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(W) Francesco Dimitri

Four old school friends have a pact: to meet up every year in the small town in Italy they grew up in. Art, the charismatic leader of the group and creator of the pact, insists that the agreement must remain unshakable. But this year, he never shows up. The three friends look for him and come across bizarre rumours - and a document written by Art, The Book of Hidden Things, which promises to reveal dark secrets and wonders beyond anything previously known.

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(W) Christopher Husberg

When a series of dark rituals devastate the fledgeling Church of Canta, Jane and Cinzia realize they have ignored the movements in the shadows for too long. Meanwhile, Astrid's faces that which she fears above all things: her own past. Winter returns to Pranna, only to find a tiellan faction in fierce conflict with the humans. She must choose how to use her all-consuming power; if she can manage to control it at all.

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CAULDRON & STEEL EGG

(W) Diane Carey

Collects two original Alien spin-offs: Cauldron by Diane Carey and Steel Egg by John Shirley.   In Cauldron, a troupe of cadets is forced into servitude by an unscrupulous smuggler-captain. During the transaction aboard the eerily silent Virginia, the cadets unwittingly transport an unexpected cargo: a hive of hibernating aliens. Steel Egg tells the story of the first encounter - Aliens and humans have fought before! When a human spaceship discovers an egg-shaped vessel in Saturn's orbit, the crew powers in to investigate...

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(W) Freda Warington

   The ballerina Violette Lenoir has fallen victim to the bite of the vampire Charlotte. Her fire and energy have fuelled a terrifying change and a dreadful realisation; that Violette has become Lilith, the demon mother of all vampires. Haunted by Violette's dark sensuality, Charlotte and her immortal lover Karl are drawn towards the dancer and the terrible destiny that has fallen on her shoulders.

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(W) Donald E Westlake

A formerly rich businessman thrown out of Hong Kong when the Chinese took over from the British decides to fix his dire financial problems and take revenge on the Chinese.

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(W) Nina Allan

Selena and Julie are sisters. As children they were close, but as they grow older, a rift develops between them. There are greater rifts, however. Julie goes missing aged seventeen. It will be twenty years before Selena sees her again. When Julie reappears, she tells Selena an incredible story about how she has spent time on another planet. Does Selena dismiss her sister as a the victim of delusions, or believe her, and risk her own sanity?

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(W) James Lovegrove

Mrs Hudson begs Holmes and Watson to help a fellow landlady whose lodger has been found poisoned, and who the police suspect of the murder. The companions discover that the lodger, a mining engineer recently returned from Africa, was on the run. His last act was to scrawl 'Devil's Dust' in his own blood. What was he trying to convey, and what is the role of hunter Allan Quatermain, who visited the man just before his murder?