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Abigale Hall
by Lauren A. Forry
After losing their mother to the Blitz and their father to suicide, 17-year-old Eliza, along with her troubled little sister, Rebecca, arrives at Abigale Hall for work where she soon learns that the worst is to come as she tries to unravel the mysteries of the house and save her sister, who has fallen under the spell of the vicious housekeeper, from certain doom.
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The Accursed
by Joyce Carol Oates
In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the town's most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair.
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Hawkes Harbor
by S. E. Hinton
Haunted throughout his life by the cruel discrimination he endured for his illegitimacy, Jamie Sommers, believing himself destined to a life of crime, works as a smuggler and murderer on the high seas before encountering a dark force in a quiet Delaware seaside town that pushes him to the brink of insanity.
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The Keep
by Jennifer Egan
Two decades after taking part in a childhood prank whose devastating repercussions changed their lives forever, two cousins are reunited to work on the renovation of a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a remote, eerie site profoundly influenced by its bloody past, where the two are cut off from the outside world and doomed to reenact the horrific event from their past.
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Fingersmith
by Sarah Waters
Growing up as a foster child among a family of thieves, orphan Sue Trinder hopes to pay back that kindness by playing a key role in a swindle scheme devised by their leader, Gentleman, who is planning to con a fortune out of the naive Maud Lily, but Sue's growing pity for their helpless victim could destroy the plot.
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The Historian
by Elizabeth Kostova
Discovering a medieval book and a cache of letters, a motherless American girl becomes the latest in a series of historians, including her late father, who investigates the possible surviving legacy of Vlad the Impaler, a quest that takes her across Europe and into the pasts of her father and his mentor.
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In the Night Wood
by Dale Bailey
The grieving biographer of a legendary Victorian children's book author finds himself slipping inexorably into the supernatural world that consumed his subject.
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The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
After being summoned to treat a patient at dilapidated Hundreds Hall, Dr. Faraday finds himself becoming entangled in the lives of the owners, the Ayres family, and the supernatural presences in the house.
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The Sister
by Poppy Adams
Reunited after a forty-year estrangement, Ginny, a solitary lepidopterist living in the crumbling family home in rural Britain, and Vivien, who had fled her family's eccentricities for the normalcy of London, struggle to come to terms with their stormy past and a web of hidden family secrets, in a haunting debut novel about betrayal, trust, passion, and destructive family relationships.
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White is for Witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
Suffering from pica, a malady that causes her to eat nonedible items, sixteen-year-old Miranda helps to run the family bed-and-breakfast while witnessing her community's hostilities toward outsiders, a malice that erupts in violent and destructive ways.
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