The Woods

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Weilian Baoluo Yang zhu

Mackenzie Allen Phillips' youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later in the midst of his Great Sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on a wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change Mack's world forever. In a world where religion seems to grow increasingly irrelevant, "The Shack" wrestles with the timeless question, "Where is God in a world so filled with unspeakable pain?" The answers Mack gets will astound you and perhaps transform you as much as it did him.

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Ruth Rendell

In these pages, internationally celebrated novelist Ruth Rendell, author of Harm Done, offers a collection of unforgettable stories evocative of Edgar Allan Poe, Stephen King, and other masters of the chilling touch. "Piranha to Scurfy" tells of a lonely man who devotes his life to writing scathing letters to newly published authors, pointing out their many mistakes. He does so in memory of his mother, who lies buried in the garden, for reasons that emerge to haunting effect. "The Wink" recounts the story of a woman, raped years ago in a small English town, whose patience is rewarded by a perfectly satisfying moment of revenge. "Catamount," set in the Rocky Mountains, is seen through the eyes of an Englishwoman who perceives the ruthless ferocity that lurks behind the beauty of the landscape. And bringing the collection of nine stories to an unforgettable conclusion is the novella-length "High Mysterious Union," a dark, relentless tale of erotic obsession and bloodless violence in remote, rural England.

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Joyce Carol Oates

A collection of darkly compelling tales from the unique imagination of Joyce Carol Oates. A young professor is convinced she's being followed, but when she confronts her shadow events take an unexpected turn ... A promising student attempts to save her brother from his descent into madness, but she soon finds out there may be more to his world than to hers ... A renowned author embarks on a grand tour of Europe, but soon his bad manners threaten to cost him more than he has to give ... These biting and beautiful stories force us to confront, one by one, the demons within.

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Matthew Klein

A dark and gripping thriller about one man caught in an ever-tightening vice of his own making - Timothy Van Bender leads a charmed life: his hedge-fund business has made him extremely wealthy; he adores his beautiful wife, Katherine; his secretary Tricia is a charming flirt. Then everything changes. His hedge fund loses millions on a bad bet, and his wife seemingly commits suicide. Timothy can?t believe it? and nor, it seems, can the police. But his troubles have just begun. For soon Tricia shows up on his doorstep, claiming to be his dead wife and knowing secrets that only Katherine could know ...