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  XOLO - A Novel of Canine Horror

  Peter Hurd

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  "Hardcore horror fans should find this blood-splattered novel highly satisfying: Stephen King's Cujo meets Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds." -Paul Goat Allen, BlueInk Review 
  Derek Rains, a nature-loving real estate developer in Colorado, has just adopted a Xolo (also known as a Mexican hairless dog, revered by the Aztecs as the guardians of the underworld). But when the Xolo bites his young son, Derek is forced to abandon the dangerous dog in the woods, where it is picked up by members of a dog-fighting ring. 
  Horrified to see humans forcing dogs to kill each other, the Xolo taps into the ancient powers of its species to convince the other dogs to band together and kill the humans. Now free and wanting revenge on the humans who hurt and abandoned them, the dogs begin killing humans who imprison dogs, growing their ranks in the process. 
  With the killings spreading across the county, the local sheriff’s suspicions fall on Derek, whose dog was the only vicious animal in the county before these attacks. Derek refuses to believe that his animal could be responsible for so much carnage, but when his young son almost becomes the xolo’s next victim, Derek must face up to the facts and put an end to the carnage. 
  XOLO is a fast-paced but literary creature horror novel with a mixture of ferocious action, cinematic atmosphere, Lovecraftian undertones, and well-developed characters, which is the first in a planned trilogy. 

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  Count Dracula

  Bram Stoker

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  Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him. 
   
  Dracula was mostly written in the 1890s. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula was inspired by historical figures like the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler or the countess Elizabeth Báthory, but there is widespread disagreement. Stoker's notes mention neither figure. He found the name Dracula in Whitby's public library while holidaying there, picking it because he thought it meant devil in Romanian. 
   
  Included here too is a history of the real Dracula, the vampires of lore, the German film Nosferatu as well as a study of iconic Dracula actor Bella Lagosi and the famous Universal films of his remarkable era.

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  Fallout

  Peter Hain

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  An explosive Cold War thriller, a deadly arms race that threatens to tip the world into conflict.  South Africa, Zimbabwe, China and Britain.  In the shadow of the Cold War, a deadly secret connects three continents, and time is running out.  When a mild-mannered scientist accidentally uncovers a web of international espionage during a routine visit to Beijing, he's thrust into a deadly game of cat and mouse. His only ally? A magnetic anti-apartheid activist who may have secrets of her own.  As they race to expose the truth, a veteran South African intelligence operative moves through the streets of newly-independent Zimbabwe, his mission intertwined with the machinations of a mysterious Chinese power player from Mao's inner circle. Meanwhile, a sinister collaboration between apartheid forces and rogue British intelligence agents works in the shadows to keep their nuclear conspiracy buried, at any cost.  From the neon lit backstreets of Beijing to the wild, untamed lowveld where Zimbabwe meets South Africa, this explosive thriller weaves together Cold War tensions, political intrigue, and the threat of nuclear devastation. As these disparate threads converge, our unlikely heroes find themselves at the centre of a plot that could reshape the balance of power in the Southern Hemisphere, if they can survive long enough to expose it.

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  Hearts Anonymous: An Old Castle...

  Jonathan Dunne

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  Hearts Anonymous: An Old Castle Audiobook . BOOK 8 of The Old Castle Chronicles. This series can be listened/read in any sequence. 
  READ BY THE AUTHOR. 
  Jack shares his fiancée Jeanie's heart in more ways than he would care to admit…  
  Weeks following a horrific accident, Jack wakes on a hospital bed with his bride-to-be’s heart pumping in his chest.  
  In death, Jeanie has saved Jack’s life…  
  What at first seems to be a gift beyond comprehension, soon becomes a dark obsession for Jack. As long as Jack is alive, Jeanie won’t be dead. With every thump-thump of Jeanie’s heart, Jack is forever reminded that he owes his life to his dead lover.  
  Unable to find closure, Jack decides to stop his borrowed beating heart…  
  Until Jeanie’s best friend and Jack’s arch-enemy, Ruthy, tells Jack an old fairy-tale which changes his life forever.  
  Jack finds himself living a fairy-tale in a fairy-tale, where matters of the heart and time know no bounds.

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  The Phantom Lamp

  A.E. Chewning, M.L. Bullock

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  When Henri Devecheaux receives a curious shipment from his friend Lamont, among the treasures lies a lantern unlike any other. This spectral light, sent to Henri in hopes of finding a resolution to its haunting luminescence, sets him on a journey into the heart of the paranormal.The quest for answers leads Henri to the old Franklin Theatre in DeRidder, Louisiana. The theatre's past intertwines with Henri's own history in the world of the stage. As he peels back the layers of the theatre's story, he discovers the lantern's origin—a relic from the theatre's golden days, reluctant to be parted from the spotlight.Franklin Theatre, now a shadow of its former glory, holds a mysterious adage: the stage light must always burn, a sentinel against the gathering of restless spirits seeking closure. Is it a guardian for the living, a beacon for the spirits of performers long past, or something more sinister, a harbinger of chaos?As Henri, Aggie, and Detra Ann delve deeper into the mystery, they find themselves confronting more than just a ghostly apparition. The journey tests their courage, challenging them to decipher whether the phantom lamp is a protector or a portal to a darker world.

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  Honeymoon with a Ghost: A Cozy...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  👻 Newlywed Chloe expects sun, sand, and romance at the historic Grandview Hotel—not a spectral roommate. When the ghost of a 1920s flapper named Ruby appears in their honeymoon suite claiming she was murdered, Chloe's dream vacation turns into a supernatural investigation. Her practical husband thinks she's suffering from stress, but Chloe knows what she saw. Teaming up with the lively spirit, Chloe digs into the hotel's glamorous past and discovers Ruby's death was no accident. From hidden speakeasy tunnels to love letters tucked behind vintage wallpaper, every clue brings them closer to a killer whose family still owns the hotel. But as Chloe gets closer to the truth, Ruby's ghost grows weaker, and the current hotel manager seems determined to keep the past buried. With her marriage strained by her ghostly alliance and a modern-day murderer on the loose, Chloe must solve a century-old crime before the killer silences both her and the ghost forever.

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