Ghost Story
Spirits roam these hotel halls... looking for that final warm embrace. Someone to hold them tight. And never let go.Mark anticipated this is going to a pleasurable week, with his work friends, a jolly company indeed. All of them celebrating right before Halloween at the Irish countryside, staying in a manor house surrounded by deep woods, leading to the ocean... with a history of its own.Still in such a young company Mark feels quite alone, but his ambition drives him to go on and forward.Now suddenly Mark is feeling disoriented, scared and alone. Waking up in different rooms and places around the hotel. Not remembering going to sleep the previous night at all.Things take a darker turn for him, confused within the manor walls. The waves of the nearby ocean slowly beating, and calling out his name to him.To whom he can turn to, find help him in this confusion?It's time for Mark to make some new friends: A psychic.And a ghost.A crash of a triangle which leads in many directions.Which one will prove to be the one Mark is looking for all along ... and which one was indeed looking for him?And in fact may lead him to his doom.Is Mark finally going to come face to face .... with somebody that really needs him?FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS INCLUDED
Ever Forever
For a long time they twirled and twirled .How long ?He couldn't apprehend the time.They simply continued dancing lost in each other's eyes. He had started to feel a bit tired, a bit sweaty, a bit woozy. ""What happened darling? Don't you wanna dance with me?"", she asked in a hypnotic voice. He frantically shook his head in a yes not being able to speak properly due to his dry throat.""Good Boy"", she whispered giving him a kiss. And so they danced and danced never exchanging a word.
The Widow’s Watch
Mark E. Welch brilliantly presents us with another journey worth taking. It is easy to get attached to his characters and feel connected to their plight. The mundane and the extraordinary combine taking the reader on a ride equal to the rise and fall of a tempest at sea. The haunting continues... Rejoin Bill and Cathy Pender a decade in the future in this second installment of The Widow's Watch trilogy. The famed writer has repurposed the widow's watch into a library and writing studio which he calls "Dreamer's Hideaway". Bill is well on his way, has had Shaw Manor remodeled, and now finds himself happily married, with a beautiful daughter as well, Gaea. Years of peace and familial happiness fill the home with love. All has been quiet since the horrific incidents that occurred when the Penders first purchased the manor...But a house like this will not be denied, especially with the introduction of an ancient artifact of questionable origin, and a little girl who needs a friend. Shaw Manor has an energy all its own and it attracts energies, both positive and negative. Hold on as the Archaean Horizon continues its search for sunken ships along the Maine coastal waters; the marine archeologists making an important discovery while facing an ominous storm that defies meteorological explanation.
Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep
Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep is weird in all the best ways possible . . . These tales are plucked from bizarre worlds, from the blood of shadow creatures, from the tears of angels. Let them haunt you." --Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home A collection of short stories moving through time and place, exploring the spaces where we haunt each other and ourselves through our choices, our institutions, and our dreams. Adam Soto, author of the debut novel This Weightless World, which Robin Sloan called "The social novel for the 21st century," returns with Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep. In the title story, a one-armed Harlem Hellfighter goes in search of his specially altered military uniform while Influenza ravages Philadelphia. In "Sleepy Things," a man is bound to the bedside of his comatose girlfriend who haunts his mother's dreams. In "Wren & Riley," a couple travels to Wyoming to visit a childhood friend who killed her abusive husband. And in "The Vegetable Church," a pair of Syrian sisters, refugees of the civil war, find themselves at a crossroads in the home of their European hosts while their dead father whispers to them words of comfort and guidance. The stories in Concerning Those Who Have Fallen Asleep, strange and unsettling, explore the quiet spaces where the living and the dead alike haunt one another through their choices, dreams, and institutions.
Curse Of Kyoufu
The Year "1973" A Curse Was Born Called "Curse Of Kyoufu" Everyone Who Lived There Knew How Dangerous It is But What Will Happen When a Group Of Teen Open The Book Of Kyoufu And Than Realised It Can Cause A Deadly End Later?
Lost
IN A CABIN, IN A WOOD...Mac 'the mind guy' Macauley knows the mind inside and out. He understands how the brain works, how false realities can appear real, and exactly what it takes to live the life of your dreams - wherever you're starting from, and wherever you want to be.His stage shows are packed out, people clamour to find out his secrets, and his services and fool-proof pathways and roadmaps come highly recommended. But after the loss of his wife and best friend, Sula, Mac just can't seem to get it together, no matter how much he knows.Concerned, Mac's brother, Tom, begs him to get out of the limelight and get himself together - out at his isolated cabin on the shores of a remote Scottish loch. Alone.For one year.Tom tells Mac that the cabin will play with his mind, and that some false realities will certainly appear more than real, but Mac knows the mind, right? The 'mind guy' can't go insane, it's impossible, isn't it? So why does Mac feel something sinister is sharing the cabin with him?Meanwhile, down in London, Tom is having a nightmare of his own. A decision he made two years ago at the cabin is coming back to haunt him. Not only will the truth devastate Mac, but the repercussions are now placing both brothers in the centre of a revenge pact intended to tear their lives apart.With winter setting in, and the cabin cut off, Mac descends into a claustrophobic darkness. For the cabin isn't safe, and Mac isn't alone out here in the wilderness. Out here he is being hunted. Out here he has no choice but to face the monsters if he has any chance of saving not only his sanity, but his very existence.SOMETHING IS LURKING, BATHED IN BLOOD.
The House on the Brink
Returning home through a bog late one night, sixteen-year-old Dick Dodds passes a trail that for some reason sends a chill up his spine. He feels the same inexplicable terror the next day when he explores the trail further and meets a girl, Helen Johnson, who saw something that looked like a man with no arms or legs moving and gliding across the landscape. The mystery deepens when a local widow, Mrs Knowles, becomes convinced that something evil has emerged from the river near her house. What is the secret of the strange and terrifying mystery of the bog? And what does it have to do with a local legend of a man who died there in the reign of King John while guarding a fabulous treasure? Dick and Helen are determined to find out, but they may soon find themselves in greater danger than they ever imagined.Originally published for teenage readers, The House on the Brink (1970) has earned a reputation over the years as a classic of ghostly fiction in the M. R. James mode that will appeal to readers old and young alike. Long out of print and scarce on the secondhand market, John Gordon's chilling novel returns at last to haunt a new generation of readers.'The two best novels in the M. R. James tradition are Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness and John Gordon's The House on the Brink.' - Rosemary Pardoe'Evok[es] a world of mysterious menace . . . extremely exciting.' - Robert Nye, The Times (London)
This House Is Haunted
A Dickensian ghost story from the bestselling author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and A Ladder to the Sky "A wonderfully creepy novel...magnificently eerie." --The Observer This House Is Haunted is a striking homage to the classic nineteenth-century ghost story. Set in Norfolk in 1867, Eliza Caine responds to an ad for a governess position at Gaudlin Hall. When she arrives at the hall, shaken by an unsettling disturbance that occurred during her travels, she is greeted by the two children now in her care, Isabella and Eustace. There is no adult present to represent her mysterious employer, and the children offer no explanation. Later that night in her room, another terrifying experience further reinforces the sense that something is very wrong. From the moment Eliza rises the following morning, her every step seems dogged by a malign presence that lives within Gaudlin's walls. Eliza realizes that if she and the children are to survive its violent attentions, she must first uncover the hall's long-buried secrets and confront the demons of its past. Clever, captivating, and witty, This House Is Haunted is pure entertainment with a catch.
Dead Man Haunt
A Naked Ghost Demands Help in Dead Man Haunt, a Murder Mystery from T. M. Simmons-Mineral Springs, Texas-When Patrick, a gorgeous naked ghost, reaches out to author and paranormal investigator, Alice Carpenter and her cohorts for help, the small town of Mineral Springs, Texas, will never be the same. In exchange for helping him journey to the hereafter, Patrick leads Alice into a crumbling historical hotel, where she discovers a new murder-a woman severed in half at the bottom of an elevator shaft.Joined by her Rottweiler, Trucker, her Siamese, Miss Molly, her mentor and teacher, Aunt Twila, her next-door neighbor, Granny Chisholm, and even her ex-husband, Detective Jack Roucheau, Alice attempts to solve these two murders. Together, they traverse the bowels of the haunted hotel, survive a hair-raising motorcycle ride, and journey the backcountry boondocks with Granny, who fantasizes she's an Indi-500 driver.With only a few minutes left to expose the murderers and set the ghosts to rest before a bomb destroys the hotel, decisions are vital. Should they save themselves and leave behind the evildoers and restless ghosts, as well as a stolen body in a coffin? Might they risk their own lives to bring a peaceful existence to the formerly grand hotel?
In Death Do Flowers Grow
Brielle Panya has been hired to rid the infamous Garrick Estate of its ghostly residents. But what begins as a routine job turns life-threatening when she starts to uncover a trail of lies surrounding the estate's most mysterious spirit: the bloody, screaming woman who appears every night at half-past nine. Never one to quit, Brielle digs her heels in even as the hauntings grow more violent and terrifying. But if she can't find a way to set all the spirits free, this may be the last job of her life.
Angel Falls
What if you had the power to heal your broken family? To bring back a lost loved one? Jessie and Jared are about to find out, in a place called Angel Falls, where an ancient and mysterious power waits to fulfill their deepest wishes--with dangerous consequences. Fifteen-year-old Jessie Reed would do anything to keep her parents together. When her father inherits an old house from his elderly and mysterious Cousin Dorothy, Jessie accompanies him to the seaport village of Beauport, while her mother stays behind in New York City. Fearing for her parents' marriage and unnerved by the prospect of spending her summer in "a dead woman's house", Jessie strikes out on her own and stumbles across the isolated trails of Angel Falls, a wild and beautiful place that holds the ruins of a three-hundred-year-old town with a strange history. There she encounters Jared Younger, a sixteen-year-old local boy who considers these forbidden woods his own. Jared is caretaker for his father, an artist crippled by depression. Jared feels powerless to save his father--until a series of unexplainable events brings him face to face with a power he never knew he had. Jared's teacher, Chris Delany offers to help him understand and control the strange thing that's happening to him--but are Delany's motives as pure as they seem? Or, as Jessie suspects, does Delany have a secret agenda of his own that puts Jared in danger?Together, Jessie and Jared discover that the truth is far more dangerous than they could have imagined and that they must work together to save their families and uncover the strange secret of Angel Falls.
The Girl with the Barbed Wire Hair
For almost 20 years, Carlton Mellick III has been writing some of the strangest and most compelling novels the bizarro fiction genre has to offer. Described as one of the top 40 science-fiction writers under the age of 40 by The Guardian and "one of the most original novelists working today" by extreme horror legend Edward Lee, Mellick returns with a haunting tale of obsession, desperation, loneliness, and depravity.There is a girl who lives in the alley behind the old, abandoned fire station. She is always covered in ash and grime, cuts and bruises on her arms and legs, the skirt of her school uniform caked in dirt and ripped into tatters. Her hair is a mess of dreadlocks the color of rusted metal, growing like vines all the way down to her ankles. She was once human, but not anymore. She's become a feral creature with an undying thirst for blood and revenge. Everyone at school knows to stay away from her. There are rumors that anyone who crosses her path will be murdered and never heard from again, their throats torn out by the long strands of barbed wire that grow from her head like hair. But when she meets a young boy named Yusuke, the first person to ever show her an ounce of human kindness, her desire for revenge turns to feelings of love. And she will do whatever it takes to win his heart, even if she has to rip it from his chest in order to obtain it.From the author of Cannibals of Candyland and The Terrible Thing That Happens, comes a depraved love story inspired by Japanese cult horror films such as Ringu and Ju-on: the Grudge.
From End to End
A collection of wide-ranging short stories by an author with wide-ranging interests. Included are two ghost stories, two pieces of railroad-related fiction, an exploration of what it means to become elderly, and both creation and destruction stories. All are designed for a general audience and are appropriate for younger readers.
The Thirteenth Cabin
Raegan O'Rourke is a talented investigative reporter with a knack for uncovering the truth. The real truth. You see, Raegan has a gift: she touches things and sees visions of past events. She uses her "touch" to help people by holding those in power accountable in a very public way.Raegan's gift is also a curse. It's been passed down to the women in her maternal family for generations. And for every Ainsley woman born with the touch, there is a Faust man hellbent on eradicating her and her power, or harnessing it for his own nefarious purposes. As a result, Raegan and her family live in constant fear - and the fact that she's secretly in love with a Faust only complicates things.When her neighbors lose their beloved dog in a mysterious northern Minnesota lake resort fire, Raegan decides to use her touch to investigate the cause and bring closure to the family. In the process she uncovers another, deeper mystery that has baffled authorities and kept an Iron Range community on edge for twenty-five years. Solving the two cases will put Raegan's abilities to the test. If, that is, she can stay alive - because some people will protect their secrets at all costs.
Motherthing
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR - A darkly funny take on mothers and daughters, about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law. "A quirky, gruesome, utterly original feminist horror experience." --The New York Times Book Review When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph's mother, Laura, Abby hopes it's just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give--to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn't interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She's venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish. When Laura takes her own life, her ghost haunts Abby and Ralph in very different ways: Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is terrorized by a force intent on destroying everything she loves. To make matters worse, Mrs. Bondy's daughter is threatening to move Mrs. Bondy from the home, leaving Abby totally alone. With everything on the line, Abby comes up with a chilling plan that will allow her to keep Mrs. Bondy, rescue Ralph from his tortured mind, and break Laura's hold on the family for good. All it requires is a little ingenuity, a lot of determination, and a unique recipe for chicken ? la king...
Scenic Views
Guests are seeing the dead at Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast. Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast seems quiet after Emily Buchanan sends the resident ghosts on a mission to find her late husband's spirit. When she begins hearing strange noises, Emily doesn't think it can be paranormal. After all, there are no ghosts left in the Victorian mansion. Right? Emily realizes she bought more than a mirror when she finds herself face-to-face with a ghost trapped inside it. The ghost's story leads Emily to an historic mansion that has been wreathed in mystery for years. As the suspects add up, so do the number of threats Emily and her friends are receiving. Someone among the living desperately wants them to give up the search for clues. Emily worries even more about her safety when she finds out something evil is lurking just outside the town of Oak Hill...
Groups Welcome
Guests are bringing magic and murder to Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast. Emily Buchanan believes in ghosts but not in witches. Her skepticism turns to shock when Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast hosts a coven, and she learns a truth that will reframe the past two years of her life. Emily will never look at her life or her late husband, Scott, in the same way again. But when one of the witches turns up dead, Emily suddenly has a houseful of suspects, and every one of them is pointing their wand at someone else. Emily must navigate personal agendas, bitter rivalries, and astonishing revelations to find the real killer. Meanwhile, Scott's ghost is in a race against time. If Emily is going to help him, it must be soon. She will need the help of her best friend, Sage, as well as her own blossoming psychic medium skills to bring his ghost home to Eternal Rest before it's too late...
The Unbarred Casement
This Story is all about a teenaged girl, struggling with her new environment and getting used to it. On that journey, she faces a lot of supernatural and paranormal events which really makes her paranoid, and this story revolves around how she tackles the newly formed situation and how she solves the mystery. Devoid of great friendship and lacking self-confidence because she scored fewer marks than others, this girl develops within herself, 'The Sad Scenario' which ultimately turns out to be real. However, she is not trusted by her parents and she is forced to be in that situation. As a teenager what is the most horrible experience you've ever faced? Of course, this girl faces a little more than that but in a complicated manner. When you see things that other people don't see, there starts a problem, and the same way her problem ends when she sees the thing invisible, once for all. She is Keerthi and why don't you join her journey and make it more interesting? This may be a short story but it was a great part of her life. Happy reading folks!
The House With No Address
When Jake is forced to buy the only house available, he gets more than he bargained for. Wanting the most for his wife and daughter, Jake seizes the opportunity, when he's offered a promotion at work. Even though his family must relocate, hours away from the place they call home, accepting a significant increase in income from his law firm seems like the obvious choice. Except, it's not. With an ongoing, housing crisis, Jake grows increasingly desperate. So, when a friendly, middle-aged man enters their lives, providing a solution, Jake jumps at the offer. It's an amazing twist of fate. However, fate isn't always a good thing. Gabrielle, Jake's wife, begins to experience oddities within their new house. Repeatedly confronted by a partially burnt man, she is convinced that the house is haunted. When their daughter is taken hostage, the possibility of this becomes an unfortunate reality. Will this every-day family survive the paranormal activity that incessantly invades their home? Or will they succumb to this evil entity, who's mission is to destroy them? Find out, in THE HOUSE WITH NO ADDRESS, the paranormal thriller that will leave you sleeping with the light on.
My Ghosts At The Bottom Of The World
"Scarlet, get cracking! Dark times are coming and you must finish your book now!!" Ever been haunted into writing a story? Scarlet Giesen has ... apparently. The problem is, Scarlet has no memory of her book or why she's written it. All she knows is she's recently awakened from a coma following a head injury and has absolutely no memory of her past. All is not lost however. Scarlet learns that in the years leading up to her accident she was hard at work writing the story of her life and times, cajoled into doing so by the ghost of someone who was dear to her in life. My Ghosts At The Bottom Of The World is that story. So it is that we read of Scarlet's life along with her, filling in her own backstory and that of her beloved country at the bottom of the world, New Zealand. We learn that through a series of brushes with the supernatural as a young girl, Scarlet is inspired to follow a career path whereby she can help those with their own paranormal issues. Music plays a large part in Scarlet's Universe and literally soundtracks her temporal and emotional voyage through life. My Ghosts At The Bottom Of The World: Volume One charts the beginning of that voyage. Further volumes are on their way. Why not join Scarlet on her journey? It's a fun ride!
Plead More, Bodymore
Everything's an insult when your soul is bankrupt.Joey and Wayland may have returned to Baltimore after their deaths, but things are not the same through eyes tainted by death. The city seems darker, the graffiti louder, and a meltdown is only a hair-trigger away. Joey's ready for everything to go back to normal, but that might not be possible when every time she's around Wayland, he's dripping with someone's freshly spilled blood. Meanwhile, Jag's losing his patience with Joey's preference for her serial killer best friend.Desperate to keep her life together in a somewhat recognizable way, Joey discovers that a local medium might have a way to calm the regret-fueled rage that plagues both her and Wayland, driving them both further out of control with each passing day. In hopes of a return to normal, she sets out to ask the authorities of the afterlife to grant her and Wayland a real second chance.The ravens stalking her promise that if she doesn't move quickly, she may lose everything she cares about. With a past and a future that can't compromise, tragedy doesn't spare the indecisive.
Cotton Cleopatra F VIII
In World War Two, Oxford academic Dr Iana Jenkins discovers an unknown medieval chronicle by the nun Mary of Shaftesbury. Mary confides that she was at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191 when its monks exhumed the bodies of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. However, the great abbey's celebrations turn to terror when the mortal remains of Arthur and Guinevere turn out to be not what they seem, and horror reigns. When all else fails, can Wulfrun - a priestess of the Old Religion from the forest - save the abbey from what has been unleashed.
Scratches
A mother and son with a strained relationship inherit a house following the sudden death of a family member with a violent past. When the son moves his bedroom into the basement he starts to experience unexplainable and terrifying phenomena. After he uncovers a dark secret concealed within the house, they quickly learn that some truths are better left a mystery. Can they overcome their differences in order to survive or will the darkness overcome them both?
Ghosts of Trumball Mansion
Why do the ghosts attack only him? Or is Henry Fitzgibbons insane? Lana Longstreet is his star author ... and the nom de plume of his estranged wife. Maybe the time has come to officially end any obligation to his wife's Connecticut estate and be free of their torment. He fears the house hates him and that Sylvia does too. Sylvia Fitzgibbons is tired of the charade. She'd ask Henry for a divorce, but the children are planning an anniversary party in August, and she has a deadline for her Johnny Gallant suspense series in the same month. Then there are the decaying rose gardens, the only allure drawing Henry to the estate and her launch parties. When her housekeeper must retire, Sylvia begs for his help. Unable to resist her femme fatale pleas, Henry is trapped for the duration. But the malignant forces within the estate become increasingly aggressive. Something evil conspires against them that only Faith can conquer. Will they survive?
Ghost Stories
Ghost Stories is a ghoulish collection of true classics, both legendary and long-forgotten, with frightening stories from Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, Harriett Beecher Stowe, O. Henry, Willa Cather, and many others. This ghostly collection delivers the ghastly, horrifying, and otherwise haunting tales of terror we love to read - late at night, with the lights off
Grave Intervention
Dr. Amir Hadad, a successful radiologist, hears an intruder. Hiding in the dark, the stranger whispers, "I can't rest."Alarmed and unwilling to risk his family's safety, Amir contacts the police. Only there is no trace of an intruder, no marks of forced entry. If there is a stalker afoot, the police cannot find him.As the days wear on and Amir continues to hear the same disembodied voice speaking to him, he worries about his sanity. The Irish lilt has escalated from pleas for help to threats unless Amir helps the voice find rest - and revenge.Inspired by true events set in Naperville, Illinois, Dr. Shira Shiloah takes readers through suspenseful twists and turns in her latest novel. GRAVE INTERVENTION, a paranormal medical suspense, blurs the lines between real and imaginary to expose the hidden side of a historical suburban town.
Grave Intervention
Dr. Amir Hadad, a successful radiologist, hears an intruder. Hiding in the dark, the stranger whispers, "I can't rest." Alarmed and unwilling to risk his family's safety, Amir contacts the police. Only there is no trace of an intruder, no marks of forced entry. If there is a stalker afoot, the police cannot find him. As the days wear on and Amir continues to hear the same disembodied voice speaking to him, he worries about his sanity. The Irish lilt has escalated from pleas for help to threats unless Amir helps the voice find rest - and revenge. Inspired by true events set in Naperville, Illinois, Dr. Shira Shiloah takes readers through suspenseful twists and turns in her latest novel. GRAVE INTERVENTION, a paranormal medical suspense, blurs the lines between real and imaginary to expose the hidden side of a historical suburban town.
From Out The Vasty Deep
A Novel of mystery, romance, and the paranormal awaits the reader in this monumental work by Marie Belloc Lowndes. Ghosts and seances abound. It was not Varick who told Blanche Farrow of that painful incident of his past life. Classic Horror from one of the best and earliest of the genre.
Grave Deeds and Dead Plots
Welcome to the first volume of an exciting new series, Grave Deeds and Dead Plots. These collections feature spine-tingling tales of true crime ... with added ghosts. Each story is a tale of murder, passion, or cold-blooded killing-and each case has resulted in an eerie haunting. Do the victims of true crime remain to tell the tales of their untimely demise? Are the dead still crying out for justice? Do the departed have stories to share? Find out in the first installment of Grave Deeds and Dead Plots, a new series by award-winning* author Sylvia Shults. *First Place in the Spring 2022 BookFest Awards, for Days of the Dead: A Year of True Ghost Stories
The Mill
These rooms have killer views... As a psychic, Lili occasionally sees ghosts and she's thrilled to sense them lurking in the renovated paper mill where she just bought an apartment. What Lili doesn't expect is the dark, sinister presence under the floor or the serial killer who's prowling the hallways. When a woman is found murdered and another goes missing, Lili works with one of the spirits-a young girl long dead-to expose the psychopath. But not everyone can be trusted, the chase goes awry, and the killer flees. Can he be captured, or will he remain free to strike again? From the bestselling author of Shepherd's Warning and The Elders Series comes a terrifying and compelling story that will keep you reading long into the night.
Birdwatcher
Gillian and Lance Wincoff's family vacation in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania ends in disaster when their 12-year-old daughter, Abby, vanishes. The Poconos community is shaken up over the disappearance of the little girl, unbeknownst to them that a psychopathic killer is in their midst. Horror-esque chills creep into an atmosphere of conflict, sending Monroe County Sheriff Andy Kirkman and his Deputies into a desperate scramble to solve the case of the missing girl with little to no evidence. Abby Wincoff's shocking death, and restless spirit reluctant to cross over, leaves her to haunt the cabin where she was buried in this eye-opening story about her plan to bring her parents' closure.
Dark Tales for Kids
Modern times have changed the things we fear. Children are not so easily scared now, but exploring the unknown can open the door to the most terrifying feelings ever. Joining the characters of these stories on their scary adventures will make you think twice about going to abandoned or forbidden places and more likely to listen to the warning words of adults.Dare to experience true terror through these six frightening stories. You will also experience how frightening the outdoors can be, how important it is to pick your toys wisely, and that friendly neighbors can be hard to find.Darkness, midnight, evil presences, terrifying creatures, and the desperation of lost souls-all these await you inside these six horrifying stories. Do you think you are brave enough to go to bed after reading them? Let's find out! So, what are you waiting for, grab your copy today!
Bridge of Souls
In the dark hallways and shadowy rooms of Matheson Manor, an old, largely forgotten nursing home at the edge of an ancient forest, the elderly residents are seeing and hearing disturbing things they cannot explain...They only come at night... Magdalena, a young mother and healthcare worker at Matheson Manor, struggles with the relentlessly terrifying nightmares stalking her, certain that the horrors at work have now followed her home...They surround your bed while you sleep... George, a recently retired retail worker who has just lost his mother, a woman ravaged with dementia and a resident at Matheson Manor, tries to understand the horrifying recordings she made prior to her death...No one knows what they are... Winston, a lonely and socially awkward computer expert living alone for the first time after his mother is sent to Matheson Manor, does his best to make sense of the dark entities she insists watch and whisper to her every time the lights go out...No one knows what they want... As their paths cross, Magdalena, George and Winston come together to search for the truth behind what's taking place, unaware that their hauntings have a reach well beyond anything they could've imagined...BRIDGE OF SOULS Reality's not what it used to be.
Thirty Strange Stories
This collection of some of the best of H G Wells. stories includes The Strange Orchid, The Lord of the Dynamos, In the Abyss, The Cone and The Red Room. '
The Blue Man
Two best friends. An urban legend. A sinister curse.Twenty years ago, horror loving Sabrina told her best friend, Megan, the terrifying Irish folk tale of the Blue Man, who sold his soul to the Devil in vengeance against a personal injustice. What should have been the best summer of their schooldays turned into a waking nightmare, as the Blue Man came to haunt Megan. Sabrina, helpless to save Megan from a path of self-destruction and substance abuse as she sought refuge from the terror, left Belfast for a new life in Liverpool.Twenty years later, the former friends reunited thinking they had escaped the horrors of the past. Both were pregnant for the first time. Both had lived elsewhere and moved back to their hometown, Belfast. Both were wrong about the sinister reality of the Blue Man, as the trauma of their school days caught up to them - and their families.Why did the Blue Man terrorise Megan? Was there more to the man behind the urban legend? Was their friendship - and mental health - strong enough to overcome a twenty year curse?
The Ghost of Thomas Packard
Three young friends risk their lives to unravel the decades old mystery of the Packard family murders. Will exposing the truth set more than a tortured soul free? Moving to Willowton sucks as far as Billy Hashberger is concerned. Not only does being the new kid at school make him a convenient target for the local bullies, but his house gives him the creeps. His nights are filled with strange, horrific dreams that leave him questioning his sanity.When the bullies step up their harassment, Billy finds unexpected allies in two classmates, Frank Bordeaux and Molly Houlahan. The three misfits band together determined to stay ahead of their tormenters. As if that's not enough to handle, Billy discovers a mysterious journal belonging to Thomas Packard, the son of a local family brutally murdered forty-four years ago. The disturbing entries have Billy and his friends digging into the mystery surrounding the massacre, and the house's haunting secrets. A broken-down reporter, a vindictive Voodoo priestess, and a vengeful ghost will lead Billy, Frank and Molly down a twisted path as they navigate dark secrets buried in a small town. Will the three friends survive or become the next tragic tale to haunt Willowton?
Hyde House
Three relentless ghost hunters. A trail of death. The walls of Hyde House don't whisper, they scream.The gang is prepared this time. Emmie and Sarah have trained their psychic skills, Finn is a little wiser, and they're ready for the worst. But if a looming menace gets its way, they'll be dead within days.While exploring Emmie's basement, Finn makes a gruesome discovery hidden behind a wall that shakes them to the core-a woman's corpse. And it's obvious she was murdered.But Alice isn't talking, and the ghosts of the past elude the gang, until they meet a mourning father who's daughter suffered the same ghastly fate. But his insight comes with a warning."Watch yourself, because they'll be watching you."Driven to help the victims and find peace for Alice, they soon realize they've stumbled into a deadly game of twisted voodoo, and there's no turning back.Frantic to escape the expanding web of deception, they're forced to face their deepest fears within the quaint stillness of Hyde House.Hyde House is the third novel in a new Paranormal Mystery series that delivers an unsolved murder, ghostly mysteries, and a twist of horror.Fans of Wendy Wang, Darcy Coates, Abe Moss, Cheryl Bradshaw, or Heather Graham will love this exciting new supernatural suspense book.Other great books by Dean Rasmussen: Hanging House: An Emmie Rose Haunted Mystery Book 1Caine House: An Emmie Rose Haunted Mystery Book 2Dreadful Dark: Tales of Horror Book 1 - 6Stone Hill: Shadows Rising 1Stone Hill: Phantoms Reborn 2Stone Hill: Leviathan Wakes 3Or you can visit his website at: www.deanrasmussen.com.
Eleven Lives
Meera dies young and strangely finds herself in conversation with a girl who looks exactly like her. The girl offers Meera to have a glimpse of all her eleven past lives if she answers her questions. Meera had lived the life of many animals like a cat, a dog, a mosquito, a cheetah, a chicken, and a fish, among others. She was also a tree in one of her eleven past lives. After watching the highlights of all her lives, Meera and her lookalike contemplate one question... Are humans special?
The Painter’s Wife
From the moment I set foot on the grounds of Erlot Manor I felt like a swine being led innocently into a slaughterhouse. The na簿ve Pandora about to open chaos. I can feel something bad in the air, like poison slowly slipping into my blood. The shadows are biding their time here. The air itself felt thicker, like smoke.Rose Blackwood faces the decisions she's made as she becomes the new Baroness to Erlot Manor, where she discovers there is a lot more to the crumbling manor house than she first thought. And a lot her new husband isn't telling her.By the time her childhood best friend and lover Meg arrives, five years later, it appears Rose is not the same girl she once was.
Don’t Leave
***** JANE is a young woman grieving for her child, who is taken to a remote holiday cottage on the Northumberland coast. From the moment she arrives at the cottage with her much older and over-protective husband, Peter, Jane keeps catching glimpses of a little girl and hearing a child crying. Peter is convinced these are hallucinations, as Jane has been diagnosed with schizophrenia - a diagnosis she doesn't agree with. She sets out to discover who or what the child could be. A ghost? A real child? Or something else?Don't Leave, is a prize-winning psychological mystery thriller with a supernatural element. It won the 2020 Lindisfarne Prize for a debut thriller set in the North East. It's beautifully written and draws the reader in immediately. Pru has written an atmospheric, twisty and creepy tale and it is easy to see why it was chosen in 2020.
The Cottage on Winter Moss
Burned-out author Dee needs fresh inspiration. Impetuously, she abandons London and her good-for-nothing boyfriend to go wherever her literary quest takes her. Journey's end is a remote village on the shores of a wild estuary, overshadowed by a ruined pele tower. She rents Winter Cottage and waits for a story to emerge.The bleak beauty of the whispering dunes, the jacquard of colour and texture of the marsh and a romantic tree in a secluded glade-The Trysting Tree-all seduce Dee. Nevertheless, the secretive behaviour of a handsome neighbour, lights across the marsh, a spurious squire and a bizarre, moonlit encounter all suggest there is something odd afoot.Local gossip and crumbling graveyard inscriptions give Dee the opening she needs. She begins to weave hints about the tragic history of a local family, feuding brothers and a fatal fire into a sweeping historical saga. Her characters clamour for a voice as the tale spools effortlessly onto the page-demanding to be told. Dee feels more like its instrument than its instigator.As she becomes enmeshed in the local community, Dee is startled to find her fiction unnervingly confirmed by fact, her history still resonating in the present-day.Is she being guided by echoes of the past?
Seattle Ghost Story
Eleven-year-old Billy Beck is playing a fantasy game in Ravenna Park when a real-life tragedy infects him with a supernatural evil out of Seattle's ugly past. What he saw will leave him changed and vulnerable to a crime of revenge that has gone unpunished-until now.
University Ghost Story
Dr. Veronica Glass, professor of English literature at the University of Washington, does not believe in ghosts. She's trying to teach a course on the Victorian ghost story and having trouble with a couple of her students because of it.
