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Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a trail of bodies completely drained of blood. Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist, never imagined that the Bloodless Murders would come to his backyard. Not until the night the Carlson family was found murdered in their home. Marie Catherine Hale, a diminutive fifteen-year-old, is the sole suspect in custody. Michael didn't think that he would be part of the investigation, but he is pulled in when Marie decides that he is the only one she will confess to.

When the skies clear after a storm, Zee starts seeing ghosts. When she tells her classmates, only her best friend Elijah believes her. Worse, mean girl Nellie gives Zee a cruel nickname: Ghost Girl. But whatever the storm washed up isn't going away, as everyone around Zee begins to behave strangely. To put things right, Zee must embrace the differences that make her Ghost Girl. And all three of them--Zee, Elijah, and Nellie--will have to work together if they want to give their ghost story a happy ending.

In her debut collection of short fiction, Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghost; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness.

When Violeta Graceling arrives at the Lakesedge estate, she expects to find a monster. Leta knows the rumors about Rowan, who drowned his family when he was a boy. But neither the estate nor the monster are what they seem.

James always knew moving from Texas to Oregon was going to be horrible. But no sooner have he and his family arrived in their "perfect" new home in their "perfect" new town than he starts getting mysterious letters from someone called the Keeper. Someone who claims to be watching him. Someone who is looking for "young blood."

London cop Daniel Carter is almost torn to pieces by monsters during a raid. And no one believes him. His life in ruins, Daniel is suddenly presented with a chance at redemption. And revenge.

Margaret Harlowe, called to the woods and cliffs surrounding her family's estate, grew both stranger and more beautiful as she cultivated an uncanny power. But soon, whispers of "witch" dogged her footsteps. One hundred and fifty years later, Augusta Podos takes a dream job at Harlowe House, the historic home of a wealthy New England family that has been turned into a small museum in Tynemouth, Massachusetts. When Augusta stumbles across an oblique reference to a daughter of the Harlowes who has nearly been expunged from the historical record, the mystery is too intriguing to ignore.

Olivia has always wanted to belong somewhere. Summoned from boarding school, she arrives at Gallant, where no one is expecting her. Olivia knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover them.

A documentary film crew in Siberia encounters otherworldly beasts and inexplicable phenomena along a highway built over a massive graveyard, as if the ghosts of Stalin's victims were haunting them.

Best friends Adelle and Connie are transported into the world of their favorite gothic romance novel called Moira. There, the world is turned upside down, and they will need to write their own arcs to escape.