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  The Homecoming

  Zoë Apostolides

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  The Homecoming is Zoë Apostolides's debut novel. Quietly disturbing, it tells the story of Ellen, a young ghost-writer sent to record the memoirs of an elderly woman living in a remote Northumberland manor. Elver House is dilapidated, its faded beauty fading to ruin.
  The assignment seems simple enough. Ellen will spend a week conducting interviews at the wild and sprawling estate – far from the quaint country cottage she had imagined – before returning to London to write Miss Carey's autobiography. She digs deeper into its history, its lore and mystique and its occupant's increasingly bizarre behaviour. Clearly it isn't just the past that's haunting Miss Carey. And in unravelling the tangled threads of the older woman's story, Ellen too must confront more about herself than she bargained for.
  Part mystery, part ghost story, this is a story about isolation, memory, spirits and secrets, intergenerational friendship and motherhood.

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  HP Lovecraft - Zombies (Herbert...

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Zombies (Herbert West: Reanimator) by H.P. Lovecraft 
  One of the first depictions of zombies as scientifically reanimated corpses, with animalistic and uncontrollable temperaments. 
   
  Chapters: 
   
  1 - From the Dark 
  2 - The Plague-Daemon 
  3 - Six Shots by Moonlight 
  4 - The Scream of the Dead 
  5 - The Horror From the Shadows 
  6 - The Tomb Legions

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  The Skeleton's Key

  Kevin D. Bullock, M.L. Bullock

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  As an archaeological team cares for the Indian Shell Mounds on Dauphin Island, they discover a strange metal key—in a skeleton's hand! Questions loom about the key's origin and what mysteries it might unlock. Could it be an artifact left behind by Spanish explorers, the first people besides the First Nation People to reside on the island? Or is the skeleton one of the unfortunate Casket Girls who died when the island was called Massacre Island? 
   
   
   
  After a few days of study, the key demonstrates strange characteristics and one archaeologist, in particular, is concerned that the activity surrounding the key could be paranormal. 
   
   
   
  Midas and the Gulf Coast Paranormal Team accept the case and head to the island to see for themselves the key, the skeleton, and a strange box that will not unlock. 
   
   
   
  Are they prepared for the ghosts of Massacre Island? Will the ghosts of the First Nation's people rise up in protest?

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  The Hill - A passing rambler...

  R Ellis oberts

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  Richard Ellis-Roberts was born in 1879.  In his literary career he was primarily a writer and translator and for short spells the literary editor of the New Statesman and Time and Tide.  His short stories frequently investigate dark and malevolent forces. 
   
  He died in 1953.

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  What The Moon Brings

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media and narrated by Matthew Schmitz. 
  There are Lovecraft stories that roar with cosmic terror — ancient gods, unknowable entities, the madness of knowledge. And then there is What the Moon Brings. This short, haunting piece is not a tale in the traditional sense, but a dream — or rather, a descent. It belongs to that strange and shadowy corner of Lovecraft’s imagination where logic erodes, and we are left adrift in a realm shaped by mood, moonlight, and the whisper of things not quite seen. First published in 1923, What the Moon Brings reads like a surreal reverie drenched in symbolism. It’s soaked in decay, beauty, and death — and it ends not with a revelation, but with an abyss. It offers no monsters, no names, no answers. Only images… and dread. This is Lovecraft at his most dreamlike, a foreshadowing of the rich, inward landscapes he would explore more fully in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and Ex Oblivione. It is a story that does not explain itself — it feels itself through you. Read it not for plot, but for atmosphere. Let it soak into your skin like moonlight on black water. Let it show you what the moon brings — when the dreamer can no longer wake.

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  The Terrible Old Man

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Terrible Old Man" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. It's notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of Kingsport. The Terrible Old Man is a strange elderly man "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name". He lives alone in an ancient house on Water Street in the town of Kingsport. The Terrible Old Man reappears in the story "The Strange High House in the Mist" in a more benevolent role.

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