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  Dancing with a Ghost

  Angela Pepper

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  Some secrets won't stay buried... 
  Shy and sensitive art student Katie Mills is trying to escape the ghost who haunts her after dark. She travels to New Mexico to study with a master painter and rejuvenate under the big, blue southwestern sky. 
  But the ghost who followed Katie to the desert isn't content with sampling the spicy cuisine and painting the local landscape. This restless spirit is only interested in justice. 
  Katie is finally breaking out of her quiet shell and learning how to paint with abandon when one of the other guests turns up dead. In the wake of the tragedy, Katie surprises herself by finding comfort in a fellow artist's arms. But as new evidence surfaces and suspicion broadens, Katie doesn't know who to trust. 
  And now, the vengeful ghost she brought with her is demanding to be heard. 
  Time is running out. Katie must find the courage to speak up and solve the ranch's deadly mystery before a killer takes another life. 
  Dancing with a Ghost is a riveting, cozy ghost mystery that will have you glued to your device and gasping at the twist ending!

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  The Madness of Mercury

  Connie di Marco

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  San Francisco astrologer Julia Bonatti's life is turned upside down when she becomes the target of the city's newest cult leader, Reverend Roy of the Prophet's Tabernacle. Driven out of her apartment in the midst of a disastrous Mercury retrograde period, she takes shelter with a client who's caring for two elderly aunts. One aunt appears stricken with dementia and the other has fallen under the spell of the Reverend Roy. To add to the confusion, a young man claiming to be a long-lost nephew arrives. The longer he stays, the more dangerous things become. Is the young man truly a member of the family? Can astrology confirm that? Julia's not sure, but one thing she does know is that Mercury wasn't merely the messenger of the gods—he was a trickster and a liar as well.

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  Nightmare Abbey

  Thomas Love Peacock

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  Nightmare Abbey was Peacock's third long work of fiction to be published. It was written in late March and June 1818, and published in London in November of the same year. The novella was lightly revised by the author in 1837 for republication in Volume 57 of Bentley's Standard Novels. The book is Peacock's most wellliked and frequentlyread work. 
   
  The novel was a topical work of Gothic fiction in which the author satirized tendencies in contemporary English literature, in particular Romanticism's obsession with morbid subjects, misanthropy and transcendental philosophical systems. Most of its characters are based on historical figures whom Peacock wished to pillory. 
   
  It has been observed that "the plots of Peacock's novels are mostly devices for bringing the persons together and the persons are merely the embodiment of whims and theories, or types of a class". Nightmare Abbey embodies the critique of a particular mentality and pillories the contemporary vogue for the macabre. To his friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, Peacock described the object of his novel as being "to bring to a sort of philosophical focus a few of the morbidities of modern literature". Appearing in the same year as Northanger Abbey, it similarly contrasts the product of the inflamed imagination, or what Peacock's Mr. Hilary describes as the "conspiracy against cheerfulness", with the commonplace course of everyday life, with the aid of lighthearted ridicule. 
   
  Several of the chapters take a dramatic form interspersed with stage directions in order to illustrate without comment how much the speakers characterize themselves through their conversation. The actor and director Anthony Sharp was eventually to take this approach to its logical conclusion and reduced the whole novel to a successful and popular script. First performed in February 1952, it was eventually published in 1971. A one of a kind audio encounter from Icon Audiobooks!

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  Night Tales With Cornelius...

  Stefan Shaw

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  Want to scare yourself to sleep?  
  Meet Night Tales With Cornelius Darkly.  
  Feel the wash of ambient music, listen to the tone of his voice as it slowly pulls you into the darkness… 
  Night Tales With Cornelius Darkly is both a love letter to traditional horror and a brand-new audio experience featuring original storytelling and a chilling, dreamy, electronic soundtrack created by artist James Kumo. This short story is broken down into bedtime chapters timed to drift off to. 
  Volume 1. An evil clown, a sea siren, a demon, a cult and…a child. How are they connected? 
  Dive in if you dare. 
  And remember to pull the covers tight. 
  Sweet dreams my friends…

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  The Assignation

  Sampi Books, Edgar Allan Poe

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  In "The Assignation", Edgar Allan Poe tells the tragic story of an illicit love affair in Venice between a young man and the Marchesa Aphrodite. A heroic rescue leads to revelations of passion and despair, culminating in death and suicide under a veil of mystery and decadent beauty.

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  HP Lovecraft: The Complete...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  This volume is part of the three-book Pulp-Lit Omnibus Collection of all the fiction writing of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It presents the works of weird fiction which he ghostwrote or on which he collaborated with another author. 
  Highlights of this volume include:•Under the Pyramids, with Harry Houdini;•The Mound, with Zealia Bishop; •Two Black Bottles, with Wilfred Blanch Talman; •The Horror in the Burying- Ground, with Hazel Heald; •The Disinterment, with Duane W. Rimel; •The Night Ocean, with Robert Barlow; •In the Walls of Eryx, with Kenneth J. Sterling; •The Electric Executioner, with Adolphe de Castro; •The Diary of Alonzo Typer, with William Lumley;  
  . . . and over 20 more.

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