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El viaje de Jonathan Harkel al castillo del conde Drácula debía ser un viaje de negocios y placer. Pero al llegar a Carfax, el joven descubre terribles secretos y vive una serie de experiencias que le producen una fuerte impresión...

The Sunday Times bestseller and instant New York Times bestseller! Perfect for fans of The Vampire Diaries and Shadow and Bone.<BR><BR>**Special collector's edition with hidden cover available while stocks last - cover may vary**<BR><BR>---<BR><BR>"Your destiny is not to do what is right. Your destiny is to destroy us all."<BR><BR>Willow Madizza never thought she'd accept a place at Hollow's Grove University, the secret and prestigious institution where the best and brightest of her fellow witches learn to wield their magic.<BR><BR>But Willow has reasons for being at Hollow's Grove beyond the education it offers. Raised to be a weapon against the Coven that presides over the University, she must find the bones of her ancestors in order to reclaim the magic that is her destiny.<BR><BR>Her only obstacle is Alaric Grayson Thorne, the University's beautiful and infuriating Headmaster. Gray is ruthless, manipulative, dangerous - he represents everything Willow has been taught to despise. But despite their mutual loathing, Gray understands Willow better than anyone, and he might just be the key to unlocking her full power . . .---<BR><BR>Readers devoured The Coven!<BR><BR>'A gripping, sexy, atmospheric read'<BR><BR>'A deliciously dark, enemies to lovers, forbidden romance set in an academy for witches'<BR><BR>'Something just hits different when vampires are involved'<BR><BR>'The twists and turns this story took had me speechless!'<BR><BR>'Loved this book from start to finish . . . the author really had me on the edge of my seat with the cliffhanger!'<BR><BR>'The chemistry is off the charts'<BR><BR>---<BR><BR>Featuring all your favourite tropes!<BR>-Enemies-to-lovers<BR><BR>- Witches, vampires, demons<BR>- Delicious spice payoff<BR>- Morally grey MMC<BR>- Forbidden romance<BR>- Dark academia<BR>- Forced proximity<BR><BR>The Coven is book one in the Coven of Bones series and ends on a cliffhanger. This is a gothic, dark academia paranormal romance and includes elements that may be triggering to some readers. For a full list of content warnings, please see the author's website.<BR><BR>Instant New York Times bestseller, August 2024, and Sunday Times bestseller, October 2024

"This richly-told tale is haunting and heartbreaking in equal measure. Hazel's story will rip you apart, but her indomitable courage against the oppressive forces in the world will also give you hope. A truly marvelous achievement." -Gwendolyn Kiste, Lambda Literary and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Reluctant Immortals and The Rust Maidens¿Hazel loves writing horror stories, and wants to become a writer. She falls for her lovely neighbor Blanche, but when her parents discover her various inclinations, they are outraged and decide to commit her to Montrose Asylum.There she meets the fiery Jo and the fragile Lulla. The three of them follow a mysterious lullaby which calls out in the dark, leading them to an abandoned garden...and a nightmare they may not escape from. "Exquisitely written and profoundly melancholic, Cécile Guillot's Lullaby is a poignant and equally haunting portrait of trauma and injustice that will inevitably linger in the minds of all who are privileged enough to experience this gem of a book." -Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

Um den Tod ihres Bruders zu rächen, begibt sich Nikki auf einen steinigen Weg, der voller Hindernisse zu sein scheint. Undercover wird sie in eine Untergrundorganisation eingeschleust und erlebt dabei menschliche Abgründe, die sogar sie aus der Bahn zu werfen drohen.'Von einer Sekunde auf die nächste, ist mein Leben, wie ich es bisher kannte, nicht mehr da. Er ist nicht mehr da. Und ich kann nicht aufhören zu schreien. 'Wird sie ihr Ziel erreichen? Kann die Seele ihres Bruders endlich die langersehnte Ruhe finden? Oder wird Nikki dabei zugrunde gehen? Das Gefühl der Rache kann einen Menschen an seine Grenzen bringen, ihn vielleicht sogar darüber hinaus stossen. Wird sie fallen? Oder wird sie fliegen?'Und auch ich habe endlich meinen Platz in dieser Welt gefunden. Er ist dunkel und voller Blut. Aber es ist genau der Ort, an dem ich immer hätte sein sollen.'Welche Rolle spielt Blake Reed? Der Instructor dieser ominösen Organisation. Hat er was mit dem Mord zu tun oder ist auch er einfach nur eine Schachfigur in dem Spiel das wir Leben nennen?'Manchmal habe ich das Gefühl innerlich zu zerbrechen, obwohl ich dachte, dass ich längst tot sei. Doch die Splitter in meinem Herzen beweisen mir immer wieder das Gegenteil.'

A hundred years ago a prophecy foretold that a child will be born who will save therealm, not three. Nineteen years after their birth, the forgotten enemy, has returned,seeking to use the world's power for its revenge. They have already killed the first child.The realm's only hope lies in the two remaining prophesied , Siwo and Roucou. But will Siwo forsake the riches she has stolen for a land that has only given her painand strife? Will Roucou be able to overcome years of hatred to weild the power thatkilled his own mother? Together, yet apart, their choices will decide the fate of theirworld. But time is short. Dark forces seek the power for themselves and the enemy haseyes where they least expect.

A Sicilian Romance is a gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe. It was her second published work, and was first published anonymously in 1790. The plot concerns the fallen nobility of the house of Mazzini, on the northern shore of Sicily, as related by a tourist who learns of their turbulent history from a monk he meets at the ruins of their once-magnificent castle. The Marquis Mazzini's daughters, Emilia and Julia, are beautiful and accomplished young ladies. Julia quickly falls in love with the young and handsome Italian count Hippolitus de Vereza, but to her dismay her father decides that she should marry Duke de Luovo instead. After much thought Julia attempts to elope with Hippolitus on the night before her wedding. However, their escape has been anticipated, and the Marquis ambushes and seemingly kills Hippolitus, whose body is carried away by his servants. He insists that Julia to accept the engagement with de Luovo, but after much difficulty she escapes again alone. Mazzini and De Luovo spend much of the novel trying to catch Julia, who has to flee from her various hiding places as she narrowly avoids capture and eventually ends up, by a secret tunnel, in the abandoned and seemingly haunted southern apartments of the Mazzini castle. There she finds that her mother, thought to be dead, has instead been imprisoned there for years by the Marquis, who had grown to despise her. The Marquis's new wife, Maria de Vellorno, is discovered and accused of infidelity by her husband, therefore she poisons the Marquis and stabs herself. Before he dies, the Marquis confesses to Ferdinand, his son, that his mother has been imprisoned, and hands him the keys. However, his mother and Julia have already been freed by Hippolitus, who had recovered from his wounds. Ferdinand then finds them at a lighthouse on the coast, waiting to leave for Italy, and they are all joyfully reunited. The introduction to the Oxford World's Classics edition notes that in this novel "Ann Radcliffe began to forge the unique mixture of the psychology of terror and poetic description that would make her the great exemplar of the Gothic novel, and the idol of the Romantics". The novel explores the "cavernous landscapes and labyrinthine passages of Sicily's castles and convents to reveal the shameful secrets of its all-powerful aristocracy" (wikipedia.org)

In the summer of 1917, the world is in turmoil. Ethelwynne Graves sees her fiancé off to war while yearning to stretch her wings within her still-sheltered life.As the war rages across the sea, Sean Spunner has his sights on a local battle of his own. Running for political office threatens to resurrect his past sins, and dredge up the not-so-distant behavior of his wife and her progressive ideals. Will Sean and Hattie survive the public pushback his campaign ignites?World War I and its aftermath completes The Malevolent Trilogy in this poignant novel spanning half a decade.

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND NPR<BR><BR>Through the scrim of fading memory, an elderly woman confronts a lifetime of secrets and betrayal, under the mysterious skies of her island home<BR><BR> Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of WWII, impressionable young Elle Ranier leaves New York City to forge a new life together on the island with her new husband, Simon. There they will live for decades, raising a family while waging a quixotic campaign to find the source of the mysterious blue offshore light—and the elusive minerals rumored to lurk beneath the surface.<BR><BR> Fifty years later,  Elle looks back at her life on the mysterious island—and at a secret she herself has guarded for decades. As her memory recedes into the mists of Alzheimer’s disease, her life seems a tangle of questions: How did her husband’s business, now shuttered, survive so long without ever finding the legendary Lyra stones? How did her own life crumble under treatment for depression? And what became of Gabriel—the handsome, raffish other man who came to the island with them and risked everything to follow the lights?<BR><BR> Darkly romantic and deeply haunting, The Stars Are Not Yet Bells pulls us into a story of the tantalizing, faithless relationship between ourselves and the lives and souls we leave behind.

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Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh journalist, novelist, and short story writer. He is best known for his supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. He translated several books from French including Memoirs of Casanova. His lively English style generated demand of his translated editions for many years. Many consider the novels The House of Souls and The Hill of Dreams to be his best work. The mystical qualities of the stories in "The House of Souls" are both rare and beautiful, and as a work of art alone it deserves to live. It is almost perfect-tender, true, intimate, and restrained.

'The Sanatorium will keep you checking over your shoulder. This spine-tingling, atmospheric thriller has it all: an eerie Alpine setting, sharp prose, and twists you'll never see coming. A must-read.' Richard Osman<BR><BR>'An eerie, atmospheric novel that had me completely on the edge of my seat.' Reese Witherspoon<BR><BR>YOU WON'T WANT TO LEAVE... UNTIL YOU CAN'T.<BR><BR>*WATERSTONES THRILLER OF THE MONTH*<BR>*ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD*<BR>*THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*<BR>*A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOKCLUB PICK*<BR>*CRIME BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2022 FINGERPRINT AWARDS*<BR>*COLD AS ICE AWARD WINNER AT 2022 DEAD GOOD READERS AWARDS*<BR><BR>A beautiful, eerie hotel in the Swiss Alps, recently converted from an abandoned sanatorium, is the last place Detective Elin Warner wants to be. But her estranged brother has invited her there for his engagement party, and she feels she has no choice but to accept.<BR><BR>Arriving in the midst of a threatening storm, Elin immediately feels on edge. And things only get worse when they wake the next morning to find her brother's fiancée is missing. With access to the hotel cut off, the guests begin to panic.<BR><BR>But this is only the first disappearance. Everyone's in danger - and anyone could be next . . .<BR>____________________<BR><BR>'The Sanatorium is an absolutely splendid Gothic thriller.' A. J. Finn<BR>'One of the best books of 2021 [...] guaranteed to give you goosebumps.' Woman & Home<BR>'I absolutely loved The Sanatorium - it gave me all the wintry thrills and chills.' Lucy Foley<BR>'A menacing, creepy debut [...] echoes of Hitchcock and du Maurier.' Daily Mail<BR>'A chillingly vivid thriller in a fantastic setting.' T. M. Logan<BR><BR>Readers love The Sanatorium:<BR><BR>***** 'Thrilling, chilling - a tingles down my spine type of read.'<BR>***** 'Imagine a universe where Agatha Christie and Stephen King collaborated on a book.'<BR>***** 'Sarah Pearse wastes no time in ramping up the tension and is clearly destined to be a master of this genre.'<BR><BR>Don't miss The Retreat, the addictive new thriller from the global bestselling author of The Sanatorium.

Biting wit and lush descriptions combine in this striking new edition of Oscar Wilde's short story collection, which contains Wilde's most famous story, "The Canterville Ghost." Originally published in 1887 in the British literary magazine, The Court and Society Review. "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: A Study of Duty" headlines this anthology, first published in 1891. In addition to the title work, Wilde added "The Canterville Ghost," "The Model Millionaire," and "The Sphinx Without a Secret." Editions dated after 1900 (including this one) also contain "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."In the 132 years since the publication of this collection, numerous actors, writers, and even musicians wrote adaptations of "The Canterville Ghost," the most popular of the stories in this volume. But those adaptations also made significant changes in the plot.Now with a foreword by Hugo-award nominee Paul Di Filippo, go back to the original. Read "The Canterville Ghost," and the other stories as Oscar Wilde wrote them.

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The spring and summer of 1916 is fraught with family secrets, friendship troubles, and growing pains for sixteen-year-old Ethelwynne Graves. Reeling between conflicts with her mother and her best friend's relationship with an older man, Ethelwynne attempts to learn how to be true to herself while balancing fluctuating relationships and life.Hattie Spunner yearns to support her young friend and widen her sphere of influence amid the high society crowd she married into three years previous. A progressive science club is her vehicle, but will the conversations be too bold for the conservative city of Mobile, Alabama?First loves, scandals, and a natural disaster are a sampling of what readers will find in the second tumultuous novel in The Malevolent Trilogy.

The House of the Seven Gables is a well known American classical literature by Nathaniel Hawthorne. <BR>The novel is set in the mid-19th century, with glimpses into the history of the house, which was built in the late 17th century. The primary interest of this book is in the subtle and involved descriptions of character and motive.The house of the title is a gloomy New England mansion, haunted from its foundation by fraudulent dealings, accusations of witchcraft, and sudden death. The current resident, the dignified but desperately poor Hepzibah Pyncheon, opens a shop in a side room to support her brother Clifford, who is about to leave prison after serving thirty years for murder. She refuses all assistance from her unpleasant wealthy cousin Judge Jaffrey Pyncheon. A distant relative, the lively and pretty young Phoebe, turns up and quickly becomes invaluable, charming customers and rousing Clifford from depression. A delicate romance grows between Phoebe and the mysterious lodger Holgrave, who is writing a history of the Pyncheon family...