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  Kehua!

  Fay Weldon

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  “As a study of fiction, femininity and family it is bursting with intelligence and fire”—from the award-winning author of Death of a She Devil (The Telegraph).   Your writer, in conjuring this tale of murder, adultery, incest, ghosts, redemption, and remorse, takes you first to a daffodil-filled garden in Highgate, North London, where, just outside the kitchen window, something startling shimmers on the very edges of perception. Fluttering and chattering, these are our kehua—a whole multiplying flock of Maori spirits (all will be explained) goaded into wakefulness by the conversation within. Scarlet—a long-legged, skinny young woman of the new world order—has announced to Beverley, her aged grandmother, that she intends to leave home and husband for the glamorous actor, Jackson Wright, he of the vampire films. Beverley may be well on her way to her ninth decade, but she’s not beyond using this intelligence to stir up a little trouble.   How the kehua became attached to a three-year-old white girl is the origin of your writer’s tale. Suffice to say that murder is at the root of it all, that Beverley and her female bloodline carry a weighty spiritual burden and that this is the story of how they learn to live with their ghosts, or maybe how their ghosts learn to live with them.   “A haunting book . . . The novel is a spirited triumph: adroit, affecting and bung-full of genuine humour and ideas.” —The Guardian   “Weldon crafts this traffic between spirit worlds with characteristic wit, and without sacrificing the intricacies of a family’s struggle to accept its past.” —Financial Times   “Wonderfully wicked, highly readable.” —Independent

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  The Night Land

  William Hope Hodgson

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  The Night Land is a classic horror novel by William Hope Hodgson."The Night Land is a tale of the remote future ? billions of years after the death of the sun. It is one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written . . . there is a sense of cosmic alienage, breathless mystery, and terrified expectancy unrivalled in the whole range of literature . . . this fantasy of a night-black, dead planet, with the remains of the human race concentrated in a stupendously vast metal pyramid and besieged by monstrous, hybrid, and altogether unknown forces of darkness, is something that no reader can forget." ? H. P. Lovecraft.The tale of a heroic search for life beyond the darkness, this groundbreaking story was the first work of modern fantasy to feature a dying Earth. The inspiration for countless science fiction, fantasy, and horror novels, the book's legions of fans included Clark Ashton Smith, who remarked that "In all literature, there are few works so sheerly remarkable, so purely creative, as The Night Land."

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  Raum

  Maxim Kaluzhny

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  In a small town, a legendary creature known as Raum, a twisted and dark version of the Easter Bunny, terrorizes the woods and the children who venture there on Easter. Tommy, a witness to Raum taking his friend Timmy years ago, returns to the town and discovers another child has been taken by the creature. As he tries to unravel the mystery behind Raum's curse, Tommy learns the true horror of the creature and the curse it embodies. The story delves into the darkness of mythical creatures, curses, and the depths of human fear.

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  Transformation

  Mary Shelley

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  In Mary Shelley's "Transformation," Guido's encounter with a misshapen creature leads to a body swap gone wrong. Trapped in a monstrous form, he must fight impostors and face his own doppelgänger to reclaim his life and love. This gripping Gothic tale explores the consequences of meddling with the unknown.

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  The Call - Book Zero

  Peter Walker

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  The world is in turmoil. 
  Elias Girawong, Earth Wizard and knowledge keeper, must act. His ceremony, calling the thirteen, heralds a long overdue change to shake the foundations of life itself. But there are those who covet power beyond reason. Each of the thirteen "called" have their assigned roles. Each of them must travel to join the circle of thirteen. Each of them must face the challenge of their journey and the will and power of those who would thwart them. 
  Valda Balaz has been groomed by the machine. Thrust into positions of power since birth, she is trained to be ruthless. When Elias performs his ceremony, Valda must take decisive action to stop him and stop everything he has put in motion. The Church, corporations, medical sovereignty, inter-dimensional realities, magic, medicines and a fast-approaching star create an epic story which reflects the world we face today. One path brings balance, peace and freedom underpinned by love. The other plunges it into a darkness from which it might never emerge. 
  First-time author, Peter Walker draws you into a world where change is inevitable, and every soul has a role to fulfil. "The Call" Book Zero of "The Village" series is an epic tale which immerses the reader into rarely charted realms and invites you to identify where you reside in the upheaval that is here and now. 
  The time is now; it has been now for some time and will continue to be now. The waiting is over because "we are the ones we have been waiting for." 
  You will find yourself in this book. 
  "The Call" Book Zero of "The Village" series traverses a shamanic energy count, zero through nine that is underway in the world in which we live right now. When the tenth book is written and read, all this will come to pass.

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  The Ring of Thoth and Other Tales

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  In "The Ring of Thoth," Mr. John Vansittart Smith, a British student of Egyptology, goes to the Egyptian Room of the Louvre to study. There he meets a curious looking attendant, but he is otherwise alone in the great hall. Not long afterwards, the quiet surroundings and his inability to concentrate cause him to drift off to sleep. When Smith wakes, it is the middle of the night and he is locked inside the darkened museum. Soon he becomes aware that someone else is there, too. A mysterious figure holding a light has come into the hall and opened the case of one of the mummies. Smith realizes that it is the attendant that he saw earlier in the day, and as he watches from the shadows, he becomes involved in the extraordinary story of the ring of Thoth.In addition to "The Ring of Thoth," this collection of short stories by the masterful Arthur Conan Doyle contains "The Captain of the Polestar," "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement," "The Great Kleinplatz Experiment," "The Man from Archangel," "That Little Square Box," "John Huxford's Hiatus," "A Literary Mosaic," "John Barrington Cowles," and "Elias B. Hopkins."

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