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  Linda's Story

  Alan Berkshire

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  After tending to Adam Blake’s life-threatening wounds, all the “Family” can do is wait… 
  It is the waiting that is hardest for Linda Stephens. She and Adam had found something special—had fought long and hard in a hostile, dying world despite incredible odds. And now, just when they thought they had found happiness, disaster strikes. 
  Afraid that Adam could die without knowing who she truly is, Linda resolves to tell him everything. Sitting a lonely, fearful vigil beside his sickbed and hoping he can hear her, Linda starts at the beginning: when the Black Dust fell…

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  The Jewel of Seven Stars

  Bram Stoker

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  From the author of Dracula, one of the first mummy stories and a classic of nineteent-century gothic fiction.   In a house full of Egyptian antiquities— A jeweled scarab, mummified cat, and severed hand . . . Unexplained claw marks and comas . . . A mysterious stranger’s wild tales of a hidden tomb and ancient warnings . . . Of violent deaths to everyone who sought the jewel . . . All linked to a forgotten queen’s 5,000-year quest for reincarnation . . . Malcolm Ross, pulled by his adoration of Margaret Trelawny, finds himself embroiled in a centuries old story that challenges human logic. Lovers of the supernatural, occult, and paranormal will enjoy this unique edition of Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of the Seven Stars, which includes the novel’s original 1903 ending as well as an abridged 1912 version.

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  Nyarlathotep

  H. P. Lovecraft

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  Nyarlathotep is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft. The character is a malign deity in the Lovecraft Mythos, a shared universe. First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem "Nyarlathotep", he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers. Later writers describe him as one of the Outer Gods, a malevolent pantheon.In a 1921 letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, Lovecraft related the dream he had had—described as "the most realistic and horrible [nightmare] I have experienced since the age of ten"—that served as the basis for his prose poem "Nyarlathotep". In the dream, he received a letter from his friend Samuel Loveman that read:Don't fail to see Nyarlathotep if he comes to Providence. He is horrible—horrible beyond anything you can imagine—but wonderful. He haunts one for hours afterwards. I am still shuddering at what he showed.Lovecraft commented:I had never heard the name NYARLATHOTEP before, but seemed to understand the allusion. Nyarlathotep was a kind of itinerant showman or lecturer who held forth in public halls and aroused widespread fear and discussion with his exhibitions. These exhibitions consisted of two parts—first, a horrible—possibly prophetic—cinema reel; and later some extraordinary experiments with scientific and electrical apparatus. As I received the letter, I seemed to recall that Nyarlathotep was already in Providence.... I seemed to remember that persons had whispered to me in awe of his horrors, and warned me not to go near him. But Loveman's dream letter decided me.... As I left the house I saw throngs of men plodding through the night, all whispering affrightedly and bound in one direction. I fell in with them, afraid yet eager to see and hear the great, the obscure, the unutterable Nyarlathotep.Will Murray has speculated that this dream image of Nyarlathotep may have been inspired by the inventor Nikola Tesla, whose well-attended lectures did involve extraordinary experiments with electrical apparatus and whom some saw as a sinister figure.

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  The Last Fair Deal Going Down

  David Rhodes

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  This novel from the acclaimed author of Driftless is “an arresting work about the salvation of a disintegrating Iowa family” (The New York Times). 
   
  Survival has been the Sledge way since Reuben Sledge’s father first moved to Des Moines. Yet the family seems cursed, and one by one the Sledges are slipping away. Reuben’s oldest brother is hanged for the murder of his wife. Then another brother is committed to an asylum for spying on the woman he loves. But it’s the rape and disgrace of his beloved sister Nellie that drives Reuben into a deep despair. Into the depths of this depression wanders vulnerable, delightful Tabor, who sets Reuben alive with the promise of her love. When Reuben learns that Tabor has descended into the City, he determines, in a moment of panic, to enter and bring her out. Thus begins the novel’s second act, a harrowing journey through the horrors of the City and among a ghastly assemblage of dwellers who’ve crafted new lives for themselves in the underworld. 
   
  “David Rhodes proves that there is still vigorous life in the dark Gothic roots of great American novels.” —The Tennessean

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  HorrorBabble's Mysterious Forces...

  Algernon Blackwood, Wilford...

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  A collection of weird tales concerning strange, elemental forces of nature. 
  Contents: 
  The Swooping Wind by Wilford Allen (Weird Tales, 1927) 
  The story of a scientist with a strange connection to the winds. 
  The Spirits' Mountain by Gustavo Bécquer (The Contemporary, 1861) 
  A young man is tasked with the retrieval of a scarf from a haunted mountain. 
  The Glamour of the Snow by Algernon Blackwood (The Pall Mall Magazine, 1911) 
  A writer falls in love with a ghostly ice-skater in the Valais Alps. 
  The Transfer by Algernon Blackwood (Country Life, 1911) 
  The story of a child’s fascination with a barren patch of land in a big garden. 
  The Willows by Algernon Blackwood (The Listener and Other Stories, 1907) 
  The story of a strange adventure through a desolate portion of the River Danube. 
  The Tree of Life by Paul Ernst (Weird Tales, 1930) 
  A curious tree whose leaves could revivify a corpse. 
  Fog Country by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1945) 
  The story of a peculiar mist that occasionally settles over a small, coastal town. 
  Night Must Not Come by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1943) 
  Man has never allowed complete darkness, for evil things are waiting beyond the light. 
  Night of Impossible Shadows by Allison V. Harding (Weird Tales, 1945) 
  Shadows, doing things not meant to be done. 
  The Red Brain by Donald Wandrei (Weird Tales, 1927) 
  The tale of a strange cosmic dust that engulfs the universe.

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  Midlife Hexes and Familiar Exes...

  Jennifer L. Hart

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  Bubble bubble, she's stirring up trouble . . .New witch Samantha Sinclair is in over her head. There isn't a healer alive who can teach her how to use her magical gifts. When she unearths an ancient grimoire that belonged to a magical practitioner from the lost colony at Roanoke, she decides not to look gift cougars in the mouth.But the more she reads, the more Sam realizes that the similarities between herself and the long-dead healer aren't mere coincidence. It's like she's reading about her life. One son who became alpha. Check. Two dominant shifters vying for her attention. Check. A lost community never to be heard from again? Uh oh.Can Sam change course before history repeats itself? Or is her new home already slated for annihilation?

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