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  Witchy Little Lies

  Kim Richardson

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  Fairytales aren’t real, right? 
  That’s what I thought until they came to Hollow Cove. And when I say they arrived, I mean they actually materialized—they came to life. 
  Newly engaged, I was looking forward to some quiet, sexy time with my wereape—all kinds of horizontal refreshments in every room—you know the type. But did I get it? Nope. Instead, I get hit with fairytales that plague our town. 
  Sounds harmless. But not all fairytales are about sunshine and rainbows. Some are evil. And some, well, some… are deadly. 
  The Davenport witches tackle the challenges of life and love in this bewitching and enchanting series brimming with magic and vivid characters. Don’t miss the next installment in The Witches of Hollow Cove series. 
  Witchy Little Lies is perfect for fans of urban fantasy, mystery, romance, and humor. Get ready for this heart-pounding and laugh-out-loud magical adventure!

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  Studies of Death

  Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock

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  Before his untimely death at the age of 36 of cirrhosis of the liver due to his excessive alcoholism and opium addiction, Stenbock managed to publish three slim volumes of poetry, much of which was fixated on suicide, as well as this volume of short stories, Studies of Death. This short collection of tales of death in all its various forms featuring occultism, vampires, jilted lovers and sea sprites among other things is seen as not only an early curiosity of occult and weird literature but also contains early queer themes as well, most notably in the stories "Hylas" and "The True Story of a Vampire".

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  Green Tea - Amazing supernatural...

  Sheridan Le Fanu

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  Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was born on August 28th, 1814, at 45 Lower Dominick Street, Dublin, into a literary family with Huguenot, Irish and English roots 
  The children were tutored but, according to his brother William, the tutor taught them little if anything. Le Fanu was eager to learn and used his father's library to educate himself about the world. He was a creative child and by fifteen had taken to writing poetry. 
   
  Accepted into Trinity College, Dublin to study law he also benefited from the system used in Ireland that he did not have to live in Dublin to attend lectures, but could study at home and take examinations at the university as and when necessary. 
   
  This enabled him to also write and by 1838 Le Fanu's first story The Ghost and the Bonesetter was published in the Dublin University Magazine. Many of the short stories he wrote at the time were to form the basis for his future novels. Indeed, throughout his career Le Fanu would constantly revise, cannabilise, embellish and re-publish his earlier works to use in his later efforts. 
   
  Between 1838 and 1840 Le Fanu had written and published twelve stories which purported to be the literary remains of an 18th-century Catholic priest called Father Purcell. Set mostly in Ireland they include classic stories of gothic horror, with grim, shadowed castles, as well as supernatural visitations from beyond the grave, together with madness and suicide. One of the themes running through them is a sad nostalgia for the dispossessed Catholic aristocracy of Ireland, whose ruined castles stand in mute salute and testament to this history. 
   
  On 18 December 1844 Le Fanu married Susanna Bennett, the daughter of a leading Dublin barrister. The union would produce four children. Le Fanu was now stretching his talents across the length of a novel and his first was The Cock and Anchor published in 1845. 
   
  A succession of works followed and his reputation grew as well as his income. Unfortunately, a decade after his marriage it became an increasing source of difficultly. Susanna was prone to suffer from a range of neurotic symptoms including great anxiety after the deaths of several close relatives, including her father two years before. 
   
  In April 1858 she suffered an "hysterical attack" and died in circumstances that are still unclear. The anguish, profound guilt as well as overwhelming loss were channeled into Le Fanu’s work. Working only by the light of two candles he would write through the night and burnish his reputation as a major figure of 19th Century supernaturalism. His work challenged the focus on the external source of horror and instead he wrote about it from the perspective of the inward psychological potential to strike fear in the hearts of men. 
   
  A series of books now came forth: Wylder's Hand (1864), Guy Deverell (1865), The Tenants of Malory (1867), The Green Tea (1869), The Haunted Baronet (1870), Mr. Justice Harbottle (1872), The Room in the Dragon Volant (1872) and In a Glass Darkly. (1872). 
   
  But his life was drawing to a close. Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu died in Merrion Square in his native Dublin on February 7th, 1873, at the age of 58.

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  Cracked Altar

  David Viergutz

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  When darkness falls, evil rises… 
  John thought he had hit rock bottom, but he was wrong. As he struggles to clear his name and stay alive in a west Texas ghost town, he is pursued by a shadowy presence that seems to know his every move. 
  With no one left to turn to and his sanity hanging by a thread, John must confront the malevolent force that haunts him before it's too late. 
  But as he unravels the mystery of the darkness, he realizes that the true horror may be within himself. 
  Experience the terror of Cracked Altar: St. Andrew’s. Start reading now and join John on his journey through the shadows as he battles the malevolent force that haunts him.

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  Evil Clergyman The (The Work of...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Evil Clergyman" is an excerpt from a letter written by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft in 1933. After his death, it was published in the April 1939 issue of Weird Tales as a short story. The story was later adapted into the unreleased 1987 anthology film Pulse Pounders. The letter, to his friend Bernard Austin Dwyer, recounted a dream that Lovecraft had had. Although Lovecraft frequently based stories on his dreams, An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia notes that " is difficult to say how HPL would have developed this conventional supernatural scenario.

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  BEDLAM; A Wychwood Ghost Story...

  Duke Pierce Reade

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  London, 1895. Beneath the grandeur of Queen Victoria’s reign, shadows lengthen. Private asylums thrive, promising rest for troubled minds, yet many conceal despair rather than cure it. None more so than Fairheather Asylum for the Infirmed and Lunatic—a place where hope decays in candlelit corridors, and whispers linger long after midnight. 
  Emily, unwillingly confined, seeks solace at her favorite window in the Day Room. Beyond the mews she chases glimpses of the emperor butterfly, said to grant wishes to the pure of heart. Yet one window remains bare, lifeless, avoided even by insects. And there, framed in peeling paint and grime, waits the figure she dreads most: a gaunt specter draped in tatters, hair like tangled roots, eyes black as voids. Its lips move without sound, repeating the same chilling demand—“Where are my beads? Where are my beads?” 
  The haunting is no accident. Its roots lie far from London, in the ancient soil of the Wychwood borderlands where four counties meet. A century ago, in a plow-field near Oddington House, something was unearthed that should have remained buried. What was disturbed has cursed Emily’s bloodline ever since, binding her to the phantom that now stalks her reflection. 
  Each episode of BEDLAM: A Wychwood Ghost Story peels back layers of horror: the buried relic, the sins of a family long damned, the cruelties of doctors who confuse torment with treatment. A tale of inheritance, madness, and the hunger of the dead, BEDLAM invites you into a world where reason falters, the past refuses burial, and the ghost at the window grows stronger with every glance. 
  Step into Fairheather. Listen for the whispers. Watch the windows. 
  But do not meet her gaze too long.

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