Browsing: Horror

The polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic…

“A richly imagined universe with a distinctly Celtic flavor” (Library Journal): Witches and magic have been outlawed in Eileanan since the Day of Reckoning, but Isabeau has grown up learning the old ways. Can she navigate a path riddled with prophesy and conspiracy? A Locus award winner!

When the demonic Krampus escapes captivity, all hell breaks loose on Christmas Eve. Elves and grinches alike will devour this twisted holiday fairy tale “told with entertaining style and some unexpectedly sympathetic characters” (Booklist).