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It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them - not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain.
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Predictable Prep Boy Meets Witchy Girl
- By FanB14 on 01-29-13
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Wonders of the Invisible World
- By: Christopher Barzak
- Narrated by: Michael Crouch
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Seventeen-year-old Aidan Lockwood lives in the sleepy farming community of Temperance, Ohio - known for its cattle ranches and not much else. That is, until Jarrod, a friend he hasn't seen in five years, moves back to town and opens Aidan's eyes in startling ways: to Aidan's ability to see the spirit world; to the red-bearded specter of Death; to a family curse that has claimed the lives of the Lockwood men one by one...and to the new feelings he has developed for Jarrod.
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Sugar coating of L.G.B.T. sprinkles, of all things
- By Eli on 01-19-16
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The Mask
- By: Dean Koontz
- Narrated by: Natalie Ross
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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So young, so sweet. She appeared out of nowhere, in the middle of traffic, on a busy day. A teenager with no past, no family - no memories. So blond and beautiful. Carol and Paul were drawn to her - she was the child they’d never had. A dream come true. And then Carol’s nightmares began - the ghastly sounds in the night…the bloody face in the mirror…the razor-sharp ax.
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Awful narrator
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By: Dean Koontz
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Just as their troubled marriage is reaching the breaking point, Ted and Janet Conway inherit a home that has been in the family for more than a century. Eager to make a new beginning, the Conways and their three children head for the promise of a better life in the small Louisiana town of St. Albans. But within the long-abandoned, sprawling Victorian manse lies the dark history of the Conway name.
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The Right Hand of Evil
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By: John Saul
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The Boy Who Drew Monsters
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Ever since he nearly drowned in the ocean three years earlier, 10-year-old Jack Peter Keenan has been deathly afraid to venture outdoors. Refusing to leave his home in a small coastal town in Maine, Jack Peter spends his time drawing monsters. When those drawings take on a life of their own, no one is safe from the terror they inspire.
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troubled boy, troubled waters
- By Debra B on 10-29-14
By: Keith Donohue
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In 1922 a farmer in Adamant, Arkansas, awakes to a noise on his roof and finds his snow-blanketed yard marked with thousands of cloven footprints. The prints vanish with the melting snow...only to reappear 70 years later near the gruesome killing of Rachel DeLaune. Years after her sister’s unsolved murder, New Orleans tattoo artist Sarah DeLaune is haunted by the mysteries of her past. Sarah has always believed that her sister was killed by a man named Ashe Cain. But no one else had ever seen Ashe. He had "appeared" to Sarah when she needed a friend the most, only to vanish on the night of her sister’s murder.
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Wake me up!
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The Apocalypse Boxed Set Novels 1-3
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Greed, terrorism, and simple bad luck conspire to bring mankind to its knees as a viral infection spreads out of control, reducing those infected to undead horrors that feed upon the rest. It's a time of misery and death for most, however there are some who are lucky, some who are ruthless, and some who are just too damned tough to go down without a fight. This is their story.
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Worst writing and VO in HISTORY
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By: Peter Meredith
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Dark Memories
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There are things in the darkness, things much worse than the tracks and abandoned pieces of equipment that trip the children up and gash at their feet and legs, things that brush silently past them, touching their faces before disappearing again....
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EZRA QUIT GOING TO CHURCH
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 05-11-17
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The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 4
- By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, Stephen King, Peter Straub
- Narrated by: Meredith Mitchell, Rebecca Mitchell, Michael Healy, and others
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With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.
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Only a few decent stories in this bunch.
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By: Ellen Datlow - author/editor, and others
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Haunted
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A ghostly twist. Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook. Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying games. Three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past. Three hideous nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed...And the true nightmare will begin.to the surface, tormenting him, refusing to let him rest. The memory of what he once had been.
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Wait For It-----Wait For It
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The Bad Place
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Frank Pollard awakens in an alley, knowing nothing but his name - and that he is in great danger. Having taken refuge in a motel, he wakes again only to find his hands covered in blood. As far as he knows, he's no killer. But whose blood is this, and how did it get there?
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THE BEST KOONTZ
- By Root VanDorn on 10-20-10
By: Dean Koontz
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- Cody Haslem
- 08-08-23
A chilling twist on the haunted house story
I love haunted house stories. I'm currently writing one myself, so it was great to pick up a well-written novel that did so many unique things with the horror sub-genre. I didn't feel like it stuck the landing as powerfully as I hoped, but otherwise I loved it.
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- Jessica
- 10-14-20
Repackaged Stories You are Familiar Witu
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Since "time in memorial" I could not suspend my disbelief enough to enjoy this book. The performance was good and got me through and my hopes and dreams that never came to fruition. This book felt like a fanfic hodgepodge of "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" "The Bad Seed" "The Haunting of Hill House" and then at the end there was "The Shining". And no horror novel is complete without the magical black person. The protagonist lives through scenes straight out "We Have Always Lived in the Castle" including collecting and placing talismans, being ostracized by the town, even the cafe reveling in their fear scene- except only sometimes? She does not fully commit to her paranoia and isolation as she goes away to college and gets her terminal degree and becomes a professor. Sure characters can have contradictory traits but I just did not believe it. I did not believe her reasons for moving back home, I did not believe her reality of having a collegiate job and no colleagues or friends and being in such isolation. Even Jack in the Shining had friends and talked to people. And what I really really did not believe was the weather at the end. This book takes place in the 21st century when even people who live in the middle of no where with no internet have back up generators. AND the idea that someone cannot drive a car in snow during an emergency is absurd. And dont even get me started on the origin story of slavery and the swamp witch...
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