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1) Fire
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Engelsfors trilogy volume 2
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Praised by Lev Grossman as "stunning ... raw, real, smart, very thrilling and very, very wicked,? The Circle, the first book in the internationally bestselling Engelsfors Trilogy, introduced a group of high school girls with special powers who became the Chosen Ones. As book two, Fire, begins, Minoo, Vanessa, Linnéa, Anna-Karin and Ida have been struggling with their own demons all summer long. Now school is back in session, and whether they like...
2) The Key
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Engelsfors trilogy volume 3
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The heart-stopping conclusion to the internationally bestselling Engelsfors Trilogy. The final installment of the Engelsfors Trilogy-an international sensation with rights sold in 29 countries-The Key combines thrilling action and dark magic with all the passion and drama of teen life. The result is nothing less than explosive. By the end of the second book, Fire, only the Chosen ones remain as the last defense against the mysterious, demonic forces...
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Fernand Wagner's deal with the devil buys wealth and youth―at the price of monthly transformations into a ravening beast. The first important fictional treatment of the werewolf theme in English literature, this Victorian thriller traces Wagner's blood-soaked trail through sixteenth-century Italy. Packed with horrors and thrills, it offers a gothic feast of murders and supernatural events, punctuated by hidden plots and secret passages, Turkish...
4) The circle
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On a night after the apparent suicide of high school student Elias Malmgren, a blood-red moon fills the night sky. Minoo wakes up outside her house, still in her pajamas, and is drawn by an invisible force to an abandoned theme park on the outskirts of town. Soon five of her classmates--Vanessa, Linnea, Anna-Karin, Rebecka and Ida--arrive, compelled the same force. A mystical being takes over Ida's body and tells them they are fated to fight an ancient...
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From an outspoken Iranian author comes a "charming, powerful novella" that is banned in Iran for its depiction of female freedom ( Publishers Weekly ). "Parsipur is a courageous, talented woman, and above all, a great writer." -- Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis This modern literary masterpiece follows the interwoven destinies of five women -- including a wealthy middle-aged housewife, a prostitute, and a schoolteacher -- as they arrive by different...
6) Bound
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Magnus Blackwell novel volume 2
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Magnus Blackwell's past is about to catch up with him. An evil force has seized New Orleans. Pestilence, suffering, and darkness cloak the city. The citizens are scared and need their mambo to guide them, but Lexie Arden can't help anyone. A diabolical presence has taken Lexie's power and severed her ties with the other side. Magnus Blackwell is fighting demons of his own. Torn between his devotion to Lexie and a spirit from his past, Magnus's loyalty...
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This powerful novel is weird and soul-thrilling. -- The Scotsman. Cyril Forrester, a young Englishman traveling on the Continent, chances to meet a secretive old man and his ward, a lovely young violinist named Valerie. Enthralled by Valerie's beauty and disturbed by the elderly Egyptian's depravity, Forrester follows the couple around Europe. A sinister plot is slowly revealed, in which a mummy's curse threatens to destroy the Western world. Victorian...
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A bullied teen mistakenly summons a powerful demon in this dark fantasy for fans of Robert R. McCammon by the author of Enter, Night.
Dark secrets run deep in the isolated, rural town of Auburn, Ontario. But everyone knows about Mikey Childress.
Sixteen-year-old Mikey isn’t like the other boys, who play hockey and chase girls. He’s skinny, wears black, reads horror novels, listens to Madonna, and idolizes Hollywood
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Joyce Carol Oates, Stephen King, and other experts on horror fiction deem H. P. Lovecraft the master teller of weird tales. These six chilling stories ― all published between 1921 and 1933 ― offer compelling journeys into the land of the undead. The collection begins with "The Outsider," the tale of a recluse whose overwhelming loneliness emboldens him to seek out human contact. Subsequent stories include "Herbert West―Reanimator," written as...
10) Dreadful Sorry
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The author of Time Windows “has crafted a fine tale of psychological time travel . . . this well-executed story transports readers into the plot” (School Library Journal, starred review).
Seventeen-year-old Molly’s recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party. Soon she’s witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father’s house nearly a
...11) Wait for me
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"As a seventeen-year-old sophomore at NYU, Casey wears different disguises to fit in, but when she starts hearing voices and seeing visions, she travels to a remote beach town and searches for answers"--OCLC.
Seventeen and already in her sophomore year at NYU, Casey Rhodes sheds disguises effortlessly. It's how she navigates school and avoids the second-guessing that has plagued her since she and her boyfriend Marcus got together. Then Casey starts...
12) She
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She (1887), an intoxicating mix of adventure, fantasy, and romance, is an underappreciated classic of English literature. Among his most successful works, She-which was inspired by Haggard's experience living in South Africa-helped the author establish his reputation as a leading writer of his generation and an invaluable pioneer of the lost world genre of fantasy fiction. Horace Holly, a young Cambridge professor, receives an unexpected opportunity...
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First published in 1924, “The Shunned House” is a horror fiction novella about the narrator and his uncle, Dr. Elihu Whipple, who investigate an old abandoned house where many people have died over the years in mysterious and seemingly unconnected ways. A fantastic example of chilling Lovecraftian literature not to be missed by fans of horror fiction. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890—1937) was an American writer of supernatural horror fiction....
14) Damned
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Magnus Blackwell novel volume 1
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Discover how it all began -- read BLACKWELL: the prequel -- ASIN: B01M7T4NQT SOME MONSTERS NEVER DIE Over a hundred years after the death of Magnus Blackwell, Altmover Manor sits abandoned. Lexie Arden and her fiancé, Will Bennet, are determined to rescue the neglected Mount Desert Island landmark. They want to make Altmover Manor their home. But Magnus has other plans. A spirit bound to his former residence, Magnus finds himself inexplicably drawn...
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A family-run haunted hotel's livelihood is threatened when a bigger haunted hotel opens nearby in this hilarious, spooky story Twelve-year-old Willow Ivan's family has run the Hotel Ivan for four hundred years. Through thick and thin, they've held on tight to their title as the Best Haunted Hotel on Mercer Street. That is, until the Hauntery -- a corporate chain of haunted hotels -- moves in down the street. As the Ivan's business fades, so do their...
17) Witch's Bell
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An urban fantasy with everything from romance to mystery, The Witch's Bell Series follows a feisty witch, Ebony Bell, as she solves magical malady after magical malady.Ebony has had just enough time to pat her hair down and wipe the ash and magical residue off her heels, before yet another ridiculously powerful entity starts threatening her lovely little town again. This time she's a little distracted, though. Sure, there might be something incredibly...
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824. Considered by turns part-gothic novel, part-psychological mystery, part-metafiction, part-satire, part-case study of totalitarian thought, it can also be thought of as an early example of modern crime fiction, in which the story is told, for the most part, from the point of view of its criminal anti-hero. The action...
19) The patient
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"In a series of online posts, Parker H., a young psychiatrist, chronicles the harrowing account of his time working at a dreary mental hospital in New England. Through this internet message board, Parker hopes to communicate with the world his effort to cure one bewildering patient. We learn, as Parker did on his first day at the hospital, of the facility's most difficult, profoundly dangerous case-a 40-year-old man who was originally admitted to...
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Deformed albino Lavinia Whateley lives with her grotesque son and father in the remote village of Dunwich, Massachusetts. Growing from a child to a man in just ten years, her son Wilbur is feared by person and animal alike. His sorcerer grandfather, however, pays particular interest in him, teaching him witchcraft and the secrets of dark rituals. Suspicions are further raised in the local town as the family buys more and more cattle yet their herd...
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