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Where David threw stones  by Elyse Hoffman

Where David threw stones

Elyse Hoffman

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"West Germany, 1968. When ten-year-old David Saidel's parents are murdered, he is sent to live with his grandfather in the anti-Semitic village of Brennenbach. Miserable and lonely, David finds solace in his kindly Grandpa Ernst, who has one strict rule: never...

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The salt grows heavy  by Cassandra Khaw

The salt grows heavy

Cassandra Khaw

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"You may think you know how the fairytale goes: a mermaid comes to shore and weds the prince. But what the fables forget is that mermaids have teeth. And now, her daughters have devoured the kingdom and burned it to ashes. On the run, the mermaid is joined by...

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The measure of sorrow  by J. Ashley-Smith

The measure of sorrow

J. Ashley-Smith

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"J. Ashley-Smith's first collection, The Measure of Sorrow, draws together ten new and previously acclaimed stories of dark speculative fiction. In these pages a black reef holds the secret to an interminable coastal limbo; a father struggles to relate to his...

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Our own unique affliction  by Scott J. Moses

Our own unique affliction

Scott J. Moses

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"Our Own Unique Affliction is the story of Alice Ann, a dejected immortal who longs for her life in the sun. Navigating guilt, loss, family, meaning, murder, and all that comes with the curse of living forever. An existential bleak, quiet until it's not,...

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A certain hunger  by Chelsea G. Summers

A certain hunger

Chelsea G. Summers

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"Food critic Dorothy Daniels loves what she does. Discerning, meticulous, and very, very smart, Dorothy's clear mastery of the culinary arts make it likely that she could, on any given night, whip up a more inspired dish than any one of the chefs she writes...

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Graveyard of lost children  by Katrina Monroe

Graveyard of lost children

Katrina Monroe

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"At four months old, Olivia Dahl was almost murdered. Driven by haunting visions, her mother became obsessed with the idea that Olivia was a changeling, and that the only way to get her real baby back was to make a trade with the 'dead women' living at the...

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The quiet stillness of empty houses  by L. V. Russell

The quiet stillness of empty houses

L. V. Russell

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"Theodora Corvus can hear the whispers of her crumbling family home. She can hear the whispers of Kingsward Manor, her place of employment. She sees the watchers by the lake, black-eyed and waiting. But Broken Oak is silent. Broken Oak is empty. When Theodora...

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The shining  by Stephen King

The shining

Stephen King

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"Jack Torrance, his wife Wendy, and their young son Danny move into the Overlook Hotel, where Jack has been hired as the winter caretaker. Cut off from civilization for months, Jack hopes to battle alcoholism and uncontrolled rage while writing a play. Evil...

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The Merry Dredgers  by Jeremy C. Shipp

The Merry Dredgers

Jeremy C. Shipp

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"Seraphina Ramon will stop at nothing to find out the truth about why her sister Eff is in a coma after a very suspicious 'accident.' Even if it means infiltrating the last place Seraphina knows Eff was alive: a once-abandoned amusement park now populated by a...

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The devoured and the dead  by Kristopher Rufty

The devoured and the dead

Kristopher Rufty

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"Three families traveling through the mountains of North Carolina to claim their share of the gold rush become stranded deep in the forest, overwhelmed by the unrelenting snow and frigid temperatures. It doesnt take long for the food supply to run out, for...

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The haunting of Alejandra  by V. Castro

The haunting of Alejandra

V. Castro

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"Alejandra no longer knows who she is. To her husband, she is a wife, and to her children, a mother. To her own adoptive mother, she is a daughter. But they cannot see who Alejandra has become: a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her....

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Sisters of the lost nation  by Nick Medina

Sisters of the lost nation

Nick Medina

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"A young girl hunts for answers about a string of disappearances, all while being haunted herself in this heart-pounding thriller with a mythological twist, from debut author Nick Medina. Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who...

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A house with good bones  by T. Kingfisher

A house with good bones

T. Kingfisher

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".'Mum seems off'. Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone. She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and...

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Nightfall and other dangers  by Jacob Steven Mohr

Nightfall and other dangers

Jacob Steven Mohr

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"A flyboy volunteers for a suicide mission with a copilot from beyond the stars. A painter's body is possessed by a malevolent force to render a likeness of its hellish beloved. Hundreds of adults mysteriously drown themselves along a one-mile stretch of...

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Abnormal statistics  by Max Booth

Abnormal statistics

Max Booth

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"Suburban decay, familial horror, bleak lullabies. Abnormal Statistics is the debut story collection from Max Booth III. Bad times are waiting for you. Featuring 10 reprints and 3 stories original to this collection (including a brand-new novella called...

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Eyes guts throat bones  by Moïra Fowley

Eyes guts throat bones

Moïra Fowley

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"What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers raining from the sky, or a hole cut through the wire fencing that keeps the monsters out? Is it someone you love wearing your face, or a good old fashioned...

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The insatiable Volt sisters  by Rachel Eve Moulton

The insatiable Volt sisters

Rachel Eve Moulton

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"It's the summer of 1989 and Beatrice and Henrietta Volt are coming of age on remote Fowler Island in Lake Erie, their ancestral home and wild playground. Thicker than thieves, they plot their futures while their parents pick their marriage apart piece by...

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Chlorine  by Jade Song

Chlorine

Jade Song

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"Ren Yu is a swimmer. Her daily life starts and ends with the pool. Her teammates are her only friends. Her coach, her guiding light. If she swims well enough, she will be scouted, get a scholarship, go to a good school. Her parents will love her. Her coach...

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The nightmare man  by James Markert

The nightmare man

James Markert

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"Blackwood mansion looms, surrounded by nightmare pines, atop the hill over the small town of Crooked Tree. Ben Bookman, bestselling novelist and heir to the Blackwood estate, spent a weekend at the ancestral home to finish writing his latest horror novel, The...

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Games for dead girls  by Jen (Fiction writer) Williams

Games for dead girls

Jen (Fiction writer) Williams

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"For Charlie and her niece Katie, it's supposed to be a quiet holiday in the peaceful, out-of-the-way seaside town of Hithechurch, England. Charlie is researching a book on the folklore of the area, and the gloomy sea and dangerous caves seem to offer up...

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Classic monsters unleashed

Classic monsters unleashed

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""Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Bride of Frankenstein, Dr. Moreau, the Headless Horseman, the Invisible Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Wicked Witch of the West--they're all here in this collection of horror short stories that reimagine, subvert, and...

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Rosemary's baby  by Ira Levin

Rosemary's baby

Ira Levin

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"Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor-husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbours Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome them;...

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Lone women  by Victor LaValle

Lone women

Victor LaValle

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"Adelaide Henry carries an enormous steamer trunk with her wherever she goes. It's locked at all times. Because when the trunk is opened, people around her start to disappear... The year is 1915, and Adelaide is in trouble. Her secret sin killed her parents,...

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Piñata  by Leopoldo Gout

Piñata

Leopoldo Gout

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"A Head Full of Ghosts meets Mexican Gothic in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist Leopoldo Gout. They were worshiped by our ancestors. Now they are forgotten. Soon, they will make us remember. It was supposed to be the perfect summer....

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Winterset Hollow  by Jonathan Edward Durham

Winterset Hollow

Jonathan Edward Durham

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"Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is...

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The marigold  by Andrew F. Sullivan

The marigold

Andrew F. Sullivan

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"In a near-future Toronto buffeted by environmental chaos and unfettered development, an unsettling new lifeform begins to grow beneath the surface, feeding off the past. The Marigold, a gleaming Toronto condo tower, sits a half-empty promise: a stack of...

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The shoemaker's magician  by Cynthia Pelayo

The shoemaker's magician

Cynthia Pelayo

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"Paloma has been watching the Grand Vespertilio Show her entire life. Grand, America's most beloved horror host showcases classic, low-budget and cult horror movies with a flourish, wearing his black tuxedo and hat, but Paloma has noticed something strange...

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My lovely skull & other skeletons  by Tunku Halim

My lovely skull & other skeletons

Tunku Halim

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"Each the darkest of tales. Skeletons in the cupboards of the mind. Shackled in a dungeon. Rattling the cages. Bones jangling as they grinningly emerge. Meet a hungry old woman who roasts her victims. A grieving father intent on rape and murder. A sex-slave...

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The trees grew because I bled there  by Eric LaRocca

The trees grew because I bled there

Eric LaRocca

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"Eight stories of literary dark fiction from a master storyteller. Exploring the shadow side of love, these are tales of grief, obsession, control. Intricate examinations of trauma and tragedy in raw, poetic prose. In these narratives, a woman imagines...

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Vampire hunter D omnibus. book two  by Hideyuki Kikuchi

Vampire hunter D omnibus. book two

Hideyuki Kikuchi

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"The hunt continues in the bizarre far future of 12,090 A.D, where the immortal vampire lords who were the only winners of mankind's nuclear war still oppress the human survivors who have pushed the blood-drinking fiends back to the lawless Frontier. Yet...

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The communion of shadows  by Gordon Bonnet

The communion of shadows

Gordon Bonnet

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"It's August of 1850, deep in the bayou country of southern Louisiana. Four good friends are working in the fields harvesting the crops when a sudden thunderstorm drives them all indoors. There's kind, warm-hearted J. P. Ayo; eager, earnest young T-Joe...

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The regulators  by Richard Bachman

The regulators

Richard Bachman

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"Poplar Street, Wentworth, Ohio is just an ordinary place. Then, the strange-looking vans arrive - and that's just the start of a surreal nightmare in which the familiar street threatens to become a wasteland of devastation and desperation."--Publisher.

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Tales from the gas station. Volume four  by Jack Townsend

Tales from the gas station. Volume four

Jack Townsend

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"Despite Jack's best efforts to stay out of trouble, a serial killer emerges in his small town, leaving clues that point straight to him. Unfortunately, new sheriff Amy O'Brien, his best hope for clearing his name, has had all memories of their friendship...

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Tales from the gas station. Volume three  by Jack Townsend

Tales from the gas station. Volume three

Jack Townsend

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"An army of monsters walks among us. A war wages between petty gods. The end of the world draws ever closer. And worst of all, Jack can't find anyone else to help cover the night shift. Coming as a surprise to absolutely no one, Jack finds himself once again...

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Tales from the gas station. Volume two  by Jack Townsend

Tales from the gas station. Volume two

Jack Townsend

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"Night-shift clerk and high-functioning insomniac Jack is back to work, trying his best to keep out of trouble. But when his chain-smoking coworker discovers a mysterious radio signal revealing the guarded secrets of their town, Jack will learn that an...

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She has a broken thing where her heart should be  by J. D. (Jonathan Dylan) Barker

She has a broken thing where her heart should be

J. D. (Jonathan Dylan) Barker

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"After the loss of his parents, young Jack Thatch first met Stella as a child - this cryptic little girl of eight with dark hair and darker eyes, sitting alone on a bench in the cemetery clutching her favorite book. Gone moments later, the brief encounter...

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Every woman knows this  by Laurel Hightower

Every woman knows this

Laurel Hightower

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A never-ending storm rages, tossing a dark and bottomless sea. Tentacled beasts reach from every direction, a battle at every turn, but they've chosen the wrong target. Armed with teeth and sharp weapons of her own, she'll fight until there's nothing left, and...

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The girl with the barbed wire hair  by Carlton Mellick

The girl with the barbed wire hair

Carlton Mellick

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"There is a girl who lives in the alley behind the old, abandoned fire station. She is always covered in ash and grime, cuts and bruises on her arms and legs, the skirt of her school uniform caked in dirt and ripped into tatters. Her hair is a mess of...

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Japanese ghost stories  by Lafcadio Hearn

Japanese ghost stories

Lafcadio Hearn

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"The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of...

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Monstrilio  by Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Monstrilio

Gerardo Sámano Córdova

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"Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little...

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Sing, nightingale  by Marie Hélène Poitras

Sing, nightingale

Marie Hélène Poitras

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"Beneath the bright sky of Noirax lies a long tradition of secrets. Generations of men on the Malmaison estate have fathered countless children, both legitimate and not. The women all meet tragic ends or live in the shadows of the estate, and the illegitimate...

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A child alone with strangers  by Philip Fracassi

A child alone with strangers

Philip Fracassi

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"When young Henry Thorne is kidnapped and held prisoner in a remote farmhouse surrounded by miles of forest, he finds himself connecting with a strange force living in the woods-- using that bond to wreak havoc against his captors. Unknown to the boy, however,...

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The spite house  by Johnny Compton

The spite house

Johnny Compton

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"Eric Ross is on the run from a mysterious past with his two daughters in tow. Having left his wife, his house, his whole life behind in Maryland, he's desperate for money-- it's not easy to find steady, safe work when you can't provide references, you can't...

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Sister, maiden, monster  by Lucy A. Snyder

Sister, maiden, monster

Lucy A. Snyder

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"Sister, Maiden, Monster is a visceral story set in the aftermath of our planet's disastrous transformation and told through the eyes of three women trying to survive the nightmare, from Bram Stoker Award-winning author Lucy A. Snyder. To survive they must...

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American afterlife  by Pedro Hoffmeister

American afterlife

Pedro Hoffmeister

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"The Pacific Northwest lies in ruins in the aftermath of the 9.2 Cascadia earthquake. There is a tsunami at the coast, annihilated infrastructure in all the towns and cities, and failed dams in the Oregon river valley where 15-year-old Cielo lives with her...

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Full immersion  by Gemma Amor

Full immersion

Gemma Amor

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"Magpie is out of ideas. She's desperate enough to try anything. Just when she thinks her life can get no worse, she discovers herself, or rather her own dead body, partially buried in the mudbank of a river. A man stands by, a familiar stranger. What does he...

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The hollow kind  by Andy Davidson

The hollow kind

Andy Davidson

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"Nellie Gardner is looking for a way out of an abusive marriage when she learns that her long-lost grandfather, August Redfern, has willed her his turpentine estate. She throws everything she can think of in a bag and flees to Georgia with her eleven-year-old...

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Head cleaner  by David James Keaton

Head cleaner

David James Keaton

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"The last Blockbuster video store in the United States is hanging on by a thread. And after a crazy night attempting to track down a lost VCR rental to collect the record-setting and internet-famous late fee, three employees, idealistic Eva, cinephile Jerry,...

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Don't fear the reaper  by Stephen Graham Jones

Don't fear the reaper

Stephen Graham Jones

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"Four years after her tumultuous senior year, Jade Daniels is released from prison right before Christmas when her conviction is overturned. But life beyond bars takes a dangerous turn as soon as she returns to Proofrock. Convicted serial killer, Dark Mill...

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The twisted dead  by Darcy Coates

The twisted dead

Darcy Coates

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"Keira is ready for a normal life. Hunted and haunted, all she wants is to put her mysterious past behind her and move forward with her new friends as Blighty Graveyard's groundskeeper. But then she receives an invitation to dinner at the local recluse's...

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All hallows  by Christopher Golden

All hallows

Christopher Golden

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"It's Halloween night, 1984, in Coventry, Massachusetts, and two families are unraveling. Up and down the street, secrets are being revealed, and all the while, mixed in with the trick-or-treaters of all ages, four children who do not belong are walking door...

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Bad Cree  by Jessica Johns

Bad Cree

Jessica Johns

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"When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow's head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night, Mackenzie's dreams return her...

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A grimoire dark  by D. S. Quinton

A grimoire dark

D. S. Quinton

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"New Orleans, 1963. When Del Larouche leaves the St. Augustine orphanage, she is desperate to build a normal life for herself and Jimmy, the mentally handicapped boy she spent years protecting. But when a hellish spirit is raised from the dark swamps,...

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Magda  by Sarah (Sarah Elizabeth) England

Magda

Sarah (Sarah Elizabeth) England

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"The dark and twisted community of Woodsend harbours a terrible secret - one tracing back to the age of the Elizabethan witch hunts, when many innocent women were persecuted and hanged. But there is a far deeper vein of horror running through this village; an...

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The house at Phantom Park  by Graham Masterton

The house at Phantom Park

Graham Masterton

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"St Philomena's military hospital has been abandoned for over three years. Now Lilian Chesterfield, who works for one of the most successful building companies in England, is in charge of developing it into a luxury housing complex. But as soon as she and her...

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Pretty ugly  by Jennifer Anne Gordon

Pretty ugly

Jennifer Anne Gordon

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" Interitus: noun. ruin; violent/untimely death, extinction; destruction, dissolution. Omelia fills the empty place in her heart with Instagram clicks, likes, and subscribes, hiding the scars of grief under a mask of makeup, cloaked in an online personality....

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Tanners Dell  by S.E England

Tanners Dell

S.E England

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"Following the hypnosis of violently disturbed psychiatric patient, Ruby Dean, an unholy dark force was unleashed on the medical staff who tried to help her. Now only one of the original team remains - Ward Sister, Becky. Despite her fiance, D.I. Ross, being...

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In the coils of the labyrinth  by David Annandale

In the coils of the labyrinth

David Annandale

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"Professor Miranda Ventham is having bad dreams - nothing new in 1920s Arkham - but hers are horrifying glimpses of a dark future. Now seriously ill, she books herself into the new sanatorium, Stroud Institute. With luck, the town's eldritch taint won't reach...

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How to sell a haunted house  by Grady Hendrix

How to sell a haunted house

Grady Hendrix

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"When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic...

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The best horror of the year. Volume fourteen

The best horror of the year. Volume fourteen

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"For more than four decades, Ellen Datlow has been at the center of horror. Bringing you the most frightening and terrifying stories, Datlow always has her finger on the pulse of what horror readers crave. Now, with the fourteenth volume of the series, Datlow...

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Eve's rib  by C. S. O'Cinneide

Eve's rib

C. S. O'Cinneide

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"The dark side of magic is where the Ragman dwells. Nobody knows that better than Eve. Desperate for a child, she called on that cunning conjurer eighteen years ago. Her daughter, Abbey, was the result. After Abbey's younger brother dies in a fall, Eve fears...

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Silverweed Road  by Simon Crook

Silverweed Road

Simon Crook

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"Welcome to Silverweed Road - a once quiet suburban street where nothing is quite as it seems. In this macabre collection of twisted tales, were-foxes prowl, a swimming pool turns predatory, a haunted urn plots revenge, and a darts player makes a deal with the...

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The house at the end of the world  by Dean R. (Dean Ray) Koontz

The house at the end of the world

Dean R. (Dean Ray) Koontz

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"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. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a...

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Jackal  by Erin E. Adams

Jackal

Erin E. Adams

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"Liz Rocher is coming home-- reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward,...

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Blood on Satan's claw, or, The devil's skin  by Robert Wynne-Simmons

Blood on Satan's claw, or, The devil's skin

Robert Wynne-Simmons

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"Beware the buried skull underfoot and watch out for children with fur on their backs... Blood on Satan's Claw is widely regarded as part of the 'unholy trinity' of cult classics which gave birth to the film genre that would become known as folk horror. Along...

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Gallows Hill  by Darcy Coates

Gallows Hill

Darcy Coates

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"The Hull family has owned the Gallows Hill Winery for generations, living and working on the beautiful grounds where they grow their famous grapes. However, there's something at play on the property, and the locals whisper that the site of the old prison...

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A history of fear  by Luke Dumas

A history of fear

Luke Dumas

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"Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil's Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart,...

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Ricky's hand  by David Quantick

Ricky's hand

David Quantick

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"Ricky Smart is a nobody, a Miami Beach paparazzo who scrapes a living snapping celebs. One day Ricky wakes up and realises there's something wrong with his hand. It's not his hand. In fact, it's someone else's hand. How does he know it's not his? Because it...

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Orpheus builds a girl  by Heather (Writer and editor) Parry

Orpheus builds a girl

Heather (Writer and editor) Parry

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"Based on a true story, Orpheus Builds a Girl is a novel of sisterly love, sinister obsession, and the battle for control of the story. A dark, chilling debut novel from award-winning writer Heather Parry. German doctor Wilhelm Von Tore shares with the reader...

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Daphne  by Josh Malerman

Daphne

Josh Malerman

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"It's the last summer for Kit Lamb: The last summer before college. The last summer with her high school basketball team, and with Dana, her best friend. The last summer before her life begins. But the night before the big game, one of the players tells a...

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Carnosaur  by Harry Adam Knight

Carnosaur

Harry Adam Knight

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"Nothing much ever happens in the sleepy English town of Warchester. So when a farmer is found savagely killed in some sort of animal attack, it's a big story for local reporter David Pascal. The rich and eccentric Sir Darren Penward tells the police an...

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Motherthing  by Ainslie Hogarth

Motherthing

Ainslie Hogarth

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"A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. Abby Lamb has done it. She's found the Great Good in her husband, Ralph, and together they will...

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Walk  by James (James D.) Rice

Walk

James (James D.) Rice

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Benny thought that it would be him and his Dad doing the walk. Just him and his father, hiking through the Welsh countryside, like they used to. Only, when his dad got ill, it became obvious that this would never happen. So Benny was forced to consider other...

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The creeper  by A. M. Shine

The creeper

A. M. Shine

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"Superstitions only survive if people believe in them... Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen - until they arrive... The village is isolated and...

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It rides a pale horse  by Andy Marino

It rides a pale horse

Andy Marino

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"The Larkin siblings are known around the small town of Wofford Falls. Both are artists, but Peter Larkin, Lark to his friends, is the hometown hero. The one who went to the big city and got famous, then came back and settled down. He's the kind of guy who...

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No gods for drowning  by Hailey Piper

No gods for drowning

Hailey Piper

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The old gods have fled, and the monsters they had kept at bay for centuries now threaten to drown the city of Valentine, hunting mankind as in ancient times. In the midst of the chaos, a serial killer has begun ritually sacrificing victims, their bodies strewn...

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The Silverberg business  by Robert Freeman Wexler

The Silverberg business

Robert Freeman Wexler

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"Shannon, a Chicago private detective, returns home to Galveston, Texas for a wedding. Galveston's new rabbi asks Shannon to find Nathan Silverberg, gone missing along with a group of swindlers who claim to be soliciting money for a future colony of Romanian...

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When the night bells ring  by Jo Kaplan

When the night bells ring

Jo Kaplan

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"In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the two...

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Ghost eaters  by Clay McLeod Chapman

Ghost eaters

Clay McLeod Chapman

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"Erin and her friends from college, now in their mid-twenties, are shaken by the death of Silas, one of their own. They are plunged into a waking nightmare when they take a pill Silas learned of that allows them to see - and interact with - ghosts."--

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White horse  by Erika T. Wurth

White horse

Erika T. Wurth

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Some people are haunted in more ways than one. Old denim jackets, ripped jeans, Stephen King novels, and the occasional beer at the White Horse Lounge have defined urban Indian Kari James's life so far. But when her cousin Debby finds an old family bracelet...

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TerrorTome  by Garth (Horror writer) Marenghi

TerrorTome

Garth (Horror writer) Marenghi

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"When horror writer Nick Steen gets sucked into a cursed typewriter by the terrifying Type-Face, Dark Lord of the Prolix, the hellish visions inside his head are unleashed for real. Forced to fight his escaping imagination - now leaking out of his own brain -...

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Hollows  by Daniel (Horror writer) Church

Hollows

Daniel (Horror writer) Church

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"In a lonely village in the Peak District, during the onset of a once-in-a-lifetime snow storm, Constable Ellie Cheetham finds a body. The man, a local ne'er-do-well, appears to have died in a tragic accident: he drank too much and froze to death. But the...

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Ancient sorceries  by Algernon Blackwood

Ancient sorceries

Algernon Blackwood

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"Dr. John Silence treats sicknesses of the spirit. His patients require the skills not merely of a physician, but of a spiritual detective; a Sherlock Holmes of the arcane; an M. Pirot of the outre. These are the annals of his most mind-numbing cases....

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Where I end  by Sophie (Novelist) White

Where I end

Sophie (Novelist) White

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"My Mother. At night my mother creaks, the house creaks along with her ... Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent bed-bound mother is the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about. Aoileann desperately wants a family, and when artist...

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Strega  by Johanne Lykke Holm

Strega

Johanne Lykke Holm

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"With toiletries, hairbands, and notebooks in her bag, and at her mother's instruction, a nineteen-year-old girl leaves her parents' home and the seaside town she grew up in. Out the train window, Rafa sees the lit-up mountains and perfect trees-and the...

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A different darkness  by Luigi Musolino

A different darkness

Luigi Musolino

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"The highly original and truly terrifying folk horror of Italy's Luigi Musolino was introduced to an international audience in the acclaimed The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, and now at last an entire volume of the author's best work - eight stories...

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House of hunger  by Alexis Henderson

House of hunger

Alexis Henderson

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"A young woman is drawn into the upper echelons of a society where blood is power, in this dark and enthralling Gothic novel from the author of The Year of the Witching. Marion Shaw has been raised in the slums, where want and deprivation are all she knows....

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Our share of night  by Mariana Enriquez

Our share of night

Mariana Enriquez

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"Gaspar is in danger. Only six-years-old, he is frightened he may have inherited the same strange abilities as his father, Juan; a powerful medium who can open locked doors, commune with the dead, and possess the ancient forces of the Darkness. Now father and...

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Malice House  by Megan Shepherd

Malice House

Megan Shepherd

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"Of all the things aspiring artist Haven Marbury expected to find while clearing out her late father's remote seaside house, Bedtime Stories for Monsters was not it. This secret handwritten manuscript is disturbingly different from his Pulitzer-winning works:...

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Mr. Gaunt and other uneasy encounters  by John (John Paul) Langan

Mr. Gaunt and other uneasy encounters

John (John Paul) Langan

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"From award-nominated writer John Langan comes a collection of uneasy meetings. A frustrated professor and his graduate student assistant accompany a group of soldiers to a remote Scottish island to learn what is buried there. A man plays an audiotape left for...

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Corpsemouth and other autobiographies  by John (John Paul) Langan

Corpsemouth and other autobiographies

John (John Paul) Langan

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"A family's Halloween haunted house becomes a conduit to something ancient and uncanny; a young man's effigy of a movie monster becomes intrumental in his defense against a bully; a family diminishes while visiting a seaside town, leaving only one to remember...

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Into the forest

Into the forest

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"A collection of stories centered around the legendary character, Baba Yaga. They are filled with transformation, retribution, magic, and powerful women."--Provided by publisher.

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Lucky girl  by M. (Mary) Rickert

Lucky girl

M. (Mary) Rickert

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"Ro, a struggling writer, knows all too well the pain and solitude that holiday festivities can awaken. When she meets four people at the local diner--all of them strangers and as lonely as Ro is--she invites them to an impromptu Christmas dinner. And when...

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Family business  by Jonathan (Podcaster) Sims

Family business

Jonathan (Podcaster) Sims

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"JUST ANOTHER DEAD-END JOB. People don't just disappear when they die. Not unless you make them. When Diya Burman's best friend Angie dies unexpectedly, it feels like her own life is falling apart. Grief costs her friends, family, and even her job. But that's...

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Hell house  by Richard Matheson

Hell house

Richard Matheson

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"For over twenty years, Belasco House has stood empty. Its shadowed walls have witnessed scenes of almost unimaginable horror and depravity. Two previous expeditions to investigate its secrets met with disaster, the participants destroyed by murder, suicide or...

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Dark observation  by Catherine Cavendish

Dark observation

Catherine Cavendish

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"Eligos is waiting ... fulfil your destiny. 1941. In the dark days of war-torn London, Violet works in Churchill's subterranean top secret Cabinet War Rooms, where key decisions that will dictate Britain's conduct of the war are made. Above, the people of...

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The ghost woods  by C. J. Cooke

The ghost woods

C. J. Cooke

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"In the midst of the woods stands a house called Lichen Hall. This place is shrouded in folklore - old stories of ghosts, of witches, of a child who is not quite a child. Now the woods are creeping closer, and something has been unleashed. Pearl Gorham arrives...

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The butcher  by Laura Kat Young

The butcher

Laura Kat Young

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"When Lady Mae turns eighteen, she'll inherit her mother's job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement Five's guilty residents as payment for their petty crimes. An index finger taken for spreading salacious gossip, a foot for blasphemy, no one is exempt from...

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Isolation

Isolation

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"Lost in the wilderness, or alone in the dark, isolation remains one of our deepest held fears. This horror anthology from Shirley Jackson and British Fantasy Award finalist Dan Coxon calls on leading horror writers to confront the dark moments, the challenges...

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