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  • Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Cabinet Jack by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Close your doors and cabinets tight, or Jack will climb out to see you tonight.The former railroad stop of Timbermill, Georgia has grown ever more quiet and empty since its boom era faded decades ago...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Crawl by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Four years ago, seventeen-year-old spelunker Carter was killed in a cave collapse. The coroner deemed it an accident.Sullivan Gray knows better.A camping weekend with his brother Dez takes an unsettling turn when Sully sees Carter’s shattered spirit, a sighting that reveals the teen’s death was, in fact, murder...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    The Dule Tree by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    How do you find someone who no longer exists? Two years after the supposed death of his brother Sully, Dez wakes up six feet under and six inches from death. With no air remaining, he is pulled back from the brink—by Sully. The reunion is short-lived. Sully is kidnapped by a pair of masked assailants, leaving Dez desperate to find him...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    The Wynne Witch by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mysterious death. A vicious gang. And a spectre whose presence foreshadows a horrific fate.When the Wynne family inherits a house from a deceased family member, they didn’t expect a ghost to come with it.The frightening figure of a skeletal, wild wraith with a bloodcurdling scream leads the Wynnes to seek the help of psychic private investigator, Sully Gray. Rarely does Sully land simple cases...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  mystery
  • Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Spirit Caller by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    One night. One last enemy. One chance to stop him forever. It’s all come down to this. More than two years after Sully took desperate measures to escape his enemies, he finds himself headed for an inevitable showdown with the most dangerous of them. Years of murder and deceit are catching up to Lowell, and the ghosts of those he killed are not about to rest until they’ve watched him fall...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Hollow Road by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For years, the legend of Faceless Flo—a young woman who disappeared in the 1920s—has drawn people to Hollow Road in search of her ghost.Some were never seen again.Among the missing is a young banker who vanished thirty years ago. Dez is called in to help solve the decades-old cold case, and when a connection to the Faceless Flo legend comes to light, he enlists Sully’s help...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  crime  fiction
  • Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rise of the Coven by E.E. Holmes

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A dark magic seeks to rise even as the dust settles...It's been more than a year since Jess and Hannah Ballard fought to return the power of the Gateways where it rightfully belongs, and the Durupinen world is slowly adjusting to its altered relationship with the spirit world...
  • Descension by Shani Struthers

    Descension by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Descension is the fifth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!This is what we're dealing with here, the institutionalised..Brookbridge housing estate has long been a source of work for Psychic Surveys...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Midnight Movie by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Long ago, dreams glowed on the screen under the night sky at the old drive-in theater. Once an attraction drawing families and teenagers from miles around, the theater has sat dark and silent for years, its former bright, carnival-like atmosphere a distant memory.A young family brings the forgotten theater to life with a new, modern vision for its future, but strange troubles plague them...
  • The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    The Necromancer's Library by J.L. Bryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The antebellum mansion sits isolated in the overgrown countryside like a forgotten temple. Within it lie the dark, twisting paths of a private library possessing secrets from across the ages. The collection of ancient and medieval occult manuscripts tell of conjuring spirits and raising the dead, of making contact with supernatural realms and beings usually forbidden to living mortals...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction  hauntings
  • Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc

    Toe to Toe by Deborah Leblanc

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Nonie Broussard is a medium—a closet medium. After losing her job at a local T-shirt factory, Nonie has to find a way to make ends meet. Not easy in a small town like Clay Point, LA. Two opportunities come her way, however, neither of them easy for someone with her abilities...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  epic  fiction
  • Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Herbert A. Wise, John Collier

    Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural by Herbert A. Wise, John Collier

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When this longtime Modern Library favorite--filled with fifty-two stories of heart-stopping suspense--was first published in 1944, one of its biggest fans was critic Edmund Wilson, who in The New Yorker applauded what he termed a sudden revival of the appetite for tales of horror...
  • The Deceiving by Ninie Hammon

    The Deceiving by Ninie Hammon

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The monster demon is BACK! ...and he’s had twenty-six years to plot his revenge. More horrifying than any Hollywood-animated, computer-generated, mechanical unreality, the winged demon called an efreet will do anything to get what he wants. Pronounce that: An-y-thing Defeated in 1985 by three twelve-year-olds, the monster returns determined to kill them...
  • Dark Son by Michael Robertson Jr.

    Dark Son by Michael Robertson Jr.

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new novel in the exciting Lance Brody series from the author of the Amazon Kindle #1 Bestselling horror novel, Rough Draft!A family mysteriously murdered. A haunted farmhouse. A town rich with secrets...
  • Assignment in Amsterdam by Carrie Bedford

    Assignment in Amsterdam by Carrie Bedford

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    SHE CAN SEE WHO’S GOING TO DIE – AND THIS TIME, IT'S EVERYONE! It looks like a plum job for architect Kate Benedict—she’s been sent to Amsterdam to repurpose an ancient mansion, happily assigned to work with an old friend. Should have been a lark! But it's a catastrophe—her old friend’s going to die.And so is the caretaker. And the owner. Not to mention the owner’s personal assistant...
  • Christmas, the Krewe, and Kenneth by Heather Graham

    Christmas, the Krewe, and Kenneth by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "Short Story" Approximately 6000 wordsNo way out of it—Christmas 2020 was going to be different.But Jackson Crow and Angela Hawkins are “home for Christmas.” Other agents are covering the office and they’ve just bought a home with a yard for their baby daughter and adopted son.But their neighbor, newly widowed, hears strange noises in the yard, a rustling...
  • The Haunting of Crawley House by Michelle Dorey

    The Haunting of Crawley House by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Like a grand lady, the house has reigned over Harvest Street for almost a century. It's a splendid home- a sweeping veranda, ivy covered walls and spacious rooms, all within a short walk to the campus. Add to its charm the exceptionally low rent, and it's a perfect student rental. In spite of this, tenants never stay...
  • Grave Decisions by Lily Harper Hart

    Grave Decisions by Lily Harper Hart

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Halloween has always been one of Maddie Graves’ favorite days, and this season things are going to be more special than ever because it’s her first big holiday with her live-in love Nick Winters. Nick is keen to make sure Maddie has the time of her life, but the arrival of a popular author and purported psychic in Blackstone Bay has him working overtime to provide protection...
  • The Saints of the Lost and Found by Toni McGee Causey

    The Saints of the Lost and Found by Toni McGee Causey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Avery Broussard has the curse of seeing lost things (and make no mistake about it, it is a curse). Missing belongings and beloved pets, lost love and loved ones--she sees it all. Long ago, that curse destroyed her own chance at true love, causing her to flee her Louisiana home, vowing never to return. She's kept that promise too, until a phone call from her estranged father forces her hand...
  • The Belles of Desire, Mississippi  (The Ghosts of Summerleigh) by M.L. Bullock

    The Belles of Desire, Mississippi (The Ghosts of Summerleigh) by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happened to Jeopardy Belle? Is she the lost soul that haunts Summerleigh? Jerica Poole had no idea how quickly life could change until hers is ripped apart at the seams. After a messy divorce and the tragic death of her daughter, she jumps at the chance to fulfill the last wish of her friend, Harper Belle Hayes...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Dark River Inn by J.R. Erickson

    Dark River Inn by J.R. Erickson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s the day of his ex-wife’s wedding when Dan makes the winding mountain journey to a remote cabin for an escape from the life that another man has stepped into.Less than 48 hours into his reprieve, the forest tranquility is shattered when he looks through a telescope and witnesses the violent abduction of a young woman...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  evil-places  fiction  horror
  • Dark Passing by Liz Schulte

    Dark Passing by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Mary Nelson’s murder shocked the small town of Jackson. The vibrant, young college student disappeared on her way home. A week later her body was found in the trunk of a burning car. No suspects. No evidence. No case. Ella Reynolds’ life had finally turned around. With a new book released, the past safely tucked away, and a burgeoning romance, she begins to live again...
  • Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Nine by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Charlie Modine didn’t find any justice in life. And the afterlife hasn’t been much better. Still, Modine’s ghost is more determined than ever to find the cold-blooded murderer who ran his wife down on the streets of New York City. Tortured and tormented, Modine asks for help from the only person who will listen. The only one who knows he’s there. Abby Craig...
  • Forty-Four Book Eleven by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Eleven by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Now the prime suspect in a high-profile murder investigation, Abby Craig flees the only place she has ever called home and is forced to live on the run as a fugitive in the shadows of the American Southwest.But Abby soon discovers that she isn't alone. A mysterious stranger is plaguing her every step. A stranger with a dark past who has plans for her...
  • Wherever She Goes by ReGina Welling

    Wherever She Goes by ReGina Welling

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    What man in his right mind would want to date a blind psychic? For Kat Canton, the answer was none so she turned away from romance completely. Until the day a pair of warm brown eyes suddenly came into focus. Now, she must decide whether to turn toward the light and let love into her life or walk away and remain in darkness...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  contemporary  cozy
  • Ghosts Beneath Us by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Ghosts Beneath Us by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Someone is terrorizing the elderly in a certain neighborhood in Spookie and vandalizing their homes. As usual, Abigail Sutton, a freelance artist, and her boyfriend Frank Lester, a retired homicide detective, are called in to help find out who’s doing these awful acts. The two seem to have an uncanny knack for unraveling mysteries and getting to the bottom of such strange happenings...
  • 44 Book Six by Jools Sinclair

    44 Book Six by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    It’s Christmastime and the nights are far from silent for Abby Craig.She is haunted by a vision unlike anything she has ever experienced before. As a church bell rings out in the lonely night, a young woman is left dying in an alley, her blood staining the snow beneath her...
  • When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham

    When Irish Eyes Are Haunting by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Devin Lyle and Craig Rockwell are back, this time to a haunted castle in Ireland where a banshee may have gone wild—or maybe there's a much more rational explanation—one that involves a disgruntled heir, murder, and mayhem, all with that sexy light touch Heather Graham has turned into her trademark style...
  • Mean Spirit by Will Kingdom

    Mean Spirit by Will Kingdom

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Suddenly a victim of her own remarkable gifts, Seffi Callard, the world's best known spiritual medium, has been forced to back away from the glamour and the glow of public adulation, becoming a paranoid recluse at her father's home in the Cotswolds...
  • The Knowing by Ninie Hammon

    The Knowing by Ninie Hammon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the hot call comes over the radio: “Code Red! Active shooter at Carlisle Elementary School,” Police Sergeant Jack Carpenter has one job and only one job. Find the gunman; take him out. He rushes into the school, fully armed and focused on cold, hard reality. But what happens to him in the next few hours shatters the world as he has always known it...
  • Dark Hollow Road by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

    Dark Hollow Road by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A teenage girl is missing and Taryn's camera is showing her a haunted past she NEVER wanted to see... When your camera can see the past, it's a history lover's dream! Historical mysteries never seemed so alive, and solvable. But sometimes the past should stay buried...
  • Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Touching the Dead by Wendy Cartmell

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mummified body washed up on a beach near Chichester.A tormented detective cursed with a gift she didn't want. When the autopsy reveals the victim's heart was torn from her body, Detective Inspector Jo Wolfe and her team wonder if someone is continuing the work of Anubis, the Egyptian God of Death.  With the body count rising, Jo must touch the dead, to help her solve the case...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Harvest of Scorn by F.G. Cottam

    Harvest of Scorn by F.G. Cottam

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Felix Baxter, entrepreneur extraordinaire, is going to rehabilitate New Hope Island. Rich and manipulative, he wants to convert it into a glamorous getaway destination, ‘The New Hope Experience’...
  • Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Trail of the Beast by Edward Fallon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEES Every crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA. It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted. And only the man, the woman, and the boy know this...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

    Griffith Tavern by Rebecca Patrick-Howard

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Griffith Tavern has been empty for a long time, but there’s something alive within the crumbling walls and it’s been waiting for Taryn, and her alone, for nearly 100 years…As a stagecoach inn in the 19th century, Griffith Tavern saw many things, held many people, and saw numerous tragedies and triumphs. Now the old abandoned building will almost surely be demolished, all in the name of progress...
  • Wandering Souls by Angela van Liempt

    Wandering Souls by Angela van Liempt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Letting go is not an option.In the coastal town of Atlas Cliffs, seventeen-year-old Drew Harlow has a secret. She can see the dead. She’s always seen them, and they’ve always left her alone.Until now.Drew’s final year of high school should have been fun. It should have been carefree. It would have, if not for the accident that took the life of her boyfriend, Shane...
  • Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Black Candle by H.P. Bayne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A missing teen. The ghost of a murdered woman. And one man whose struggles to save them both might cost him everything—including his own life.Sullivan sees the ghosts of those who have died at the hands of another, and his own peace rests solely on his ability to help find theirs.His family has helped shoulder his burden since childhood...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon

    Dying is a Wild Night by Edward Fallon

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    THEY SEE WHAT NO ONE ELSE SEESEvery crime scene has a smell. A look. A trail of DNA.It also has a feel. An emotional residue that lingers... floating unseen, like bacteria in the air, just waiting to be absorbed. To be experienced.To be interpreted.And only the man and the boy know this...
  • House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne

    House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Kate Vavasour wakes in the hospital, she remembers nothing of the family gathered around her, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do—but these memories are not hers. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall more than 400 years earlier...
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    drama  ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  gothic
  • The Haunting of Hadleigh Estate by Connor Donnelly

    The Haunting of Hadleigh Estate by Connor Donnelly

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An unsolved case in a small town that has gone too far.To Cassie King the small town of Playa del sol used to be an ironically named summer vacations spot for her family. But when she gets terrible news that takes her back her uncle's home there she finds that the town isn't as innocent as her childhood memories would have her believe...
  • The Ghosts of Thorwald Place by Helen Power

    The Ghosts of Thorwald Place by Helen Power

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trust no one. Especially your neighbors.Rachel Drake is on the run from the man who killed her husband. She never leaves her safe haven in an anonymous doorman building, until one night a phone call sends her running. On her way to the garage, she is murdered in the elevator. But her story doesn’t end there...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed

    নিশীথিনী by Humayun Ahmed

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    মিসির আলি সিরিজের বই। "নিশীথিনী" হচ্ছে "দেবী" এর দ্বিতীয়...
  • The Warning by Jonas Saul

    The Warning by Jonas Saul

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Warning (Sarah Roberts Book Two) Sarah Roberts has spent the last four years helping people stay alive and escape near death experiences as messages from the dead come to her. She receives a daunting communication from the Other Side regarding her sister's murderer and where she can find him...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  killer
  • December by Phil Rickman

    December by Phil Rickman

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the twelfth-century ruins of the Abbey, it is said every stone was cemented in blood. On December 8, 1980, that blood will run again...In the ruins of a haunted medieval abbey, four musicians hope to tap into the site's dark history. The experience almost destroys them. Years later, the original group is forced to return to the abbey, to confront the old evil they discovered...
  • GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd

    GHOSTS: 2014 edition by Noel Hynd

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Perhaps the scariest book you will ever read.... Enter a world where the departed return to the world of the living....where ghosts walk and intermingle among us..... Nantucket Island. Quiet. Peaceful. Idyllic. For Oscar-winning actress Annette Carlson, it is the perfect refuge from a demanding career...
  • The Spirit Clearing by Mark Tufo

    The Spirit Clearing by Mark Tufo

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Can love transcend even...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn

    Paper Dolls by Anya Allyn

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The DARK CAROUSEL series is a heart-stopping mix of American Horror Story and the fantastical elements of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.                                                      ~In Book One, Cassie, Ethan and Lacey sought their missing friend, Aisha, in the deep of the forest...
  • The Good Sisters by Helen Phifer

    The Good Sisters by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    ‘So frightening I had to stop reading it at night’ – Judy (Netgalley)The chilling new horror from bestselling author, Helen Phifer 1933, Mother Superior Agnes offers sanctuary to a desperate young woman fleeing for her life. Only to wake in the morning to discover a terrible fate has befallen one of the Sisters – in a room locked from the inside...
  • Unrest by Michelle Harrison

    Unrest by Michelle Harrison

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seventeen-year-old Elliott hasn’t slept properly for months. Ever since the accident that nearly killed him, a shadowy figure has made its presence felt – a figure only he can see. Elliott is convinced his near death experience has enabled him to contact the dead...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  book  fiction  gothic  horror  mystery
  • Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Tales of Horror and Suspense by Darcy Coates

    Quarter to Midnight: Fifteen Tales of Horror and Suspense by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Push past the curtains of the rational, safe world and explore the un-nameable horrors living in the darkest corners of our conscience...
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