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Here are some recently released titles to add to your reading list. This week, we read Bora Chung's Midnight Time: A Novel in Ghost Stories, and started a new series from Mad Cave Studios, It Killed Everyone But Me.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/entertainment/what-to-read-this-weekend-ghost-stories-to-kick-off-october-182937425.html?src=rss
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