes
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The Island of Doctor Moreau
by H.G. Wells
"When Edward Prendick is shipwrecked on a mysterious island in the South Pacific, he meets the infamous Dr. Moreau, a physiologist who was forced to leave England because of his repulsive experiments on animals. On the island, screams echo from the laboratory in the middle of the night, and strange beasts prowl the jungle. Prendick discovers that the doctor is still performing horrific experiments, trying to turn animals into human beings. Terrified, Prendick wants to escape but soon finds himself seeking justice for the half-human subjects of Dr. Moreau's experiments. These experiences force Prendick to consider the relationship between science and ethics. "
Genre: Horror; Horror classics; Science fiction
Subjects: Animal experimentation, Human/animal relationships, Islands, Mad scientist (Concept), Physicians, Scientists, Shipwrecks, Survival
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Any 1 fiction book of Stephen King |
The Lost Village
by Camilla Sten
"Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of an old mining town since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother’s entire family disappeared, and only two people were left—a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn. Alice has gathered a small crew in the remote village to make a film about the mysterious disappearances. But not long after they’ve set up camp, equipment is destroyed, and people go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear: they are not alone."
Genre: Parallel narratives; Scandinavian crime fiction; Thrillers and suspense; Translations
Subjects: Documentary filmmakers, Ghost towns, Good and evil, Missing persons, Obsession, Secrets, Villages
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Lovecraft Country
by Matt Ruff
"Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite, they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours. At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction. A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of one black family, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism—the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today."
Genre: Afrofuturism and Afrofantasy; Historical horror; Horror; Science fiction
Subjects: Automobile travel, Cults, Fathers and sons, Magic (Occultism), Missing persons, Racism, Veterans
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
"When Korede's dinner is interrupted one night by a distress call from her sister, Ayoola, she knows what's expected of her: bleach, rubber gloves, nerves of steel and a strong stomach. This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away. She should probably go to the police for the good of the menfolk of Nigeria, but she loves her sister and, as they say, family always comes first. Until, that is, Ayoola starts dating the doctor where Korede works as a nurse. Korede's long been in love with him, and isn't prepared to see him wind up with a knife in his back: but to save one would mean sacrificing the other..."
Genre: Dark Humor, Satirical fiction
Subjects: Family relationships, Love triangles, Serial murders, Sisterhood, Sisters
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
"A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present."
Genre: Literary fiction; Science fiction
Subjects: Clones and cloning, Donation of organs, tissues, etc., Ethics, Friendship, Memories, Organ donors, Private schools, Secrets
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The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
"Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way."
Genre: Horror; Multiple perspectives
Subjects: Belief and doubt, Elk, Families, Guilt, Hunting, Revenge, Rural life, Tradition (Philosophy)
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Pet
by Akwaeke Emezi
"Pet is here to hunt a monster. Are you brave enough to look? There are no monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille are taught. Jam and her best friend, Redemption, have grown up with this lesson all their life. But when Jam meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colors and claws, who emerges from one of her mother’s paintings and a drop of Jam’s blood, she must reconsider what she’s been told. Pet has come to hunt a monster, and the shadow of something grim lurks in Redemption’s house. Jam must fight not only to protect her best friend, but also to uncover the truth, and the answer to the question–How do you save the world from monsters if no one will admit they exist?"
Genre: Fantasy Fiction; Allegories
Subjects: Injustice, Monster hunters, Monsters, Near future, Quests, Selective mutism, Teenage girls, Utopias
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Any 5 short stories from Edgar Allen Poe
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Ring Shout
by P. Djèlí Clark
"Maryse Boudreaux is a 25-year-old Black bootlegger who lost her family in a brutal Klan attack. She can see things that are hidden to most, and, in her pursuit of vengeance, wields a mystical blade tied to the spirits of African slaves and chiefs. Maryse and her friends with the sight—Sadie, a brash sharpshooter, and Chef, a female veteran of WWI—are called to Macon by Gullah matriarch Nana Jean to serve as soldiers in the ongoing war against Black bodies. Extradimensional monsters, which they call Ku Kluxes, have been possessing willing white hosts after being summoned by prominent Klan members, but an exponentially greater threat appears in the sinister Butcher Clyde, who spews a hateful noise that is the antithesis of the joyful shouts at Nana Jean’s house and the singing of the spirits in Maryse’s sword. Clark's latest is set in a visceral world, steeped in historical detail and full of engaging characters, that asks the question, “Who is to blame for the hate that hate made?”"
Genre: Historical horror; First person narratives
Subjects: Hate, Imaginary wars and battles, Manners and customs, Monsters, Psychic ability, Racism, Supernatural, Violence, White supremacists
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Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
"Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming."
Genre: Psychological suspense
Subjects: Self-harm, Deception, Drug abuse, Girl murder victims, Half-sisters, Murder investigation, Poisoning, Secrets, Self-destructive behavior
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
"Idealistic young scientist Henry Jekyll struggles to unlock the secrets of the soul. Testing chemicals in his lab, he drinks a mixture he hopes will isolate - and eliminate - human evil. Instead it unleashes the dark forces within him, transforming him into the hideous and murderous Mr. Hyde.The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde dramatically brings to life a science-fiction case study of the nature of good and evil and the duality that can exist within one person. Resonant with psychological perception and ethical insight, the work has literary roots in Dostoevsky's "The Double" and Crime and Punishment. Today Stevenson's novella is recognized as an incisive study of Victorian morality and sexual repression, as well as a great thriller."
Genre: Classics; Gothic fiction; Horror
Subjects: Dissociative identity disorder, Good and evil, Human experimentation in medicine, Mad scientist (Concept), Personal conduct, Physicians, Scientists, Secret identity, Secrets, Self medication, Self-destructive behavior, Sin
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The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures
by Aaron Mahnke
"A book inspired by the popular podcast LORE—which tells the fascinating, and sometimes terrifying, true stories behind myths and legends around the world, and is about to become an online streaming TV series—shares the true stories that inspired the legends of famous monsters, from werewolves to wendigo to the Jersey Devil."
Genre: Illustrated books; Media tie-ins; Science Writing
Subjects: Characters and characteristics in mythology, Curiosities and wonders, Ghosts, Imaginary creatures, Monsters, Occultism, Paranormal phenomena, Vampires
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A Monster Callsby Patrick Ness, Jim Kay, and Siobhan Dowd
"An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting - he's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It's ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. Something terrible and dangerous. It wants the truth."
Genre: Magical realism
Subjects: Children of people with cancer, Loss (Psychology), Monsters, Nightmares, Schools, Self-fulfillment, Single-parent families, Thirteen-year-old boys
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Bitter Root, Vol. 1: Family Business
by David F. Walker, Chuck Brown, and Sanford Greene
"In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has claimed most of the family, leaving the surviving cousins divided between by the desire to cure monsters or to kill them; they must heal the wounds of the past and move beyond their differences ... or sit back and watch a force of unimaginable evil ravage the human race."
Genre: Horror comics; Historical fiction; Paranormal fiction; Comics and Graphic novels
Subjects: Harlem Renaissance, Monsters, Racism, Good and evil, Nineteen twenties
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The Crossroads at Midnight
by Abby Howard
"A masterful collection of tales from the faded border between our day-to-day world and the horrifying unknown on the other side of midnight. An old woman living alone on the edge of a bog gets an unexpected — and unsettling — visitor, throwing her quiet life into a long-buried mystery. An isolated backwoods family stumbles into good fortune for a time with a monstrous discovery in the lake behind their house, but that time is running short. And a misfit little girl, struggling to make friends, meets an understanding soul one day at the beach: but why will he only play with her alone at night? All these lonely souls — and more — have reached out into the darkness, not knowing what they might find. Around the dark edges of reality lurk unknown beings with unknowable intentions — ordinary objects can become cursed possessions, entities who seem like friends can become monstrous, and those who seem monstrous can become the truest companions. In this collection of evocative, unnerving slice-of-life horror, five stories explore what happens when one is desperate enough to seek solace in the unnatural, and what might be waiting for us at the Crossroads at Midnight."
Genre: Anthologies; Comics and Graphic novels; Horror comics; Short stories
Subjects: Loneliness, Monsters, Supernatural
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Green River Killer: A True Detective Story
by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case
"Throughout the 1980s, the highest priority of Seattle-area police was the apprehension of the Green River Killer, the man responsible for the murders of dozens of women, but in 1990, with the body count numbering at least forty-eight, the case was put in the hands of a single detective, Tom Jensen. After twenty years, when the killer was finally captured with the help of DNA technology, Jensen and fellow detectives spent 188 days interviewing Gary Ridgway in an effort to learn his most closely held secrets--an epic confrontation with evil that proved as disturbing and surreal as can be imagined."
Genre: Comics and Graphic novels; True Crime
Subjects: Detectives, Serial murder investigation, Serial murderers, Serial murders
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Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptationby Octavia E. Butler, Damian Duffy, and John Jennings
"I lost an arm on my last trip home. Home is a new house with a loving husband in 1970s California that suddenly transformed in to the frightening world of the antebellum South. Dana, a young black writer, can't explain how she is transported across time and space to a plantation in Maryland. But she does quickly understand why: to deal with the troubles of Rufus, a conflicted white slaveholder--and her progenitor. Her survival, her very existence, depends on it."
Genre: Afrofuturism and Afrofantasy; Comics and Graphic novels; Science fiction comics
Subjects: Ancestors, Rescues, Slavery, Time travel (Past)
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Locke & Key, Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraftby Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez
"Hill crafts a gripping account of the shattered Locke family's attempt to rebuild after the father/husband is murdered by a deranged high school student and the family subsequently moving in with the deceased father's brother at the family homestead in Maine. But as anyone who has read horror fiction in the past 70-odd years will tell you, it's a bad idea to try to leave behind the gruesome goings-on in your life by moving to an island named “Lovecraft.” What begins as a study in coping with grief soon veers into creepy territory as the youngest Locke discovers a doorway with decidedly spectral qualities, along with a well that houses someone or something that desperately wants out and will use any means available to gain freedom, including summoning the teenage murderer who set events in motion in the first place."
Genre: Comics and Graphic novels; Horror comics
Subjects: Fathers, Grief, Islands, Mansions, Murder
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Monsters
by Barry Windsor-Smith
"The year is 1964. Bobby Bailey doesn’t realize he is about to fulfill his tragic destiny when he walks into a US Army recruitment office to join up. Close-mouthed, damaged, innocent, trying to forget a past and looking for a future, it turns out that Bailey is the perfect candidate for a secret U.S. government experimental program, an unholy continuation of a genetics program that was discovered in Nazi Germany nearly 20 years earlier in the waning days of World War II. Bailey’s only ally and protector, Sergeant McFarland, intervenes, which sets off a chain of cascading events that spin out of everyone’s control. As the titular monsters of the title multiply, becoming real and metaphorical, literal and ironic, the story reaches its emotional and moral reckoning."
Genre: Comics and Graphic novels; Science fiction comics
Subjects: Adult child abuse victims, Family violence, Flashbacks, Human experimentation in medicine, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Psychic trauma, Secrecy in government, World War II veterans
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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1
by Emil Ferris
"Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge."
Genre: Comics and Graphic novels; Coming-of-age stories; Historical comics; Mystery comics
Subjects: Apartment dwellers, Art museums, Artists, Brothers and sisters, Girl detectives, Holocaust survivors, Imagination in girls, Monster films, Murder investigation, Pulp periodicals, Single-parent families
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The Sandman, Volume 1: Preludes & Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman
"An occultist attempting to capture Death to bargain for eternal life traps her younger brother Dream instead. After his 70 year imprisonment and eventual escape, Dream, also known as Morpheus, goes on a quest for his lost objects of power. On his arduous journey, Morpheus encounters Lucifer, John Constantine, and an all-powerful madman."
Genre: Comics and Graphic novels; Fantasy comics
Subjects: Dreams, Brothers and sisters, Rulers, Death, Quests, Escapes, Identity (Psychology), Families
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Through the Woods
by Emily Carroll
"A wealthy young woman weds a man in a lonely old house, and at night she hears a forlorn song of unavenged murder lilting from the walls. A girl spends the summer with her brother and his fiancée, who is not what she seems. Three sisters wait for their father to return, but one by one they disappear with a tall man in a broad-brimmed hat. All the tales in Carroll’s debut graphic novel are fairly standard ghost stories, but it is her eerie illustrations—popping with bold color on black, glossy pages—that masterfully build terrifying tension and a keep-the-lights-on atmosphere. With cantilevered perspectives and dark inky splotches speckling the corners, the spooky images of stark forests, gaping caves, bloodshot eyes, and ominous shadows are brilliantly married to the text printed in manic handwritten fonts, some crazed and swirling, others coldly deadpan. The best ghost stories make great use of dramatic tension, and Carroll is no slouch here, either: she amplifies the scariness of the stories—full of ghosts, murder, and monsters—with startling page turns revealing grotesque, squeal-inducing images."
Genre: Comics and Graphic novels; Fairy tale and folklore-inspired fiction; Horror comics; Short stories
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Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1by Junji Ito, 伊藤潤二
"Kurôzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in everything from seashells and whirlpools in water to the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father and the voice from the cochlea in our inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!"
Genre: Comics and Graphic novels; Horror comics; Manga
Subjects: Curses, Death, Infection, Small town life, Survival, Teenage girls, Teenagers
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Alice Isn't Dead
Created by Joseph Fink
The main character and narrator is voiced by Jasika Nicole "A truck driver searches across America for the wife she had long assumed was dead. In the course of her search, she will encounter not-quite-human serial murderers, towns literally lost in time, and a conspiracy that goes way beyond one missing woman."
MUST LISTEN TO 5 EPISODES
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Crime Junkie
Hosted by Ashley Flowers and co-hosted by Brit Prawat
"Crime Junkie is a weekly true crime podcast dedicated to giving you a fix. Every Monday, Ashley Flowers will tell you about whatever crime she’s been obsessing over that week in a way that sounds like you’re sitting around talking crime with your best friends. The storytelling is straightforward and free of rabbit holes so the cases stay suspenseful and are easy to follow. If you can never get enough true crime… Congratulations, you’re a Crime Junkie!"
MUST LISTEN TO 4 EPISODES
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In The Dark"In the Dark is a podcast produced by American Public Media. Hosted and narrated by Madeleine Baran, and produced by Samara Freemark, the series features investigative journalism and in-depth reportage from APM Reports, the investigative reporting and documentary unit of APM."
"Serial investigative journalism from APM Reports, with host Madeleine Baran and a team of reporters. In Season 1, we looked at the abduction of Jacob Wetterling in rural Minnesota and the accountability of sheriffs in solving crime. In Season 2, we examined the case of Curtis Flowers, who has been tried six times for the same crime. Now, a special report on how Covid-19 is affecting the Mississippi Delta."
MUST LISTEN TO 3 EPISODES
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Limetown
Created by Zach Akers, Skip Bronkie, Dave Yim
Written by Zach Akers, Chris Littler, Dan Moyer Performed by Annie-Sage Whitehurst "Ten years ago, over three hundred men, women and children disappeared from a small town in Tennessee, never to be heard from again. American Public Radio reporter Lia Haddock asks the question once more, "What happened to the people of Limetown?""
MUST LISTEN TO SEASON 1 (6 EPISODES)
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LORE
Aaron Mahnke is the creator, writer, host, and producer of Lore.
"Lore is an award-winning, critically-acclaimed podcast about true life scary stories. Lore exposes the darker side of history, exploring the creatures, people, and places of our wildest nightmares. Because sometimes the truth is more frightening than fiction. Each episode examines a new dark historical tale in a modern campfire experience. With more than 30,000 5-star reviews on Apple Podcasts and over 260-million listens, that's clearly a good thing. New episodes are released every two weeks, on Mondays."
MUST LISTEN TO 5 EPISODES
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The Magnus Archives
Written and performed by Jonathan Sims. Directed and produced by Alexander J Newall.
"The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. Join new head archivist Jonathan Sims as he attempts to bring a seemingly neglected collection of supernatural statements up to date, converting them to audio and supplementing them with follow-up work from his small but dedicated team. Individually, they are unsettling. Together they begin to form a picture that is truly horrifying because as they look into the depths of the archives, something starts to look back…"
MUST LISTEN TO 5 EPISODES
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