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The Book of Fantasy by Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Book of Fantasy began one night when three friends fell to talking about fantasies and ghost stories...Categorized as:
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Hades by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen a viral video puts twelve-year-old Xanther under a spotlight of scrutiny at school, her little white cat—still slumbering, still unnamed—offers the only escape, though it comes at a price. Not even Xanther’ parents can deny the strange currents now shuddering around their eldest, touching off inexplicable happenings. Entities troubling the dreams of the twins seem to have singled out Freya... -
![The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction by Ray Bradbury]()
The Vintage Bradbury: The Greatest Stories by America's Most Distinguished Practioner of Speculative Fiction by Ray Bradbury
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe author of Fahrenehit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, offers a personal selection of his best stories, featuring "Dandelion Wine," "The Illustrated Man," The Veldt, "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," and twenty other classics... -
![Hominid by R.D. Brady]()
Hominid by R.D. Brady
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHominid (noun): any of the modern or extinct bipedal primates of the family of humans or apesAccording to the experts, Homo sapiens are the only hominids in the family of humans that currently exists.One scientist has a plan to prove them wrong... -
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![Cold Fire / Hideaway / The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols]()
Cold Fire / Hideaway / The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz, Leigh Nichols
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsA collection of three previously published Koontz novels. This will be the first time The Key To Midnight will be available in hardcover... -
![Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz]()
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Bruno Schulz
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis is the second and final work of Bruno Schulz, the acclaimed Polish writer killed by the Nazis during World War II. In the words of Isaac Bashevis Singer, "What he did in his short life was enough to make him one of the most remarkable writers who ever lived...Categorized as:
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![Who's a Good Boy? by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
Who's a Good Boy? by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Four of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, a foreword by Jonny Sun, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations...Categorized as:
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![Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens]()
Beneath These Walls by Shade Owens
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSix months ago, my husband tried to kill me.Now, my sons and I are living in an old Victorian house passed down to me by my uncle. The house may be big, but the town is small... it's safe, which is something I haven't felt in a very long time. And best of all, it's very far away from my ex.As soon as we move in, however, I discover that this house has an eerie reputation... -
![Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan]()
Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis... -
![The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
The Buying of Lot 37 by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the authors of the New York Times bestselling novels It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a collection of episodes from Season Three of their hit podcast, featuring an introduction by the authors, a foreword by Dessa, behind-the-scenes commentary, and original illustrations...Categorized as:
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![Flames by Robbie Arnott]()
Flames by Robbie Arnott
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsA young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte—who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire...Categorized as:
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![Altmann's Tongue: Stories and a Novella by Brian Evenson]()
Altmann's Tongue: Stories and a Novella by Brian Evenson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwenty-five short stories and a detective novella, The Sanza Affair, present a chilling collection of tales in which social institutions and human relationships dissolve without warning and with mayhem. A first collection.Brian Evenson has added an O...Categorized as:
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![Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA by Emily X.R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma]()
Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate The Magic of Reading & Writing YA by Emily X.R. Pan, Nova Ren Suma
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThirteen Short Stories from Bold New YA Voices & Writing Advice from YA IconsCreated by New York Times bestselling authors Emily X. R. Pan and Nova Ren Suma, Foreshadow is so much more than a short story collection...Categorized as:
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![In the Eyes of Mr Fury by Philip Ridley]()
In the Eyes of Mr Fury by Philip Ridley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the day Concord Webster turned eighteen, the Devil died. The Devil’s real name was Judge Martin, but Concord’s mother called him the Devil. She said he boiled babies for dinner and made lampshades out of human skin. So why did she, who hated him so venomously, have a key to his house? The key will unlock more than just Judge’s front door... -
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![Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu]()
Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“You should be here; he’s simply magnificent.” These are the final words a biologist hears before his Margaret Mead-like wife dies at the hands of Godzilla. The words haunt him as he studies the Kaiju (Japan’s giant monsters) on an island reserve, attempting to understand the beauty his wife saw...Categorized as:
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![Alice Isn't Well by Amy Cross]()
Alice Isn't Well by Amy Cross
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"There are lots of demons in the sky above London. The problem is, this one came crashing down to earth." Ten years ago, Alice Warner was attacked and disfigured by an attacker in her own home. She remembers nothing of the attack, and she has been in a psychiatric hospital ever since. When she's finally released, however, she starts working as a security guard at an abandoned shopping mall... -
![Moccasin Square Gardens: Short Stories by Richard Van Camp]()
Moccasin Square Gardens: Short Stories by Richard Van Camp
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe characters of Moccasin Square Gardens inhabit Denendeh, the land of the people north of the sixtieth parallel. These stories are filled with in-laws, outlaws and common-laws. Get ready for illegal wrestling moves (“The Camel Clutch”), pinky promises, a doctored casino, extraterrestrials or “Sky People,” love, lust and prayers for peace... -
![We Are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth]()
We Are Watching Eliza Bright by A.E. Osworth
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn this thrilling story of survival and anger, a woman has her whole life turned upside down after speaking out against workplace hostility–and inadvertently becomes the leader of a cultural movement.Eliza Bright was living the dream as an elite video game coder at Fancy Dog Games when her private life suddenly became public... -
![LOTE by Shola von Reinhold]()
LOTE by Shola von Reinhold
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSolitary Mathilda has long harbored a conflicted enchantment bordering on rapture with the "Bright Young Things," the Bloomsbury Group, and their contemporaries of the '20s and '30s, and throughout her life her attempts at reinvention have mirrored their extravagance and artfulness...Categorized as:
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![Where I End by Sophie White]()
Where I End by Sophie White
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMy mother.At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her.Through our thin shared wall, I can hear the makings of my mother gurgle through her body just like the water in the walls of the house...Teenage Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent, bed-bound mother is a wreckage, the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about... -
![The Only Child by Miranda Rijks]()
The Only Child by Miranda Rijks
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne little boy. One little lie. Where will it end?Chantal and Stuart are a golden couple. She’s a high-flying divorce lawyer dealing with the biggest case of her career, and he’s the darling of daytime television, on the cusp of A list celebrity. Their seventeen-year old son Alex is a passionate environmentalist, the apple of his mother’s eye.And it’s all built on a lie.A lie told by Chantal...Categorized as:
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![Akelarre by Mario Mendoza]()
Akelarre by Mario Mendoza
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAl investigador privado Frank Molina, borracho, marihuanero y paciente psiquiátrico, lo alcanza su pasado con una cuenta de cobro cuando la policía lo llama para que los asesore con unos extraños asesinatos que tuvieron lugar en el barrio Santa Fe. Un imitador de Jack el Destripador está inmerso en una auténtica orgía de sangre y mata prostitutas sin contemplación... -
![Don't Call Me Crazy by Octavia Grant]()
Don't Call Me Crazy by Octavia Grant
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAward winning Investigative Reporter Ivory Addison has been on the scene of every Local, National, and International event deemed newsworthy. Her work ethic has a certain je ne sais quoi, that has not gone unnoticed... -
![The Portable Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde]()
The Portable Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIncludes the following works: Novels—The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays—Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings—De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance... -
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![The Rude Awakening of Theodor Moody by Per Jacobsen]()
The Rude Awakening of Theodor Moody by Per Jacobsen
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat would you do to protect the people who have given your life purpose again?After suffering a stroke, petty racist, semi-demented, and grumpy pensioner, Theodor Moody, wakes up with telekinetic abilities. During Theodor’s hospital stay, an unlikely friendship develops between him and the cleaning lady, Yuki, as he uses his newfound abilities to save her son from some school bullies... -
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Penance by Eliza Clark
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsOne of Granta's Best Young British Novelists 2023From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls—a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline’s The Girls... -
![Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho]()
Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsNineteen sparkling stories that weave between the lands of the living and the lands of the dead. Spirits Abroad is an expanded edition of Zen Cho’s Crawford Award winning debut collection with nine added stories including Hugo Award winner “If at First You Don't Succeed, Try, Try Again.” A Datin recalls her romance with an orang bunian... -
![Taken For Dead by Graham Masterton]()
Taken For Dead by Graham Masterton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKatie Maguire hunts down a serial killer in county Cork, in her fourth terrifying crime thriller It is a sunny Saturday in county Cork, and an Irish wedding is in full swing. Drunk uncles are toasting the bride. The Ceilidh band have played for hours. But the cutting of the cake will bring the wedding to a horrifying end... -
![Atomka by Franck Thilliez]()
Atomka by Franck Thilliez
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA pocos días de Navidad, un suceso de gran envergadura irrumpe en las vidas de Lucie Hennebelle y Franck Sharko, policías de la famosa sección criminal del número 36 del Quai des Orfèvres... -
![The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo]()
The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFrom best-selling Brazilian crime novelist Patrícia Melo comes a genre-defying tale of women in the Amazon and their reckoning with brutal oppression―by turns poetic, humorous, dark, and inspiring...Categorized as:
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![The Laughterhouse by Paul Cleave]()
The Laughterhouse by Paul Cleave
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the internationally bestselling author of Blood Men and Collecting Cooper comes an unforgettable new thriller featuring private detective Theodore Tate.Theodore Tate never forgot his first crime scene - ten year-old Jessica Cole found dead in 'the Laughterhouse,' an old abandoned slaughterhouse with the 'S' painted over. The killer was found and arrested. Justice was served... -
![Eenie, Meenie by Willow Rose]()
Eenie, Meenie by Willow Rose
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJohnny is a criminal. He has been locked up before - but never in a place quite like this. Now he wonders if he will ever make it through to his release date - alive...EENIE, MEENIE is a 15,000 word thriller novella from Willow Rose, author of the International Bestselling horror-series starring the Danish reporter Rebekka Franck. It is not for the faint at heart...Categorized as:
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![In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser]()
In the Penny Arcade by Steven Millhauser
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe seven stories of In the Penny Arcade blend both the real and the fantastic in a seductive mix that illuminates the full range of Steven Millhauser's gifts, from 'August Eschenburg', the story of a clockmaker's son whose extraordinary talent for creating animated figures is lost on a world whose taste for the perverse and crude supersedes that of the refined and beautiful, to 'Cathay', a...Categorized as:
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![The Girl Who Couldn't Come by Joey Comeau]()
The Girl Who Couldn't Come by Joey Comeau
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis is a book of dirty stories. They are weird and fun and often bewildering, like sex itself... -
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![Papeles de Pandora: cuentos by Rosario Ferré]()
Papeles de Pandora: cuentos by Rosario Ferré
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAvailable in Spanish for the first time in the United States.From Rosario Ferré (nominated for the National Book Award for The House on the Lagoon), her first work of fiction, long out of print in any edition, in the original Spanish and including a previously unpublished story and two poems...Categorized as:
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![Please Stop Trying to Leave Me by Alana Saab]()
Please Stop Trying to Leave Me by Alana Saab
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA debut novel about love, family, queerness, and losing your mind in the modern world marks the arrival of a truly original, haunting voice in fiction who will make you laugh, cry, and scream, all in the same breath... -
![The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet by Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant]()
The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet by Kelly Link, Gavin J. Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson Karen Joy Fowler Karen Russell Jeffrey Ford among many othersContains STORIES by the AMAZING Jeffrey Ford, the FABULOUS Karen Joy Fowler, the UNLIKELY Kelly Link, the THRILLING Nalo Hopkinson, the SHOCKINGLY GOOD Karen Russell, the UNNERVING James Sallis, and dozens of UNCANNY others, as well as USEFUL lists of many...Categorized as:
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![Season of the Witch: A Novel by James Leo Herlihy]()
Season of the Witch: A Novel by James Leo Herlihy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBy the author of Midnight Cowboy: A teenage girl runs away to the East Village in “one of the best and most convincing novels . . . of the Woodstock generation” (Publishers Weekly). As she explains in her diary, seventeen-year-old Gloria Random is running away from her Midwest childhood home. It’s the fall of 1969, and her best friend John has been called up for the draft... -
![Odd Adventures with your Other Father by Norman Prentiss]()
Odd Adventures with your Other Father by Norman Prentiss
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBecause one of her fathers died when she was very young, much of Celia's family knowledge comes from stories her surviving father narrates—road-trip adventures from the mid-80s that explore homophobia in a supernatural context... -
![Remember Why You Fear Me by Robert Shearman]()
Remember Why You Fear Me by Robert Shearman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDeliciously frightening, darkly satirical, and always unexpected, Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, and the Edge Hill Reader's Prize. Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction, the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books, and ten new tales that have never been collected before... -
![Girl Like a Bomb by Autumn Christian]()
Girl Like a Bomb by Autumn Christian
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAutumn Christian's third novel is a dark journey of self-discovery. An existential labyrinth of love, sex, and self-actualization where the only way out is through. When high schooler Beverly Sykes finally has sex, her whole life changes. She feels an explosion inside of her that feels like her DNA is being rearranged, and she discovers a strange power within...Categorized as:
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![Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong]()
Liar, Dreamer, Thief by Maria Dong
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKatrina Kim may be broke, the black sheep of her family, and slightly unhinged, but she isn’t a stalker. Her obsession with her co-worker, Kurt, is just one of many coping mechanisms—like her constant shape and number rituals, or the way scenes from her favorite children’s book bleed into her vision whenever she feels anxious or stressed...Categorized as:
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![Verdigris by Michele Mari]()
Verdigris by Michele Mari
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAt the tail end of the 1960s, the thirteen-year-old Michelino spends his summers at his grandparents’ modest estate in Nasca, near Lake Maggiore, losing himself in the tales of horror, adventure, and mystery shelved in his grandfather’s library... -
![Mouth: Stories by Puloma Ghosh]()
Mouth: Stories by Puloma Ghosh
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBESTIARY MEETS THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED IN THIS COLLECTION OF 11 EERIE, UNCANNY, AND SURREAL SHORT STORIESIn this debut collection, Puloma Ghosh uses the speculative as a catalyst to push her stories and characters beyond what reality allows. Exploring grief, intimacy, sexuality, and bodily autonomy, Mouth leans into the bizarre and absurd while reaching for the truth... -
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![Stag Dance by Torrey Peters]()
Stag Dance by Torrey Peters
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this collection of one novel and three novellas, the bestselling author of Detransition, Baby pushes trans-genre to its limits to explore who gets included—and excluded—from the possibilities of gender...Categorized as:
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![কহেন কবি কালিদাস by Humayun Ahmed]()
কহেন কবি কালিদাস by Humayun Ahmed
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsমিসির আলি ভালো ঝামেলায় পড়েছেন। ঝামেলা সায়রা বানুকে নিয়ে। মেয়েটি যখনই তাঁর সঙ্গে দেখা করতে আসে তিনি কেমন যেন গুটিয়ে যান।সায়রা বানুর সমস্যাটা জটিল। সে না-কি ইবলিশ শয়তানের সঙ্গে কথা বলেছে। তাকে দেখেছে। সায়রা বানুর বক্তব্য মিসির আলি না পারছেন গ্রহণ করতে, না পারছেন বাতিল করতে।মিসির আলি সারা জীবন যুক্তির সিঁড়ি ব্যবহার করেছেন। আজ তাঁকে যুক্তির বাইরে পা দিতে হচ্ছে। তাঁর মনে ভয় ঢুকে গেছে। রাতে... -
![And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott]()
And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA mind-bending, razor-sharp look at motherhood and mental health that follows a young Indigenous woman who discovers the picture-perfect life she always hoped for may have horrifying consequencesOn the surface, Alice is exactly where she thinks she should She’s just given birth to a beautiful baby girl, Dawn; her charming husband, Steve—a white academic whose area of study is conveniently her...Categorized as:
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Apparitions by Adam Pottle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"An intensely unsettling read." -David Demchuk, author of The Bone Mother and RED XVIOLENCE WAS HIS FIRST LANGUAGE. After years of imprisonment, a Deaf teen escapes his father's basement...Categorized as:
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![Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell]()
Good and Evil and Other Stories by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA haunting, unforgettable collection of tales from the 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature winner and three-time Booker finalist, Samanta Schweblin.Once a decade a story collection rips a hole in the sky and we remember how it feels to have a spell cast upon us...Categorized as:
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![Wicked Wonders by Ellen Klages, Karen Joy Fowler]()
Wicked Wonders by Ellen Klages, Karen Joy Fowler
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe award-winning author of The Green Glass Sea returns with smart and subversive new talesA rebellious child identifies with Maleficent instead of Sleeping Beauty. Best friends Anna and Corry share one last morning on Earth. A solitary woman inherits a penny arcade haunted by a beautiful stranger. A prep-school student requires more than luck when playing dice with a faerie...Categorized as:
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