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The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency” after the birth of her child, a woman is urged to rest for the summer in an old colonial mansion. Forbidden from doing work of any kind, she spends her days in the house’s former nursery, with its barred windows, scratched floor, and peeling yellow wallpaper. In a private journal, the woman…

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The Quiet Stillness of Empty Houses by L.V. Russell

Theodora Corvus can hear the whispers of her crumbling home. She can hear the whispers of Kingsward Manor, her place of employment. She sees the watchers by the lake, black-eyed and waiting. But Broken Oak is silent. Broken Oak is empty. When Theodora takes the job as governess to young Ottoline Thorne, she leaves behind her beloved grandmother and the decaying ruins of her childhood home to…

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alisbooknookcorner · 11 months

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Whalefall by Daniel Kraus

Whalefall is a scientifically accurate thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out. Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool’s errand to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it’s a long shot, but Jay feels it’s the only way for…

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Welcome to Nightmare Island by Devin Cabrera

Join five friends as they unwittingly embark on a perilous journey to a purportedly state-of-the-art tourist attraction – a haunted island. When they soon discover that they have been lured into a trap, the group must band together to endure the terrifying ordeal of surviving the night while being relentlessly hunted by the most dangerous ghosts the world has ever known. Will they make it out…

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Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again …” Ancient, beautiful Manderley, between the rose garden and the sea, is the county’s showpiece. Rebecca made it so – even a year after her death, Rebecca’s influence still rules there. How can Maxim de Winter’s shy new bride ever fill her place or escape her vital shadow? A shadow that grows longer and darker as the brief summer fades, until, in a…

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alisbooknookcorner · 1 year

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Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his “art” to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed…

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alisbooknookcorner · 1 year

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Brother by Ania Ahlborn

Brother follows a teenager determined to break from his family’s unconventional and deeply disturbing traditions. Deep in the heart of Appalachia stands crooked farmhouse miles from any road. The Morrows keep to themselves, and it’s served them well so far. When girls go missing off the side of the highway, the cops don’t knock on their door. Which is a good thing, seeing as to what’s buried in…

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alisbooknookcorner · 2 years

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Left To You by Daniel Volpe

What would you do to save a loved one?Robert’s mother, Helen, is ravaged by cancer. Every day could be her last, and Robert dreads losingthe last member of his family. Robert’s friend and Holocaust survivor, Josef, tell him an unholy storyand leaves him a way to save his dying mother. But, as with everything in life, salvation comes with asteep price.Will Robert accept what’s left to him and save…

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alisbooknookcorner · 2 years

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The Second Mrs. Astor *A Titanic Novel* by Shana Abe

Perfect for fans of Jennifer Chiaverini and Marie Benedict, this riveting novel takes you inside the scandalous courtship and catastrophic honeymoon aboard the Titanic of the most famous couple of their time—John Jacob Astor and Madeleine Force. Told in rich detail, this novel of sweeping historical fiction will stay with readers long after turning the last page.Madeleine Talmage Force is just…

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alisbooknookcorner · 2 years

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The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker

In a quiet house on a quiet street, Frank and Julia are having an affair. Not your ordinary affair. For Frank, it began with his own insatiable sexual appetite, a mysterious lacquered box – and then an unhinged voyage through a netherworld of imaginable pleasures and unimaginable horror … Now Frank – or what is left of Frank – waits in an empty room. All he wants is to live as he was before. All…

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alisbooknookcorner · 2 years

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Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then…

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Talia by Daniel Volpe

In the early 1990s, the rising popularity of the video cassette gave birth to a seedy, underground world of illicit pornography.Talia, a Midwest dreamer, leaves home in search of fame under the blinding Broadway lights. But nothing could have prepared her for what she finds instead. Savage violence, bottomless depravity, and no way out. Talia will unapologetically drag you into the foul…

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The Hunger by Alma Katsu

A tense and gripping reimagining of one of America’s most haunting human disasters: the Donner Party with a supernatural twist. Evil is invisible, and it is everywhere. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the isolated travelers…

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Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham

Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction . . . especially on Addington Isle. Winterset Hollow follows a group of friends to the place that inspired their…

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