2024 NATIONAL MEDAL
for Museum and Library Service Finalist

Horror

A Cosmology of Monsters

 

Monsters both figurative and very literal stalk the Turner family. The youngest child, Noah, narrates the family history: how in the late '60s, his bookish mother Margaret marries Lovecraft-lover Harry against her better judgment. The couple has two daughters--Sydney, born for the spotlight, and the brilliant but awkward Eunice, a natural writer and storyteller.

Cold Storage

When the deadly mutative organism he put in cold storage decades earlier breaks out and starts killing people, former Pentagon bioterrorism specialist Roberto Diaz works with two security guards to try and contain it.

Imaginary Friend

A single mother Kate Reese's desperate efforts to escape an abusive relationship are thrown into turmoil by her young son Christopher's disappearance and reappearance days later with an imaginary friend.

Eclipse

"BELLA?"
Edward's soft voice came from behind me. I turned to see him spring lightly up the porch steps, his hair windblown from running. He pulled me into his arms at once, just like he had in the parking lot, and kissed me again.
This kiss frightened me. There was too much tension, too strong an edge to the way his lips crushed mine - like he was afraid we had only so much time left to us.