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"The year is 1911. In Cold Spring Harbour, New York, the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm, the insane, and the criminal - with an eye to a cull, for the betterment of all. Near Cracked Wheel, Montana, a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown an orphan, stranded in his dead mother's cabin until the spring thaw shows him the true meaning of devastation - and the barest thread of hope. At the edge...
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The sequel to Eutopia is "a nailbiter ... that is spooky as hell, a critical and sharp demolition of Lovecraft's own romanticization of eugenics" (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing).
In Eutopia, an orphaned farm boy and a black physician came face to face with monsters both human-American eugenicists-and inhuman-a parasite called the Juke. Volk is "another dive into the horrific ... a dazzling horror novel that's unafraid to ask questions and leave some...
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Stories of the mysterious and macabre from "Canada's answer to Stephen King" (Helen Marshall, author of Gifts for the One Who Comes After).
In this follow-up to his award-winning debut collection, Monstrous Affections, David Nickle stretches the boundaries of horror into a sphere of "uncertainty, of helplessness, of traditions and change... The stories are sui generis in presentation, veering from the discombobulating nightmare that is 'Basements'...