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  Delilah Street: Paranormal Investigator: Book 1

  Dancing with Werewolves

  by Carole Nelson Douglas

  It was the revelation of the millennium: witches, werewolves, vampires and other supernaturals are real. Fast-forward 13 years: TV reporter Delilah Street used to cover the small-town bogeyman beat back in Kansas, but now, in high-octane Las Vegas - which is run by a werewolf mob - she finds herself holding back the gates of Hell itself. But at least she has a hot new guy and one big bad wolfhound to help her... (more)
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  Seven sorcerers

  by Caro King

  `In the cellar,' Toby whispered. `Something horrid.' When her brother Toby vanishes so that even their mother has no memory of him, Ninevah Redstone realises that the reason she still remembers is because whoever took Toby is about to take her too. Enter Skerridge the Bogeyman, who steals kids for Mr Strood. With his spindle, he winds away all memories of Nin. She escapes to the Drift, a world filled with the... (more)
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  The Coming Evil Trilogy: Book 2

  Enemies of the Cross

  by Greg Mitchell

  Everyone must choose a side . . . Following the aftermath of Dras Weldon's ill-fated stand against the Strange Man, Dras's older brother, Jeff, discovers that the demon's arrival in Greensboro did not come as a surprise to everyone. Consumed by guilt for abandoning his brother when he needed him most, Jeff embarks on a crusade to expose Greensboro's dark secrets. As Jeff works to unravel the treachery that... (more)
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  The Graveyard Book

  by Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean, Chris Riddell

  Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a sprawling graveyard being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor of the dead. There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy-an ancient Indigo Man beneath the hill, a gateway to a desert leading to an abandoned city of... (more)
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  The Sandman: Book 1

  Preludes & Nocturnes

  by Neil Gaiman

  "Wake up, sir. We're here." It's a simple enough opening line--although not many would have guessed back in 1991 that this would lead to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comics of the second half of the century. In Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of Death but who instead captures the King of Dreams. By Gaiman's own... (more)
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  The Book of Lost Things

  by John Connolly

  New York Times bestselling author John Connolly's unique imagination takes readers through the end of innocence into adulthood and beyond in this dark and triumphantly creative novel of grief and loss, loyalty and love and the redemptive power of stories. High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother. He is angry and alone, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those... (more)
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  No Go The Bogeyman

  Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock

  by Marina Warner

  An exciting new work, richly illustrated, on the age-old images and stories about frightening men. In this provocative new work, Marina Warner goes beyond the terrain she covered in her widely praised From the Beast to the Blonde . She explores the darker, wilder realm where ogres and giants devour children, where bogeymen haunt the night and each of us must face our bugaboos. No Go the Bogeyman considers the... (more)