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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...
2) 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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Thirty-two short stories chosen from the tradition of ghost stories from American Indian cultures across North America, featuring witches, walking dolls, hungry skeletons, skinwalkers, and other supernatural beings.
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"Curator of paleontology Dr. Simon Nealy never expected to return to his Pennsylvania hometown, let alone the Hawthorne Museum of Natural History. He was just a boy when his six-year-old sister, Morgan, was abducted from the museum under his watch, and the guilt has haunted Simon ever since. After a recent break-up and the death of the aunt who raised him, Simon feels drawn back to the place where Morgan vanished, in search of the bones they never...
5) A shining
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"A man starts driving without knowing where he is going. He alternates between turning right and left, and ultimately finds himself stuck at the end of a forest road. It soon grows dark and begins to snow. But instead of searching for help, he ventures, foolishly, into the dark forest. Inevitably, the man gets lost, and as he grows cold and tired, he encounters a glowing being amid the obscurity. Strange, haunting and dreamlike, A Shining is the latest...
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"We Are a Haunting is a debut coming-of-age novel that mixes magical realism and the Southern Gothic and follows three generations of East New Yorkers struggling to maintain a connection to their history"--
Over thirty years, a family of East New Yorkers struggles to maintain a connection to their history. Grandma Audrey, herself a living ancestor among the speaking dead, is about to lose her apartment; her indelible and vivacious daughter Key dies...
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Dorian Dracula, Agent auf Probe, soll Dr. Frankenstein ausfindig machen, der ein Mittel gegen Lichtfraß entwickelt hat – eine Krankheit, die für Vampire tödlich enden kann. Zusammen mit seiner Mitschülerin Lilith, einer Halbvampirin, geht Dorian allen Hinweisen nach und begibt sich in brenzlige Situationen. Doch die Konkurrenz schläft nicht: Costin ist jedes Mittel recht, um den Wettkampf zu gewinnen. Denn nur der Sieger erhält den begehrten...
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Dorian ist beunruhigt: Sein Vater Vlad Dracula scheint sich ernsthaft von seinem Singledasein verabschieden zu wollen. Warum sonst hat Vlad eine Kreuzfahrt auf der Old Lady gebucht – einem Vergnügungsschiff für Vampire? Vampirjägerin Augusta van Helsing wittert ihre Chance, sich an Dorians Vater heranzumachen – der auch prompt ihrem Charme erliegt. Zu allem Übel verschwindet plötzlich Millionärstochter und Vampinstagram-Star Raphaela del...
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"Angels Demons And Strange Experiences" Part 1, 2, Collects Both Volumes, I Talk About Old Paranormal Investigations And New Ones All They Way Back To My Childhood When Some Of These Very Strange Experiences First Happened To Me And I Never Forgot Them, And also Five of my favorite Poems. "Raven's Call" "Glowing Darkness" "Where Darkness Looms" "A Crow's Heart" And "Black Crow Cries" I Hope You Enjoy These True Stories As Much I Enjoyed Writing Them,...
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Die Befreiung von Ottos Eltern gestaltet sich schwieriger als gedacht. Trotz der Hilfe seines besten Kumpels, Sensenmann Harry, landet das Test-Teleportationsobjekt Vincent immerzu in der schäbigen Jenseitskneipe Zur Qualle statt in Qualcatraz. Zur Ablenkung organisiert Tante Sharon einen Skiurlaub für die ganze Bande. Aber dort angekommen, muss Harry so manch halsbrecherisches Pistenmanöver vollführen, denn irgendwer scheint ihn in den Urlaub...
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Harold und seine Freunde treffen auf die russische Geheimagentin Ludmilla Kalaschnikow. Sie arbeitet für den KGB (also für den Knochen-Geheim-Bund). Ausgerechnet Ludmilla will dabei helfen, Ottos Eltern zu befreien. Doch können die Freunde ihr trauen? Zum Glück gibt es ja noch Igor, den einäugigen Friedhofswärter, der immer ein wachsames Auge hat… Tja, aber leider nur eins.
Der siebte Band der kultigen Kinderbuch-Reihe um den Jungen Otto,...
12) Dead Beautiful
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On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Ren e Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder.
After the funeral Ren e's wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and...
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Sophia, a middle-aged woman living in a cozy little home, begins to experience strange occurrences such as doors opening and closing on their own and footsteps in empty rooms. She seeks the help of a local paranormal investigator and learns that her home is indeed haunted. Sophia discovers that the ghost is a woman named Alice who had lived in the house many years ago and had died tragically. With the help of the investigator, Sophia tries to appease...
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"Open the door ... Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie -- the perfect...
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"Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a botanica in a strip mall where he works as the resident babaláwo. One day, Hugo's nemesis calls. Alexi Ramirez is a debt collector who has been hounding Hugo for years, and Hugo assumes this call is just more of the same. Except...
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A garbage disposal that feeds on flesh... A beloved stuffed rabbit that cooks up your parents... Roses that require human blood to bloom... From blood-chilling horror to supernatural scares, this collection of short stories from debut author Andrew Duplessie offers something to stoke anyone's fear factor. But that's only the beginning. In a first-ever twist, each story also comes with a pulse-pounding video that deepens the horror. Point your phone...
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"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart -- whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street -- very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
18) Barely Alive
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In a desperate attempt to belong, Paul joins a cult whose main goal is to destroy everything they can get their hands on. The virus the group is exposed to turns them into the apocalypse and they're hell bent on eating everyone in their path. Paul has one chance to escape. He's taking the only girl who might be immune with him. If Paul can't get away, the rest of Las Vegas could implode on itself. Will he be able to find the cure? Or is he destined...
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Un fantme était prisonnier de notre monde ; je l'ai libéré. Maintenant, j'ai espoir de mener une existence à peu près normale.
À condition que les spectres cessent de me harceler !
Sans compter que quelqu'un m'épie ; que mon pouvoir déraille et me fait peur ; que des meurtres sont commis dans le monde occulte...
L'étau se resserre dangereusement autour de moi, me faisant craindre le pire.
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Judy Lang, age nine, is spending the summer vacation at her grandparents' house in the country. Strange occurrences-toys mysteriously appearing, a strange voice beckoning to her, and finally the unlikely presence of a girl her own age. Judy listens in horror to the tales her new friend, Suzy, tells her about the people she was forced to live with-until that arrangement abruptly changed. Judy chooses to help Suzy deal with her impossible situation...
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