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Louise's parents have died, and she needs to deal with her ne'er-do-well brother to sell the family home and its collection of her father's academic papers and her mother's puppets. But some houses don't want to be sold. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Feb 25, 2023 - 6 comments

Teen best friends Abby and Gretchen grapple with an otherworldly demon that takes up residence in Gretchen's body. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Oct 8, 2022 - 6 comments

Melville, South Carolina was out of money, it was out of jobs, it was out of hope, and today it was out of astronauts. There were only two to begin with, and now one is stuck on the abandoned International Space Station after his mission went south. With NASA’s budget cut to the bone, there’s no one to bring him back home, so everyone is only too happy to ignore this embarrassing sign of American Failure and just let him die. But his cousin, Walter Reddie, isn’t going to let that happen. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on May 13, 2022 - 2 comments

Marilyn survived a massacre in Texas. Adrienne barely overcame a maniac who targeted a summer camp. Dani had to defeat her own homicidal brother when he turned into a killer at Halloween. Heather escaped a killer called The Dream King. Julia outwitted her boyfriend and his best friend when they turned their love of slasher films into a real life killing spree. Lynette was the only survivor of an escaped lunatic dressed as Santa. They meet in secret with their therapist for a very specialized support group... Until all at once, it seems someone wants these "final girls" turned middle-aged survivors dead.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Jan 17, 2022 - 9 comments

Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town. Written by Grady Hendrix (Final Girl Support Group).
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 29, 2021 - 5 comments

Five workers in an IKEA knockoff are about to discover what happens when you put a big-box store on the former site of a 19th Century torture-prison. Spoiler: Bad things.
posted by Etrigan on Apr 10, 2020 - 10 comments