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  • Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Gentle Is the Angel of Death by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    To some he’s a medical genius. To others, a twisted angel of mercy with a necessary solution to what he sees as an ugly dilemma. Only one man can help Dr. Death face the evil of his ways.Henry Siphuncle has a selfless mission: releasing his patients forever from their distasteful imperfections. It’s for their own good. And the world’s. Even Henry’s own wife didn’t survive his disgust...
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    thriller  paranormal  dark  fiction  audiobook  horror  suspense  crime
  • 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 ratings
    A collection of three previously published Koontz novels. This will be the first time The Key To Midnight will be available in hardcover...
  • The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer

    The Secrets of the Shadows by Helen Phifer

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sophie was afraid of the man in the shadows. He terrified her, but he would always disappear when someone else came. But one day in June 1984, she didn't escape. He took her. When a young woman is found draped over a gravestone in a chilling murder, police officer Annie Graham experiences a familiar sense of dread...
  • John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    John Saul: Hellfire, The Unwanted, Sleepwalk by John Saul

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author John Saul is a master at writing psychological terror, with fifteen novels on the bestseller lists. This first-ever hardcover edition of three of his most popular books features Hellfire, The Unwanted and Sleepwalk. All three stories explore supernatural mysteries of suspense and horror.Appearences are definitely deceiving in John Saul's world...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  crime  fiction
  • Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Dearest by Jacquie Walters

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A new mom in need of help opens her door to her long-estranged mother—only to invite something much darker inside—in this "fast-paced and frightening debut" (Rachel Harrison) about the long shadows cast by family secrets, perfect for readers of Grady Hendrix or Ashley Audrain. Flora is a new mom enamored of her baby girl, Iris, even if she arrived a few weeks early...
  • The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    The Body at Auercliff by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "We'll bury her so deep, even her ghost will have a mouth full of dirt!" When Rebecca Wallace arrives at Auercliff to check on her aged aunt, she's in for a shock. Her aunt's mind is crumbling, and the old woman refuses to let Rebecca stay overnight. And just as she thinks she's starting to understand the truth, Rebecca makes a horrifying discovery in one of the house's many spare rooms...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  contemporary  fiction  gothic  horror
  • After She Fled by J.R. Erickson

    After She Fled by J.R. Erickson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For six long years, Max has avoided Draven, her hometown that holds the remnants of a ghastly accident, but when her brother dies, she is drawn back into the clutches of her haunted past.In the wake of her family's shattered happiness, Max is caught in a nightmarish whirlwind of horrors that defy the laws of our world...
  • Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Demon by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Scott King’s podcast investigates the 1995 cold case of a demon possession in a rural Yorkshire village, where a 12-year-old boy was murdered in cold blood by two children. Book six in the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series.In 1995, the picture-perfect village of Ussalthwaite was the site of one of the most heinous crimes imaginable, in a case that shocked the world...
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    thriller  dark  paranormal  horror  mystery  fiction  crime  audiobook
  • The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca

    The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    But there was no Goldilocks in his story. There were only the Wolfs, who lived together in a cave above a town. Big Wolf, Middle Wolf, and Little Wolf. Big Wolf was a brute. Little Wolf was timid. Middle Wolf was the peacemaker...
  • Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Ghostwritten by Ronald Malfi

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Four brand-new horror novellas from “a modern-day Algernon Blackwood” all about books, stories, manuscripts – the written word has never had sharper teeth…From the bestselling author of Come with Me, four standalone horror novellas set in a shared universe! In The Skin of Her Teeth, a cursed novel drives people to their deaths. A delivery job turns deadly in The Dark Brothers’ Last Ride...
  • The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    The River by Noelle W. Ihli

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A short post-script to Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli. Learn what happened to April...
  • The Ghost Tree by Sara Bain

    The Ghost Tree by Sara Bain

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A newcomer to a small town must contend with a 17th century poltergeist intent on murder Five years after the death of his wife, MacAoidh Armstrong moves into a smallholding in southern Scotland with the intention of living a self-sufficient existence. Although he’s heard the steading has a reputation for being haunted, the pragmatic Highlander does not believe in ghosts...
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    ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  fiction  gothic  horror  psychological
  • Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson

    Night Gallery by Rod Serling, Jim Benson

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Night Gallery is one of three books written by Rod Serling based on stories he created for the 1970 television series by the same name. Similar to his Stories From The Twilight Zone books, he novelized six of the show’s scripts for this volume, including They’re Tearing Down Tim Riley’s Bar, which was nominated for an Emmy award...
  • The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    The Haunting of the Midwife by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Riveting Haunted House MysteryWhen the Maples family arrives in the small mountain town of Roster, Colorado, they’re convinced it will be the perfect place to raise their newborn daughter. But their dream home turns into a living nightmare when an otherworldly power abducts their child...
  • The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    The Keeper by T.F. Allen

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    When a famous artist is kidnapped, the only one who can save him has a body no one can see, and a voice few can hear.Angel, spirit, or ghost—the Keeper doesn’t know exactly what he is. But he knows he needs to protect Michael Delacroix, a famous artist who is kidnapped and locked in a windowless room deep beneath a Napa Valley vineyard...
  • Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Grimm's Puppets by Tom Prater

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the autumn of 1968, the bodies of six brothers were found hanging from Hollyhead's billboard dressed in white, flowing gowns. Their killer was never identified.Twelve years later, another death has occurred. Will Metlocke, an author with seemingly psychic abilities, is called back to his hometown by his estranged father in a plea to help solve the murders...
  • The Owlmen: If They See You They Will Come For You by S.E. England

    The Owlmen: If They See You They Will Come For You by S.E. England

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    THE OWLMEN - NEW FROM THE AUTHOR OF BESTSELLING OCCULT HORROR TRILOGY, FATHER OF LIES! IF THEY SEE YOU THEY WILL COME FOR YOU... Ellie Blake is recovering from a mental breakdown. Deciding to move back to her northern roots, she and her psychiatrist husband buy Tanners Dell at auction - an old water mill in the moorland village of Bridesmoor. However, there is disquiet in the village...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    My Darling Girl by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A spine-tingling psychological thriller about a woman who, after taking in her dying, alcoholic mother, begins to suspect demonic possession is haunting her family.Alison has never been a fan of Christmas. But with it right around the corner and her husband busily decorating their cozy Vermont home, she has no choice but to face it. Then she gets the call...
  • Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Abberton House by Debbie Ioanna

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two families. 100 years apart. A sinister haunting...It was supposed to be the dream house for Adam, Catherine, and their daughter, Bella. But dream houses can hold secrets. Settling in to their new home, the family realise they are not the only inhabitants of Abberton House.A dark past continues to haunt the idyllic Yorkshire home, and those who remain want Adam and Catherine to know the truth...
  • The Neighbor by London Clarke

    The Neighbor by London Clarke

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Claire Vogel is a recently divorced mother of four girls and a successful counselor living in a planned and prestigious community. She knows all her neighbors, and they know her. But Claire has a secret. To cope with hidden, deep-rooted pain, she often participates in risky, reckless behavior...
  • The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

    The Book of Cold Cases by Simone St. James

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A true crime blogger gets more than she bargained for while interviewing the woman acquitted of two cold case slayings in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel. In 1977, Claire Lake, Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  crime
  • The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    The Intruders by Louise Jensen

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    It should be the perfect a manor house available rent free in exchange for a bit of housesitting. But when Cass and James dig deeper, they find the place has been abandoned since a robbery left almost all the inhabitants dead almost thirty years ago. But they’ve got to save for a deposit somehow, so they move in, and things quickly take a strange turn...
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    thriller  dark  paranormal  ghosts  horror  mystery  audiobook  crime
  • Pressure by Jeff Strand

    Pressure by Jeff Strand

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Alex stared at the red pocketknife shown to him by his daughter. A pocketknife owned by somebody he hadn't seen in years …CHILDRENThey met first in boarding school at age twelve. Alex Fletcher, shy and scared. Darren Rust, always furiously scribbling away in a private journal...
  • The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    The Haunting of Leigh Harker by Darcy Coates

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Sometimes the dead reach back...Leigh Harker’s quiet suburban home was her sanctuary for more than a decade, until things abruptly changed. Curtains open by themselves. Radios turn off and on. And a dark figure looms in the shadows of her bedroom door at night, watching her, waiting for her to finally let down her guard enough to fall asleep...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  gothic
  • Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

    Crossroads by Laurel Hightower

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How far would you go to bring back someone you love? When Chris's son dies in a tragic car crash, her world is devastated. The walls of grief close in on Chris's life until, one day, a small cut on her finger changes everything. A drop of blood falls from Chris's hand onto her son's roadside memorial and, later that night, Chris thinks she sees his ghost outside her window...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  thriller  adult  audiobook  body-horror  book
  • The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane by Laird Koenig

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Alone in the darkened house, with only fire's glow and thirteen flickering candles for illumination, silent except for the mounting chords of a Liszt concerto, Rynn was preparing a solemn celebration. Until a knock at the door shattered sanctuary.Rynn is the little girl who lives in the house at the end of the lane with her father-or so she says...
  • Terminal by Michaelbrent Collings

    Terminal by Michaelbrent Collings

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "5 stars... another outstanding novel from author Michaelbrent Collings..." - Horror After Dark All passengers, please prepare for departure... An employee, a cop, and six passengers; a prisoner, a stowaway, and a madman. "A great read." - Sci-Fi and Scary These are the people waiting at the Lawton bus terminal...
  • Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Dark Corners by Liz Schulte

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Ella Reynolds knew from the first moment she walked into the old house someone or something was watching her. Waiting. Her husband's violent murder sent her spiraling into a world of grief and isolation, but Ella isn't alone. Who or what is responsible for her husband's death is still with her. Darkness has engulfed the past year of Ella's life...
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    ghosts  paranormal  thriller  adult  book  contemporary  cozy  crime
  • Eenie, Meenie by Willow Rose

    Eenie, Meenie by Willow Rose

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Johnny 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...
  • We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

    We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Turn of the Key meets Parasite in this eerily haunting debut and Reddit hit—soon to be a Netflix original movie starring Blake Lively—about two homeowners whose lives are turned upside down when the house’s previous residents unexpectedly visit...
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    paranormal  thriller  dark  ghosts  horror  mystery  fiction  lgbtq
  • The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

    The Children on the Hill by Jennifer McMahon

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Drowning Kind comes a genre-defying new novel, inspired by Mary Shelley’s masterpiece Frankenstein, that brilliantly explores the eerie mysteries of childhood and the evils perpetrated by the monsters among us.1978: At her renowned treatment center in picturesque Vermont, the brilliant psychiatrist, Dr...
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    ghosts  paranormal  thriller  adult  audiobook  book  family  female-mc
  • I Am Dust by Louise Beech

    I Am Dust by Louise Beech

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The Dean Wilson Theatre is believed to be haunted by a long-dead actress, singing her last song, waiting for her final cue, looking for her killer… Now Dust, the iconic musical, is returning after twenty years...
  • Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Splintered by Tal Bauer

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everything in Ben's life was perfect. He had it all. The good career. The perfect partner, Evan. The happy home. They were even talking about turning the extra bedroom into a nursery.But things start to splinter. Evan begins missing time, not knowing where he was or how he got there...
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    dark  paranormal  ghosts  romance  mlm  lgbtq  horror  fantasy
  • The Haunting of Beckett Mansion by James Hunt

    The Haunting of Beckett Mansion by James Hunt

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A mansion sits on top of a mountain in northern Georgia. The estate is in disrepair, but one couple is determined to restore the estate to its former glory. But when strange accidents begin to become more dangerous, putting their crew’s lives at risk, the fixer-upper couple realize they might have bitten off more than they could chew...
  • Onyx Webb: Book One by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz

    Onyx Webb: Book One by Richard Fenton, Andrea Waltz

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Who can she trust? What is the truth? Every decision has consequences. What you thought you knew about ghosts is wrong. Sometimes they can walk among the living. In Onyx Webb, the silk of time weaved between lives is generations apart. Follow a billionaire playboy who’s hit rock bottom in 2010, a girl off to prom in 1979, and Onyx Webb in 1906 on her sixth birthday...
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    dark  ghosts  paranormal  adult  book  crime  fiction  historical
  • Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road by D. Alexander Ward, Rio Youers

    Lost Highways: Dark Fictions From the Road by D. Alexander Ward, Rio Youers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    It’s dangerous out there…on the road.The highways, byways and backroads of America are teeming day and night with regular folks. Moms and dads making long commutes. Teenagers headed to the beach. Bands on their way to the next gig. Truckers pulling long hauls. Families driving cross country to visit their kin.But there are others, too. The desperate and the lost. The cruel and the criminal...
  • Soul Thief by Mark Edward Hall

    Soul Thief by Mark Edward Hall

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Brotherhood of the Order is one of the oldest and most mysterious organizations on earth. Its primary mission is to protect one of the most carefully guarded secrets in human history, an object so enigmatic and powerful that in the wrong hands it could wreak havoc upon the earth. In the right hands it just might have the power to save humanity from its own destructive impulses...
  • The Well by Peter Labrow

    The Well by Peter Labrow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Trapped. Missing. Cursed. Fourteen-year-old Becca Richards and her stepbrother have fallen to the bottom of an ancient well. Their parents are away; they won't be missed for days. The predatory man who had been stalking Becca now switches his attentions to her best friend. Two women who know where Becca is trapped are desperate that she should never escape...
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    dark  ghosts  thriller  adult  book  fiction  gothic  hauntings
  • The Third Parent by Elias Witherow

    The Third Parent by Elias Witherow

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    No one knows where he came from. No one knows what he wants. No one dares ask about his strange physical abnormalities. For a quiet suburban neighborhood, things are about to change. And it starts with a knock at the door.Follow his rules. Don't call the police. Listen to his lessons. That's what Jack and his family were told...
  • ROTGUT by H.S. Wolfe

    ROTGUT by H.S. Wolfe

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    All I want to do is play drums in Cluster Headache, but I can’t even get that right. Between my on-again off-again shituationship with one of my band mates, the drinking problem-I-don’t-really-have and losing my job along with my will to live... I’ve kind of botched up my life.As if things weren’t crummy enough I’m being followed by strange creatures that no one else seems to notice...
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    dark  paranormal  ghosts  horror  lgbtq  steamy  romance  trans-mc
  • The Other by Thomas Tryon

    The Other by Thomas Tryon

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Entranced and terrified, the reader of The Other is swept up in the life of a Connecticut country town in the thirties—and in the fearful mysteries that slowly darken and overwhelm it.Originally published in 1971, The Other is one of the most influential horror novels ever written...
  • In Her Shadow by Mark Edwards

    In Her Shadow by Mark Edwards

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Isabel’s life seemed perfect. Successful business, beautiful house, adoring husband. And then she was dead.For four years Jessica has never doubted that her sister Isabel’s death was an accident. But when Jessica’s young daughter seems to know long-forgotten details about her aunt’s past, Jessica can’t shake the feeling that there’s a more sinister truth behind the tragedy...
  • Duma Key by Stephen King

    Duma Key by Stephen King

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    When Edgar Freemantle moves to the remote island of Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there.But Duma has been waiting for him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had.Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. And as he paints, the island's secrets begin to stir...
  • Mystery by Peter Straub

    Mystery by Peter Straub

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    After a tragic accident which he barely survives, Tom Pasmore develops an obsession with death--an obsession which leads him to investigate two murders--one in the past and one in the present...
  • Alex by Adam J. Nicolai

    Alex by Adam J. Nicolai

    Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Kindle Bestseller, Now Available On All Platforms"A tormented father must decide whether he's seeing the ghost of his dead son or visions brought on by psychosis in this thriller . . . featuring a riveting protagonist haunted by his own guilt." - Kirkus Reviews (Recommended Review)An empty house. A bereaved father. Alone with his loss, Ian Colmes has driven away everyone he loves...
  • Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Hydra by Matt Wesolowski

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Elusive online investigative journalist Scott King investigates the case of Arla Macleod, who bludgeoned her family to death, in another episode of the chilling, award-winning Six Stories series...
  • Sundial by Catriona Ward

    Sundial by Catriona Ward

    Rated: 3.99 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    All Rob ever wanted was a normal life.Nothing like her childhood, growing up in the lonely, wild Mojave Desert on her family's ranch, Sundial. Surrounded by dogs, coyotes, and research assistants.For a while, it seemed like Rob got her wish: A husband, two daughters, the white picket fence, and margaritas with the neighbors...
  • Take Your Turn, Teddy by Haley Newlin

    Take Your Turn, Teddy by Haley Newlin

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    No one knows your darkness like your own Shadow.Nothing has been normal for Teddy, not since discovering the harsh identity of the monster he had been living with his whole life—his own father. Teddy and his mother leave that behind to start over in a small Indiana township. But as Teddy begins to learn of humanity's monsters, he unveils an otherworldly evil he calls "The Shadow...
  • Stuck by Ben Young

    Stuck by Ben Young

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Each death is unique. Will you recognize when yours begins?John Camden doesn't realize he's dying, yet the physical signs are becoming more clear, and he's having recurring visions where he is trapped in a tight space. Everything changes when his best friend Robbie convinces him to go on a poorly planned caving trip as a form of immersion therapy...
  • Don't Forget To Breathe by Cathrina Constantine

    Don't Forget To Breathe by Cathrina Constantine

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sixteen-year-old Leocadia arrives home from school to find her mom’s bloody body. Unaware that the killer still lingers, she rushes to her mother’s side, only to be grabbed from behind and then everything fades to black. After a year of retrograde amnesia and battling personal demons, Leo’s dreams are getting worse—she’s starting to remember...
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