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CULTURE | BOOKS<br />
On Edge<br />
White-knuckle supernatural thrillers that will have you gripping its pages.<br />
CURATED BY TRACY CELINE<br />
CHALK<br />
PAUL CORNELL<br />
On Halloween night in the<br />
town’s woods, 14-year-old<br />
Andrew Waggoner falls<br />
victim to a particularly<br />
violent bout of bullying by the<br />
school bullies, led by Drake.<br />
This time, he doesn’t leave<br />
unscathed and is ravaged both<br />
mentally and physically. That<br />
same night, dark forces bring<br />
into being his doppelgänger –<br />
although two different people,<br />
this version of himself swears<br />
to take revenge, promising<br />
to resolve matters by the<br />
following Halloween so that<br />
Calne, Wiltshire will be safe<br />
place for Andrew. Can Andrew<br />
stop him and save himself in<br />
the process?<br />
A GOD IN THE SHED<br />
J.F. DUBEAU<br />
Saint-Ferdinand is a seemingly<br />
idyllic small village. But a terrible<br />
history haunts the residents – the<br />
town cemetery is filled with the<br />
victims of the Saint-Ferdinand<br />
Killer, who has dodged capture<br />
for two decades. When Inspector<br />
Stephen Crowley finally catches<br />
the killer, the residents learn that<br />
much darker forces are at play.<br />
Meanwhile, a dark spirit reveals<br />
itself to Venus McKenzie when<br />
she unintentionally traps it in<br />
her parent’s shed. What follows<br />
next is the discovery that the<br />
murders are only the tip of the<br />
ice berg and that the town has<br />
tried to bury its past with the<br />
creature. But nothing ever stays<br />
hidden for long.<br />
Our Pick...<br />
SLEEPING BEAUTIES<br />
STEPHEN & OWEN KING<br />
This collaboration between father-son duo Stephen and Owen King tells the<br />
story of the Aurora virus, so named for the mysterious occurrence that happens<br />
to women when they go to sleep: they become wrapped in a cocoon-like gauze;<br />
and if awakened and the cocoon disturbed, they wake up violent and feral.<br />
The world is falling into a state of disarray, and the men are relying on their<br />
increasingly primal instincts and fighting each other. Only one woman, Evie<br />
Black, is unaffected by the Aurora virus. Could she be the key to curing the<br />
worldwide outbreak, or is she the one pulling the strings?<br />
LITTLE HEAVEN<br />
NICK CUTTER<br />
When Ellen Bellhaven hires a<br />
trio of professional killers to<br />
save her nephew, no one could<br />
have predicted the events that<br />
were about to unfold. It was a<br />
simple enough task: find and<br />
check in on her nephew, who<br />
has been taken to a religious<br />
cult called Little Heaven in the<br />
backwoods of New Mexico.<br />
Shortly after they arrive<br />
and meet charismatic leader<br />
Reverend Amos Flesher,<br />
things begin to unravel – the<br />
settlement becomes paranoid,<br />
and the mercenaries come<br />
face to face with demons both<br />
personal and supernatural.<br />
MALUS DOMESTICA<br />
S.A. HUNT<br />
If witches are real, then what<br />
Robin Martine claimed<br />
five years ago when she told<br />
authorities her mother’s<br />
death was caused by magic is<br />
real. However, the cops didn’t<br />
believe her and she spent the<br />
next few years in the psych<br />
ward. A man named Heinrich<br />
Hammer came to her rescue,<br />
but with the condition<br />
that she kill witches. Now a<br />
seasoned witch hunter who<br />
kills them on YouTube for a<br />
living, Robin has come home<br />
to face the coven who killed<br />
her mother and to save her<br />
town once and for all.<br />
“It’s a violent,<br />
dystopian<br />
thrill ride<br />
that will<br />
leave you<br />
horrified –<br />
and hooked.”<br />
People<br />
TM | JULY/AUGUST <strong>2018</strong><br />
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