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"If the dead can wake and walk among us, how can we know what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth-strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries-is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection. Soon, Roos is whisked away to the crumbling estate Agnes inherited upon the death of her husband, where an ill woman...
2) The Hollows
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London 1860
Midnight Gunn is no ordinary detective- born during a solar eclipse as Halley's Comet blazed a trail through the sky- his supernatural birthright is both a help and a hindrance when solving crimes.
Detective Inspector Arthur Gredge, of Scotland Yard, is the only one who knows Gunn's secret.
When the body of a young aristocrat is discovered in a backstreet alley, Gredge enlists Gunn's help in a race to discover the identity of the notorious...
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What happens when writers vacation together... And challenge each other to write ghost stories? On a stormy night in 1816, the writers Mary Shelley, John William Polidori, and Lord Byron undertook a challenge that would change history and create the gothic genre. The result is three chilling tales of monsters, vampires, and murder. Lord Byron's A Fragment is of historical importance as it is one of the very first vampire stories. Does it stand the...
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The Phantom of the Opera is Gaston Leroux's masterpiece of horror and romance. Written in serial form from 1909-1910 for Le Gaulois, it was released as a novel in 1910 and translated into English the following year. An immediate publishing sensation, the book was quickly adapted for the stage and screen, most famously for the 1925 silent film starring Lon Cheney and then in 1986 by Andrew Lloyd Weber, which became the longest running musical in Broadway...
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An immigrant, Fredrick Wolf has to succeed at Morrow Academy of Anatomy and Science. Not only succeed, he has to prove to his peers that he belongs, that he isn't a poor local Dr. Morrow accepted out of pity.Fredrick is willing to do anything to procure a prime specimen for their special assignment. Calling upon his uncle, his partner in crime since their move to England, Fredrick plans to use his uncle's position at the local gaol to select the perfect...
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Ranging from macabre fantasies to fairy tales and tales of crime, these stories from the author of The Nutcracker create a rich fictional world. Hoffman paints a complex vision of humanity, where people struggle to establish identities in a hostile, absurd world.
"The editors have made an excellent selection, and the result is a book of great distinction."-Denis Donoghue, New York Review of Books
"The translators have proved fully equal to all...
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Las cosas más bellas pueden ser las más horripilantes
1878. Harriet acaba de llegar a Finton Hall para trabajar como criada. Mientras la bella Clara Gethin languidece, su marido, un popular diputado, se encuentra en Londres. El humor errático y cambiante de la señora, así como el extraño comportamiento que tiene hacia su bebé, inquieta a Harriet, pero la fascinación y la devoción que siente por su señora la llevan a justificar cualquier...
9) Unmasked
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Some curses exist in secret, but some cannot be hidden from view. For a woman like Paulette, one glance in the mirror will remind her how monstrous she will always appear to others. But when she stumbles into the netherworld of the notorious Paris Opera House and encounters a sinister man even more deformed than she, she learns that things are not always as they seem. Of all the men she's come across, only he has been able-or willing-to see her for...
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Beneath the brooding skies of the English countryside, Wraithbourne Manor stands as a monument to mysteries long buried and secrets that refuse to remain silent. Eleanor "Nora" Wraithbourne, inheriting this decrepit estate, is thrust into a realm where the whispers of the past bleed into the reality of the present. Armed with a skeptic's mind and a heart veiled in pragmatism, Nora is forced to confront the unimaginable as the manor reveals its spectral...
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Sometimes scary, sometimes uplifting, sometimes funny, but never dull. From angels to demons, Halloween to Christmas, from endings to new beginnings, every story gives the reader something different than the last. Award Winning Author Daniel Bautz delivers a sketchbook of twenty-two stories and illustrations that refuse to be denied. Some come from nightmares, others from an epiphany, others from parts unknown. Each stands on its own, the only common...
12) The Boatman
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Three women. Three stories. One pub where it all begins.
For Quinn, Ella, and Rona, The Boatman is the perfect place for respite. It's the oldest pub in town and has been offering solace and comfort to those in peril for centuries.
Quinn is hiding from her past when she meets the captivating Murray.
Ella is running from her nightmares and the tragedy they predict.
And Rona is on the cusp of a spinetingling new ability.
But there are strange murmurs...
13) Renaissance
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« Original, osé, diablement sombre et captivant. Addison Cain a un esprit tordu qui fait naître en moi une stupeur mêlée d'admiration. Ne manquez pas cette série! » Alta Hensley, auteure de best-sellers de USA TodayShepherd doit convaincre sa précieuse Claire de lui rendre son amour...Et ce avant que son désir ne le rende fou. Que sa partenaire soit en sécurité dans son nid ne suffit pas. La voir lentement succomber à ses instincts ne...
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« Beau et dévastateur, sensuel mais poétique, 'Née pour être brisée' d'Addison Cain est le parfait exemple de sa maîtrise du genre. » Jane Henry, auteure de best-sellers de USA TodayDésespérément amoureux...Shepherd a pris Claire contre son gré. Il a marqué l'Oméga malgré elle et lié leurs âmes pour l'éternité. Il a conquis sa ville et brisé son peuple.
Mais il n'avait ni anticipé tomber amoureux ni imaginé que sa merveilleuse...
15) Shifting Shadow
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He woke up to the sound of the clock, ticking.He woke up every night at the same time. He wants to wake up from this horror.---I wrote this story 8 years ago right before I found out I had testicular cancer. I was drinking green tea every day with loads of honey. Trying for the first time to write a number of words consistently every day, and back then that was really difficult.I'm publishing it to start publishing things. Read a bit and see if it's...
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She's moved into a new house, trying to get over a breakup. The house is old. It smells old. Someone keeps walking back and forth, up and down the hallway. Sometimes they knock on her door. They won't go away, no matter how many times she asks them to leave. This someone looks familiar. In fact, this someone may know something about her past, something she doesn't want anyone to know, something she doesn't want to face.
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Following the sudden death of her father in the street, a blind toddler crawls through a shop front trapdoor and is lost in the labyrinth of tunnels and passages beneath London.Twelve years later, after reports of a wild 'cat girl' prowling the night-time alleyways, a feral teenager is captured in the churchyard of St Giles-in-the-Fields. Seemingly grown up in isolation without family or social contact, she is placed into care but the mysterious girl's...
18) Blackwater Hall
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"Blackwater Hall" weaves a gripping tale of mystery, ancestral curses, and the quest for redemption. In the shadowed corridors of Blackwater Hall, Mia Blackwater discovers her family's dark legacy and the curse that has plagued them for generations. Alongside Thomas Reed, a knowledgeable historian, she delves into ancient rituals and confronts ghostly apparitions to uncover the truth. As supernatural forces gather, Mia must brave her fears and the...
19) Echoes in Stone
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In the tradition of Jane Eyre, a dark Victorian gothic romance...A letter from the grave…Lily is dead. But a mysterious letter launches her half-sister, Jessa Palmer, on a harrowing journey into the wilds of Cornwall to rescue Lily's daughter from a tyrant of a father, a man who confessed to murder. Jessa follows in Lily's footsteps to a forbidding castle on the cliffs, but discovers the past will not stay dead at Tremayne Hall. Someone-or something-wants...
20) Prisonnière
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« Laissez-vous posséder par cette série magistrale et captivante ! » - Myra Danvers, auteure de best-sellers USA TodayL'Alpha pilier caresse ma joue et me sourit en me promettant tout ce que je désire. Il affirme que je n'ai pas le choix. Mais je n'ai pas voulu de ça. Jamais je n'ai accepté que ce soit pour toujours ! Puissant et riche, Caspian tient ma ville par la gorge. Nul homme, nulle femme, ne s'est jamais opposé à lui, jusqu'à aujourd'hui....
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