Haunted Places

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Almost Dark, by Letitia Trent It's a sunny day in New York City and I am happily browsing in my favourite bookstore. The breath-taking skyline outside and the familiar smell of coffee and printed paper inside is what makes my morning so special. Books are everywhere. Classics, thrillers, fantasy, sci-fi, romance.…
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Malleus Maleficarum: The Witch Hammer, by Jacob Sprenger , Heinrich Kramer

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Written by Inquisitors Jacob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer, the Malleus Maleficarum (latin for “The Hammer of Witches”) is one of the most famous medieval treatises on witches,  guilty for having sawn death and despair more than any other book ever written. First published in Germany in 1487, the Malleus Maleficarum was the ultimate, irrefutable, unarguable authority for every magistrate of that time. The book…
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Lost Signals

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Lost Signals, edited by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle Coming today -August 02- Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing brings you Lost Signals, a tome of horror fiction featuring radio waves, numbers stations, rogue transmissions, and other unimaginable sounds you only wish were fiction. Forget about what’s hiding in the shadows, and start…
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Vampires

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Amaranthine, by Lanie Jacobs Will we ever get bored of vampires? After the huge success of  The Twilight Saga, which book sales are estimated at 100 million copies, a big horde of blood-suckers hit stores and libraries all over the world. Personally, I don't mind reading about vampires and other night-crawling creature, but…
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