Edited by Christopher Golden. Gallery, $18 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-1-4767-8309-3
The notion of the romantic vampire is transcended to chilling and even heartbreaking effect in this stellar anthology of tales collected by Golden (Tin Men). The best is Laird Barron’s atmospheric, Alaska-set “In a Cavern, in a Canyon,” in which one
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John Ajvide Lindqvist, St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-60525-4
Swedish horror author Lindqvist moves from vampires (Let the Right One In) to zombies in this gripping, subtle tale. Stockholm is overtaken by the undead after a period of strange weather, and the uprising has surprising consequences for several...
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John Ajvide Lindqvist. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $25.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-68027-5
Lindqvist (Let Me In) turns a young girl’s mysterious disappearance into the catalyst for revelations about centuries-old natural and supernatural forces in this enthralling dark fantasy. When little Maja vanishes on a family outing to an icebound...
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John Ajvide Lindqvist, trans. from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy. St. Martin’s/Dunne, $26.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-312-62051-6
Lindqvist’s third novel released in English (ably translated by Delargy) ignores the supernatural elements of his previous works, instead providing terror via a group of sociopaths and artists. When abusive, washed-up rocker Lennart finds an...
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John Ajvide Lindqvist. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-250-08657-0
Four families and their vacation caravans are somehow transported into a seemingly endless grassy meadow in Lindqvist’s ambitious and frustrating novel of cosmic horror, the first of a projected trilogy. Their world now includes a bright sky, no sun,
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John Ajvide Lindqvist, Author, Ebba Segerberg, Translator , trans. from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. St. Martin’s/Dunne $25.95 (472p) ISBN 978-0-312-35528-9
Swedish author Lindqvist’s debut, a horror novel, offers few twists that won’t already be familiar to readers of modern vampire fiction. Oskar, a much bullied 12-year-old schoolboy living in a Stockholm suburb, notices that his next-door
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John Ajvide Lindqvist, trans. from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg. Thomas Dunne, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-312-62053-0
In Lindqvist’s commendable first short-fiction collection, people often are not what they seem, usually to a horrifying degree. “The Border” tells of a customs agent whose relationship with a suspected smuggler uncovers extraordinary truths about...
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