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It took her husband's death in order to get the money to buy their first, brand-new house...
...and now it's haunted by someone Julie's never met.
Julie moves into her brand-new house in her brand-new housing development with mixed feelings. It's a new start after her husband's death, with a new job and good schools for her two kids. Then the lights flicker and go out, and a ghostly image appears in the basement.
It's a new house. And, it's not...
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What's the matter, Jake? Chicken? It's Halloween. Just over a month ago, Jake's brother Dave died in Afghanistan, killed by an IED bomb. Now Jake is going trick or treating, dressed like a solder. Dressed like his brother. He decides to take the same route that he and his brother took, cutting through a junkyard, walking down a big hill, and scoring candy at the kind of neighborhood where the neighbors actually leave the lights on and don't pretend...
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The house was creepy. No getting around that. Windows covered on the inside with tinfoil so nobody could look in. And, barred on the outside so nobody could get out. KEEP OUT and BEWARE OF DOGS signs everywhere. Pictures on the walls that seem like eyes are watching her from between the trees. Everything's brown and yellow, hasn't been updated since the Seventies...and a bad smell, too...
You never know what you're going to get, cleaning houses for...
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The real story behind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.
A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.
The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be...
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What is the true story of Castle Frankenstein, the inspiration for Mary Shelley's famous novel? Was there ever a mad scientist? A monster? A pursuit across the Arctic ice? Because there is a Castle Frankenstein, and you can go there and walk around the ruined stones, poke around in the forest, and eat lunch.
The legends that get told by the people who work at Castle Frankenstein are strange, but the layers leading downward into the truth are stranger.
And...
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It's the end of the world and my daughter is worried that we'll be late for the circus … The worst has happened and the zombie apocalypse has destroyed civilization as we know it, trapping people in the strangest places as they try to find shelter and safety. The fight against the zombies drags on for so long that it seems like it will never end. Local Leadership organizes a celebration of life and hope for the survivors at a local arena, a circus...
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SPOOKY SHORT FICTION. PERFECT FOR A HALLOWEEN NIGHT!
Thirty-one short horror tales of ghosts, haunted houses, vampires black cats, mad science, weird plants, demons, zombies, and Halloween. From the surreal to the gory, surprise twists, black humor, bad puns, dark dreamlands, old myths, thrillers, chillers, and illers. Twilight Zone stories, dark fantasy stories, Black Mirror stories, and far-future dystopias.
Short & sweet...monsters & meat.
(For...
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The real story behind Through the Looking-Glass...
It was a Britain that had been overrun by a plague of zombies.
A Britain that had fought the zombies, not quite won, and yet declared victory.
The rabid dead had been mercifully put down. The less virulently infected were treated with a sort of fungal "tea" that kept their urges to eat their fellow men at bay. With a bit of effort and discipline, one of the Infected could be right as...
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One little girl. Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal one little half-blood girl, and everything changes. Aloysius's little brother Jerome goes missing with her-two inseparable kids whose friendship is damned from the beginning-as demons replace the newly dead.
A priest with a tainted Bible. A brother with a taste for blood and demon flesh. A fool with a passion for the machinery of Hell. Only Aloysius and his brothers can see the transformation-and...
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A desperate mother summons the spirits as her infant son's last hope...but what if she's wrong?
A group of women hold a séance on a dark and snowy winter's night to summon forth wisdom from beyond the grave in order to save a sickly child. But, what is the real nature of the spirit that answers the summons?
And, will they have to call forth something even worse to save them from what their séance brings?
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Can't drink the water, can't drive around the potholes, can't sleep for gunshots at night, can't trust the locks on your doors. But you can trust the creepy white van that's been parking around your neighborhood at night.
On the side, someone spray painted:
"Something borrowed, something blue, something terrible will happen to you."
The neighborhood is under siege. The defense is holding but the war is taking its toll. Not just on the streets but...
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At sunrise and sunset, the sky burns like it's on fire and the old broken bridge over the railroad tracks on the far side of town stretches across the universes. At the end of the bridge are the fairies…
Della Rae is only in this podunk Midwestern university town for the full-ride biology scholarship she's getting. In a year or two, she's going to Oxford as an exchange student, she knows it. Her eventual goal: to cure cancer.
Only life doesn't...
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"What everyone want to see," the crow said, "is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it."
Out in the middle of nowhere in the Great Plains of the United States, it doesn't matter where you are, really, or even what year it is. All that matters is whether you have enough to eat before the winter sets in.
Whether your family loves you or shuns you, and whether or not you have a way to keep from going mad, those things don't matter...
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What does normal even mean...and why does it seem so fake?
Let me tell you...
31 tales of normal things gone wrong. Everything from coffee to gift cards to having friends over. 31 innocuous, even delightful things that are supposed to be able to replace happiness, job satisfaction, and a sense of purpose. 31 atmospheric tales about good things gone wrong-horribly, weirdly wrong.
When the world has gone completely nuts, even the normal looks strange.
(Teens...
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One little girl.
Buffalo-demons stampede out of the earth to steal a half-blood girl, and reality changes. Demons charge out of the earth to murder the living-and take the places of the newly dead, while most people seem not to notice.
Only Aloysius and his brothers can see the transformation, and there's not a damned thing they can do about it.Except follow their youngest brother, Jerome, down into hell-to save his best friend.
A Weird West novel...
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Three women. One serial killer who has access to the supernatural.
He can scare them...but he can't stop them from taking revenge.
A small Midwestern college town. A series of murders that ape the Jack the Ripper killings. Then Laney Miller is butchered just after dawn in front of a second-hand bookstore. The one witness didn't see anything...except Laney getting dragged out of her car and murdered by an invisible force.
One that carries a straight...
17) The Witch House
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO FACE THE WITCH HOUSE ALONE Jayla Jackson is a witch. Or is she? She dresses in black, has zero friends, is super-smart, and doesn't fit in. But that doesn't make her a witch… …right? When Jayla's English teacher makes her class start writing in journals for class-but says they don't have to tell the truth in them-Jayla boldly declares that she's a witch. She starts making up spells, talking about her familiar (a ghost cat), and...
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"What everyone want to see," the crow said, "is someone getting eaten. Preferably someone who deserves it."
Out in the middle of nowhere in the Great Plains of the United States, it doesn't matter where you are, really, or even what year it is. All that matters is whether you have enough to eat before the winter sets in. Whether your family loves you or shuns you, and whether or not you have a way to keep from going mad, those things don't matter...
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What makes the fae so terrifying is how subtle they are…
One foggy night, Lee Warnick waits for her dad to come home from the factory. Lately, more and more people have been disappearing from her small town, and she feels that her family might be next.
No one else will talk about it, but Lee knows the truth: the fae have been abducting people, on the nights when the fog rises up.
Haunted by nightmares and terrified for her family, Lee must find...
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