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  The Oval Portrait

  SAMPI Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait" recounts the obsession of a painter who captures his wife's vitality in a portrait, consuming her life in the process. The narrative unfolds through the observation of a wounded man who discovers the tragic story behind the painting in an abandoned castle.

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  Bayou Moon

  Geraldine Allie

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  When Kreel reluctantly accepts a position on the eerie midnight shift at a nearby cemetery, little does he realize that his proximity to the resting souls around him may soon become alarmingly intimate. His world is turned upside down when a woman with eyes as dark as the night itself, and a soul equally mysterious, lays claim to him as her own. Now, Kreel finds himself thrust into a desperate quest for a remedy, racing against the relentless advance of the new moon. As the lunar cycle wanes, he clings to the hope that his hourglass of time hasn't already run dry.

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  Haunted Stories A Collection of...

  Stories From The Shadows

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  DARE TO STEP INTO THE DARKNESS? "Haunted Stories: A Collection of Scary Horror Tales" is your ticket to a realm of UNIMAGINABLE TERROR! Brace yourself for three heart-pounding narratives that will keep you on the edge of your seat. In "The Breathless," feel the suffocating dread as a sinister Victorian house watches its new inhabitants with EYES OF MALICE! "The Mother's Hunger" plunges you into a chilling legacy where buried secrets claw their way back, threatening to consume a family whole. And in "The Chokehold," experience the spine-chilling grip of a cursed necklace that STRANGLES TRUTHS and leaves you GASPING for air! Each story is a visceral journey, igniting your imagination and turning every shadow into a potential NIGHTMARE! You’ll never view an old house, or the depths of your own fears the same way again. So, are YOU BRAVE ENOUGH to face the terror? Hit play NOW and and let " Haunted Stories " consume your mind! But be careful… Your reality may NEVER be the same again!

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  Black Dove

  Colin McAdam

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  In a tall and narrow house, on a stained and busy street, live twelve-year-old Oliver and his father, a story-loving writer. Haunted by the ghost of his alcoholic mother, Oliver finds comfort in his father's impromptu tales: the Black Dove, an elusive flower that gives strength; the girl who consumes it as she battles attackers and yearns for happier realms. Stories where lonely souls keep searching despite their losses and grief. 
   
   
   
  Running from a bully one night, Oliver hides in a junk shop owned by an enigmatic man. Soon, instead of hiding in the janitor’s closet after school, Oliver spends afternoons in the shop, a cavernous place full of storied oddities and grubby wonders where creatures rise up from the basement. A snake in the shape of a boy. A hunter named Night, part panther, part hound, who proves to Oliver that the world holds invisible wonder. 
   
   
   
  Wanting to forget his mother, afraid of his own genes, constantly harassed by bullies, Oliver joins the shop owner in experimenting with dangerous forms of genetic editing. Meanwhile, he meets the girl from across the street, and their friendship grows in a neighborhood where magic is real, where murderers gather, and where the darker consequences of fantasies play out.

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  The Evelyn Project

  Kfir Luzzatto

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  IF THE PRESENT CAN CHANGE THE PAST, WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO US IF WE MAKE A MISTAKE? WELL, YOU ARE ABOUT TO FIND OUT. 
    
  Evelyn is too young to die, but tuberculosis is consuming her and time is running out for her…in 1894. But can Franco, Evelyn's young relative who lives more than a century away in 2009, really be her savior? 
    
  When Franco becomes a piece in the game that has saving Evelyn as its prize, his life would be complicated enough without Eva, the young and beautiful aspiring actress with whom he falls in love. Eva returns Franco's love, or so he believes, but who Eva really is, and what she's up to, is difficult to say when you're busy running away from murder and conspiracy. 
    
  The race to save Evelyn is run in a slippery battlefield between the Vatican and a dangerous cult. While Franco and Eva chase and are chased all over Europe, they discover that in this game all is fair, just like in love.

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  The Deserted House - Curiosity...

  E T A Hoffmann

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  Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffman was born on the 24th January 1776, the youngest of three children, in Königsberg, then in Prussia but now part of the Kaliningrad Russian enclave. 
   
  His parents separated when he was two and for many years life was to be provincial and, despite his talents for the creative arts and the classics, much was passing him by. 
   
  At 20 Hoffman obtained employment as a clerk and to the art that now surrounded him.  Two years later he was in Berlin attempting a career as a composer with an operetta called ‘Die Maske’.  His gift for drawing caricatures and sharing them often got him into trouble that was easier to avoid. 
   
  The years of Napoleon ravaging Europe were bad for Hoffman; he moved often and took on works as varied as theatre management and music critic.  In this his talents were now more evident.  His works on Beethoven where highly regarded by the master himself. 
   
  His literary breakthrough came in 1809, with ‘Ritter Gluck’, about a man who believes he has met the composer 20 years after his death.  However the various jobs and the wars continued and plagued any career advancement despite his constant travel for opportunities, often through dangerous territories. 
   
  In the wake of Napoleon’s defeat in 1814, Hoffmann returned to Berlin where his opera ‘Undine’ was performed by the Berlin Theatre.  Life was now more settled and many of his most famous works were written at his time. 
   
  From 1819, Hoffmann was struggling with both legal disputes and ill health.  Alcohol abuse and syphilis were physically weakening him and from 1822 paralysis set in.  His last works were dictated to his wife or to a secretary as all around him society descended into an anti-liberal agenda, stifling dissent with threats of legal action and even treason.  The ailing Hoffman was among them. 
   
  E T A Hoffmann died on the 25th June 1822 in Berlin of syphilis.  He was 46.

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