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  The Judge's House

  Bram Stoker

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  "The Judge's House" is a gothic short story by Bram Stoker, first published in 1887. It follows a young man named Malcolm Ross, who seeks solitude and peace in a remote village while preparing for an important exam. He rents a mysterious, decaying house once owned by a judge with a dark reputation. As Ross settles in, he experiences eerie, supernatural occurrences that reveal the house's sinister past. The story explores themes of isolation, terror, and the haunting consequences of unresolved guilt.

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  The Pale House Devil

  Richard Kadrey

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  A gripping, snappy creature feature from the master of horror noir about two detectives—one dead, one living—hired by an embittered old landowner to banish a bloody cosmic monster from his ancestral home, perfect for fans of Cassandra Khaw, Charles Stross, and Lucy A. Snyder. 
   
   
   
  Ford and Neuland are paranormal mercenaries—one living, one undead; one of them kills the undead, the other kills the living. When a job goes bad in New York, they head west to wait for the heat to cool down. 
   
   
   
  There, a young woman named Tilda Rosenbloom hires them on behalf of wealthy landowner, Shepherd Mansfield, to track and kill a demon haunting a mansion in remote northern California. 
   
   
   
  As Ford and Neuland investigate the creature they uncover a legacy of blood, sacrifice and slavery in the house. Forced to confront a powerful creature unlike anything they've faced before, they come to learn that the most frightening monster might not be the one they're hunting . . . 
   
    
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Infiltration - Who has the...

  Jyothi Seshan

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  Running smoothly on oiled wheels, the prestigious Goal High School in the Emirates, is anything but talkworthy, till a string of deaths and disappearances catapults the school into public limelight. The macabre remains of the sturdy nightwatchman is believed to have been caused by a wild dog attack. While parents panic, the eleventh graders take it up as a challenge and venture into the school premises at night to retrieve a cap that had been placed in their classroom as the object of a dare. The list of missing students multiply, baffling the investigating team and plunging the parents of the wards into grim despair. The residents of Abu Dhabi are gripped in a thrall of shock as the school slides deeper into the quicksand of terror. Frustrated by the dearth of customary leads, how was this baffling mystery going to be solved?

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  Doom That Came to Sarnath The...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  "The Doom That Came to Sarnath" (1920) is a fantasy short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It is written in a mythic/fantasy style and is associated with his Dream Cycle. It was first published in The Scot, a Scottish amateur fiction magazine, in June 1920.

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  Sinner's Secret

  Julie Rowe

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  Bazyli Breznik used to rule the world, but now the centuries old vampire is at the bottom of the food chain. He's broke and drives a yellow cab in NYC. He sleeps in the trunk. He's an alcoholic. His only friends are drunks. He's a murderer and believes he's the most evil creature on earth. 
    
  He's wrong. 
    
  Baz is in hiding, like the rest of his kind. They aren't like normal humans, they were changed more than five hundred years ago by a virus into a version of human who never grows old, heals fast, and requires fresh blood for nutrition. The vampires of myth and legend aren't some kind of magical beings, they're real people whose disease is both blessing and curse. And Baz was once the badest of them all. 
    
  Baz is satisfied with living a marginal life on the edge of society as punishment for all the sins he committed centuries ago. A waitress at one of the diners in his area is nearly kidnapped in front of him. He steps in only to discover that the waitress is really an undercover cop who is part of a sting operation. Baz ends up agreeing to be an informant so the cops will leave him alone. But the traffickers try to take the lady cop, Nika, again, and Baz becomes annoyed. She's good people, and he's always hated slavery. 
    
  When Nika is finally taken on try number three, he's not content to look and listen anymore. He discovers that the criminals behind the ring aren't just bad people, they're the kind of bad he used to be. And they don't care who they hurt, or who finds out about them. He's got to stop them, get Nika back, and manage not to kill too many people all at the same time. 
    
  He wasn't cut out to be a good guy.

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  The Masque of the Red Death

  Edgar Allan Poe

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  “The Masque of the Red Death”, originally published as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy” (1842), is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague, known as the Red Death, by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, hosts a masquerade ball within seven rooms of the abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms. Prospero dies after confronting this stranger, whose "costume" proves to contain nothing tangible inside it; the guests also die in turn.
  Poe's story follows many traditions of Gothic fiction and is often analyzed as an allegory about the inevitability of death, though some critics advise against an allegorical reading. Many different interpretations have been presented, as well as attempts to identify the true nature of the titular disease. The story was first published in May 1842 in Graham's Magazine and has since been adapted in many different forms, including a 1964 film starring Vincent Price. Additionally, it has been alluded to by other works in many types of media.

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