Fans of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone will enjoy these creepy stories that veer into uncharted territory.
In a small and isolated community with a fairy-tale setting, women’s lives follow predictable patterns: starting school, forming friendships, dating, marrying, having children, and sometimes vanishing without a trace. One motherless girl's initial fascination with a visitor turns to suspicion when the stranger starts to question the town's rituals. Elsewhere is a haunting and profound fable of motherhood, loss, and isolation.
A boarding house in a town called Subdivision offers fresh baked goods, puzzles to pass the time, and guest rooms with names like Virtue, Mercy, and Justice. A woman looking for a job and long-term accommodations senses she’s getting the runaround from Subdivision’s residents: the baker, the bus driver, her hosts, and a shape-shifting creature that seems to know her too intimately. A high-tech digital assistant named Cylvia may be the only one she can trust, but in Subdivision, things are not what they seem.
If you’d care to learn the exact day and time of your death, a company called Dare to Know can tell you with 100 percent certainty. But a discount competitor leaves one Dare employee scrambling for sales and tempted to calculate his own fate. What’s this futuristic story about fate and physics have to do with a mysterious video game character and a ritualistic pre-Columbian gravesite called Cahokia? Check out Dare to Know - if you dare!
Alicia Cavitt
Information Specialist
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