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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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Amateur ghost-hunter Trey Newton can't find a single spook, but it's not because his homemade ecto-meter doesn't work. Someone has kidnapped all the ghosts in town, including his Grandma! Suddenly, Trey's goofy plan to get on TV and meet his hero famous ghost-hunter Rex Rangler turns into a race to save his beloved Grandma's spirit. Written by debut middle-grade author John Bladek, Lost in Ghostville is funny, fast-paced novel filled with humor,...
3) 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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Holed up in a little church house, during a terrible blizzard that shuts down Vinegar Valley, Preacher Ed Monroe and his disreputable daughter, Celia Monroe, find themselves at odds over conflicting belief systems. As they take precautions to survive the storm, the preacher secretly makes a plan that will irreparably undermine Celia's life. Meanwhile, Star, Celia's dead twin, intervenes from beyond the grave, helping Celia recall a destructive family...
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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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2024
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"His name is Joshua Knight. Once a respected explorer, the press now calls him the Tarnished Knight. He took the fall for a disaster in the Underworld that destroyed his career. The devastating event occurred in the newly discovered sector known as Glass House-a maze of crystal that is rumored to conceal powerful Alien antiquities. The rest of the Hollister Expedition team disappeared and are presumed dead. Whatever happened down in the tunnels scrambled...
7) Le Horla
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Une édition de référence du Horla de Guy de Maupassant, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« D'o viennent ces influences mystérieuses qui changent en découragement notre bonheur et notre confiance en détresse ? On dirait que l'air, l'air invisible est plein d'inconnaissables Puissances, dont nous subissons les voisinages mystérieux. Je m'éveille plein de gaieté, avec des envies de chanter dans la gorge....
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Henry Kuttner (1915–1958) was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror. 'Where the World Is Quiet' tells the strange story of young anthropologist White, who traverses a snowy, fog-shrouded mountain in the Andes to discover what became of seven native girls who have disappeared. There he discovers beings from another time. This e-text was produced from 'Fantastic Universe', May 1954. [Sources: Wikipedia, Goodreads, book]
10) Spillthrough
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Ships switching from hyper to normal space had to do it in a micro-second—if the crews were to live. But it would take Brad suicidal minutes!
12) Sound of Terror
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What is more frightening than the fear of the unknown? Johnny found out!
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After a mudslide devastates the neighborhood of Winston Hills, no one expects it to get worse. When fifteen-year-old Greyson Bennell joins the volunteer cleanup effort, he thinks he'll excavate some belongings and head home. But when his best friend Trevor goes missing, Grey starts to realize that the people around him are acting strangely . . . and it might have something to do with the mud that surrounds them.
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Evon-thia, The Spirit Bands use astral travel to bypass the normal rigors and dangers of an adventure to Mars. Their leader, Carl De L'Ester is the spirit guide to a medium we know only as Madame.
Over the course of two years, Madame has several out of body experiences that take her to Ento, that red planet we know as Mars. She is joined by different spirit friends who guide her observations, which she writes about in great detail.
This classic...
16) Drawn Away
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One minute Jack's in math class. The next, he's on a dark, cobblestoned, empty street. Empty, that is, except for a skinny girl wrapped in a threadbare shawl. "Matches, mister?" she asks, and just like that, Jack's life collides with one of Hans Christian Andersen's grimmest tales. And just when he has almost convinced himself it was just a weird dream, it happens again.
Suddenly, Jack's ideas about what is "real" or "possible" no longer apply. While...
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