Ruby Jean Jensen

• Jan-1974
• / Gothic
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Journey with Tara, beautiful, impulsive Tara, to the remote Black Swamp Manor. Tara cannot deny her motherly instincts and reluctantly responds to the pleas of Amy, a flower-child and expectant mother, to accompany her and her “family” to an i...

• Jan-1974
• / Gothic
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Journey with Tara, beautiful, impulsive Tara, to the remote Black Swamp Manor. Tara cannot deny her motherly instincts and reluctantly responds to the pleas of Amy, a flower-child and expectant mother, to accompany her and her “family” to an i...

• Dec-1974
• / Gothic
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How could I love a man in a wheelchair, a man whose voice I had never heard, whose proposal came by letter? Yet his terms for marriage were as seductive as they were strange. He offered a home, financial security for me, my 11-year-old daughter Jodie...

• Jan-1975
• / Gothic
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Waves of terror swept me as I huddled, cold and wet at the water's edge. Over and over, the accident haunted me. The bridge - wet, slippery, so narrow. And then the fog - thick, condensing, coming from behind, then covering the windshield. Smothering...

• Jan-1978
• / Gothic
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Andrea was getting desperate. If she wasn't her mother's daughter, why did the "real" set of parents seem to reject her? She was determined to solve the mystery even though the secret was protected by a murderer....

• Jun-1978
• / Gothic
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Weaned from Bast, deadly cat goddess, the Nightmare Girl tormented Ellen with Demonic evil! Ellen's recurring nightmare turned her blood cold - the leering eyes and bared white teeth jutting out of the evil mask. And then she met it, alive and...

• Dec-1978
• / Gothic
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Gladys Swartz was a plain girl boiling with suppressed desire. In a book on the occult, she read of bodily possession and conceived a devilish plan. She brought about her own death by accident, then, wandering the earth as a restless spirit, she atta...

• Mar-1981
• / Contemporary Romance
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Jo Anne Dodson was thrilled when she came to the old mountainside mansion at River’s Bend. It still seemed incredible that she was the missing great-granddaughter of an eccentric millionaire, and that his death had made her heiress to his estate. ...

• Aug-1983
• / Horror
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With her velvety brown eyes, long golden hair and the cutest dimple in her chin, Zenoa was a beautiful dolly. But nobody lived long after she came to live with them. Maybe it had something to do with the ice pick she was fond of wielding... The Ar...

• Nov-1983
• / General Fiction
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Ginger truly loved Robert, but how could she commit to marriage? You see, she had never resolved her feelings for Ross, the man that her own spoiled sister Bonnie had snatched away from her. Despite her heartbreak, Ginger had felt obliged to return h...

• Apr-1985
• / Horror
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THRESHOLD OF TERROR His parents said it would be lots of fun. Two weeks in the mountains with nice Mr. Walker. A perfect vacation for a little boy. But Timmy didn’t think it was fun. The closer they got to the cabin, the less friendly Mr. Walker...

• Nov-1985
• / Horror
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Barry had been abused while at a nursery school. His father Ramon, a single parent, had to deal with the aftermath. Job demands left him little time to care for Barry and his older brother and sister. Fortunately, the therapist Dr. Coleman had an ide...

• Jun-1986
• / Horror
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TWILIGHT TOMB The body floated in the depths of the river. Slowly it rose and fell with the shifting waters. The once beautiful eyes were wide and staring. The hair, once as red as copper, had turned a pale lifeless pink, sweeping out strand by st...

• Sep-1986
• / Horror
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Once upon a time there lived a sweet little dolly. Her porcelain like face was so smooth, just like a baby. Her mouth even had a tiny hole so she could eat and breathe. But her one beaded glass eye gleamed with mischief and evil. She had waited a lon...

• Mar-1987
• / Horror
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Make Believe Terror Jessica liked to play make believe in the old abandoned stone mansion. She liked to pretend that the beautiful golden haired woman in the portrait was her mother. And that the big dollhouse she had found upstairs was hers, alon...

• Sep-1987
• / Horror
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The paper was yellowed with age and edged in black. The spidery words were elegantly penned: Whosoever possesseth this letter and dares to break this chain shall suffer disaster and death... Abby and Brian knew what they had found. A chain lett...

• Jan-1988
• / Horror
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She found it in a garage sale. The size of a large oval grapefruit, it had a long curving handle, a small lid, and a delicate chain. Seven-year-old Ellen was sure it was Aladdin's lamp and even though it cost a whole week's allowance, she was thrille...

• Apr-1988
• / Horror
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SUMMER CARNIVAL Amy and Jodi had been scared to stay with their dad for the very first time since the divorce. But living with the traveling carnival for the summer turned out to be fun. The glimmering light on the midway, riding the ferris wheel,...

• May-1988
• / Horror
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The lake of placid water was framed in the forested hills of Arkansas. It was a beautiful place for a midnight swim. Ilene dived forward and began to swim. Jerry’s long body slipped beside her, his arms breaking the surface of the moon-touched dar...

• Oct-1988
• / Horror
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QUIET CHILD Haley had always been the quiet child, the sensitive child, the secretive child who liked to go off and play by herself. And she never told anybody about what she saw the day her father died. Never told them about the red striped jump...

• Nov-1988
• / Horror
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Felicia was not quite fourteen years old the night that she disobeyed her mother and took a path home through the woods after nightfall. She was attacked. When she came to, she vaguely recalled the incident, and could not identify what or who had att...

• Apr-1989
• / Horror
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Heather's fortune-telling booth was the big hit of the Halloween carnival put on by her sixth-grade class. And it was all due to the strange device the old raggedy man had left on her doorstep. Now people were lining up in droves, eager to have their...

• Oct-1989
• / Horror
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Greta and Derek fished the ring out of an abandoned well. It was gold with a dark red jewel that seemed to ripple with streaks of fire. Greta loved the ring so much that she traded Derek her pearl-handled knife for it. Never mind that it was too big ...

• Jan-1990
• / Horror
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BAD BLOOD Babette had always adored her younger brother Paddy. She couldn't understand why her crazy mother Ketti hated and feared the dear little boy so. Then, on one terrible night, the baby of the family Billy, was discovered dead in his crib--hi...

• Jun-1990
• / Horror
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A MOTHER’S TERROR The dreams had been coming with increasing frequency. The ground splitting open…the head of an infant emerging…its eyes wide open…its mouth filled with pointed, needle-sharp teeth…Magret would wake up screaming to find ...

• Dec-1990
• / Horror
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The doll was an extraordinary piece: Her hair was real, her features in perfect proportion, even her clothes seemed as though they were made one hundred years ago. But most remarkable was that her identical twin had been on display at Fawn and Laura'...

• Jul-1991
• / Horror
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I'll get you, Celia. You kill me and I'll come back as your worst nightmare. I'll get you and I'll get your kids, too. I'll get you, Celia, I'll get you... -- No one heard the gunshots. Just as no one ever heard Celia's screams or those of her c...

• Dec-1991
• / Horror
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It was such a lovely baby dolly. With its tiny , delicate hands, its cunning wrought features, its hand-stitched gown. It was a doll any little girl would long to hold tight. Instead it has been kept hidden in the china cabinet all these years... -...

• Sep-1992
• / Horror
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It all started the night of Dalton Walsh's revival meeting... when the earth beneath his tent trembled with a kind of vengeance. It was as if some force from beyond knew about the terrible crimes that had transpired in this little town and finally wa...

• Jul-1995
• / Horror
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One hundred and thirty years after a strange religious cult is hunted down and a sycamore tree is planted over their graves, the tree is cut down by land developers and an unspeakably evil force reawakens. It is 1865 and as the Civil War rages ac...

• Apr-2000
• / Horror
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The abandoned house in the woods is exactly what real estate agent Katie Rogers has been looking for. Thrilled with her find, she moves in with her sister and young niece and nephew -- blissfully unaware of its gruesome history of bloodshed and murde...

• Jul-2023
• / Psychological Suspense
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At age sixty-five, Emily Alexander fell and broke her hip. Since she had been living alone and had no friends to help out, she was forced to recuperate in Willowbrook Care Center. Carefully maintaining her hidden identity, she registers with her alia...

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