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The Isle of Blood by Rick Yancey
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen Dr. Warthrop goes hunting the "Holy Grail of Monstrumology" with his eager new assistant, Arkwright, he leaves Will Henry in New York. Finally, Will can enjoy something that always seemed out of reach: a normal life with a real family. But part of Will can't let go of Dr. Warthrop, and when Arkwright returns claiming that the doctor is dead, Will is devastated--and not convinced... -
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The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTwo sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found--but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting...Categorized as:
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Anima Rising by Christopher Moore
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes a hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead woman’s electrifying journey of self-discovery.Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal...Categorized as:
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An Old Friend of the Family by Fred Saberhagen
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Southerland family left the old world to start anew in America, but little did they know that a blood-feud, older than history itself, would follow them through the generations to come.Kate Southerland, the first born of the latest generation of Southerlands, has been murdered, but she is not dead. Her little brother, Johnny, has also vanished, a severed, bloody finger the only clue... -
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Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"Chilling . . . A neo-gothic treat; original, richly imagined, and powerfully told." --The Guardian (UK) for The String Diaries See the girl. Leah Wilde is twenty-four, a runaway on a black motorbike, hunting for answers while changing her identity with each new Central European town...Categorized as:
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Girl Divided by Willow Rose
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThey think she's a monster, but she's their only hope… In a divided nation, 14-year-old Jetta belongs nowhere. Her face is split right down the middle: half-black and half-white. The non-white residents of her New Orleans camp call her a demon... -
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Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsFive interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation... -
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Odd & True by Cat Winters, Nathalia Suellen
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTrudchen grew up hearing Odette’s stories of their monster-slaying mother and a magician’s curse. But now that Tru’s older, she’s starting to wonder if her older sister’s tales were just comforting lies, especially because there’s nothing fantastic about her own life—permanently disabled and in constant pain from childhood polio...Categorized as:
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Ripper by Amy Carol Reeves
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"I felt hot breath on my neck, and, horrified, I knew that he stood behind me . . ." It's 1888, and after her mother's sudden death, Abbie is sent to live with her grandmother in a posh London neighborhood. When she begins volunteering at Whitechapel Hospital, Abbie finds she has a passion for helping the abused and sickly women there...Categorized as:
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The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William...Categorized as:
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The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars · 62 ratingsIn a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now-classic Interview with the Vampire. For centuries, Lestat—vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals—has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Now he is alone...Categorized as:
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The Golem of Hollywood by Jonathan Kellerman, Jesse Kellerman
Rated: 3.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom Jonathan Kellerman, the #1 New York Times –bestselling author and master of psychological suspense, and Jesse Kellerman, the international #1 bestselling author of The Genius, comes one of the most remarkable novels of the year. A burned-out L.A. detective . . . a woman of mystery who is far more than she seems . . . a grotesque, ancient monster bent on a mission of retribution... -
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Black Butler, Vol. 7 by Yana Toboso
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsHaving successfully infiltrated the Noah's Ark Circus in the guise ofrookie performers, Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his butler, Sebastian, setabout gathering clues backstage as to the whereabouts of the missingchildren. But when a turn at a snooping puts Ciel on the trail of a manwhose identity is shrouded in mystery, he sets his consummate manservantto the task of investigating further... -
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Black Butler, Vol. 6 by Yana Toboso
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsThe cheer of the holidays has passed, but the Noah's Ark travelingcircus has been making the rounds, bringing fun and joy to children ofall ages. However, as the ringmaster's cries fade away, a disturbingtrend begins to surface in the wake of the colourful entourage. Childrenseem to disappear whenever the circus packs up for its nextdestination, and there are no clues...or corpses...to be found...Categorized as:
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Black Butler, Vol. 8 by Yana Toboso
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsWhen one curtain falls upon the big top stage, another rises behind thescenes, as young Earl Ciel Phantomhive and his virtuoso butler,Sebastian, face off against the villain behind the missing children...Categorized as:
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Black Butler, Vol. 14 by Yana Toboso, 枢やな
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe veil of mystery cast over the Aurora Society’s “absolute salvation” is torn away, and the true mastermind behind the scheme steps forward at long last. In the ensuing battle, Earl Ciel Phantomhive looks on in horror as Sebastian, his infallible manservant, is struck down by the death scythe of an unforeseen combatant...Categorized as:
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Pandora hearts 3 by Jun Mochizuki
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsHeir to an aristocratic family, Oz Vessalius is a carefree teen. That is until his fifteenth birthday. His entire world changes at his coming of age ceremony when dark forces rise to punish Oz for the sins of a past life. Incarcerated in a prison known as the Abyss, Oz’s life and perhaps his sanity are saved by a black rabbit called Alice... -
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Part 1—Phantom Blood, Vol. 1 by Hirohiko Araki
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsYoung Jonathan Joestar’s life is forever changed when he meets his new adopted brother, Dio. For some reason, Dio has a smoldering grudge against him and derives pleasure from seeing him suffer. But every man has his limits, as Dio finds out...Categorized as:
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