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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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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...
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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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A woman vanishes into thin air and nothing is as it seems in bestselling author Dorothy Eden's novel of romantic suspense and international intrigue set in Sweden A situation has developed . . . I've made a decision . . . There is simply no other way. Wilhelmina. The envelope is postmarked from Stockholm. But it's the signature on the note inside that strikes fear into the heart of novelist Grace Asherton. As teenagers, she and her cousin Willa Bedford...
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Dorothy Eden's masterwork of Gothic romance presents the story of a governess who falls dangerously in love with the mysterious heir to a manor house It's a precarious charade with the highest stakes imaginable. Sarah Mildmay's entire future rests on exposing the current lord of Mallow as the great pretender he is. Blane Mallow, presumed dead after years at sea, has suddenly returned to claim his title-and the magnificent English estate that rightfully...
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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...
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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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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...
10) A Twisted Ladder
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Psychologist Madeleine LeBlanc has spent her whole career trying to determine the cause of her father's schizophrenia. She always felt that she could unravel its origins and cure the man who left her and her brother, Marc, to practically raise themselves on the Louisiana Bayou. But when Marc takes his own life on a fishing boat in the middle of Bayou Black, Madeleine embarks on a journey into her family history---to a time when the antebellum era...
11) 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...
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Josiah Reign is a lover and a fighter, and now he's building his own Mani army to take on Krull for a future battle of epic proportions. Old and new loves reveal themselves as Josiah comes to terms with his destiny.Struggling to keep old friendships alive, Josiah finds himself in an underground, immortal, mixed martial arts fight club fighting for his life and the lives of others.Will Josiah build his army in time? Who did Lena choose? When all is...
13) Dark Craving
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Dangerous is an understatement. Partly because I don't date. Ever. And I never have...Until I meet him. Tall, dark, vampire. And my world spins out of control. For him, I will break all my rules.I know he's hiding something behind those gorgeous, secretive eyes; so how far will I go to ease my craving for him when I'm not sure who I can trust?My strict restraint keeps everyone around me safe. Because I can't get angry. At all. That's when my powers...
14) Vampire Slayers
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When Cat Sanders' vampire great-great-grandfather, Vlad V Draculesti, bequeaths his fortune to her, she thinks the worst of her problems would be dealing with unscrupulous lawyers, greedy financiers and bankers, Wall Street shysters, corrupt politicians, devious conmen, and depraved socialites.Instead, her nemesis, Veronica Seyler, allied with a vampire-slayer drug cult came out of the dark, demanding extortion money or she would be killed. Unlike...
15) Dark Bargains
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Everyone has secrets.I'm the mistress of a rich and powerful man who delights in pain and humiliation. It's a life I chose, and there's no going back from it now. Marcus owns me, body and soul, and I'm his until he uses me up. I used to pray that day would come quickly, until I met his brother, Lucas.Now I just pray that I can have five minutes in the arms of the man who is everything I've ever dreamed of, everything his brother could never be.My...
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Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and the Betty Trask Award:Lesley Glaister's first novel is a twisty Gothic tale of familial terror and steadily mounting suspense In a decaying house in the marshy lowlands of England, four spinster sisters live in self-imposed isolation. For more than sixty years, Milly, Agatha, and the identical twins Ellen and Esther-"Ellenanesther"-have been trapped together, haunted by the specter of their dead father, whose...
17) Savio
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I made the worst mistake of my life.
He hated me before I even walked through the door. Savio Calabresi is a force to be reckoned with when we first meet. The Don of The Calabresi family liked things his way and didn't want anyone to interrupt. Until I came along and shook up his world. Not only did my career cause a problem, but knowing a secret that could hurt him and his family only leaves one thing for him to do. He forced me into an arranged...
18) The Glass Flame
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A man's death in the Smoky Mountains raises the suspicions of his estranged wife in this suspenseful novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. Vietnam veteran David Hallam is in Tennessee working as an arson investigator for an insurance company when he sends his wife, Karen, an unnerving note: "If anything happens to me down here, don't let it pass as an accident . . ." Ten days later, he dies in a fire and the only thing Karen can feel is...
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Desire and soul-searing need fuel this contemporary sexy sequel that relocates the original character from Gaston Leroux's classic novel The Phantom of the Opera to present-day Paris…While attending an auction of music memorabilia, young soprano Christine Delacroix bids on some letters written by another young soprano, Christine Daaé, who lived during the 19th century. Here she meets the handsome Compte Rezso Esterhazy, who immediately sets out...
20) Courting Shadows
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In the winter of 1881, John Stannard, a young architect, is in self-imposed exile in a remote English village, carrying out repairs to the parish church. Arrogant and insensitive to what he considers superstition and sentimental attachment to the past, he soon begins to inflict serious damage on the ancient building as well as on those with whom he comes into contact-most notably the beautiful, ambitious, local girl Ann Rosewell. This is the mesmerizing...
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