FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 Ghoulie Gals: Sarah Langan, Alex Sokoloff, Sarah Pinborough, and Rhodi Hawk - A Halloween Night at the Scottsdale Library 6 pm
Join Sarah Langan, Alex Sokoloff, Sarah Pinborough and Rhodi Hawk for a horrifically entertaining evening of ghoulish literary fun as these four authors talk about their horror novels.
Copies of the authors' books will be also be available for sale after the program:
by Alexandra Sokoloff: The Unseen (St Martins $25). Sokoloff presents a new supernatural thriller. Two Duke University psychology professors, Laurel MacDonald and Brendan Cody, stumble on suppressed findings of an inquiry into poltergeist activity conducted under the auspices of Duke's Rhine parapsychology lab nearly half a century earlier. All the participants appear to have died, disappeared or, in the case of Laurel's enfeebled uncle, gone mad. Laurel and Brendan corral two students and camp out at spooky Folger House....also The Price ($7) and The Harrowing ($7)by Sarah Langan: Audrey's Door (Harper $8) Built on the Upper West Side, the elegant Breviary claims a regal history. But despite 14B's astonishingly low rental price, the recent tragedy within its walls has frightened away all potential tenants . . . except for Audrey Lucas.
No stranger to tragedy at thirty-two-a survivor of a fatherless childhood and a mother's hopeless dementia- Audrey is obsessively determined to make her own way in a city that often strangles the weak. But is it something otherworldly or Audrey's own increasing instability that's to blame for the dark visions that haunt her . . . and for the voice that demands that she build a door? A door it would be true madness to open . . . also the Keeper ($7) and The Missing ($7)
bvy Rhodi Hawk: A Twisted Ladder ($15) is a debut Southern gothic thriller, introducing Dr. Madeleine LeBlanc, a staff psychologist at New Orleans's Tulane University with a special interest in cognitive schizophrenia. Maddy's father, “Daddy Blank,” suffers from the disease, as does her brother, Marc, whose suicide leads Maddy, who fears she may also be schizophrenic after psychic visits from a “devil-child,” to probe her family's past. Tulane neurologist Ethan Manderleigh provides support as terrible secrets surface about the family sugarcane plantation.
by Sarah Pinborough: Torchwood: Into The Silence ($12)
Feeding Ground (Leisure $7.99) is Pinborough's sequel to her 2007 British Fantasy Award-nominated novel Breeding Ground. Set in post-apocalyptic London, Feeding Ground combines chilling science fiction narrative with visceral horror in a way that is simultaneously unflinching yet emotionally satisfying. Publishers Weekly has compared Pinborough to Bentley Little and Dean Koontz.
“This is one of those rare horror novels that hits the ground running on page one and doesn’t break stride once all the way through.... Breeding Ground is a wonderfully entertaining and shriek-inspiring novel beautifully wrought by an author with an unflinching eye and a steady hand.” ---Creature Feature
