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  The Oval Portrait

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  "The Oval Portrait" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe involving the disturbing circumstances surrounding a portrait in a chateau. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842.The tale begins with an injured narrator (the story offers no further explanation of his or her impairment) seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion in the Apennines. The narrator spends his or her time admiring the paintings that decorate the strangely shaped room and perusing a volume, found upon a pillow, that describes them...

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  A Bundle of Shadowy Tales -...

  J.T. Ellison

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  Enjoy over a dozen shadowy tales in this bundle of short stories, written and edited by J.T. Ellison, that explore what happens when we find ourselves obsessed. 
  STORIES OF THE NIGHT, Four Shadowy Tales"Catwood" - A writer finds a cave keeping a dark secret for nearly a century."Gray Lady, Lady Gray" - A ghost in a Scottish castle seeks blood on a wedding day."The Omen Days" - An undercover cop searches for the lover who’s haunted him for years "The Endarkening" - A student abroad loses herself in a dreamy art dealer and his dark painting. 
  DEAD ENDS: Stories from the Gothic South, edited by J.T. Ellison 
  Look at this picture. Tell me what you see… 
  The American South is rife with stories of a haunted past—especially its houses. In this eclectic and impressive collection, thirteen novelists were asked to build their tales around the photo of a dilapidated mansion. They were given two requirements—the house must appear in the story, and it should be a Southern Gothic tale. And they delivered. 
  From childish demons to a mad novelist, from the Mississippi delta to the Appalachians, this collection from emerging voices and New York Times bestselling authors explores what happens when secrets that lie beneath the dust are disturbed—and our worst nightmares begin.  
  Includes:"The Perfect Buyer" – Jeff Abbott"Women and Zombies" – Helen Ellis"No Truth to Tell" – Patti Callahan Henry"The Death Doula" – Amanda Stevens"The Gentleman's Magicians" – Paige Crutcher"Fortunate Sons" – Dana Chamblee Carpenter"Stone Angels" – Laura Benedict"The Body Electric" – Bryon Quertermous"In Home Visit" – Dave White"The Perfect House" – Lisa Morton"Sleeping Angels" – David Bell"Looking for the Lost" – Ariel Lawhon

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  Philanthropy

  John Galsworthy

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  John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was an English playwright and novelist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932. "Philanthropy" is the story of a man who is approached by a drunken couple with a sob story, hoping to scrounge some money from him. The experience causes him to explore the underlying motivation for his habitual philanthropy and discover that it is not as altruistic as he had supposed.

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  The Walking

  Bentley Little

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  "It begins in a small Southwestern town. Then it spreads. Across the country a series of strange deaths have overtaken the living. And a stranger compulsion has overtaken the dead. In a travesty of life, they drift with bizarre purpose toward an unknown destination. The walkers have become an obsession for investigator Miles Huerdeen. His father is one of them. Now, lured into the shadow of the restless dead, Miles is a step closer to a secret as old as time. . . to a reality as dark as Hell. For Miles is following them into the deep end of an unfathomable nightmare."

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  A Bittersweet Victory

  Daniel Cotton

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  You can’t outrun the dead and you can’t trust the living as the zombie apocalypse rages on in the third book in the series.  
   
  Life is a winding road full of twists and turns, one can never be truly prepared for all the unexpected bumps and bends that loom ahead, or the pitfalls that derail us from our path.  
   
  Vida Calavera is about to learn this first hand when an evening out with her friends turns into a waking nightmare. All of her plans and aspirations for the future will be dashed in an instant, her world will crumble down around her as the dead rise up. Unable to get home she is lost, vulnerable to whatever may lurk around the next turn. Vida is heading straight into danger with death on her heels, but who she trusts with her life just might be the one who takes it.

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  Skin - A Novel

  Mo Hayder

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  A Jack Caffrey thriller from “easily today’s best writer of visceral and elemental horror . . . guaranteed to creep out even the strongest of heart.” (Booklist, starred review)   In her eerie and hair-raising thriller Skin, Mo Hayder trails her two unforgettable protagonists as they race to staunch a rising tide of blood in a sweltering port town.   When the decomposing body of a young woman is found, the wounds on her wrists suggest an open-and-shut case of suicide. But Jack Caffery is not so sure. Other apparent suicides are cropping up, and they all have a connection to Elf’s Grotto, a nearly bottomless network of flooded quarries just outside the city. Caffery begins to suspect a shadowy and sinister predator, someone—or something—that can disappear into darkness and slip into houses unseen. Working alongside Caffery is rough-and-tough police diver Flea Marley, but while pursuing her investigation, she stumbles upon something far too close to home that no one—not even Caffery—can help her face.  Skin is a penetrating dissection of family, friendships, and the evil that can tear them apart—or bind them together. Devious and disturbing, it introduces one of Hayder’s most horrifying villains yet.   “Hayder is not a subdued writer. Her characters are almost as chilling as the horrors that they are investigating.” —The Times (London)

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