The House on the Borderland
A found manuscript leads two men into a remote Irish house where a recluse’s horrors escalate into cosmic visions.
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Mad Sisters of Esi
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The Damned Thing
An inquest into a gruesome death in the woods turns on a witness’s account of an unseen, possibly impossible attacker.
The Spear Cuts Through Water
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The Library of Broken Worlds
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The Course of the Heart
Three Cambridge friends are haunted for decades by a partly forgotten ritual that may have opened a door to the divine.
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The Circumference of the World
A mathematician, a bookseller, and a mobster chase a vanished science-fiction novel that may reveal reality’s deepest truth.