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Just like all little girls, I hoped I was special and that one day my powers would be revealed. My parents would be bewildered, my friends would equally worship and envy me, and my bullies would run away in terror! Nothing happened when I turned 10. I didn't grow wings at 12, still wasn't able to make things move with my mind at 14, and at 16, I was already too old to believe in such nonsense. Well, what do you think happened the day I turned 18? I got the confirmation that I was only human. In the mail! Oh, and also an invitation to apply to the Grim Reaper Academy.

*Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner * New York Times Notable Book * Locus Award Finalist * Winner of the Bram Stoker Award and the Shirley Jackson Award * “You’re in for a treat...one of those books you can’t put down...Due hit it out of the park.” —Stephen King A gripping...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER A novel of sensational literary and psychological suspense from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and American Psycho that tracks a group of privileged high school friends in a vibrantly fictionalized 1980s Los Angeles as a serial killer strikes across...

I've seen it all.... A boy who planned to be the next school shooter. A patient with OCD whose loved ones really did suffer every time he missed a ritual. A choir boy who claimed he was being molested - not by a priest - but by God Himself. A patient with PTSD who gave me nightmares. A husband and wife who accused each other of abuse, and only one of them was telling the truth.

The year is 1988, and the old Crowford School building is about to be knocked down. Before that happens, however, three schoolchildren are determined to discover the truth about an old legend. Does the ghost of a murdered woman really haunt the old school? And if she does, what does she want from the living? Eleven-year-old Bradley Firth has a particular reason for wanting to prove that the ghost is real. His own mother is desperately ill, and Bradley wants to believe that she can come back to him if the worst happens.

I spent my whole life believing magick was a curse - and that I didn't have enough of it to worry about, anyway. Turns out I was wrong on both counts. I'm so much more than a magick-blessed Academy student. I'm an Arcana Witch, bound to a sacred order whose sole duty is to protect magick - and one another - at all costs. Thankfully, I'm not alone. My Arcana magick brought four fiercely loyal, impossibly sexy Arcana mages into my life. But it also brought trouble. Corrupt Academy officials. Mysterious attacks stripping students of their power.

Some girls get their hearts broken. Valencia got her soul snatched. Valencia thought she had it all. Fly hair, decent grades, and the kind of confidence that made people pay attention. Then she met him. Older. Smooth. Dangerous fine. The first time felt like a dream. But it wasn’t love. It was a spell. And once he had her, everything started to rot. Her edges thinned. Her skin dulled. The smell of decay followed her everywhere. And the nightmares? They wouldn’t stop. She thought she was the only one. She wasn’t. With her best friend Kiyah by her side, Valencia dives headfirst into ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Angel Down, Whalefall, The Shape of Water with Guillermo del Toro, Scowler, and more, comes Rotters. Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection...

Nominated for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize A Washington Post Notable Book Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME and Slate “Pan is saturated with a grand, psychedelic spirit . . . For those who wonder if the American novel has anything new to offer . . . Pan is...

The 11-year-old school bully has gone missing- seemingly vanished into thin air. Everyone says that they know nothing about her mysterious disappearance... ...everyone is lying. Nelly Chester gave a lot of people a lot of reasons to dislike her. She had no respect for authority; was a burden on her poverty-stricken parents; routinely broke all the rules and, worst of all, was a nasty, vicious and merciless bully. So when Nelly disappears from school one Friday afternoon, at first all fingers are pointed at the mother of one of her weakest victims... until the police discover that the ...

This electrifying, chilling sequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller None Shall Sleep focuses on junior FBI consultants Travis Bell and Emma Lewis with a new case that may unravel everything they’ve been working for. After a harrowingly close contact with juvenile sociopath Simon...

There isn't a style or pop culture trend in the monster world that Cleo De Nile isn't on top of. But on a visit to the human world, Cleo discovers a tradition that completely escaped her: Monster Con, where humans gather to dress up as their favorite monsters. Convinced it's what Monster High has been missing-and determined to prove to her family that she can be a leader-Cleo decides to put on the school's first ever Human Con.

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ From “one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation” (The New York Times)—a ghost story set in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, an elegiac consideration of grief, devotion (filial and...

Have you recently turned 18? Have you been bullied, no friends, no family, no future? Fear not. We have the perfect job for you! Pervis had a tough life growing up. Always thought of as a sissy and a wimp, he was ridiculed and lonely with a bleak future ahead of him when suddenly things began to change. A major corporation came calling and wanted to hire him specifically, and a new friend appeared out of nowhere. Bullies no longer bothered him, girls that shunned him would smile and say hello, and he finally had the opportunity to learn about sex for the very first time! Little did he know ...

In this chilling mystery from a New York Times bestselling author, a storm strands a group of teens in a creepy motel—leaving them trapped with a killer. Nell has always wanted to be an actor, but doubts her ability. As a member of her school’s theater program, she prefers working backstage...

Fifteen-year-old Izzy Brannick was trained to fight monsters. For centuries, her family has hunted magical creatures. But when Izzy's older sister vanishes without a trace while on a job, Izzy's mom decides they need to take a break. Izzy and her mom move to a new town, but they soon discover it's not as normal as it appears. A series of hauntings has been plaguing the local high school, and Izzy is determined to prove her worth and investigate.

On the surface, Ashford, Vermont, seems like a quaint New England college town, but to those who live among the shadowy remains of its abandoned mills and factories, and beneath its towering steel bridges, it's known as Burntown. Eva Sandeski, who goes by the name Necco on the street, has been...

London. 1985. A city rife with possibility and desire. One young man who wants it all. Kristian Hadeland, young and ambitious, has moved to London to study photography; he knows that he and his art are destined for more. His family never understood him, and his fellow photography students bore...

WINNER OF THE CHIRBY FICTION AWARD From the co-editor of the bestselling anthology Never Whistle at Night, a semi-autobiographical novel that follows a group of teenage gang members as they trek across Chicago to a momentous meeting, inspired by the cult classic The Warriors “Cool and real...

The Thing in the Mirror: Episode 1 – The Reflection A chilling new horror series about identity, envy, and the darkness that stares back. Madison Engel is the girl everyone expects to succeed—polite, polished, and practically invisible. But when her family moves into a restored Victorian house and she unpacks her things, she discovers an antique mirror in her bathroom… and a reflection that doesn’t quite match. At first, it’s just a flicker. A wrong expression. A strange snarl. But the girl in the glass isn’t just mimicking her—she's watching her. And she wants out. As Madison...