Tear

By Erica McKeen

A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022

49TH SHELF EDITOR’S PICK FOR SEPTEMBER 2022

A reclamation of female rage and a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman.

Frances is quiet and reclusive, so much so that her upstairs roommates sometimes forget she exists. Isolated in the basement, ... Read more

There Are Wolves Here Too

By Niall Howell

Spilt blood whets the appetite of a ravine at the heart of Haddington Springs, a bedroom community with a closet full of bones.

It's 1997, and Robin and his two best friends, Steph and Dylan, are ready to dive into their first summer as teenagers. But when Catherine, a classmate's ... Read more

Queer Little Nightmares

Edited by David Ly & Daniel Zomparelli

The fiction and poetry of Queer Little Nightmares reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for ... Read more

Silencing Rebecca

By Nikki Vogel

In this genre-bending debut YA novel combining elements of horror, magic realism, and realistic fiction, Rebecca Waldmann’s sheltered life as an Orthodox Jewish teen in Toronto is shattered when her father moves them to Edmonton, where she is plunged into the worldly life ... Read more

The Hush Sisters

By Gerard Collins

***49TH SHELF UTTERLY FANTASTIC BOOK FOR FALL***

***NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS WINNER, SUSPENSE***

***NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS FINALIST, PARANORMAL***

Sissy and Ava Hush are estranged, middle-aged sisters with little in common beyond their upbringing in a ... Read more

The Narrow Cabinet

By Asa Boxer

From old school dispensation to Zombie apocalypse: on change, loss and rapid transformations.

The Narrow Cabinet is a book about change, loss and the struggle to understand what the hell is going on in a world experiencing such rapid transformations. The movement is from (a) ... Read more

The Death Scene Artist

By Andrew Wilmot

M_____ is dying of cancer. Only thirty-two, an extra with a meagre list of credits to their name and afraid of being forgotten, M_____ starts recounting the strange, fantastic and ultimately tragic path of their love affair with the world’s greatest living "redshirt" – a ... Read more

The Laws of the Skies

By Gregoire Courtois
Translated by Rhonda Mullins

Winnie-the-Pooh meets The Blair Witch Project in this very grown-up tale of a camping trip gone horribly awry.

Twelve six-year-olds and their three adult chaperones head into the woods on a camping trip. None of them make it out alive.  The Laws of the Skies tells the harrowing ... Read more

Suture

By Nic Brewer

To make her films, Eva must take out her eyes and use them as batteries. To make her art, Finn must cut open her chest and remove her lungs and heart. To write her novels, Grace must use her blood to power the word processor.

Suture shares three interweaving stories of artists ... Read more

Home by the Sea

By Paul Savoie

A car skids off a fog-covered road and rolls over. A woman emerges and helps her badly wounded husband out of the wrecked vehicle. Together they make their way down a narrow path which leads them to a large house near the sea, where are playing and friendly people welcome them ... Read more