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Part dark satire, part surreal Gothic folktale, The Last Ham is a story about populist politics run amok in the age of illusion. Weeks before Easter in the sleepy town of Bedford, a macabre death coincides with the arrival of a stranger from the city. The resulting events that unfold, fueled by anticipation for the Church’s annual picnic auction, will change the community forever. At the center of it all is the infamous Kersey Ham — enigma, icon, idol and sacrilege — and a man called Dale Westin, a salesman, shaman and champion of his own destiny, who knows what the people crave.

Sam Wakefield's ancestral home, a decaying mansion built on the edge of a swamp, isn't a place for children. Its labyrinthine halls, built by her mad ancestors, are filled with echoes of the past: ghosts and memories knotted together as one. In the presence of phantoms, it's all Sam can do to disentangle past from present in her daily life.But when her pregnant sister Elizabeth moves in after a fight with her husband, something in the house shifts.

What haunts our hearts today may haunt us in the hereafter . . . In future-Edo Japan, two lovers cross paths after fifty years apart. A drone-stream influencer is stalked by a spectre her online audience can't see. Trans vampires' lives intertwine in cyber-goth Paris. A non-binary chaplain serving a haunted space station becomes enamoured with the ship's AI. And the treachery and passion of a gestalt alien mind reaches critical mass for the explorer who discovered it.

Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she is forced to turn her gun on her partner, a decorated FBI agent who suddenly turns inexplicably violent. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core, but what most troubles Odessa isn't the tragedy itself but the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing the deceased agent's body. Soon she is on the trail of a mysterious figure named John Silence, a mystery man who may be involved.

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her newborn, Clara, at London's Foundling Hospital, young Bess Bright returns to reclaim the illegitimate daughter she has never really known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, the last thing she expects to hear is that her daughter has already been reclaimed. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl, and why.

Seule et effrayée, elle vient juste de fuir une école avec pension brutale où les châtiments sont la leçon quotidienne. Lorsqu'elle rencontre une vieille femme qui lui offre un emploi de servante dans une maison de pensionnaires, Louisa pense qu'elle est sauvée. Mais peu après son arrivée à Coldhistle House, Louisa se rend compte que le mystérieux propriétaire de la maison, monsieur Morningside, offre bien plus que l'hébergement à ses pensionnaires.

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods live together in pleasant isolation, which they ensure through an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic. But one day, a stranger manages to penetrate into their carefully shielded lives.

The prequel to Dracula, inspired by notes and texts left behind by the author of the classic novel, Dracul is a supernatural thriller that reveals not only Dracula's true origins but Bram Stoker's'and the tale of the enigmatic woman who connects them. It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life. Desperate to record what he has witnessed, Bram scribbles down the events that led him here...

When one tragedy after another strikes a carnival, it becomes clear that their newest performer is somehow at the center of it, and Ruby the snake charmer takes it upon herself to discover how.

For more than three decades, Lucien — one of the most notorious characters in the history of the novel — has haunted the imaginations of readers around the world. Remarkably, the astounding protagonist of Gabrielle Wittkop’s lyrical 1972 novella, The Necrophiliac, has never appeared in English until now.

This new translation introduces readers to a masterpiece of French literature, striking not only for its astonishing subject matter but for the poetic beauty of the late author’s subtle, intricate writing.