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In a medieval citadel, in the middle of a dark alley, a strange bundle changes hands. A maleficent group conspires to worship the Evil One. Ancient rites, the Holy Inquisition, the Plague, the trials... Will the Devil's adepts achieve their objective? Witches, soldiers, noble people, priests, and... a bunch of characters are mixed in an uncanny potion with an ending almost impossible to imagine. It is better not to reveal the secret contained in this...
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The six stories in this captivating collection, published in 1887, are retellings of classical Chinese myths and legends. In his preface, Hearn writes that he "sought especially for 'weird beauty' in these phantom tales." Among those included are "The Soul of the Great Bell," the story of a young girl's sacrifice for the creation of the Emperor's sublime bell; "The Story of Ming-Y," a phantom tale about a young man's love for a woman long-dead, as...
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On an ordinary morning, several New York schools are seized by the same group that, years earlier, blew up a shopping mall in New Orleans on the busiest day of the year. The lives of hundreds of children are in danger. Many of them are different; monsters whom Dominic Lane wants to destroy.
He has felt a profound hate towards ‘different’ humans since Skylar left him to take the blame for his best friend’s murder.
He’s not going...
He has felt a profound hate towards ‘different’ humans since Skylar left him to take the blame for his best friend’s murder.
He’s not going...
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Excerpt: "While engaged upon this little mosaic work of legend and fable, I felt much like one of those merchants told of in Sindbad's Second Voyage, who were obliged to content themselves with gathering the small jewels adhering to certain meat which eagles brought up from the Valley of Diamonds. I have had to depend altogether upon the labor of translators for my acquisitions, and these seemed too small to deserve separate literary setting. By cutting...
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A series of "ripping yarns" as they'd say in a book such as, well, a book such as this. The tales of a valiant late 19th Century gentleman of leisure, Carnacki, investigating unexplained occurrences about the British Isles. The stories are told in a format similar to that of the Sherlock Holmes tales, in that the narrator is passing on the stories as told by Carnacki.
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Harry "Satan" Sanderson is the big party guru in college, leading a dissolute guys-gone-wild kind of life that we all secretly want to be leading. But as time goes on, Sanderson mellows out, settles down in maturity, and becomes a respected minister. His college party pal Hugh Stires, however, never does reform, leaving a trail of broken hearts and enemies in his wake. Sanderson is involved in a car accident that rattles his brain so bad he comes...
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The year is nineteen-sixty-something, and after endless millennia of watery sleep, the stars are finally right. Old R'lyeh rises out of the Pacific, ready to cast its damned shadow over the primitive human world. The first to see its peaks: an alcoholic, paranoid, and frightened Jack Kerouac, who had been drinking off a nervous breakdown up in Big Sur. Now Jack must get back on the road to find Neal Cassady, the holy fool whose rambling letters hint...
8) Mandagual
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The ambition of a man and the greed of a woman, becomes the bond that unites them to create a macabre marriage. No matter that with this, the fate of a young woman was sealed, who from the beginning is a victim of that terrible union. A century later, fate wants to make another young woman pay for that curse with her blood, for which that victim of the past suffers in hell, and so that others continue to enjoy riches. A story where ambition and greed...
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Written in the 19th century, this lengthy and thorough text documents the various manifestations of demons and devils in the Christian religion. The forms they take, and the means by which they appear in the physical world, are cataloged. How they correspond to actual phenomena, such as death and pestilence, is likewise noted. Conway draws upon various writings within the Biblical scriptures, together with later works published in the Middle Ages...
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Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller of strange and wonderfully macabre tales. "Kwaidan"...
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What started as a lighthearted flirtation with a beautiful, strangely dressed maiden under the New Orleans moonlight ended with young Ned Minton pledged to eternal love with a girl who had died a century before, a promise enforced by the all-too-real fangs of the demon-serpent who guarded her. Ned's only hope is that French physician and occult investigator Jules de Grandin can get to the bottom of it and end the curse that keeps the lovely Julie...
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“And there will be strange signs in the sun, moon, and stars. And here on earth the nations will be in turmoil, perplexed by the roaring seas and strange tides.”
Luke 21:25 (NLV)
“Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again. If you don’t wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief.”
Revelation 3:3 (NLV)
Privileged to visit before death, a child of God is transported...
Luke 21:25 (NLV)
“Go back to what you heard and believed at first; hold to it firmly. Repent and turn to me again. If you don’t wake up, I will come to you suddenly, as unexpected as a thief.”
Revelation 3:3 (NLV)
Privileged to visit before death, a child of God is transported...
14) Harkworth Hall
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Ask him about his wives.
Caroline Daniels must marry, and marry well. But in her remote corner of England eligible suitors are few and far between, and none hold a candle to her closest friend, Diana Fitzroy. When Sir Edward Masterson arrives, he seems the answer to Caroline's financial worries, though she instinctively dislikes the reticent, older merchant. Soon Sir Edward has set his sights on acquiring both Caroline and the decaying Harkworth...
15) Wind Chimes
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What do a green-eyed cat, a garden filled with aromatic herbs and wind chimes inside an abandoned house, have in common? A teenage girl, Miriam, has the chance to find out during the pitch-black night of "Earth Day". The movements of the cat, the different scents of the plants and the wind chimes entice Miriam in, but first she must brace herself and draw enough courage to pass beyond the rusted gate. What was meant to be a night-time walk...
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A collection of eleven stories including science fiction, horror and mystery. Includes "Nordhung Nordjansen," a fantasy of a Symmes-style hollow earth inhabited by spirits.
Excerpt: "Very many years ago, in an age when departures from the regular line of thought were accounted but vagaries of a diseased brain, when science was a thing of dread, and great knowledge deemed but sorcery, Nordhung Nordjansen was born, and grew to early manhood on the...
18) After Life
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Mara's brother Soren remembers when his name was Cole.
He remembers how he used to play pirate ship with his brothers in the backyard, the taste of his mother's soft and chewy chocolate-chip cookies, and that he rode the number eight bus to get to school.
And he also remembers the night he died.
On a dark and windy night, Soren tells Mara about the person who killed him before he chose to live with their family. Mara sets out to investigate her...
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This classic collection of Japanese ghost and folk stories is of enormous importance to the field of Japanese studies. Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs, excite the curiosity and imagination of a master spinner of tales, and the result is Kotto, another Lafcadio Hearn classic about old Japan. Here Hearn spins tales from old Japanese books to illustrate some strange beliefs. They are only curios, he says laconically, but some of these legends will...
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What if you only had one hundred words to warn humanity of a deadly danger? What if your favorite sci-fi movie suddenly turned into a real-life worst nightmare? What if a girl you've never seen before keeps showing up in photos on your cell phone? What if you hear a knocking sound in the middle of the night? In each of the 27 tales in this book, people are afraid. Very afraid. Read their stories. See if you share their fears. Because if you don't...
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