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1) The ancestor
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It feels like a fairy tale when Alberta "Bert" Monte receives a letter addressed to "Countess Alberta Montebianco" at her Hudson Valley, New York, home that claims she's inherited a noble title, money, and a castle in Italy. But her ancestry has a dark side, and Bert soon learns that her family history is particularly complicated. As Bert begins to unravel the Montebianco secrets, she begins to realize her true inheritance lies not in a legacy of...
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David Binder is a young, successful writer living in Chicago and suffering from writer's block. He stares at the blank page, and the blank page stares back--until inspiration strikes in the form of a ghost story that captivated him as a child. With his pregnant wife and young daughter in tow, he sets out to explore the myth of Virginia Beale, Faery Queen of the Haunted Dell. But as his investigation takes him deeper and deeper into the legacy of blood...
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Something is missing from Ewan and Colby's lives. Residing in the corners of their memories is their time in Limestone Kingdom, a realm filled with magic and mystery, a world where only some may travel amongst the menagerie of mystical souls and sinister demons.
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"From A.A. Balaskovits, author of Magic for Unlucky Girls, this new collection of unusual, fabulist fiction leads you down strange paths for dark encounters with familiar fairy tales, odd people from history, and weirdos who may be living right next door. Among the characters in these bizarre stories, a starving beauty finds a beast who can save her village, a man eats everything in sight but is never full, a woman gives birth to bloody animal parts,...
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"Marlinchen and her two sisters live with their wizard father in a city shifting from magic to industry. As Oblya's last true witches, she and her sisters are little more than a tourist trap as they treat their clients with archaic remedies and beguile them with nostalgic charm. Marlinchen spends her days divining secrets in exchange for rubles and trying to placate her tyrannical, xenophobic father, who keeps his daughters sequestered from the outside...
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"One dark December night, in a small seaside town, a little girl is found abandoned. When her mother finally arrives, authorities release the pair, believing it to be an innocent case of a toddler running off. Gregor, a seemingly single man, is found bludgeoned and left for dead in his apartment, but the discovery of children's toys raises more questions than answers. Every night, Ruby gazes into Gregor's apartment, leading to the discovery of his...
7) Fulgor
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2022
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Eva, una joven estudiante de antropología que se recupera de un aborto, se instala en una cabaña para hacer un trabajo de campo sobre una comunidad indígena. Pero se topa en el bosque con un inquietante grupo de silenciosas mujeres de blanco, aunque nadie en el pueblo tiene constancia de ellas. Ni tampoco del extraño caserío que habitan, junto a un muchacho albino, por el que rondan las lechuzas. Y para cuando la medicación de Eva se agote,...
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From the deeply unsettling to the possibly supernatural, these thirty-one border-crossing stories from around the world explore the uncanny in literature, and delve into our increasingly unstable sense of self, home, and planet. The Uncanny Reader: Stories from the Shadows opens with "The Sand-man," E.T.A. Hoffmann's 1817 tale of doppelgangers and automatons-a tale that inspired generations of writers and thinkers to come. Stories by 19th and 20th...
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"For Charlie and her niece Katie, it's supposed to be a quiet holiday in the peaceful, out-of-the-way seaside town of Hithechurch, England. Charlie is researching a book on the folklore of the area, and the gloomy sea and dangerous caves seem to offer up plenty of material, while Katie is just there to run wild and get some fresh air. But Charlie's research reveals a deeper, darker secret, one that uncovers her own, carefully hidden past. Because...
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2014
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For bad children, a lump of coal from Santa is positively light punishment when Krampus is ready and waiting to beat them with a stick, wrap them in chains, and drag them down to hell—all with St. Nick's encouragement and approval. Krampusnacht holds within its pages twelve tales of Krampus triumphant, usurped, befriended, and much more. From evil children (and adults) who get their due, to those who pull one over on the ancient "Christmas
...12) The child thief
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Reveals the world of Peter Pan through the eyes of Nick, a fatherless teen whose dreams of wonderland are replaced by the gritty reality of life and death, as Peter's recruits are forced into a lethal battle where the line between good and evil is blurred.
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Eric abandons his fiancé, Eleanor, at the Edinburgh Christmas market, following a mysterious woman back to the hotel she owns in the Highlands. Here he meets the men that staff the vacant rooms. Men like him. Men with something to hide...
By day, the men carry out their domestic chores in the hotel, cut off from the rest of the world by the snow. At night, they tell horror stories beside the fire, hoping to entertain the woman they serve. They do...
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When he stumbles upon a magical bag that belongs to Krampus, the Lord of Yule and the dark enemy of Santa Claus, struggling songwriter Jesse gets an unexpected chance to save his daughter and his own broken dreams, and return magic to Boone County, West Virginia.
15) Nigh - Book 5
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With the hopes of the faerie realm turned to dust, Alva Viola Taverner and Hector Henry Featherson strike the final blow to the veil between worlds, shattering it and returning them to the human realm. But one hundred years have passed for humanity, and things have changed. The world awaiting them now bears larger teeth and sharper claws, and it hungers for much more than their lives. *Fourth installment of the serialized novel."The first great serialized...
16) VenCo
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"Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. Burrowing through a wall, she finds a silver spoon etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM, humming with otherworldly energy. Hundreds of miles away in Salem, Myrna Good has...
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Fox Editing Classics presents this newlly edited and designed publication of Elizabeth Gaskell's short story collection.
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1810-1865), while better known for her 1857 biography of Charlotte Brontë and her still-popular novels, such as Cranford (1851-1853) and Wives and Daughters (1864-1866), her literary works also included several Gothic ghost stories. Curious, if True, originally published in 1861, collects five of these...
18) El Zorro
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The Fox (El Zorro) está basado en el relato antiguo japonés de Kitsune, que toma forma humana
usualmente con ganancia sexual o en busca de venganza.
Por generaciones, la gente se ha interesado en la mente humana y en su funcionamiento.
Si realmente crees en algo, ¿Podrás hacerlo posible?
¿Esto distorsionaría tu realidad? ¿Te ocultaría con la forma de alguien más?
Tom encuentra la máscara de Kitsune en una venta de garaje.
En el instante...
19) Hambre Profana 2
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ADVERTENCIA: Esta historia contiene escenas de extrema violencia y gore. No es recomendable para gente impresionable o que se ofenda fácilmente. El lector queda fuertemente advertido.
El hambre sólo es amigo de quién lo alimenta... Piermont, Nueva York. Invierno de 1997.
Chloe Grant es una prostituta drogadicta y sin hogar. Luego de ser hospedada por Willem Tenner, un soltero amable y tímido que trabaja en un videoclub, Chloe se encuentra en medio...
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Travel the world and beyond with Chat GPT, a language model unlike any other, as it interviews some of the most fascinating creatures in mythology and folklore. From the mischievous leprechauns of Ireland to the fearsome wendigos of North America, readers will discover the unique perspectives and stories of each monster. But be warned: some of these beings are not to be trifled with. As the interviews progress, readers will encounter monstrous beings...
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