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Welcome to Widow's Bay

Welcome to Widow's Bay! "The next Martha's Vineyard and definitely not cursed!" Stop by the Historical Society for a quick guide through the colorful history of the town, and then stop by the Salty Whale for Sunset Cocktails before heading back to the inn for game night! If you're a fan of the Apple TV show Widows Bay, then you'll be sure to enjoy these books with similar vibes!

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  • Forced to return home to his late father's house, Andrew Larimer and his childhood friends must confront the memories-and the horror-of a night, years ago, that changed everything for them-a thing they've kept to themselves for 20 years and…
    Book, 2024London : Titan Books, 2024. — FICTION Malfi Ronald 07/2024
  • On a creepy island where everyone has a strange obsession with the year 1994, a newcomer arrives, hoping to learn the truth about her son's death-but finds herself pulled deeper and deeper into the bizarrely insular community and their complicated…
    Book, 2023[New York] : Dutton, [2023] — FICTION Juliano Jimmy 06/2023
  • In a lonely cottage overlooking the windswept Maine coast, Wilder Harlow begins the last book he will ever write. It is the story of a sun-drenched summer of his youth, and of the killer that stalked the small New England town. And of the terrible…
    Book, 2023New York : Nightfire/Tor Publishing Group, 2023. — FICTION Ward Catriona 07/2023
  • David Drayton, his son Billy, and their neighbor Brent Norton head to the local grocery store to replenish supplies following a freak storm. Once there, they and other local citizens are trapped by a strange mist that has enveloped the town and in…
    eBook, 2017Scribner, 2017
  • From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, a suspenseful new novel about an idyllic town in Maine dealing with the suspicious death of one of their own--and her best "summer" friend, who is trying to uncover the…
    Book, 2019New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. — FICTION Miranda Megan 06/2019
  • The SS Arcadia vanished during a routine voyage. A strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, but no trace of the ship, or of its crew, could be found. Sixty years later, its wreck has finally been discovered more than three hundred miles…
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2022] — FICTION Coates Darcy 06/2022
  • A Gothic chiller about a young caregiver assigned to work for a woman accused of a Lizzie Borden-like massacre decades earlier
    Book, 2023[New York] : Dutton, [2023] — FICTION Sager Riley 06/2023
  • An exclusive invitation. A remote island infamous for its miraculous ecology. A once-in-a-lifetime chance to fix everything that's broken. But sometimes growth requires sacrifice.... WELCOME TO KINDRED COVE. Celia is so tired of being alone. All…
    Book, 2026New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2026. — FICTION Gailey Sarah
  • Today's masters of horror dare to conjure terrifying tales inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's classic works. In this anthology, discover a monstrous secret beneath a derelict church, a search for buried treasure gone terribly wrong, a blood sacrifice…
    Book, 2026London : Titan Books, 2026. — FICTION Shadows 05/2026
  • In the winter of 1927-28, the isolated coastal settlement of Innsmouth, Massachusetts was assaulted by U.S. government agents--its waterfront burned and dynamited, its people taken away to internment camps. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the…
    Graphic Novel, 2023Milwaukie, OR : Dark Horse Manga, a division of Dark Horse Comics LLC, 2023. — GRAPHIC Tanabe Gou 12/2023
  • Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre twenty-two years ago, and it has defined every day of her life since. And she's not alone. For more than a decade she's been meeting with five other actual final girls and their…
    Book, 2021New York : Berkley, [2021] — FICTION Hendrix Grady 06/2021
  • Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge but Penny, seventeen, is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.
    Book, 2018New York : Simon Pulse, 2018. — TEEN FICTION Ernshaw Shea
  • Harrison Harrison, H2 to his mom, is a lonely teenager who's been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished. One of the "sensitives" who are attuned to the…
    Book, 2015New York : Tor, 2015. — FICTION Gregory Daryl 04/2015
  • A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither…
    Book, 2017New York : Tom Doherty Associates/Tor.com, 2017. — FICTION Kiernan Caitlin 02/2017