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  Gruesome Ghosts - A Short Story...

  Rudyard Kipling, Sheridan Le...

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  At some point in our lives we believe that creak, that low moan, that whisper is something unnatural, beyond our comprehension.  And in these stories our instincts are right. We are afraid. And we should be.  Perhaps even terrified.   In this volume our classic authors take different approaches but the result is inevitably the same. We are hooked by these unknowable forces, our emotions heightened and rattled by the expectation  - or shock – of the next few words. 
   
  01 - Gruesome Ghosts. A Short Story Volume 
  02 - My Own True Ghost Story by Rudyard Kipling 
  03 - The Ghost and the Bone Setter by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 
  04 - The Old Nurses Story by Elizabeth Gaskell 
  05 - A Ghost Story by Mark Twain

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  Falling Angel

  William Hjortsberg

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  Edgar Award Finalist: The hunt for a vanished singer leads a detective into the depths of the occult in this "terrific" novel (Stephen King). 
   
   
   
  Big-band frontman Johnny Favorite was singing for the troops when a Luftwaffe fighter squadron strafed the bandstand, killing the crowd and leaving the singer near death. The army returned him to a private hospital in upstate New York, leaving him to live out his days as a vegetable while the world forgot him. But Louis Cyphre never forgets. Cyphre had a contract with the singer, stipulating payment upon Johnny's death—payment that will be denied as long as Johnny clings to life. When Cyphre hires private investigator Harry Angel to find Johnny at the hospital, Angel learns that the singer has disappeared. It is no ordinary missing-person's case. Everyone he questions dies soon after, as Angel's investigation ensnares him in a bizarre tangle of black magic, carnival freaks, and grisly voodoo. When the sinister Louis Cyphre begins appearing in Angel's dreams, the detective fears for his life, his sanity, and his soul. 
   
   
   
  Contains mature themes.

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  The Music of Erica Zann

  Jamie Scully

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  Erica Zann is a brilliant teenage musical prodigy. She has always felt haunted by some presence she could not explain; someone watching her and listening. After a horrible nightmare, Erica is compelled to write a haunted symphony which takes on a life of its own and begins spreading through her hometown of River Forest, IL, where it brainwashes anyone who hears it. 
  Erica, her best friend Aliyah Smith, her boyfriend Ted Berry, and others must band together to subdue the melody and defeat its creator, the terrifying yet seductive being Claw, who is using Erica as his vessel to open a portal unleashing Hell of Earth. 
  Adapted loosely from the 1921 H.P. Lovecraft short story, The Music of Erich Zann.

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  Fastening the Grave

  L.A. McBride

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  Two things are impossible to walk away from: death and vintage clothing. Trust me. I've tried. 
  Moving across the country and opening a costume shop was supposed to be my chance for a normal life. What I wanted was a fresh start, one where the biggest danger would be a carelessly wielded sewing needle. 
  What I got was the ghost of a murdered reporter demanding justice, a power I can’t control, and a new goat shifter BFF hell-bent on trouble. 
  Now, my hunt for the killer threatens to expose a supernatural community determined to safeguard its secrecy at any cost. My only chance to survive is to embrace the legacy I’ve spent my life running from. 
  Fastening the Grave is the first book in the Kali James series, featuring a reluctant necromancer who finds herself in a world of werewolves, vampires, and ghosts. If you like your urban fantasy with quirky characters, a side of supernatural mystery, and a dose of slow-burn romance, this is the book for you.

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  The Book

  H.P. Lovecraft

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  "The Book" is an unfinished short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, believed to have been written in late 1933. It was first published in the journal Leaves in 1938, after Lovecraft's death.In the story fragment, the narrator is given an ancient book by a strange bookseller, and when he takes it home and examines it, weird and sinister events ensue.In October 1933, Lovecraft wrote in a letter:I am at a sort of standstill in writing—disgusted at much of my older work, and uncertain as to avenues of improvement. In recent weeks I have done a tremendous amount of experimenting with different styles and perspectives, but have destroyed most of the results.[2]The H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia suggests that "The Book" was one of the undestroyed experiments—an attempt to translate Lovecraft's poem sequence Fungi from Yuggoth into prose. (The completed fragment corresponds to the first three sonnets, which form more of a coherent narrative than the rest of the sequence).

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  At the Mountains of Madness (The...

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  At the Mountains of Madness is a science fiction-horror novella by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length. It was originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections. The story details the events of a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic continent in September 1930, and what was found there by a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University. Throughout the story, Dyer details a series of previously untold events in the hope of deterring another group of explorers who wish to return to the continent.

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