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The house already knows what you want. Kate Ellison's life fits in the backseat of a Honda Civic. Dead-end job, beige apartment, a string of men who looked at her body and never once asked what she was reading. When a letter from a law firm she's never heard of offers her a year in a sprawling New England estate — no rent, no obligations, no explanation — she signs the contract and drives north.

Penniless, shunned, and marked forever by her mother's descent into madness, Lucy makes a desperate choice. She slips uninvited into London's most lavish masquerade ball, to secure the one thing she can't live without Marriage. When a masked stranger sends her heart racing, he draws Lucy into a dangerous dance that ends in public ruin and a forced marriage neither can escape. When the masks come off, the man who broke her heart years ago stands before her.

Forever untangling the branches of her strange family tree, Edwina Blackwood is at a turning point. Her parents’ disappearances still strike her as unaccountably odd. Her sister’s questionable life and untimely death have left her shaken. Spellfire has transformed her home and livelihood to ash. And now a devious stalker is on her trail. With supernatural detective Ian Cameron by her side, Edwina can’t get out of London fast enough.

In a world where shadow magic corrupts all it touches, Seraphina is the deadliest blade of the Sisterhood—an ancient order sworn to hunt the darkness. When Lord Rivin Blackthorne’s shadow cult threatens to spill corruption beyond his decaying kingdom, Seraphina is sent with a weapon more intimate than steel. The Raven’s Kiss—a sacred venom that kills only at the height of pleasure and must be delivered by her lips alone. Posing as Lady Sera Ravencrest, she infiltrates Luridian's elite society, drawing ever closer to her target.

Enter the haunting world of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poem, "The Raven," brought to life by the evocative narration of Anthony Pica. This timeless piece of gothic literature tells the story of a grief-stricken man visited by a mysterious raven in the dead of night. As the raven utters its ominous refrain, "Nevermore," the man descends deeper into despair, haunted by memories of his lost love, Lenore.

I never thought I'd move to New York. I certainly never expected to live in a mansion, rent free, with five super hot roommates. But none of those things surprised me as much as discovering the truth about my destiny, the revelation of the ancient power flowing through my veins and how it changes my life. I am the Raven Queen.

When spirited necromancer, Mia Arden, is hired to cleanse a long-abandoned castle, she expects a few temperamental ghosts, not the brooding, devastatingly handsome phantom Duke trapped inside of a cursed painting. Lucien Wescraven has spent years as a shadow, imprisoned by the woman who loved him to madness. Now, with the castle alive with sinister magic, and the ghosts of woman who will do anything to keep him lurking in every echoing corridor, Mia is his only hope. But the deeper she digs, the more entangled she becomes in Lucien’s tragic past.

The first time Seraphina killed Prince Valtheris, she felt nothing but satisfaction. The second time, terror. The Sisterhood of Mercy sends Seraphina to Nocthys to kill the cursed prince and end the kingdom’s eternal night. But Valtheris rises, shadows knitting his wounds like living thread. He does not strike. He smiles. “Run.” When she refuses, he binds her to him. In a haunted palace, the hunt turns to heat and hunger. His shadows learn her skin. Her body learns his darkness. Each step reveals a different truth. His torment is not an accident. Neither is hers.

In a Europe devastated by four years of conflict, a platoon of elite Italian soldiers is horrifically and mysteriously slaughtered. Strangford’s arcane ability can uncover the truth behind the massacre, but a violent fate stalks him from the trenches. It’s up to Lily to change its course.

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lover, often identified as being a student, is lamenting the loss of his love, Lenore. Sitting on a bust of Pallas, the raven seems to further distress the protagonist with its constant repetition of the word "Nevermore".

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Amidst the roots and thorns of her ancestral home, Ivy Midwinter is bound by a curse that has trapped her bloodline for generations. The brambles claw at her path, and a Raven watches over her, a harbinger of truths Ivy cannot yet understand. The land is alive, pulsing with an ancient hunger, its roots reaching for the heart of her past. It calls to her with a voice as old as time, luring her into a pact sealed in blood and bone, an oath her family could never break.

Als ihre Schwester verschwindet, setzt Alice alles daran, sie zu finden – auch wenn das bedeutet, einem weißen Kaninchen hinterherzujagen und ins Wunderland zu stolpern. Vom grinsenden Märzhasen bis zur rätselhaften Raupe, die von ihr fordert, den richtigen Weg zu finden, obwohl Alice immer wieder im Kreis läuft, sind dort jedoch alle dem Wahnsinn verfallen. Der einzige Lichtblick ist der Hutmacher, der Alice nicht nur bei der Suche nach ihrer Schwester hilft, sondern auch Gefühle in ihr weckt, die sie nie zuvor gekannt hat.

On a moonless Oklahoma night, Maynard Blackoak (author of Eerie Trails of the Wild Weird West) lit a candle against the darkness and sat down with quill in hand. A lifelong student of Edgar Allan Poe, he began to compose his homage to the master while the wind outside sought passage through the old walls and threatened the candle flame. This volume contains that result. Twelve tales of Poe-esque nightmares. So, light a candle, pour yourself an Absinthe, and enjoy the madness.

Valachi, the name of a rival mafia family, was the last word on my mother's dying lips. After years of careful deceit and planning, my moment of revenge has finally arrived. The head of the Valachi family has died, leaving his innocent daughter vulnerable. She is forced to take my hand in an arranged marriage. By the time she learns my true identity, it will be too late. As her new husband, I will have complete control over her. I am the enemy in her bed.

A conglomeration of the most prolific works of Edgar Allen Poe. A series of the macabre and horrible. The dabbling of poetic symmetry with that of the inevitability of death.

"The Raven" is a mesmerizing journey into the depths of the human psyche, masterfully crafted by legendary American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Published in 1845, this narrative poem enchants with its haunting melodies, exquisitely intricate language, and an otherworldly ambiance that lingers long after the final verse.

Set in 1790, a chilling tempest rages through the North Carolina wilderness as seasoned investigator Levi Adams wrestles with a mysterious case in the dead of night. What should’ve been a routine strangulation bears eerie signs—signs Levi has seen before. But nothing can prepare him for the knock that shatters the stillness: a messenger from Raven Cove, a cursed town Levi vowed never to return to.

EL GATO NEGRO: Desde prisión, el protagonista cuenta en primera persona los sucesos que le llevaron a ser condenado a muerte. EL HUNDIMIENTO DE LA CASA USHER: En el siglo XIX, un joven apuesto, Philip Winthrop, se presenta en la mansión de los Usher a pedir la mano de su amada, Madeline. EL CUERVO: Es una narración en verso, una historia fascinante, magistral.

"El Cuervo" es una obra maestra de Edgar Allan Poe, una joya literaria que captura la esencia de la pérdida y la desesperación.