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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 73 ratingsMoscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks loose...Categorized as:
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![The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis]()
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 78 ratingsThe story takes the form of a series of letters from a senior demon, Screwtape, to his nephew, a junior "tempter" named Wormwood, so as to advise him on methods of securing the damnation of a British man, known only as "the Patient".Screwtape holds an administrative post in the bureaucracy ("Lowerarchy") of Hell, and acts as a mentor to Wormwood, the inexperienced tempter... -
![Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore]()
Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 65 ratingsThe birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday...Categorized as:
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Servant of the Bones and The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice
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![Life at the Coffin Joint by Ann Charles, Sam Lucky]()
Life at the Coffin Joint by Ann Charles, Sam Lucky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDeadwood (late 1876) ... A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in?Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead … and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone that steps out of line... -
![A Long Way from Ordinary by Ann Charles, Sam Lucky]()
A Long Way from Ordinary by Ann Charles, Sam Lucky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“There’s gold in them there hills!” … and something deadly, too. Danger the likes Boone McCreery has never seen is brewing in the Black Hills. Fresh in from Santa Fe, he’s returned to Deadwood to seek justice for his uncle, and maybe to see about a girl. Little did he know his search for justice would have him stumbling into a hornets’ nest beyond his worst nightmare... -
![The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde]()
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFlamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage... -
![Somebody Stop Ivy Pocket by Caleb Krisp]()
Somebody Stop Ivy Pocket by Caleb Krisp
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAre you ready for Ivy Pocket? The wickedly funny, completely unreliable maid of no importance returns—this time as a coffin maker’s daughter—in this action-packed sequel to Anyone but Ivy Pocket. School Library Journal says, “Fans of . . . Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events will love Ivy Pocket’s zany adventures...Categorized as:
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![Thicker Than Blood by Shalini Boland]()
Thicker Than Blood by Shalini Boland
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsChilling and fast-paced, Thicker Than Blood is the supernatural sequel to Hidden. It combines passion and drama with a historical twist.Aelia lives in 6th century Byzantium. She is sixteen years old and her life is about to change forever. She doesn't yet know it, but she holds the fate of thousands in her hands and her actions will echo across the centuries...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Hopkins]()
The Complete Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Hopkins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius... -
![The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain]()
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsrelates the adventures of Satan, the sinless nephew of the biblical Satan, in Eseldorf, an Austrian village in the year 1702. Twain wrote this version between November 1897 and September 1900. "Eseldorf" is German for "Assville" or "Donkeytown"...Categorized as:
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![The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler]()
The Scarfolk Annual by Richard Littler
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Scarfolk Annual is the facsimile of a book discovered in a charity shop in the north west of England in August 2018... -
![Nature's God by Robert Anton Wilson]()
Nature's God by Robert Anton Wilson
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhile Sigismundo prepares to contest the most powerful of the Indian medicine men, Moon, Washington, and the troops are waging an equally desperate battle for survival. These are the events which will soon reshape the world... -
![The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G.S. Denning]()
The Hell-Hound of the Baskervilles by G.S. Denning
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe game s afoot once more as Holmes and Watson face off against Moriarty s gang, the Pinkertons, flesh-eating horses, a parliament of imps, boredom, Surrey, a disappointing butler demon, a succubus, a wicked lord, an overly-Canadian lord, a tricycle-fight to the death and the dreaded Pumpcrow. Oh, and a hell hound, one assumes... -
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![The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor]()
The Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives In Your Home by Joseph Fink, Jeffrey Cranor
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of Welcome to Night Vale and It Devours! and the creators of the hit podcast, comes a new novel set in the world of Night Vale and beyond.In the town of Night Vale, there’s a faceless old woman who secretly lives in everyone’s home, but no one knows how she got there or where she came from...until now...Categorized as:
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![The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb]()
The Pendragon Legend by Antal Szerb
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAt an end-of-London-season soiree, the young Hungarian scholar-dilettante Janos Batky is introduced to the Earl of Gwynedd, a reclusive eccentric who is the subject of strange rumors...Categorized as:
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![The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck]()
The Ghost Belonged to Me by Richard Peck
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"More death! More, if you do not stop it. Others lost, like me in the black water. Save them!"When Alexander first sees the eerie glow in the dormer window of the barn, it sets his heart pounding. And when he ventures into the barn in the dark of night, his breath catches in his throat. Suddenly Blossom Culp's words come back to him: "You can make contact with the Unseen...Categorized as:
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![Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law by Lavie Tidhar]()
Judge Dee and the Limits of the Law by Lavie Tidhar
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsNo vampire is ever innocent…The wandering Judge Dee serves as judge, jury, and executioner for any vampire who breaks the laws designed to safeguard their kind’s survival. This new case in particular puts his mandate to the test... -
![The Ghost of Sir Herbert Dungeonstone by Kate McMullan]()
The Ghost of Sir Herbert Dungeonstone by Kate McMullan
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat are those strange noises coming from the dungeon at DSA? Wiglaf and his stalwart cohorts Angus and Erica decide to investigate and inadvertently free the long-imprisoned ghost of the school founder?Sir Herbert Dungeonstone. Overjoyed to be on the loose again, Sir Herbert wreaks havoc, threatening to spoil the greedy headmaster?s plan to turn DSA coed...Categorized as:
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![The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by James D. Jenkins, Bernard Taylor]()
The Valancourt Book of Horror Stories: Volume One by James D. Jenkins, Bernard Taylor
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSpanning two hundred years of horror, this new collection features seventeen macabre gems, including two original tales and many others that have never or seldom been reprinted. Table of ContentsForeword by James D... -
![Dead to Rites by Ari Marmell]()
Dead to Rites by Ari Marmell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMick Oberon may look like just another 1930s private detective, but beneath the fedora and the overcoat, he’s got pointy ears and he’s packing a wand. Mick is suffering from bad luck, and when luck is your chief magical weapon, that means things are pretty dire... -
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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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Fool by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 48 ratings“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” —Dallas Morning NewsFool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket...Categorized as:
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![Sweet Poison Wine (Incryptid, #0.06) by Seanan McGuire]()
Sweet Poison Wine (Incryptid, #0.06) by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsJonathan and Frances Healy are beginning their new lives together with that most traditional of celebrations: the honeymoon. Leaving their infant son with Jonathan's parents, the Healys are leaving Buckley Township, Michigan for the cosmopolitan wonders of the city of Chicago, where they can properly celebrate the fact that they managed to have a wedding without anybody winding up dead...Categorized as:
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![A Night of Blacker Darkness: Being the Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III by Dan Wells]()
A Night of Blacker Darkness: Being the Memoir of Frederick Whithers As Edited by Cecil G. Bagsworth III by Dan Wells
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWrongly imprisoned, Frederick Whithers is desperate to commit the crime he's already being punished for: defrauding the bank out of a vast inheritance. He fakes his death to escape, but when he's seen climbing out of a coffin everyone assumes he's a vampire; when he shows none of the traditional vampire weaknesses, they decide he must be the most powerful vampire in the history of the world...Categorized as:
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![Broken Paper Hearts by Seanan McGuire]()
Broken Paper Hearts by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsValentine's Day has come to Buckley Township. For Alice, that means cupcakes and paper hearts. For Jonathan, it means sleepless nights and fear, because Fran hasn't come home.Everything ends eventually. No matter how much you hope that it won't.Everything ends... -
![The Temple and the Stone the Temple and the Stone by Katherine Kurtz, Deborah Turner Harris]()
The Temple and the Stone the Temple and the Stone by Katherine Kurtz, Deborah Turner Harris
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe military Order of the Knights Templar was founded during the time of the crusades. Said to possess magical abilities, their original mission was to protect pilgrims en route to the Holy Land. Now, during the final decade of the 13th century, the Templars find themselves deeply involved in Scotland's wars of independence...Categorized as:
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![Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death by Richard Peck]()
Blossom Culp and the Sleep of Death by Richard Peck
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBlossom, high-school freshman and possessor of second sight, helps an Egyptian princess, dead for 3500 years, to regain her tomb, and in addition saves a suffragette school teacher from losing her job in 1914... -
![Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels by Lavie Tidhar]()
Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels by Lavie Tidhar
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAward-winning author Lavie Tidhar returns with a dark fantasy Tor.com Original short story, "Judge Dee and the Three Deaths of Count Werdenfels."Judge Dee is back to solve a brand-new case involving the mysterious death of the vampire Count Werdenfels. The mystery? Who killed him. The twist? Three different people are proudly proclaiming to have committed the crime... -
![The Lay of the Land by Seanan McGuire]()
The Lay of the Land by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThomas Price has seen the world, has studied and fought unbelievable creatures on every continent, and knows more about cryptids than almost anyone else alive. But he's never seen anyplace like Buckley Township, Michigan, and he's certainly never met anyone like Alice Healy, who is far too young for him, far too much a Healy for him, and far too wild to disregard...Categorized as:
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![The Godmother's Apprentice by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough]()
The Godmother's Apprentice by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA modern fairy godmother takes a young girl under her wing in this tale by the Nebula Award-winning author of The Godmother. Ireland proves a fertile training ground for Sno Quantrill. A gateway to Faerie, a door to the past, and a funeral procession for the King of the Cats bring together an unlikely group of comrades. And Sno's adventures are only just beginning...Categorized as:
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![Mad Amos by Alan Dean Foster]()
Mad Amos by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMOVE OVER, PAUL BUNYAN--MAKE WAY FOR MAD AMOS MALONE! Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, the man some call Mad Amos, though not to his face. But when the world gets weird, there's no one who's better to have on your side.. -
![The Blackheath Séance Parlour by Alan Williams]()
The Blackheath Séance Parlour by Alan Williams
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo sisters dabble in the dark arts in Victorian London in this tale featuring murder, vampires, malevolent spirits, and a life-size chocolate gorilla. For fans of the classics—Holmes, Dickens, and Abfab.In 1842, two drunken sisters debate their future. Business at the family chocolate shop has ground to a halt, and change is needed... -
![Satan Wants Me by Robert Irwin]()
Satan Wants Me by Robert Irwin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSex, drugs, satanism, rock and roll and the 1960s. Irwin is a writer of immense subtlety and craftmanship, and offers us a vivid and utterly convincing portrait of life on the loopier fringes of the Sixties. Satan Wants Me is black, compulsive and very, very funny... -
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![Legends by Robert Silverberg, Stephen King]()
Legends by Robert Silverberg, Stephen King
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAcclaimed writer and editor Robert Silverberg gathered eleven of the finest writers in Fantasy to contribute to this collection of short novels. Each of the writers was asked to write a new story based on one of his or her most famous series. Stephen King tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of The Dark Tower, in "The Little Sisters of Eluria... -
![One Hell of a Ride (InCryptid, #0.02) by Seanan McGuire]()
One Hell of a Ride (InCryptid, #0.02) by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsAfter a rather...eventful...visit to Tempe, Arizona, Jonathan Healy wants nothing more than to return to his home in Buckley Township, Michigan, where at least the threats are generally familiar ones. With the last of the blood mopped up and the locals none the wiser, it seems he's just a train ride away from getting his wish.Of course, there are a few small complications...Categorized as:
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![This Haunted Heart: Gaslamp Romance by S.L. Prater]()
This Haunted Heart: Gaslamp Romance by S.L. Prater
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHer heart will never belong to anyone else.FinleyTwenty years ago, Rynn abandoned me to an abyss without her. Her betrayal haunts me more than any ghost at my manor ever could. Years of grief and suffering have even changed my face.But now I’ve found her.She’s hiding in a den of iniquity, working as a courtesan under a false name... -
![Married in Green (InCryptid, #0.05) by Seanan McGuire]()
Married in Green (InCryptid, #0.05) by Seanan McGuire
Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsAfter a rocky start and a lot of dangerous adventures, the day everyone has been waiting for has finally arrived: Jonathan Healy and Frances Brown are going to be married, and none too soon, since their first child is set to arrive at any moment. Alexander and Enid couldn't be happier about their son gaining a wife and a child, while giving them a daughter-in-law... -
![The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benét]()
The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benét
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsDo your students enjoy a good laugh? Do they like to be scared? Or do they just like a book with a happy ending? No matter what their taste, our Creative Short Stories series has the answer.We've taken some of the world's best stories from dark, musty anthologies and brought them into the light, giving them the individual attention they deserve... -
![The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck]()
The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp by Richard Peck
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt's Halloween, 1914. Teenage psychic Blossom Culp sneaks into the house where the rest of her class is having a party-and that's when everything goes haywire. Suddenly Blossom is hurled into a time warp. Her psychic powers have found a way to send her into the future-our time...Categorized as:
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![Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith]()
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWith more than one million copies in print, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was the surprise publishing phenomenon of 2009. A best seller on three continents, PPZ has been translated into 21 languages and optioned to become a major motion picture.In this terrifying and hilarious prequel, we witness the genesis of the zombie plague in early-nineteenth-century England... -
![Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution by Keith R.A. DeCandido]()
Sleepy Hollow: Children of the Revolution by Keith R.A. DeCandido
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Ichabod Crane, a soldier from the Colonial Army, is resurrected from his grave, more than two centuries after he was killed in battle, he partners with Lieutenant Abbie Mills of the Sleepy Hollow Police Department to fight the evil forces that have taken hold of the town. It’s a cold day in January, and Ichabod visits Patriots Park for a moment of peace... -
![The Secret Portrait by Lillian Stewart Carl]()
The Secret Portrait by Lillian Stewart Carl
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFleeing an academic scandal and a broken marriage, Jean Fairbairn has come to Scotland to work for an Edinburgh-based history and travel magazine. Writing about the Scottish national pastime of playing illusion off reality is just the quiet, scholarly pursuit she needs to soothe her burned-out emotions... -
![The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde]()
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 53 ratingsOscar Wilde's spooky tale of a genteel English ghost clashing with a brash American family is endearing, hilarious, and perfect reading for all ages Canterville Chase possesses all of the trappings of a standard haunted country house—including large suits of armor and Gothic paneled library walls... -
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![The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore]()
The Serpent of Venice by Christopher Moore
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore channels William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe in this satiric Venetian gothic that brings back the Pocket of Dog Snogging, the eponymous hero of Fool, along with his sidekick, Drool, and pet monkey, JeffVenice, a long time ago...Categorized as:
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![Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly]()
Bride of the Rat God by Barbara Hambly
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsChrysanda Flamande was the sultriest vamp of the silver screen in Hollywood, California, in the year 1923. Then an elderly Chinese gentleman warned her that a trinket she'd worn in her last movie had marked her to be the bride of an ancient devil-god of Manchuria... -
![The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde]()
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFour of the English writer's finest works, among them "The Sphinx Without a Secret," "The Model Millionaire," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," and the title story, a delightful tale of a 300-year-old ghost who fails to intimidate the newest occupants of his manor house. Also includes the author's "Poems in Prose... -
![Jane Goes Batty by Michael Thomas Ford]()
Jane Goes Batty by Michael Thomas Ford
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter two hundred years undead, Jane Austen still has bite. But will her most recent literary success be her last? Life was a lot easier for Jane when she was just an unknown, undead bookstore owner in a sleepy hamlet in upstate New York... -
![Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith]()
Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, comes UNHOLY NIGHT, the next evolution in dark historical revisionism. They're an iconic part of history's most celebrated birth...Categorized as:
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![Inside Man by K.J. Parker]()
Inside Man by K.J. Parker
Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsK.J. Parker returns to the amoral world of Prosper's Demon with a wry, sardonic novella that flips the eternal, rule-governed battle between men and demons on its head...
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