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Did his book raise the dead? Outraged when The Post Gazette overlooks him for a promotion, thirty-nine year old sports writer, Christian Kane quits and moves to the country to write fiction. Inspiration flows from a grave he stumbles upon in the woods. He compiles The Legend of Rachel Petersen, a fascinating story revolving around the dead twelve year old girl lying beneath the weathered tombstone. His book becomes a Best Seller; then Hollywood makes...
1642) A Ghost's Story
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Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, séances and spiritualist meetings grew in popularity. One "ghost" appeared more than any other: the Katie King spirit.
Blending historical fact and fiction, A Ghost's Story presents the mysterious spirit writings and biographical outpourings of Katie King, this famous and enigmatic spirit celebrity. A profound and curious consciousness guided into this realm by the faith of true believers, or the...
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Stories From Another Place is a collection of tales of the supernatural, about ordinary people, who find themselves in unusual circumstances or are, confronted by the unexplained.
When David and Claire decided to stay in a delightful cottage by the sea to work on their music they didn't expect the horror that lay ahead.
Sam didn't know the nightmare she had entered when she stole the name of a dead man while she walked in a cemetery.
And, Ella could...
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Some secrets insist on coming to light…
Moving is never easy, especially during a pandemic. But the Weizak family plans to make the best of their transition to Camelot Crossing in the sleepy college town of Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Sure, their quirky new Tudor home is enormous and strangely designed, more like a curious castle than a cozy shelter. But it shouldn't be that hard to settle in and feel safe.
If only the long vacant house…and its creepy...
1645) The Water Ghost
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A fantastic collection of eight spooky tales by American author, editor and satirist John Kendrick Bangs. Bangs was famous as the originator of so-called 'Bangsian fantasy', which follows famous historical figures' interactions in the afterlife. Contains the stories: • The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall • The Spectre Cook of Bangletop • The Speck on the Lens • A Midnight Visitor • A Quicksilver Cassandra • The Ghost Club • A Physical Prank...
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Cherry's heart crammed into her throat. She was alone with Mr. Pliers. He resembled a grotesque ill-fitting door carved into the shape of a black-suited golem. The top of his head brushed the ceiling. Suddenly the bedroom didn't seem anywhere near big enough. 'It's the view, isn't it?' He chuckled then, a sound which made the ends of Cherry's bones grind together. Phlegm and rust and sparks: these are the things she thought of when she heard that...
1647) Mister Picket Blackmaw
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People are disappearing in the small community of Picton.
It's not big news in the city where Freya lives, but when she stumbles across the story in her local newspaper, whispers from her guilt-ridden childhood call her back to the life she thought she'd escaped decades ago. Answering the summons of her own murky history, Freya journeys home to reunite with her long-lost best friend and her one remaining family member at the farm she once ran away...
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We're going to the magic symposium. It's time for me to be introduced to the magic community but end up being wrongfully accused. I was looking forward to a well-deserved break, but the fun is over when a famous healer is murdered. The Elders lock down the estate to prevent anyone from leaving, and the killer is making sure the evidence points at me. Grandma still visits me in my dreams, but now I'm seeing a new specter. I think he's trying to help,...
1649) Rhos Meadow
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The quiet sleepy village of Rhos Meadow has been earmarked for a much-disputed wind farm and hydraulic fracturing drilling operation. Soon after work begins, inexplicable and unnatural deaths befall the residents, with those who survive infected by a malignant disease. A girl goes missing when she is drawn to Rhos Meadow by a young spirit's harrowing prophecy that the entire nation is in danger should those infected flee their sanctuary and spread...
1650) Devourers Tales
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We live in a world where every choice, action, and vice has consequences. How those consequences manifest in our lives to punish us, though, is different for every person. The thing is, sometimes, those choices and actions are not always meant to be negative, but can still lead to horrifying results. Curiosity can lead to many things that will change your life; for better or for worse. Come join me in the third installment of the Tales series, and...
1651) A Ghostly Intervention
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Santiago sets out at his ranch in Phoenix, Arizona every Halloween and waits for an appearance from his friend, the legendary ghost man Greybeard.It's been six long years for Retired US Deputy Marshall Santiago Ramos since he lost his best friend Jimmy "Douglas" Greyson, better known as the son to the legendary Greybeard the Ghost of 489. He died in much the same way his father had, left on the side of a lonely highway late at night.This Halloween...
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WELCOME TO LOOMIS FALLS… Todd Flanagan is living the dream. Once a nerdy outcast obsessed with the paranormal, Todd has shaken off his past and become a high school football star with growing popularity. But that dream becomes a nightmare. When Todd's old friends mysteriously vanish one by one after investigating the creepy old abandoned Holland House, Todd must make a choice: sit and do nothing or save the friends he turned his back on. And Todd...
1653) In for a Penny
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This mesmerising collection from World Fantasy Award-winner James P. Blaylock offers seven brilliant excursions into one of the most idiosyncratic imaginations of our time. Highlighted by the acclaimed novella, "The Trismegistus Club" - a brilliant riff on the antiquarian ghost story - In for a Penny goes from strength to strength, taking us deep into the heart of a quirky, deeply engaging fictional world that no one but Blaylock could have created....
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Romance...Mystery...Adventure...Renaissance Man and Adventurer Chase Baker rarely visits home in upstate NY. But when his late dad's resting place is about to be interred to make way for a new road, he volunteers to operate the backhoe. It's the least he can do for a father who was always there to help Chase, the young man. But what he doesn't expect is a job offer by the local Albany Police Department to look into a missing elderly couple. Maybe...
1655) Whispers of Eldridge
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"Whispers of Eldridge" is a captivating and thought-provoking novel that takes readers on a journey into the heart of a small town where secrets and shadows intertwine. With its richly woven tapestry of mystery, intrigue, and the power of redemption, this book invites readers to explore the depths of human nature and the complexities of the human experience. Set in the quiet town of Eldridge, the story unfolds with an enigmatic event that shatters...
1656) Pruébalo
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El agente Hamill está investigando un informe de vandalismo. Espera llegar a casa a tiempo para el juego más importante del año. Pero estos vándalos excepcionales exigen lo máximo de él. Debe luchar por su vida para demostrar que es digno de la insignia. ¿Podrías manejarlo? ¿Valdría la pena la insignia?
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"What everyone want to see," the crow said, "is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it."
Out in the middle of nowhere in the Great Plains of the United States, it doesn't matter where you are, really, or even what year it is. All that matters is whether you have enough to eat before the winter sets in.
Whether your family loves you or shuns you, and whether or not you have a way to keep from going mad, those things don't matter...
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Beware of Vagabond's Halloween Issuse! Within this spine-tingling collection, darkness stirs and secrets awaken in tales crafted by today's masters of mystery and the macabre. Descend into cursed and haunted realms where the veil between the living and the dead grows thin. Remote villages hold ancient rituals that call to sinister forces, forgotten mansions harbor cursed objects with malevolent powers, and those who seek forbidden knowledge often...
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A ghost is a dead person with a job. In life, Charlie Harmer was a disc jockey with a lot of suspicious friends. In death, he makes creepy songs play on the radio and whispers in the ears of the living when they get too close to places they shouldn't be. It's a good gig, or at least it was until the new boss showed up. The new boss used to be a serial killer. The new boss is bad news.Charlie and the boys have been talking. The new guy has got to go....
1660) Ghost Lover Season 1
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Love comes unexpectedly. It knocked on Evelyn's door and left a message, but will she in the midst of the pain she is running away from caused by her past relations will she get it right and fight that mystic man calling from the shadows.
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