Showing posts with label KC Horror Book Club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label KC Horror Book Club. Show all posts

August 03, 2015

KC Horror Book Club August 2015 Meeting

Necroscope

By Brian Lumley

Details:
Date and Time: August 8, 2015 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes: 

Come and discuss and grab some food too.

"In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge.

"The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a super-secret Soviet spy agency. Dragosani is an avid pupil, eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire's mind. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the awful skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind and bodies of the dead.

"Dragosani works not for Ferenczy's freedom but world domination. he will rule the world with knowledge raped from the dead.

"His only opponent: Harry Koegh, champion of the dead and the living.

To protect Harry, the dead will do anything--even rise from their graves!"

-Tor Books (via Amazon) & Earline Beebe


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Image from: Amazon. Published by Tor Books.

June 11, 2015

KC Horror Book Club June 2015 Meeting

The Troop

By Nick Cutter

Details:
Date and Time: June 13, 2015 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes: 

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"Once a year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian wilderness for a weekend camping trip—a tradition as comforting and reliable as a good ghost story around a roaring bonfire. But when an unexpected intruder stumbles upon their campsite—shockingly thin, disturbingly pale, and voraciously hungry—Tim and the boys are exposed to something far more frightening than any tale of terror. The human carrier of a bioengineered nightmare. A horror that spreads faster than fear. A harrowing struggle for survival with no escape from the elements, the infected…or each other. Part Lord of the Flies, part 28 Days Later—and all-consuming—this tightly written edge-of-your-seat thriller takes you deep into the heart of darkness, where fear feeds on sanity…and terror hungers for more."

-Pocket Books (via Amazon) & Earline Beebe


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Image from: Amazon. Published by Pocket Books.

April 09, 2015

KC Horror Book Club April 2015 Meeting

Wake the Dead 2

By Gary F. Vanucci

Details:
Date and Time: April 12, 2015 (Sunday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes: 

Come and discuss and grab some food too.

Warning: This book contains graphic sexual content, strong language, and violence. It is intended for mature audiences. "As the dead once again rise, Alex and company seek to make the best of the zombie incursion that has now advanced inside the Renaissance Faire-grounds. But, when the execution of their plan to cleanse those grounds meets with complications, will they be able to adjust, or will the undead that now surround the castle walls spell a slow and painful death of starvation for those within?>

-Ashenclaw Studios & Earline Beebe


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Image from: Amazon. Published by Ashenclaw Studios.

March 19, 2015

KC Horror Book Club March 2014 Meeting

Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of Murder and Whimsy

By Mercedes M. Yardley

Details:
Date and Time: March 22, 2015 (SUNDAY) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.

Event Notes: 

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"Run, Star Girl." Bryony Adams is destined to be murdered, but fortunately Fate has terrible marksmanship. In order to survive, she must run as far and as fast as she can. After arriving in Seattle, Bryony befriends a tortured musician, a market fish-thrower, and a starry-eyed hero who is secretly a serial killer bent on fulfilling Bryony’s dark destiny.

-Ragnarok Publication & Earline Beebe


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Image from: Ragnarok Publication. Published by Ragnarok Publications.

March 12, 2015

KC Horror Book Club March 2014 Meeting

MOVED TO MARCH 22!!

Pretty Little Dead Girls: A Novel of Murder and Whimsy

By Mercedes M. Yardley

Details:
Date and Time: March 22, 2015 (SUNDAY) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.

Event Notes: 

Come and discuss and grab some food too.

"Run, Star Girl." Bryony Adams is destined to be murdered, but fortunately Fate has terrible marksmanship. In order to survive, she must run as far and as fast as she can. After arriving in Seattle, Bryony befriends a tortured musician, a market fish-thrower, and a starry-eyed hero who is secretly a serial killer bent on fulfilling Bryony’s dark destiny.

-Ragnarok Publication & Earline Beebe


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Image from: Ragnarok Publication. Published by Ragnarok Publications.

February 12, 2015

KC Horror Book Club February 2015 Meeting

ZOO

By Otsuichi

Details:
Date and Time: February 14, 2013 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes: 

Come and discuss ZOO and grab some food too.

"L to R (Western Style). Ten stories of horror and science fiction from Japan’s hottest young author. In one story, the last man on Earth turns out to be a robot. In another story, a man builds a house from the bodies of his murder victims. And in the book’s eponymous story, a man sees his girlfriend’s corpse decompose… one Polaroid snapshot at a time!"

-Haikasoru & Amazon.com


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Image from: Amazon.com. Published by Haikasoru.

January 08, 2015

KC Horror Book Club January 2015 Meeting

Sparrow Rock

By Nate Kenyon

Details:
Date and Time: January 10, 2015 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes: 

Come and discuss Sparrow Rock and grab some food too.

"Six highschool students have survived nuclear war in a high-tech bomb shelter, but they are not alone. Mutated insects are hungry and the human survivors are the only prey."

-Leisure Books & Good Reads.com


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Image from: Amazon.com. Published by Leisure Books.

December 11, 2014

KC Horror Book Club December 2014 Meeting

On the Lips of Children

By Mark Matthews

Details:
Date and Time: December 13, 2014 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes: 

Come and discuss On the Lips of Children and grab some food too.

"Meet Macon. Tattoo artist. Athlete. Family man.

"He's planning to run a marathon, but the event becomes something terrible.

"During a warm-up run, Macon falls prey to a bizarre man and his wife who dwell in an underground drug-smuggling tunnel. They raise their twin children in a way Macon couldn't imagine: skinning unsuspecting victims for food and money.

And Macon, and his family, are next."

-Books of the Dead Press


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Image from: SITE. Published by PUBLISHER.

November 06, 2014

KC Horror Book Club November 2014 Meeting

Explicit Warning!

"Header" and "Carnal Surgery"

By Edward Lee

Details:
TIME CHANGE: November 15, 2014 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes: 

Come and discuss Header and grab some food too.

"What is a Header?

In the dark backwoods, where law enforcement doesn't dare tread, there exists a special type of revenge. Something so awful that it is only whispered about. Something so terrible that few believe it is real.

Stewart Cummings is a government agent whose life is going to Hell. His wife is ill and to pay for her medication he turns to bootlegging. But things will get much worse when bodies begin showing up in his sleepy small town. Victims of an act known only as "a Header."

Deadite Press is proud to bring back the notorious inspiration for the hit cult film - a splatterspunk classic of twisted sex, booze, and revenge."

-Deadite Press


Our second novel is and Carnal Surgery. Are you brave enough?

"Autopsy fetishes, crippled sex slaves, a serial killer who keeps the hands of his victims, government conspiracies, dead cops and doomed pornographers. From operating room morality plays to a town that serves up piss and cum mixed drinks, this is the strange and disturbing world of Edward Lee. From one of the most notorious, controversial, and extreme voices in horror fiction comes a new collection of depravity and terror. Carnal Surgery collects eleven of Lee's most sought after tales of sex and dismemberment."

- Deadite Press


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Image from: Amazon.com. Published by Deadite Press.

October 10, 2014

KC Horror Book Club October 2014 Meeting

SUNDAY MEETING!

HORNS

By Joe Hill

Details:
Date and Time: October 12, 2014 (SUNDAY!) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
Event Notes: 

Come and discuss Horns and grab some food too.

Horns is a 2010 dark fantasy novel by Joe Hill and is the author's second published novel. The novel also incorporates elements of contemporary fantasy, crime fiction, and Gothic fiction. It employs the third-person omniscient, nonlinear narrative in telling the story of Ig Perrish, who—in the aftermath of his girlfriend Merrin Williams' mysterious rape and murder—awakes one morning to find horns growing from his head and diabolical powers at his command.

-Earline Beebe/Facebook Event Page


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Image from: Amazon.com. Published by William Morrow.

September 11, 2014

KC Horror Book Club September 2014 Meeting

3 Short Stories

The Colour Out of Space
By H. P. Lovecraft 

The Willows
by Algernon Blackwood 

The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Details:
Date and Time: September 13, 2013 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.

Event Notes:

We will be discussing the following three short stories:


  • The Colour Out of Space
  • [A] short story written by American horror author H. P. Lovecraft in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, draining the life force from anything living nearby; vegetation grows large, but tasteless, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one.








  • The Willows

  • [O]ne of Algernon Blackwood's best known short stories. American horror author H.P. Lovecraft considered it to be the finest supernatural tale in English literature. "The Willows" is an example of early modern horror and is connected within the literary tradition of weird fiction. 













  • The Yellow Wallpaper

  • [A] 6,000-word short story by the American writer Charlotte Perkins Gilman, first published in January 1892 in The New England Magazine. It is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, illustrating attitudes in the 19th century toward women's physical and mental health. The story depicts the effect of confinement on the narrator's mental health and her descent into psychosis.
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    August 08, 2014

    KC Horror Book Club August 2014 Meeting

    Red Moon

    By Benjamin Percy

    Details:
    Date and Time: August 9, 2013 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    Come and discuss Red Moon and grab some food too.


    "They live among us.

    "They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers.

    "They change.

    "When government agents kick down Claire Forrester's front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is.

    "Patrick Gamble was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero.

    "Chase Williams has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy.

    "So far, the threat has been controlled by laws and violence and drugs. But the night of the red moon is coming, when an unrecognizable world will emerge...and the battle for humanity will begin."

    -PUBLISHERS & Earline Beebe

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    Image from: SITE. Published by PUBLISHER.

    July 11, 2014

    KC Horror Book Club July 2014 Meeting

    John Dies at the End: A Novel

    By David Wong

    Details:
    Date and Time: July 12, 2013 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    Come and discuss John Dies at the End and grab some food too.

    "STOP. You should not have touched this flyer with your bare hands. NO, don't put it down. It's too late. They're watching you. My name is David Wong. My best friend is John. Those names are fake. You might want to change yours. You may not want to know about the things you'll read on these pages, about the sauce, about Korrok, about the invasion, and the future. But it's too late. You touched the book. You're in the game. You're under the eye. The only defense is knowledge. You need to read this book, to the end. Even the part with the bratwurst. Why? You just have to trust me.

    "The important thing is this: The drug is called Soy Sauce and it gives users a window into another dimension. John and I never had the chance to say no. You still do. I'm sorry to have involved you in this, I really am. But as you read about these terrible events and the very dark epoch the world is about to enter as a result, it is crucial you keep one thing in mind: None of this was my fault."

    -Thomas Dunne Books & Earline Beebe


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    Image from: SITE. Published by Thomas Dunne Books.

    June 13, 2014

    KC Horror Book Club June 2014 Meeting

    House of Leaves

    By Mark Z. Danielewski

    Details:
    Date and Time: June 14, 2013 (Saturday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    Come and discuss House of Leaves and grab some food too.


    "Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children.

    "Now, for the first time, this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and newly added second and third appendices.

    "The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

    "Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams."


    -Pantheon & Earline Beebe


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    Image from: SITE. Published by Pantheon.

    May 10, 2014

    KC Horror Book Club May 2014 Meeting

    DOUBLE FEATURE!

    High Octane Damnation & Burden Kansas

    By Brett Williams & Alan Ryker (respectively)

    Details:
    Date and Time: May 11, 2013 (Sunday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    High Octane Damnation  
    By Brett Williams

    "Comet Press publishes horror, suspense, and dark crime, so I was thrilled when they wanted to publish High Octane Damnation, especially since they appear to be gunning for the growing niche of hardcore horror/dark crime. High Octane Damnation certainly fits the bill, with its intense chase scenes, gut-wrenching violence, and diabolical revenge sequences. Of course no work of fiction that pays tribute to the grindhouse car flicks I grew up watching as a kid would be complete without the prerequisite sexy women thrown in for good measure. All of which adds up to a fun novella I’m sure readers will enjoy.

    "If the gritty cover art revs your engine (great job, Comet Press!), them I’m sure you’ll want to uncap a cold beer and climb into the passenger seat with me, ’cause all hell is about to break loose on the road to High Octane Damnation."
    -Brett Williams from his blog.


    Burden Kansas
    By Alan Ryker
    Vampires are not sexy or sensitive. Hungry, bloody and stinking of the grave, they hunt the dry Kansas plains, taking what they want until they cross rancher Keith Harris. Keith is a damaged man who's always made the hard decisions others couldn't. As the two forces battle for survival, the lines between man and monster begin to blur. How much of a community's burden of sin can one man take on before becoming a monster himself? With Burden Kansas, Alan Ryker provides a contemporary novella of vampire horror written in the minimal voice of the western. Burden Kansas is more entertaining, disturbing and thought-provoking than you thought a vampire western could be.
    -Sucker Punch Press.


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    April 12, 2014

    KC Horror Book Club April 2014 Meeting

    The Terror

    By Dan Simmons

    Details:
    Date and Time: April 13, 2013 (Sunday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    Come and discuss The Terror and grab some food too.

    The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations, 126 men fight to survive with poisonous food, a dwindling supply of coal, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is far more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror constantly clawing to get in.When the expedition's leader, Sir John Franklin, meets a terrible death, Captain Francis Crozier takes command and leads his surviving crewmen on a last, desperate attempt to flee south across the ice. With them travels an Inuit woman who cannot speak and who may be the key to survival, or the harbinger of their deaths. But as another winter approaches, as scurvy and starvation grow more terrible, and as the terror on the ice stalks them southward, Crozier and his men begin to fear that there is no escape. The Terror swells with the heart-stopping suspense and heroic adventure that have won Dan Simmons praise as "a writer who not only makes big promises but keeps them" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). With a haunting and constantly surprising story based on actual historical events, The Terror is a novel that will chill you to your core.

    -Little, Brown and Company & Earline Beebe


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    Image from: SITE. Published by Little, Brown and Company.

    March 08, 2014

    KC Horror Book Club March 2014 Meeting

    The German

    By Lee Thomas

    Details:
    Date and Time: March 9, 2013 (Sunday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    Come and discuss The German and grab some food too.

    At the height of World War II, a killer preys on the young men of a quiet Texas town. The murders are calculated, vicious, and they are just beginning. Sheriff Tom Rabbit and his men are baffled and the community he serves is terrified of the monster lurking their streets. The only clues the killer leaves behind are painted snuffboxes containing notes written in German. As the panic builds all eyes turn toward a quiet man with secrets of his own.

    Ernst Lang fled Germany in 1934. Once a brute, a soldier, a leader of the Nazi party, he has renounced aggression and embraces a peaceful obscurity. But Lang is haunted by an impossible past. He remembers his own execution and the extremes of sex and violence that led to it. He remembers the men he led into battle, the men he seduced, and the men who betrayed him. But are these the memories of a man given a second life, or the delusions of a lunatic?

    -Lethe Press & Earline Beebe


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    Image from: SITE. Published by Lethe Press.

    February 08, 2014

    KC Horror Book Club February 2014 Meeting

    The Ruins

    By Scott Smith

    Details:
    Date and Time: February 9, 2013 (Sunday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    Come and discuss The Ruins and grab some food too.

    Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine.Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation–sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site . . . and the terrifying presence that lurks there.

    -Vintage & Earline Beebe


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    Image from: SITE. Published by Vintage.

    January 11, 2014

    KC Horror Book Club January 2014 Meeting

    Quarantined

    By Joe McKinney

    Details:
    Date and Time: January 12, 2013 (Sunday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    Come and discuss Quarantined by Joe McKinney and grab some food too.

    The citizens of San Antonio, Texas are threatened with extermination by a terrifying outbreak of the flu. Quarantined by the military to contain the virus, the city is in a desperate struggle to survive. Inside the quarantine walls, Detective Lily Harris is working burial statistics duty at the Scar, San Antonio's mass graveyard, when she finds a murder victim hidden amongst the plague dead. But Lily's investigation into the young woman's death soon takes a frightening turn as yet another strain of the deadly flu virus surfaces, and now Lily finds herself caught up in a conspiracy orchestrated by a corrupt local government intent on hiding the news from the world and fighting a population threatening to boil over into revolt. As the city erupts in violence, Lily is forced to do the unthinkable. With the clock ticking toward annihilation, Lily must lead her family through the quarantine walls and escape with news that just might save us all.

    -Permuted Press & Earline Beebe


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    Image from: SITE. Published by Permuted Press.

    December 14, 2013

    KC Horror Book Club December 2013 Meeting

    NOS4A2

    By Joe Hill

    Details:
    Date and Time: December 15, 2013 (Sunday) from noon to 1:30.
    Location: The Green Room Burgers and Beer
    Address: 4010 Pennsylvania Avenue, Suite D, Kansas City, MO.
    Event Notes: 

    Come and discuss NOS4A2 and grab some food too.

    NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.

    Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massachusetts or across the country.

    Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing – and terrifying – playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.”

    Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son. -Harper Collins Publishers & Earline Beebe


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    Image from: amazon.com. Published by Simon & Schuster.