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Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Boxed Set (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1-3) by Ransom Riggs
18 ratingsThe New York Times #1 best selling series Includes 3 hardcover novels by Ransom Riggs and 12 collectible peculiar photographs. The movie adaptation of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is in theaters December 2016...Categorized as:
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![The Attic on Queen Street by Karen White]()
The Attic on Queen Street by Karen White
16 ratingsReturn to the house on Tradd Street for one last time as the bestselling series featuring psychic medium Melanie Trenholm comes to a hauntingly spectacular finale.After the devastating events of the past few months, the last thing Melanie Trenholm wants is to think about the future... -
![Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman]()
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman
28 ratingsIn an unforgettable novel that traces a centuries-old curse to its source, beloved author Alice Hoffman unveils the story of Maria Owens, accused of witchcraft in Salem, and matriarch of a line of the amazing Owens women and men featured in Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic... -
![The Dream Weavers by Barbara Erskine]()
The Dream Weavers by Barbara Erskine
12 ratingsThe brand-new, gripping historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay!‘Warmth, depth, mystery, magic and the supernatural … such a beautiful book!’ bestselling author Santa Montefiore ‘A dazzling roller-coaster of a book that will thrill, enchant and intrigue those who love history and the supernatural’ bestselling author Alison WeirAvailable to pre-order now!Mercia,...Categorized as:
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![The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs]()
The Desolations of Devil's Acre by Ransom Riggs
24 ratingsThe fate of peculiardom hangs in the balance in this epic conclusion to the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series.The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face.Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began - his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop to find themselves in Florida... -
![The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol]()
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol
24 ratingsFour works by great 19th-century Russian author - "The Nose," a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats; "Old-Fashioned Farmers," a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; "The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich," one of Gogol's most famous comic stories; and "The Overcoat," widely considered a masterpiece of form...Categorized as:
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![Three Times Removed by M.K. Jones]()
Three Times Removed by M.K. Jones
10 ratingsMaggie Gilbert and her children, Jack and Alice, live a pretty normal life. That is, until Maggie starts looking into her family tree. In doing so, she uncovers a dark mystery that endangers her children. She has to solve a mystery in the past, if she is to save her family in the present... -
![My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due]()
My Soul to Keep by Tananarive Due
18 ratingsWhen Jessica marries David, he is everything she wants in a family man: brilliant, attentive, ever youthful. Yet she still feels something about him is just out of reach...Categorized as:
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![Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty, فاطمه طاهری]()
Willa of the Wood by Robert Beatty, فاطمه طاهری
18 ratingsMove without a sound. Steal without a trace.Willa, a young night-spirit, is her clan's best thief. She creeps into the cabins of the day-folk under cover of darkness and takes what they won't miss. It's dangerous work--the day-folk kill whatever they don't understand--but Willa will do anything to win the approval of the padaran, the charismatic leader of the Faeran people...Categorized as:
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![The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde]()
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
18 ratingsFlamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage...Categorized as:
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![The Girl with No Face by M.H. Boroson]()
The Girl with No Face by M.H. Boroson
8 ratingsThe adventures of Li-lin, a Daoist priestess with the unique ability to see the spirit world, continue in the thrilling follow-up to the critically-acclaimed historical urban fantasy The Girl with Ghost Eyes.It’s the end of the Nineteenth Century. San Francisco’s cobblestone streets are haunted, but Chinatown has an unlikely protector in a young Daoist priestess named Li-lin...Categorized as:
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![Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due]()
Ghost Summer by Tananarive Due
12 ratingsWhether weaving family life and history into dark fiction or writing speculative Afrofuturism, American Book Award winner and Essence bestselling author Tananarive Due’s work is both riveting and enlightening...Categorized as:
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![The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little]()
The Time of the Fireflies by Kimberley Griffiths Little
12 ratingsCritically acclaimed author Kimberley Griffiths Little spins a thrilling story of one girl's race to unravel the curse that has haunted her family for generations. When Larissa Renaud starts receiving eerie phone calls on a disconnected old phone in her family's antique shop, she knows she's in for a strange summer...Categorized as:
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![Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss]()
Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss
14 ratingsSeventeen-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 century before... -
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![The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine]()
The Ghost Tree by Barbara Erskine
16 ratingsBefore you follow the path into your family’s history, beware of the secrets you may find…The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Ruth has returned to Edinburgh after many years of exile, left rootless by the end of her marriage, career and now the death of her father. She is now faced with the daunting task of clearing his house...Categorized as:
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![The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy]()
The Witch of Tin Mountain by Paulette Kennedy
16 ratingsIn Depression-era Arkansas, something wicked has come to a haunted mountain town in a novel of uncanny suspense by the author of Parting the Veil.Blood and power bind three generations of women in the Ozark Mountains. So does an evil that’s followed them across the decades.1931. Gracelynn Doherty lives peacefully on Tin Mountain, helping her adoptive granny work her cures... -
![The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow]()
The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
30 ratingsIn 1893, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box... -
![How Much It May Storm by A.N. Willis]()
How Much It May Storm by A.N. Willis
6 ratingsTheir secret didn’t die with her.Colorado, 1918: Millie Boylan is a nurse who sees darkness marking those soon to die. When she falls for a doomed soldier named Edward Gainsbury, she vows to save his life. But Millie soon finds the greatest danger is the one she cannot see.Colorado, 1943: With a brother gone to war, Dinah must learn how to fend for herself... -
![Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia]()
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
6 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers.Montserrat has always been overlooked... -
![The Kindred of Darkness by Barbara Hambly]()
The Kindred of Darkness by Barbara Hambly
8 ratingsWhen James Asher and his wife Lydia's baby daughter Miranda is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, the stakes are high: blindly follow the Master Vampire's instructions, keep out of the way of the human networks that serves the vampires, destroy the interloper who seeks to seize control of the London Nest, and find the key to the Nest's tortuous inner workings: The Book of the Kindred of...Categorized as:
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![Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier, Ray Bradbury]()
Fancies and Goodnights by John Collier, Ray Bradbury
10 ratingsJohn Collier's edgy, sardonic tales are works of rare wit, curious insight, and scary implication. They stand out as one of the pinnacles in the critically neglected but perennially popular tradition of weird writing that includes E.T.A. Hoffmann and Charles Dickens as well as more recent masters like Jorge Luis Borges and Roald Dahl...Categorized as:
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![House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne]()
House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne
10 ratingsWhen Kate Vavasour wakes in the hospital, she remembers nothing of the family gathered around her, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do—but these memories are not hers. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall more than 400 years earlier... -
![The Stars We Walked Upon by M.L. Bullock]()
The Stars We Walked Upon by M.L. Bullock
10 ratingsCarrie Jo Stuart's dream catching has gotten out of control and threatens to wreck her happy home. She decides to tell her husband a secret that changes everything, but Ashland has ghosts of his own. Ashland's childhood friend Detra Ann Dowd battles a frightening supernatural being but travels across time to receive help from an unexpected ally... -
![The Stars That Fell by M.L. Bullock, Emily Lawrence]()
The Stars That Fell by M.L. Bullock, Emily Lawrence
10 ratingsSecrets Never Stay Hidden Just Ask Any Ghost When Carrie Jo and Ashland Stuart uncovered the truth about the ghosts of Seven Sisters, they were sure that the supernatural activity would end. When they return home to Mobile after their honeymoon, they soon realize they were wrong”"not everyone is at rest. Something or someone is reaching out to the dream catcher... -
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![The Between by Tananarive Due]()
The Between by Tananarive Due
14 ratingsWhen Hilton was just a boy, his aged grandmother saved him from drowning by pulling him out of a treacherous ocean current, sacrificing her life for his. Now, thirty years later, Hilton begins to think his borrowed time is running out...Categorized as:
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![Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer]()
Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer
16 ratingsAfter Charlotte's first night at boarding school, the view from the window has changed and the girl in the next bed is not the girl who was there last night. She is a stranger who calls Charlotte "Clare" and says she's her sister.. -
![Jilo by J.D. Horn]()
Jilo by J.D. Horn
16 ratingsAged Mother Jilo is wise in the ways of magic…but once upon a time, she was just a girl.1950s Georgia: King Cotton has fallen. Savannah is known as the “beautiful woman with a dirty face,” its stately elegance faded by neglect, its soul withering from racial injustice and political corruption... -
![The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan]()
The Moon, the Stars, and Madame Burova by Ruth Hogan
16 ratingsFrom the wildly popular bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things--an uplifting, slightly magical story about how it's never too late to find out who you really are.Madame Burova--beloved Tarot reader, palmist, and clairvoyant--is retiring and leaving her booth on the Brighton seafront... -
![The City of Mist: Stories by Carlos Ruiz Zafón]()
The City of Mist: Stories by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
20 ratingsReturn to the mythical Barcelona library known as the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in this posthumous collection of stories from the New York Times bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind and The Labyrinth of the Spirits... -
![A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers]()
A Witch in Time by Constance Sayers
18 ratingsA young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant... -
![The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry]()
The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H.G. Parry
18 ratingsThe ultimate book-lover's fantasy, featuring a young scholar with the power to bring literary characters into the world, for fans of The Magicians, Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, and The Invisible Library.For his entire life, Charley Sutherland has concealed a magical ability he can't quite control: he can bring characters from books into the real world... -
![The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann]()
The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr by E.T.A. Hoffmann
14 ratingsIt was E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) who first explored many of the themes and techniques which were later used by writers from Dickens to Dostoyevsky, Poe to Kafka, Baudelaire to Marquez. His career reached a glorious climax in The Tomcat Murr, perhaps the strangest novel of the nineteenth century.Categorized as:
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![The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories by Oscar Wilde]()
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories by Oscar Wilde
14 ratings"The Picture of Dorian Gray, " Wilde's only full-length novel, is the enduringly eerie fable of a portrait that ages and decays as its model remains ever young and beautiful. Dorian Gray, a naive and irresistible young man, is lured by decadent Lord Henry Wotton into a life of depravity...Categorized as:
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![Agnes Cecilia by Maria Gripe]()
Agnes Cecilia by Maria Gripe
14 ratingsAfter experiencing several inexplicable incidents, lonely Nora receives a strangely lifelike doll, which leads her to discover long-hidden secrets about her family...Categorized as:
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![On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine]()
On the Edge of Darkness by Barbara Erskine
14 ratingsThe eagerly awaited new novel by the author of LADY OF HAY and HOUSE OF ECHOES is the story of a woman trapped in the wrong time. Abandoned by her twentieth century lover, she plots a terrible revenge on him and his family. Adam Craig is fourteen when, near an isolated Celtic stone in the wild Scottish Highlands, he meets Brid, whose exotic, gypsy-like dress and strange attitudes fascinate him... -
![The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine]()
The Warrior's Princess by Barbara Erskine
14 ratingsHer fateful life would echo through time.When Jess is attacked by someone she once trusted, she flees to her sister's house in the Welsh borders to recuperate. But she is disturbed by the cries of a mysterious child.Two thousand years before, the same valley is the site of a great battle between Caratacus, king of the British tribes, and the invanding Romans... -
![Revelator by Daryl Gregory]()
Revelator by Daryl Gregory
12 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of Spoonbenders comes the gripping tale of a family's mysterious religion, and the daughter who turns her back on their god. In 1933, nine-year-old Stella is left in the care of her grandmother, Motty, in the backwoods of Tennessee...Categorized as:
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![Dark Genesis by A.D. Koboah]()
Dark Genesis by A.D. Koboah
10 ratingsAlternative cover edition: ASIN: B007NI8GUSLife for a female slave is one of hardship and unspeakable sorrow, something Luna knows only too well. But not even she could have foreseen the terror that would befall her one sultry Mississippi evening in the summer of 1807... -
![The Cold Eye by Laura Anne Gilman]()
The Cold Eye by Laura Anne Gilman
10 ratingsIn the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious that is threatening not just her life, but the whole Territory... -
![The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution by Daniel José Older]()
The Book of Lost Saints: A Cuban American Family Saga of Love, Betrayal, and Revolution by Daniel José Older
10 ratingsAn evocative multigenerational Cuban American family story of revolution, loss, violence, and family bondsMarisol vanished during the Cuban Revolution, her fate unknown and lost to time. Now, haunted by atrocities long-forgotten, her foul-mouthed spirit visits her nephew, Ramon, in modern-day New Jersey...Categorized as:
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![By Night under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz]()
By Night under the Stone Bridge by Leo Perutz
10 ratingsSixteenth-century Prague provides the setting for the story of the forbidden love between emperor Rudolf II and Esther, the wife of an influential financier, and of the efforts of the city's Great Rabbi to right a situation angering...Categorized as:
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![Remember Me Lib/E by Chelsea Bobulski]()
Remember Me Lib/E by Chelsea Bobulski
10 ratingsIn this eerie and suspenseful YA, a teen girl discovers what connects her to the hotel she calls home as horrifying visions lead her to the truth.Nell Martin is moving again, this time to the Winslow Grand Hotel, built in 1878. As Nell is settling in, strange things begin to happen... -
![Angel of the West Window by Gustav Meyrink]()
Angel of the West Window by Gustav Meyrink
10 ratingsnovel of Elizabethan magus John Dee, tr M...Categorized as:
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![Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide]()
Creatures of Passage by Morowa Yejide
8 ratingsWith echoes of Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Yejidé’s novel explores a forgotten quadrant of Washington, DC, and the ghosts that haunt it.Nephthys Kinwell is a taxi driver of sorts in Washington, DC, ferrying ill-fated passengers in a haunted car: a 1967 Plymouth Belvedere with a ghost in the trunk...Categorized as:
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![The Seat of Magic by J. Kathleen Cheney]()
The Seat of Magic by J. Kathleen Cheney
8 ratingsMagical beings have been banned from the Golden City for decades, though many live there in secret. Now humans and nonhumans alike are in danger as evil stalks the streets, growing more powerful with every kill…. It’s been two weeks since Oriana Paredes was banished from the Golden City... -
![Lungdon: Book Three by Edward Carey]()
Lungdon: Book Three by Edward Carey
8 ratingsThe delightfully macabre, astonishingly original trilogy reaches its thrilling conclusionThe dirt town of Foulsham has been destroyed, its ashes still smoldering. Darkness lies heavily over the city, the sun has not come up for days, and inside the houses of people throughout the capital, ordinary objects have begun to move. Strange new people run through the darkened streets...Categorized as:
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![Whispers in the Dark by Jonathan Aycliffe]()
Whispers in the Dark by Jonathan Aycliffe
6 ratingsIn this second chilling novel by Jonathan Aycliffe, orphaned Charlotte Metcalf arrives on the doorstep of her relatives, the mysterious Ayrtons, in the hope of locating her younger brother Arthur. Their home, Barras Hall, is at first a welcome refuge, until Charlotte realizes that the manor has become her prison, and that she is surrounded by a horror she cannot escape... -
![A Deadly Fortune by Stacie Murphy]()
A Deadly Fortune by Stacie Murphy
6 ratingsA historical mystery in the vein of The Alienist, in which a young woman in Gilded Age New York must use a special talent to unravel a deadly conspiracy.Amelia Matthew has done the all-but-impossible, especially for an orphan in Gilded Age New York City. Along with her foster brother Jonas, she has parleyed her modest psychic talent into a safe and comfortable life... -
![The Infernal by Kim Wilkins]()
The Infernal by Kim Wilkins
6 ratingsAustralian musician Lisa Sheehan has got life sussed, but then, one-by-one, her fans start to turn up dead, their bodies hideously mutilated, and Lisa is haunted by memories that are not her own...Categorized as:
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![Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe]()
Tales of Suspense by Edgar Allan Poe
6 ratingsTales of Suspense - Edgar Allen Poe - Illustrations by: Steve Salerno - THE WORLD'S BEST READING - The Reader's Digest Association...Categorized as:
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