A Latent Dark

A Latent Dark
Author: Martin Kee
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 538
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781479172177

Skyla has lived secretly within the city walls of Bollingbrook for eleven years, playing among the airship factories and trainyards. As one of the Gutter District's nameless destitute, it has gone undiscovered that she has a unique talent: when Skyla looks at a person's shadow she sees through it and into another world. She can see people's fears, desires, their past sins--all as swimming, living creatures. Her mother has never told her the real reasons why they must remain hidden, never explained the true dangers that exist outside the city walls. But when her mother's past catches up with them both, Skyla finds she must flee out of the city and into a world still recovering from a second Dark Age, a world of adults with secrets only she can see. For a stranger has recently moved into Bollingbrook, a man some call the Pope of the South, a witch hunter to some and a hero to others. When more children begin to disappear, suspicions are raised and an unlikely search party is formed to find Skyla in the hopes that they aren't already too late.

Dark Blood SC

Dark Blood SC
Author: LaToya Morgan
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2022-05-10
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781684157112

The debut speculative fiction graphic novel from NAACP Image Award-winning showrunner LaToya Morgan (The Walking Dead)! Avery Aldridge was a decorated soldier during World War II; now he’s just an ordinary young Black man busy providing for his family. But he’s haunted by the wounds of war, and after a run-in awakens latent abilities, he’ll discover he’s anything but ordinary. But between flashbacks, ever-emerging and frightening powers, and a seemingly kind doctor with unclear motives, will Avery be able to make sense of his newfound abilities and what’s been done to him? Can he keep his family safe in a society that never wanted him to have any power? A bold, evocative genre-bending saga by NAACP Image Award-Winning screenwriter LaToya Morgan (AMC's The Walking Dead, Into The Badlands), artists Walt Barna (The Osiris Path) and Moisés Hidalgo (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers), and colorist A.H.G. (Broken Bear) about the power of love, family, and resilience. Collects Dark Blood #1-6.

Servant of a Dark God

Servant of a Dark God
Author: John Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 628
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780765362308

The launch of a towering new fantasy series introduces an elaborate new world, a strange and dark system of magic, and a cast of compelling characters and monsters.

It's Getting Dark

It's Getting Dark
Author: Peter Stamm
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1635420318

A new story collection from “one of Europe’s most exciting writers” (New York Times Book Review) deftly evokes and explores the shifts that occur when the world grows dark. Snowed in at a remote artists’ residency in Vermont, Peter recalls another Christmas some thirty years earlier, when he met Marcia by chance on a trip to New York City. Only now, in this eerie, isolated place, does he begin to see the consequences of their brief affair through a series of connections. When Hubert asks Sabrina to model for a sculpture, she’s flattered and happy to help. But facing the finished product, looking at herself from previously hidden angles, disturbs her, and she becomes determined to follow her double after it’s sold to a collector. Uneasy in his own skin and with the humdrum life set out for him, David decides to rob a bank. He already has a mask for the purpose, but won’t be using it today. He’s heard that bank robbers often study the scene for weeks before they strike. So he’s started to lurk. We think we know our world, but then the familiar suddenly turns strange, and even frightening. In these powerfully affecting, minutely constructed stories, Peter Stamm illustrates how fragile our reality really is, how susceptible to tricks of the heart and mind.

Dark State

Dark State
Author: Charles Stross
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2018-01-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1447247574

Dark State is the second book in a thrilling series - set in the same world as Charles Stross' Merchant Princes series. This book follows Empire Games. The time for peace is ending . . . In the near future, one America is experiencing its first technological revolution – whilst in a parallel world, the United States is a hi-tech police state. But both timelines are poised for conflict. Miriam Burgeson’s America is heading for civil war. However, a high profile defection might avert this crisis, if only Miriam and her agents can arrange it in time. And Rita Douglas, rival US spy, arrives during this turmoil. Rita’s world is rocked when she realizes Miriam is her birth mother, changing her own mission irrevocably. Then her United States discovers yet another parallel earth, and the remains of an advanced society. Something destroyed that civilization, Rita’s people are about to rouse it – and two worlds will face the consequences.

Abandon

Abandon
Author: Blake Crouch
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2023-01-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0593598539

A century-old mystery—and a desperate battle to survive—unfold in this standalone thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion. On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman, and child in a remote mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins, and not a single bone found. Now, journalist Abigail Foster and her historian father have set out to explore the long-abandoned town and learn what happened. With them are two backcountry guides—along with a psychic and a paranormal photographer who are there to investigate rumors that the town is haunted. But Abigail and her companions are about to learn that the town’s ghosts are the least of their worries. Twenty miles from civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they realize they are not alone. The ordeal that follows will test this small team past the breaking point as they battle the elements and human foes alike—and discover that the town’s secrets still have the power to kill. Part journey into old-West history, part nail-biting survival thriller, Abandon is a bloody, darkly surprising tale as only Blake Crouch could deliver.

The Whisperer in Darkness

The Whisperer in Darkness
Author: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2019-05-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781099596650

The story is told by Albert N. Wilmarth, an instructor of literature at Miskatonic University in Arkham. When local newspapers report strange things seen floating in rivers during a historic Vermont flood, Wilmarth becomes embroiled in a controversy about the reality and significance of the sightings, though he sides with the skeptics. Wilmarth uncovers old legends about monsters living in the uninhabited hills who abduct people who venture or settle too close to their territory.

Ursula K. Le Guin's the Left Hand of Darkness

Ursula K. Le Guin's the Left Hand of Darkness
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Chelsea House
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1987
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A collection of nine critical essays on the modern social science fiction novel, arranged in chronological order of their original publication.

Science

Science
Author: John Michels (Journalist)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 976
Release: 1921
Genre: Science
ISBN:

Since Jan. 1901 the official proceedings and most of the papers of the American Association for the Advancement of Science have been included in Science.