S. H Marpel
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It started with a dream.
In it, John Earl Stark solved the problem of a ghost he met. Or did he? It was a dream, after all.
The next day he meets two women who visit his cabin, arriving out of the blue, literally. (Well, one arrived with pitched black darkness which filled his cabin and made her cough.)
These two have an offer for Stark. All he really wanted was to enjoy the small cabin and solitude so he could write his detective stories.
These...
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.
This is their origin-story...
Their parents were serfs, and belonged to two different dukedoms. Falling in love endangered them both. Becoming pregnant with twins made this even worse.
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch over them....
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An evil sorceress escaped after being imprisoned for 12,000 years.
To accomplish that, she tricked the oldest goddess, remaining on earth, and crippled another one shortly after. Now the Ghost Hunters have to solve a problem they helped create. One who was more powerful than any they had faced to date. Individually, she could probably destroy any one of them. Only working together as a team could she be stopped.
Her secret was - she was building...
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Things were going well, until we got arrested. By our own security.
No lawyer, no rights read, even our own boss turned on us.
Because now we were being studied like the very people we were studying before. Or trying to.
You see, we couldn't find any trace of those people, except for faint traces of biological material that were old enough to be historical.
Everyone was starting to think they were some sort of urban legend.
Until we went on a...
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One too many. And, I couldn't remember last night, either. Both unlikely for a witch.
But, my powers were still here. Well, sort of.
And, that's all I remembered.
Not my name, not how I got dressed (or un-dressed) like this. Or where I was.
Helluva hangover, especially for a witch.
The problem was that I didn't remember anything before I woke up. Nothing. No childhood, no witch training, nothing.
Not even my own name.
I'd been spelled but good. Now...
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"Well, this is curious - I've only got papers that say to take one of you."My two latest deaths stood in front of me."The other is supposed to keep on living. But here you both are."Neither spoke to volunteer which was which."So, you both intend to keep on living, in spite of my orders to take one of you."Silence signaled assent."You know that no one has ever cheated Death. Just because you have some spirit-guides looking out for you doesn't mean...
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The old coven was destroyed and one witch remained, to rule them all.
Her power was absolute, and it came from those she vanquished.
The last rite to perform was the Dance - where all these powers and their personalities were unified into a single force.
Without that core immersion, the powers and personalities would war with each other forever - inside her mind.
This had only been attempted once in all known history. And failed, fragmenting all...
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Two scientists broke time - trying to travel in it.
If they weren't so cute, I don't think I'd be as forgiving.
Still, they have no clue what they just invented.
In these days of overnight express delivery, they could make a fortune. And the same device could deliver ticking bombs to any government building or office building anywhere. Instantaneously.
You'd think these scientists would have learned something after the Manhattan Project....
9) Lilly Lee
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It wasn't often a song stopped me dead in my tracks. All I could do was listen.
And I was filled with feelings of peace and hope. So much I didn't want to move, just listen.
Now there wasn't a tune, a melody, or words to that song. But I was transfixed. If I could have tapped my foot to keep time, I would. It was a catchy song, and filled my heart to overflowing with love and understanding.
A siren's song.
But not of lust and longing for carnal...
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Harpy and I were born from the union between a goddess of nature and a god of humans.
While she was the black sheep of the family, I was the shining star who could do no wrong.
Opposite twins, our whole long lives.
Through history, you may have heard of us. Mostly written as hags, foul-smelling man-killers.
Of course, you can never believe the press. They only partially report the facts. The bits that suit them.
Our longer history was...
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Four witches have something in common, and must find each other before an ancient enemy harvests their magic for her own use.
A powerful mass of magic was long ago shattered and dispersed to the four corners of this planet. And, has found four young women as hosts.
They themselves cannot remember how they got their talents or when, and often don't, know why they showed up, where they did.
A single male wood nymph finds himself at the crossroads...
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The Continuing Saga of the Ghost Hunters
A mystery-detective writer is recruited by two enticing young spirit guides, who are capable of transporting him through space and time to solve the problems of ghosts stuck in this dimension.
A follow-up anthology with their continuing adventures, as they further explore the unseen enemies they face who want to keep the ghosts haunting here.
As well, the relationships between a young man and two very female...
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The more circuits in any machine, the more it's likely to get "haunted."
When you connect it to the Internet then you can get more than you asked for.
Installing a home system seemed obvious at the time. Having the "Internet of Things" to give you your every whim seemed a dream come true.
When our broadband costs rocketed, we looked to see what usage was happening - too many videos, too many games, was someone parked at the curb outside our house...
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In the days when people were owned by the land, two young girls found their power by becoming ghosts, then spirit guides.
This is their origin-story...
Their Dad had to raise them by himself, as Mother died shortly after birthing them. But as a spirit, she remained on Earth to watch over them. Sal and Jude could see her, and knew their Dad could feel her presence.
Efforts to enter the forest, to exploit its abundant wild game, have all been turned...
15) Harpy Redux
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An old enemy found me, and left me powerless, when I was only trying to help her.
We'd met year ago, and she became trapped in the mystic world she'd created, on of evil and retribution for imagined offenses. I had my own problems at the time, so became the target of her wrath. When she disappeared, and became trapped for thousands of years, I had almost forgotten her.
Meanwhile, life had changed. Lessons had been, learned. People moved on. Then...
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The result of all these civil wars was complete destruction.
Maybe we should have taken a hint from all those wars we fought "over there" and the footage came back showing entire cities now only towering, shattered icons that stood in piles of rubble.
Uninhabited. uninhabitable.
Yet this one woman stayed there. This was her new home, she repeated stubbornly. She wasn't leaving. Even though it meant eventual death.
If the warring armies didn't...
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The last she remembered of her childhood was being trapped in a stone chapel.
At the single door were a mob of villagers with torches she formerly thought were her friends.
Once those doors were broken down, none would enter. But a torch was thrown inside anyway.
Somehow, a wall of flame erupted at the entrance. She and her sister looked at each other as if to say "that wasn't mine". Because they had both learned that trick from their mother.
But...
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The adventures of the Ghost Hunters continue - with more exotic locations and hair-raising paranormal adventures than ever before:
- Visiting a haunted planet where the normal is falling between two worlds, while John winds up solving being in a coma, away from his body.
- The goddes Harpy returns with a simple request for John, a personal and very human one.
- Sal has to help John sort out a mental mis-thinking that could kill him off unless unraveled.
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19) Harpy Spawn
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Sunset found me trying to understand why the small herd I was caring for was nervous and bawling.It wasn't long before I saw what they were looking up at. Or rather, who.Three human-sized females, each with broad wings, were circling the herd, as if looking for their evening meal.As I saw them, they spied me – and started dropping from the sky right toward the spot I stood on.Since I couldn't outrun them, I just stood there so see if I was going...
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They call me Mysti. Because of my mystic origins.
The beings who raised me almost killed me before they found out my real value.
They became my mentors, and then - as my powers expanded - my servants.
What they never knew is that "mystic" means both master and novice.
So, I left them to find someone who could actually teach me balance between the two extremes that lived inside me. And, like a double-edged sword, could cut both ways.
And, like...