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  Banquet for the Damned

  Adam Nevill

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  In Scotland's oldest university town something evil is plaguing the streets. Students are vanishing and turning up dead - each reported to have been haunted by night terrors.When struggling musicians, Dante and Tom arrive at St. Andrews to meet Professor Coldwell, author of Banquet of the Damned, they discover that the town’s bloody history of witchcraft and ritual murder may have begun again.Meanwhile, Hart Miller, a researcher of dream culture, begins investigating the mysterious deaths. Strange shadows have been seen amongst the ruins, body parts are being washed ashore and there are whispers of a vengeful prophecy . . .This is certainly not a place for outsiders, especially at night. So what chance do they have at surviving an ageless supernatural evil and the ruthless cult that worships it?A chilling occult thriller from award-winning author Adam Nevill, Banquet for the Damned is both a homage to the great age of British ghost stories and a pacey modern tale of Devil worship and witchcraft.

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  Engines Beneath Us

  Malcolm Devlin

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  'A beautifully told and deeply troubling story that confirms Devlin's place at the forefront of Weird fiction.'
  
  – Ginger Nuts of Horror
  
  Rob is a Crescent kid. Born and raised in the sheltered circle of grey semis, built to house the employees of The City Works and their families. Under the eye of the reclusive Mr Olhouser, the residents of The Crescent go about their work, their lessons and their law, accompanied by the never-ending sound of The Works machinery deep under the ground. When Lee Wrexler moves into The Crescent, he brings with him something dangerous from the outside. Not just a reputation for trouble, but an outside perspective that will show Rob that the home he always thought he had a measure of is a stranger and far more unsettling place than he could have imagined… Malcolm Devlin's Engines Beneath Us is a powerful and unsettling novella of how the individual spirit is crushed by the pressure to conform, from a contemporary master of weird fiction.

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  The Silver Key

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Silver Key" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft in 1926, considered part of his Dreamlands series. It was first published in the January 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It is a continuation of "The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath", and was followed by a sequel, "Through the Gates of the Silver Key", co-written with E. Hoffmann Price. The story and its sequel both feature Lovecraft's recurring character of Randolph Carter as the protagonist.

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  The Black Cat

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  Title: The Black Cat 
  Author: Edgar Allan Poe 
  Narrator: Jonathan Dunne 
  Original Publication: 1843 
  Public Domain: Yes 
  Series Placement: Number 12 in the Timeless Terrors series 
  Description: 
  The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe is a dark tale of guilt, madness, and the supernatural. First published in 1843 in The Saturday Evening Post, it tells the story of a man whose descent into alcoholism and cruelty leads to shocking acts of violence, culminating in a horrifying confrontation with a seemingly malevolent feline. 
  Told through the first-person perspective of the increasingly unreliable narrator, the story explores themes of conscience, obsession, and the terrifying consequences of unchecked human depravity. Poe’s mastery of psychological horror and gothic atmosphere makes this a timeless classic. 
  This recording, narrated by Amazon bestselling horror author Jonathan Dunne, brings to life the creeping tension, psychological dread, and macabre details that define Poe’s work. While the text is in the public domain, this performance is an original work and copyright © 2025 Jonathan Dunne. 
  Listeners should be prepared for a disturbing meditation on guilt, horror, and the dark impulses that lurk within the human psyche.

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  Ballad of the Bone Road

  A. C. Wise

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  From Sunburst Award–winning author A. C. Wise, this utterly original dark fantasy tale is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Ava Reid.Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation—and Port Astor decided to forget.Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astor's wraiths and specters from consuming the city. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belizial; Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancée in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go.While investigating the glamorous and notoriously haunted Peony Hotel, Brix and Belle come across a young couple tangled up in one of the city's most infamous tales. Jimmy Valentine, silver screen idol and one-time favorite of a fae queen, has returned to haunt the Peony. But Jimmy is no mere ghost, and Brix and Belle soon realize his return is more intimately tied to their own hauntings than they could ever have imagined.The fae have not forgotten that Port Astor once belonged to them. And their Hollow Queen won't give up her kingdom so easily.

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  That Little Square Box

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  That Little Square Box is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in London Society magazine in december 1881, signed as A. C. D.
  Mr. Hammond, who is travelling on the American steamer "The Spartan" is suspicious about two passengers after having witnessed their conversation on the deck. They were talking about a secret square box, a mechanism and the fact that the world will soon hear of it...

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