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The Haunting of Gillespie House

USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror, in print for the first time! He might be dead, but he's not gone...

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Haunting of Hill House

Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House: Dr Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena

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The Haunting of Ashburn House

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The Haunting of Rookward House

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The Haunting of Blackwood House

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Haunting on the Hill

The first novel to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House authorised by the Shirley Jackson estate

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The Haunting of Hill House (Movie Tie-In) : A Novel - Jackson Shirley

Anotace: The greatest haunted house story ever written and the inspiration for a 10-part Netflix series directed by Mike Flanagan and starring Michiel Huisman, Carla Gugino, and Timothy Hutton.First published in 1959, Shirley Jackson`s The Haunting of Hill House has been hailed as a perfect work of unnerving terror. It is the story of four seekers whoarrive at a notoriou...

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She Is a Haunting - Tran Trang Thanh

Anotace: Jade Nguyen has always lied to fit in. She's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough - at least for this summer with her estranged father in Vietnam. Just five weeks of ignoring the quietly decaying French colonial house he's fixing up, then college and freedom are hers. But soon Jade begins waking up every morning certain that something h...

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She Is a Haunting - Trang Thanh Tran

<p>This deliciously spooky, yearningly romantic ghost story from a brilliant debut author will thrill fans of Kalynn Bayron and Wilder Girls by Rory Power. Jade Nguyen has always lied to fit in. She's straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough - at least for this summer with her estranged father in Vietnam. Just five weeks of ignoring the quietly decaying ...

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House of Susan Lulham

An eerie novella for fans of the Merrily Watkins Mysteries. The Diocesan Exorcist for Hereford must reveal the haunting presence of Susan Lulham...

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House of Whispers

â€Haunting, dark and wonderfully atmospheric' B A Paris, bestselling author of The Therapist Once you let her in, she’ll n

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Toll House

This superbly chilling debut novel is the perfect Halloween book: a terrifying original ghost story for fans of The Haunting of Hill House and Susan H

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The Road (0307386457)

Kniha - autor Cormac McCarthy, 288 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná At once brutal and tender, despairing and rashly hopeful, spare of language and profoundly moving, this work is a fierce and haunting meditation on the tenuous divide between civilization and savagery, and the essential, sometimes terrifying power of filial love.

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Return to Blackwater House

A haunting and twisty novel about the ghosts of our past and whether we can bear to face them or not - and the consequences of doing so. Perfect for f

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Return to Blackwater House

A haunting and twisty novel about the ghosts of our past and whether we can bear to face them or not - and the consequences of doing so. Perfect for f

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The Memory Police: A Novel (1101911816)

Kniha - 274 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu matná A compelling speculative mystery by one of Japan’s greatest writers. Hat, ribbon, bird, rose. To the people on the island, a disappeared thing no longer has any meaning. It can be burned in the garden, thrown in the river or handed over to the Memory Police. Soon enough, the island forgets it ever existed. When a y...

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A Haunting in Venice: Hallowe´en Party (Poirot) - Christie Agatha

Anotace: The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - soon to be a major motion picture.A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples... At a Hallowe`en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an a...

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A Haunting in Venice: Hallowe´en Party (Poirot), 1. vydání - Agatha Christie

<p>The inspiration for A Haunting in Venice - soon to be a major motion picture.A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples... At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce - a hostile thirteen-year-old - boasts that she once witnessed a murder. When no-one believes her, she storms off home. But within hours her body is found, still in the house, drowned in an a...

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The Bad Ones - Melissa Albert

<p>*NEW FROM MELISSA ALBERT - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HAZEL WOOD*House of Hollow meets A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, THE BAD ONES is a page-turning supernatural thriller about four mysterious disappearances in a town haunted by a sinister magical history - and one girl searching for the truth. A GAME GONE WRONG. A MISSING FRIEND. A TOWN OF BURIED SE...

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The House by the Lake: The Story of a Home and a Hundred Years of History - Harding Thomas

Anotace: A beautiful picture-book adaptation of Thomas Harding`s Costa-shortlisted biography for adults, exquisitely illustrated by Britta Teckentrup.On the outskirts of Berlin, a wooden cottage stands on the shore of a lake. Over the course of a century, this little house played host to a loving Jewish family, a renowned Nazi composer, wartime refugees and a Stasi infor...

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Liberation Day : Stories - George Saunders

<p>The “best short-story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collecti...

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Learning to Drive (Movie Tie-in Edition)

Learning to Drive - Now a major motion picture starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben Kingsley§§Celebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of essays drawn from the author's own life.§§With deep feeling and sharp insig...

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How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House

*Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 SHORTLISTED* A powerful, involving, intense and haunting novel of the lives of three women and their stories of love a

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Death Script

A haunting ode to those who paid the ultimate price-through the prism of the Maoist insurgency, Ashutosh Bhardwaj meditates on larger questions of vio

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The House of Eve: Totally heartbreaking and unputdownable historical fiction - Johnson Sadeqa

Anotace: `Amazing` Reese Witherspoon`Heart-rending` Taylor Jenkins Reid `Luminous and moving!` Kate Quinn`Unforgettable` Kristen HarmelThe heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go to protect her child, and survival against ...

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The House of Eve: Totally heartbreaking and unputdownable historical fiction - Sadeqa Johnson

<p>'Amazing' Reese Witherspoon'Heart-rending' Taylor Jenkins Reid 'Luminous and moving!' Kate Quinn'Unforgettable' Kristen HarmelThe heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go to protect her child, and survival against t...

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Sherlock Holmes II. (05-532-1242-7)

Kniha - autor Arthur Conan Doyle, anglicky Sherlock HolmesThe Complete Novels and StoriesVolume IISince his first appearance in "Beeton's Christmas Annual" in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuri...

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Small Favors - Erin A. Craigová

<p>THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the critically-acclaimed author of House of Salt and Sorrows comes a mesmerizing and chilling fairy-talesque novel about Ellerie Downing, a young woman in a small town with monsters lurking in the trees and dark desires hidden in the shadows--in Amity Falls, nothing is more dangerous than a wish come true. Unique, enc...

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

<p>In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .</p> <p>A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost l...

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The Turn of the Screw (0141441356)

Kniha - 134 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Henry James, a master of haunting atmosphere and riveting tension, presents one of the most famous ghost stories of all time. A young governess is sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, and unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces...

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If I Stay

As alone as she'll ever be, Mia must make the most difficult choice of all. Haunting, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay will mak

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The Last Tale of the Flower Bride

A sumptuous, gothic-infused story about a marriage that is unraveled by dark secrets, a friendship cursed to end in tragedy, and the danger of believing in fairy tales-the breathtaking adult debut from New York Times bestselling author Roshani Chokshi.Once upon a time, a man who believed in fairy tales married a beautiful, mysterious woman named Indigo Maxwell-Casteñada. ...

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The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

<p>Strange things are going on at the Paris Opera House; a mysterious phantom - a skeleton in dinner dress - is wreaking havoc amongst the singers and backstage staff. But when new managers take over and dismiss the rumours of the Opera Ghost, the terror really begins. Who is the curious figure stalking the stage at night? How can he be in so many places at once, en...

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Anotace: After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past... A contemporary classic, The Remains of the D...

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The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

<p>After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?' <br /> In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...<br /> A contemporary classic...

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The Path of Thorns - A. G. Slatter

<p>A lush and twisted dark fairy tale suffused with witchcraft, dark secrets and bitter revenge from the award-winning author of All the Murmuring Bones. Exquisite, haunting and at times brutal, readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern will be entranced. Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows lit...

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Liberation Day : Stories - Saunders George, Saunders George

Anotace: The "best short-story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose-wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned-Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collect...

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The Path of Thorns - Slatter A. G., Slatter A. G.

Anotace: A lush and twisted dark fairy tale suffused with witchcraft, dark secrets and bitter revenge from the award-winning author of All the Murmuring Bones. Exquisite, haunting and at times brutal, readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern will be entranced.Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows litt...

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The Survivors - Schulman Alex

Anotace: `You`ll cry for these brothers: for the men they became, for the boys they were, for the innocence they lost. Alex Schulman will take you deep into an emotional labyrinth` Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called OveYears ago, they fled the lake house.Now, the brothers have returned.Three brothers return to the family cottage by the lake where, more than two deca...

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Case Study of Vanitas, Vol. 6

On the trail of the Beast of Gévaudan, Vanitas and Noé are led to the heart of the incident and the noble house of d'Apchier.There, they discover that a brave, heartrending wish to save a daughter from a vampire's fate became the haunting first cry of the Beast itself...

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The Whispering Dead - Darcy Coates

<p>USA Today bestseller and rising queen of atmospheric horror Darcy Coates returns with a ghost story that will haunt you long after the final page. She hears them whispering...Homeless, hunted, and desperate to escape a bitter storm, Keira takes refuge in an abandoned groundskeeper's cottage. Her new home is tucked away at the edge of a cemetery, surrounded on all...

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Under the Whispering Door (1250850991)

Kniha - autor T. J. Klune, 384 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná Witty, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is a gift for troubled times. TJ Klune brings us a warm hug of a story about a man who spent his life at the office - and his afterlife building a home. From the author of joyous New York Times bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. Welcom...

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After Me Comes the Flood - Sarah Perry

<p>The debut novel by the bestselling author of THE ESSEX SERPENT One hot summer's day, John Cole decides to leave his life behind. He shuts up the bookshop no one ever comes to and drives out of London. When his car breaks down and he becomes lost on an isolated road, he goes looking for help, and stumbles into the grounds of a grand but dilapidated house. Its r...

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1. vydání - Edgar Allan Poe

<p>This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to the mysterious to the darkly comic, yet all possess the genius for the grotesque that defines Poe's writing. They are peopled with neurotics and social outcasts, obsessed with nameless terrors or preoccupied with seemingly unsolvable m...

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Just Like Home

The next book from incredible author Sarah Gailey. Perfect for fans of Netflix's The Haunting of Hill House.

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Thirteen Storeys

The ultimate haunted house for the Netflix generation - Get Out meets The Haunting of Hill House by way of Black Mirror and Inside No.9.

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Shirley Jackson, Influences and Confluences

The popularity of such widely known works as "The Lottery" and The Haunting of Hill House has tended to obscure the extent of Shirley Jackson's litera

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Such Pretty Things

A terrifying story of ghosts and grief, perfect for fans of Shirley Jackon's The Haunting of Hill House and Henry James The Turn of the Screw, in awar

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When Ghosts Call Us Home

The Blair Witch Project meets The Haunting of Hill House in this edge-of-your-seat horror-thriller, perfect for fans of Kathryn Foxfield.

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Visitation

A haunting novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize: an exquisitely crafted, stealthily chilling story of a house and its inhabi

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True Ghost Stories/Duchové

This enjoyably spine-chilling collection of ghostly stories includes tales ranging from the haunting of an ordinary suburban house by a poltergeist to a 'Restless Tomb' in which coffins are mysteriously rearranged and strange changing faces that appear and disappear on the kitchen floor of a small house in southern Spain. Despite the shortness of the tales, the text is ex...

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L a Casey - Keela

* Book #2.5 in the Slater Brothers series * Keela Daley is stressed out with nightmares and memories from her past, they are haunting her. She has no time to dwell on them as she is moving out of her dog box sized apartment and into her first house wit

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Madam Crowl´s Ghost & Other Stories - Le Fanu Joseph Sheridan

Anotace: In 1888 Henry James wrote `There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight`.Madam Crowl`s Ghost & Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu`s stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities still have an...

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Madam Crowl´s Ghost &amp; Other Stories - Fanu Joseph Sheridan Le

<p>In 1888 Henry James wrote 'There was the customary novel by Mr Le Fanu for the bedside; the ideal reading in a country house for the hours after midnight'. Madam Crowl's Ghost &amp; Other Stories are tales selected from Le Fanu's stories which mostly appeared in The Dublin University Magazine and other periodicals, and their haunting, sinister qualities sti...

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Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Khaw Cassandra

Anotace: "Khaw`s got a sterling premise, enduring lore, and the fresh talent to voice it." -Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.A gorgeously creepy classic haunted house story based on Japanese folklore, combining The Haunting of Hill House with The Ring.Cat joins her old friends, who are in search of the perfect wedding venue, to spend the night...

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Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw

<p>"Khaw's got a sterling premise, enduring lore, and the fresh talent to voice it." -Josh Malerman, New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box. A gorgeously creepy classic haunted house story based on Japanese folklore, combining The Haunting of Hill House with The Ring. Cat joins her old friends, who are in search of the perfect wedding venue, to sp...

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Sleepless - Hausmannová Romy

Anotace: It`s been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime. After being released from prison, she`s wanted nothing more than to live a normal life: nice flat, steady job, even a few friends. But when one of those friends, Laura von Hoven - free-spirited beauty and wife of Nadja`s boss - kills her lover and begs Nadja for her help, Nadja can`t seem to be ab...

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Sleepless

It's been years since Nadja Kulka was convicted of a cruel crime. After being released from prison, she's wanted nothing more than to live a normal life: nice flat, steady job, even a few friends. But when one of those friends, Laura von Hoven - free-spirited beauty and wife of Nadja's boss - kills her lover and begs Nadja for her help, Nadja can't seem to be able to refu...

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Dark Inside

"Beautifully written in smooth, elegant prose...I felt utterly surrounded by the story as I read...I wanted it to go on forever." BookBag "If you loved Skellig by David Almond, then this is the book for you." Serendipity Reviews "The chief villain is fantastically creepy...fast-paced" SFX "exciting, compelling, thought-provoking...an absolute joy to read." BZFB "A stagge...

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McPherson Plays: Three

This volume of Conor McPherson's collected plays, covering a decade of writing, celebrates a fascination with the uncanny which has led him to be described as 'quite possibly the finest playwright of his generation' (New York Times). In Shining City, a man seeks help from a counsellor, claiming to have seen the ghost of his dead wife. The play, premiered at the Royal Cou...

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