%%ohp-start%% %%ohp-book-start-384057-1974%% ## 'Salem's Lot Status: Read Rating: 4.5/5 > [!summary]+ > > [!figure-right-s]  > > 'Salem's Lot is a small New England town with the usual quota of gossips, drinkers, weirdos and respectable folk. Of course there are tales of strange happenings - but not more than in any other town its size. > > Ben Mears, a moderately successful writer, returns to the Lot to write a novel based on his early years, and to exorcise the terrors that have haunted him since childhood. The event he witnessed in the house now rented by a new resident. A newcomer with a strange allure. A man who causes Ben some unease as things start to happen: a child disappears, a dog is brutally killed - nothing unusual, except the list starts to grow. > > Soon surprise will turn to bewilderment, bewilderment to confusion and finally to terror... Genres: #book-genre/fiction, #book-genre/fantasy, #book-genre/science-fiction, #book-genre/suspense, #book-genre/thriller-and-suspense, #book-genre/city-and-town-life, #book-genre/horror-tales, #book-genre/classics, #book-genre/authors [Hardcover.app](https://hardcover.app/books/salems-lot) %%ohp-book-personal%% %%ohp-book-end-384057-1974%% %%ohp-book-start-376832-2018%% ## The Institute Status: Read Rating: 5/5 > [!summary]+ > > [!figure-right-s]  > > 'It does everything you'd expect of a masterpiece - and it is one' Sunday Express 'Hums and crackles with delicious unease' Independent 'Captivating' The Sunday Times 'An absorbing thriller' Mail on Sunday NO ONE HAS EVER ESCAPED FROM THE INSTITUTE. Luke Ellis, a super-smart twelve-year-old with an exceptional gift, is the latest in a long line of kids abducted and taken to a secret government facility, hidden deep in the forest in Maine. Here, kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - like Luke's new friends Kalisha, Nick and Iris, are subjected to a series of experiments. There seems to be no hope of escape. Until Luke teams up with an even younger boy whose powers of telepathy are off the scale. Meanwhile, far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson, looking for the quiet life, has taken a job working for the local sheriff. He doesn't know he's about to take on the biggest case of his career . . . THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY OUT. 'An epic tale of childhood betrayal and hope regained... an immersive tale full of suspense and thrills that will keep readers up late at night racing towards a heartbreaking yet glorious finale... a dazzling achievement' - Daily Express Genres: #book-genre/science-fiction, #book-genre/fiction, #book-genre/genetic-engineering, #book-genre/suspense, #book-genre/thriller, #book-genre/thriller-and-suspense, #book-genre/supernatural, #book-genre/fantasy, #book-genre/1735854221312, #book-genre/young-adult [Hardcover.app](https://hardcover.app/books/the-institute) %%ohp-book-personal%% %%ohp-book-end-376832-2018%% %%ohp-book-start-430445-2020%% ## Later Status: Read Rating: 5/5 > [!summary]+ > > [!figure-right-s]  > > SOMETIMES GROWING UP > > MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS > > The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mom urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine – as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave. > > LATER is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King’s classic novel It, LATER is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears. Genres: #book-genre/mystery, #book-genre/fiction, #book-genre/science-fiction, #book-genre/police, #book-genre/horror, #book-genre/thriller, #book-genre/occult, #book-genre/urban-fantasy, #book-genre/fantasy, #book-genre/crime [Hardcover.app](https://hardcover.app/books/later) %%ohp-book-personal%% %%ohp-book-end-430445-2020%% %%ohp-end%%