Pleading the Fish

« Vous voulez du plus noir encore ? Tant mieux. Moi aussi. Ce qui fait de moi votre frère de sang. » Stephen King.

*Perfect for fans of Uketsu's Strange Pictures and Strange Houses* A twisty and ingenious stand-alone classic Japanese murder mystery from the author of The Decagon House Murders Can the brilliant Kiyoshi Shimada solve the mystery of this bizarre house before all those trapped in its labyrinth are dead? Can you guess the solution before he does? Miyagaki Yōtarō is one of Japan's most famed mystery writers, but several years ago he put down his pen and left the Tokyo literary world for a life of seclusion in the remote Labyrinth House, built by the notorious architect Nakamura Seiji. When fo…

From the New York Times bestselling author of Strange Buildings and Strange Houses comes another infernal puzzle centered around an ancient map that contains the key to a deserted coastal village, an inexplicable fatal accident, and a tunnel steeped in ill fortune. A demonic map hidden for years. A confession from beyond the grave. A cold tunnel beneath a mountain. A train smeared in blood. An ancient evil that can kill. After college student Kurihara’s mother passes away, he joins his father on a trip to the town where she was born. But upon arriving, he immediately senses that something i…

His epic masterwork Speaks the Nightbird, a tour de force of witch hunt terror in a colonial town, was hailed by Sandra Brown as "deeply satisfying...told with matchless insight into the human soul." Now, Robert McCammon brings the hero of that spellbinding novel, Matthew Corbett, to eighteenth-century New York, where a killer wields a bloody and terrifying power over a bustling city carving out its identity—and over Matthew's own uncertain destiny. The unsolved murder of a respected doctor has sent ripples of fear throughout a city teeming with life and noise and commerce. Who snuffed out…

It’s an all-new horror classic about what happens when the truth is the last thing we want to believe, from Bram Stoker Award–winner and master of thrills and chills, horror legend Adam Cesare. After barely making it out of the Kettle Springs cornfields alive, Quinn’s first year away at college should be safe and easy. All she wants is to be normal again. But instead, Quinn finds that her past won’t leave her alone when she becomes the focus of online conspiracy theories that claim the Kettle Springs Massacre never happened. It’s a deranged but relentless fantasy, and there’s nothing Quinn…