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- Patrick McGrath, Ghost Town: Tales of Manhattan Then and Now (Bloomsbury USA, 2005). Three hauntings (of various varieties), some past, some present.
- Sarah Waters, The Night Watch (Riverhead, 2006). Waters, best known for her gender-bending neo-Victorian gothics, here ventures into WWII.
- Gregory Maguire, Son of a Witch (Regan, 2005). Sequel to Wicked, Maguire's revisionist take on the Wizard of Oz.
- James Begg, A Handbook of Popery: Or, Text-book of Missions for the Conversion of Romanists; Being Papal Rome Tested by Scripture, History, and Its Recent Workings (Johnstone & Hunter, 1852). A how-to guide for evangelicals out to convert their Catholic brethren. Begg, a minister of the Free Church, also edited The Bulwark. There's a photograph of Begg (with three other ministers) at the Getty.
- The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church, 3rd ser., vol. 15 (Jan.-June 1888). Bound volume of the popular Anglican magazine edited by novelist Charlotte Yonge.
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