The Murmuration
The crows over Thornhaven do not scatter when you scream at them. They settle. They stay. And they come in thousands, a single black bloom unfolding against a bruise-colored sky be
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Literary Fiction Horror books
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Literary Fiction Horror on the shelf
The Cough
Seventeen miles of twisting blacktop is all that separates the ridge from the rest of the world, and geologist Sable Kree is the last stranger to drive in before the road stops let
The Naming Dark
The gravel road ate the tires in short, irregular cracks, and three miles in, the GPS dropped its last satellite ping into the grey nothing. Mara Voss kept her hands at ten and two
The Hollow Measure
She held the tape for exactly four seconds, any less and the splice would fail, any more and the adhesive would kill the oxide. Maren Kessler knows magnetic restoration by heart. W
Winggrave
Maren Kolt has opened thousands of chests in twenty years as a senior surgeon. But nothing has prepared her for what she finds inside Daan Voss. Beneath the retracted ribs of the d
The Wrecking Light
Mara Kell returns to a fog-locked coastal town she hasn't seen in years, only to find the roads closed and the locals reluctant to speak. Her brother Elias vanished from the family