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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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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...
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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...
5) 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...
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"A concoction of archaeology unearthing an ungodly secret is always a winner." Reedsy Reviewer A Tenacious Egyptologist. An Ancient Secret. A Vampire on a Mission... When Egyptologist Samuel 'Anubis' Clayton inherits a gold talisman with unusual markings, he's driven to uncover its secrets. Where did it come from? What do they mean? And why when receiving it did a flood of forgotten memories return? Just who is the ethereal red-headed beauty who keeps...
7) Black Amber
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A Manhattan editor investigates her sister's suspicious death in Istanbul. Tracy Hubbard, an up-and-comer at a prestigious New York City publisher, has arrived at a sprawling villa on the Bosporus strait in Istanbul for an enviable arrangement. She's come to assist celebrated artist Miles Radburn with his new book on the history of Turkish art. Everything Tracy has heard about the man turns out to be true: He's brooding, handsome, brilliant, short-tempered,...
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Alessandro Smith a été élevé dans une famille o la torture et le meurtre étaient des passe-temps privilégiés, et son enfance a été marquée par des enlèvements et des abus. Cette éducation volatile a façonné Alessandro en un individu froid et rancunier qui nourrissait une profonde animosité envers l'humanité.En dehors de tourmenter ses ennemis, Alessandro entretenait un passe-temps moins sinistre : la peinture. Ses œuvres d'art stupéfiaient...
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In this Regency-era romance, a noblewoman in trouble hides in the secluded home of a widowed baron, bringing love into his lonely life.
Heiress Amelia Eastway is running for her life. Convinced she has committed a terrible crime, she seeks shelter in an overgrown country estate, only to discover the owner-a reclusive baron-does not take kindly to trespassers . . .
After losing his wife and son, Sir Edward Gray has shut himself away from the...
10) Cauchemar
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Gripping, fast-paced, gorgeously written, and with unforgettable characters, Cauchemar tells the story of twenty-year-old Hannah, who finds herself living alone on the edge of a Louisianan swamp after her adopted mother and protector dies. Hannah falls in love with Callum, an easy-going boat captain and part-time musician, but after her mysterious birth mother, outcast as a witch and rumored to commune with the dead, comes back into Hannah's life,...
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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...
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Three dark and mesmerizing novels from an award-winning writer. In Lesley Glaister's world, the domestic and the bizarre walk hand-in-hand. Limestone and Clay: Nadia is a sculptor driven by a single obsession: to conceive a child. When she learns that her geographer husband has donated his sperm to his former lover, who is now pregnant with his child, it is the ultimate betrayal-and warrants the ultimate payback. Digging to Australia: Twelve-year-old...
13) Vermilion
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A New York designer is reunited with her estranged family in Arizona after her father's murder. Manhattan fashion designer Lindsay Phillips isn't surprised to hear her estranged father was beaten to death in a Las Vegas hotel room. A sordid end to a sordid life. What she knew about the reckless and philandering low-life wasn't pretty-least of all the way he treated her dying mother. But what does surprise Lindsay is the anonymous letter she receives...
14) 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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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...
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A carnivorous plant shop. A golden locket. An enchanting new neighbor. Jonas Decker adores his new neighbor. She's sweet, beautiful and… a little odd. Her shop is filled with exotic and dangerous plants, but that doesn't bother him.Nothing about Sally could ever bother Jonas. She's perfect. Even if she is a little secretive about her past.But when people start disappearing, Jonas worries that something sinister may have followed Sally to the neighborhood.A...
17) Body & Soul
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Though mountain search-and-rescue worker Jesse Copeland is used to risking herself to save others, she must tap into all her reserves of bravery to solve the most haunting mystery of her life: her mother's puzzling death. Little does Jesse know her investigation will make her the target of two men: a present-day threat and a centuries-old hero ...
Two hundred years ago, David Ventris, or Lord Ashthorpe, knew Jesse as a woman he had passionately...
18) Mr. Wicker
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In the heart of a Dallas summer, a menacing figure descends onto the concourse of the Mellows Subway Station, dragging a veil of darkness behind him. Escaping beyond the veil proves deadly: a woman loses her life upon crossing, while another loses a hand. The station is sealed off from the world-a private prison made of shadow and concrete. And there, shrouded by the gloom, the malevolent Mr. Wicker lurks, a spectral sentry whom none shall pass. No...
19) Sea of Secrets
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Can her love save him from the darkness in his soul--or will it destroy them both?After her beloved brother is killed in the Crimean War, innocent young Oriel Pembroke is disowned by her cruel father and takes refuge with a glamorous relative: the former Duchess of Ellsworth, who has scandalized society by remarrying soon after her first husband's death. At the opulent seaside estate of Ellsmere, Oriel thinks she has found a safe haven--but the darkly...
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A zombie. A vampire. A witch. Nora Travers is none of these things.But the former mean girl has to hide behind costumes if she wants to scare the pants off Brendan, the horror geek with the power to make or break her haunted house. Because Brendan is the nerd Nora used to torment in middle school. But now he's all grown up and so scary hot, even her zombie heart starts beating.And he's looking a bit too long at her bloody fishnet stockings.Nora has...
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