![]() The story of a New England town plagued by mysterious disappearances and a rising tide of savage bigotry, it promises a lush, mesmeric experience that only LaRocca could deliver. Why We’re Excited: After blowing horror readers away with novellas like Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and They Were Here Before Us, rising horror sensation Eric LaRocca launches his debut novel this summer, marking what’s easily one of the most-anticipated releases of the year. Step aside Patrick Bateman, it’s Maeve’s turn with the knife.Įverything the Darkness Eats by Eric LaRocca A bolder, bloodier one, inspired by the pages of American Psycho. Untethered, Maeve ditches her discontented act and tries on a new persona. Publisher’s Description : By day, Maeve Fly works at the happiest place in the world as every child’s favorite ice princess.īy the neon night glow of the Sunset Strip, Maeve haunts the dive bars with a drink in one hand and a book in the other, imitating her misanthropic literary heroes.īut when Gideon Green – her best friend’s brother – moves to town, he awakens something dangerous within her, and the world she knows suddenly shifts beneath her feet. It’s haunting, it’s violent, and it goes places that will leave your heart racing. This astonishing, brutal, beautifully realized book follows the title character – theme park princess by day, self-professed misanthrope by night – as she descends into a psychosexual darkness that will test even her appetite for destruction. Why We’re Excited : I have read a lot of new horror already this year, including some truly great books, but so far CJ Leede’s Maeve Fly is the one that replays the most when I close my eyes. So, to prep your summer reading list, here are 15 horror books we can’t wait to get our claws on. ![]() Over the next few months, some of horror’s biggest names and most promising rising stars are putting out scary reads well worth devouring. If you’re like me, you like a little darkness with the brightness of summer, and you don’t have to wait until Halloween to break out the great horror reads. Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, $24.Summer is here, and that means it’s time to kick back at the pool, on the beach, or on a comfy couch in an air-conditioned room (hey, we’re not all built for the heat) with a good book. If you want to explore a little further afield, you can learn more about Rob Gonsalves’ magical realism style and how he develops his pictures in this short video. I reckon anyone who opens Imagine A Night and Imagine A Day will want to go back to them again, and try and work out how the magic is created. Thomson, is sparing and descriptive in a way that helps you understand what you are seeing, while also inspiring you to imagine more. There are sixteen pictures to explore in Imagine A Night, and seventeen in Imagine A Day, which won a Canada Council for the Arts Governor General’s Literary Award. ![]() Optical illusions never seem to grow old, and that is a great part of the appeal in these books which were first published more than ten years ago.
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