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"A haunting and beautifully written novel about a Confederate soldier whose own personal war follows him into the afterlife--until one fateful day when his encounters with a modern-day couple change everything. A ghost in his deserted childhood home in Virginia, Tom Smiley can't forget the bloody war and its meaningless losses, nor can he shed his revulsion for his role in the Confederate defense of slavery. But when a young couple moves in and makes...
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Readers of Eve Chase and Kate Morton will devour this bewitchingly atmospheric, melancholy modern ghost story set in the lush hills of England's Lake District. There, a solitary woman's quiet life spent in her crumbling ancestral manor house with the company of a child's ghost is dramatically interrupted when her estranged sister returns to share a horrific story of cruelty and desperation from decades earlier...
A Goodreads Choice...
A Goodreads Choice...
3) Ferris
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement, and her grandmother seeing a ghost -- one who has wild, impractical, and illuminating plans.
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14 Geschichten aus den Bereichen Horror, Weird fiction und Fantastik.
Texte zwischen kosmischem Schrecken und dunklen Meerestiefen. Zu dämonischen Umtrieben, Legenden finsterer Wälder und tentakelbewehrten Unaussprechlichkeiten, gesellen sich okkulte Geheimbünde, fremdartige Invasoren und gewagte, wissenschaftliche Experimente auf fernen Gestirnen.
In diesem Buch enthalten:
"Unauslotbare Tiefen", "Wie die Götter speisen", "Morgenspaziergang",...
5) The Ghost
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Shaji, an IT professional and only son of a wealthy Muslim landlord, helped Sujatha, a Hindu girl, by taking money from his father's locker towards the capitation fee for her engineering college admission in Bangalore. The indebted girl pawned her innocence for his lust. Raju, a classmate of Shaji, who was in the porn business, had an eye on this beautiful girl with frequent mention to Shaji, who never agreed. Once during her visit to the village,...
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Nina war eine Gefangene. Sie war gefangen in einem Leben voller Schmerzen und voller Leid. Die Trostlosigkeit ihres Daseins schien sie zu verschlingen und es war nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis ihre Geschichte ein böses Ende nehmen würde.
Doch dann trat ein Fremder in ihr Leben.
Würde er ihre Rettung sein?
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Sue and Jim move into an old council house from a tower block and think that their dreams have come true. They soon find out this is not so. The previous tenant is still in residence and makes a nuisance of herself. Sue has to find a way of removing her and so starts her psychic quest.
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Algunos relatos de Franz Kafka son ejercicios de lógica que desembocan en el absurdo. Historias que se dan la mano con paradojas clásicas e imponen la visión perpleja con que se evalúa nuestra contemporaneidad, una época forjada a pulso de razón para caer en el sinsentido. De igual modo proceden los relatos de Roberto Renán. Anécdotas de una cotidianidad laberíntica que se muerden la cola en La Habana decadente a la que nos tiene acostumbrados...
10) Lark
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Middle of the night.Rocks against a window.A wild ride in a stolen truck.Hide and seek in an old orchard.A mermaid and a ninja.Jake has no idea what is in store for him when he answers the summons of the crazy neighbor girl. Angela. One thing is for certain, it's a night he'll NEVER forget.
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We live in a rational age in which science and modern technology have removed doubt and ignorance. We no longer fear the dark, we no longer need to use superstitious symbols to protect our houses and families. We know what is happening in the world and are in contact with friends and family who might live miles away. Ours is a rational world… or is it?
These short ghost stories are not set in remote Scottish castles or haunted Victorian houses....
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Autumn disappeared from his life once. And he's not going to let her do it again.
Zack Aukey hates Christmas-despises it, actually. December carries painful memories of his first love Autumn Cleary, who left him during the holiday season. But when Autumn mysteriously shows up in Nashville on Christmas night bearing gifts and apologies, Zack knows this is a holiday he won't soon forget. And then he sees the police report.
From New York Times bestselling...
13) The Favour
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When a friend asks Percy to do him a favour, he could never have envisaged the consequences. An unusual romantic ghost story set in the late 1800's.
14) Guitar
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The idea for this story actually happened on Christmas Eve in 1968. Three of my girlfriends and I were riding around in my 1954 Ford, I called her Beulah, and as we made our fifth trip around the Dairy Delite, we began talking about the old house in Matthews. Linda D. shouted from the backseat above the Turtles singing "It Ain't Me Babe" on KTSA AM Radio. I couldn't afford the new FM radios yet, but no matter, it sounded good playing from the twenty...
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This is a story about the group of curious adventurers who went into a mysterious Tower which is rumoured to hide legends of Tower ghosts.This group were led by a retired historian and professor to uncover the hidden truths about this rumours.Although they were curious in their adventures, the journey was chilling to face but the brave professor encouraged them to finish what they have started.
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These stories will grab your attention until the end of each tale. The characters may be different, but at some point, their lives cross into a parallel world.
The twists and turns of fate guide the reader into a world of ghosts and goblins, where murderers lie in wait for the unsuspecting. You'll never know what's to come, and that's just how the author likes it.
There's coach trippers, who die one by one - by why and by whose hand?
A killer...
18) The Haunted
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They have the beginnings of a perfect family. A husband, a wife, a baby on the way.
But something will stop them from being happy as they move into their new house: the power of the undead that roam the halls of their home.
The demons that have come to claim them. The darkness that seeks to destroy them.
The haunted.
19) Cecilia de Noël
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Cecilia de Noël is an original and cleverly told ghost story, published in 1891. The story is told, Rashomon-like, from six different viewpoints.
20) Which was Which?
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Two identical men are seen hundreds of miles apart. One is innocent if somewhat arrogant, whilst the other is a demonic killer, but which is which?
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