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Edgar Allan Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum plunges listeners into the claustrophobic mind of a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, who awakens in utter darkness to face a series of psychological and physical torments. Chained beneath a slowly descending pendulum blade, surrounded by monstrous iron walls and the yawning mouth of a deadly pit, he must summon every ounce of courage, reason, and instinct to survive.

Squid Game meets Ancient Gods in this new epic fantasy romance from the beloved author of Fairydale about a hopeless woman willing to risk her immortal soul for the chance to have her most ardent wish come true and an emotionless ancient god who will do everything in his power to stop her.

Nurse Nellie Lester thinks she can escape death. Fleeing Chicago at the height of the 1918 Spanish flu, she takes a nursing job at a decrepit manor on a desolate Michigan island. She’s convinced the island holds the secret to her family’s murky past. Soon after her arrival, the frozen body of the prior nurse is unearthed. Haunted nightly by a ghostly presence, Nellie is convinced the nurse’s murder and her father’s fate are connected and dives into the mystery.

Brought to her uncle’s decaying Oxfordshire estate when she was a child, Grace has grown up on the periphery of a once-great household, an outsider in her own home. Now a self-possessed and secretive young woman, she has developed unusual predilections: for painting, particularly forgery; for deception; for other girls.

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires meets Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this twisty, fresh take on a Southern gothic that follows a mysterious, charming bachelor as he makes his way into a small town, bringing a plague and the devil with him, from GMA Buzz Pick author Dana Elmendorf.

A dark sorcerer. His widowed apprentice. A Victorian gothic romance for all time. In the midnight fog of Victorian London, the young widow Elizabeth Buckingham was destitute and alone, sustained only by her vow of revenge against whoever—or whatever—caused her Egyptologist husband’s uncanny demise. Everything changes when a mysterious encounter at a fortuneteller shop leads Elizabeth to join the Esoteric Order of Magisophists, a secret society and college of magic.

First came the whispers. Then the screams. Then the world learned a terrifying truth: the human body can ignite from within. They called it SHC—Spontaneous Human Combustion. No warning. No logic. No mercy. One morning, people simply started burning. And it's consuming humanity, one spark at a time. Where every heartbeat could be your last, and the most dangerous thing to burn for... is hope.

There are many things that go bump in the night, and I am one of them. Witches are supposed to be good, powerful, and omniscient, but unfortunately for me, I seem to lack all of those qualities. I have been battling the darkness that lives within me since birth, destined to eradicate goodness from our world, but one day, I have no choice but to embrace who and what I am. In order to stop the destruction of the world as we know it, I must put my trust in not only myself, but also my unlikely companions.

Grad Student Sydney Denik is getting a second chance. When a dream opportunity presents itself with a prestigious foundation doing promising Alzheimer's research, Sydney leaves the shambles of her old life to join a dozen other students at an isolated lodge hidden away in a remote, fog-shrouded inlet on Vancouver Island. But the Madrona Foundation harbors more than brilliant minds. Everyone around her is hiding a terrible secret—including the resident psychologist she's falling in love with.

There's something terribly wrong with the Castleway Circus. When mortals happen inside its big billowy tents, they don't always come out again, and the clown specters who haunt it won't leave me alone. My partner, Quiet, insists we go and investigate. I'd rather have my hands nailed to a moving train—better chance of surviving that as a vampire than whatever haunts the circus. She believes the specters who persist in making our lives more difficult mean no harm. They just want our help, she says. I'm not convinced.

Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of her sister’s intentions, Mary seeks a refuge. But Lord Byron’s villa, lying under ominous, ash-shrouded skies, feels more like a trap. When Byron suggests each guest write a supernatural tale, Mary is as drawn to the challenge as she is, unexpectedly, to Byron himself. And so an idea begins to form in her mind . . .

The past carries many secrets that are too heavy for our future. Things started to spiral when my best friend and I both fell for Aria Mitchell, a girl we saw reading in her bookstore in the middle of town. She seemed too good for our chaotic lives and complicated pasts. Plus, she doesn't seem like the type of girl who would agree to be shared by murderers. All we wished for was to make her ours for one night. One single taste of her, and she would be out of our system for good.

Conceited, arrogant, and built like a prize stud, Rutger is a red-blooded Viking. But his brash, bad boy demeanour hides a chasm of pain. He has known love, only to have his heart cleaved in two by a faithless woman. Grethe’s hopes of marriage and children were cruelly dashed when her fickle betrothed abandoned her. With Rutger as her captive mate, she’ll punish him as she’d like to punish all men.

I died a woman and woke up a monster. Now the only vampire who cares for me is exactly who I should run from. I’ve been turned against my will and can’t stand the idea of drinking blood. When Novak finds me, I’m half dead and starving. He’s the reclusive, sole vampire of Rathka’s Order, a cursed clan that’s nearly extinct. But he takes me in. Gives me shelter… and looks at me like I’m someone worth keeping. When the vampires who turned me find out, they’re pissed. Because of a centuries-old feud, I have to sneak away to see Novak.

USA Today best-selling author Elizabeth Hunter weaves an enchanting adventure, full of mythology and romance, in the first installment of a brand new romantic portal fantasy!

The Bell Tower Bride is a haunting, lyrical tale of love denied, devotion twisted, and the price of silence. With gothic atmosphere and emotionally rich storytelling, Christopher Appel weaves a story of sacred vows, buried grief, and the weight of memory that refuses to stay buried.

War, wenn jemand seit 4000 Jahren lebt – aus Liebe? In Die Mumie von Arthur Conan Doyle erzählt Benjamin Werner die tragisch-schöne Geschichte des ägyptischen Priesters Sosra, der das Geheimnis des ewigen Lebens entdeckt – und an der Zeit selbst zerbricht. Zwischen Pyramiden, Pest und Pariser Museen entfaltet sich eine unheimliche und zutiefst menschliche Erzählung über Liebe, Fluch und die Grenzen der Wissenschaft.

Hinweis: Lieber Leser, liebe Leserin, lamboSOCOOLs Vampirgesetz Teil I - II ist ein Bundle ... Knepper Jackson, der berühmteste Strafverteidiger der USA, wird zu seinem bislang schrägsten Mord-Prozess gerufen, denn sein neuer Mandant Damónt behauptet, ein Vampir zu sein. Nichtsahnend nimmt der Workaholic seine Familie mit in das verschlafene Nest nahe New Orleans, wo der hitzige Prozess zunächst wie geplant läuft.

The dead spot: a corner drenched in shadow; an earthquake's epicenter; the part of a roller coaster ride where the car rounds the final curve and all force dissipates, leaving those trapped beneath the safety bar feeling sick and hollow. From the beloved author of Frost Bite and Chopping Spree comes this heartbreaking horror collection about girls and women trapped by circumstance, manipulation, and obsession. The book includes a moving introduction by J. A. W. McCarthy (Shirley Jackson Award finalist for Sometimes We're Cruel) and seventeen stories by Sylvaine.

Un’incantevole storia di tradimenti, segreti e magia. Due ragazze che parlano il linguaggio segreto dei fiori. 1815 – Cornelia ha un segreto che deve rimanere ben custodito, perché nessuno accetterebbe mai la sua capacità di comprendere il linguaggio dei fiori e ascoltarne le voci, in una misteriosa connessione che ha sin da bambina. Il polveroso e cupo accampamento della Grande Armée di Napoleone non è il luogo dove aveva immaginato se stessa quando è fuggita in Francia, lasciandosi alle spalle una vita agiata, ma un passato di dolore.