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In a future where corporations weaponize genetic engineering, Paolo Bacigalupi’s *The Windup Girl* explores the ethical and societal consequences of bioterrorism and gene hacking.

Inspector Tyador Borlú journeys from Besźel to Ul Qoma to investigate the murder of a woman, navigating two distinct cities that both share one physical space yet have separate identities.

The story of two boys and their dark journey through a haunted carnival

A lyrical saga that follows fifteen‑year‑old Holly Sykes, a psychic teenager who awakens a network of mystical forces and secret societies, while her family's lives intertwine across continents and centuries amid a hidden war between mystics and their enemies.

An intelligence officer must stop a ruthless billionaire from unleashing a demonic horror from the ocean's depths.

Inside a secret library run by a god‑like patriarch, orphaned apprentices must battle for control of humanity’s fate when their master disappears.

In modern‑day Moscow, a 1,000‑year‑old treaty between Light and Dark must be preserved by the rivals’ day and night watch while a powerful artifact is stolen, threatening the fragile balance.

Astronauts and researchers dive into the Marianas Trench, desperate to find a cure for the plague that has taken over the world.

Two rival illusionists in 19th-century London engage in a deadly feud over a stage magic trick.

Anne Rice's epic vampire story of redemption and love, featuring unforgettable characters and a haunting world of horror and fantasy.

An unnamed servant of death finds himself in modern-day New York, a ghost and a demon, seeking revenge on a young girl who was murdered, and time travel into the past to avenge the murder before it occurred.

A steampunk adventure in Seattle, where Rector Sherman discovers shocking truths in the zombie-infested wasteland.

After her mother’s death, teenage Sarah Crane faces foster care and a haunted art teacher’s mansion, where paintings and psychic visions reveal a dark family history that threatens to bring supernatural revenge into her life.

A young man discovers he has the power to see spirits in New Orleans after fleeing from the FBI.

The Night Land is a 1912 horror‑fantasy classic in which a man from the 17th century foresees a dying Earth, its last survivors trapped in the Last Redoubt, and ventures into eternal night to find a reincarnated love.

Chase, a meth addict, witnesses a terrifying hallucination that signals the end of the world.

A fantasy horror novel where a children's writer's imagination takes a dark turn and leaves his son without a father.

Coralie Sardie, a Coney Island mermaid, encounters Eddie Cohen, a Russian immigrant photographer, and together they uncover mysteries in 1911 New York amid the aftermath of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.

CONTENTS: Introduction. What hath light wrought? / by Isaac Asimov Visitation. The midnight embrace / by Matthew Lewis The Frankenstein theme. The transformation / by Mary Shelley Dream state. The bold dragoon / by Washington Irving Drug addiction. Levana and our ladies of sorrow / by Thomas de Quincey Sorcery. The magician / by Lord Lytton Morphia influence. [Berenice](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15645808W) / by Edgar Allan Poe Schizophrenia. The drunkard's dream / by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Claustrophobia. The man in the reservoir / by C.F. Hoffman The blood drinker. Haceldama / by Lafcadio Hearn Hallucination. The ensouled violin / by Madame Blavatsky Morbidity. Visions of the night / by Ambrose Bierce The legendary dream. The soldier's rest / by Arthur Machen A trauma of war. The bureau d'échange de Maux / by Lord Dunsany Psychic experience. The silver mirror / by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The occultist. The testament of Magdalen Blair / by Aleister Crowley Visionary. A dream of Armageddon / by H.G. Wells Ghostly visitation. A school story / by M.R. James Obsession. The grimoire / by Montague Summers Recluse. The evil clergyman / by H.P. Lovecraft Nightmare. The slayers and the slain / by August Derleth Fear of illness. The shifting growth / by John Gawsworth Arachnophobia. Along came a spider / by Algernon Blackwood Night fantasy. The head hunter / by Robert Bloch A waking dream. The haunting of the new / by Ray Bradbury The future. The curse / by Arthur C. Clarke

Nell West’s search for extensions to her Oxford antiques shop opens a chain of uncanny revelations: a 19th‑century warning, a cursed bell tower in Dorset, and the haunting echo of ‘Thaisa’s Song’ that may still stir the sea‑bitten Glaum Bell.