A Pyrate Tale - Fifty Years in Port Royale; and Other Stories
Based on Captain Charles Johnson's "A History of the Pyrates," the title tale offers a pirate account of a Port Royale that does not fall into the sea until well after the actual earthquake that destroyed the historical Port Royal. Other stories include a ghost who first appeared in a work of fiction, but haunts -- and works in -- a 21st century used book shop, a very Victorian Christmas ghost story, a venture through a mirror into a properly irrational Elvish land, and a few short pieces. The stories, ghosts and all, tend to be fantasy blended with historical fiction. If my ghosts keep you awake at night, it will be to chat about the world rather than to inflict terror.
The Basket
Aren't cats wonderful pets? Have you never wondered what they are really looking at? Do they see things that we cannot see? Things sometimes happen in life like shadows and sounds in the night that are curious and everlasting. Have you ever been tangled or caught up in a nightmare? Without explanations, don't know what to say, how about Cat's got your tongue?
Magnolian
What secrets does the estate of Magnolian hide, and what is the young black man's ghost trying to tell Lillian before it's too late?When her father dies, college dropout Lillian Mullins steels herself for a future of nothing special in Pittsburgh. An invitation to Magnolian holds promise, but nightmares, ghosts, and murder threaten to derail her attempt to get a life. Lillian heads to the South, leaving Donovan Ross, an angst ridden potential lover, behind. After she finds her mother's old journal at Magnolian and learns a shocking secret, Lillian resolves to find out what happened nearly forty years ago to her mother's African American lover, Samson Jones. Mysterious accidents and threats make her wonder whom she can trust: her enigmatic distant cousin Willoughby Tate, who is running his father's gubernatorial campaign, her Aunt Lorelei, who warns of a dire future, the ghost who beckons her in the night, or her father's voice in the recurring dream that will not let Lillian rest. **This novel was previously published by Siren Bookstrand in 2011.
Wadhurst Ghost Stories
Please note: this is a work of fiction NOT a compendium of local folklore.Could there really be a gargantuan snake, sleeping the sleep of the ages, somewhere beneath a hillock, just outside Wadhurst? And are there other, equally strange, beings 'living' (if we can really use that term) beneath the same earth? Was there once a spectacular magical 'obelisk' sited in a local field? And, while we're on the subject, who, or what, is 'The Oilman'? Where did Dr Jenkinson's mysterious machine come from? Who was Simon Francis Geffers? Did such a person ever really exist? And how can anyone possibly explain that 'forty-foot wide spectre with teeth' we still keep hearing about?These questions - and others of a similar nature - are not entirely answered in this collection of seven long-ish ghost stories, covering more than a century in the village's history.
Reasoned and Unreasoned Images
In an old church on a cold autumn afternoon, a young woman is making a brass rubbing. Suddenly, she senses a presence by the altar. A vague, diaphanous object brushes past her. She bends down over her brass rubbing and sees that it is speckled with blood. She faints.What do you do when your girlfriend says she's seen a ghost? Brian Kenning is a physicist, so he decides to perform an experiment in the church to find out what she actually saw. He becomes the first person to truly uncover the mystery of ghosts and how their appearance is linked to historical events. His explanation involves a new theory about the quantized nature of time itself.But Brian and his colleagues pursue the truth too far, until the safety of all is threatened. The consequences of their later experiments are most mysterious, and it is left to Brian's brother, John, to uncover the truth and rue the day they ever discovered the time quantum.
There's Something Dark in my Bedroom
Sam frantically ran out of his bedroom door with his head down and eyes averted in his desperation to avoid seeing what he firmly believed to be lying in wait in the shadows. His 'dream' had now become an almost nightly occurrence and he instinctively knew it was of the utmost importance to escape from whatever dark, wicked and malevolent presence was in that far, gloomy corner of his room. He passed the ever-present indistinct, spectral, but curiously non-threatening, images of what looked like Roman soldiers standing, on guard, on the landing and into the illusory safety the bedroom next door occupied by his parents. He had spent what seemed like weeks sleeping, he hoped securely, at the foot of their bed out of harms way.For nine year old Sam, who for the most part had his feet relatively firmly planted on solid emotional ground, this was so far outside his experience that nothing could over come the horror of what his imagination compellingly told him was lurking just out of sight.What Sam didn't know, and it wouldn't have helped him if he did, was that previous generations of his family were blessed - if that is the appropriate word- with the same sensitivity as he. They too had suffered from comparable nightmares, or worse, sometimes for years; and occasionally with disastrous, even fatal, outcomes.The following story explains why.
A Shadow of Love
"A spooky love story that gets your heart racing and your spine tingling! For those fans of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir who always wanted more, look no further." -Alexandra Angeloch, playwrightA Shadow of Love is a captivating paranormal romance that tells the story of Annabelle, a woman who has escaped an abusive relationship and finds solace in a secluded 1860's farmhouse. She soon discovers that she is not alone in her new home however, as the ghost of Christian, a poet who took his own life in 1917, haunts the halls.Initially, Christian tries to scare Annabelle away, but when they connect in her dreams, they fall deeply in love. But their love is haunted by a dark curse, as Christian's fianc矇 placed a spell on him that confines his spirit to the earth for one hundred years. With time running out, Annabelle becomes desperate to find a way to be with Christian, no matter the cost.As Annabelle navigates the dangers of her abusive ex and the looming threat of Christian's disappearance, she is pushed to the brink of reckless behavior in her desperate desire to be with the ghostly love of her life. A Shadow of Love is a heart-wrenching tale of forbidden love and the lengths we will go to for the ones we love.
Reaps
Reaps is a collection of ghost and supernatural tales... though several don't need ghosts to be scary. Most feature a rarity in the genre of young-adult books... young black male protagonists resourceful, brave and intelligent, and many in settings other than the inner-city.Examples of other settings where young black males encounter ghosts, deal with hauntings - benign or malignant - vanquish demons, and Satan Himself, are "Goat Boy" somewhere in America's heartland, "Children Of Death," which takes place in Haiti, "The Train To Lost Lake," in a forest in Maine, and "The Picture" set in a "nice little town."Stories which may or may not feature ghosts but are haunting nevertheless, include "Spontaneous Combustion," a gothic-themed reminder that hate still haunts this world, as well as the "The Execution" which is hauntingly surreal. Homelessness can also be scary, especially to an 8-year-old-boy who may be dying of pneumonia in an abandoned funeral parlor.Jess Mowry does not take the safe route, whether walking through a graveyard at night or an inner-city alley; and neither are his characters the safe and stereotypical heroes who look the parts and play the roles allowed by the mainstream guardians of what young people "should" read. Most are on the verge of manhood and without guides, either spiritual or real, who find they must become their own heroes, and seek their own light in a dark scary world.
Kakorrhaphiophobia
One instant.A single flash of twisted metal and steel is all it takes to shatter Jennifer's life forever. The drunk driver took her husband's life but she lives on. Depression. Survivor guilt. Anxiety. They all take their hold like vice grips.Jennifer has gone from being an investment banker in Manhattan and having nerves of steel, to not being able to perform the simplest tasks without feeling the most crippling fear. To escape her despair and anxiety, she moves to a small southern town where she sits alone in the new house she has made her prison. So she can avoid people and the panic they now bring. She thought she knew fear, she thought she knew terror, until she hears the loud knocking at her front door.But the real horror may already be inside...
Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Written just after the American Revolution, Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are two thoroughly American tales of fantasy and the supernatural.Rip Van Winkle follows the strange adventure of a Dutch-American villager in colonial America. He meets mysterious Dutchmen in the Catskill Mountains, imbibes their liquor, and falls asleep. He awakes twenty years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution.The Legend of Sleepy Hollow features Ichabod Crane, a schoolteacher who lives in a village on the Hudson River. A suggestible man, Ichabod believes the ghost stories about the place, particularly the tale of a headless horseman. When he begins courting the beautiful Katrina Van Tassel, a rival suitor, Brom Bones, begins playing tricks on the schoolmaster. Late one night as Ichabod rides home from Katrina's house, he is pursued by the legendary headless horseman. The specter hurls at him a round object that he takes to be a head but is later revealed to be a pumpkin. The schoolmaster is never seen in Sleepy Hollow again.These two gothic masterpieces are among the earliest examples of American fiction with enduring popularity.
The Turn of the Screw
American author and expatriate Henry James is regarded as one the principal figures of 19th century literary realism. His work is noted for its intimate examination of the consciousness of his characters. Such an examination is at the heart of one of his most famous works, "The Turn of the Screw". First published serially in "Collier's Weekly" in 1898, "The Turn of the Screw" is a remarkable example of late 19th century gothic horror. An intense psychological tale of terror, the novella begins in an old house on Christmas Eve. A governess comes to live with and take care of two young children, whose parents have recently died. The governess loves her new position in charge of the young children; however she is soon disturbed when she begins to see ghosts. While once regarded as just a scary story, modern criticism has reinterpreted the ambiguity of the narrative to possibly suggest a deeper thematic intent. Regardless, "The Turn of the Screw" remains a hauntingly gothic tale. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper.
Freak House
Something is very wrong at The Promethean, New York's newest and most exclusive address, home to some of the country's biggest celebrities. Exceedingly nasty things are happening. Malevolent ghosts? Marauding aliens? Demonic possession? Something even stranger? Whatever it is, the residents are dying in horrible ways. Soon the media is calling the place Freak House, and everyone wants to know what is going on. Gibbs, a newspaper reporter and Ellie Skye, a paranormal investigator especially want to know, convinced that the answer lies in the little patch of history the building is sitting on. Lives are on the line, and even reputations! Seldom has horror been so amusingly described. Set at the end of the second second-Bush Administration, when it often seemed that the country had slipped through an inter-dimensional chink into a real-life horror show, Freak House is a trenchant send-up of a time when crazy was in fashion.
The Haunting of Monroe Manse
Sarah Holden is a small town antiques dealer plagued by haunted dreams and gruesome visions. When she recieves a career-defining opportunity to liquidate a multimillion-dollar estate that harbors a chilling secret, she's forced to face her own insecurities as well as the ghosts of her past. But will she be able to complete the job and find the answer to a century old mystery before her time runs out? Once Sarah's ghostly dreams morph into reality, the whispers of the past cannot be silenced.
Bargain Haunter (Large Print)
Everly Dupree has handled her fair share of ghostly encounters, but this one takes the dog biscuit.She had no intention of getting involved in Mooselick River's annual town-wide yard sale, but saying no to Martha Tipton is like trying to wrestle a cat into a bathtub.One minute, Everly's sorting through attic junk and dodging cutthroat bargain hunters-the next, an oversized chocolate lab comes barreling toward her at full speed. And drags her straight to a body.Buried under a mountain of shredded paperwork at the recycling center, Everly's overbearing, micromanaging boss, Spencer Charles, is very dead. Unfortunately for her, his ghost shows up before the cops do.Spencer is just as nitpicky and demanding in death as he was in life and seems to think Everly is his own personal psychic detective. He's convinced he was murdered and-you guessed it-won't stop haunting her until she proves it.In a town where everyone talks, only one witness can sniff out the truth... and she has four paws.
Christmas Presence
Christmas in Mooselick River is all tinsel, twinkle lights...and murder.After the year she's had, Everly Dupree is ready for the holiday season-baking cookies, trimming the tree, guzzling eggnog, and indulging in one of her favorite traditions: the town's annual Christmas lighting contest.But murder never takes a holiday, and in Mooselick River, even Christmas comes with a body count. As displays are sabotaged, old grudges resurface, and bitter rivalries boil over, it's starting to look like the lighting contest is about more than just dazzling decorations.Then tenacious journalist Amber Hale turns up strangled with a string of Christmas lights, her corpse staged like a macabre holiday display-and her ghost becomes Everly's newest problem.The more she learns, the clearer it seems that Amber wasn't just chasing a headline. She was running from something-and if Everly isn't careful, she'll become the next holiday tragedy Mooselick River has to sweep under the snow.
The Nightmare Room
Winner Best Debut Novel, Indie Horror Book AwardsInquisitr's Best Horror Books of 201812 of the Best Scary Audiobooks of 2018, InsiderNew York audiobook narrator Peter Larson and his wife Hannah head to his hometown of Maple City to help Peter's ailing father and to put a recent tragedy behind them. Though the small, Midwestern town seems the idyllic place to start afresh, Peter and Hannah will soon learn that evil currents flow beneath its surface. They move into an old farmhouse on the outskirts of town-a house purchased by Peter's father at auction and kept secret until now-and start to settle into their new life. But as Peter sets up his recording studio in a small basement room, disturbing things begin to occur-mysterious voices haunt audio tracks, malevolent shadows creep about the house. And when an insidious presence emerges from the woodwork, Peter must face old demons in order to save his family and himself."The Nightmare Room is one creepy little gem! I highly recommend this fantastic 5 star read!"HORROR MAIDEN'S BOOK REVIEWS"Holy hell it's been awhile since I whipped through a book so fast. And not because I was eager to be done with it but because it was just so good."SCI-FI & SCARY"The author has a knack for cliffhangers that make you want to start reading the next chapter immediately."CEMETERY DANCE ONLINE
Ghost Haste
Everly Dupree's ex is a criminal, and now the FBI thinks she's his partner.Which is just the cherry on top of a week that already includes ghost drama, nosy neighbors, and a suspicious white van parked across the street.She might not have wanted to help murdered ghosts with their unfinished business, but Everly used to think she was at least good at it.Until Amber Hale-the spunky, throttled-to-death reporter who decided it would be more fun to stick around and haunt Everly for the rest of her life. (Which, at this rate, may not be much longer.)Then Everly's ex-husband, Paul, mysteriously vanishes amid (totally true) allegations of fraud, and the FBI starts asking very pointed questions-all aimed at Everly.Suddenly she's got agents watching her every move, neighbors placing bets on her arrest, and no choice but to dust off her amateur sleuth hat (again) to investigate the very people she's been trying so hard to forget.To survive the fallout, Everly will have to admit that Amber is as helpful as she is annoying, and accept her ghostly assistance if she wants to make it out of this one without becoming the next headline.Or worse-the next ghost.
Fortune Haunter
One man's treasure is another ghost's unfinished business.When local fortune hunter Delly Harper takes a fatal nosedive off a cliff, everyone in Mooselick River calls it an accident. Everyone except Delly-who's now haunting Everly Dupree with a list of suspicions and one very big request.Turns out Delly named Everly's dad executor of his estate: a crumbling farmhouse, a chunk of overgrown land, and a rumor about buried gold that's been circling town for decades. While her dad dives headfirst into treasure-hunting mode, Everly's stuck trying to figure out who wanted Delly dead-and why.Then another body turns up, and this one is definitely no accident.As Everly follows a trail of secrets through old rivalries, family feuds, and long-forgotten scandals, she starts to realize this isn't just about gold-it's about payback. And someone in town will do anything to keep the past buried.Good thing Everly has a shovel.
The Hungry Ones
"I gave this book 4.5 out of 5 stars. I loved it. And I thought it was even better thanThe Nightmare Room."- Library Macabre At the outskirts of Maple City sits the Crossroads Motel, a throwback to the days when the motor lodge was king. Two years ago, the motel was the site of an act so brutal that its buildings were left to rot.Jessie Voss, however, sees promise in the Crossroad's bare bones and buys it up, determined to breathe new life into the place.When the Larson family shows up on her doorstep, road-weary and desperate for a break, Jessie offers them lodging, even though her grand opening is still a week away.But the arrival of guests awakens the motel, and Jessie soon finds herself host to both the living and the dead.WHAT THEY'RE SAYING ABOUT BOOK 1: THE NIGHTMARE ROOM..."Sorensen has a knack for cliffhangers that make you want to start reading the next chapter immediately."- Frank Errington, Cemetery Dance Online"...a perfectly paced, well-plotted, and compelling haunted house tale filled with oppressive atmosphere, sympathetic and detailed characters, and only a touch of gore."- Becky Spratford, Library Journal"Chilling and forceful, Sorensen's story of family, emotional pain, and suspense will maintain listeners' rapt attention."- AudioFile Magazine"...a really well written haunted house story that's easy to follow and scary enough to leave the light on or read during the day. I loved it! This is a must have for your horror collection!"- Mother Horror"The Nightmare Room is one of the best debuts I've ever read. It's one of the best haunted house stories I've ever experienced."- Cedar Hollow Horror Reviews
Black Shuck
Black Shuck - The Devil's Dog - a terrifying new supernatural thriller by Piers Warren set in the village of Blakeney on the North Norfolk coast. For centuries Black Shuck has patrolled the coastal paths of Norfolk - a spectral portent of death. But recent events have allowed the massive phantom dog to evolve, to metamorphose, into something altogether more horrifying. Gaining strength and powers by the day, Shuck has developed a gruesome appetite - a hunger the hell hound sets out to satiate ... Wildlife film-maker Harry Lambert needs a serious rest. His colleague and best friend is dead, his wife has left him and his career has derailed. A spot of bird-watching on the Norfolk coast should help... but when Harry stumbles into Black Shuck's territory, the fearsome beast finds what it was looking for ...
Fortune Haunter (Large Print)
One man's treasure is another ghost's unfinished business.When local fortune hunter Delly Harper takes a fatal nosedive off a cliff, everyone in Mooselick River calls it an accident. Everyone except Delly-who's now haunting Everly Dupree with a list of suspicions and one very big request.Turns out Delly named Everly's dad executor of his estate: a crumbling farmhouse, a chunk of overgrown land, and a rumor about buried gold that's been circling town for decades. While her dad dives headfirst into treasure-hunting mode, Everly's stuck trying to figure out who wanted Delly dead-and why.Then another body turns up, and this one is definitely no accident.As Everly follows a trail of secrets through old rivalries, family feuds, and long-forgotten scandals, she starts to realize this isn't just about gold-it's about payback. And someone in town will do anything to keep the past buried.Good thing Everly has a shovel.
Ghost Haste (Large Print)
Everly Dupree's ex is a criminal, and now the FBI thinks she's his partner.Which is just the cherry on top of a week that already includes ghost drama, nosy neighbors, and a suspicious white van parked across the street.She might not have wanted to help murdered ghosts with their unfinished business, but Everly used to think she was at least good at it.Until Amber Hale-the spunky, throttled-to-death reporter who decided it would be more fun to stick around and haunt Everly for the rest of her life. (Which, at this rate, may not be much longer.)Then Everly's ex-husband, Paul, mysteriously vanishes amid (totally true) allegations of fraud, and the FBI starts asking very pointed questions-all aimed at Everly.Suddenly she's got agents watching her every move, neighbors placing bets on her arrest, and no choice but to dust off her amateur sleuth hat (again) to investigate the very people she's been trying so hard to forget.To survive the fallout, Everly will have to admit that Amber is as helpful as she is annoying, and accept her ghostly assistance if she wants to make it out of this one without becoming the next headline.Or worse-the next ghost.
Christmas Presence (Large Print)
Christmas in Mooselick River is all tinsel, twinkle lights...and murder.After the year she's had, Everly Dupree is ready for the holiday season-baking cookies, trimming the tree, guzzling eggnog, and indulging in one of her favorite traditions: the town's annual Christmas lighting contest.But murder never takes a holiday, and in Mooselick River, even Christmas comes with a body count. As displays are sabotaged, old grudges resurface, and bitter rivalries boil over, it's starting to look like the lighting contest is about more than just dazzling decorations.Then tenacious journalist Amber Hale turns up strangled with a string of Christmas lights, her corpse staged like a macabre holiday display-and her ghost becomes Everly's newest problem.The more she learns, the clearer it seems that Amber wasn't just chasing a headline. She was running from something-and if Everly isn't careful, she'll become the next holiday tragedy Mooselick River has to sweep under the snow.
Ghost Walk
The dead are restless. The living are hunted. And Maaya's only hope is a beautiful pirate captain from the other side of the world.Maaya sees what others cannot. A medium scraping by in the soot-stained slums of Sark, she relies on her deck of cards-and the ghost of her best friend, Saber-to navigate a city of shadows. But when a terrifying new force begins erasing people from existence, her parlor tricks become a fight for survival.Forced to flee the only home she's ever known, Maaya finds sanctuary on the Windfire, a swift ship cutting through dangerous seas under the command of the infamous Captain Adelaide Sol.Adelaide is everything Maaya is not: energetic, charming, and radiating a chaotic power that matches her mechanical arm. She rules her ship with a bright smile and an iron will, but Maaya soon discovers she also wields a terrifying power of her own.As they race to stop a century-old doomsday device ticking down across the ocean, the friction between the wary medium and the vibrant captain ignites into something undeniable. But saving the world will require Maaya to master a magic she fears... and trust a woman who might just steal her heart before the world ends.Ghost Walk is an immersive gaslamp fantasy adventure featuring: A slow-burn sapphic romanceA unique card-based magic systemA snarky ghost companionA found family of misfits on the high seas
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.
The Infant Spirits
When a poltergeist takes root in a hospital, can a determined ghost chaser undo a devilish 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.Buy The Infant Spirits to unchain the children today!
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
Ghost Train
13-year-old Remy DuMont, newly arrived from Haiti, where his family lived in poverty, hopes that life will be different in West Oakland, California, where refrigerators, hot running water and television are but three new wonders. But when he and his parents move into the second-floor apartment of a spooky old Victorian house in a neighborhood haunted by real-life terrors of gangs, drugs and violence, the last thing Remy expects are ghosts!Every night at 3:13 while his mother and father sleep, Remy hears a train approaching, seemingly headed straight for the house. From his window he sees a murder committed aboard the train as it rumbles past below. Remy soon realizes that the murderer, the victim, and the train are ghosts; and the murder he sees reenacted each night happened in 1943 when Liberty ships were built in Oakland to help win World War II. Together with his downstairs neighbor, chubby, streetwise, Niya Bedford, also 13, they put together the pieces of this undiscovered crime, which includes the unexplained disappearance of another 13-year-old boy, the son of the elderly and reclusive landlady who lives on the house's dark third floor. In their attempt to solve the mystery by searching for a body they believe to have been buried in the house's basement, Remy and Niya find themselves pulled into the ghostly manifestation where the laws of the living don't apply, becoming ghosts from the future seemingly haunting the past and locked in a life-and-death struggle with a dead murderer and time itself.
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.
