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It was a strange day when Blake Alexander found out about this odd case everyone at his hospital wanted to decorate the hospital for Christmas drunk on the Christmas cheer.But that was nothing the reapers were trying to get the after life business in line with fate's decree that they celebrate Christmas with reapers collecting people as Santa clauses which Blake was totally against. To him it was an anathema. He felt like scrooge It was getting so...
883) Solstice
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England, 1673. Still a world of witches, witch trials and witchfinders. When a new vicar arrives to take over the parish of Mutton Clog, the village finds itself in the grip of puritan fever, and suspicious eyes are turned on Rose Driver.Rose's mother, brother and grandmother were all put to death by the fanatical witchfinder, John Sharpe.Almost quarter of a century after the Newcastle witch trials, Sharpe is no longer a threat. Rose should be safe...
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A ghost ship is wrecked in Whitby's harbour and the only clue to the whereabouts of the missing crew is in these clippings from the captain's log. Delve into the last voyage of Demeter in this harrowing chapter from Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The Last Voyage of Demeter is an extract from the most terrifying vampire fiction in literary history. First published as Chapter 7 of Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897), this volume explores the final sea voyage of...
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There are two things that can last into eternity. 13 Forevers: Stories and Reflections on Death and Love is a collection of short works (mostly stories) which dives deep into dual themes, both in all of their emotional complexity.
* Meet a cannibal who's starved for affection in "Consumption."
* Experience a mystical connection forged through our memorial rituals in "Flowers at Funerals."
* Discover how mind-blowing sex can lead to murder in "The...
886) Apocalypse Atheneum
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A library of Scares, This is a collection of stories by Serena Mossgraves that she put together. Though Most have been published before, this is the first time she has gathered them all together in one book.
887) Malediction
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Malediction provides a look at the dark side of the westward trail and tactically mixes the genres of western and paranormal thriller.
Set in the 1800s, South and Jonah have been members of Titus Dupont's gang for over four years. After having reservations about their line of work, South meets a preacher who convinces him to join his congregation's wagon train as they attempt to start a church on the west coast. Jonah and South use the wagon train...
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Miss Elsie Stanhope resided in Nottinghamshire, an area so rich in titled gentlemen, so felicitous for marriage-minded mamas, it was called "the Dukeries." Indeed, Elsie had been betrothed since childhood to the heir of a dukedom. She had no expectation it would be a love match. Still less that she would enter into a shockingly scandalous affair with an altogether different sort of lover. And the very last thing she imagined was that the mysteries...
889) Ville de la Mort
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Le vagabond vit dans une ville avec quelques habitants étrangement à long terme, o le taux de mortalité est anormalement élevé... Mais lui et son type ne peuvent pas continuer éternellement avec leur plan d'extension de vie intéressant pour toujours. Peuvent-ils? Environ mots 5000.
890) I Am Heathcliff
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16 modern fiction superstars shine a startling light on the romance and pain of the infamous literary pair Heathcliff and Cathy. Short stories to stir the heart and awaken vital conversation about love. Sixteen stories inspired by Wuthering Heights. In 'Terminus' a young woman hides in an empty Brighton hotel; in 'Thicker Than Blood' a man sits in a hot tub stalking his newly-married love on social media; and in 'A bird half-eaten' an amateur boxer...
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The End is Never Truly the End. But a Doorway to New Beginnings… In the title story, "What We Talk About When We Talk About the Apocalypse," two contrasting couples confront issues of love, loyalty, and economic hardship in an isolated snowbound cabin in the woods. In "Angel Man," a woman's chance encounter with a real-life angel offers a surreal romance that challenges her perceptions of love and healing.In "Inheritance," a woman confronts the...
892) John Eyre
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"A mesmerizing story." -Library Journal
One of BookBub's Best Books Arriving in 2021
One of Book Riot's Best Recent Vampire Reads
One of Barnes & Noble's Favorite Indie Books of 2021
From USA Today bestselling author Mimi Matthews comes a supernatural Victorian gothic retelling of Charlotte Brontë's timeless classic.
Yorkshire, 1843. When disgraced former schoolmaster John Eyre arrives at Thornfield Hall to take up a position as tutor to two peculiar...
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Master of the Gothic and creator of the detective genre, Edgar Allan Poe is one of the most famous writers in all of American literature. Here is a carefully selected collection of his finest works, including such classics as The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado and many more.
894) The Dead Travel Fast
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A husband, a family, a comfortable life: Theodora Lestrange wants nothing to do with it all.
With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh-and a disappointed suitor-far behind. She is bound for Rumania, where tales of vampires are still whispered, to visit an old friend and write the book that will bring her true independence.
She arrives at a magnificent, decaying castle in the Carpathians,...
895) Spindle and Shears
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Fear is as Intimate as DesireRael Sylverstone is rich, charismatic, and an obscenely talented tailor.His traffic-stopping smile is lethal.When a monster stalks him and leaves mysterious messages, he fears his secret will be revealed.Just when he believes his life couldn't get any worse, the overseer of Fashion Street threatens his citizenship and business.He's blackmailed into winning the sewing competition for the royals of Aequitas, or he'll lose...
896) Ghostlight
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Light series (Marion Zimmer Bradley) volume 1
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Thorne Blackburn claimed to have magickal powers, to be able to tap into ancient wisdom. Others claimed he was a fake, cheating his many followers out of their money and destroying their free well.
The truth may never be known ... one dark, climactic night thirty years ago, Blackburn's most powerful ritual went horribly awry, leaving his flock shattered and one woman dead. Blackburn himself vanished.
Now the scattered remains of Blackburn's followers...
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Con un trasfondo de magia y subversión en mundos como el nuestro emerge una fascinante, retorcida y completamente cautivadora colección de diez relatos.
Un vampiro milenario desesperado por encontrar la forma de alimentarse de los humanos que han cambiado su carne por cuerpos robóticos. Una niña que puede ver la encarnación de la propia Muerte. Un hombre solitario y antisocial que tiene sueños proféticos sobre una inundación apocalíptica....
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The Gothic emo Prince of Darkness called Mr Average has grown up and took up the family business as a stage Illusionistwhen his wife, his assistant in his act dies of a trick going wrong after he predicted it he has the eyes of the press and law on him.Will he go to prison as a murderer or will he go free.
899) Tidepool
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If ye give not willingly, the Lords will rise...
In 1913, Henry Hamilton disappeared while on a business trip, and his sister, Sorrow, won't rest until she finds out what happened to him. Defying her father's orders to remain at home, she travels to Tidepool, the last place Henry is known to have visited. Residents of the small, shabby oceanside town can't quite meet Sorrow's eyes when she asks about her brother.
When corpses wash up on shore looking...
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A dark mafia trilogy by USA Today Bestselling Author Nikita Slater. Shaun's life changes in an instant when she's kidnapped from a hospital where she works as a surgeon with Doctors Without Borders. She's faced with two choices; save the mafia informant or die. She finds herself in a dangerous situation where the only man she can trust is the vicious enforcer to a crime family. Jozef Koba.From the operating room to an opulent glittering ballroom and...
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