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"As railroads, industry, cities, and technology flourished in the mid-nineteenth century, so did stories exploring the horrors they unleashed. This anthology includes ghost stories and tales of haunted houses, as well as mad scientists, werewolves, ancient curses, mummies, psychological terrors, demonic dimensions, and even weird westerns." --provided by publisher.
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"Following the success of their acclaimed Weird Women, star anthologists Lisa Morton and Leslie S. Klinger return with another offering of overlooked masterworks from early female horror writers. This new volume once again gathers some of the most famous voices of literature -- George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edith Wharton -- along with chilling tales by writers who were among the bestselling and most critically-praised...
6) Dark waters
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Friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian discover their nemesis, the Smiling Man, is back when the group goes sailing on Lake Champlain with their parents and Brian's former best friend Phil, and their boat becomes shipwrecked on a mist-covered island. Hunted by snakelike creatures, the group will have to find a way around the Smiling Man's tricks to escape the island alive.
7) Long lost
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Eleven-year-old Fiona resents her family's move to Lost Lake, Massachusetts in order to be closer to her sister's skating club. Feeling ignored and alone, Fiona retreats to the local library where she finds a mystery book that tells a creepy tale tied to the town's lore.
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After fourteen-year-old Aru Shah and her friends fail to keep a prophecy from the Sleeper, they undergo a rebranding campaign to prove the Pandavas's trustworthiness, but Aru believes they need to focus on finding the Tree of Wishes before the Sleeper and stopping war between the devas and the demons.
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The Pandavas call on old friends, make new allies, and face fearsome trials as they embark on a mission to stop the Sleeper from accessing the nectar of immortality, but ultimately Aru must decide who deserves immortality--the devas or the asuras--and an unexpected answer comes from an unexpected place.
12) Small spaces
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"After eleven-year-old Ollie's school bus mysteriously breaks down on a field trip, she has to take a trip through scary woods, and must use all of her wits to survive. She must stick to small spaces"--
13) The strangers
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The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best--acting silly and being adored. They've been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom. But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. The other kids...
14) Nightmare king
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"Things haven't been the same since Shane's accident. One minute he was a normal kid playing a game of tag with his friends, and the next he's the boy who came back from the dead. Now, every time Shane falls asleep, he's pulled into a dark world where the evil Nightmare King reigns. The King is collecting children and keeping them as treasure. Despite the threat of capture by the Nightmare King, he can't stay awake forever. Shane will have to take...
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Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes. Residents complain about the nuisance, the strangeness of the birds. But for Leighton, it's no stranger than her house, which inexplicably repairs itself every time her father loses his temper and breaks things. No stranger than growing up in a town full of people who look the other way. Leighton doesn't have time...
17) Alien road
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Two boys, Karl, a billionaire's son, and Ridge, an average boy, work together to solve unexplained events as Karl's family yacht nears the Bermuda triangle on a spring break trip.
18) Dead voices
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After surviving sinister scarecrows and the smiling man, best friends Ollie, Coco, and Brian are ready for a ski vacation with their parents at Mount Hemlock Resort. When strange occurrences start happening and a mysterious ghost hunter, Mr. Voland, arrives at the resort, the kids are in for another adventure. With the help of Mr. Voland, it is up to the trio to try and speak with the ghosts before they become the next victims of Mount Hemlock.
19) Winterhouse
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Elizabeth, eleven, spends Christmas break at Winterhouse hotel under strange circumstances, where she discovers that she has magic, and her love of puzzles helps her solve a mystery.
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"Otto and Sheed Alston are local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. As summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little more time for fun, eve as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man named Mr. Flux appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange...