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Thirty-four years ago, on October 31, poor Hannah Talbott took part in a scavenger hunt gone violently wrong. The mean girls made sure of it. To this day, for a haunted local mother, the most unsettling Halloween costume of all is an urban legend they call Hannah-Beast. It’s a reminder of the past she can’t forget. Especially tonight when it’s come back, so close to home.

The Beast with Five Fingers is a masterwork of early 20th-century supernatural horror, where intellect, skepticism, and rational explanation steadily erode under the pressure of something that should not exist. Set within shadowed libraries, lonely houses, and candlelit rooms, the story follows a man of science confronted by an entity that moves with purpose, memory, and malice—yet defies every known law of nature.

Morgan Steele came to the snowy Berkshires with her two best friends for a stay at the Namaste Center, a luxury wellness retreat for elite women, to get away from her cheating ex, Noah Barron. But one week later, her friends are dead, and she's on the run from a gang of patriarchal killers called Sanctum Victus. Because the Namaste Center was no wellness retreat . . .

When an ancient spiral curse begins to unravel the city from the inside out, Anna Hartwell becomes its reluctant key to survival. Marked by a mysterious symbol and haunted by secrets buried beneath the streets, Anna must navigate a collapsing world where trust is fragile, alliances fracture, and every step could be her last. As shadowy enemies close in and the cost of survival grows higher, Anna must unite the broken, confront the past, and fight for the soul of the city—and for the people she refuses to lose.

A woman wakes up in a dark room with no recollection of how she got there, let alone her own name or where she lives. She has no idea who she is, but everyone else seems to know her as Gabi. A series of unknown numbers run through her head, and her dreams are plagued by a faceless man.

Adelaide has lived a long, solitary existence in the Blue Ridge Mountains. On the verge of ending it all, she discovers two feral children raiding her garden and rescues them in a misguided attempt at a new life. Now she must find a way to care for children who are more beast than human. They only communicate with chirps and grunts, and they pine for their feral mother. When dangerous men and a wild woman emerge from the darkness in pursuit, Adelaide faces a grueling choice.

Avec la parution de la trilogie de La Bête, David Goudreault a ébranlé le paysage littéraire québécois. Repoussant les limites de l'humour grinçant, il a offert un regard à la fois dur et tendre sur les oubliés de la résilience, grâce à un protagoniste qui, en dépit de sa violence, est touchant de naïveté.

"Ma mère se suicidait souvent. Elle a commencé toute jeune, en amatrice. Très vite, maman a su obtenir la reconnaissance des psychiatres et les égards réservés aux grands malades. Pendant que je collectionnais des cartes de hockey, elle accumulait les diagnostics."

"À la fin de ce récit, je vais me tuer. Et puis mourir. C'est ainsi. Toute bonne chose a une fin, mais moi aussi."