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  Serapion - A tale of Demonic...

  Gertrude Barrows Bennett,...

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  In a career that spanned a mere three years, Gertrude Barrows Bennett (writing as Francis Stevens) published half a dozen books that came to define the genres that followed on. she is most popularly known as the woman who invented dark fantasy, but on the way she also invented a new, creepier kind of dystopian Sci Fi.Today, you would call this a tale of trauma-onset schizophrenia, or perhaps a terrible descent into Dissociative Identity Disorder, foretold by genetics. In 1920, the best way to make sense of it was demonic possession. A true masterwork of psychological horror, from before psychology existed."One of the most intense, complete and unrelenting tales of psychological horror ever put together. No gore, guts and physical putrescence so common to horror, but the utter dissolution of a human spirit, as told by the victim. It is also perhaps the saddest book I've ever read, a perfectly realized story of unredeemed personal degradation and its effects on all it touches.Clayton Barbour, the narrator, is a protected bourgeois son just weak enough to allow himself to be overwhelmed by a sly, dissembling force of evil, just strong enough to be constantly tormented by his weakness. Invited to a séance by a casual acquaintance, Moore, who sees in him a psychic force, he becomes the inadvertent victim of Moore's wife's contact with a channeled malignant force.From this point on, the life of Clayton, his family and his friends is slowly, inextricably ripped asunder by events and in ways that seem unconnected but are manipulated by the Fifth Presence within him. Bennett pulls no punches, provides no happy ending. In that, it is her most honest work (and perhaps a summing summing up of her own life to this point, when she had lost a husband, father and invalid mother)...Dark, wrenching, truly horrifying, but a book I can recommend without the least reservation." [Derek Davis, Goodreads]

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  Old Testament

  Steve Higgs

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  Be careful which stones you look under ... 
   
  An innocent walk through the woods turns sinister when Albert and Rex hear a cry for help. A desperate woman is trapped the wrong side of a high fence ... and she is being pursued. 
   
  What follows is a situation more deadly than any they have faced before.

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  Malice Within

  Gordon Douglas

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  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  A murdered deputy. A sheriff’s office full of secrets. A case where nothing adds up. 
  When Dominion County Sheriff’s Captain Ron Neff is called to a remote crime scene in Oregon’s high desert, he finds his friend and colleague, Deputy Bill Baker, shot dead. The evidence points to a drug deal gone wrong. But as Neff digs deeper, he uncovers a tangle of contradictions that refuse to make sense. 
  Witnesses disappear. Forensic clues are tampered with—or vanish entirely. And Neff’s own department seems determined to bury the truth. 
  Then a second case surfaces—one that may be tied to Baker’s murder. It threatens to blow the investigation wide open, but pursuing it could cost Neff everything. 
  With pressure mounting and trust crumbling inside the Sheriff’s Office, Neff must navigate a maze of lies, corruption, and danger. The deeper he goes, the more he realizes that someone powerful doesn’t want this case solved and is willing to kill again to keep their secrets. 
  Malice Within is a gripping, atmospheric crime thriller about murder, power, and betrayal set in the stark beauty of Oregon’s High Desert. Perfect for fans of Michael Connelly, James Patterson, and C. J. Box.

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  The Adventure of the Veiled...

  Arthur Conan Doyle

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  Enter The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger, where Sherlock Holmes faces a haunting case of secrets, fear, and hidden horror. A mysterious tenant, her face hideously disfigured, haunts her landlady with midnight cries of "Murder! You cruel beast!" Holmes must unravel the dark past behind Mrs. Ronder's torment, an unsettling tale of tragedy, vengeance, and the human heart's darkest secrets.

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  Trailhead

  C. Jean Downer

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  FBI special agent Eleanor Peters eagerly gave up her hollow life to go deep undercover in a crime syndicate family. Work was the only thing Eleanor had until the operation blew up in her face. Then, she had nothing. 
   
   
   
  Eight years later and hiding behind a new name, Kate Hall lives on the other side of the country from her past. Nicknamed Angel Kate, she provides a haven for weary Pacific Crest Trail hikers at Hostel Hall. The constant flow of strangers gives her all the company she needs. 
   
   
   
  But when her bloodhound, Jenny, finds a backpack with designer drugs inside and Reese Carson, special agent with the National Park's Investigative Security Branch, shows up to investigate, Kate's solitary life is turned upside down and inside out. 
   
   
   
  Convinced her deadly past has found her, Kate must decide if she should disappear again and protect the woman she loves or confide in Reese and fight a killer together.

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  A Hanging at Dawn - A Bess...

  Anonimo

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  “Bess is among the most compassionate and intelligent characters.” –The Sun-Sentinel  
  From the New York Times bestselling author of the Bess Crawford mystery series, a short story that unravels dark secrets from her close friend Simon Brandon’s past.  
  Years before the Great War summoned Bess Crawford to serve as a battlefield nurse, the indomitable heroine spent her childhood in India under the watchful eye of her friend and confidant, the young soldier Simon Brandon. The two formed an inseparable bond on the dangerous Northwest Frontier where her father’s Regiment held the Khyber Pass against all intruders. It was Simon who taught Bess to ride and shoot, escorted her to the bazaars and the Maharani’s Palace, and did his best to keep her out of trouble, after the Crawford family took an interest in the tall, angry boy with a mysterious past.  
  But the Crawfords have long guarded secrets for Simon and he owes them a debt that runs deeper than Bess could ever know. Told through the eyes of Melinda, Richard, Clarissa, and Bess, A Hanging at Dawn pieces together a mystery at the center of Bess’s family that will irrevocably change the course of her future. 

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