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This collection of ten tales of horror involves monsters, mayhem, and murder: everything from war to everyday homicide, to otherworldly terrors from hell dimensions. The horror may be internal or external, in your heart or in your cellar. Here are people making bad choices, and people reacting to terrible situations. These are stories to make you think, tremble, and shiver with fright-- and lock your doors at night-- even though it may not do any...
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Finding your place in the world is challenging enough, but how about the entire universe? John would rather enjoy a cold beer and watch a sports game than answer such difficult questions. However, an outburst of melancholy from his best friend and the appearance of a headless cowboy may call for a sudden change in plans. From alien encounters to otherworldly excursions, Witching Hour is a series of stories about the weirdness lurking just beneath...
5423) Celeste
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Adoration has a high price Celeste is ancient, beautiful, and deadly. Aided by her servant, Clive, she has lived for over 200 years, drawing her life force from the adoration of others – first in her native country of America and, when forced to flee her home there, in London. Now she has a new target for her affections in Sam. And when she invades his dreams and his life in order to seduce him and feed on his desires, she doesn't reckon on the...
5426) Elemental Stalking
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Welcome to Freyshire! The quiet little town where one might appreciate historic Tudor-style homes, mysterious cobblestone streets...and the occasional creature. In fact, Freyshire had been home to creatures living undetected among their human neighbors since the beginning of time. Including me. And, actually, my life was extraordinarily average.
Except that I was half-vampire.
It wasn't a big deal. I was basically like any other 19-year-old...
5427) Fae's Anatomy
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Ill-met by moonlight!
Titania Silveroak: Con artist. Runaway bride. Fae princess.
Jonathan Weaver: Doctor. Humorless SOB. Vampire.
Titania flees her controlling bridegroom, Oberon Blackthorne, without a plan. Arriving at Empire General Hospital, she resolves to work one escape-sustaining con-stealing Dr. Jonathan Weaver's wallet.
Oberon, hot in pursuit, immediately ups the ante, kidnapping Jonathan's estranged daughter to force Titania to capitulate.
Titania...
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A paranormal women's fiction cozy mystery – because midlife can be a real witch! There are a lot of things people never told you about being forty-something. Sure, they mentioned the hot flashes and reading glasses and the need for Kegels, but they never talked about fireballs sprouting from your fingertips or your sudden ability to turn rat-bastards into, well, actual rats.Which is why it comes as something of a surprise to Juniper when-at the...
5430) Là-bas (Down There)
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"Là-Bas" is an 1891 novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. The story concerns Durtal, a man disgusted by the shallowness and decadence of the world within which he lives. Turning to the study of the Middle Ages as a form of escapism, he learns of the notorious 15th-century child-murderer Gilles de Rais. Through this research, he discovers that Satanism is not something lost and forgotten to the annuls of time, but instead alive and thriving...
5431) Primordial
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Towering black obelisks have appeared in five different locations around the Mediterranean, standing like gods over the land. The man who has commissioned their construction claims they are nothing more than tributes to their respective countries, but CIA operative Gabrielle "Gabe" Lincoln believes they may be something far more ominous-and if she is right, humanity is about to be plunged into a living nightmare from which there is no escape.
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English psychic Clarissa Wilkinson is holidaying in the Canary Islands. Hoping to have an adventure, she boards a tour bus bound for Villa Winter, a secret Nazi base on the idyllic island of Fuerteventura. Instead, she discovers a body in a chest and finds herself teamed up with hapless crime writer Richard Parry. What unfolds is an edge of seat mystery brimming with intrigue, as they try to unravel the clues together, and find the killer. Setting...
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A series of intertwined supernatural stories that will make you wonder where the darkness ends and the light begins. All small towns keep secrets, but in Coal Ridge when the secret gets out, it begins to feed…again. Story 24: "Gladys and her Dog" Gladys is more than capable of living on her own despite her son's insistence that she move into a retirement community. She and Muffin are safe and happy in their home, and they aren't going anywhere....
5434) Hellion Bear
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A snuggly, cute stuffed bear appears in our baby's crib. I didn't buy it or place it in Ronnie's crib. My husband doesn't recognize the stuffed bear.Can a cute stuffed bear be harboring a sinister spirit? Or is it a series of misfortunes? Or possibly unexplained events?The decision is yours!
5435) Dragon Consultant
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Dane, a supernatural consultant, is hired by the FAA to look into a series of reported dragon attacks on their planes. What Dane finds in the wooded area where the attacks took place is not quite the problem he expected: a group of dragon kits and their sick father hiding from the authorities. When he learns the real reason the family was in the woods, his case grows more dangerous, and though Dane is experienced at both crime solving and watching...
5436) Blood Moon
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Beware the Blood Moon.
Exiled, Thaddeus only wants to return to his beloved Venice.
His body rebels against him, food and sleep linger just out of reach.
The mountains outside Trieste is no place for a sane man to travel, especially in winter.
Strange creatures haunt these lonesome vales and crags, ready to snuff out a man's flame.
What strange powers are being summoned to do evil?
Can the inquisitor keep from strangling his traveling companion...
5437) Have Snakes, Need Birds
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Sergeant John Mackenzie is on his third deployment to Iraq at the height of combat operations. His overriding goal: get his soldiers home safely. That mission is difficult enough when every day is a fight against snipers, roadside bombs, or just plain old boredom-it becomes impossible when John accidentally awakens two ancient spirits, each bent on destroying the other, collateral damage be damned.
A soul-collecting demon named Moonlit Samuel wants...
5438) Abracadabra!
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Ghost detectors volume 16
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Score! Malcolm and Dandy have found a winning bottle cap and are ready to claim their prize. But on the way, Malcolm drops it and it rolls away. Thanks to a nice, old woman, the cap is happily returned-only to vanish into thin air. The boys soon learn that it was taken by the Great Zucchini, a famous magician of long ago. But Zucchini doesn't realize that Malcolm has a few tricks of his own. Calico Chapter Books is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division...
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A widowed woman is befriended by an unkindness of ravens offering unnatural help, a wealthy aristocrat encounters a terrifying presence in the midnight hallways of a manor house, a grieving mother finds a measure of madness by piercing the veil between life and death.Death Takes a Corpse is a collection of five sinister and spooky Victorian tales that will leave you wanting to keep the lights on long after bedtime.Ravens in the Park: Recently widowed...
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An Alien in the Arboretum, a paranormal thriller by Bruce Allsman For the sake of his wife and daughter, Tom Gardner, a phytologist, moves with his family from the countryside to the city. In the city, he works in a shop that sells bonsai trees, and he also maintains the rooftop garden of his apartment building. The shop's owner is Saito-san, an old Japanese man from Okinawa. A few weeks before Saito-san's death, Tom receives a special gift from his...
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