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  Cursed Portrait The: Book...

  Hazel Quinn

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  Step into the unsettling world of The Cursed Portrait, an audiobook that invites you to confront the dark power hidden within a single frame. Through rich storytelling and haunting soundscapes, you’ll:
  
   
  Uncover the ominous legend of a painting said to trap the very souls of those who gaze too long into its eyes.
  
   
  Witness subtle shifts in the portrait’s expression—each nuance revealing deeper layers of dread and hidden sorrow.
  
   
  Follow a trail of cryptic letters and whispered warnings that link the artwork to a string of inexplicable vanishings.
  
   
  Navigate the thin veil between reality and nightmare as spectral figures emerge from the canvas to haunt the living.

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  The Wonderful Tune - A weird...

  Jessie Douglas Kerruish

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  Jessie Douglas Kerruish was born in Seaton Carew, Hartlepool, County Durham in 1884. 
   
  Little is known about the author’s life and to a large extent her work remains either neglected or out of favour. 
   
  Her literary career got off to a very bright start in 1917 when she won the Hodder & Stoughton First Novel Prize for ‘Miss Haroun Al-Raschid’.  Five years later came her seminal work ‘The Undying Monster’, which today is still regarded as a macabre werewolf classic. 
   
  Throughout her career she contributed short stories to such popular periodicals as Novel, Lady's and Weekly Tale-Teller.  One of the best was ‘The Wonderful Tune’ and whilst the title sounds light and airy her dark imagination riddles the narrative.  Many of her works were set in exotic locations from North Africa to the Middle East. 
   
  Her output was small, limited to two collections of short stories and several novels. 
   
  During the 1930’s severe and debilitating migraines prevented her from working for any length of time and all she could muster was contributions to anthologies. 
   
  Jessie Douglas Kerruish died in Hove, Sussex in 1949, in obscurity.

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  The Haunting of Death- Extended

  Rachel Lawson

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  This is a short poetic story based on characters from the Magicians series. 
  I am beyond life, 
  I am beyond strife, 
  I am long beyond my last breath, 
  I'm among the angelic host, 
  some call me a ghost, 
  I awoke one day dead or as good as dead, 
  I knew not how it was even possible me being a ghost 
  as I was the king of the grim reapers, so I cannot die in a normal way as this to become a ghost.

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  Haunting Shadows of the...

  Anonyme

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  When a military convoy is forced off its planned route by a treacherous landslide, Captain Elias Thorne and his exhausted soldiers stumble upon a mysterious valley village that does not appear on any map. The settlement—quaint, untouched by war, and eerily preserved—seems like a miracle after days of trudging through mud and rain. 
  But the silence is wrong. 
  The villagers are stranger still. 
  And none of them cast a shadow. 
  As the men accept the villagers' suspiciously warm hospitality, an unsettling truth unfolds. Their feast is not food. Their hosts are not human. And the villagers' smiles—polite, fixed, disturbingly hollow—hide a hunger older than the mountains themselves. 
  When the shadows of Thorne's soldiers begin tearing themselves free, whispering their guilt, clawing at the floorboards, and begging for release, the men realize too late that this is no sanctuary—it's a trap. 
  The village of Oakhaven feeds on darkness. 
  On memories. 
  On human burdens. 
  Now, with night closing in and the fire burning low, Thorne and his remaining conscious men must fight to survive as the shadowless villagers gather, mouths opening into endless voids. The fire is their only protection. Dawn may never come. And in this cursed valley, once a shadow is taken… the soul follows. 
  A gripping supernatural horror blending military suspense, psychological dread, and folklore terror, Haunting Shadows of the Forgotten Village pulls readers into a nightmare where even your own shadow cannot be trusted.

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  Mrs Morris and the Mermaid

  Traci Wilton

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  B&B owner Charlene Morris expects Salem's first annual mermaid parade will make quite a splash, until a high-profile murder threatens to sink the whole event . . .  
   
   
   
  Charlene and her handsome spectral friend, Dr. Jack Strathmore, are thrilled that their Salem, Massachusetts, B&B is overflowing with mermaids in advance of the town's newest attraction—a mermaid parade! Retired Hollywood actress Trinity Powers has even agreed to appear on the lead float to commemorate her breakout role as the eponymous mermaid in the blockbuster cult classic, Sirena. The parade also features Trinity's rival, an up-and-coming ingénue, who stars in the film's recent (and somewhat controversial) reboot. Though their rabid fan clubs seem ready to tear each other—and the festivities—apart, the vying actresses are keeping it cool, for now . . .  
   
   
   
  But when Charlene discovers a mermaid murdered, she realizes a killer is out to steal the show. With the help of Jack and Detective Sam Holden, Charlene plunges into the case, determined to stop a killer from striking again . . .

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  The Haunted and the Haunters; or...

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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  Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton was born on the 25th May 1803 the youngest of three sons. 
   
  When he was four his father died and the family moved to London. As a child he was delicate and neurotic and failed to fit in at a number of boarding schools.  However, he was academically and creatively precocious and published his first work as a teenager; ‘Ishmael with Other Poems’ in 1820. 
   
  Two years later he was at Cambridge University and won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English verse for Sculpture.  
   
  In 1828 his novel, ‘Pelham’, brought him an income, together with commercial and critical success.  He followed these with a string of applauded works across several genres: historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, science fiction and poetry.  
   
  In 1841, he started the semi-scientific Monthly Chronicle magazine to exploit the great Victorian fascination to chronicle and publish all that the Empire and Industrial Revolution were discovering, inventing and changing. 
   
  In 1858 he entered Lord Derby's government as Secretary of State for the Colonies and took a keen interest in the development of the Crown Colony of British Columbia.  Several years later he was raised to the peerage as Baron Lytton of Knebworth in Hertford County. 
   
  Bulwer-Lytton had long suffered with a disease of the ear and for the last years of his life he lived in Torquay nursing his health.  An operation to cure his deafness caused an abscess to form in his ear which burst causing intense pain and contributed to his death.   
   
  Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton died on the 18th January 1873, in Torquay.  He was 69.

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