Wonders of the Invisible World

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Authors: Christopher Barzak

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2015 by Christopher Barzak

Cover art by Lynn Buckley

Painting detail: Ralph Albert Blakelock, American, 1847–1919,
Moonlight Sonata
(detail), about 1889–92, Oil on canvas, 77.15 x 55.88 cm. (30-3⁄8 x 22 in.), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund 45.201. Photograph © 2014 by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Barzak, Christopher.

Wonders of the invisible world / Christopher Barzak.—First edition.

pages cm

Summary: Seventeen-year-old Aidan has been living like a ghost since his mother tried to stop a family curse by causing him to forget his psychic experiences. But when Jarrod, a childhood friend, returns, so do the memories, and Aidan is compelled to seek the truth and release them all from the story that has trapped them.

ISBN 978-0-385-39279-2 (trade) — ISBN 978-0-385-39280-8 (lib. bdg.) —ISBN 978-0-385-39281-5 (ebook) — ISBN 978-0-385-39282-2 (pbk.)

[1. Psychic ability—Fiction. 2. Supernatural—Fiction. 3. Blessing and cursing—Fiction. 4. Death—Fiction. 5. Gays—Fiction. 6. Farm life—Ohio—Fiction. 7. Ohio—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.B2874Won 2015

[Fic]—dc23

2014022809

eBook ISBN 9780385392815

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Contents

'Tis a thousand pitties,

that we should permit our Eyes

to be so Blood-shot with passions,

as to loose the sight of many wonderful Things,

wherein the Wisdom and Justice of God,

would be Glorify'd.

Some of those Things,

are the frequent Apparitions of Ghosts,

whereby many Old Murders among us,

come to be considered.

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C
OTTON
M
ATHER,

T
HE
W
ONDERS OF THE
I
NVISIBLE
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ORLD

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