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Glass Soup

Jonathan Carroll · 324 pages

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Raziel

Kristina Douglas, Anne Stuart · 384 pages

“You’re dead” is so not what Allie Watson wants to hear. Unfortunately, it explains a lot. Like the dark, angelically handsome man who ferried her to this strange, hidden land. The last thing she remembers is stepping off a curb in front of a crosstown bus. Now she’s surrounded by gorgeous fallen angels with an unsettling taste for blood—and they really don’t want her around. Not exactly how she p

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Jerusalem

Alan Moore · 1,280 pages

Alan Moore says of his work: In the half a square mile of decay and demolition that was England’s Saxon capital, eternity is loitering between the firetrap tower blocks. Embedded in the grubby amber of the district’s narrative among its saints, kings, prostitutes and derelicts a different kind of human time is happening, a soiled simultaneity that does not differentiate between the petrol-colou

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Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders · 355 pages

February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My po

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The Devil's Detective

Simon Kurt Unsworth · 289 pages

Thomas Fool is an Information Man, an investigator tasked with cataloging and filing reports on the endless stream of violence and brutality that flows through Hell. His job holds no reward or satisfaction, because Hell has rules but no justice. Each new crime is stamped "Do Not Investigate" and dutifully filed away in the depths of the Bureaucracy. But when an important political delegation arriv

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Hellboy in Hell, Vol. 1: The Descent

Mike Mignola

After saving the world, but sacrificing himself and Great Britain, Hellboy is cast into Hell, where he finds many familiar faces and a throne that awaits him.

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The Shadow Thieves

Anne Ursu · 432 pages

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Death Most Definite

Trent Jamieson · 288 pages

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On the Other Side

Carrie Hope Fletcher · 352 pages

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The Devil's Intern

Donna Hosie · 229 pages

"Seventeen-year-old Mitchell discovers a time-travel device that will allow him to escape his internship in Hell's accounting office and return to Earth, but his plans to alter the circumstances of his own death take an unexpected turn when his three closest friends in Hell insist on accompanying him back to the land of the living"--

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Ember X

Jessica Sorensen · 368 pages

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The Night Tourist

Katherine Marsh · 246 pages

After fourteen-year-old classics prodigy Jack Perdu has a near fatal accident he meets Euri, a young ghost who introduces him to New York's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on, and Jack vows to find his dead mother there.

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The Undertaking of Lily Chen

Danica Novgorodoff · 430 pages

"Fictional graphic novel telling a magical realist story set in the world of the black market for deceased brides in China"--

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Death Watch

Ari Berk · 560 pages

When seventeen-year-old Silas Umber's father disappears, Silas is sure it is connected to the powerful artifact he discovers, combined with his father's hidden hometown history, which compels Silas to pursue the path leading to his destiny and ultimately, to the discovery of his father, dead or alive.

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Aegypt

John Crowley · 395 pages

John Crowley's cunning alchemy of the here and now and the nevermore, of history and dream history, of the actual and the possible: the most daring and greathearted fiction yet by the award-winning author of *Little, Big*. Does the world have a secret history, encoded in myth and legend, reflected in the very windings of our brains? Born with the talents to be a real historian, but clinging

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The Mystery of Grace

Charles de Lint · 269 pages

Altagracia--her friends call her Grace--has a tattoo of Nuestra Señora de Altagracia on her shoulder, she's got a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg, and she has grease worked so deep into her hands that it'll never wash out. Grace works at Sanchez Motorworks, customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be

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Better Off Dead

H.P. Mallory · 345 pages

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Sanctum

Sarah Fine · 432 pages

A week ago, seventeen-year-old Lela Santos's best friend, Nadia, killed herself. Today, thanks to a farewell ritual gone awry, Lela is standing in paradise, looking upon a vast gated city in the distance--hell. No one willingly walks through the Suicide Gates, into a place smothered in darkness and infested with depraved creatures. But Lela isn't just anyone--she's determined to save her best frie

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The Sword of Summer

Rick Riordan · 512 pages

Magnus Chase has seen his share of trouble. Ever since that terrible night two years ago when his mother told him to run, he has lived alone on the streets of Boston, surviving by his wits, staying one step ahead of the police and the truant officers. One day, Magnus learns that someone else is trying to track him down—his uncle Randolph, a man his mother had always warned him about. When Magnu

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Heroes in Hell

Gregory Benford, Chris Morris, C.J. Cherryh, Nancy Asire · 274 pages

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Hell's Super

Mark Cain · 308 pages

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