Alabaster Shadows

Alabaster Shadows
Author: Matt Gardner
Publisher: Oni Press
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2015-12-09
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 162010265X

Carter Normandy knows there's something weird about the neighborhood he and his family move into. Maybe it's the physics-defying leak in the basement, or the way all the adults seem to look down on kids like they're scum. With the help of his new friends, Carter discovers a whole other world alongside his seemingly normal community—a world filled with terrifying monsters. A world the adults of the community already know all about. Now it's up to Carter and his friends to keep these monsters from crossing over into our world, or face the dire consequences! A gorgeously illustrated mystery perfect for fans of Gravity Falls with just a hint of Lovecraftian horror.

Shadows in the Mind's Eye

Shadows in the Mind's Eye
Author: Janyre Tromp
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0825477948

"Tromp weaves a complex historical tale incorporating love, suspense, hurt, and healing--all the elements that keep the pages turning." —Julie Cantrell, New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of Perennials Charlotte Anne Mattas longs to turn back the clock. Before her husband, Sam, went to serve his country in the war, he was the man everyone could rely on--responsible, intelligent, and loving. But the person who's come back to their family farm is very different from the protector Annie remembers. Sam's experience in the Pacific theater has left him broken in ways no one can understand--but that everyone is learning to fear. Tongues start wagging after Sam nearly kills his own brother. Now when he claims to have seen men on the mountain when no one else has seen them, Annie isn't the only one questioning his sanity and her safety. If there were criminals haunting the hills, there should be evidence beyond his claims. Is he really seeing what he says, or is his war-tortured mind conjuring ghosts? Annie desperately wants to believe her husband. But between his irrational choices and his nightmares leaking into the daytime, she's terrified he's going mad. Can she trust God to heal Sam's mental wounds--or will sticking by him mean keeping her marriage at the cost of her own life? Debut novelist Janyre Tromp delivers a deliciously eerie, Hitchcockian story filled with love and suspense. Readers of psychological thrillers and historical fiction by Jaime Jo Wright and Sarah Sundin will add Tromp to their favorite authors list.

Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird

Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird
Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2016-09-20
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1616557966

A year after her death in a burning barn, Dancy's Flammarion's now finds herself in a Hell of her own creation. A new evil haunts the sun-scorched back roads and ghost towns of the American South - murderous twins who command a legion of ghouls. Once again, Dancy must face down demons, those who walk the world unchallenged and those in her own shattered mind. Collects Alabaster: The Good, the Bad, and the Bird #1-5 Praise for the work of Caitlín R. Kiernan: "Caitlín R. Kiernan is the poet and the bard of the wasted and the lost." -Neil Gaiman "One of our essential writers of dark fiction . . . a cartographer of lost worlds." -The New York Times "Kiernan's richly evocative prose vividly portrays her twisted characters as well as it illustrates their eerie, kudzu-infested, Deep South surroundings." -Booklist "Kiernan imbues the tales with disquieting gothic imagery and envelops them in rich, evocative prose that conveys cohesiveness beyond their fragmentary plots." -Publisher's Weekly

Alabaster: Pale Horse

Alabaster: Pale Horse
Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2014-03-11
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1621158888

An albino girl wanders the sun-scorched back roads of a south Georgia summer, following the bidding of an angel or perhaps only voices in her head, searching out and slaying ancient monsters who have hidden themselves away in the lonely places of the world. * Caitlín R. Kiernan is an International Horror Guild Award–winning author! * A complete collection of the Alabaster prose short stories. "Caitlín R. Kiernan is the poet and the bard of the wasted and the lost."—Neil Gaiman

Kingdom of Shadow and Light

Kingdom of Shadow and Light
Author: Karen Marie Moning
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2021
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0399593691

MacKayla Lane is on a path to rule the race she was born to hunt--and kill--in this electrifying new installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning's Fever series. The brewing war between the Seelie and the Unseelie is threatening to explode--with a definitive outcome that will change the fate of the Fae forever and thrust humanity into either light or total darkness. But as Mac embarks deeper than ever before into the origins of the Fae, she begins to question who is truly good and who is evil.

Alabaster: Wolves

Alabaster: Wolves
Author: Caitlin R. Kiernan
Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2013-02-26
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1621155889

Dancy Flammarion may look like a frail teenage girl, but her journey through the swamps and byways of the American South brings her into battle with werewolves, monsters, and grotesque secrets, armed only with a knife and a mission to destroy the deadly creatures that lurk in shadow. Collects the five-issue miniseries. "It's gentle and horrific and apocalyptic all at once. Good writing. Good pencil and ink work. Good colors. That's a good comic." —Comics Alliance

Quantum Shadows

Quantum Shadows
Author: L. E. Modesitt, Jr.
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250229219

Bestselling author of The Mongrel Mage, L. E. Modesitt, Jr's Quantum Shadows blends science fiction, myth, and legend in an adventure that pits old gods and new against one another in a far future world. On a world called Heaven, the ten major religions of mankind each have its own land governed by a capital city and ruled by a Hegemon. That Hegemon may be a god, or a prophet of a god. Smaller religions have their own towns or villages of belief. Corvyn, known as the Shadow of the Raven, contains the collective memory of humanity’s Falls from Grace. With this knowledge comes enormous power. When unknown power burns a mysterious black image into the holy place of each House of the Decalivre, Corvyn must discover what entity could possibly have that much power. The stakes are nothing less than another Fall, and if he doesn't stop it, mankind will not rise from the ashes. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Of Dreams and Shadows

Of Dreams and Shadows
Author: Jesikah Sundin
Publisher: Forest Tales Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2022-08-26
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1954694059

Standalone in a shared world Her reality is a dream. His is a nightmare. Faerie blessed at birth, Princess Aroreh Rosen was molded into feminine perfection for the queen’s agenda of a New Dawn Era. But the realm of Rothlín is far from perfect. Hunger and sickness plague the factory-choked land. Aroreh, however, is oblivious to the plight of her people. Or her mother’s cruelty. Under an enchantment, she is glamoured to remain awake and only see a prospering realm through illusions of beauty and contentment. But all that changes when a rebel sect of faeries releases her mind and unleashes her magic—the power to weave new realities while dreaming. Now on the run, Aroreh’s unspooling world collides with Félip Batten McKinley’s, a shadow walker and the surviving heir to the throne of faerie. The very throne the queen maneuvers to annihilate. And why the faeries hid him as a child in the factory slums of Rothlín. But an uprising pushes Félip from the shadows of his life and into the hauntingly beautiful light of Aroreh Rosen—a young woman who represents every nightmare he knows. Yet only she has the power to awaken a new dream. OF DREAMS AND SHADOWS is young adult elven faerie tale fantasy spin on the romantic tale of Sleeping Beauty, blending faerie magic and pagan ritual with an Industrial Revolution inspired setting. Guaranteed to please readers who love angsty, enemies-to-lovers slow-burn fated romances, twisted fairy tales, and strong found family themes. STANDALONE in a connected series / shared world Guaranteed happily ever after Previously published as: ÆROREH

A Sliver of Shadow

A Sliver of Shadow
Author: Allison Pang
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2012-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1439198349

Acclaimed author Pang follows up "A Brush of Darkness" with this gripping fantasy. Original.

The Road

The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage Books
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2007
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307386457

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity