The Shape of Darkness
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Ell Potter
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Laura Purcell
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Edgar Award Finalist
A struggling silhouette artist in Victorian Bath seeks out a renowned child spirit medium in order to speak to the dead—and to try and identify their killers—in this beguiling new tale from the queen of Gothic fiction, Laura Purcell
As the age of the photograph dawns in Victorian Bath, silhouette artist Agnes is struggling to keep her business afloat. Still recovering from a serious illness herself, making enough money to support her elderly mother and her orphaned nephew Cedric has never been easy, but then one of her clients is murdered shortly after sitting for Agnes, and then another, and another... Why is the killer seemingly targeting her business?
Desperately seeking an answer, Agnes approaches Pearl, a child spirit medium lodging in Bath with her older half-sister and her ailing father, hoping that if Pearl can make contact with those who died, they might reveal who killed them. But Agnes and Pearl quickly discover that instead they may have opened the door to something that they can never put back.
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When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred 40 years earlier, when he visited the place as a boy. At that time his devoutly Catholic mother was determined to find healing for Hanny, his disabled older brother. And so the family, along with members of their parish, embarked on an Easter pilgrimage to an ancient shrine.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oh dear...
- De CES en 05-24-16
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The House of Whispers
- A Novel
- De: Laura Purcell
- Narrado por: Elizabeth Knowelden, Christine Rendel
- Duración: 10 h y 53 m
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Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken. But Dr. Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the disease in the caves beneath his new Cornish home. While he devotes himself to his controversial medical trials, Louise finds herself increasingly discomfited by the strange tales her new maid tells of the fairies that hunt the land, searching for those they can steal away to their realm.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A Bit Disappointed
- De Mary en 09-16-20
De: Laura Purcell
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The Poison Thread
- A Novel
- De: Laura Purcell
- Narrado por: Jayne Entwistle, Elizabeth Knowelden
- Duración: 12 h y 54 m
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Dorothea Truelove is young, wealthy, and beautiful. Ruth Butterham is young, poor, and awaiting trial for murder. When Dorothea's charitable work brings her to Oakgate Prison, she is delighted by the chance to explore her fascination with phrenology and test her hypothesis that the shape of a person's skull can cast a light on their darkest crimes. But when she meets one of the prisoners, the teenaged seamstress Ruth, she is faced with another strange idea.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well told gothic story good narrators
- De ReallyNelie en 08-10-19
De: Laura Purcell
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The Little Stranger
- De: Sarah Waters
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 15 h y 49 m
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The Little Stranger follows the strange adventures of Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. One dusty postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline - its masonry crumbling, its gardens choked with weeds, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at 20 to nine.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First, pour yourself a mug of hot tea or cocoa
- De Rose en 07-03-09
De: Sarah Waters
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Hex
- De: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- Narrado por: Jeff Harding
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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Welcome to Black Spring, the seemingly picturesque Hudson Valley town haunted by the Black Rock Witch, a seventeenth century woman whose eyes and mouth are sewn shut. Muzzled, she walks the streets and enters homes at will. She stands next to children's bed for nights on end. Everybody knows that her eyes may never be opened or the consequences will be too terrible to bear.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Dark Story...Odd Narrator
- De Mr. Richard Smith en 08-08-16
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My Darling Dreadful Thing
- A Novel
- De: Johanna van Veen
- Narrado por: Jess Nesling
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruth—strange, corpse-like, and dead for centuries—is the light of Roos' life. That is, until the wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop visits one of Roos' backroom seances, and the two strike up a connection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Holds Out Until the Last Minute
- De Andy en 12-19-24
De: Johanna van Veen
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The Loney
- De: Andrew Michael Hurley
- Narrado por: Richard Burnip
- Duración: 11 h y 15 m
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When the remains of a young child are discovered during a winter storm on a stretch of the bleak Lancashire coastline known as the Loney, a man named Smith is forced to confront the terrifying and mysterious events that occurred 40 years earlier, when he visited the place as a boy. At that time his devoutly Catholic mother was determined to find healing for Hanny, his disabled older brother. And so the family, along with members of their parish, embarked on an Easter pilgrimage to an ancient shrine.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Oh dear...
- De CES en 05-24-16
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Affinity
- De: Sarah Waters
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 15 h y 7 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 447
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Named Author of the Year at the 2003 British BookAwards, Sarah Waters is the author of Tipping the Velvet, a New York Times Notable Book. Once inside the concrete walls of Millbank Prison, Margaret Prior, hired to speak with the female inmates, becomes all too aware that what she perceives to be reality may not be so. Bringing new ideas to her mind is the beautiful, but dangerous criminal Selina Dawes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating and Rich in Detail
- De Ilana en 02-20-15
De: Sarah Waters
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Wakenhyrst
- De: Michelle Paver
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 328
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In Edwardian Suffolk, a manor house stands alone in a lost corner of the Fens: a glinting wilderness of water whose whispering reeds guard ancient secrets. Maud is a lonely child growing up without a mother, ruled by her repressive father. When he finds a painted medieval devil in a graveyard, unhallowed forces are awakened. Maud's battle has begun. She must survive a world haunted by witchcraft, the age-old legends of her beloved fen - and the even more nightmarish demons of her father's past.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strangely compelling
- De B. Coleman en 02-23-20
De: Michelle Paver
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Dark Matter
- De: Michelle Paver
- Narrado por: Jeremy Northam
- Duración: 6 h y 4 m
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January 1937. Jack Miller has just about run out of options. His shoes have worn through, he can't afford to heat his rented room in Tooting, and he longs to use his training as an specialist wireless operator instead of working in his dead-end job. When he is given the chance to join an arctic expedition, as communications expert, by a group of elite Oxbridge graduates, he brushes off his apprehensions and convinces himself to join them.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible!
- De Madeleine en 02-12-11
De: Michelle Paver
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Diavola
- De: Jennifer Thorne
- Narrado por: Andi Arndt
- Duración: 10 h y 10 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 771
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Jennifer Thorne skewers all-too-familiar family dynamics in this sly, wickedly funny vacation-Gothic. Beautifully unhinged and deeply satisfying, Diavola is a sharp twist on the classic haunted house story, exploring loneliness, belonging, and the seemingly inescapable bonds of family mythology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Witty, Original, VERY satisfying ending
- De Andrea S en 04-26-24
De: Jennifer Thorne
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The Bloody Chamber
- De: Angela Carter
- Narrado por: Richard Armitage, Emilia Fox
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 927
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A collection of short stories, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories was first published in 1979 and awarded the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize. This Audible exclusive adaptation is narrated by legendary actors, Richard Armitage and Emilia Fox, who take on different chapters of the audiobook. Among these are 'The Bloody Chamber', 'The Courtship of Mr Lyon', 'The Tiger's Bride', 'Puss in Boots', 'The Erl-King', 'The Snow Child', 'The Lady of the House of Love', 'The Werewolf' and 'Wolf-Alice'.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surprised myself
- De Nora en 04-05-18
De: Angela Carter
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The Creeper
- De: A.M. Shine
- Narrado por: Aidan Kelly
- Duración: 9 h y 11 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 587
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Renowned academic Dr Sparling seeks help with his project on a remote Irish village. Historical researchers Ben and Chloe are thrilled to be chosen—until they arrive. The village is isolated and forgotten. There is no record of its history, its stories. There is no friendliness from the locals, only wary looks and whispers. The villagers lock down their homes at sundown. A nameless fear stalks the streets. Nobody will talk—nobody except one little girl. Her story strikes dread into the hearts of the newcomers. Three times you see him. Each night he comes closer.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I don’t understand
- De Bohemian Blonde en 02-13-23
De: A.M. Shine
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The Hacienda
- De: Isabel Cañas
- Narrado por: Victoria Villarreal, Lee Osorio
- Duración: 11 h y 7 m
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During the overthrow of the Mexican government, Beatriz’s father was executed and her home destroyed. When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. She will have her own home again, no matter the cost. But Hacienda San Isidro is not the sanctuary she imagined. Something is wrong with the hacienda. And no one there will save her. Far from a refuge, San Isidro may be Beatriz’s doom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Latine Gothic Horror
- De Mary Rodriguez en 03-07-23
De: Isabel Cañas
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Fingersmith
- De: Sarah Waters
- Narrado por: Juanita McMahon
- Duración: 23 h y 36 m
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Orphaned as an infant, Susan Trinder was raised by Mrs. Sucksby, “mother” to a host of pickpockets and con artists. To pay her debt, she joins legendary thief Gentleman in swindling an innocent woman out of her inheritence. But the two women form an unanticipated bond and the events that follow will surprise every listener. Fingersmith was shortlisted for the Orange Prize and the Booker Prize, and was chosen as book of the year 2002 by more organizations than any other novel. Sarah Waters was named Author of the Year at the 2003 British Book Awards.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The BEST BOOK I"ve read this year!
- De Avid reader and shopper en 08-30-11
De: Sarah Waters
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Ghost Wall
- A Novel
- De: Sarah Moss
- Narrado por: Christine Hewitt
- Duración: 3 h y 48 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 290
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In the North of England, far from the intrusions of cities but not far from civilization, Silvie and her family are living as if they are ancient Britons, surviving by the tools and knowledge of the Iron Age. For two weeks, the length of her father’s vacation, they join an anthropology course set to reenact life in simpler times. The ancient Britons built ghost walls to ward off enemy invaders, rude barricades of stakes topped with ancestral skulls. When the group builds one of its own, they find a spiritual connection to the past. What comes next but human sacrifice?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good read!
- De Chester Johnson en 02-23-19
De: Sarah Moss
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Last Days
- De: Brian Evenson
- Narrado por: Chris Patton
- Duración: 6 h y 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 251
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Still reeling from a brutal dismemberment, detective Kline is forcibly recruited to solve a murder inside a religious cult that takes literally the New Testament idea that you should cut off your hand if it offends you. Armed only with his gun, his wits, and a gift for self-preservation, Kline must navigate a gauntlet of lies, threats, and misinformation. All too soon he discovers that the stakes are higher than he thought and that his survival depends on an act of sheer will.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Red Harvest for the 21st Century
- De Joe Kraus en 10-04-17
De: Brian Evenson
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Withered Hill
- De: David Barnett
- Narrado por: Ziggy Sobers
- Duración: 11 h y 17 m
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A year ago Sophie Wickham stumbled into the isolated Lancashire village of Withered Hill, naked, alone and with no memory of who she is. Surrounded by a thick ring of woodland, its inhabitants seem to be of another world, drenched in pagan, folklorish traditions. As Sophie struggles to regain the memories of her life from before, she quickly realises she is a prisoner after multiple failed escape attempts. But is it the locals who keep her trapped, with smiles on their faces, or something else, lurking in the woods?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story & narration
- De Anonymous User en 04-24-25
De: David Barnett
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At the Bottom of the Garden
- A Novel
- De: Camilla Bruce
- Narrado por: Suzanne Barbetta, Britanny Pressley, Cassandra Morris
- Duración: 13 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 10
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Clara Woods is a killer—and perfectly fine with it, too. So what if she takes a couple of lives to make her own a little bit better? At the bottom of her garden is a flower bed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace—or so she’s always thought. Then the girls arrive. Lily and Violet are her nieces, recently orphaned after their affluent parents died on an ill-fated anniversary trip. In accordance with their parents’ will, the sisters are to go to their closest relative—who happens to be Clara.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Idea; Mediocre Execution
- De The Book Grinch en 03-11-25
De: Camilla Bruce
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Shape of Darkness
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- Nevena Hristozova
- 08-09-24
So many twists at resolution
Nothing gets clear until the very end, and then another twist, and then another... As if the author couldn't make up her mind how to finish the story. It was only OK.
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- Linda
- 09-29-23
Excellent
Really enjoyed this book, great spookiness without unnecessary gore or sex. The narrator did a great job!
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- Lulew
- 03-30-22
A little predictable
Overall okay. It started slow and picked up a little. You could see the end coming a mile away but enjoyed it enough.
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- Lovely Reader
- 08-14-22
Slow Burn but very Good
I really loved this book. This is the second book I've read by Laura Purcell. She stays true to her style, builds upon the characters at first, giving a slow burn, then a rush at the end.
I enjoyed the story, very original. The characters are unique, the author throws in some surprises. However, I did not care for the ending. I get it but it's a little confusing.
I definitely recommend this audio book for Gothic Ghost story lovers. I enjoyed the narrating. I felt the narrator gave feeling to the characters. Had I read this book I don't think I would have liked it, as much as, I did listening to it. Greatly deserves 4 stars, a good listen.
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- R Stenclik
- 06-05-21
Another excellent book by Ms. Purcell
Ms. Purcell once again masterfully enthralls her readers with fascinating relationships and a thrilling story. While it is a ghost story, it's more about perception, power dynamics within family, societal expectations and obligation. There are stories within stories. I loved this book and the narration.
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- Deborah Stellhorn
- 12-07-22
Mysterious and Engaging
I couldn’t stop listening as I reached the end. Another thrilling book by Laura Purcell.
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- Rebecca Hawkins
- 01-24-23
Excellent!
A truly surprising ghost story! It was very victorian, very creative, well written and well narrated. Couldn't stop listening!
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- Tisha S. Copeland
- 08-31-22
You think you know…
But, you don’t.
Excellent story!! Narrator is excellent and the plot is twisty all around.
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- Merricat
- 12-08-21
Great characters that held my interest throughout
Great and real characters that held my interest throughout. Worth the credit. Not what I expected.
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- Garnet
- 04-05-22
Silhouettes
I am a fan of Laura Purcell and this novel does not disappoint. I have read her previous books and enjoyed them immensely. Each one always captures an occupation of women of their time.
Ell Potter, the narrator, made this book come alive, and will look forward to other books that she narrates.
This book has its twists and turns, and deals with seances, mesmerizing, and the art of silhouette cutting.
And just when you think you have it solved .... you don't.
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