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Author
Publisher
Rock Point
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Featuring 211 classic tales from the Brothers Grimm, including favourites such as "Hansel and Gretel," "Cinderella," "The Frog Prince," "Rapunzel," "Snow White," and "Rumpelstiltskin," The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales is accompanied by 40 colour plates and 60 black-and-white illustrations from award-winning English illustrator Arthur Rackham, whose books and prints are now highly sought-after collectibles.
Author
Publisher
Arcturus Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A definitive collection of stories from Celtic folklore told by a master storyteller Joseph Jacobs. Drawing on the wonderful mythology of Ireland from traditional tales handed down in Gaelic through the generations, Celtic Fairy Tales features wondrous magic, beguiling witchcraft, conniving leprechauns, terrifying sea monsters and gallant heroes. This volume features 26 charming tales, including: The Shepherd of Myddvai The Story of Deirdre The Sea-Maiden...
Author
Publisher
Armadillo, an imprint of Annes Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An Irish proverb tells us. zA tale is more precious than the wealth of the world,y and judging from the richness of their storytelling traditions, the Celts have always believed this. In In fairy tales, as in music, the romantic artistry of the Celts came to full flower. In this wonderful collection of fairy tales from Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Cornwall, The Isle of Man, and Brittany, we meet heroes and villains, princes and paupers, enchanting creatures...
4) The spawn
Author
Publisher
Permuted Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When a young couple welcome a new child into the world, they soon discover that they've unleashed an otherworldly evil in this occult horror novel.
For Charles and Janet Malcolm, happiness seems to always be just out of reach. While Charles grapples with writer's block, Janet chases partnership at her law firm. Then their hopes of starting a family are crushed when Janet receives some upsetting news. But everything seems to turn around when Janet...
5) American gothic tales (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): / edited by Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
1996. viii, 544 p. cm.
Language
English
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Series
InCryptid volume 13
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Dunlavy didn’t intend to become a professional babysitter. Of course, she didn’t intend to die, either, or to become a crossroads ghost. As a babysitting ghost, she’s been caring for the Price family for four generations, and she’s planning to keep doing the job for the better part of forever. With her first charge finally back from her decades-long cross-dimensional field trip, with a long-lost husband and adopted daughter in tow, it’s...
7) Downpour
Author
Publisher
Coronis Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Trapped inside his crumbling home, a father must do everything he can to keep his family from falling apart. But the rain calls to them, and not everyone wants to stay inside. Haunted by memories of a tragic childhood, he must put aside his painful past and find a way to keep them all safe. But the rain shows no sign of stopping, and time is running out. From the award winning author of Suburban Monsters come a heartbreaking tale of terror, hope,...
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"This is going to be Dylan’s big break. Her friend Clay, a geology student, has discovered an untouched cliff face in the Kentucky wilderness, and she is going to be the first person to climb it. Together with Clay, his research assistant Sylvia, and Dylan’s boyfriend Luke, she is going to document her achievement on Instagram and finally cement her place as the next rising star in rock climbing. Seven months later, three bodies are discovered...
Author
Series
Stolen heir novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Prince Oak must find a way to stop a war between Elfhame and the north"--
Author
Publisher
Cider Mill Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"You know Dasher and Dancer and Prancer and Vixen...but do you recall the most petrifying Christmas figures of all? Not all children fear just a lump of coal in their stockings. Discover the terrifying Yuletide fables that have horrified kids for generations. He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake. He knows if you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness' sake. This lighthearted song is a bit more ominous in the context of...
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Language
English
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Description
"When Silvia and her mother finally land in a place called Island City, after being expelled from their ancestral home in a not-too-distant future, they end up living and working at The Morningside, a crumbling luxury tower where Silvia's aunt, Ena, has been serving as the superintendent. Silvia feels unmoored in her life because her mother has been so diligently secretive about the family's past. But in Ena there is an opening: a person willing to...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Pub
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Yokai Attack! is a nightmare-inducing one-stop guide to Japan's traditional monsters and creepy-crawlies. Yokai are ethereal sorts of beings, like ghosts, nearly always encountered at night; everyone has their own take on how they might look in real life and what sorts of specific characteristics and abilities they might have. This book is the result of long hours spent poring over data and descriptions from a variety of sources, including microfilms...
Author
Publisher
Rock Point, an imprint of The Quarto Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
This collection of all the short fiction of American horror master H.P. Lovecraft includes the classics: "The call of Cthulhu", "At the mountains of madness", "The Dunwich horror", "The colour out of space", and seventy other stories.
15) Midnight ruin
Author
Series
Dark Olympus novels volume 6
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A scorchingly hot modern retelling of Eurydice and Orpheus and Charon. Eurydice Dimitriou has always been the innocent sister, but she's finally ready to step out of the long shadow cast by her powerful family...and the ex who shattered her heart. Perhaps rough hands on soft skin are exactly what she needs to forget her heartbreak once and for all? Charon Ariti has been Hades's right-hand man for years. He's given everything to the lower city, but...
Author
Publisher
Tuttle Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Ninja Attack! introduces dozens of unforgettable real-life ninja straight out of the annals of Japanese history℗اmany of whom are all but unknown outside their home country. Ninja masters. Solo assassins and operatives. Femme fatales as deadly as they were beautiful. Swordfighters out of legend. And the Shogun and warlords who commanded them. Each individual in this graphic novel is profiled with a full-page manga-style drawing and a dossier brimming...
17) The bad ones
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
In the course of a single winter’s night, four people vanish without a trace across a small town. Nora’s estranged best friend, Becca, is one of the lost. As Nora tries to untangle the truth of Becca’s disappearance, she discovers a darkness in her town’s past, as well as a string of coded messages Becca left for her to unravel. These clues lead Nora to a piece of local lore: a legendary goddess of forgotten origins who played a role in Nora...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl with dangerous magic makes a risky bargain with a demon to be free of her monstrous power in this young adult fantasy perfect for fans of An Enchantment of Ravens and House of Salt and Sorrows. Liska knows that magic is monstrous, and its practitioners are monsters. She has done everything possible to suppress her own magic, to disastrous consequences. Desperate to be free of it, Liska flees her small village and delves into the dangerous,...
19) Murder road
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them. When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find...
Author
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The small town of Harrod's Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the tunnel's entrance, each left with strange calling cards...