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A lyrical and dreamy reimagining of Dracula's brides, A Dowry of Blood is a story of desire, obsession, and emancipation. Saved from the brink of death by a mysterious stranger, Constanta is transformed from a medieval peasant into a bride fit for an undying king. But when Dracula draws a cunning aristocrat and a starving artist into his web of passion and deceit, Constanta realizes that her beloved is capable of terrible things. Finding comfort in the arms of her rival consorts, she begins to unravel their husband's dark secrets.

Psychic LaShaun Rousselle returns home to Beau Chene, Louisiana to confront a family feud that turns lethal, and the demon she unwittingly set loose on her small bayou town. The bloodthirsty loa cuts a wide swath of death and destruction. LaShaun battles to stop the killing spree, and keep the demon from taking control of her. When she becomes a murder suspect, LaShaun finds an unlikely ally in sexy Vermilion Parish Deputy Chase Broussard. Together they fight human and supernatural evil.

From the author of The Night Will Find Us comes a white-knuckled horror-thriller that follows two siblings as they roadtrip across the American Southwest.

A follow-up to Barbara’s other popular books of Alberta’s ghost stories, this volume features more tantalizing tales of paranormal events, from splashing spectres at a city swimming pool to haunted homesteads in central Alberta. Over 80 spooky stories of haunted homes, theatres, restaurants and even ghostly animals will baffle and bemuse.

Explores thirty-five animal ghost stories that are based on eyewitness accounts.

It's hard to believe that a century has passed since the outbreak of the First World War. The tragic, bloody conflict cut short the lives of millions of young men and not all of them rest easy. And it wasn t just the soldiers who suffered. Civilian casualties numbered in the millions as well, and the loved ones left at home while their men went off to fight suffered years of worry and heartbreak, sometimes unable to get over their loss.

Barbara Smith is back with an all-new collection of spine-tingling tales in Haunted Alberta.

Enjoy this collection of Ontario’s paranormal history by best-selling Ghost Stories author Barbara Smith. You’ll find tales from Timmons, Prescott, Gananoque, Mississauga, Gravenhurst, Toronto, Almonte, Kleinburg, Perth, Crosshill, Richmond, Whitby, Haliburton, Smith Falls, Kitchener, Amherstburg, Brockville, Clarendon, Thornhill, Richmond, Peterborough, Ingersoll, Elliot Lake, Windsor, Carleton Place, Dundurn Castle, London’s Grand Theatre, Baldoon, Canada’s Hockey Hall of Fame, Algonquin Park and more.

Soon to be an original Netflix series! From the author of The Wicked Heart and The Immortal comes a beautiful and haunting novel about a group of five terminally ill teenagers whose midnight stories become their reality. Rotterham Home was a hospice for young people - a place where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. Nobody who checked in ever checked out. It was a place of pain and sorrow, but also, remarkably, a place of humor and adventure. Every night at twelve, a group of young guys and girls at the hospice came together to tell stories.

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher-for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself-and his dad.