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Winter Horror

Baby, it's cold outside. These books will leave you even colder.

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  • With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an…
    Paperback, 2018Toronto, ON : ECW, [2018] — FICTION RICE
  • In a small Alaska town, a boy is found with his throat ripped out and all the blood drained from his body. The inhabitants of Deadhart haven't seen a killing like this in twenty-five years. But they know who's responsible: a member of the Colony, an…
    Book, 2024New York : Ballantine Books, [2024] — FICTION TUDOR
  • Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's…
    Paperback, 2021New York : Berkley, 2021. — FICTION HENRY
  • Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil’s Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam…
    Book, 2022New York : Atria Books, 2022. — FICTION DUMAS
  • Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by…
    Book, 2020New York : Saga Press, [2020] — FICTION JONES
  • Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of HMS Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have…
    Book, 2007New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2007. — FICTION SIMMONS
  • When Christa joins a tour group heading deep into the snowy expanse of the Rocky Mountains, she's hopeful this will be her chance to put the ghosts of her past to rest. But when a bitterly cold snowstorm sweeps the region, the small group is forced…
    Paperback, 2023Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2023] — FICTION COATES
  • It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has…
    Paperback, 2007New York : Thomas Dunne Books, c2007. — FICTION AJVIDE LINDQVIST
  • William Day should be an acclaimed Arctic explorer. But after a failed expedition, in which his remaining men only survived by eating their dead comrades, he returned in disgrace. Thirteen years later, his second-in-command, Jesse Stevens, has gone…
    Book, 2023New York : Emily Bestler Books/Atria, 2023. — FICTION WILKES
  • Surrounded by barren trees in a snow-covered wilderness with a dim, dusky sky forever overhead, Siberia's Kolyma Highway is 1200 miles of gravel packed permafrost within driving distance of the Arctic Circle. A narrow path where drivers face such…
    Book, 2022New York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — FICTION GOLDEN
  • As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with…
    Book, 2024New York : Emily Bestler Books, Atria, 2024. — FICTION KLIEWER
  • Into Thin Air

    a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

    Krakauer, Jon
    Into Thin Air is the definitive account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of the bestseller Into the Wild . On assignment for Outside Magazine to report on the growing commercialization of the…
    Book, 1997New York : Villard, c1997. — 796.522 KRAKAUER
  • The year is 1901, and Nicky is attacked, then wakes on board the Ormen, a whaling ship embarked on what could be its last voyage. With land still weeks away, it's just her, the freezing ocean, and the crew - and they're all owed something only she…
    Paperback, 2024New York : Berkley, 2024. — FICTION JESS-COOKE
  • The Indifferent Stars Above

    the Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

    Brown, Daniel James, 1951-
    In April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new husband, her parents, and eight siblings. Seven months later, after joining a party of pioneers led by George Donner, they reached…
    Paperback, 2010New York : Harper Perennial, 2010 — B FOSDICK
  • West Hall, Vermont, has always been a town of strange disappearances and old legends. The most mysterious is that of Sara Harrison Shea, who, in 1908, was found dead in the field behind her house just months after the tragic death of her daughter,…
    Book, 2014New York : Doubleday, [2014] — FICTION MCMAHON
  • Talitha Velkwood has avoided anything to do with the tragedy that took her mother and eight-year-old sister, drifting from one job to another, never settling anywhere or with anyone, feeling as trapped by her past as if she was still there in the…
    Book, 2024New York : Saga Press, 2024. — FICTION KISTE
  • A widower battles his grief, rage, and the mysterious evil inhabiting his home smart speaker, in this mesmerizing horror thriller. The cold spots and scratching in the walls were weird enough, but peculiar packages started showing up at the…
    Paperback, 2021New York : MCD x FSG Originals/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. — FICTION MORENO
  • Turn of the century, in a remote valley in Pennsylvania. Here, under the watchful eyes of several priests, thirty boys work, learn, and worship. Peter Barlow, orphaned as a child by a gruesome murder, has made a new life here. As he approaches…
    Book, 2023New York : Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — FICTION FRACASSI
  • In a sleepy, secluded Alaska town called Barrow, the sun sets and doesn't rise for over thirty consecutive days and nights. From the darkness, across the frozen wasteland, an evil will come that will bring the residents of Barrow to their knees. The…
    Graphic Novel, 2003San Diego, CA : Idea & Design Works, LLC, c2003. — 741.5 NILES
  • NOS4A2

    (nosferatu)

    Hill, Joe
    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…
    Paperback, 2014México, D.F. : Suma de Letras : Santillana, 2014. — S FICTION HILL