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  Society Place - A Ghost Story

  Andrew David Barker

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  Set during the blazing English summer of 1976, recently widowed Heather Lowes moves into the house she was supposed to live with her husband. 
  But now she is alone. 
  Or at least, she thinks she is. 
  It is a normal terrace house, on an everyday, run-down working class street, in a dying industrial town. A place that seldom sees the extraordinary. 
  However, when Heather meets her new neighbours - the old woman next door, the kid from a few doors down - they all seem concerned that she has moved into the house at the end of Society Place. They seem to know something. 
  Heather's nights in the house are troubled. She senses a presence, particularly on the stairs, and down in the cellar. She dare not go down there. As the sweltering summer rages on, Heather experiences supernatural turmoil that tests her sanity and pushes her understanding of reality to its very limits. 
  She learns that there isn't just one ghost. 
  There is a Nest of Ghosts that haunt, not just her house, but all the houses on Society Place. 
  Heather also comes to learn of the Nest's interest in the baby growing inside her, and of the far-reaching consequences of the events of that summer and how they will still be felt into the first decades of the 21st century.

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  Odd Gems - Leroi Maquiller - The...

  Suri R. Moon

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  Meet Leroi Maquiller: A six-year-old boy is abducted from a train near New Haven, Connecticut and re-rooted into a family of sinister witches, illusionists, and unorthodox scientists who all seem to have big plans for him. Before long, they will learn that their newly appointed heir has dreams of his own, and a motive to destroy them all.

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  Highway to hell - a roadtrip...

  amulya mishra

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  When Alex and Jamie set out across the open desert highways of the American Southwest, they're chasing freedom, redemption, and a clean break from the ghosts of their past. But the road has other plans. 
  As they drift from one forgotten town to the next, the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur. Empty motels whisper secrets. The radio hums with messages not meant for the living. Every mile forward pulls them deeper into a landscape of psychological torment and supernatural dread — a place where the only escape is to confront what lies within. 
  What begins as an ordinary journey becomes a descent into fear, testing the limits of friendship, trust, and human endurance. Haunted by shadows both real and imagined, Alex and Jamie discover that hell isn't always a place — sometimes it's the road beneath your wheels.

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  Not a River - A Novel

  Selva Almada

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  * SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * 
   
   
   
  It's not a river, it's this river. 
   
   
   
  A hot, motionless afternoon. Enero and El Negro are fishing with Tilo, their dead friend's teenage son. After hours of struggling with a hooked stingray, Enero aims his revolver into the water and shoots it. They hang the ray's enormous corpse from a tree at their campsite and let it go to rot, drawing the attention of some local islanders and igniting a long-simmering fury toward outsiders and their carelessness. It's only the two sisters—the teenage nieces of one of the locals, Aguirre—with their hair black as cowbird feathers and giving off the scent of green grass, who are curious about the trio and invite them to a dance. But the girls are not quite as they seem. As night approaches and tensions rise, Enero and El Negro return to the charged memories of their friend who years ago drowned in this same river. 
   
   
   
  As uneasy and saturated as a prophetic dream, Not a River is another extraordinary novel by Selva Almada about masculinity, guilt, and irrepressible desire, written in a style that is spare and timeless.

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  Franz Kafka: The Metamorphosis -...

  Franz Kafka

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  This story, about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him, has intrigued me for many years. What does it mean? [Spoiler possibly]In my mind it is not complicated at all and is most probably an autobiography of how Kafka himself had experienced his early life living with his parents. Kafka describes how he had experienced his parents’ financial and emotional exploitations of him, to the point of detaching from them and thereby ceasing to be their son (the real metamorphosis). Gregor’s metamorphosis is that of Kafka’s being an obedient son, subserviently paying for his parents’ narcissistic needs with his own life, into being a disobedient one—as if he had become a ‘piece of vermin’. Gregor’s parents possessed a large sum of money in savings, which symbolizes the needlessness of Gregor’s exploitation. In other words, the parents did not love him for who he was, but for his loyal willingness to undergo this exploitation. Reduced to vermin, Gregor can (or will) no longer financially benefit his parents. It is the parents that caused Gregor’s/Kafka’s metamorphosis. The debt Gregor intended to repay his parents symbolizes the emotional debt many adult children continue to feel towards their elderly parents for the love and care they have provided. Sister Grete, at first siding with her brother against their unfriendliest father, eventually switches sides after her brother’s metamorphosis, conveniently seizing first place in the sibling hierarchy, a reference to Kafka’s relationship with one of his siblings. The reason why the book continues to enjoy popularity among large audiences of readers, in my opinionm is because they recognize themselves in Gregor Samsa, which makes it all the more astounding how many ‘expert’ interpretations attempt to distract students of Kafka away from the most likely one. 

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  Count Cagliostro

  Alexei Tolstoy

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  When a young man goes from the demands and rigors of the army to a luxurious and serene country living, his mind is bound to wander where it should not. Such is the fate of Alexei Alexeyevich Fedyashev, who becomes so absorbed in his newfound idleness that he falls in love with an old portrait. 
  When the famous conjurer and medium Count Cagliostro accidentally ends up at Fedyashev's escape, the young man begs him to bring his dream to reality. "Be careful what you wish for," is the lesson young Alexei has yet to learn - and how!

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