Let these Books Take you on a Journey to the “Fifth Dimension” for National Twilight Zone Day

Investigator Oscar Basaran travels to Kidney Island off the coast of Maine to document the negative effects of shadow flicker from wind turbines on residents living near the windmills, but is unprepared for what he encounters from the islanders. As Oscar’s investigation deepens, he discovers the turbines create an unexpected phenomena kept secret by a select group of people on Kidney Island.

When Mira fled her segregated southern hometown more than an decade ago, she left behind her best friend, a plantation rumored to be haunted, and horrible memories from her youth. Returning only for her best friend’s wedding on the eerie plantation, dark elements from the town’s past and Mira’s own history begin to unravel as the weekend begins. She must acknowledge her history to save herself from what is to come.

Gina was completely normal—an average housewife with a husband and two kids. When a car accident revealed her husband’s secret life as a serial killer, she moved her children to a home on a lake, far away from her husband’s secrets. But when a body appears in the lake and threatening letters start to arrive, Gina must protect herself and her kids from a killer who is now tormenting her family.

Victoria, a young girl with a talent for finding things, stumbles upon a bridge that can take her anywhere. She runs into Charlie Manx, who lures kids into a car that transports them to a horrifying playground called Christmasland. Victoria is the only child to ever escape Christmasland. Years later, Charlie hasn’t forgotten about her — and is ready to take his revenge.

As the ash and chaos from Mount Rainier’s eruption swirled and finally settled, the story of the Greenloop massacre has passed unnoticed, unexamined . . . until now. The journals, of resident Kate Holland, capture a tale too harrowing to be forgotten. Because if what Kate Holland saw in those days is real, then we must accept that the creature known as Bigfoot walks among us.

Reverend Jack Brooks arrives at Chapel Croft looking for a fresh start, yet is welcomed with an exorcism kit and a warning. Horrible things have happened at the church — protestant martyrs were burned centuries back, two teenage girls disappeared 30 years ago, and just a week prior, the vicar hung himself. And uncovering the truth can be deadly in a village where no one trusts an outsider.

A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the living and the living dead. After the worst of the plague is over, armed forces stationed in Chinatown’s Fort Wonton have successfully reclaimed the island south of Canal Street—aka Zone One. Mark Spitz is a member of one of the three-person civilian sweeper units tasked with clearing lower Manhattan of the remaining feral zombies. And then things start to go terribly wrong…

Detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies, but this one is unique even by Detroit’s standards: half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams? If you’re Thomas Keen, known on the street as TK, you’ll do what you can to keep your homeless family safe–and find the monster who is possessed by the dream of violently remaking the world.

A boy named Seth drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying, his bones breaking, his skull dashed upon the rocks. So how is he here? And where is this place? Seth begins a search for answers, hoping that he might not be alone, that this might not be the hell he fears it to be, that there might be more than just this.

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