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Carnival of Fear

Justice for the Damned Author: J. Robert King In Carnival l’Morai you can see your dreams and nightmares. You can see horrors and oddities, performances and putrescences, life and death. No one knows this better than Marie, the beautiful blind juggler. But, despite the roughness of this life, the performers (called freaks) have a close-knit network, a friendliness that helps them through the judgement and the days and nights filled with jeering crowds. But everything changes when Marie goes into her caravan one night only to find the walls and floor coated in blood, the sword swallower dead and impaled on [...]

2023-12-26T13:57:57-07:00December 26th, 2023|Tags: , , , , , |

Nettle & Bone

A Dark, Magical Quest Author: T. Kingfisher Princess Marra is stuck in a convent when she becomes aware of a hideous secret; her elder sister, the one who hates her, is trapped in an abusive marriage. She was married for politics, to secure the peace and safety of the family’s tiny port-side kingdom. She has no chance of escape, except through death, and that will come soon enough if the evil prince continues to have his way unchecked. He’s killed wives before, after all, and children. Once Marra’s sister finally produces an heir that lives, her own life is forfeit. It’s [...]

2023-10-29T11:03:54-07:00October 29th, 2023|Tags: , , , , |

Annihilation

An Adventure in a Cursed Land Author: Jeff Vandermeer Area X is a mystery, a deadly portion of land, contaminated, cut off, and expanding. For decades doomed expeditions have been sent into the heart of this land to study it, to understand what happened, to try and stop the land from further encroaching. Those who do return are different: mad, sickened, dying. Yet expeditions continue, and this is one such incursion into a beautiful, cursed land. There are three women on this expedition, lead by a psychologist, who at turns manages the expedition and hypnotically controls the volunteers. The other members [...]

2023-07-22T15:00:17-07:00July 22nd, 2023|Tags: , , , , |
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