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The Witching Hour

Anne Rice · 1,002 pages

The first in the Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour introduces the fictional Mayfair family of New Orleans, generations of male and female witches. This tight-knit and deeply connected family, where a death of one strengthens the others with his/her knowledge. One Mayfair witch per generation is also designated to receive the powers of "the man," known as Lasher. Lasher gives the witches gi

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The Magpie Lord

K.J. Charles · 202 pages

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Pantomime

Laura Lam · 397 pages

Gene, the daughter of a noble family, runs away from the decadence of court to R.H. Ragona's circus of magic, where she meets runaway Micah, whose blood could unlock the mysteries of the world of Ellada.

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The Witch of Painted Sorrows

M.J. Rose · 439 pages

Paris, 1894. Sandrine Salome flees New York and her treacherous husband to find shelter in Paris with her grandmother, but as she settles in and pursues new passions, it's unclear whether she or an infamous ancestral witch is driving the changes. "Possession. Power. Passion. New York Times bestselling novelist M. J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this gothic nove

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After School Nightmare, Volume 4

Setona Mizushiro · 181 pages

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The Coven

Harper L. Woods · 291 pages

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Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, Vol. 1: The Crucible

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, young sorceress Sabrina Spellman finds herself at a crossroads, forced to choose between an unearthly destiny and her own mortal boyfriend, Harvey. But Madam Satan, a deadly foe from her family's past, has arrived in Greendale, and she has her sights set squarely on the young witch. Can Sabrina face the challenge, or will her witching career -- and high school

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Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides · 544 pages

A unique coming of age story. While the main character in this novel is dealing with gender identity issues the main focus of this brilliantly written story is the confusion we all face as we grow into the person we were meant to be. The reader finds himself identifying with the main character's experiences. This is a brilliantly written story. The prose is honest in a way that few authors dare t

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Witch Wolf

Winter Pennington · 235 pages

Preternatural Private Investigator and Paranormal Huntress Kassandra Lyall is used to working alone. Whenever there's a murder or a mystery to solve that involves the preternatural; she's the witch they call. When she's called in to help the local cops work on a mysterious murder case, she finds herself needing all the help she can get. A bloodthirsty werewolf is loose in the city and on a killing

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The Bewitching

Silvia Moreno-Garcia · 360 pages

“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches”: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales. In t

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The Harlot

Saskia Walker · 360 pages

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Stitches in Time

Barbara Michaels · 400 pages

Rachel is an intelligent, attractive young woman trying to get continue with her life. She feels her plate is full: she is estranged from her family, has a carefully hidden and humiliating crush on her new patroness' husband, and, having thrown out a manipulating, verbally abusive boyfriend, she has a job, a really good new friend, and time to work on her dissertation: that traditionally, women wo

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The Flood

Michael McDowell · 189 pages

At the crest of the worst flood in Perdido, Alabama's history, mysterious newcomer Elinor Dammert is rescued from the uppermost floor of an abandoned hotel. The town soon grows to love Elinor in spite of her unspoken past and her eccentric habits, and Oscar Caskey, head of the town's most powerful and influential family, soon takes her for his bride. But Oscar's mother, greedy and controlling Mary

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The Shades of Time and Memory

Storm Constantine · 492 pages

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Harrow County, Vol. 1: Countless Haints

Cullen Bunn · 152 pages

Young Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters -- the countless haints of Harrow County. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures -- and to the land itself -- in ways she never could have imagined.

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Pale as a Ghost

Stephen Osborne · 190 pages

Private detective Duncan Andrews' best friend Gina is a witch, his dog is a zombie, and his dead boyfriend Robbie is a ghost. His connection to the supernatural helps him solve cases: Janice Sanderson, richest woman in Indianapolis, wants him to find her stripper daughter, Brenda; another client is having some trouble with a specter haunting her family home. And Duncan has decided to add dating i

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Hôtel Transylvania

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · 279 pages

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Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Juno Dawson · 448 pages

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Betrayal

Gillian Shields

Prompted by her love for the seemingly-doomed Sebastian, sixteen-year-old Evie Johnson returns for another term at the strangely sinister Wyldcliffe Abbey School where she and two close friends try to develop and combine their newly-discovered powers to save Sebastian and themselves from the encroaching forces of evil.

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A Great and Terrible Beauty

Libba Bray · 416 pages

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A Fever of the Blood

Oscar de Muriel · 432 pages

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Dark Shadows: Angélique's Descent

Lara Parker · 256 pages

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Ordinary Monsters

J.M. Miro · 672 pages

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Midnight Secrets

Jennifer St. Giles · 356 pages

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