A Sickness in the Family

10 best books like A Sickness in the Family (Denise Mina): Infidel, Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn, Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins, 100 Bullets, Vol. 1: First Shot, Last Call, The Nightingale and the Rose, Neonomicon, Brides of the Impaler, A Matter of Life, Kimmie66, The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace

Infidel
AuthorPornsak Pichetshote
ISBN1534308369
A haunted house story for the 21st century, INFIDEL follows an American Muslim woman and her multi-racial neighbors who move into a building haunted by entities that feed off xenophobia.

Bestselling editor Pornsak Pichetshote (Swamp Thing, Daytripper, The Unwritten) makes his comics...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 1: The Black Barn
AuthorJeff Lemire
ISBN1534308520
The legend of the Black Barn tells of an otherworldly building that has appeared and reappeared throughout history, bringing death and madness in its wake. Now, its mystery ensnares and entwines the lives of two very different men. One: a young recluse, obsessed with finding hidden clues within the...
Gideon Falls, Vol. 2: Original Sins
AuthorJeff Lemire
ISBN1534310673
In the series that writer MARK MILLAR (HIT GIRL) called "the best comic of 2018," rural mystery and urban horror collide in the second volume of the runaway best-selling series by JEFF LEMIRE and ANDREA SORRENTINO, the acclaimed creative duo behind Green Arrow and Old Man Logan.

The lives of...
100 Bullets, Vol. 1: First Shot, Last Call
AuthorBrian Azzarello
ISBN1563896451
In this dark and intriguing trade paperback, the mysterious Agent Graves approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person that has wronged them. Offering his clients an attaché case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees his "clients" full immunity...
The Nightingale and the Rose
AuthorOscar Wilde
ISBN1430439866
An allegorical fable of love, sacrifice and selfishness. As with all of Wilde's short stories it embodies strong moral values and is told with an effervescence akin to that of the 1001 nights.

It is the tale of a lovestruck student who must provide his lover with a red rose in order to win her heart....
Neonomicon
AuthorAlan Moore
ISBN1592911307
Comic book legend Alan Moore (WATCHMEN, FROM HELL) and brilliant artist Jacen Burrows deliver a chilling tale of Lovecraftian horror!  Brears and Lamper, two young and cocky FBI agents, investigate a fresh series of ritual murders somehow tied to the final undercover assignment of Aldo Sax –the...
Brides of the Impaler
AuthorEdward Lee
ISBN0843958073
While reading this horror novel, I kept thinking about those old 70s Italian horror films. They have a lot in common: a unhealthy mixture of eroticism and sleaze, religious symbolism (also mixed with eroticism and sleaze), and silly dialog. I swear that while I read this book, I could see the characters...
A Matter of Life
AuthorJeffrey Brown
ISBN1603092668
After the acclaimed indie film Save the Date and the bestselling all-ages humor book Darth Vader and Son, graphic novelist Jeffrey Brown (Clumsy, Unlikely) returns to the autobiographical work that first made his reputation. In A Matter of Life, Jeffrey Brown draws upon memories of three generations...
AuthorAaron Alexovich
ISBN1401203736
Written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich Navigate the neon-lit corridors of an online VR lair in this high-velocity, dangerous quest to locate the world's first digital girl, written and illustrated by Aaron Alexovich (Serenity Rose, TV's Invader Zim and Avatar: The Last Airbender)! Telly Kade...
The Walking Dead, Vol. 32: Rest In Peace
AuthorRobert Kirkman
ISBN1534312412
It’s… over?

Wha… no foolin’!? Sweet zombie jesus!

Yup, the series that became like the rotting, shambling corpses featured in its pages has finally come to a long overdue end. I kinda feel like Kent Brockman – why now, why not five years ago??

So after years of saying...
The Lost Causes of Bleak Creek
AuthorRhett McLaughlin
ISBN1984822136
It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and a seemingly unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town’s cheerful façade, however, Bleak...
Dark Entries
AuthorIan Rankin
ISBN1401213863
HELLBLAZER's John Constantine must become part of HAUNTED PALACE -- a closed-set reality game-show (think BIG BROTHER or SCI-FI's new reality show, ESTATE OF PANIC) in order to deal with a supernatural murder of one of the contestants. He enters as a 'surprise' contestant and meets the other participants,...
Altered Carbon: Download Blues
AuthorRichard K. Morgan
ISBN1524109673
In the distant future, the human body is a temporary and interchangeable commodity - if you can pay.

For the interstellar elite, bodies are swapped out and reused without a second thought. You never grow old; you never die.

However, some bodies are more temporary than others ...

Takeshi...
The History of Science: 1700-1900
AuthorFrederick Gregory
ISBN1565858379
In the period 1700-1900, kings and empires rose and fell, but science conquered all, taking the world by storm. Yet, as the 1700s began, the mysteries of the universe were pondered by "natural philosophers"—the term "scientist" didn't even exist until the mid 19th century—whose explanations...
The Realist
AuthorAsaf Hanuka
ISBN1608866882
Acclaimed Israeli cartoonist Asaf Hanuka‘s weekly strips collected into one volume and translated into English for the first time.

In 2010, Israeli newspaper The Calcalist asked Hanuka, already well known in Israel as a commercial illustrator and as a contributor to the animated film...
I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore
AuthorLinda S. Godfrey
Which came first--the monster or the myth? Journalist Linda Godfrey investigates present-day encounters with mysterious creatures of old.

The monsters of ancient mythology, folklore, and more contemporary urban legend have long captured the popular imagination. While most people...
The Beckoning Fair One (Disorder collection)
AuthorDan Chaon
All teenagers come of age. But in this spellbinding story by the bestselling author of Ill Will, one girl’s awakening requires something special. Something strange. Then it can all work like a charm.Ever since they were orphaned, Tyler has kept close tabs on his sister, Shannon. He has to, considering...
Star Wars: Age of Republic - Heroes
AuthorJody Houser
ISBN1302917102
This is the Age of Star Wars - an epic series of adventures that unite your favorite characters from all three trilogies! Join the greatest heroes of the waning days of the Old Republic. Witness the never-before-seen moments that define them, the incredible battles that shaped them - and their eternal...
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