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"The Musgrave Ritual" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in Strand Magazine in 1919 and was collected later in “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself. With Watson providing an introduction, the story within a story is a classic example of a frame tale....
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"If you ever wondered how much better Sherlock would be if people could hurl hellfire at each other, well this one is for you." Starburst Magazine on A Study in Brimstone As they blunder towards doom, Warlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson find themselves inconvenienced by a variety of eldritch beings. Christmas brings a goose that doesn't let being cooked slow it down; they meet an electricity demon, discover why being a redhead is even tricker than...
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"A mad surrealist's art threatens to rip open the fabric of reality, in this twisted tale of eldritch horror and conspiracy, from the wildly popular world of Arkham Horror.
Aspiring painter Alden Oakes is invited to join a mysterious art commune in Arkham: the New Colony. When celebrated Spanish surrealist Juan Hugo Balthazarr visits the colony, Alden and the other artists quickly fall under his charismatic spell. Balthazarr throws a string of decadent...
7) The Ritual
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Evil is at large . . .
A member of the parliament is stabbed to death in Reykjavik, the small and usually peaceful capital of Iceland. Police officer Grimsson thinks he saw the perpetrator earlier that night, in a pub in the city's east end. The young man turns himself in. He has no previous record and does not remember anything about the night of the murder, but his fingerprints are on the murder weapon. Grimsson feels that the young man is somehow...
8) Ritual Sins
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Rachel Connery is on a seek-and-destroy mission, out for revenge against the mysterious, charismatic man who enticed millions of dollars from her dying mother and cheated Rachel out of her inheritance. She wants retribution and is willing to use every seductive trick at her disposal to obtain it. But desire is a dangerous weapon that cuts both ways, and her trap could end up catching her in a nightmare of forbidden feelings.
9) First Ritual
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I'm Tempest Corentine-twenty-one, single, and already dreading the next twenty-one years. Except one month ago, the impossible happened. I formed a magical bond with someone I've never met. The link appeared in my darkest moment, and finding this person is my sole purpose.
Two issues:
The magus probably lives in The Buried Knolls.
The coven there might have murdered my family.
My plan? Kiss the hot guy at the bar in case I die tonight. Knock on the...
10) Ritual Magic
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On her 57th birthday, Lily's mother suddenly loses all memory beyond the age of twelve. Lily knows her mother was attacked by something more than magic. More ... and darker. When Lily and Rule discover that others suffered the same, mysterious lossat the same time on the same night their investigation into the darkness begins. Joining them is someone Lily never thought she'd see again: Al Drummond, who once tried to destroy her. He also happens to...
11) Ritual Chill
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Time and the fallout of a nuclear holocaust, have ravaged 21st century America, but one fundamental impulse of human nature remains: the will to survive. And only the strongest do survive. Men like Ryan Cawdor, whose inner strength and stubborn resolve continue to defy the worst that Deathlands offers. With grim determination, he and his warrior group continue to face the stark and brutal choices of this new world that are often not choices at all,...
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Ein keltischer Opfermord?
Der zweite Fall für Inspector Ayala. Für Inspector Ayala alias Kraken geht es ans Eingemachte: Seine erste Liebe Annabel wird ermordet aufgefunden, hingerichtet nach einem keltischen Opfer-Ritual, ertränkt in einem historischen Wasserkessel. Und es bleibt nicht bei diesem einen Mord. Jemand scheint Menschen zu töten, die bald Mutter oder Vater werden. Kraken nimmt zusammen mit seiner Kollegin Estíbaliz die Ermittlungen...
13) Ritual of Blood
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After the Tournament of Blood, I've earned my coveted position within the ranks of the Slayers… but the cost was steep. Too steep. I am now one of the very creatures I swore vengeance against.Awakening on the other side of death, I discover that I've been turned-I've become a vampire. If any hope remains to avenge the only mother I've ever known, I'm going to have to learn to control the monster inside of me and fast. Mercifully, I have Blake and...
17) A Ritual Death
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A legacy of lies and bloodshed. Beneath the serene surface of LaConner, Washington - a popular and picturesque small town on the Northwest's Puget Sound - trouble is brewing between the local and Native American communities: a growing storm of suspicion and violence incited by long-standing prejudice...and recent murder. As he does every week, Jesuit priest Father Mark Townsend has come to LaConner to visit his grandparents during the annual Tulip...
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Molly Farneth is associate professor of religion at Haverford College. She is the author of Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation (Princeton).
An illuminating look at the transformative role that rituals play in our political lives
The Politics of Ritual is a major new account of the political power of rituals. In this incisive and wide-ranging book, Molly Farneth argues that rituals are social practices in which...
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Five rituals to control Chaos. That's all it takes.
Now that Harley knows her enemy's grand plan-to become a godlike Child of Chaos and punish those deemed "unworthy"-she's got to figure out what the heck to do about it. Many of the missing magicals are still out there, and Katherine has vowed to kill everyone Harley cares about and make her watch.
So that's fun.
Just when it seems like things can't get much worse, one of the most precious...
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