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	"Ainsworth, W. Harrison - Rookwood: A Romance - PTN" Code:0594001838PTN Price: $22.95 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 22.95. [1873 Press] 520 pages.
	"Beauman, Sally - Rebecca's Tale - PTN" Code:006117467XPTN Price: $11.21 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 14.95. [HarperCollins Publishers] 464 pages. From the Publisher For anyone who has ever dreamed of going to Manderly again... Though Rebecca de Winter has been dead for 20 years, her memory still haunts those who loved her. Her old friend and ally, Colonel Julyan, was the local magistrate at the time of her death. He had the painful task of investigating its circumstances. And though the secrets he learned during the inquiry have stayed with him, the burden of that knowledge is heavy, and there are things he has yet to find out. Julyan enlists the help of his daughter, Ellie, and Tom Gray, a young scholar with a mysterious past of his own. With the discovery of Rebecca's diary, they each, for their own reasons, pursue the truth about the enigmatic woman's death, and try to piece together the mysterious story of her life. "
	"Beckford, William - Vathek - PMN" Code:1845880609PMN Price: $9.95 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 9.95. [Tempus Publishing, Limited] 192 pages. From the Publisher Written in 1782 by the near-legendary hedonist William Beckford when he was only twenty-one, Vathek, or The History of the Caliph Vathek, was the first Oriental-Gothic horror novel in English literature. It tells the story of Vathek, the debauched and pleasure- seeking ninth Caliph of the Abassides, who decides to build a great tower to ""penetrate the secrets of heaven."" The appearance of an Indian magician arouses Vathek's thirst for knowledge and he is willing to go to any lengths, including the sacrifice of fifty of the most beautiful boys in his kingdom, to gain access to the ""Palace of Subterranean Fire,"" where the magician promises he will find treasures, intelligences and talismans that control the world. A rousing novel, Vathek is a classic tale of greed and lust for power containing magic, trickery and betrayal all culminating in an age-old showdown between good and evil. Author Biography: William Beckford (1760-1844), the ""Fool of Fonthill,"" was the son of a Lord Mayor of London, fluent in seven languages and schooled in philosophy and law. He is perhaps best remembered as the builder of the Gothic monstrosity Fonthill Abbey and also for his involvement in a number of sexual scandals around Europe."
	"Bradbury, Ray - Something Wicked This Way Comes - PMN" Code:0380729407PMN Price: $5.99 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. New. List $ 7.99. [HarperCollins Publishers] 304 pages. From the Publisher Few American novels written this century have endured in th heart and mind as has this one-Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained. In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, to destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two inquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon discover the secret of the satanic raree-show's smoke, mazes, and mirrors, as they learn all too well the heavy cost of wishes -- and the stuff of nightmare. "
	"Brallier, Kate - Seal Island - PMN" Code:0765348926PMN Price: $5.24 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. New. List $ 6.99. [Tor Books] 466 pages. From the Publisher Cecil Hargrave lives in a cramped apartment in New York City, hates her job, and has no close friends. She yearns for something more, but what? When Cecil inherits a beachfront house and a thriving business on picturesque Seal Island in Maine, she jumps at the opportunity to kickstart her life, despite her reservations about moving to New England. But even if stereotypes hold true and New Englanders are standoffish, she'll have a new career and a gorgeous home. Much to her delight and surprise, Cecil settles rapidly into small-town life. She makes real friends, plays with the seals who live on the beach outside her house, and meets two very different men. Tom, a darkly sexy novelist, has returned to his hometown to write. He and Cecil hit it off almost immediately, and their chemistry is explosive--but Cecil can't seem to stay away from the handsome drifter, Ronan, despite his secretive ways. It's like she's under a spell... "
	"Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights - HCN" Code:0140620125HCN Price: $2.99 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Hardcover. New. List $ 3.98. [Penguin Group (USA)] 288 pages. From the Publisher Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte's only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th century English literature. It's the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls inlove with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family. "
	"Brown, Charles Brockden - Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist - PTN" Code:0140390790PTN Price: $8.21 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 10.95. [Penguin Group (USA)] 416 pages. From the Publisher One of the earliest American novels, Wieland (1798) is a tale of suspense and intrigue set in rural Pennsylvania in the 1760's. Based on an actual case of a New York farmer who murdered his family, the novel employs Gothic devices such as spontaneous combustion, ventriloquism, and religious fanaticism.The plot turns on the charming but diabolical intruder Carwin, who exercises his power over the narrator, Clara Wieland, and her family, destroying the order of the small community in which they live. Underlying the mystery and horror, however, is a profound examination of the human mind's capacity for rational judgment. The text also explores some of the issues vital to the survival of democracy in the new American republic: the operation of self-interest and personal style, the effects of sex, gender, and family history on social stability, and the power of language."
	"Burney, Frances - Camilla - PTN" Code:019283908XPTN Price: $14.36 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 15.95. [Oxford University Press, USA] 992 pages. From the Publisher First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people - Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and their cousin Indiana Lynmere - and, in particular, with the love affair between Camilla herself and her eligible suitor, Edgar Mandlebert. The path of true love, however, is strewn with intrigue, contretemps and misunderstanding.. ""An enormously popular eighteenth-century novel, Camilla is touched at many points by the advancing spirit of romanticism. As in Evelina, Fanny Burney weaves into her novel strands of light and dark, comic episodes and gothic shudders, and creates a pattern of social and moral dilemmas which emphasize and illuminate the gap between generations."
	"Carroll, Susan - Bride Finder PMN" Code:0449003884PMN Price: $5.24 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 6.99. Romance. Gothic. A fine debut and a lovely classical gothic, set in the mid-18th century."
	"Carter, Angela - Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - PTN" Code:014017821XPTN Price: $9.75 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 13. [Penguin Group (USA)] 128 pages. From the Publisher The old fairy stories live again, subtly altered. By the prize-winning author of ""Wise Children"", ""Nights at the Circus"", ""American Ghosts and Old World Wonders"" and ""Expletives Deleted"". "
	"Clark, Mary Higgins - Stillwatch - PMN" Code:0671528203PMN Price: $2.10 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. Used. [Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group] 356 pages. From the Publisher ""I TOLD YOU NOT TO COME..."" Slipped under the door of her Georgetown home, the note was an ominous reminder of Pat Traymore's past. The beautiful young television journalist had come to glamorous, high-powered Washington to produce a TV series. Her subject: Senator Abigail Jennings, slated for nomination as the first woman vice president of the United States. With the help of an old flame, Congresman Sam Kingsley, Pat delves into Abigail's life, only to turn up horrifying facts that threaten to destroy senator's reputation and her career. Worse still, sinister connections to Pat's own childhood and the nightmare secrets hidden within are surfacing -- secrets waiting to destroy her. "
	"Coulter, Catherine - Countess - PMN" Code:0451198506PMN Price: $5.63 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Mass Market Paperback. New. List $ 7.5. [Signet] 416 pages. From the Publisher The #1 New York Times bestselling author's very first novel, rewritten as a Gothic. A woman who makes the wrong choice for a husband may not live to marry the man of her dreams. "
	"Edgeworth, Maria - Castle Rackrent and Ennui - PTN" Code:0140433201PTN Price: $10.50 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 14. [Penguin Group (USA)] 368 pages.
	"Edgeworth, Maria - The Absentee - PTN" Code:1406862894PTN Price: $12.90 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? Paperback. New. List $ 12.9. [Echo Library] 204 pages.
	"Feehan, Christine - Lair of the Lion PBN" Code:084395048XPBN Price: $5.99 Rating: none Quantity in Basket: none
Add to wish list? "Paperback. New. List $ 7.99. Romance. Gothic. Impoverished aristocrat Isabella Vernaducci will defy death itself to rescue her imprisoned brother. She'll even brave the haunted, accursed lair of the lion -- the menacing palazzo of legendary, lethal Don Nicolai DeMarco. Rumor says the powerful don can command the heavens, that the beasts below do his bidding...and that he is doomed to destroy the woman he takes as his wife. But Isabella meets a man whose growl is velvet, purring heat, whose eyes hold dark, all-consuming desire. And when the don commands her to become his bride, she goes willingly into his muscled arms, praying she'll save his tortured soul...not sacrifice her life.