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  The House of the Seven Gables

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Embark on a captivating journey to "The House of the Seven Gables" with Nathaniel Hawthorne. This Gothic novel transports listeners to a haunting world of family secrets, ancestral curses, and the enduring power of redemption. As the story unfolds within the walls of the enigmatic Pyncheon mansion, Hawthorne's masterful storytelling paints a vivid picture of the human condition, exploring themes of guilt, fate, and the interplay between past and present. Delve into this timeless tale of mystery and discover the allure of Hawthorne's richly woven narrative.

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  Aleister Crowley - A Short Story...

  Aleister Crowley

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  Edward Alexander Crowley was born on 12th October 1875 to wealthy parents in Royal Leamington Spa in Warwickshire. 
   
  He was educated at Malvern College, Tonbridge School, Eastbourne College and finally Trinity College, Cambridge where he focused on his passions of mountaineering and poetry and published several volumes. 
   
  Life for Crowley was to abandon his parents’ Christian faith and instead to inject himself into Western esotericism.  In 1898, he joined the esoteric Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and was trained in ceremonial magic before studying both Hindu and Buddhist practices in India. 
   
  On his Egyptian honeymoon in 1904 he claimed contact with an entity―Aiwass―who gave him the sacred Book of the Law which served as the basis for the Thelema religion where he identified as its prophet.  During the Great War, which he spent in the United States, he claimed to be working for British Intelligence but by the 1920s he had decamped to pursue a libertine lifestyle in Sicily, and in the ensuing scandals was evicted by the Italian Government. 
   
  He divided the following two decades between France, Germany, and England, and the continuing promotion of Thelema. 
   
  During his life he gained widespread notoriety for his drug use, his bisexuality, and his alarming views on society.  In short, polite society frowned on his ways, his thoughts and his influence but to many others his stance had much of value.  Even after death he was a darling for the 60’s counterculture but his influence has since waned.   
   
  His literary works were both prolific and covered many topics.  In the early part of his career he published many poetry books, even plays, before his darker and more forceful works came to dominate his output. 
   
  Aleister Crowley died on 1st December 1947 at Hastings in England. He was 72.

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  Cursed Bookshop The: A Cozy...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  📚 When bookish librarian Elara Vance inherits her great-uncle's antiquarian bookshop, she discovers it comes with more than just rare first editions. The shop is rumored to be cursed, with a history of mysterious deaths spanning centuries. Elara dismisses the superstitions until a rival book collector is found dead in the rare manuscripts section, clutching a valuable medieval text that shouldn't exist. Teaming up with a skeptical historian and the shop's resident cat, Whisper, Elara must decipher clues hidden in ancient books before the curse claims its next victim. From encrypted grimoires to haunted poetry collections, every page reveals new secrets about the bookshop's dark past and the deadly conspiracy that wants its mysteries to remain buried forever.

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  Love Lies Bleeding - A Novel

  Jess McConkey

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  In the vein of Jennifer McMahon’s Promise Not to Tell and TheLovely Bones by Alice Sebold  comes Love Lies Bleeding, a haunting story about the lengths to which people will go to keep their pasts buried. Jess McConkey (aka award-winning author Shirley Damsgaard) enthralls with her ingenious blending of family drama and gripping mystery. Suspenseful and absolutely chilling, Love Lies Bleeding grabs hold of the reader from page one, as a young woman whose golden life is shattered by unexpected violence is sent to a small, secluded lake town in Northern Minnesota to recover—and soon suspects the town’s eccentric residents are hiding more than one truly frightening secret.

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  Shards of Amber - A Horror Story...

  J.W.G. Wise

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  Eighteen tales of horror delve into the world of the horror audio drama Wrought of Amber. 
  PRINCESS EMERALD IS GONE 
  Twelve-year-old actress Emily Carmichael was the star of the children's TV show, Virtue Vista Valley, until she went missing on a Saturday afternoon in 2009. Four days later, police found her remains on the property of Wesley Graveline, one of Virtue Vista Valley's writers. Graveline confessed and was executed, and the case was closed. More than a decade later, Alex Carmichael questioned the official story of her sister's death with her podcast Wrought of Amber and shed light on the unexplored corners of her family's tragic loss. 
  This collection of stories expands the story to dark corners beyond Alex's reach. 
  Set in the world of Wrought of Amber and Weeping Cedars, these eighteen short stories add to Alex's version of events by uncovering secrets she could never know and staring into darkness she could never imagine. Shards of Amber includes the tales of a killer who poses his victims, a model train set that appears mysteriously in an office lobby, an actor who must endure dreams of drowning, and the tale of an aspiring young writer who finds something unexpected in the West Virginia woods. 
  Join the search for Emily Carmichael, but be careful not to cut yourself on the shards. 
   

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  Life in Cars A (Unabridged)

  Rosalie Parker

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  Rosalie Parker runs the independent UK publishing house Tartarus Press with R. B. Russell. Her previous collections include The Old Knowledge (Swan River Press 2010) and Damage (PS Publishing 2016). "In the Garden" was selected for Best New Horror 21 (2010), and "Random Flight" for Best British Horror 2015. Rosalie lives in Coverdale, North Yorkshire, the magnificent landscape of which inspires and sometimes provides the settings for her writing.
  A LIFE IN CARS: You've been visiting for some time and I've made very little effort to communicate. I have nothing against you - you are well turned out in your skirt and twin-set, your hair in its careful bun. I cannot fault your appearance; you seem the right sort: clean, punctual, intelligent. Even your persistence is commendable.

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