Do you like Jane Austen enough (or not enough) to enjoy parodies and retellings? Did you like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies? Well maybe, just maybe, you’ll enjoy Melinda Taub’s The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch. The story tries to bring justice to Lydia Bennet, the youngest of Pride and Prejudice‘s Bennet sisters, while she has to deal with her sister Kitty (who’s actually a barn cat), Mr. Wickham (who’s actually a demon) and Mr. Darcy (who reacts to witchcraft the way you’d expect). Described as “Pride and Prejudice” meets “Jonathan Strange and Mister Norrell”, only with more witches.

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Werewolves Wednesday: The Wolf-Leader (19)
A werewolf story by Alexandre Dumas père. Chapter XIX: The Dead and the Living At the same moment that the trembling soul of the young Baron passed away, Thibault, awaking as if from an agitated sleep full of terrible dreams, sat up in his bed. He
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