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SKELETON CREW

By King,Stephen. London Hodder 1985 9781444723205

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QUEST

By Smith,Wilbur. London Macmillan 2007 9781405005807

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GOOSEBUMPS : 1.THE WEREWOLF OF FEVER SWAMP(Gabriel Hernandez) 2.THE SCARECROW WALKS AT MIDNIGHT(Greg Ruth) 3. ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN OF PASADENA(Scott More) - Illustrated

By Stine, R. L.. New York Graphic 2006 9780439841252

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RAINTREE : INFERNO

By Howard,Linda. New York Nocturne 2007 9780373617623

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SAVAGE BLUE

By Vikram Balagopal. Uttar Pradesh Harper Collins 2016 , "Gripping...keeps you hooked to the plot...successfully weaves fantasy, adventure and romance...[Balagopal] manages to enthrall the reader with unusual twists and turns." -Hindustan Times "Merges fantasy with reason, making it unputdownable...never a dull moment...this complex work scores. Offers thrill, fear and erotica...evocative as it addresses questions of identity and hauntingly tries to search for the meaning of life and loss." -The Tribune, India "Savage Blue is like a breath of fresh air...the author masterfully manipulates the different worlds...brilliantly imaginative and leaves your head filled with colourful worlds and possibilities...such a memorable book, one that is a keeper." -Books and Strips Book Blog An electrifying new fantasy adventure from the author of the award-winning graphic novel Simian. Akila Raina, the principal's precocious daughter, was only ten when she disappeared. Shyam, who was with her that fateful night, is daily haunted by a dream of it - a dream more grisly than reality could possibly be. Until Akila mysteriously reappears twenty years later, grown-up and gorgeous. She tells him of surreal worlds, her travels between them, her encounters with strange creatures, their own connection across the realms and the malevolent power that lies at the heart of it all. And then she shows him... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Review "Gripping...keeps you hooked to the plot...successfully weaves fantasy, adventure and romance...[Balagopal] manages to enthrall the reader with unusual twists and turns." -Hindustan Times "Merges fantasy with reason, making it unputdownable...never a dull moment...this complex work scores. Offers thrill, fear and erotica...evocative as it addresses questions of identity and hauntingly tries to search for the meaning of life and loss." -The Tribune, India "Savage Blue is like a breath of fresh air...the author masterfully manipulates the different worlds...brilliantly imaginative and leaves your head filled with colourful worlds and possibilities...such a memorable book, one that is a keeper." - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Biography Vikram Balagopal is the author of the award-winning graphic novel Simian. Following his training at the New York Film Academy (New York), he has worked in India with various film-makers, and his screenplay was chosen for Mira Nair’s Maisha Screenwriter’s Lab. He is a published poet, illustrator and cartoonist in magazines. His first book, Simian, was published in India in 2014 (HarperCollins Publishers India). Savage Blue, a fantasy novel published in India in 2016 (HarperCollins Publishers India), is his second book. He lives in New Delhi. 9789352640058

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CALL OF CTHULHU

By Lovecraft,H P. New Delhi Penguin 2016 , What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise...' Mad, macabre tales of demonic spirits, hideous rites, ancient curses and alien entities lurking beneath the surface of rural New England, from the man who created the modern horror story. A new series of twenty distinctive, unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design and pocket-sized format, with coloured jackets echoing Penguin's original covers. 9780241260777

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BLUE LILY,LILY BLUE : Book 3 of The Raven Cycle

By Stiefvater,Maggie. Delhi Scholastic 2014 9780545424974

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SEASON OF GHOSTS

By Ruskin Bond. USA Penguin 2000 9780140287844

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FACE IN THE DARK AND OTHER HAUNTINGS : Collected stories of the supernatural

By Bond,Ruskin. USA Penguin 2009 9780143067863

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WITCHES

By Dahl,Roald. UK Penguin books 2016 9780141365473

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GOLEM /ഗോലെം

By Meyrink,Gustav. Kottayam D C Books 2011 , 9788126431113

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GAME OF THRONES : BOOK 1 OF A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE

By Martin,George R R. London Harper Voyage 2011 , The first volume in the hugely popular and highly acclaimed epic fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. There is passion here, and misery and charm, grandeur and squalor, tragedy, nobility and courage. Now a major HBO TV series. During Spring 2011, the first volume of George R R Martin's glorious high fantasy will be aired as an HBO series on Sky in the UK. Martin unfolds with astonishing skill a tale of truly epic dimensions, thronged with memorable characters, a story of treachery and ambition, love and magic. Set in a fabulous world scarred by battle and catastrophe over 8000 years of recorded history, it tells of the deeds of men and women locked in the deadliest of conflicts and the terrible legacy they will leave their children. In the game of thrones, you win or you die. 9780007428540

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TWELVE NIGHTS

By Zurcher,Andrew . UK Penguin 2018 , Abstract: Kay and her little sister, Eloise, never imagined that their standard icy Christmas Eve in Cambridge would be the start of a twelve-night odyssey... Kay's father is working late - as usual. Fed up, her mother bundles her daughters into the car and drives to her husband's Cambridge college to collect him herself. But when they arrive, the staff claim that nobody by his name has ever worked there... Kay is puzzled by her mother's reaction - silent tears, not anger and confusion. And what is even more puzzling is the card on her pillow when they return home: Will O. de Wisp, Gent. F.H.S.P. and Phillip R. T. Gibbet, Gent. F.H.S.P. K.Bith. REMOVALS. That night, Kay is woken by voices at her window: the voices of Will and Phillip, the Removers. But they are not human. And Kay shouldn't be able to see them. Except she can... 9780141385549

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MAP OF DAYS : FOURTH NOVEL OF MISS PEREGRINE’S PECULIAR CHILDREN

By Riggs,Ransom . UK Penguin Books 2018 , The long-awaited new novel from Ransom Riggs, set in the world of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Having defeated the monstrous threat that nearly destroyed the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back where his story began, in Florida. Except now Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, and doing their best to blend in. But carefree days of beach visits and normalling lessons are soon interrupted by a discovery-a subterranean bunker that belonged to Jacob's grandfather, Abe. Clues to Abe's double-life as a peculiar operative start to emerge, secrets long hidden in plain sight. And Jacob begins to learn about the dangerous legacy he has inherited-truths that were part of him long before he walked into Miss Peregrine's time loop. Now, the stakes are higher than ever as Jacob and his friends are thrust into the untamed landscape of American peculiardom-a world with few ymbrynes, or rules-that none of them understand. New wonders, and dangers, await in this brilliant next chapter for Miss Peregrine's peculiar children. Their story is again fully illustrated by haunting vintage photographs, but with a striking addition for this all-new, multi-era American adventure-full color. 9780141385914

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HARK ! THE HERALD ANGELS SCREAM : an anthology /

By NIL. New York Blum House 2018 , "A Blumhouse Books/Anchor Books original" -- Verso title page. 9780525433163 (trade pbk.)

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CIRCE

By Miller,Madeline . London Bloomsbury 2019 , In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter is born. Circe is a strange child not powerful and terrible, like her father, nor gorgeous and mercenary like her mother. Scorned and rejected, Circe grows up in the shadows, at home in neither the world of gods or mortals. But Circe has a dark power of her own: witchcraft. When her gift threatens the gods, she is banished to the island of Aiaia where she hones her occult craft, casting spells, gathering strange herbs and taming wild beasts. Yet a woman who stands alone will never be left in peace for long and among her islands guests is an unexpected visitor: the mortal Odysseus, for whom Circe will risk everything... So Circe sets forth her tale, a vivid, mesmerizing epic of family rivalry, love and loss the defiant, inextinguishable song of woman burning hot and bright through the darkness of a mans world..... 9781526614674

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QUEEN OF THE AIR AND DARKNESS

By Clare, Cassandra. Great Britain Simon And Schuster 2019 , By the time you finish Cassandra Clare's latest book, Queen of Air and Darkness, nothing about the world of the Shadowhunters will be the same. The epic conclusion to Clare's most recent Shadowhunters trilogy, The Dark Artifices, drops December 4 and in addition to wrapping up the forbidden love story of parabatai Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn, the fantasy novel takes a hard look at corruption in the Shadowhunter universe, mirroring our current real-world political climate. If that comes as a shock to fans of Clare's books, that's because it also came as a surprise to the author herself. As Clare (real name Judith Lewis) began to write Queen of Air of Darkness, the installment following Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows, she found the final chapter of The Dark Artifices series evolving as a result of what was happening politically not only in America, but also the world at large. "With this particular book, the tagline that I wanted to use was, 'Everything changes,'" Clare tells Teen Vogue. “I've written many books in this universe at this point and I have more still to write, but I wanted to do something that would alter the way that the political landscape of the Shadowhunters works and alter the way that the whole system works so that the next series, The Wicked Powers – which is the last series in this world – would be starting off in a place that was completely different and would bring me to the conclusion I wanted for this series." 9781471116711

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LANNY

By Porter,Max . London Faber & Faber 2019 , LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 | A devastating story told with the anarchy, the humour and the enchantment Max Porter's readers will recognise from Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. ‘It shouldn’t be possible for a book to be simultaneously heart-stopping, heart-shaking and pulse-racing, but that is only one of the extraordinary feats Max Porter pulls off in this astonishing novel.' - Kamila Shamsie There is a village outside London, no different from many others. Everyday lives conjure a tapestry of fabulism and domesticity. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to the people who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber and is listening, and watching. He is watching Mad Pete the village artist. He is listening to ancient Peggy gossiping at her gate, to families recently moved here and to families dead for generations. Dead Papa Toothwort hears them all as he searches, intently, for his favourite. Looking for the boy. Lanny. 9780571340286

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ALCHEMYST : Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Book 1

By Scott, Michael. London Corgi Books 2011 , The first book on the New York Times bestselling series The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel - breathless action, pin-sharp plotting and a hero and heroine to root for! Now published with an exciting new cover look and introduction from the author. Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on 28 September 1330. Nearly seven hundred years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life. The records show that he died in 1418. But his tomb is empty and Nicholas Flamel lives. The secret of eternal life is hidden within the book he protects - the Book of Abraham the Mage. It's the most powerful book that has ever existed. In the wrong hands, it will destroy the world. And that's exactly what Dr. John Dee plans to do when he steals it. Humankind won't know what's happening until it's too late. And if the prophecy is right, Sophie and Josh Newman are the only ones with the power to save the world as we know it. Sometimes legends are true. And Sophie and Josh Newman are about to find themselves in the middle of the greatest legend of all time. 9780552562522

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MAGICIAN : Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Book 2

By Scott, Michael. London Corgi Books 2010 9780552562539

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SORCERESS : Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Book 3

By Scott, Michael. London Corgi Books 2010 , Dr John Dee has destroyed Paris in his mission to find Nicholas Flamel and Sophie and Josh Newman. The two missing pages of the book of Abraham the Mage are still with them and the Dark Elders need them for the Final Summoning. They will not rest until they are in power and the human race has been destroyed.Nicholas Flamel knows he must protect Josh and Sophie and the pages from the Dark Elde For this he must rely on Clarent - the sister sword to Excalibur - and the sword's evil power makes it nearly impossible to use without darkness seeping into the soul of whoever wields it.What will be the price to pay for the twins to remain protected and the Dark Elders to be defeated? 9780552557245

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NECROMANCER : Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Book 4

By Scott, Michael. London Corgi Books 2019 , Sophie and Josh have returned to San Francisco. They must protect themselves from the Dark Elders, but they've not yet mastered the magic they'll need to do so. Their trust in Nicholas Flamel is shaken, and their friend Scatty is missing. Unbeknownst to the twins, John Dee has amassed an enormous army of foul creatures, with which he plans to battle Nicholas and his wife, Peronelle. In order for his plan to work, he must train a necromancer to raise the Mother of the Gods from the dead. The twins of legend will make the perfect pupils in his diabolical scheme. 9780385735322

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ENCHANTRESS : Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Book 6

By Scott, Michael. London Corgi Books 2010 , The two that are one must become the one that is all. One to save the world, one to destroy it. San Francisco: Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel have one day left to live, and one job left to do. They must defend San Francisco. The monsters gathered on Alcatraz Island have been released and are heading toward the city. If they are not stopped, they will destroy everyone and everything in their path. But even with the help of two of the greatest warriors from history and myth, will the Sorceress and the legendary Alchemyst be able to defend the city? Or is it the beginning of the end of the human race? Danu Talis: Sophie and Josh Newman travelled ten thousand years into the past to Danu Talis when they followed Dr. John Dee and Virginia Dare. And it's on this legendary island that the battle for the world begins and ends. Scathach, Prometheus, Palamedes, Shakespeare, Saint-Germain, and Joan of Arc are also on the island. And no one is sure what - or who - the twins will be fighting for. Today the battle for Danu Talis will be won or lost. But will the twins of legend stand together? Or will they stand apart - one to save the world and one to destroy it? 9780552562577

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MIDNIGHT SUN

By Meyer,Stephenie . London Atom 2020 , When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in TWILIGHT, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, MIDNIGHT SUN. This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger? In MIDNIGHT SUN, Stephenie Meyer transports us back to a world that has captivated millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love. 9780349003634

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LAST HOURS : Chain of Iron Book 2

By Clare,Cassandra . London Walker Books 2021 , Cordelia Carstairs seems to have everything she ever wanted. She's engaged to marry James Herondale, the boy she has loved since childhood. She has a new life in London with her best friend Lucie Herondale and James's charming companions, the Merry Thieves. She is about to be reunited with her beloved father. And she bears the sword Cortana, a legendary hero's blade. But the truth is far grimmer. James and Cordelia's marriage is a lie, arranged to save Cordelia's reputation. James is in love with the mysterious Grace Blackthorn whose brother, Jesse, died years ago in a terrible accident. Cortana burns Cordelia's hand when she touches it, while her father has grown bitter & angry & a serial murderer is targeting the Shadowhunters of London, killing under cover of darkness, then vanishing without a trace. Together with the Merry Thieves, Cordelia, James and Lucie must follow the trail of the knife-wielding killer through the city's most dangerous streets. All the while, each is keeping a shocking secret: Lucie, that she plans to raise Jesse from the dead; Cordelia, that she has sworn a dangerous oath of loyalty to a mysterious power; and James, that he is being drawn further each night into the dark web of his grandfather, the arch-demon Belial. And that he himself may be the killer they seek. 9781406398472

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WITCHES

By Dahl,Roald. UK Penguin books 2016 9780141365473

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VIGIL

By Saunders, George . London Bloomsbury Publishing 2026 , Not for the first time – in fact, for the 343rd time – Jill 'Doll' Blaine finds herself crashing down to earth, head-first, rear-up, to accompany her latest charge into the afterlife. She soon realises however that this man is not quite like the others. For powerful oil tycoon K.J. Boone will not be consoled, because he has nothing to regret. He lived a big, bold life, and the world is better for it… isn't it? As death approaches, a cast of worldly and otherworldly visitors arrive. Crowds of people and animals – alive and dead – materialise, birds swarm the dying man's room, and associates from decades past show up, all clamouring for a reckoning. In this electric novel brimming with explosive imagination, George Saunders confronts the biggest issues of our time with his trademark humour and warmth, spinning a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the inevitable question: who else could we be but exactly who we are? Vigil was no. 10 in the Sunday Times Hardback Fiction chart and no. 1 in the New York Times Hardcover Fiction chart, w/e 1 February 9781526624338

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