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Born in November 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, Abraham Stoker was the third of seven children. Bed ridden with health issues until aged 7 he made a complete recovery on being sent to school. He was an excellent student excelling in math and with a keen interest in Theatre. He began his career as a theatre critic and after a favorable review was invited to meet the most important actor of the day, Henry Irving. They became great friends. After marriage...
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Eldritch lovers, gothic grotesques and a homicidal jester are among the characters issued from the imagination of one of the great American tale-spinners of the nineteenth-century. Horror, humor and mystery intertwine in this collection of ten of Edgar Allan Poe's more, esoteric short stories.
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"Ligeia" was originally, published in the September 18, 1838 issue of American Museum. The poem "The Conqueror Worm," first published in Graham's...
903) The Vampire Will
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Will Foley is having the worst day of his life.It was supposed to be an ordinary road trip. See a few Indiana sights, do a couple of live interviews for his podcast, meet some interesting people, come home to his wife Helen and podcast partner Iain with stories to tell.Instead, he's found himself the victim of a psychotic vampire, embroiled in a 400-year-old curse, forced to trust a strange woman he just met, and thrust into a life-and-death struggle...
904) Halloween Screams
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Step through time and take a peek at frightening Halloween encounters in medieval Germany, rural England and modern-day Mississippi. There's something for everyone in this witch's brew of ghost stories and monster encounters.. Goblins, curses, and things that go bump in the night! Yes, it's time for Halloween!
Light the jack-o-lantern, pour a mug of hot chocolate, and prepare to be scared. Enjoy M.L. Bullock's Halloween Screams, a Halloween short...
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Born in November 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, Abraham Stoker was the third of seven children. Bed ridden with health issues until aged 7 he made a complete recovery on being sent to school. He was an excellent student excelling in math and with a keen interest in Theatre. He began his career as a theatre critic and after a favorable review was invited to meet the most important actor of the day, Henry Irving. They became great friends. After marriage...
906) Winter's Children
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Grieving widow, Kay Partridge and her daughter Evie, unable to face the oncoming Christmas festivities, move into a cottage at majestic Wintergill Farm in the Yorkshire Dales to escape.
But Wintergill is far from the quiet refuge they had hoped for. The owners are facing a bleak future, but despite the struggle Nik Snowden wants to keep the house and lands that have been in his family for generations.
Yet, Nik is not the only one attached to the...
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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.
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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....
909) 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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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.
911) Blind Faith
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Dr Death the coroner and grim reaper king his with and son a serial killer are superheros they trying to find another serial killer in a hospital where the Doctor and his wife work. Their son plays bait for the killer who kills magician. Will they catch the killer or will Dr Death have to take his son to the afterlife.
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Unthinkable: A Queer Gothic Anthology collects eighteen original Gothic tales primed to unsettle and entertain.
From a Southern Gothic tale of destruction and revenge, to haunted houses and cursed lovers, to an eco-Gothic saga, Unthinkable's tales present undying themes of love and tragedy, life and death, all suffused with queerness.
Following on from the success of its predecessor Unspeakable: A Queer Gothic Anthology, Unthinkable features stories...
913) Veil of Shadows
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Newly married, Adelaide Llewellyn, is struggling to find her place in her distant husband's life and in his ancestral home of Cysgod Lys. Surrounded by bitter enemies, lies and the dark secrets that have haunted his family for generations, there is much to be feared. But the danger she faces is as much from the living as the dead. There are dark and unnatural things lurking within the walls of Cysgod Lys and on the moor that flanks it. They've made...
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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...
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The dead and the monstrous will not leave Kyle Murchison Booth alone, for an unwilling foray into necromancy has made him sensitive to-and attractive to -the creatures who roam the darkness of his once-safe world. Ghosts, ghouls, incubi: all have one thing in common. They know Booth for one of their own. These ten stories draw Booth from the safety of his work as a museum archivist into the darkness both of the supernatural and of the human pysche,...
916) 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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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...
918) Lie Down in Darkness
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William Styron's stunning debut: a classic portrait of one Southern family's tragic spiral into destruction. First published to wide critical acclaim in 1951, Lie Down in Darkness centers on the Loftis family - Milton and Helen and their daughters, Peyton and Maudie. The story, told through a series of flashbacks on the day of Peyton's funeral, is a powerful depiction of a family doomed by its failure to forget and its inability to love. Written in...
919) The Devil's Mercy
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Embark on a forbidden romance amidst a battle between Heaven and Hell. Mercy, the Devil's daughter, kidnapped by fallen Angels led by Remi. Dark romance and fantasy intertwine as she challenges their beliefs, blurring lines between good and evil. Will redemption prevail or are they trapped?
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A short from Louise Doughty to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.
A young woman turns off her phone and books herself into a deserted seaside hotel. In a state of shock, she starts small conversations with the staff and begins to unfurl, until someone turns up to claim her.
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