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If everything in Amanda's life is so perfect, then why the mood swings, the obscene thoughts, the urge to harm the people she loves? What are those tapping sounds in the walls? And who's that woman following her? The mystery behind what's happening to Amanda in Come Closer is so frightening that it "ought to carry a warning to...readers."

Loveliest Dead

by Ray Garton

In this ironically titled shocker from horror maestro Garton ( Live Girls ), the dead, who are pretty ugly, make life a hell for the living. Jenna and David Kellar, after a series of personal tragedies, the worst of which is the inexplicable death of their four-year-old son, Josh, hope to make a new start at the old family homestead they've inherited just outside Eureka, Calif., with their surviving son, Miles.... (more)

Land Of Echoes: A Cree Black Novel (Cree Black Thrillers (Paperback))

Land Of Echoes: A Cree Black Novel (Cree Black Thrillers (Paperback))

by Daniel Hecht

Parapsychologist Cree Black is called to a New Mexico school for gifted Navajo teens to investigate the mysterious symptoms of a student. Sixteen-year-old Tommy Keeday is wracked nightly with violent convulsions. Is the boy possessed by the spirit of an ancestor, as his family believes? Or is something even more sinister going on?

Possessed by Ghosts : Exorcisms in the 21 Century

Possessed by Ghosts : Exorcisms in the 21 Century

by Wanda Pratnicka

Wanda Pratnicka's book describes an unacknowledged problem with which the majority of mankind is struggling, namely possession by ghosts. Ghosts are the souls of people who have died but who have not resolved to pass through to the other side of death's curtain. By remaining among the living they are the cause of anxiety, depressions, mood swings, explosions of negative emotions, mental illnesses and often also of... (more)

The Devils

or, The Possessed

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

First published in 1871-2, this third of Dostoevsky's five major novels is at once a powerful political tract and a profound study of atheism, depicting the disarray which follows the appearance of a band of modish radicals in a small provincial town. The novel is full of buffoonery and grotesque comedy, and the plot is loosely based on the details of a notorious case of political murder.

Of Love And Other Demons

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sierva Mari+a7a, the neglected child of a rich plantation family, is locked in a convent because she is believed to be possessed by demons, and there she falls in love with the priest sent to exorcise her. Reprint. 100,000 first printing.

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Come Closer

by Sara Gran