Maplecroft, by Cherie Priest

Title: Maplecroft
By: Priest, Cherie
Published: 2014
Call #: Science Fiction Pries.C

An entertaining and deeply creepy novel starring the infamous Lizzie Borden as its heroine.  In this story, she did, in fact, kill her father and stepmother with an ax – but only because they were turning into Lovecraftian monsters.  Now, she lives with her sister and studies in her secret lab, trying to find the cause and cure for the horror overtaking her town, and she keeps that ax close at hand…

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