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• Living With Ghosts

  Sperring, Kari

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  Stunningly immersive writing, which creates an almost palpable sense of place. The creeping dread and increasing desperation of the characters as they fight against forces beyond their comprehension is really well done.

• Unholy Ghosts

  Kane, Stacia

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  Way darker than your typical urban fantasy. Our heroine is an unapologetic drug addict - she needs a way to deal with the ghosts she sees everywhere - and the people she associates with are not terribly upstanding citizens either. It makes for a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sparrow Hill Road

  McGuire, Seanan

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  Rose Marshall died in 1952 in Buckley Township, Michigan, run off the road by a man named Bobby Cross—a man who had sold his soul to live forever, and intended to use her death to pay the price of his immortality. Trouble was, he didn’t ask Rose…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Range of Ghosts

  Bear, Elizabeth

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  Temur, grandson of the Great Khan, is walking away from a battlefield where he was left for dead. All around lie the fallen armies of his cousin and his brother, who made war to rule the Khaganate. Temur is now the legitimate heir by blood to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warm Hands of Ghosts

  a Novel

  Arden, Katherine,

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  Such a beautiful and well-researched piece of historical fantasy. The true and the fantastic merge together seamlessly, in the service of bringing out the larger truths about grief, about what it means for a world to end - whether that be a personal…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• City of Ghosts

  Schwab, Victoria,

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  Ever since Cass almost drowned (okay, she did drown, but she doesn't like to think about it), she can pull back the Veil that separates the living from the dead...and enter the world of spirits. Her best friend is even a ghost. So things are…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Under Heaven

  Kay, Guy Gavriel,

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  In Under Heaven, Kay tells a story of honor and power, this time in a setting that evokes the dazzling Tang Dynasty of eighth-century China. In recognition of his service to the Emperor of Kitai, Shen Tai has been sent a mysterious and dangerous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Haunting of Tram Car 015

  Clark, P. Djèlí,

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  The Haunting of Tram Car 015 returns to the alternate Cairo of Clark's short fiction, where humans live and work alongside otherworldly beings; the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities handles the issues that can arise between…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Witness for the Dead

  Addison, Katherine,

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  When the young half-goblin emperor Maia sought to learn who had killed his father and half-brothers, he turned to an obscure resident of his Court, a Prelate of Ulis and a Witness for the Dead. Thara Celehar found the truth, though it did him no…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• An Unkindness of Ghosts

  Solomon, Rivers,

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  Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her ogre and freak. She’s used to the names; she only wishes there was more truth to them. If she were truly a monster, she’d be powerful enough to tear down the walls around her…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Midnight Riot

  Aaronovitch, Ben, 1964-

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  Probationary Constable Peter Grant dreams of being a detective in London’s Metropolitan Police. Too bad his superior plans to assign him to the Case Progression Unit, where the biggest threat he’ll face is a paper cut. But Peter’s prospects change…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• What Moves the Dead

  Kingfisher, T.,

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  When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia. What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Three Parts Dead

  Gladstone, Max

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  A god has died, and it’s up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart. Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Devil You Know

  Carey, Mike, 1959-

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  Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground. It may seem like a good ghost buster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle--but there's a risk: Sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Ghost Bride

  Choo, Yangsze,

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  Though ruled by British overlords, the Chinese of colonial Malaya still cling to ancient customs. And in the sleepy port town of Malacca, ghosts and superstitions abound. Li Lan, the daughter of a genteel but bankrupt family, has few prospects. But…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Haunting of Hill House

  Jackson, Shirley, 1916-1965

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  It is the story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly pile called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting"; Theodora, the lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young…Read moreRead more of this annotation