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Elgin's Enigma ✔ by JJJ000YYY
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Elgin is your average city filled with people, trains, fog, victorian era fashion, goat people, and the best alchemy shop one can find. Nothing too bizarre, aside from the children. Children appear in the forest regularly with marks on their bodies, unsure of how or why they're there. One day, a letter gets delivered to one of the children and curiosity gets the better of them. It suddenly becomes a mad dash on figuring out on what exactly Elgin is and how they can go back home. Cover by @Azanthiel Featured on: @Horror "Hell's Bells"
Quick and Painless: A Satirical Reimagining of the Invention of the Guillotine by ATtheHuman
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(ON HIATUS) After being thrown off the social pyramid when he had a child with a black girl, Andreas Moreau gets a second chance when he's asked by the man he works for, Antoine Louis, to help build a new invention of his; The beautiful execution machine that would give justice to all: the Guillotine. With the hopes of buying his wife out of slavery and creating a future for his son, Andreas complies and feeds Louis' idea. He can't predict the impact the Guillotine would have on his country, let alone the world. Told in a series of letters, Quick and Painless is a story of family, devotion, and catastrophe. - Cover by @Unevenfeets
Chaos Begets Chaos [Lessons Learned the Hard Way book 1] by SaraNGardiner
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When July is recruited by Death herself to educate a younger Seer about the supernatural, her first lesson is very simple: immortals are dangerous and can't be trusted. But her warnings fall on deaf ears as her student, Emma, is much too interested in magical beings to be afraid of them. Their lives and lessons are thrown totally off-course by the arrival of Nytep, a Lovecraftian god of Chaos who delights in toying with mortals. Nytep takes an immediate interest in July and becomes a secret secondary tutor to Emma--but what starts as a game to him will grow into something much more meaningful (and dangerous) for everyone involved. After all, Chaos forces change, whether it's wanted or not. [Cover art by Arkkosun on Twitter]
The Deepcombers by Roberrific
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To the bottom! The Deepcombers are professional dungeon crawlers in a print-crazed medieval society where reckless teenagers reign supreme above ground and blood thirsty creatures dwell below. Lonastasius is a 17 year old mutant slave who breaks his chains and learns a lost language. He's hunted by an ambitious priest who's driven to purify the race of all such aberrations. The young abomination leads his pursuers across a Lost World ripe with ancient secrets and finds a fragile paradise which he vows to protect. He gathers unlikely friends, each with different strengths. But Lon is the weakest link. Only by overcoming his own guilt will he ever be brave enough to uncover the truth, and strong enough to defeat the priest's intolerance.
Stolen Suns by windyfiend
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Do you remember the last time the sun shone? The sky was the color of bluebirds, and the clouds were white as lilies. You could see colors all the way to the horizon. Then it all turned red, then violet, then dark. This is a story of eternal night, the clockwork city, the petrified woods, and the precious resource of sunlight. While the empress prepares to break a centuries-old contract with the monsters of the dark, children are disappearing one by one. Rebellion explodes in the streets. The forest swarms with yellow eyes. Three lead the way toward the end of everything, though they don't know it: Alexis, the loyal warrior with misplaced trust and a poisonous secret; Briony, the miscreant who stands defiant in the belly of the devouring forest; and Runa, whose faith in the human heart may finally break the masks of the ones who were lost. Contests: #TheBookerAwards
When they set us free by looneybooky
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Alice lives her life like a lawful citizen. She never eats more than her daily ration of food and, more importantly, she never dares to ask about the world outside of her sealed apartment building, the world no one has ever seen. That is until one day she is forced to go outside. "Set free", is what the people kept inside the building whisper to each other when they talk about her. But Alices' freedom comes at a cost greater than she would have ever thought was possible.
ekstasis by jamie_bauer
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Sophie Boyd has spent her whole life longing for an escape from her dreary childhood home and distant widower father. So when she receives a generous scholarship from the prestigious Bragdon Academy, she jumps at the opportunity to trade her working class upbringing for a boarding school education alongside Europe's rich and famous. But strange happenings are afoot at Bragdon. Sophie is dogged by dreams of death and serpents, and something lurks in the woods behind the campus--something that may have the key to understanding the death of Sophie's mother. With the help of her standoffish roommate Holly and the charming star student Alexei, Sophie begins to untangle a centuries-old web of blood debts and old magic. In order to save her own soul--and those of her friends--Sophie must come face to face with an ancient god and the trauma of her past. Updates weekly on Fridays!