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  • The Haunting of Coyote Island by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of Coyote Island by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A dark secret, a secluded island, and nowhere to run.When author Daisy Dawkins hits a wall of writer's block, she seeks out a retreat at the infamous Coyote Island, home of the reclusive publishing guru Greg Bregoli. Upon her arrival at Bregoli Estate, strange things begin happening to Daisy, but none of the other writers seem to notice the estate's odder qualities...
  • Sisters of Mercy: Spookshow 8 by Tim McGregor

    Sisters of Mercy: Spookshow 8 by Tim McGregor

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Embarking on a new chapter in life, reluctant psychic Billie Culpepper, works overtime to open her own bar. Excited at the prospect of her new business, she's also well aware that most bars fail in their first six months. There's no margin for error here. Across town, Detective Mockler, investigates two gruesome homicides linked to an alleged curse that mimics the signs of the stigmata...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  psychics
  • 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
  • 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 Haunting of Silver Creek Lodge by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of Silver Creek Lodge by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In a small town rests an old lodge with a big secret. Maxine Finch and Simon York, a recently married couple with little money, use their limited honeymoon funds to buy a foreclosed inn in the tiny snowy town of Silver Ridge, Colorado, but when strange things start happening in the middle of the night, Maxine and Simon wonder if their investment is a dangerous mistake...
  • Legion by Shani Struthers

    Legion by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Legion is the sixth in the bestselling Psychic Surveys series, that features plot twists, compelling characters and a mystery at its dark heart!What if evil won't let go?Along a sheltered lane, deep in the Sussex countryside, sits a house that is sometimes called home, the tenants it has held unable to forget it...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • Haunting Tales by Mary Downing Hahn by Mary Downing Hahn

    Haunting Tales by Mary Downing Hahn by Mary Downing Hahn

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The perfect gift for lovers of ghost stories. Three of Mary Downing Hahn’s scariest ghost stories are in this handsome boxed set: Wait Till Helen Comes, All the Lovely Bad Ones, and Deep and Dark and Dangerous...
  • The Housekeeper: A Christmas Ghost Story by Leona Grace

    The Housekeeper: A Christmas Ghost Story by Leona Grace

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With only a few days left before Christmas, Fiona Cameron prepares to leave Fitzwilliam Hall for the last time. All hope of staying in her childhood home are gone, as are the chances of finding the one man who could have saved the Hall...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  abuse  adult  angst  book  fiction
  • A Horribly Haunted Halloween by Heather Graham

    A Horribly Haunted Halloween by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Halloween is approachingAnd while it might be different this year, many homes are lavishly decorated. Jackson Crow thinks it’s fine that his adopted son, Corby, takes a walk down the street to see some of the ghoulish displays.Except Corby hurries back to him. One “creature” isn’t—or wasn’t—a creature at all. The bizarre costuming covers someone once real—a human corpse...
  • The Haunting of University Park by Alexandria Clarke

    The Haunting of University Park by Alexandria Clarke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jamie Layton has a secret.Running from her past, Jamie Layton takes a new job as a nanny to two volatile, rebellious children at a stately mansion in a reclusive area of town. Rumors fly about the mysterious death of the children’s father, and when strange things happen at night, Jamie and the children must confront the horrors that haunt the house...
  • 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...
  • Haunted: End of Days by Lee Mountford

    Haunted: End of Days by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The final book in the Haunted saga.Sarah Pearson has returned home. Back to the place it all started for her. There… the darkness waits, intending to use her to usher in the End of Days.And it succeeds.While the world falls into chaos and the dead start to walk the earth, David Ritter, Reverend Quinn, and Ralph Cobin face a race against time to pull the world back from the brink...
  • Painted Devils by Robert Aickman

    Painted Devils by Robert Aickman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Stories included:RavissanteThe Houses of the RussiansThe ViewRinging the ChangesThe School FriendThe Waiting RoomMarriageLarger Than OneselfMy Poor...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  spooky  adult  anthologies  fiction  gothic  horror
  • Graveyard Shift by Michelle Dorey

    Graveyard Shift by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The newest eerie tale from best selling author Michelle Dorey Serenity Lodge is haunted. Don’t ask the residents suffering dementia if that’s true. Ask the nurses. Amanda Ennis is the new nurse at Serenity Lodge nursing home. It’s a dream job after years of the hectic pace in the emergency room of a large hospital...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  psychics
  • By the Light of His Lantern: A Novel by Abe Moss

    By the Light of His Lantern: A Novel by Abe Moss

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A nightmarish tale of revenge, anguish, and human connection, BY THE LIGHT OF HIS LANTERN is thrilling, chilling, and heartfelt in equal measure... Naked in the sand, Lewis coughs seawater from his lungs. Disoriented, he blinks his eyes, rubs them for good measure, but the result is the same. The sky is as black as the beach below it. In this place, the sun and moon and stars are long dead...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  dark  fiction  horror
  • Secret of the Labyrinth by Brian Harmon

    Secret of the Labyrinth by Brian Harmon

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What secrets lie hidden beyond the City of the Blind? Far beneath the streets of Briar Hills lies an enormous temple of stone. Ancient secrets are buried within its walls…along with countless and unspeakable horrors. Now the time has come for the temple to finally fulfill its awesome purpose...
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    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  supernatural
  • 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...
  • The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz

    The House at the End of the World by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Soon no one on Earth will have a place to hide in this novel about fears known and unknown by #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz.In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob’s Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting...
  • 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...
  • The Roses of Mobile by M.L. Bullock

    The Roses of Mobile by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Carrie Jo returns to Seven Sisters but the happy homecoming is short-lived. The spiritual atmosphere has shifted and the dream catcher quickly discovers that all is not well. As Carrie Jo's dream catching gift becomes much more complicated, she makes mistakes...and some of them trigger a cascade of unhappy events...
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    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  historical  horror
  • Katarina by Sue Fineman

    Katarina by Sue Fineman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Three psychic sisters taken from their abusive mother as children reunite at their grandmother’s funeral. They inherit the family fortune, including the old mansion on the river in Florida. The estate called River Oaks is haunted by the ghosts of ancestors and family slaves. Katarina, a teacher, lived on a ranch in Arizona...
  • The Lady in White by M.L. Bullock

    The Lady in White by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Summerleigh's Renovations Aren't Making Every One Happy Will the ghost of Mariane McIntyre scare everyone away? A flurry of appearances by the long-dead Lady In White prompts Jerica and Jesse to get to the bottom of her murder...
  • Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

    Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A chilling horror novel about a haunting told from the perspective of a young girl whose troubled family is targeted by an entity she calls “Other Mommy,” from the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box To eight-year-old Bela, her family is her world. There’s Mommy, Daddo, and Grandma Ruth...
  • 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...
  • Tales Around the Jack O'Lantern: A Mary O'Reilly Short Story by Terri Reid

    Tales Around the Jack O'Lantern: A Mary O'Reilly Short Story by Terri Reid

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The lights are out, the jack-o-lantern is lit and the O’Reilly clan is enjoying their family tradition of sharing ghost stories on Halloween night. Set ten years before Mary moves to Freeport, this novelette offers five unique ghost stories that will leave you checking over your shoulder just to make sure no one “uninvited” is in the room with you...
  • Easter, the Krewe and Another Large White Rabbit by Heather Graham

    Easter, the Krewe and Another Large White Rabbit by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A short story (apprx. 10,000 words) in which Angela Hawkins and Jackson Crow are called upon to help a friend in need . . .Strange baskets are arriving on Eliza Andrews' doorstep and a strange face is appearing in her window...
  • A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    A Ghost in the Glamour by Elizabeth Hunter

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Living. With ghosts.Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She’s finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain-link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is… not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape.If only she could get rid of the ghost who’s plagued her since the eighth grade...
  • Memento Mori by Amicus Arcane

    Memento Mori by Amicus Arcane

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The eerie Amicus Arcane is on the hunt for writers, ghost writers, of course, to tell one more story--the scariest story of all. Do you dare join him on this journey? Do you dare enter the Haunted Mansion...? Amicus Arcane is about to retire from his position as the ghost librarian of the Haunted Mansion...
  • Old Cross Cottage by Shani Struthers

    Old Cross Cottage by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    alternate cover edition for ASIN B06ZXVQNKCIn a quiet Dorset Village, Old Cross Cottage has stood for centuries, overlooking the place where four roads meet. Marred by tragedy, it’s had a series of residents, none of whom have stayed for long. Pink and pretty, with a thatched roof, it should be an ideal retreat, but as new owners Rachel and Mark Bell discover, it’s anything but...
  • Haunted: Catacombs by Lee Mountford

    Haunted: Catacombs by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In the heart of the catacombs, evil stirs.Sarah Pearson is lured into the eerie depths of the Paris Catacombs after seeing an unsettling video. On it, the ghostly appearance of an old friend beckons her into the darkness. But the Catacombs hold more secrets than Sarah anticipates, and the shadows within are not all from the dead...
  • Perron Manor by Lee Mountford

    Perron Manor by Lee Mountford

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    DescriptionPerron Manor—a place evil calls homeSisters Sarah and Chloe inherit a house they could never have previously dreamed of owning. It seems too good to be true.Shortly after they move in, however, the siblings start to notice strange things: horrible smells, sudden drops in temperature, as well as unexplainable sounds and feelings of being watched...
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    ghosts  paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  book  demons  fiction
  • Bunker Dogs by Gage Greenwood

    Bunker Dogs by Gage Greenwood

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Don't just fear what you're hiding from, fear what you're hiding with. Cassie's night of babysitting goes to hell when bombs explode in the distance, planes fly overhead at low altitudes, and alerts on her phone tell her to seek shelter. Luckily, the boy she babysits tells her his father has a bunker in the yard...
  • The City of Light by Flint Maxwell

    The City of Light by Flint Maxwell

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Where there is light, there is hope.No longer stuck in Woodhaven, the survivors must race against the clock in order to get Mia to the City of Light before her delivery. Along the way, they meet a former resident of the City, and with this new acquaintance's help and guidance things begin looking up for Grady and company.But the wraiths, the darkness, and the constant snowstorms have other plans...
  • 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...
  • Odd Interlude #1 by Dean Koontz

    Odd Interlude #1 by Dean Koontz

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Leading up to the highly anticipated arrival of Odd Apocalypse this summer, catch up with Odd Thomas in Odd Interlude, a special three-part eBook series by #1 bestselling master of suspense Dean Koontz! Here is the spine-tingling 70-page first installment of this super-charged stand-alone Odd adventure.  THERE’S ROOM AT THE INN. BUT YOU MIGHT NOT GET OUT...
  • 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...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  crime  fiction  horror
  • Haunted Inn by Michelle Dorey

    Haunted Inn by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Each tale of The Hauntings of Kingston is a standalone novel with new characters that takes place in the enigmatic city of Kingston, Ontario. They have the chance of a lifetime... Tim and Brad have been best friends for years. They were college roommates and now share an apartment. They even share the predicament of being trapped in dead end jobs...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  spooky  suspense  adult  book  fiction  hauntings
  • Baba Lenka: Pure Occult Horror by S.E. England, Sarah E. England

    Baba Lenka: Pure Occult Horror by S.E. England, Sarah E. England

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1970, and Baba Lenka begins in an icy Bavarian village with a highly unorthodox funeral. The deceased is Baba Lenka, great-grandmother to Eva Hart. But a terrible thing happens at the funeral, and from that moment on everything changes for seven year old Eva. The family fly back to Yorkshire but it seems the cold Alpine winds have followed them home...and the ghost of Baba Lenka has followed Eva...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  audiobook  book  fiction  horror
  • The Disappearance of Lonnie James by Amy Cross

    The Disappearance of Lonnie James by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Eleven-year-old Lonnie James has gone missing. Only one man remembers that he ever existed in the first place.After launching a huge manhunt to find the missing boy, Sheriff Tom Curtis is shocked when everyone quickly forgets who they're looking for. Even Lonnie's parents suddenly have no idea that had a son...
    Categorized as:
    paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  supernatural
  • The Haunted Gathering by Michelle Dorey

    The Haunted Gathering by Michelle Dorey

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From bestselling author Michelle Dorey, a new episode of ‘The Haunted Ones’, spine chilling tales of ordinary people confronting unspeakable evilOn their annual girls’ weekend three friends gather for a macabre reunion in this chilling tale of ghosts, hauntings and the occult...
    Categorized as:
    ghosts  paranormal  suspense  adult  book  fiction  horror  psychics
  • The Judgment of the Sentinels by Brian Harmon

    The Judgment of the Sentinels by Brian Harmon

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Albert Cross emerges from the terrifying labyrinths of the Temple of the Blind with a broken arm and a burdened heart, only to discover that he and his friends must now climb to the summit of a mountain engulfed in fire...
  • Νεκρή γραμμή by Κωνσταντίνος Κέλλης

    Νεκρή γραμμή by Κωνσταντίνος Κέλλης

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Το πρώτο best seller τρόμου από Έλληνα συγγραφέα, η Νεκρή Γραμμή αποτελεί ένα μεταφυσικό θρίλερ που κόβει την ανάσα και ανεβάζει την αγωνία έως την τελική του κορύφωση."Ώρα να ανακαλύψετε αυτό το νέο ταλέντο!" -Nick Mamatas"Ένα εξαιρετικό βιβλίο. Συστήνεται με το ζόρι σε κάθε τρομολάγνο και συνταγογραφείται σε οποιονδήποτε αγνοεί ή νομίζει ότι δεν υφίσταται ποιοτικό Ελληνικό Φανταστικό...
  • 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...
  • An Unexpected Guest by Heather Graham

    An Unexpected Guest by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Krewe Special Agent Jon Dickson and Kylie Connolly met under tough circumstances, but despite that, they discovered it seemed they were meant to be.Now, moved into a condo in the D.C...
  • Pest by Anna Willett

    Pest by Anna Willett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She takes your dreams, and then your life...A NAIL-BITINGLY SCARY SUSPENSE THRILLERSightings of a strange girl on the outskirts of the small Australian town of Thorn Tree coincide with the outbreak of a deadly sickness.The girl appears in people’s nightmares, beckoning them into nothingness.Maggie’s café lies at the heart of the town, and she quickly becomes embroiled in the unfolding events...
  • The Soul Auction by Amy Cross

    The Soul Auction by Amy Cross

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I saw a woman on the beach. I watched her face a demon.” Thirty years after her mother's death, Alice Ashcroft is drawn back to the coastal English town of Curridge. Somebody in Curridge has been reviewing Alice's novels online, and in those reviews there have been tantalizing hints at a hidden truth. A truth that seems to be linked to her dead mother...
  • The Haunting of The Briar Rose by Skylar Finn

    The Haunting of The Briar Rose by Skylar Finn

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Jules is recovering from a recent failure when her mysterious uncle makes her an offer she can’t refuse: restore his bed and breakfast the Briar Rose. When Jules inherits the Briar Rose bed and breakfast from her strange and mysterious uncle, she thinks it will be the opportunity of a lifetime for her and her husband, Paul...
  • Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Luminosity by Abigail Boyd

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Just when she thought her dreams couldn't get any weirder, Ariel Donovan begins having vivid nightmares of a dog that she must follow. It leads her to find an item from her past that she must use to aid her in figuring out the Thornhill Society...but she's not the only one looking for it...
  • Forty-Four Book Four by Jools Sinclair

    Forty-Four Book Four by Jools Sinclair

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Sometimes the living haunt the dead... It's been several months since Abby Craig was kidnapped and held prisoner on a small island. Several months since Nathaniel Mortimer conducted his experiments, trying to find out why she was the only one of his victims to survive. After returning home, Abby is more determined than ever to have a normal life...
  • The Venetian by Shani Struthers

    The Venetian by Shani Struthers

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    ‘Welcome to the asylum…’ 2015Their troubled past behind them, married couple, Rob and Louise, visit Venice for the first time together, looking forward to a relaxing weekend. Not just a romantic destination, it’s also the ‘most haunted city in the world’ and soon, Louise finds herself the focus of an entity she can’t quite get to grips with – a ‘veiled lady’ who stalks her...
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