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  The Willows - by Algernon...

  Gunnar Qualen, Jenna St. Claire

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  Gunnar Qualen and Jenna St. Claire update a classic horror story by Algernon Blackwood. Seemingly harmless sights and sounds will haunt you after experiencing this horror masterpiece by the Author of Wendigo (which became a movie project "The Ritual").

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  The Dream - A woman seeks...

  Mary Shelley

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  Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin was born on the 30th August 1797 in Somers Town, London. 
   
  Her mother, the famous feminist philosopher, educator, and writer Mary Wollstonecraft died when Mary was only 11 days old and she was raised by her father, the philosopher, novelist, journalist, and perpetually in debt, William Godwin. 
   
  Though Mary received little formal education her father taught her a broad range of subjects and added to her bright and curious personality she easily absorbed a good and broad education. 
   
  In July 1814, after conducting a secret affair with the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who had earlier promised to pay off yet another round of her father’s business debts, the pair eloped to France.  Within two months, penniless and pregnant they returned to England. 
   
  Her husbands’ affairs caused her frequent heartbreak but despite all the travails, including the loss of her own child, Shelley’s recent inheritance gave them the opportunity to journey again to Europe. 
   
  It was here that ‘Frankenstein’ was born and established Mary’s own name in literature. 
   
  Her life hereafter was plagued with loss; the death of two further children and then her husband in a boating accident.  Her writing continued through novels, travel pieces and biographies.  Her short stories, some based in Europe, tackle difficult situations and genres as well the obstacles that women were burdened with in society.  Her editorship of her late husband’s poetry was also widely praised.   
   
  Mary’s radical politics continued to guide her journey throughout her life but, by 1840, illness had begun to haunt her years, depriving her of energy and vigour.  
   
  Mary Shelley died on the 1st February 1851, at Chester Square, London of a suspected brain tumour.  She was 53.

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  Love Laugh Lich

  Kate Prior

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  Some people have monsters for a boss, but not everyone has an undead Necromancer Lord at the office. 
   
   
   
  Lily has been the Lich's secretary ever since his evilness took over the company. She loves her job, but she's got some questions about her boss. Like what's under that cloak of ever-billowing. 
   
   
   
  Her wondering intensifies when one day the Lich needs something from her that isn't just scheduling appointments—but a shiver. He needs it for a spell, but it feels like it crosses a line from their usual workplace banter. 
   
   
   
  After her contributions to his dark rituals become more than OSHA compliant, she starts to contemplate whether the Lich Lord returns her feelings, or still only sees her as his secretary. Lily may have given him her body, but he never asked for her heart. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Devil Makes Three

  Lucy Blue

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  In 1837, Briarwood Plantation was abandoned when Ezra Woodbine slaughtered his fianceé's entire family. After nearly two centuries, life returns to Briarwood. But for how long? 
   
   
   
  Serena Decatur is a thirty-year-old Black woman trapped in a life she never asked for. Widowed, underemployed, drowning in debt, she is living with her in-laws in the small town where she grew up. 
   
   
   
  Bestselling horror author Jacob McGinnas wants to dig into the secrets of Briarwood and write a new book, perhaps the literary masterwork that will etch his name in the lists of great authors. 
   
   
   
  But as he enlists Serena's help in bringing Briarwood back to life, they uncover a gruesome history of hatred and evil in Saxon County that extends far beyond the gates of the plantation and through time all the way to the present. Serena learns horrible truths about the town, her family, and their connection to Briarwood. Jacob's writer's block is shattered and he feels a bond with Briarwood and those who lived there. But is that bond imagined, or is it something real, something much darker? 
   
   
   
  For there is a power long dormant on the grounds of Briarwood, and it seems to be stirring. When it wakes, will anything of the town survive?

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  Genocide

  Alan Berkshire

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  Humanity is in a race against extinction. 
  Having survived a horrific attack by the Creeps, Adam Blake is badly scarred and weak. Though no one believes him, the attack—and subsequent coma—cursed Adam with prophetic visions wherein the Creeps evolve, the vines grow out of control, and a new threat rises to bring genocide to the human race. 
  When his visions come to fruition, it falls to John Sage to stop the threat with the tools he's found at the research facility. Combining science and weaponry, he faces off against familiar foes, but can John survive when aliens are involved?

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  Mary Ventura and The Ninth...

  Sylvia Plath

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  This newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life. 
  Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952, Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom tells the story of a young woman’s fateful train journey. 
  Lips the color of blood, the sun an unprecedented orange, train wheels that sound like “guilt, and guilt, and guilt”: these are just some of the things Mary Ventura begins to notice on her journey to the ninth kingdom. 
  “But what is the ninth kingdom?” she asks a kind-seeming lady in her carriage. “It is the kingdom of the frozen will,” comes the reply. “There is no going back.” 
  Sylvia Plath’s strange, dark tale of female agency and independence, written not long after she herself left home, grapples with mortality in motion.

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