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Halloween Themed Daylist Post

šŸ‘»šŸŽƒĀ  Itā€™s spooky season, and weā€™ve teamed up with our friends at Tor Nightfire to bring you a fun Halloween treat! Check out the spoooky reads weā€™ve paired with our very real Daylists. Check them out, if you dareā€¦ šŸ‘€šŸ•øļø


Supernatural Friday Morning

 

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atlas The Atlas Six by Olivie Blake

The much-acclaimed viral sensation from Olivie Blake,Ā The Atlas Sixā€”now newly revised and edited with additional contentā€”is the first in an explosiveĀ dark academia fantasy trilogy that reads likeĀ The Secret HistoryĀ meetsĀ The Umbrella Academy

Each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to earn a place in the Alexandrian Society, the foremost secret society in the world. The chosen will secure a life of power and prestige beyond their wildest dreams. But at what cost? Each of the six newest recruits has their reasons for accepting the Societyā€™s elusive invitation. Even if it means growing closer than they could have imagined to their most dangerous enemiesā€” or risking unforgivable betrayal from their most trusted alliesā€” they will fight tooth and nail for the right to join the ranks of the Alexandrians. Even if it means they wonā€™t all survive the year.

book of night by holly blackBook of Night by Holly Black

Charlie Hall has never found a lock she couldnā€™t pick, a book she couldnā€™t steal, or a bad decision she wouldnā€™t make. She’s spent half her life working for gloamists, magicians who manipulate shadows to peer into locked rooms, strangle people in their beds, or worse. Gloamists guard their secrets greedily, creating an underground economy of grimoires. And to rob their fellow magicians, they need Charlie Hall.

Now, sheā€™s trying to distance herself from past mistakes, but getting out isnā€™t easy. Bartending at a dive, sheā€™s still entirely too close to the corrupt underbelly of the Berkshires. Not to mention that her sister Posey is desperate for magic, and that Charlie’s shadowless and possibly soulless boyfriend, Vince, has been hiding things from her. When a terrible figure from her past returns, Charlie descends into a maelstrom of murder and lies. Determined to survive, sheā€™s up against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, gloamists, and the people she loves best in the worldā€”all trying to steal a secret that will give them vast and terrible power.

9781250892201Your Shadow Half Remains by Sunny Moraine

The Last of UsĀ meetsĀ Bird BoxĀ in Sunny Moraine’sĀ Your Shadow Half Remains, a post-apocalyptic tale where eye contact causes people to spiral into a deadly, violent rage. ONE LOOK CAN KILL. Riley has not seen a single human face in longer than she can reckon. No faces, no eyes. Not if you want to survive. But when a new neighbor moves in down the road, Rileyā€™s overwhelming need for human contact makes her throw caution to the wind. Somehow, in this world where other people can mean a gruesome, bloody death, Ellis makes her feel safe. As they grow closer, Rileyā€™s grip on reality begins to slip and she can no longer fight her deepest desires. All Riley wants to do is look.

 


Paranormal Dark Cabaret Afternoon

 

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InvisibleThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab

A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget. France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live foreverā€”and is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world. But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.

certainCertain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

From Silvia Moreno-Garcia, theĀ New York TimesĀ bestselling author ofĀ Mexican Gothic, comesĀ Certain Dark Things, a pulse-pounding neo-noir that reimagines vampire lore. Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized. Atl needs to quickly escape the city, far from the rival narco-vampire clan relentlessly pursuing her. Her plan doesnā€™t include Domingo, but little by little, Atl finds herself warming up to the scrappy young man and his undeniable charm. As the trail of corpses stretches behind her, local cops and crime bosses both start closing in. Vampires, humans, cops, and criminals collide in the dark streets of Mexico City. Do Atl and Domingo even stand a chance of making it out alive? Or will the city devour them all?

9781250292971Craft: Stories I Wrote for the Devil by Ananda Lima

At a Halloween party in 1999, a writer slept with the devil. She sees him again and again throughout her life and she writes stories for him about things that are both impossible and true.

Lima lures readers into surreal pockets of the United States and Brazil where theyā€™ll find bite-size Americans in vending machines and the ghosts of people who are not dead. Once there, she speaks to modern Brazilian-American immigrant experiencesā€“of ambition, fear, longing, and belongingā€”and reveals the porousness of storytelling and of the places we call home. With humor, an exquisite imagination, and a voice praised as ā€œsingular and wise and freshā€ (Cathy Park Hong), Lima joins the literary lineage of Bulgakov and Lispector and the company of writers today like Ted Chiang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.

 


Upset Goblincore Thursday Afternoon

 

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the daughter's war by christopher buehlmanThe Daughters’ War by Christopher Buehlman

Enter the fray in this luminous new adventure from Christopher Buehlman, set during the war-torn, goblin-infested years just beforeĀ The Blacktongue Thief.

Galva ā€” Galvicha to her three brothers, two of whom the goblins will kill ā€” has defied her familyā€™s wishes and joined the armyā€™s untested new unit, the Raven Knights. They march toward a once-beautiful city overrun by the goblin horde, accompanied by scores of giant war corvids. Made with the darkest magics, these fearsome black birds may hold the key to stopping the goblins in their war to make cattle of mankind. The road to victory is bloody, and goblins are clever and merciless. The Raven Knights can take nothing for granted ā€” not the bonds of family, nor the wisdom of their leaders, nor their own safety against the dangerous war birds at their side. But some hopes are worth any risk.

The Blacktongue ThiefThe Blacktongue ThiefĀ  by Christopher Buehlman

Set in a world of goblin wars, stag-sized battle ravens, and assassins who kill with deadly tattoos,Ā USA TodayĀ bestselling author Christopher Buehlman’sĀ The Blacktongue ThiefĀ begins a ‘dazzling’ (Robin Hobb) fantasy adventure unlike any other.

Kinch Na Shannack owes the Takers Guild a small fortune for his education as a thief, which includes (but is not limited to) lock-picking, knife-fighting, wall-scaling, fall-breaking, lie-weaving, trap-making, plus a few small magics. His debt has driven him to lie in wait by the old forest road, planning to rob the next traveler that crosses his path. But today, Kinch Na Shannack has picked the wrong mark. Galva is a knight, a survivor of the brutal goblin wars, and handmaiden of the goddess of death. She is searching for her queen, missing since a distant northern city fell to giants. Unsuccessful in his robbery and lucky to escape with his life, Kinch now finds his fate entangled with Galva’s. Common enemies and uncommon dangers force thief and knight on an epic journey where goblins hunger for human flesh, krakens hunt in dark waters, and honor is a luxury few can afford.


Earworm Angst Morning

 

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9781250866257Brainwyrms by Alison Rumfitt

When a transphobic woman bombs Frankieā€™s workplace, she blows up Frankieā€™s life with it. As the media descends like vultures, Frankie tries to cope with the carnage: binge-drinking, sleeping with strangers, pushing away her friends. Then, she meets Vanya. Mysterious, beautiful, terrifying Vanya.

The two hit it off immediately, but as their relationship intensifies, so too does Frankieā€™s feeling that Vanya is hiding something from her. When Vanyaā€™s secrets threaten to tear them apart, Frankie starts digging, and unearths a sinister, depraved conspiracy, the roots of which go deeper than she ever imagined. Shocking, grotesque, and downright filthy, BrainwyrmsĀ confronts the creeping reality of political terrorism while exploring the depths of love, pain, and identity.

9781250794666Cuckoo by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Something evil is buried deep in the desert. It wants your body. It wears your skin. In the summer of 1995, seven queer kids abandoned by their parents at a remote conversion camp came face to face with it. They survivedā€”but at Camp Resolution, everybody leaves a different person. Sixteen years later, only the scarred and broken survivors of that terrible summer can put an end to the horror before it’s too late. The fate of the world depends on it.

9781250830852 (1)What Feasts at NightĀ by T. Kingfisher

Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world ofĀ What Moves the Dead.

After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia. In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, they find the caretaker dead, the lodge in disarray, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence. The villagers whisper that a breath-stealing monster from folklore has taken up residence in Eastonā€™s home. Easton knows better than to put too much stock in local superstitions, but they can tell that something is not quite right in their home. . . or in their dreams.


Mountain Music Campfire Monday Afternoon

 

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9781250874627 Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle

From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle,Ā Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold. Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed ā€œmost effectiveā€ gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy. And theyā€™ll scare you straight to hell.

9781250889812 A Mask of Flies by Matthew Lyons

In Matthew Lyons’ pulse-pounding crime horror,Ā A Mask of Flies, a criminal on the run after a failed heist must confront dark family secrets and demons from her past made flesh. THE PAST HAS TEETH.

In the grisly aftermath of a botched bank heist, career criminal Anne Heller has no choice but to return to her familyā€™s cabin ā€“ a secluded shack in Coloradoā€™s San Luis Valley, and the site of her motherā€™s untimely death. Along for the ride are Jessup, Anneā€™s badly wounded partner, and Dutch, the police officer sheā€™s taken hostage. As they wait for help, Anne discovers strange relics from her motherā€™s past and begins to unfold the mystery of her childhood at the cabin. Then Jessup goes missing, only to turn up dead. Anne and Dutch bury her friend, but that night, he comes back and knocks at the cabin door. Not a dream, not a hallucination, but not exactly Jessup, either. Something else. Something wearing her friendā€™s face. Something hungry…

9781250860040 Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward

In a cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow has begun the last book he will ever write.

It is the story about the sun-drenched summer days of his youth in Whistler Bay, and the blood-stained path of the killer that stalked his small vacation town. About the terrible secret he and his companions, Nat and Harper, discovered entombed in the coves off the bay. And how the pact they swore that day echoed down the decades, forever shaping their lives. But the more Wilder writes, the less he trusts himself and his memory. He starts to see things that canā€™t be real ā€“ notes hidden in the cabin, from an old friend now dead; a woman with dark hair drowning in the icy waters below, calling for help; entire chapters he doesnā€™t recall typing, appearing overnight. Who, or what, is haunting Wilder?

No longer able to trust his own eyes, Wilder begins to fear that this will not only be his last book, but the last thing he ever does.


Hot Girl Walk Freaky Thursday Afternoon

 

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9781250884879 Masters of Death by Olivie Blake

There is a game that the immortals play.

There is only one rule: Donā€™t lose.

Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the mansion has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he died, he refuses to move on. Fox Dā€™Mora is a medium, and though he is also most-definitely a shameless fraud, he isnā€™t entirely without his usesā€”seeing as heā€™s actually the godson of Death. When Viola seeks out Fox to help her with the ghost infestation, he becomes inextricably involved in a quest that neither he nor Vi expects (or wants). But with the help of an unruly poltergeist, a demonic personal trainer, a sharp-voiced angel, a love-stricken reaper, and a few mindfulness-practicing creatures, Vi and Fox soon discover that the difference between a mysterious lost love and an annoying dead body isnā€™t nearly as distinct as they thought.

9781250857927American Rapture by CJ Leede

A virus is spreading across America, transforming the infected and making them feral with lust.

Sophie, a good Catholic girl, must traverse the hellscape of the midwest to try to find her family while the world around her burns. Along the way she discovers there are far worse fates than dying a virginā€¦

The end times areĀ coming.

9781250799067Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Opal is a lot of thingsā€”orphan, high school dropout, full-time cynic and part-time cashierā€”but above all, she’s determined to find a better life for her younger brother Jasper. One that gets them out of Eden, Kentucky, a town remarkable for only two things: bad luck and E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth century author ofĀ The Underland, who disappeared over a hundred years ago. All she left behind were dark rumorsā€”and her home. Everyone agrees that itā€™s best to ignore the uncanny mansion and its misanthropic heir, Arthur. Almost everyone, anyway. I should be scared, but in the dream I donā€™t hesitate. Opal has been obsessed with The Underland since she was a child. When she gets the chance to step inside Starling Houseā€”and make some extra cash for her brother’s escape fundā€”she can’t resist. But sinister forces are digging deeper into the buried secrets of Starling House, and Arthurā€™s own nightmares have become far too real. As Eden itself seems to be drowning in its own ghosts, Opal realizes that she might finally have found a reason to stick around. In my dream, Iā€™m home. And now sheā€™ll have to fight.

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