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  The Conjuror’s Apprentice -...

  G J Williams

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  As featured on the Talking Tudors podcast.‘Right up there with C J Sansom… A brilliant historical thriller’ Philip Gwynne Jones‘Thoroughly engaging… beautifully written’ Zoe SharpLonglisted for the Historical Fiction Company Award 2022 
  Finding the battered body of a young boy was not unusual in Bloody Mary’s cruel England. However, the stabbed tongue, a false seal and strange letter implicate Princess Elizabeth, threatening to bring down the Tudor Dynasty. 
  Doctor John Dee and his secret apprentice, Margaretta, using his brilliant mind and her strange abilities, embark on a perilous journey to solve this brutal murder. Before their work can really begin, another body is found. 
  As Dee and Margaretta delve deeper into their investigation, they uncover a web of deceit, political intrigue and treachery that threatens to engulf them both. When more bodies are discovered and arrests are made, time is running out. With rumours of witchcraft and treason swirling around them, can they untangle the mystery before it’s too late? 
  ‘Engaging and compelling’ Mark Ellis‘A rollicking tale with just the right pinches of sex and humour’ Shots Magazine‘The beginning of a wonderfully different Tudor crime fiction series’ Alis Hawkins‘A wonderful debut’ Jules Swain‘Absolutely spellbinding… alive with atmosphere and realism’ Chris Lloyd‘Entertaining and immersive’ Historical Novel Society

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  Star Treatment - Book 14 in The...

  Sherry A. Burton

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  This 14th installment of the Jerry McNeal Series has Jerry and Gunter heading to Texas. 
  Along the way, Jerry finds himself dealing with unexpected visitors who challenge his patience and further test his psychic abilities. 
  Among the visitors is the ghostly spirit of Texas Ranger, Clive Tisdale, who is not a fan of dogs, refuses to tell Jerry why he is there, and if his presence has anything to do with Texas Ranger Raymond Hale. 
  Raymond Hale oversaw mob informant Antonio Maioriello until both men went missing years earlier and were presumed dead until recent weeks when Maioriello’s image started showing up in tourist photos taken outside the Alamo. 
  At first, this was presumed to be a camera malfunction, as no one recalled him being present at the time the photos were taken. 
  Then Maioriello showed up in a photo with the niece of Bruno Deluca – the man Maioriello informed on before being placed in the witness relocation program, and Deluca used his influence to demand answers. 
  Now, not only must Jerry locate the spirit who is causing the chaos, he must convince Bruno Deluca that Maioriello is truly dead. 
  Will Jerry and Gunter get to the Alamo in time to defend it from another invasion? 
  Will Tisdale change his stance about dogs? 
  Find out in Star Treatment – book 14 of The Jerry McNeal Series.

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  The Box of Counters - Two...

  Hanns Heinz Ewers

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  Hanns Heinz Ewers was born on 3rd November 1871 in Düsseldorf, Germany. 
  His first published poem was at 17 on the death, after a reign of only 99 days, of the German Emperor Frederick III. 
  A stint in the German military was cut short after only 44 days because of his myopia.  Writing was to be the way forward for him with a book of satiric verse published in 1901. At the same time he co-founded a literary vaudeville troupe that toured central and eastern Europe before censors and expenses forced its closure.  An inveterate traveller he was in South America when the Great War enveloped Europe and he relocated to New York. 
  From here his story darkens. Although by now a successful and admired author he was arrested in the U S in 1918 as a German Agent on the pretext of his travels and a falsified Swiss passport. Interned, he was released in 1921 and returned to Germany.  He claimed only to be raising money for the German Red Cross. 
  His literary fame is decidedly easier to clarify. His novels beginning with ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ in 1910 are dark, they bristle with evil intent and are littered with characters who have a dubious moral compass and yet, along with his short stories, are brazen, brilliant feats of literary narrative. 
  He also wrote and published plays, fairy tales, opera librettos, critical essays and lectured for many years on ‘The Religion of Satan’ and was one of the first to write scripts for the cinema, which he considered a legitimate art form. 
  As the Weimar republic began its chaotic death throes Ewers became attracted to the rising Nazi Party.  At first he was warmly received despite disagreeing with its anti-semitism (his most famed literary character had a Jewish mistress) and he was even commissioned by Hitler to write a biography of the Nazi martyr Horst Wessel.  This together with his own homosexuality culminated with his works being banned in 1934 and his assets and property seized.  It took him many years to have the ban lifted.  This association rightfully clouds his personal reputation but has meant his literary contributions are also overlooked and neglected. 
  Hanns Heinz Ewers died of tuberculosis on 12th June 1943 in his Berlin apartment.

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  Haunter of the Dark The: A...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Haunter of the Dark" is a Cthulhu Mythos story by H. P. Lovecraft, first published in the December 1936 issue of Weird Tales Magazine. 
  The story follows Robert Blake, a curious writer drawn to the shadowy depths of Providence, Rhode Island, where he becomes obsessed with a ruined church shrouded in superstition. Within its crumbling walls lies a relic tied to an unspeakable entity—the so-called Haunter of the Dark—an avatar of Nyarlathotep, one of the central deities of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. 
  As Blake delves deeper into the mystery, he uncovers a legacy of occult worship and the horrifying truth about what lurks in the darkness—an entity that can only move when the lights go out.

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  Children of the Necromancer The...

  Rachel Lawson

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  When their granddad arrives for tea with a cursed book his grandkids have to look at it and it takes them to underworld to meet the most unexpected people.

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  The King in Yellow

  Robert W. Chambers

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  There are books that haunt. The King in Yellow is one of them.
  First published in 1895, this cycle of four interlinked stories—The Repairer of Reputations, The Mask, In the Court of the Dragon, and The Yellow Sign—offers a view into a world just a shade off from our own. Beneath the surface of elegant prose and civil order lies something broken, something touched by madness, art, power—and something unspeakably strange.
  A book within the book, a play that should never be read, threads through each tale, leaving behind not answers, but echoes. With quiet menace and disquieting beauty, Chambers sketches a fictional universe that lingers like a fevered dream.
  Not quite horror, not quite science fiction, not quite fantasy—The King in Yellow is a singular work. A whisper from the shadows. An invitation to look too long at the thing you cannot name. 
  Contents
  • The Repairer of Reputations
  • The Mask
  • In the Court of the Dragon
  • The Yellow Sign

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