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April Fools (Point Horror, #7)

by Richie Tankersley Cusick

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Mary Shelley Horror Stories (Gothic & Fantasy)

by Fiona Sampson

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"There are books that feel like a mental work-out, and I feel like this is going to be one of those, but I need something with an extremely low difficulty setting right now." — May 16, 2026 02:03AM

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Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape

by Manchán Magan

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"He didn't believe his mother when she said that she saw a leprechaun as a little girl?! Aw.. That made me sad, lol." — Jan 26, 2025 10:09PM

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“They were watching so that they could see if death were coming. Eyes that had seen it before and knew the colors it traveled under and what it looked like when it got there.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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“He polished the underside of the messtray with the sleeve of his shift and standing in the center of the room under the lightbulb he studied the face that peered dimly out of the warped steel like some maimed and raging djinn encounjured there.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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“She didn't ask Luke. Luke slept like a brick, which reflected his brain power and personality. Even if every light were on at two in the morning, Luke would never think of turning them off. Luke did not do a lot of thinking. Devnee was not sure her brother would think of mentioning fire if the house went up in flames. Luke was a big lug who played ball, and that was the limit of his mastery of the world.”
― Caroline B. Cooney, Evil Returns

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“One hit, and I’m a fucking addict. It’s insane to know she’s going to be mine for the rest of our lives.”
― Catharina Maura, The Wrong Bride

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“No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. When the sun grew so high this morning that it struck the top of the great gateway opposite my window, the high spot which it touched seemed to me as if the dove from the ark had lighted there. My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth. I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me. Last night one of my post-dated letters went to post, the first of that fatal series which is to blot out the very traces of my existence from the earth.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

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