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  Never Bet the Devil Your Head

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Though many of his tales have morals, so few of Poe’s stories start with the idea that they are meant to be moralistic as is the case with Never Bet the Devil Your Head. In this story, the narrator showcases his friend, Toby Dammit, who is a man of low morals and often makes bets against the devil. One day, while on a bridge, Dammit sees a turnstile and bets the devil his head that he can make it that far. An old man goads Dammit into making the leap – and the cost is about what you might expect.  

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  The Little Sleep - A Novel

  Paul Tremblay

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  The Bram Stoker Award–winning author of Survivor Song and The Cabin at the End of the World “slices, dices, and spins the neo-noir in his own strange way” in his “fast, smart, and completely satisfying”* debut novel featuring a narcoleptic detective from Southie. 
   
  *Stewart O’Nan 
   
  The Little Sleep is Paul Tremblay’s nod to Raymond Chandler starring a PI who nods off. Mark Genevich is a South Boston private detective who happens to have a severe form of narcolepsy, which includes hypnagogic hallucinations, like waking dreams. Unsurprisingly, his practice is not exactly booming. 
  Then one day the daughter of an ambitious district attorney and a contestant on the reality talent show American Star named Jennifer Times comes to him for help—or does she? A man has stolen her fingers, she claims, and she’d like Genevich to get them back. When the PI wakes up from what must surely be a hallucination, the only evidence that his client may have been real is a manila envelope on his desk. Inside are revealing photos of Jennifer. Is Genevich dealing with a blackmailer or an exhibitionist? And where is the mysterious young lady, who hopefully still has her fingers attached? 
  The detective has no choice but to plunge into what proves to be a bad dream of a case, with twists and turns even his subconscious could not anticipate. Chloroforming the hardboiled crime genre then shaking it awake and spinning it around, Paul Tremblay delivers a wholly original, wildly imaginative, gleefully entertaining noir mystery—guaranteed to keep you up all night, even if Mark Genevich won’t be joining you.

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  The Prisoner of Hell Gate

  Diana Wolff

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  In the Hell Gate section of New York's East River lie the sad islands where, for centuries, people locked away what they most feared: the contagious, the disfigured, the addicted, the criminally insane. Here, infection slowly consumed the stricken. Here, a desperate captain ran his doomed steamship aground and watched flames devour 1,500 souls. Here, George A. Soper imprisoned the infamous Typhoid Mary after she spread sickness and death in Manhattan's most privileged quarters.  
  George's great-granddaughter, Karalee, and her fellow graduate students in public health know that story. But as they poke in and out of the macabre hospital rooms of abandoned North Brother Island - bantering, taking pictures, recalling history - they are missing something: Hidden evil watches over them...and plots against them.  
  Death doesn't only visit Hell Gate. It comes to stay. As darkness falls, the students find themselves marooned - their casual trespass having unleashed a chain of horrific events beyond anyone's imagination. Disease lurks among the eerie ruins where Typhoid Mary once lived and breathed. Ravenous flies swarm puddles of blood. Rot and decay cling to human skin. And spiteful ghosts haunt the living and undead.  
  Soon five students of history will learn more than they ever wanted to know about New York's foul underbelly: the meaning of spine-tingling cries down the corridor, of mysterious fires, of disfiguring murder, and of an avenging presence so sinister they'd rather risk their lives than face the terror of one more night.

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  Marsyas in Flanders

  Vernon Lee

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  A short story from the British Library Tales of the Weird collection A Phantom Lover and Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee. When a broken effigy of Christ washes up on a beach in Flanders, it is displayed in the local church. Strange miracles start drawing people to the town to worship, but then these unexplainable events start to turn sinister…

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  Summer - They created him

  Jens-Peter Sjöberg

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  A group of friends convenes at a cabin in the Stockholm archipelago for a much anticipated vacation. But all is not well on the island of Svartoga. A sinister presence stalks them even as tensions rise and friendships are tested. 
  Created by Jens Peter Sjoberg 
  Creative Consultant, TJ Marquis 
  Narrated by Victoria Jeffrey 
  Produced by Tell A Tale AB

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  Animal Phantoms - True Ghost...

  Barbara Smith

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  Kids encounter all kinds of animal ghosts in this spirited debut volume. Some involve pets, others involve wild animals, but all are based on fact and very, very scary!
  		 
  When a fishtank comes mysteriously to life, a boy struggles to convince his parents of the danger…
  		 
  The ghost of a dead puppy reminds a preteen of her special childhood bond…
  		 
  While on a European tour, a group of foolhardy kids chide the locals for their superstitions — only to be attacked by a swarm of ghostly birds of prey…

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