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The Ripper Lives: The End and the Beginning (10/10) London burns and the hunt nears its end The final chapter of The Ripper Lives plunges Inspector Frederick Abberline into the deadliest confrontation yet. As the streets of Whitechapel smolder and blood stains the snow, a desperate chase through the city’s shadows leads to an unthinkable climax. The man behind the murders is cornered—but nothing is ever so simple in this city of secrets. With the Met Police closing in and enemies lurking in every alley, the battle for justice descends into chaos. A brutal fight for survival unfolds ...

It began with a happily ever after. It soon became a nightmare. Norfolk, England, 1816. Joy Horton is resigned to her spinster status. Loathe to pass on her disorder, she refuses to marry and works tirelessly as a skilled seamstress. But when a brooding duke falls madly in love with her, she's unable to resist his persuasive proposal. Honeymooning in London, Joy believes she has everything she's ever wanted...until accusations of murder creep into their lives.

Tourniquet Lane and its cottage enter the thoughts of cousins, Henry and Lucy. Through a series of letters, Henry gets around to asking Lucy if she could come to his estate for a visit. He's been ill of late and suggests the company might do him good. Besides, it will give them the opportunity to learn more regarding the mysterious cottage and what occurred there when they were children. A Retrospective Trip down Tourniquet Lane is an astounding supernatural story from award-winning author, Robert E. Kearns

England, 1917. Reeling from the death of her fiancé, Stella Marcham welcomes the opportunity to stay with her pregnant sister, Madeleine, at her imposing country mansion, Greyswick - but she arrives to discover a house of unease and her sister gripped by fear and suspicion. Before long, strange incidents begin to trouble Stella - sobbing in the night, little footsteps on the stairs - and as events escalate, she finds herself drawn to the tragic history of the house.

Sophia Cova lived a quiet, normal life, shadowed in sadness after the loss of her parents in a tragic airline accident. With her older brother being her only living relative and her anchor, Sophia is sure she’s destined for a brighter future. But that was before she was taken. Stolen from her mundane, orderly life, she was drugged and woke to every woman’s worst nightmare.

*Spooky beautiful. I hoped it would never end.* When a tropical storm unearths human remains at Biloxi’s infamous Marietta mansion, long-buried secrets resurface, igniting a series of ghostly encounters that threaten everyone connected to the ancient property. Desperate for answers, the mansion’s owner calls on psychic and dream catcher Carrie Jo to unravel the mystery of the bones. But the deeper Carrie Jo digs, the more dangerous the supernatural activity becomes. As Carrie Jo uncovers the tragic story of Mary Fairbanks, she must locate the rest of the woman's bones to bring her ...

On a stormy November night, weary traveler Reilly seeks refuge from a relentless downpour. Soon, he stumbles upon the grand yet eerie Manor Lannigan. Welcomed by the enigmatic Lord Lannigan, Reilly is drawn into a world of haunting hospitality and chilling secrets. As the fire crackles and brandy warms, Reilly's host unveils the tragic tale of his great-grandmother. Alice Lannigan is a kind-hearted woman ensnared by her ruthless husband, Edward, whose cunning and cruelty confined her to a lonely attic prison. But the manor holds more than just memories. In the early hours, Reilly hears ...

After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught - or ruin her fledgling career. Homeless and desperate, she begs her way into Pine City, an exclusive retreat in upstate New York notorious for three things: outrageous revelries, glamorous artists, and the sparkling black lake where brilliant prodigy Carey Logan drowned herself.

The Ripper Lives: A Nightmare in Whitechapel (6/10) London, 1889. Inspector Frederick Abberline wakes in a hospital bed, battered, broken, and haunted by a feverish nightmare—a vision of a ghostly city, a bridge that leads nowhere, and a man without a mouth. As he struggles to piece together the events that landed him here, one truth emerges from the fog of his battered mind: the hunt for Jack the Ripper is far from over. A brutal attack has left Abberline sidelined, but the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, led by the relentless George Lusk, has made their move. They claim to have ...

The Ripper Lives: A Name for Evil (9/10) As the hunt for Jack the Ripper enters its deadliest phase, Inspector Frederick Abberline faces a horror far beyond murder—a force of evil that defies explanation. When Callum Gow, a man long thought lost to the abyss of Whitechapel’s underbelly, reappears, his testimony offers the most chilling description of the Ripper yet. But Gow is no ordinary witness. Scarred in body and mind, he speaks of things no sane man should understand—voices in the darkness, an unrelenting pull toward annihilation, and a killer whose malice stretches beyond human ...

The Ripper Lives: Sinners and Saints (8/10) A storm is brewing in the underbelly of London. As Inspector Frederick Abberline and Assistant Chief Constable Melville Macnaghten close in on their most dangerous lead yet, the hunt for Jack the Ripper takes an explosive turn—both literally and figuratively. With the infamous Whitechapel Vigilance Committee teetering on the edge of chaos, their investigations unearth a tangled web of corruption, revolution, and treachery. After a brutal confrontation with the ruthless enforcer Dennis Cartwright, Abberline and Macnaghten find themselves facing ...

The Ripper Lives: Faith and Fear (7/10) A new body. A new horror. As the specter of Jack the Ripper looms once more, London teeters on the edge of hysteria. When a woman is found brutally murdered in Vallance Road Recreation Ground, Inspector Frederick Abberline and Assistant Chief Constable Melville Macnaghten are thrust into a fresh nightmare. The victim is mutilated beyond recognition, her face obliterated, her body bearing the signature of a monster who should not—could not—have returned. The streets of Whitechapel swell with fear, middle-class nerves unraveling at the thought that ...

It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged 17, has been sent down - "rusticated" - from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by sexual desire, he finds temporary refuge in a dilapidated old mansion on the southern English coast inhabited by his newly impoverished mother and his sister, Effie. Soon, graphic and threatening letters begin to circulate among his neighbors, and Richard finds himself the leading suspect in a series of crimes and misdemeanors ranging from vivisection to murder.

Step into the haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death, a gothic masterpiece that explores the illusion of safety, the inevitability of death, and the futility of escaping fate.

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1892: James Norbury, a shy would-be poet newly down from Oxford, finds lodging with a charming young aristocrat. Through this new friendship, he is introduced to the drawing-rooms of high society and finds love in an unexpected quarter. Then, suddenly, he vanishes without a trace. Alarmed, his sister, Charlotte, sets out from their crumbling country estate determined to find him. In the sinister, labyrinthine city that greets her, she uncovers a hidden, supernatural world populated by unforgettable characters.

Life is the end, and death is just the beginning… When a mysterious stranger enters Deb Dawson’s psychic shop, her tarot cards uncover a frightening history of murder and mayhem that sends the stranger fleeing in panic. Even worse, her cards reveal that she’s become the newest target of a mysterious organization that has operated in secret for decades. Madeline Hall is a witch testing the limits of her necromancer capabilities. She wanders the “afterworld,” the barren landscape between the realms of the living and dead. On her voyage, she discovers a bizarre structure housing a ...

Les, a longtime sheriff just three weeks from retirement, contends with the ravages of crystal meth and his own duplicity in his small Appalachian town. Becky, a park ranger with a harrowing past, finds solace amid the lyrical beauty of this patch of North Carolina.

1918. Stripped of her reputation and haunted by a spirit she failed to protect, the young governess Grace Meadows finds herself out of time and growing more and more desperate. But when she’s offered a strange job from an eccentric medium, she never could have imagined what she was signing up for. Tasked with caring for a troubled young girl who has lost the ability to speak, Grace must unravel the dangerous secrets at the heart of a run-down country mansion and find the source of the horrors which now threaten both of their lives.

Maisie Thomas spends every summer at Grange House, a hotel on the coast of Maine ruled by the elegant Miss Grange. In 1896, when Maisie turns 17, her visit marks a turning point. On the morning after her arrival, local fishermen make a gruesome discovery: drowned lovers, found clasped in each other's arms. It's only the first in a series of events that casts a shadow over Maisie's summer. As she considers the attentions of two very different young men, Maisie also falls under the gaze of Miss Grange, who begins to tell her disturbing stories of her past.