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  Mother Of Toads

  Clark Ashton Smith

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  Mother of Toads by Clark Ashton Smith follows Pierre, a young apothecary’s apprentice, who visits the feared witch Mère Antoinette in a remote marshland and becomes ensnared by her sinister enchantments. After drinking a seemingly harmless spiced wine, he falls under a grotesque illusion that transforms the repulsive sorceress into a figure of irresistible allure, leading to a night of corrupted intimacy. Awakening to her true monstrous, toad-like form, Pierre flees—only to be relentlessly driven back by swarming toads that serve as her familiars. Trapped within her supernatural domain, he is ultimately overwhelmed by these creatures, suggesting his doom as he is dragged into the witch’s grotesque, inescapable power.

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  From the Neck Up

  Peter Cheyney

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  “Say, Mr. Caution, don’t ya think I got swell legs? I just asked that big punk Gettzler for a raise an’ he says I’m goin’ bowlegged. I reckon he’s a lousy liar. What do you think?” 
  Sadie has got the swellest legs in Chicago, an’ when she does her act at the theatre, hard-boiled guys rush off home just outa sheer nervous energy. She has also got sex appeal plus, but no brains. From the neck up she is as dead as a piece of frozen Eskimo.  
  This is a classic short story featuring Peter Cheyney’s popular detective Lemmy Caution. 

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  The Girl in the Green Raincoat -...

  Laura Lippman

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  “Lippman is a writing powerhouse. ”  
  —USA Today 
    
  “I love her books.”  
  —Harlan Coben 
    
  New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman—winner of the Edgar® Award and every other major literary prize given for mystery and crime fiction—embroils Baltimore p.i. Tess Monaghan in the strange case of The Girl in the Green Raincoat. Originally serialized in the New York Times, The Girl in the Green Raincoat is now in book form for the very first time—a masterful thriller in the Alfred Hitchcock mode that places a very pregnant, homebound Tess in the center of a murderous puzzle that could cost her her life and the life of her unborn child.

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  Anyone But Her

  Cynthia Swanson

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  Knowledge has a price . . . 
   
   
   
  It's 1979, and fourteen-year-old Suzanne, who should be enjoying her first year at Denver East High, is instead reckoning with the aftermath of her mother Alex's shooting death during a robbery at Alex's store, Zoe's Records. A clairvoyant since childhood, Suzanne is unsurprised when Alex's ghost appears. But when Alex raises alarm bells about Suzanne's father's new girlfriend, what Suzanne can't foresee is the lifelong repercussions as she heeds Alex's warning. 
   
   
   
  In 2004, Suzanne returns to Denver with her husband and their two children, a defiant teenage daughter and a nine-year-old son with unspecified cognitive disabilities. When the opportunity arises to rent the old Zoe's Records space and turn it into a gallery, Suzanne jumps at the chance. While ecstatic to honor Alex's legacy, Suzanne nonetheless can't shake the sensation that she's being watched—while at the same time tackling a clandestine investigation of her own, searching for genetic clues into her family's hidden past that might lead to a diagnosis for her son. 
   
   
   
  What if she knows too little? What if she discovers too much?

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  The Yellow Fairy Book

  Andrew Lang

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  "Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources (who had collected them originally), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories." (summary from wikipedia)

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  Southern Fortunes

  Amy Boyles

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  When Pepper teaches a class at the Southern School of Magic, she expects a run of the mill experience. But when a gaggle of mean teachers invades her classroom, Pepper is on high alert.  
  These women are nasty and they make no bones about disliking Pepper.  
  Pepper does her best to stay far away from them, but when one of the witches is murdered in broad daylight, everyone's a suspect, including Rufus Mayes, who's moved back into town. 
  But Rufus's intentions are honest. At least so it seems. After all, he gave Pepper an amulet that will protect her from evil. When her boyfriend, Axel Reign, discovers what Rufus has given her, he's ticked off and rightly so. Not only that, but Axel drops a bombshell on Pepper regarding their relationship that will change everything.  
  Can Pepper handle this new revelation in their relationship? She must decide, but there's also a murderer to catch. Can Pepper do both before she becomes the next victim of the Magnolia Cove murderer?

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