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1. Midsommar
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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After a family tragedy, a young American couple joins some friends at a midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. What begins as a carefree summer holiday takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that grow increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.
2. Midsommar
Author:
Publisher:
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
Swedish
Description:
Det är midsommar på långvårdsavdelningen. Medan nationen tar kos mot sina stugor med snaps och sill som främsta prioriteringar gäller hårt arbete inne på avdelningen. För Mikael och Eva, som båda jobbar extra som nattvak, blir kvällen trots arbetet speciell. Eva är tvåbarnsmamma och har redan vid ung ålder behövt genomleva traumatiska relationer, men i Mikael hittar hon någon som lyssnar och vill förstå henne. Midsommarkvällen kan...
Publisher:
Echo Bridge Acquisition Corp. LLC
Pub. Date:
[2017]
Language:
English
Description:
Disc 1. Jungle book: The original and grandest version of this well-known tale paints an exotic world of primitive peasant villages, dense, dark jungles, and alluring lagoons--all of which compose the surroundings of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. Africa express: An African trader, his chimp and a beautiful secret agent track a jungle bad man. Moomin and midsummer madness: When a flood displaces the Moomin family from their home, they seek refuge...
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Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Nat Cassidy's highly commercial, debut horror novel Mary: An Awakening of Terror, blends Midsommar with elements of American Psycho and a pinch of I'll Be Gone in the Dark. Mary is a quiet, middle-aged woman doing her best to blend into the background. Unremarkable. Invisible. Unknown even to herself. But lately, things have been changing inside Mary. Along with the hot flashes and body aches, she can't look in a mirror without passing out, and the...
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"The Blair Witch Project meets Midsommar in this brilliantly disturbing thriller from Camilla Sten, an electrifying new voice in suspense. Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed "The Lost Village," since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two...
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Language:
English
Description:
"The Other Black Girl meets Midsommar in this spine-chilling, propulsive psychological adult debut from highly acclaimed author Vincent Tirado, in which a married couple moves into a gated "community" that slowly creeps into a pervasive dread akin to thesocial horror of Jordan Peele and Lovecraft County-We Came to Welcome You cleverly uses the uncanny to illuminate the cultish, shocking nature of systemic racism. Where beauty lies, secrets are held...ugly...
15. The Cherished
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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For fans of "White Smoke", "The Hazel Wood", and "Wilder Girls" comes an original, hypnotizing horror thriller in the vein of "Midsommar", as one girl inherits a mysterious house from her estranged grandmother, and a letter with sinister instructions. Jo never expected to be placed in her absent grandmother's will, let alone be left her house, her land, and a letter with mysterious demands. Upon arriving at the inherited property, things are even...
16. I Dagens Läge
Author:
Publisher:
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
Swedish
Description:
Och så har det ju varit midsommar även detta år. Glad midsommar! säger då alla människor till alla människor innan. Det sa man till mig också. Och nu ska jag då berätta hur denna midsommar slutligen blev … I dagens läge är en kåserisamling som blandar humor och allvar av författaren Barbro Alving, även känd under pseudonymen Bang och som Käringen mot strömmen.
17. Old wounds
Author:
Publisher:
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date:
[2024]
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 740L
Language:
English
Description:
Two transgender teens end up in a small, isolated town, where they must escape the locals who plan to sacrifice one of them to an ancient monster that only eats girls. A pulse-pounding thriller perfect for fans of Midsommar and Hell Followed with Us! Erin and Max are two transgender teens trying to get to California. Max is desperate to finally transition, and Erin is longing to understand why she's on this trip to begin with. The last she spoke to...
Author:
Pub. Date:
2025
Language:
English
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Deep within the backroads of the Pacific Northwest, an entire town fell victim to the brutal cleaver of the Butcher of La Perdita. But that was more than a hundred years ago, and in that time the generational nightmare of murder and meat has been reduced to morbid clickbait folklore for bored travelers to share online. And yet some say the Butcher still haunts the streets at night, seeking fresh meat for his larder. A true Lovecraftian horror? Or...
Author:
Publisher:
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
Swedish
Description:
Varför klämtar kyrkklockorna endast vid begravning? Är det verkligen så, att döden är livets högtid? Detta är ett barns betraktelser av de olika högtider som firas i Sverige. Allt från advent, till pingst och midsommar beskrivs med ett barns stora ögon. Förberedelserna inför julen, med mat och pynt. Festerna vid skördetider, så ljuva och mustiga.
20. Dalahästkriget
Author:
Publisher:
SAGA Egmont
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
Swedish
Description:
Ännu en spännande och roligt bok om Familjen Berg och deras äventyr genom Sverige! När Moras alla dalahästar plötsligt försvinner är katastrofen ett faktum. Är det de skurkaktiga tvillingarna Erik och Erika som varit i farten igen? När familjen Berg kommer till farbror Torbjörn och hans strutsfarm för att fira midsommar får de nys om stölderna. Tillsammans med geten Stig tar de upp jakten på de lömska dalahäst-tjuvarna.