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  Bound by the Basilisk

  Ami Wright

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  Would you make a deal with a deadly basilisk? 
   
   
   
  Diamonds are a girl's best friend, or that's what they say. That's why I love my job as an escort with Monstrous Deals. When the billionaire property mogul who's just opened a new casino in Heartstone tracks me down and demands to be my next client, I'm thrilled. He is far more handsome than my regular clients and dangerously charming. 
   
   
   
  The catch: Erserro is an ancient, deadly basilisk who can kill with a single look. 
   
   
   
  There are rules. I have to be blindfolded and I can never look at him when he touches me. That seems OK at first, but when feelings start to grow, I can't help but long for a closer look at this creature who gives me more pleasure than anyone has ever done. He claims he's a monster. That he's cursed. But the more I get to know him, the more I'd risk everything to uncover a treasure that might be worth more than any diamond. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Festival

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Festival" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft written in October 1923 and published in the January 1925 issue of Weird Tales. The story was inspired by Lovecraft's first trip to Marblehead, Massachusetts, in December 1922. Lovecraft later called that visit "the most powerful single emotional climax experienced during my nearly forty years of existence." In a flash all the past of New England—all the past of Old England—all the past of Anglo-Saxondom and the Western World--swept over me and identified me with the stupendous totality of all things in such a way as it never did before and never did again. That was the high tide of my life. The narrator's path through Kingsport corresponds to a route to the center of Marblehead; the house with the overhanging second story is probably based on Marblehead's 1 Mugford Street. The church in the story is St. Michael's Episcopal Church on Frog Lane. Built in 1714, it is the oldest Anglican church in New England that is still standing at its original site. The church is on a modest hill; for most of the 18th century, it had a steeple. Its crypt, where parishioners were interred, remains. Since Lovecraft visited the church (as evidenced by his signature in the guest register), he may have spoken with the rector and learned such details about the church.

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  The Castle of Otranto

  Horace Walpole

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  Conrad is crushed to death on his wedding day by a gigantic helmet that falls on him from above.  Manfred, lord of the castle, terrified that his son's  death signals the beginning of the end for his line, resolves to avert destruction by re-marrying himself while divorcing his current wife Hippolita, who he feels has failed to bear him a proper heir.

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  Fall Out - Parts 1 And 2

  Rachel Lawson

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  revised 2nd edition 
  "There you are Doctor, we were looking everywhere for you. We have another job for you," an orderly said. 
  "For heaven's sake don't beat around the bush!" Grumbled the Doctor. 
  "Another freshy for you!" said the orderly. 
  "Please refrain from referring to them as freshies call them a dead person!" hissed the doctor. 
  "Ok another dead person!" said the orderly. 
  "Take me to them," the doctor demanded. 
  "Doctor Death has come to do his job," announced the orderly to the nervous nurse inside the room with the body. 
  "I'm a coroner, not Doctor Death," said the Doctor entering the room. 
  "So sorry!" a reaper said walking out of the room. The doctor ran to the bedside of the dead person. 
  "Oh my god no," the doctor said weeping tears of blue electric fire which crystalized betraying his inhumanity to his colleagues. 
  "Blue Midnight is Doctor Death!" cried the orderly. 
  "Really, Sherlock how didn't you know!" said Blake crying, 
  "I was called here by my son because my wife was critical!" 
  "I just told him about his wife's death! Hey! That's your job telling people their relatives are dead!" the orderly moaned. 
  "I'll do you the same favor one day!" snarled Blake. 
  A man in a mask and a tux stood by a grave of his friend's dead wife. 
  "Angela Alexander you will live again!" The man said, "You will reincarnate in the past!" 
  "Argent. What are you doing lurking in the graveyard!" Angela's grieving widower snapped finding it an odd place to find fate. 
  "Oh hi, Mortimer what bring the king of the grim reapers here?" Argent said. 
  "My wife is buried here It gives me a right and reason to be here," said 
  the reaper Mortimer.

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  Dark Petition - A Supernatural...

  Jacob Marsh

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  How could they just let it happen? Why would someone let them in? 
  Owen is constantly drawn to the terrifying, supernatural, and unexplainable mysteries of the world. He can always find a rational explanation, but new stories are always calling to him.  
  Drawn to Birch Island by recent sightings of Black Eyed Kids, Owen hopes to make his journalist debut by cracking the case on this modern urban legend. But the longer he spends searching, the less sense everything makes.  
  We’re just kids. We can’t hurt you. 
  Can Owen remain a skeptic as the story he’s writing about becomes his own?  
  Will he give in and open the door? 
  Let us in! 
  Find out in Dark Petition, the prequel novella to the Birch Island horror-thriller series.

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  Inked in Blood and Memory

  Allison Ivy

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  Recluse Sophie Vanguard's winter cabin retreat turns ominous when blue flowers mysteriously appear. They're everywhere. On her front porch, in kitchen cabinets, and even on her pillow. It isn't long before chilling whispers echo in the halls, and her journal repeats seven unsettling entries.  
  Enter the bloodied and beautifully eccentric Ly Thi Ren. Though Ren seems familiar, Sophie refuses to believe the girl's insistence that they are trapped inside a book. 
  In a land of fiction, truth and lies blur together, clear decisions are marred by doubt, and shared family trauma lurks just below the surface. 
  Can Ren and Sophie make it out alive? Or will they end up nothing more than words inked in blood and memory?

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