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Born in November 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, Abraham Stoker was the third of seven children. Bed ridden with health issues until aged 7 he made a complete recovery on being sent to school. He was an excellent student excelling in math and with a keen interest in Theatre. He began his career as a theatre critic and after a favorable review was invited to meet the most important actor of the day, Henry Irving. They became great friends. After marriage...
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A story from Louisa Young to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. One woman frankly recalls the several 'run-ins' she's had with Heathcliff-esque men who have called themselves her boyfriend. And shows the true repercussions of the dangers of being coveted. • Short stories are BACK and this is a collection that enters straight into the zeitgeist conversation of the #MeToo movement – these are stories about the dangers and...
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Dive into the chilling depths of the Wraithbourne legacy with "Shadows of the Cursed," a riveting continuation of the saga that ensnares readers from the very first page. Within the decaying walls of Wraithbourne Manor, a malevolent curse intensifies, weaving a dark tapestry of danger and despair around Nora, Julian, Izzy, and Flint. Bound not just by blood but by the shared destiny to confront their ancestors' darkest secrets, they stand on the precipice...
71) The Lighthouse
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No one expected them to go there. The question is: will any of them leave?
Six friends travel to a remote island north of the Scottish Highlands for an old school reunion. They've rented The Lighthouse, a stunning, now abandoned building that was once, notorious for deaths at sea.
On the first evening, someone goes missing. The group search all through the night to no avail. But when, the five remaining friends return to the lighthouse early the...
72) Heartlight
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Heartlight is the story of Bradley's greatest champion of good, Colin MacLaren, as he carries the banner of Light through the second half of the twentieth century. Ghostbuster, exorcist, student and teacher of the mystic arts, Colin meets Claire Moffat, who becomes his dearest friend, when he rescues her from a cult bent on human sacrifice.
The leader of that cult, Toller Hasloch, becomes one of Colin's greatest enemies. Working behind the scenes...
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A story from Erin Kelly to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.
A man sits in a hot tub stalking his newly-married love on social media in what has become a daily ritual. And then he takes his chance...
• Short stories are BACK and this is a collection that enters straight into the zeitgeist conversation of the #MeToo movement - these are stories about the dangers and dynamics of love
• Modern, at times disturbing, every...
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A story from Joanna Cannon to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. On holiday with her parents in Yorkshire, Ellis befriends a boy in the next-door cottage and they walk the moors together in a landscape that demands their secrets and offers healing. • Short stories are BACK and this is a collection that enters straight into the zeitgeist conversation of the #MeToo movement – these are stories about the dangers and dynamics...
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A story from Anna James to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. A young woman starts to disappear piece by piece. And lets a man take care of what little is left of her without realising the consequences. • Short stories are BACK and this is a collection that enters straight into the zeitgeist conversation of the #MeToo movement — these are stories about the dangers and dynamics of love • Modern, at times disturbing, every...
77) Witchlight
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Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of the most beloved and praised fantasy storytellers of our time, has once again written a compelling and powerful novel with larger-than-life characters.
Winter Musgrave's past is largely blank, her memories missing or tissue-thin. She seem to be possessed-objects shatter when she passes, the corpses of animal appear on her doorstep. And she has the terrible feeling that something horrible happened in her empty past-results...
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2023 Lambda Literary Award Winner, LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction2023 Golden Crown Literary Award Winner, Paranormal/Occult/Horror Love demands sacrifice. Her blood. Her body. Even her life. Singapore, 1927. Verity Edevane needs blood. And not just anyone's blood. She craves the sweet, salty rush from a young woman's veins, the heady swirl of desire mixed with fealty-such a rarity in this foreign colony. It's a lot to ask. But doesn't she deserve the...
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In this brilliant crime novel by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson, a writer looks back on his past and discovers the memory of a murder that needs to be solved It's been forty years since Paul Rogers spent a night at St. Aidan's Preparatory School. When a biographer asks the now-middle-aged novelist about his youth, it triggers memories that Rogers thought he had lost forever. He begins writing about the summer of 1940, when the Nazis took Paris...
80) Miss Marley
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Orphans Clara and Jacob Marley live by their wits, scavenging for scraps in the poorest alleyways of London, in the shadow of the workhouse. Every night, Jake promises his little sister 'tomorrow will be better' and when the chance to escape poverty comes their way, he seizes it despite the terrible price. And so Jacob Marley is set on a path that leads to his infamous partnership with Ebenezer Scrooge. As Jacob builds a fortress of wealth to keep...
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