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"Deep in the forgotten hills of Massachusetts stands Saint Perpetua's College. Isolated and ancient, it is not a place for timid girls. Here, secrets are currency, ambition is lifeblood, and strange ceremonies welcome students into the fold. On her first day of class, Laura Sheridan is thrust into an intense academic rivalry with the beautiful and enigmatic Carmilla. Together, they are drawn into the confidence of their demanding poetry professor,...
962) Once upon a river
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"On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, the regulars are telling stories when a wounded stranger enters carrying the lifeless body of a small child. Hours later, the girl stirs, takes a breath and returns to life. Many secrets must be revealed before the girl's identity can be known"--
On a dark midwinter's night in an ancient inn on the river Thames, a wounded stranger carries in the lifeless body of a small child. Hours...
963) Carnage Desires
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Henry Williams has a few problems.His friends/co-cult-members want him to get rid of his gentetically engineered girlfriend, as she has become a very successful serial killer.His son has also been getting a wee bit violent at school.All of this is of course his own fault.
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A collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's chilling vampire stories, including: "The American's Tale", "The Captain of the Pole-star", "John Barrington Cowles", "The Ring of Thoth", "The Winning Shot", and "The Parasite". Blood-curdling stories of lust, loathing and decadence, they explore the darker side of the human psyche, both living and unliving. "Stories with Bite" is highly recommended for lovers of Gothic literature and is not to be missed by fans...
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A chilling collection of classic gothic short stories written by Bram Stoker, all connected through the theme of vampires. "Gothic fiction" is a subgenre of Gothic horror that is defined by a combination of fiction writing with horror, death, and sometimes romance. It arguably originated from the 1764 novel "The Castle of Otranto" by English author Horace Walpole, which was subtitled "A Gothic Story" after the second edition. Abraham "Bram" Stoker...
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How fragile is life? It is a question which could not be evaded in my youth. Yet, here I stand, a testament of time despite facing what was once considered a death sentence. I did not understand the complexity of the relationship between them at first. It was only with time the truth would become known and the courage would rise to publish it. My name is Claudia Van Helsing, the daughter of Abraham Van Helsing, niece of Vladimir Baserab Tepes, and...
967) Magnétisme
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Extrait : "C'était à la fin d'un dîner d'hommes, à l'heure des interminables cigares et des incessants petits verres, dans la fumée et l'engourdissement chaud des digestions, dans le léger trouble des têtes après tant de viandes et de liqueurs absorbées et mêlées. On vint à parler du magnétisme, des tours de Donato et des expériences du docteur Charcot. Soudain ces hommes sceptiques, aimables, indifférents à toute religion, se mirent...
968) The Trembling Hills
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A woman's mysterious past is unearthed during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake (Mary Higgins Clark). Sara Bishop was raised in Chicago, but her heart belongs in San Francisco, where her childhood sweetheart, Ritchie Temple, has moved to pursue a career in architecture. Convinced he feels the same way for her, she hopes his fiancée, the manipulative Judith Renwick, is just a passing fancy. And now Sara has packed her bags to prove it. Sarah's mother...
969) Udolpho: Issue 1
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Udolpho is a creative anthology devoted to all things gothic. This unique collection includes essays, short fiction, and poetry featuring an array of hallmarks of the genre. Also included is a brief outline of the elements of gothic literature and a listing of prominent gothic writers from across the last three centuries.
Contributors to Issue #1 are: Matthew D. Albertson, John Alex Barnes, Matthew Evans Chelf, Katy Cousino, Art X. Love, Cory...
970) Claim
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They might have won the first battle, but the war is about to start.
When Gigi and Axel unexpectedly fell in love, the events that followed were expected yet terrible. Turning away from the match her father secured for her to strengthen the cartel, left Axel fighting for his life.
Balancing her new role as Boss becomes more complicated than she ever anticipated. But stepping down isn't an option.
Secrets from the past linger in the shadows and...
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Henry Stuart, heir to the British throne, is clever, handsome, a real hero. Unfortunately, he is also tone-deaf in his dealings with the Unseen World. Unbeknownst to him, his ambitious plans for a coming-of-age Faerie court masque have enraged his neighbor monarchs, Oberon and Titania. Seeking recompense, they assign the undead poet Kit Marlowe to bring them the heir.
972) Beloved Monster
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What makes a man?
The wild and dissolute Viscount Ravenswood lives only for his own pleasure, caring not one wit for the broken hearts left trampled in his wake. But his decadent lifestyle finally catches up to him in a fatal carriage race. It's an infamous and spectacular end to a brief, immoral life-or is it?
And who is the woman who loves him?
When Glenna Parker stumbles upon her cousin Reed Parker's cluttered laboratory, she could never have...
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SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT
A year after the chilling death of her mentor, criminologist Harley Frasier is still rattled. Secretly she's suspected murder all along. Now the unveiling of the Amenmose exhibit is triggering a series of unexplained attacks, and there's only one man she can trust. FBI special agent Micah Fox is used to charging into dangerous territory to solve a case. Working with a civilian is new ground, especially when she's as irresistible...
974) The Vampire Lords
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Who are the literary ancestors of Dracula? How did the classic vampire-the tall, dark, elegant aristocrat with an endless life and an unquenchable thirst for blood-become a mass-media star? James Grant Goldin presents a curated anthology of the original texts, some freshly translated, that trace the evolution of the vampire lord in the 18th and 19th centuries. Newspaper accounts of "real" vampires in the Austro-Hungarian Empire bring word of a new...
975) Fou ?
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Extrait : "Suis-je fou ? ou seulement jaloux ? je n'en sais rien, mais j'ai souffert horriblement. J'ai accompli un acte de folie, de folie furieuse, c'est vrai ; mais la jalousie haletante, mais l'amour exalté, trahi, condamné, mais la douleur abominable que j'endure, tout cela ne suffit-il pas pour nous faire commettre des crimes et des folies sans être vraiment criminel par le cœur ou par le cerveau ?"
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Introduced by Sarah Perry, the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent. Uncanny. Mysterious. Eerie. Gothic. It draws us in with its air of mystery and repels us with its violence and darkness. But who were the first practitioners of the now-prevalent genre? This curated book collects the works of such masters as Edgar Allan Poe, Christina Rossetti and Mary Shelley, who with flickering candles, mysterious castles and chilling ravens first frightened...
978) Loving Lily
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Lies brought them together.Truth drove them apart.Love made them whole. When beautiful Lily, Lady Bradden, is abducted and forced to 'summon the spirits' of a nobleman's deceased daughter whom she closely resembles, enigmatic newspaper editor Hamish McTavish vows to expose her as a fraud. But as he unravels the mystery shrouding the new sensation gripping London, an incendiary passion ignites between them. As shadowy dangers close in, Hamish must...
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura El monje de Matthew Gregory Lewis, una popular y transgresora obra que ha causado tanto polémica como admiración a lo largo de la historia: fue censurada a causa de su anticlericalismo y de sus escenas violentas y sexuales -perpetradas muchas veces por un monje-, pero a su vez despertó la admiración de grandes autores.
¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el libro, nosotros lo hemos...
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Haunted. Cursed. Helpless. Life is dangerous this close to the Door to Hell.
Half insane after the death of his wife and daughter, Rahym runs a Lodge near the Door to Hell. With a sector curse that causes anyone to collapse into Hibernation after four hours of exertion, a stay at the Lodge is the only way for people to cross the Karakum Desert without falling victim to fire or demonlings.
Then Nakir, an old friend and the angel leading the rebel...
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