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JUNE 27, 2012
Do You Have a Taste for the Bizarre?

If the answer is yes, try these dark reads:

Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy: An exciting reinvention of the Gothic novel, inspired by the iconic characters of our greatest myths and nightmares. The body of a young girl is found mangled and murdered in the woods of Hemlock Grove, Pennsylvania, in the shadow of the abandoned Godfrey Steel mill. A manhunt ensues—though the authorities aren’t sure if it’s a man they should be looking for.

  

 

Joe Golem and the Drowning City by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden: In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under more than thirty feet of water. Fifty years later the Drowning City is full of scavengers and water rats. Among them are 14-year-old Molly McHugh and Felix Orlov. Once upon a time Orlov the Conjuror was a celebrated stage magician, but when a seance goes horribly wrong Orlov is abducted and Molly finds herself on the run.... 

 Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon: Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him. He’s learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive and keep a girlfriend so dang hard? But that isn’t the primary skill he has to master. Survival is.

 

Triggered by Fletcher Wartmann: Imagine the worst thing in the world. Picture it. Construct it, carefully and deliberately in your mind. Be careful not to omit anything. Imagine it happening to you, to the people you love. Imagine the worst thing in the world. Now try not to think about it.

This is what it is like for Fletcher Wortmann. In his brilliant memoir, the author takes us on an intimate journey across the psychological landscape of OCD, known as the “doubting disorder,” as populated by God, girls, and apocalyptic nightmares.

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