Good, Evil, Supernatural
Then she looked at me and gave me a crooked and mysterious smile. Her face expressions were not of her. It was strange, cold and scary. Doesn't know why I felt a wave of fear running down my spine. I controlled myself and asked to her, 'What happened? Su? (I used to call her Su, short form of Sunita).' She smiled in a way like she was making fun of me. Then she said in a friendly but stone hard, ice cold way, 'You won't be able to save her. I will kill your SU drop by drop like this only.' *** It was Tuesday night. I was practicing meditation by sitting in Padmasana posture. Suddenly I heard anklet's sound around me, like some female came and was walking around me. Without getting scared I kept practicing meditation in the same posture. But after some time anklet's sound came closer to me as if she had stepped on my meditation carpet. Means she had come too near to me. Yet I kept meditating. Then only doesn't know from where a gust of breeze entered the room despite closed door and windows and began to hug me. The touch of the breeze was very ecstatic and it was giving me very deep pleasure. I found myself unable to keep the breeze away from me. *** He stepped on the road. As he reached the middle of the road, he became hundreds of feet tall. He was moving towards the field in his front. That field ended to some localities. Just in three steps he crossed the long field, entered some locality and got out of my eyes. *** A collection of 10 real stories...
The Infant Spirits
When a poltergeist takes root in a hospital, can a determined ghost chaser undo a devilish, long-lasting curse?Clarisse Garcia has always fought evil. A driven spirit hunter, she demolishes demonic threats before they can corrupt the innocent. But even this hardened woman is stunned when she enters an eerie Tasmanian maternity ward filled with the anguished cries of babies' souls.Undeterred, Clarisse dives headfirst into helping release the spirits bound to a sinister demon. But when the foul entity targets the unborn life in her womb, she faces her toughest battle yet to save her offspring's future.Can this spiritual warrior protect her child and free the tormented young ghosts?The Infant Spirits is the fourth standalone book in the blood-curdling Haunting Clarisse supernatural horror series. If you like chilling apparitions, wicked demons, and a mother fighting for her child's very existence, then you'll love Janice Tremayne's bedtime nightmare.
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Lettice Galbraith
Strange stories by a little known Victorian writerLettice Galbraith not only wrote works on supernatural themes, she was apparently something of a mystery in her own right. She appeared on the literary scene with little pedigree in 1893, published two or three stories in quick succession, and then disappeared from public view. Whilst she was probably British, based on the paucity of information about her, no one can be certain that she wrote under her own name. Six of her ghost stories were gathered together in one small volume, New Ghost Stories, which appears in its entirety here with one additional story. Most experts in the field agree that this author made a fine contribution to the fiction of the supernatural in the style of the late Victorian era, and that her only fault was that she decided not to produce more offerings for her satisfied readership. In this Leonaur edition readers will discover 'The Blue Room', 'The Trainer's Ghost', 'The Seance Room', 'The Ghost's Revenge' and others.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Collected Ghost Stories - A Collection of 22 M R James Stories
Collected Ghost Stories by M R James is a collection of twenty-two ghost stories, plus a fascinating essay on the writing of ghost stories. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar and Provost of King's College, Cambridge. His stories are classics of their genre, understated, beautifully paced and almost never explicit. Their idyllic rural backgrounds and amiable hero make the chilling terror of otherworldly intrusions all the more horrific. The collection is comprised of the following twenty-two stories: The Uncommon Prayer-Book; A Neighbour's Landmark; Rats; The Experiment; The Malice Of Inanimate Objects; A Vignette; Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book; The Stalls Of Barchester Cathedral; An Episode Of Cathedral History; The Story Of A Disappearance And An Appearance; The Haunted Dolls' House; Lost Hearts; Mr. Humphreys And His Inheritance; Martin's Close; The Diary Of Mr. Poynter; The Rose-Garden; Casting The Runes; A School Story; The Tractate Middoth; Two Doctors; A View From A Hill; The Residence At Whitminster; Appendix: M. R. James On Ghost Stories Note: This is not to be confused with the Book ""The Collected Ghost Stories of M R James"" which was published in 1931.
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Lettice Galbraith
Strange stories by a little known Victorian writerLettice Galbraith not only wrote works on supernatural themes, she was apparently something of a mystery in her own right. She appeared on the literary scene with little pedigree in 1893, published two or three stories in quick succession, and then disappeared from public view. Whilst she was probably British, based on the paucity of information about her, no one can be certain that she wrote under her own name. Six of her ghost stories were gathered together in one small volume, New Ghost Stories, which appears in its entirety here with one additional story. Most experts in the field agree that this author made a fine contribution to the fiction of the supernatural in the style of the late Victorian era, and that her only fault was that she decided not to produce more offerings for her satisfied readership. In this Leonaur edition readers will discover 'The Blue Room', 'The Trainer's Ghost', 'The Seance Room', 'The Ghost's Revenge' and others.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Twisted Veil
When Emilie Wyld, a disenchanted art student, takes a caretaker position at Kingsgrove Estate in the sleepy southern town of Willow Vale, she thinks she's just found the best way to start a new life on her own. All she has to do is care for the house and keep the gentle, mute proprietor, Miss Adalynn King, company. But as she explores Willow Vale and meets the locals, she discovers another side to the charming, friendly place-whisperings of misused Voodoo. It isn't long before Emilie realizes that the rambling, isolated estate holds secrets and Miss King won't admit what she knows. As the grand estate's strange creaks and cries become more than the strain of old timber and stone, Emilie comes face-to-face with the haunting past that Miss King can't endure alone. Soon the electrifying presence of a long-ago, forgotten man begins to haunt Emilie-there's something about him she just can't shake, and she finds herself longing to help him. But the darkness that surrounds the small southern town isn't going to make it easy for her. Suddenly, Emilie realizes she's the only one who can fight to uncover the traumas and wrong-doings from the King family's past, and make a great sacrifice for the sake of love.
Seasonal Spectres
The shortlisted and winning entries in the 5th Crowvus Christmas Ghost Story Competition. 12 stories to share before the fireplace on a Christmas evening.A cow is lowing in the byre and a misty shroud covers parts of the red dawn. They call to me to take note: this is the time of year when all bets are off - when the veil between worlds is sheer.For those with a sense of it, these marvellous stories will sit well with you. They convey a real connection between worlds. They may bring you home with the conviction that there is more to this life than everything you can touch.Five judges came to the conclusion that the ghostly tales printed here epitomise the belief that "there is something else".All the entries were read by two judges who sent twenty through to another two judges. Ten of those were chosen to be published and went to the final judge who chose the three winning entries.Thanks and respect go to all who took part. It is a wonderful thing to be able to put thoughts into words. Congratulations to John and Simon who produced the three winning stories.I hope all who sit down with this delightful book will be just a little bit haunted by it!
Helme House
Inspired by an eerie true story.Lorraine Hicks is fourteen-years-old when she watches her best friend, Beverly climb into a tree in the forest and never come back down. It's a mystery that haunts her small town and embeds itself in Lorraine's life.Fifteen years later, Lori is a grown woman, doing her best to move on from her troubled childhood. She reluctantly agrees to a night of camping, despite her secret terror of the woods. As she sits by a roaring bonfire, a man stands and tells the story of two fourteen-year-old friends who walked into the Manistee National Forest-only one of them walked back out.The story is hauntingly similar to Lori's own, and she embarks on a quest to discover if the two disappearances are linked.As she unravels the truth behind the vanishings, she unearths a malevolence that forces her to question if evil truly exists.Don't miss this chilling paranormal murder mystery.
The Celestial Souls of Khambetka
When one life isn't enough to do all that one wants, the universe helps one to achieve one's goals by bringing one to life again, after one's soul has departed for the other world. The paranormal stories in this novel highlight the journey of one's spirit on earth! Read on to experience it first-hand. The divine spirit, the repentant spirit, the clever spirit and the triumphant spirit will surely capture your imagination!
Pilfering the Pink Pearls
How far would you go not to age? Would you commit murder? Well, someone decided to. Welcome to Witch's Cove, where the strangest of cases occur. Murder often abounds, but so does time travel, shifters, and evil warlocks. When the elegant Alexandria Coronado asks for my help in finding her pink pearl necklace that was stolen from the Magic Wand Hotel, I had no idea it would involve murder, scuba diving, and a massive empire. Because our sheriff suspects magic is involved, he is willing to join forces with the Pink Iguana sleuths. That's where I come in. Hi, I'm Glinda Goodall, and I'm a witch who, together with my fianc矇, runs our sleuth business. At first, I thought this was going to be another run-of-the-mill theft case, but when Alexandria goes scuba diving and is lost at sea, it turns into a lot more. Finding that she is a super wealthy heiress of a vitamin empire, makes our suspect list grow even more. If you want to be kept up-to-date on where we are in solving this case, stop by our office, or just look upward to find a black wing-tipped seagull. Where he is, you might find Iggy, my talking pink iguana, who is always in the know.
The Soulless
Dan stone's life fell apart after his wife filed for divorce. Unable to live with the memories she left behind, he finds himself in a mysterious old mansion for a quiet getaway, and a chance to get his overdue novel done before his agent drops him. But the Vandison mansion has a dark history, and the more Dan learns the deeper he slips from reality unable to see what is real or a dream. Is the mansion trying to kill him or is his mind set to destroy him?
A Home in the Bitterroot
Bill Amley is an awkward man leading a lonely life. In late December of 2019, just before the Coronavirus changes the world around him, the fifty-six-year-old realizes his life is empty and decides to throw his fate to the wind. Bill leaves his job, sells most of what he owns, buys an SUV and heads out west to points unknown. Having resolved to change the way he lives, Bill picks up a hitch-hiker, a young Native American woman named Sky who is seeking to escape her own set of life's challenges. As they head west, Sky and Bill form an unusual and powerful friendship. Their trip ends in Missoula, Montana where Sky becomes a waitress and Bill buys a small farm surrounded by the beauty of the Bitterroot Mountains. There, the pandemic threatens their lives while Bill is introduced to the spirits and histories of others who once lived in that farmhouse and on the lands that surround it.A Home in the Bitterroot explores the rich history of immigrants to the Bitterroot Valley and of the Salish People whose historical home was the Bitterroot. Bill and Sky's stories, the pandemic, social intolerance and ghosts of the past combine to make A Home in the Bitterroot a satisfying, compelling and truthful American tale.
Releasing Magnolias along the Mystical Railway
While visiting William Faulkner's Rowan Oak, an author encounters restless souls who task him with sharing their stories to advance them toward the light. After boarding a dilapidated train at Meridian's Royal Land, the young writer travels along the mystical railway and release the imprisoned magnolias through a collection of Mississippi ghost tales based in Waynesboro, Oxford, Meridian, Hattiesburg, Palmers Crossing, Lamar County, Wiggins, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Laurel, Hot Coffee, Natchez, Yazoo City, Clarksdale, Rolling Fork, Cleveland, Indianola, Jackson, and Parchman. He aims to transcend the wandering spirits to their celestial eternity by the time the supernatural locomotive arrives in the abandoned, ghost town of Rodney.
Shuttered Secrets
He doesn't want her to focus on the past.It's been six months since Riley Thomas, reluctant medium extraordinaire, has had a ghost haunting her apartment, and she prefers it that way. Life is less complicated when the dead aren't trying to get her attention. Her best friend is getting married and wants to DIY her way through wedding prep-Riley's got no time for ghosts.One of Jade's wedding must-haves is vintage film cameras her guests can use to help document the big day. The months-long hunt for relics leads to a thrift shop jackpot, and Riley adds the cameras to the growing pile of wedding supplies in her apartment. That night, Riley gets a midnight wake-up call from a ghostly Black woman in a yellow dress.Even after the haunted cameras are removed from the apartment, the ghost woman keeps popping up, both in Riley's dreams and in the corner of her eye. Tracking down the previous owner of the cameras proves difficult, and as Riley digs deeper, she uncovers a link between the cameras and two murdered women-one white, one Black, yet neither one is Riley's mystery woman.Though the identity of the ghost proves to be as elusive as her predator, Riley is determined to uncover the truth of what happened to these women. But now someone knows she's looking ... and he's hell-bent on making sure he finds her first.
David's Ghost
Following a year of therapy, 15 year-old Megan vowed never to speak to anotherghost. When she moved from Boston to Phoenix, her new friend Izzy asked her to helpinvestigate the 1975 murder of David, her irritating house ghost.Megan internally struggles to keep her promise, only to have it backfire.Determined to get rid of David for good, they found themselves in the middle of illegaland terrifying situations.
In The Dead Of Night
Anthologies of classic ghost stories - especially such spine-tingling tales as 'The Mezzotint' by M.R. James, 'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford, and 'The Dead Valley' by Ralph Adams Cram - have abounded since the late 19th century, proliferating as the 20th advanced and copyrights expired, and multiplying a thousand-fold with the advent of the Internet, when first anyone with a scanner could resurrect them out of a book and post them on a web site; then still ever-increasing as people copied the text from their screens and re-posted it on other sites. So common has this become that today anyone with Web access can read these stories free. So why should anyone want to pay for this anthology? Aside from stubbornly clinging (despite all apparent contrary evidence) to the belief that a few decent people still think a living author deserves to be paid for their work - even if, in this case, that work is merely compiling, copy-editing and formatting the work of authors long dead - one reason, I hope, is that my readers might be interested in what I read as a youth and what I think makes a great and scary ghost tale.Regarding Internet incarnations of these stories, the quality, format, and integrity vary. Scanning devices make mistakes; and many people who've scanned and republished these stories online seem to have picked whatever book, magazine or anthology was convenient for the purpose and in many cases have only published much later reprints with text omissions, abridgments and typos, while often making more typos.I have tried to present the stories here as closely as I could to their original, first-published incarnations -- as I as a kid read most of them -- rather than simply copy them from later reprints, recent anthologies, or Internet sites.While I can't resurrect the atmosphere in which I first read these stories, either while perusing them in the dank and dark of a creepy old junk shop, or alone in my room in the dead of night in a spooky old Victorian house, nor conjure up the graveyard smell of dusty, decomposing books, still I hope you'll discover shivers and frights in these thirteen classic ghost stories.Jess Mowry - 2017
Voodoo Dawgz
Evil always lingers in a land where men have enslaved other men. Such evil is discovered by Kody Carver, a 13-year-old African-American boy who spends his summers in the Old French Quarter of New Orleans. There with Raney Tanner, his alligator-wrestling bayou cousin, he helps his magical Aunt Simone with Voodoo ceremonies for tourists in his aunt's haunted house. By day, Kody and Raney cruise the steamy streets of the Old French Quarter, where other kids sell Voodoo charms and vampire teeth, or dance for money. By night, Kody and Raney become Voodoo boys in loincloths and bones. The audience thinks it's all showtime, but a lot of the magic is real. But, when Kody is almost gunned-down by an eight-year-old named Newton, who was sent out to kill to prove himself worthy of membership in a kid-gang called The Skeleton Crew, Kody discovers the real gang leader has been dead for almost two-hundred years. Kody and Raney set out to save the young gang members from death - or worse - with help from an undead boy.
Drawing From Life
Meet Jerry Mathers, who, though resembling the middle-aged "Beaver," bears no other relation, having been born in the 1970s when that illusion of American life was almost a decade dead. His mother, widowed by the Vietnam War, endured many years as a Woolworth's clerk to bring Jerry up in a "nice neighborhood," enabling him to go to college and fulfill his dreams of being an artist... at least thus far sufficient enough to still believe in them.However, the present is 2013, and Jerry finds himself 39, still only an underpaid teacher of Art at a private school in Oakland, California, his dreams apparently slipping away... as his mother is also slipping away in a nursing home he can't afford. And, resolving years before that the road to romance was closed to him -- perhaps by a long-fallen bridge -- he faces a dark and lonely future.His fifteenth year of teaching begins, as have all his others, in a gloomy Victorian mansion bequeathed for the education of youth by Miss Minerva Morrison, who passed away in 1901 at the age of 97, and whose portrait hangs in the shadowy foyer. By film and ghost story stereotypes the huge house looks like it should be haunted, but though there have been "sightings" -- presumably of Miss Morrison's ghost -- Jerry has never been haunted... at least until this year.But why? Could it be that one of his new students, a remarkable boy named Gabriel Graves, divinely gifted in drawing from life and able to see the souls of his subjects -- but also the first black youth to ever enroll in the school -- has awakened a sleeping racial hatred from over a hundred years in the past? A hatred that may be deadly to both teacher and student.
Late Checkout
Guests should mind their manners before they wind up dead.One of the new guests at Eternal Rest Bed and Breakfast is a real jerk. Even one of the ghosts says so! Emily's guests for the week are in town to revamp the abandoned hotel on the edge of town, but already they are making enemies all over Oak Hill.When Emily finds one of her guests dead inside the old hotel, she and her best friend Sage will have to unravel strange messages from the ghosts there to find the killer. Sage might be the psychic medium, but it's Emily who the ghosts want to talk to, and she begins to discover her own ability to communicate with the dead.As even Emily herself becomes a suspect, she also has to grapple with a shocking revelation about her late husband's spirit...
Tainted Toys
After the death of their mother, siblings David and Diana move into the house they inherit with Diana's three youngest children. After moving into the house they stumble upon a locked toy box in the large playroom. The antique toy box is set aside by David who plans to open it up for his youngest niece. As time progresses things slowly start to happen to the children. Not believing that there is anything wrong with the house, Diana refuses listen. However, things begin to worsen.
The Ultimate Seven Sisters Collection
The Ultimate Seven Sisters Collection!All Six Ghost Novels in One!When historian Carrie Jo Jardine accepted her dream job as the chief historian at Seven Sisters in Mobile, Alabama, she had no idea what she would encounter. The moldering old plantation housed more than a few boxes of antebellum artifacts and forgotten oil paintings. Secrets lived there""and they demanded to be set free.When young, wealthy Ashland Stuart offered Carrie Jo the job, he had no idea that she had a secret of her own. Carrie Jo dreams about the past. An unexpected accident takes Carrie Jo back in time as a witness to life at the plantation over 150 years ago. An impassioned plea from Ashland puts Carrie Jo in a precarious position as the two work together to find a missing heiress, the young and beautiful Calpurnia Cottonwood.A collection of journals and a series of dreams give Carrie Jo all the clues she needs to find the missing girl, but both a present-day danger and one from the past try to stop her. Will Carrie Jo solve the mystery of the house or will she pay the ultimate price?SEVEN SISTERS (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 Seven Sisters#2 Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters#3 Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters#4 The Stars That Fell#5 The Stars We Walked Upon#6 The Sun Rises Over Seven Sisters#7 Beyond Seven SistersBonus Christmas at Seven SistersBonus The Ghost on the SwingThe Ultimate Seven Sisters Collection (Books 1-6) IDLEWOOD (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 The Ghosts of Idlewood#2 Dreams of Idlewood#3 The Whispering Saint#4 The Haunted ChildThe Hauntings of Idlewood RETURN TO SEVEN SISTERS (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 The Roses of Mobile#2 All the Summer Roses#3 Blooms Torn Asunder#4 A Garden of Thorns#5 Wreath of RosesReturn to Seven Sisters Collection THE GRACEFIELD HAUNTINGS (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 Haunted Gracefield#2 The Three Graces#3 Grace Before DyingThe Gracefield Hauntings Collection MARIETTA (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 The Bones of Marietta#2 Footsteps of Angels THE BEAUMONT SAGA: A SEVEN SISTERS PREQUEL#1 Olivia#2 Louis#3 ChristineThe Beaumont Saga
Girl in the Woods
Something sinister lurks in the woods. When it finds its way into their home, Stephanie and Will call on Suncoast Paranormal to save them. Now Adam and Cheryl must hurry to help a friend whose life is being threatened by an unknown entity. Stephanie thought she was buying the American dream when she purchased a beautiful home with her fianc矇, Will. But before they could unpack their boxes, they knew the land around their new house held a dark secret. By the time Cheryl and Adam arrive on the scene the haunting has already escalated. The ghost takes hold of Stephanie, and she vanishes into the woods. They frantically search for her, hoping she's still alive. If she is will she even be the same Stephanie they know when they find her? Will Adam and Cheryl be able to banish the terrifying ghosts from the home? What secrets linger in the shadows of the trees? Will Stephanie and Will survive knowing the truth? Girl in the Woods is the fourth book in the Suncoast Paranormal Series.
Both Sides of the Veil
In "Staunton's Dinner," Vane Staunton returns after an absence of many years and hosts a dinner for his former friends. But they are horrified to find that he is terribly changed and now appears to possess awful powers, including the power to kill a man with only a thought! In the curiously homoerotic "A Knight of the Road," set in 17th century England, a handsome but cold-blooded stranger shows up in a lonely village and just might be the Devil himself! The darkly comical "The Disappearance of Mrs. Macrecham" recounts the strange adventures of Hereward Waller, who finds himself in an awkward predicament when he believes he has turned his landlady into a cat. And in "The Ring," Pugh and Tress from Marsh's earlier collection Curios reprise their roles as they seek to solve the mystery of an apparently cursed 16th century ring. The twelve stories in this volume showcase Marsh's diverse talents and include tales of ghosts, crime, and the occult. As always, the tales are told with Marsh's characteristic blend of horror, mystery, and humour. This edition includes the unabridged text of Marsh's story collection, taken from the exceedingly rare first edition published by Methuen in 1901. Also featured is a reproduction of the original cover.
The Ghost Writer
'Let me tell you a story about the time when my whole life changed...'Peter Banner is an author with a string of moderately successful novels to his name, but is struggling with his family life and with writing after the pain of divorce.Looking for both inspiration and a new place to live, he jumps at the chance to rent a remote rural cottage: a cottage that until recently belonged to Ed Steele, a famous horror author from the eighties.His hope is for the same kind of inspiration that launched Ed Steele's career, but he soon discovers that all is not as it seems at Lake View Cottage; there is a growing presence within its walls that threatens to consume all who stay there.With his neighbour Maddy at his side, can Peter Banner uncover the truth, or will he become another victim of whatever darkness lurks within this sleepy village?
Two Shadows
What if a ghost followed you home? Would you know what to do or how to get rid of it? Would you welcome it or find a way to expel it from your life? And could you be sure this demonic presence was truly 'ghosted', gone from your life, or perhaps lingering nearby for continued terrorizing? Samantha, a middle-aged professional woman, has the unfortunate luck to experience this dilemma in Two Shadows, a chilling fictional retelling of an actual haunting. And in unraveling the apparition's shadowy mystery, Sam uncovers her shadow-self lurking just below her own pristine surface.
Fine Spirits Served Here
Do you believe in ghosts?Will works at rumored-to-be haunted Antoine's Restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans. When a new server Elle starts there, Will swears he has met her before. When Will finally figures out how he knows Elle, his world turns upside down as he discovers a deep connection to her that spans generations.Mary Walsh brings this prismatic fictional tale of romance, local legends, and history of The Crescent City together as both the backdrop to the story and a quaint character in and of itself.Cover photo taken by the author's brother, Patrick Walsh, and used with permission from Antoine's Restaurant.
Wish You Weren’t Here
The Rook family run a little business: ghost hunting. And things have picked up recently. Something's wrong. It's been getting noticeably worse since, ooh, 2016?Bad spirits are abroad, and right now they're particularly around Coldbay Island, which isn't even abroad, it's only 20 miles from Skegness. The Rooks' 'quick call out' to the island picks loose a thread that begins to unravel the whole place, and the world beyond.Is this the apocalypse? This might be the apocalypse. Who knew it would kick off in an off-season seaside resort off the Lincolnshire coast? I'll tell you who knew - Linda. She's been feeling increasingly uneasy about the whole of the East Midlands since the 90s.
Morgan Library Ghost Stories
The patron saint - if that's the right word; perhaps guiding spirit? - behind these witty and literate ghost stories is M.R. James (1862-1936). He is primarily known as The Pierpont Morgan Library and at similar august homes of learning as a redoubtable scholar and bibliographer. To many more devotees around the world, though, he is generally acclaimed as the author of some of the most economical, clearly focused, concise, and elegant ghost stories every written. Only the English language serves this genre so well, and James's English craft is at the top of anyone's short list of favorites. "Monty" James enjoyed a long and happy professional relationship with the Morgan Library. He did so, in a sense, only in spirit: he never crossed the Atlantic, and he feared that he would not survive crossing New York's streets. His name was much in evidence when the 150th anniversary of Pierpont Morgan's birth was celebrated several years ago. His work on medieval manuscripts was the focal point of an exhibition held in 1987, and that exhibition gave birth to a strange offspring - a contest for ghost stories connected in some way with the Morgan Library and written in a Jamesian style. This book contains the seven winning stories. Will they make you pleasantly uneasy late at night? Will they make your scalp prickle disturbingly? You'll just have to read them to find out, won't you?
The Ghost and the Birthday Boy
Lily and Ian's families come to Frederickport to celebrate Connor's first Birthday.Bringing the in-laws together is not always easy, especially when uninvited guests from the spirit realm show up.Book 28 of the paranormal cozy mystery series Haunting Danielle.
The Ghosts Of Hucclecote Manor
Howard slowed down, trying to make some sense of what his eyes were tellling him. It was something barely discernable at first but with every hesitant footstep that he took it became more real, more utterly horrifying.
Silver Fox
Why is Grandma's house haunted?Jane Martin has inherited her grandmother's old farmhouse in rural Prince Edward Island, Canada. But from her first day in the house, there are strange apparitions: figures at the windows, a parlour chair that rocks itself, noises in the night, footprints on the stairs and above all the locked door to the attic. Jane is joined by her friend Lydia, whose dog is afraid to enter the house, and is soon helped by a neighbour, Ian, a childhood friend and now possibly a romantic interest. Jane begins to learn something of the hidden life of her grandparents. There are rumours of rum-running and a hidden career in opera. But her grandparents are not alone in haunting the house.Gertrude Harvey and her team of ghost hunters, familiar to readers of other novels by Margaret Westlie, are called to help solve the mystery. They quickly learn that an elegant and mysterious woman without a last name is searching for a silver fox fur hidden somewhere in the house. Is it in the locked attic? Or in another locked room in the cellar?Read Silver Fox and learn the secrets hidden in Jane's new house.
The Doll
Lillian Darkwood's happy teacher life took an epic turn when the demonic doll passed down from her grandmother resurfaced. Although it's her father's fault that Janie Leadermier (a 15-year-old girl that works at his store) now has the doll, Lillian blames herself. She should have disposed of the doll properly decades ago. Not stuff it in the confined depths of the family home attic, hoping it would permanently disappear. Knowing what the doll has done in the past, Lillian must try to get the demon doll back before it overwhelms Janie with its evil powers. With Janie finding herself in her own bad situation, she won't give up her newfound doll without a fight, regardless of the consequences. The harder Lillian tries to retrieve the doll, the stronger the doll's grip on Janie becomes. Will Lillian be able to get the hellish toy back before somebody dies? Or will the doll succeed in committing murder?
The Chronicle Of Athelstan
The harrowing events of last Christmas which had troubled him ever since, now seemed so unbelievable, so very distant.He felt safe and settled at last, more or less content, his drinking was under control and what was more, Howard was quite certain he would never again be troubled by the spirit world.
Abhorrent Siren
Something is mutating the aquatic wildlife on the South Texas border, making the animals larger, hungrier, and more vicious. Something is mutating the people of Texas, turning them into cannibalistic monsters driven by their basest instincts to feed, nest, and reproduce. Something approaches San Antonio, shaking the earth with each step, driving the mutating power forth and poisoning everything it comes across. Something...abhorrent. An extreme horror novel from the author of War of Dictates and Blood & Mud
Hairgrazer
With High School behind him, Hugo Grazer joins the Army Reserves. What he discovers is that not all agitators of our youth become mature adults. No, some join the armed forces! Hugo must deal with gas and grenades, all the while traversing the pitfalls of military subjugation. Basic training hits a whole other level when he's given a spy mission by the CIA. Grazer must investigate his own platoon. Without Switch's book, or even a consistent Ergerteine edge, he confronts a creature stalking the grounds of Ft. Benning. What can Hugo do to stop it and who else will get hurt in the meantime? Travel back to 1986 for this 'Hair Grazer' of a tale. If you've read the other six installments of the Hugo Grazer Chronicles, you won't want to miss out on this one. Pick it up or download a copy today.
Portraits of Dark Things
Book Summary: Lock your doors, find a well-lit corner and prepare to be unnerved by these terrifying tales of frightful fiends..."Each story and picture is a tasty morsel of the macabre. Please, sir, I want some more!"Shudder with eerie delight as you sink your teeth into and feast upon the horrifying stories and imagery awaiting you in PORTRAITS OF DARK THINGS. Craig Bowers' soul-chilling anthology delivers fifteen bite-sized tales for every taste-from accounts of a revived rampaging beast and a legendary chant that summons a murderous hag to a spectral bride-to-be hellbent on revenge. Savor them one at a time, or all in one sitting... if you dare.About Author: Craig Bowers was born in southeast Kansas and spent most of his childhood years in rural Colorado. He experienced a wildly typical 'American' upbringing, acquiring frightfully keen insights into human behavior, fiendishly diverse artistry, a monstrous appetite for researching the macabre, and a wicked sense of humor along the way enabling the discovery and development of his quite shocking array of skills, talents, and abilities.He now shares some of them with the world from a haunted 120-year-old house nestled within an enchanting rustic community in South Carolina. Craig resides there with his bewitching fianc矇e, fellow adventurer and copyeditor, Anne, and their four magical, mystical cats.
The Horsefly Chronicles
This is based on a true story of Phil Siracusa. He remembers being in heaven with loved ones, he was circled by something, and was pulled into the darkness of hell. He remembers being tortured with thousands of others, and the horrible pain that he felt. With his strong faith, he was pulled into the light of God, knows this, and he was born. During adolescence, a spiritual attachment followed him. He was separated by both good and evil and had choices to make. As he grew up, he had visitors from the other side who gave him visions of what was to come in his lifetime. When he became a young adult, he sought out to understand more about the paranormal world and how the other side was able to communicate with him. In his early 20's he slowly turned to organized crime with the mob. After they found out about his gift of being able to communicate with the other side, he gets in way over his head.Phil's journey to this very day continues. This book will take you to places far beyond your imagination. You will feel the presence of evil that still lingers in the air, so sit back and take a seat to read this page-turner series that exceeds any horror book or movie that has ever been written!
Sleep Training
Elin, Mark and baby Padarn, move into their first house together - a house bought unusually cheap - as Mark relocates them in order to start a new job. Lonely and trapped in an increasingly volatile and disquieting marriage, Elin's world begins to unravel in self-doubt and paranoia: is something else visiting her baby at night, keeping him awake? Soon, a series of terrible secrets crawl out from between the cracks.An unsettling contemporary ghost story by the winner of the Ghastling novella competition.This is an extremely tense and haunting story that promises to have the reader riveted and turning the pages to the very end.
Night Terrors: The Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson
'His body was pressed against the wall at the head of the bed, and the face was a mask of agonised horror and fruitless entreaty. But the eyes were already glazed in death, and before Francis could reach the bed the body had toppled over and lay inert and lifeless. Even as he looked, he heard a limping step go down the passage outside.' E. F. Benson was a master of the ghost story and now all his rich, imaginative, spine-tingling and beautifully written tales are presented together in this bumper collection. The range and variety of these spooky narratives is far broader and more adventurous than those of any other writer of supernatural fiction. Within the covers of this volume you will encounter revengeful spectres, vampires, homicidal spirits, monstrous spectral worms and slugs and other entities of nameless dread. This is a classic collection that cannot fail to charm and chill.
The Sapphire Necklace
Still fresh to the community of public defenders, Miss Hazel Watson finds herself entangled in a case of embezzlement - with a liberal dash of the supernatural. Who was this spirit haunting her client? Why is the spirit's glimmering sapphire necklace so entrancing? And, most importantly, why could Hazel not communicate with her?Since she was a young girl, Hazel had been helping spirits conclude their earthly business so they could pass over. Her ability to communicate with spirits was passed down from her mother who was able to help guide her and hone her necromancy skills. Hazel was never a social butterfly, but she never had a problem interacting with the dead. Until now.There are enough challenges being a young, female, public attorney. Still, this new case presents challenges that Hazel could never have anticipated. She had never before met a spirit she couldn't speak with. She couldn't even determine who this woman had been. What was this spirit's relationship with her client, Mr. Miller? How could this spirit help, or hurt, her client's case?As Mr. Miller's trial date inches closer, with more questions than answers, Hazel is rushing against the clock to identify the dead woman, find her killer, and avoid becoming the killer's next victim herself.
A Vanished Hand and Others
Clotilde Graves was known for challenging convention. In her early years, she was known as the dramatist "Clo Graves", but became better known under her fiction-writing persona, "Richard Dehan". She transgressed contemporary gender norms by dressing in male attire, wearing her hair short, and smoking in public. This border crossing can be seen also in her work, which encompasses a wide variety of forms and modes. And while she wrote relatively few fantastical stories, she was devoted to tales of lingering revenants, mysterious cryptids, and grotesque sciences-often laced with her sardonic sense of humour. This volume seeks to recover this side of Graves's writing by including stories from across her career, which challenge definition and range across the speculative genres.
The Damned Season
From the author of the bestselling Psychic Surveys series comes a Christmas ghost novella to chill your bones! Just what defines a haunting? On a strange island, amongst strangers, a strange tale unfolds... Beth Williams leads a lonely existence, going to work, then returning to her flat to watch TV, eat and sleep - the same routine on repeat, day after day. It's a loneliness she nurtures, finds comfort in even, except at Christmas, a time of dread. Then comes an invite, an offer from an old friend, to join him for 'The Damned Season' at his house on an island off the coast of Anglesey, for Christmas with a difference. Intrigued as well as desperate, Beth accepts, arriving there a few days before Christmas Eve. She's not the only one invited, however, there are four others, all strangers to each other, all crossing murky, choppy waters to meet their host, a much changed man that seems not only surprised to see them, but dismayed, and weary too. Who is nothing but a husk. With the boatman gone and the mists closing in, Beth finds herself in a solitary house of ever-changing rooms and never-ending corridors, of people disappearing and then reappearing, of feasts and famine. And then there are the doors, constantly multiplying, and locked...aren't they? The Damned Season. It's coming. Download today or READ FOR FREE in KU: Psychic Surveys Series: Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul Psychic Surveys Companion Novels: Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel Blakemort (Corinna's story) Thirteen (Ness's story) Rosamund (Rosamund Davis - Ruby's great-grandmother's story) This Haunted World Series: This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate Reach for the Dead Series: Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm Reach for the Dead Book Three: DUE OUT SUMMER 2022 Jessamine Series: Jessamine Comraich Carfax House - A Christmas Ghost Story (standalone novella) Summer of Grace - A standalone psychological thriller The Damned Season - A Christmas Ghost Story (standalone novella)
Heretic’s Blood
A haunted campus, an abandoned church, a kidnapping, an obscure, long-forgotten blood cult, and a secret romance with a childhood friend-turned-enemy?And here Melody Bennett thought her freshman year at Dorning University would be boring.*Contains mature subject matter, not suitable for younger readers.
Twin Disasters
Rita Toma's new Young Adult mystery, the latest in a series featuring a trio of young crime solvers, takes hero Megan's ability to see and talk with ghosts a step farther: the ghosts of the victims assist in the investigation.Laced with humor, the story is fast-paced, and the characters are eminently relatable. Beyond the basic mystery is another layer that is perhaps equally important: the plight of teens who fall prey to grown-ups and peers alike. The lessons learned are worth the price alone, but the twists and turns will keep you turning the pages, wondering where the clues will lead. - Gale Leach, Author of the award-winning "Bruce and Friends"
Death’s Retribution
Sylvia Devlin, a black widow, attending her sixth husband's funeral meets an apparition as she stands alone at the grave. Convinced her imagination was working overtime from the stress, she leaves the graveyard, and the mysterious being behind. Maintaining the pretense of the grieving widow until the reading of the will, Sylvia visits her dead husband every day. But with each visit, she is taunted by the phantom, who knows all her history and guides her into an experience she will never forget.Sylvia discovers her husband sold the foundry and created a new will before he suddenly became ill and died. Now she must stay in the dirty, small town in order to receive the cash rewards she so hungers for. In addition, she must allow the new owner into her home and treat him as a special guest when he comes to inspect the plant and the books. Delayed in arriving, Sylvia waits to see what kind of person would invade the solitude of a grieving widow. She puts on a pleasant face and treats Mr. Erich Mott with respect. When she discovers he is single, Sylvia sets her sights on husband seven.
Cleveland Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide
Cleveland, Ohio Ghost and Hauntings - 24 tales and legendsWoodland CemeteryOld Farmer's Market AlleyMad Butcher of Kingsbury RunSquire's CastleThe Drury MansionGrays ArmoryThe Lackawanna Ghost TrainVariety and Agora Theatre And BallroomFranklin Castle and more!Plus close road trips from Cleveland in Lake, Lorain, Medina, Richland, Summit, and Wayne CountiesGore OrphanageCrybaby BridgeMyrtle Hill Cemetery Witch's GraveOhio State ReformatoryMt Olive Cemetery Bloody MaryHell TownGhost Train Over River Styx
Haunted Ends
The crew of Haunted Ends is diverted from filming their show when a cursed and extremely haunted pirate ship, the Serpents Cross, docks off the coast of San Francisco. After repeated attempts by the Coast Guard to tow the pirate ship back to the sea have left many hospitalized, they call Rocky and Sam to help. The paranormal duo must persuade the Serpents Cross' phantom captain to leave San Francisco Bay peacefully. However, if the Captain's requests are not satisfied, he has deadly plans for the citizens of San Francisco.
Voices from the Gray
I have seen many of them over the years. I still recall their aching screams in the dark. What do they want or whom are they looking for? I ask myself these questions as they speak to me from beyond the living world. Some spirits are lost, others are lonely, and then there are entities made of pure malice whose only objective is to cause fear and chaos. Despite my fears and uncertainty, I communicated with them to the best of my ability. If I had not, they would have remained silent within the gray of the shadows.
