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  The Stockholm Octavo - A Novel

  Karen Engelmann

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  “A delicious page-turner that brings eighteenth-century Stockholm to vivid life, complete with scandal, conspiracy, mystery, and a hint of magic.” —Eleanor Brown, New York Times–bestselling author 
   
  One man’s fortune holds the key to a nation’s fate in this sensational debut novel set in eighteenth-century Sweden. 
   
  The Stockholm Octavo by Karen Engelmann transports readers to a colorful Scandinavian world of intrigue and magic in a dazzling golden age of high art, music, and opulent fashion. 
   
  A masterwork of historical fiction in the vein of Patrick Suskind’s classic novel, Perfume, The Stockholm Octavo is mysterious and romantic—as magical and enthralling as The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern—and features a brilliant and unforgettable cast of extraordinary characters. 
   
  “A juicy page-turner . . . Engelmann’s intellectually playful take on the mathematics of love and power proves irresistible.” —O, The Oprah Magazine 
   
  “Neatly mixing revolutionary politics with the erotic tension and cutthroat rivalry of the female conspirators . . . Engelmann has crafted a magnificent, suspenseful story set against the vibrant society of Sweden’s zenith, with a cast of colorful characters balanced at a crux of history.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) 
   
  “Delicious . . . the essence of witty intelligence . . . The plot is an urgent one, and the characters mysterious, appealing, and memorable.” —Sena Jeter Naslund, New York Times–bestselling author  
   
  “If you like novels that work on many levels at once, read this stunning tessellation of a book, where fortune is the flip side of intrigue and where history is the flip side of chance.” —Charlotte Rogan, national bestselling author

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  Night-Gaunts - and Other Tales...

  Joyce Carol Oates

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  Dark, brilliant fiction from the New York Times-bestselling author: “Oates’ spookiness is visceral, psychologically involving, and socially astute.”―Booklist In the title story of her taut new fiction collection, Joyce Carol Oates writes: Life was not of the surface like the glossy skin of an apple, but deep inside the fruit where seeds are harbored. There is no writer more capable of picking out those seeds and exposing all their secret tastes and poisons than Oates herself—as demonstrated in these six stories. One tale opens with a woman, naked except for her high-heeled shoes, seated in front of the window in an apartment she cannot, on her own, afford. In this exquisitely tense narrative reimagining of Edward Hopper’s Eleven A.M., 1926, the reader enters the minds of both the woman and her married lover, each consumed by alternating thoughts of disgust and arousal, as he rushes, amorously, murderously, to her door. In “The Long-Legged Girl,” an aging, jealous wife crafts an unusual game of Russian roulette involving a pair of Wedgwood teacups, a strong Bengal brew, and a lethal concoction of medicine. Who will drink from the wrong cup, the wife or the dance student she believes to be her husband’s latest conquest? In “The Sign of the Beast,” when a former Sunday school teacher’s corpse turns up, the blighted adolescent she had by turns petted and ridiculed confesses to her murder—but is he really responsible? And another young outsider, Horace Phineas Love, Jr., is haunted by apparitions at the very edge of the spectrum of visibility after the death of his tortured father in “Night-Gaunts,” a fantastic ode to H.P. Lovecraft. “Consummately well-written, stylistically dashing...forthrightly nightmarish.”―Kirkus Reviews

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  Voices of Dracula - His Master's...

  Dacre Stoker, Chris McAuley

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  Starring Terry Molloy as Renfield.In writing Dracula, Bram Stoker created a universe full of rich characters, dark and foreboding locations, and a tangled web of loyalties, relationships and motivations. Despite the story being fictional -at least one hopes that’s the case - many elements within the story were reflections and analogies of the Stoker family and their history.A little over 120 years after the book’s original release, Bram’s great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker has teamed up with author Chris McAuley to create a series of short stories set within the StokerVerse, each narrated from the point of view of one of the characters we all know - or think we know - so well.In this episode, Renfield is drawn from the mouth of madness to attend the monster who now stalks through the streets of the city at the heart of the largest Empire on Earth…If you’re a fan of vampires - particularly those of a more gothic nature - then these brand-new adventures will surely appeal to you. With Dacre Stoker’s major contribution, these stories are the most significant addition to the official Dracula canon since Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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  Flowers Vs Zombies: Genesis -...

  Perrin Briar

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  One island. One family. A million zombies. 
   
  This volume contains two thrilling tales: 
   
  WRECKED 
  After a tropical storm, the Robinson family discovers a mysterious boat shipwrecked on their shore. An attempt to scavenge the wreckage awakens something dark and extremely dangerous. With the full weight of the undead descending down upon them, can the family prepare a strong enough defence? Or will they become the latest victims of a virus-ridden world? 
   
  GENESIS 
  Trapped aboard a ferry destined for their new life in the Philippines, the Flowers learn of a virus sweeping across the planet, turning people into flesh-crazed zombies. Early symptoms include a hacking cough, shortness of breath, and deathly pale skin. The exact same symptoms as a fellow passenger on board... 
   
  FLOWERS VS. ZOMBIES. Let the apocalypse begin.

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  The Dark Soul - The scariest...

  Rachel Lawson

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  He has a soul of darkness the soul of a killer a soul of death, a soul so dark it could not be his thought a psychic mentalist who is working in his father theater for a night of magic her style the metalist senses it. 
  His soul is so dark all that can be done with him but expelling the demon who is controlling him. The Necromancer, Lance Alexander can't resist playing along with her but how far will he go and where will this end.

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  Devil in the Dollhouse - A...

  Richard Kadrey

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  James Stark, a.k.a. Sandman Slim, has a new job, but being the new Lucifer in town gives fresh meaning to the word "Hell." Especially when he hears of hideous massacres near a haunted fortress out on Hell's frontier. 
  As far as Stark's concerned, the more dead Hellions, the better, but he still has to prove that no one screws with Sandman Slim. And facing creatures so terrible even Hell does not want them is no cakewalk, even for Lucifer.

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