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Experience the myth and magic of antiquitys most alluringand provocativegoddess as never witnessed before, in this gorgeously rendered, unflinching, and deeply vulnerable retelling from the author of Mother of Rome and Medusas Sisters.Two hundred years before the common era, Aphrodite surprises an itinerant sculptor with a shocking request: Hear my story, see me for who I truly am, and carve it into stone. Never before has the goddess posed for her likeness, and as the artist works, she shares pieces of herself.Her greatest triumphs and most grievous mistakes. The truth behind the tales of her beneficence and vengeance. And the one epic romance that slips through her perfect fingers, time and time again.Part memoir, part fantasy, and all heart, Aphrodite in Pieces begs the eternal, essential questions: what do love and beauty truly mean? And can they last?

In the glittering city of Port Astor, where fae roads criss-cross human highways and ghosts whisper to the living, nothing is ever as it seems.From Sunburst Award-winning author A. C. Wise, this utterly original dark fantasy tale of faith and fanaticism, doomed love and desperate bargains is perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Ava Reid.Port Astor is a city of ghosts. Once home to the beautiful, brutal courts of the fae, forty years ago they vanished without explanation and Port Astor decided to forget.Brix and Bellefeather are paranormal investigators, working to keep Port Astors wraiths and spectres from consuming the city. Both have hauntings of their own: Belle shares her body with a demon, Belizial; Brix has trapped the soul of his dead fiancee in the world of the living, unwilling to let her go.While investigating the glamorous and notoriously haunted Peony Hotel, Brix and Belle come across a young couple tangled up in one of the citys most infamous tales. Jimmy Valentine, silver screen idol and one-time favorite of a fae queen, has returned to haunt the Peony. But Jimmy is no mere ghost, and Brix and Belle soon realize his return is more intimately tied to their own hauntings than they could ever have imagined.The fae have not forgotten that Port Astor once belonged to them. And their Hollow Queen wont give up her kingdom so easily.

A chilling supernatural revenge novella from the acclaimed author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes. Perfect for fans of Joe Hill and Delilah S. Dawson. At sixty-six years old, Winston Kemper has always been a nonentity. No one notices him. His simple existence barely registers for those who come into contact with him. Some call him feeble-minded. He is a janitor at the local church, a groundskeeper by default, and thats it. No friends, no family. When hes done with work, he returns homea remote, single room apartment located above a garageand that is where his true work begins.Winston Kemper is a collector of voices, and his magnum opusThe Butterfly Girlsis a sprawling epic of untapped imagination. It has no single canvas, no particular frame. It is everywherescribbled on the walls, the floor, and countless notebooks.Winston is creating a fantasia which exists in words, images and blood. As part of his art he has been murdering forgotten women. Poor souls who slip through the cracks of society, who no ones looking for. Mothers, sisters, daughters to someone, but no more.Winston takes their lives, their voices.But now he can hear them. They whisper to him. They talk of revenge.Winston Kemper might not believe in ghosts, but he is about to learn they are very real. And they are very, very angry.

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From Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Bury Your Gays, comes Fabulous Bodies, a supernatural joyride where Drive meets Beetlejuice.Fashion influencer by day and grave robber by night, Poppy Stringer is on call when Eddie Michaelsa flamboyant, piano-slamming rockstar and queer iconunexpectedly dies. All Poppy has to do is retrieve Eddies body from the medical examiners office, but what starts as a routine delivery quickly goes off course when Eddie wakes up.Now, Poppy must fight for her life in a blood-soaked night of carnage and fabulous entertainment all across Palm Springs.

A feverishly told, dark and unsettling Scotland-set fairy-tale about a safe haven for women which transforms them into vessels of revenge, perfect for fans of T. Kingfisher, A. G Slatter and Julia Armfield.ELLYElly is running. Pregnant and still in her wedding dress, she flees the cottage that her new husband has rented for their wedding night. Because hes not what people think he is and she knows that, one day, hell hurt her in a way she cant fix. Freezing and lost in the dead of night, Elly begins to lose hope.A woman in the woods alone is never the beginning of the story. Its usually the end.So, when a beautiful house appears out of nowhere and a woman beckons her inside, it almost feels too good to be true.Welcome to Hex House: a refuge, a home, a sanctuary. A place that can only be found by those who truly need it; a place that promises to teach Elly how to access a power more incredible and more terrifying than anything she could have imagined.SIOBHANFour years after Siobhan meets Elly at Hex House, her life is in ruins. Once a promising filmmaker invited to the house to make a documentary with her brother, Theo, shes given up on her dream after witnessing unspeakable horrors there. Now, she spends her time drinking too much, toying with an older man in increasingly dangerous ways, and trying to get Theo to speak to her again. She ignores the scar on her stomach that never fully heals.That is, until someone reaches out with news about Hex House that could change everything.And Siobhan knows, deep down, that she was always destined to return.

From the author of My Throat an Open Grave and Not Good for Maidens comes a bewitching, passionate tale of the unlikely alliance between a ghost and the girl who moves into a haunted house. Cyrano de Bergerac meets Beetlejuice in this story perfect for fans of supernatural small-town horror, witty ghosts and amateur teenage sleuths. Liam has been dead for ten months, haunting the house he used to share with his family, and facing intermittent and terrifying encounters with an eldritch entity called the Beast, who seems determined to consume his soul. Besides that complication in Liams new existence, hes actually adjusted well enough to boredom. But all of that changes when a new family moves in and Liam finds himself sharing a room with Drew Tarpin, who is all of the things Liam never was when he was alive: athletic, queer, and effortlessly cool.Except, Liam and Drew do have something in common: their hopeless attraction to Hannah Steward, the nerdy captain of the school mock trial team. After Drew stands in to protect Liam from the Beast, he agrees to help her win Hannah over if Drew keeps Liam from spending the entirety of his afterlife as demon food. It shouldnt be hard, since Liam was in unrequited love with Hannah for his entire natural life, and her best friend until his untimely death. But the Beast will not be satisfied no matter how much Drew fights back on Liams behalfand when Hannah catches on that Liam might not be totally gone, it puts all of their lives at risk.

SU AMOR DEVORARÁ TU ALMARosa Martín, una cantautora sin éxito, aparece ahorcada en la sabina milenaria del jardín de su amante, Fran, un poderoso y hedonista productor musical con quien mantiene una toxica relacion amorosa. Sin embargo, la muerte no pone fin a su historia. Atrapada entre dos mundos, impulsada por la obsesion y la venganza, comenzara a tejer una inquietante relacion con Patti, la hija menor de la familia, quien descubrira que Rosa aun habita en la casa, en los sueños y en su propio padre, y que su presencia no solo es espectral, sino activa, invasiva y letal.La ahorcada es un relato estremecedor donde lo sobrenatural revela las profundas heridas que pueden dejar el deseo y la traicion.

Newly turned Mexican vampire, Maria, is not just out for blood, she wants answers.From the twice Bram Stoker-nominated author of The Haunting of Alejandra and Immortal Pleasures, a gripping tale of empowerment, desire and belonging, perfect for readers of A Dowry of Blood and Certain Dark Things.Maria is a wanted woman. Shes wanted by an Aztec trafficker, a cartel boss, the people she fights for, and now the Devil she cant resist. Her journey begins as a would-be immigrant turned vampire in Juarez, Mexico until the injustices of the world turn her into something else.Forced to leave her home and family, she embarks on a journey across Mexico seeking those answers. She learns a new language and how to survive as a vampire. To ease her restlessness she finds work with an ex-boxer and learns to fight, becoming an unlikely bad ass enforcer of justice for the community that has embraced her. Is she a saint or an old God from a forgotten past?An encounter with a violent, ruthless vampire boss leads her to finally find her creator, and he is nothing like she imagined. Drawn into a world of ancient vampires, deadly conspiracies and a dangerously seductive devil, Maria must find a way to fight for herself and all humankind.A fierce and seductive vampire thriller, pulsing with rage, fear and desire, that explores the dark back streets of Mexico and a vampire womans determination to find her place in the world.

A sensuous, vivid and unsettling modern gothic tale about a couple who move to the seaside town of Hastings and find themselves living in the former home of a notorious local occultist over whom the shadow of former town resident Aleister Crowley looms large. Ideal for fans of Andrew Michael Hurley or Francine Toon.Exhausted by the pressures of life in London, Justine and Adam move to Hastings. With Adams failed career as an artist and a recent miscarriage causing rifts in their marriage, Justine wants this to be a fresh start for them. As they try to settle into their new seaside home, they find a bolted door in their basement, behind which is a cave. Adam feels a strange but enchanting pull to the cave while apprehension begins to claw at Justine.Inside the cave, they find a witch bottle and with this discovery, the couple begin to uncover disturbing rumours about the homes previous owner, John Malachy. A sinister figure, Malachy was known for his obsession with chaos magic, and association with Sacred Disease - a band that rose to fame in the 80s that supposedly experimented with blood magic and occult forces and was made a scapegoat in the media due to their association with satanism. Justine and Adam seek answers from James Blackwood, a local occultist and former member of Sacred Disease. He warns them to leave things be and not to tamper with ancient rituals, dark magic and secrets long buried in the past. But John Malachy is long dead and surely everything the media said about him was only superstition?Despite Blackwoods warning, Adam cant resist opening the witch bottle. With this, a sinister chain of events begins to unfold. Justine notices that Adams behaviour changes and the obsession he once had with his art is reignited but begins to veer into something unnatural. Justine herself wakes night after night, haunted by the screams of a young woman that seem to come from the cave beneath the house.When Justine once again finds herself pregnant, and people in the town begin to turn up dead or missing, the lines between truth, reality and the mystical all begin to blur. The ghosts of John Malachy and the one and only Aleister Crowley himself loom large and a dark sacrificial reckoning closes in on both Justine and Adam.

From New York Times bestselling, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Nine Goblins, a novella of low fantasy and high mischief.A funny cosy fantasy novella, perfect for fans of Legends & Lattes and Thornhedge. No one knows exactly how the Goblin War began, but folks will tell you that goblins are stinking, slinking, filthy, sheep-stealing, henhouse-raiding, obnoxious, rude, and violent. Goblins would actually agree with all this, and might throw in "cowardly" and "lazy" too for good measure.But goblins dont go around killing people for fun, no matter what the propaganda posters say. And when a confrontation with an evil wizard lands a troop of nine goblins deep behind enemy lines, goblin sergeant Nessilka must figure out how to keep her hapless band together and get them home in one piece, despite a path filled with elves, trolls, monsters, and that most terrifying of creaturesa human being.

A queer, Black horror-thriller about a woman returning to the upstate New York town in which she grew up in order to uncover the terrifying truth about her mother and a set of terrifying paintings. From the author of the TikTok sensation Cinderella is Dead.Perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Riley Sagar.Jasmine Payton is glad that her mother is dead.Not that Antonia was much of a mother to begin with. Forced to endure alcohol-fueled rages her entire childhood, Jasmine escaped Antonias abuse as a teenager and never looked back. Now, shes an investigative journalist, is a mom herself, and has firmly put her past behind her when she gets the call to make arrangements for her deceased mother. Her hopes to quickly bury her and skip town are dashed when the police wont release her body, as Antonia is a suspect in a recent missing persons case.With nothing to do but wait for the detectives to work the case, Jasmine starts cleaning out Antonias belongings when she discovers several unsettling items: gruesome paintings that depict all manner of torture and a series of deranged letters in which Antonia admits to brutalizing inmates while she was the warden at the local prison.Trusting her journalistic instincts, Jasmine tracks down information about the now-abandoned prison, convinced that its still harboring deadly secrets tied to her mothers past. As she explores the bowels of the penitentiary, she uncovers the truth behind Antonias obsession with one inmate and how they connect to her disturbed paintings.

The first novel based on Robert E. Howards uncompromising Puritan anti-hero. A haunting and intense Gothic mystery for readers of Christopher Buehlman, John Langan and Brom.Puritan. Fiend. Fanatic.Solomon Kane.In the wake of several grisly murders, Solomon Kane has been summoned to Windsend, England, to determine a womans guilt. Is Sybil Eastey a witch? And is she behind these gruesome crimes?His first night in Windsend, Kane awakens from horrific nightmares only to witness a man being torn asunder. Fear quickly turns to something more sinister and the villagers are ready to lynch Sybil before Kane intervenes.Kane must establish Sybils true nature and solve the macabre mystery before more blood is spilt. However, nothing is what it seems in Windsend.

A chilling, claustrophobic retelling of Rebecca, rooted in Chinese-American history from the Shirley Jackson Award-nominated author of Bound Feet. Perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic and Get Out.Mixed media fine art photographer Lydia Chen dreams of gaining fame and fortune, even as shes forced to do odd jobs to pay the billslike running a gothic portrait photo booth for Seattles elite during a lavish charity event. But fate intervenes when she wins the event raffle for a once-in-a-lifetime retreat to Stormraven, a 19th-century estate owned by the Vandermeer family on a private island off Washingtons coast. There, she meets Henry Vandermeer, the enigmatic young scion of his clan. Charmed by Henry and drawn to his beautiful estate, Lydia joins his mysterious family and moves into Stormraven.With her sudden change in fortune, Lydia leaves behind the daily grind to chase her artistic aspirations, settling into seemingly idyllic surroundings. But with each passing day, ominous nightmares come to the fore, as Lydia catches glimpses throughout the property of a ghostly woman who eerily resembles herself. The more she investigates the mansions chilling secrets, the more she feels her sanity slipping under the weight of its emerging terrors. For Lydia soon discovers she is not the first to be trapped in Stormravens hallowed hallsand if she fails to unearth its rotten truth, her new home may soon become her eternal prison.

A macabre and chilling supernatural gothic horror about a group of teenagers cursed to die on their 18th birthday from the Stoker Award shortlisted author of The Book of the Baku. Perfect for fans of Clay McLeod Chapman, The September House by Carissa Orlando and The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes.Flynn and her friends plan to spend the night in Temple Fall, a mysterious house up on the moors with a strange history, but their planned night of drinking and teenage debauchery twists into a surreal nightmare. Suddenly forced into strange choices and places, the tight-knit group starts to fall apart. And then Jackson falls to his death.In the days that come after, Flynn finds herself trapped, as if she never left the house. Consumed by the lost secrets of her family past, and haunted by the spectre of a Victorian woman, she finds herself losing time and seeing things that arent there.Reeling from the tragedy, Flynn must rebuild her group of friends, and bring them all together to grieve and try to survive on their own. Because while they escaped Temple Fall, the house didnt let them go

In 50,000 acres of remote Scottish mountains and moor sits Dorcha Hall: a former hunting lodge nestling amongst ancient forests, on the shores of the enigmatic Black Loch. At night, lights glow from within, smoke curls from its chimneys, and in the forgiving murk of the gloaming, it looks magical. In daylight, its mouldering plasterwork and failing plumbing present a less romantic reality.Dr Ava Dickens has come to Dorcha to visit her godson, Andrew a young man whose parents sudden death has taken him from a quiet life in academia to owning Loch Dorcha. He and his very new wife are convinced the only way to make the estate work is to run the Hall as a hotel. But Ava is a rigorous scientist, her specialty animal behaviour, and she is by no means certain that the evidence is indicative of a successful outcome.When one of the hotel guests is found dead in his bed, having gulped down poisonous insect repellant rather than the whisky sitting next to it, Avas knowledge of the female Culicoides impunctatus aka the Highland midge leads her to doubt that it was an accident. And worse is to come

A punk rock love letter to Gothic horror, about class, grief and the ghosts of the past, perfect for fans of Grady Hendrix and Rachel HarrisonFollowing the death of her husband, Sandra Riley is left all but destitute: jobless, penniless and about to lose her home. But an encounter with an old university friend seems to offer a lifeline. Gerry McManus was always well-to-do; now hes risen to join the landed gentry, as his wife Joy takes possession of her aristocratic familys remote, dilapidated but undeniably impressive stately home: Hautmond Hall.Accepting Gerrys invitation, Sandra arrives at the house intending to gather her thoughts, face her grief and plan her next move. But life at Hautmond isnt so simple. Why is she having such dreadful dreams? Why do visitors to the house keep suffering inexplicable accidents? Whats hidden in the secret room buried deep in the lightless cellar? And who are the distant, shadowed figures she keeps glimpsing in the mirrors?As the truth about Hautmond Hall begins to reveal itself - and as her relationship with her hosts shifts inexorably from mutual support to something more complicated and transactional - Sandra will find herself trapped inside a waking nightmare, one that has afflicted generations of desperate people before her.

An epic, Lovecraftian horror novel in the vein of Black River Orchard and American Elsewhere about a small town that becomes obsessed with a series of random objects left strewn across their town in the aftermath of a storm. From the Bram Stoker award-nominated and bestselling author of Come with Me. The residents of Mariners Cove are changingIn the aftermath of a violent storm, a collective obsession is rapidly developing among the people of this quaint suburban neighborhood. Random, everyday items left scattered upon the lawns, the streets, and the shoreline all seem to call out to them. There is an item for almost everyone, and each item has a certain hold over the person who finds ita hold that soon turns into unwavering infatuation. They hide their items from each other, obsess over them, and they will do anythinganythingto protect them.The collective hum of bees wings...A young boy finds himself the possessor of a strange and inexplicable power. Is the arrival of this power linked to the increasingly odd and dangerous behavior of the residents of Mariners Cove? Has he been granted this power in order to thwart whatever is about to happen in this small, bayside community, or is there a more sinister purpose?All hail the Dragon...All eyes are on him now.The residents of Mariners Cove are watching.They move as one, like a solitary organism, and will do anything to succeed in their single-minded purpose.They will not be stopped.

((Fur die Vorschau))Die Pariserin Madame LEspanaye und ihrer Tochter Camille wurden im vierten Stockwerk ihres ansonsten leerstehenden Hauses auf grausame Weise ermordet. Doch alle Turen und Fenster zum Raum sind von innen verriegelt. Wie konnte der Morder also fluchten? Der brillante Detektiv Auguste Dupin bringt Licht in den unerklarlichen Fall.((Fur Onix))The Parisian Madame LEspanaye and her daughter Camille are found gruesomely murdered on the fourth floor of their otherwise empty house. Yet all the doors and windows to the room are locked from the inside. How could the murderer have escaped? The brilliant detective Auguste Dupin sets out to shed light on this baffling case.