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.
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?
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.
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.
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 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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"
Cleveland Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide
Explore the haunted heart of northern Ohio with Cleveland, Ohio Ghost Hunter Guide: Haunted Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and Vicinity-a chilling collection of more than two dozen true Cleveland ghost stories, urban legends, and historic hauntings.Step into the shadowed past of Cleveland, where spirits of industry, tragedy, and mystery still linger along Lake Erie's shores. This guide uncovers 24 documented ghost stories, local legends, and eerie sites across the region-many of which you can still visit today.Discover the haunted Ohio history of: Woodland Cemetery, where restless spirits walk among historic gravesOld Farmer's Market Alley, home to whispers of long-lost merchantsThe Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, Cleveland's most infamous ghostSquire's Castle, haunted by the lady of the towerThe Drury Mansion, steeped in death and mysteryGrays Armory, echoing with military ghosts of the pastThe Lackawanna Ghost Train, seen racing through the nightVariety and Agora Theatre and Ballroom, stages of lingering spiritsFranklin Castle, one of the most haunted houses in OhioPlus nearby haunted destinations perfect for short road trips: Gore Orphanage (Lorain County)Crybaby Bridge (Medina County)Myrtle Hill Cemetery - The Witch's Grave (Medina County)Ohio State Reformatory (Mansfield)Mt. Olive Cemetery - Bloody Mary (Summit County)Hell Town (Boston Township)The Ghost Train Over River Styx (Wayne County)Each story blends Ohio folklore, haunted history, and field research, complete with photos, directions, and GPS coordinates to guide you to the real locations.Folklorist and author Jannette Quackenbush-creator of the Haunted Ohio series and The Big Book of American Ghost Stories-has spent decades uncovering true hauntings across the state. Her research connects the legends to their historical origins, separating authentic accounts from fiction.If you love Cleveland ghost stories, Ohio folklore, or haunted road trips, this is your guide to the eerie corners of Cuyahoga County and beyond.
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.
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.
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?
Twin or My Evenings in Malorossia
Metaphysics, philosophy, ghost stories, life's tragedies, love affairs, and much more is assembled and thoroughly mixed in this fascinating collection, presented by the author as a series of conversations with his own double.
Jennet
Beware these moors when Jennet walks..."I love your books!" - Rowan Coleman aka Bella Ellis, author of The Girl at the Window and The Vanished Bride------1936 - Ma Ramsgill is happy. After the losses of the Great War and its aftermath, she has a family again. Her son, John, is healthy and the image of his father, Jack; Maggie is asleep in her pram; and she's sure a third will soon join her brood. Then her idyll is shattered by a ferocious animal attack, and she realises that the old tales hold a devastating truth.Something - someone - stalks these moors; someone long dead, someone with a grudge against her family. Jennet. Ma will not let her take any more Ramsgills.***Present Day - Yorkshire is in the grip of a heatwave, and Thruscross Reservoir has dried up to reveal the remains of the drowned village of Thores-Cross beneath.Playing in the mud which coats the valley floor, four-year-old Clare Wainwright finds an old inkpot, and can't wait to show it to her best friend, Louise. But when Louise's mother, Emma, sees it, her reaction is shocking, and both families are plunged into their worst nightmares.Emma knows what the inkpot portends: Jennet has woken.Now she wants the children.-----A dual-timeline historical novel, Jennet moves between 1930s Yorkshire and the present day, following the residents of Thores-Cross, a remote moorland village, in their fight for survival against a vengeful spirit. Jennet will not stop until she has what she wants - life for her children. Jennet is perfect for fans of Nicola Cornick, Barbara Erskine, Susanna Kearsley and Pamela Hartshorne.
Oblivion
Where do writers go when they die? The forgotten ones, at least, go to The Cafe of Minor Authors where they drink endless cups of cappuccino, self-obsess, and nurse their shattered dreams. Some authors, it's rumored, can escape Oblivion if they try hard enough to write something the universe can't ignore, even after death. This is the story of one ambitious writer stuck in oblivion who not only risks upturning his own fate but also the fate of his literary hero, and that of his great grandmother, Hanna, an aspiring actor in the Yiddish theater in the Prague of 1911. This book is for anyone who has ever wanted to be an author, anyone who knows an author, anyone who is an author, recognized or not, and anyone who loves books enough to want to spend their afterlife reading forgotten classics in the great library of Oblivion. "A mesmerizing meditation on immortality, both the literary and fleshly kinds and its ultimate unattainability... like language, like summer, like love, Oblivion is irresistible."- Junot Diaz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction "A tour de force. Oblivion is a marvel of the imagination and intellect. Hemley has . . .created a book that is a relentless page turner: funny and wise, exuberant and sad, insightful and magical, and-most wonderful of all-deeply, deeply human."-Connie May Fowler, author of How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly "Oblivion is a deeply intelligent and strikingly honest exploration of what ultimately drives a writer to write, and the cold loneliness of the journey, and how literary success in one's lifetime is, at best, a fickle proposition. I will tell every writer I know, struggling or successful, to read this book."- Kaylie Jones, author of Lies My Mother Never Told Me: A Memoir.
Jennet
Beware these moors when Jennet walks..."I love your books!" - Rowan Coleman aka Bella Ellis, author of The Girl at the Window and The Vanished Bride------1936 - Ma Ramsgill is happy. After the losses of the Great War and its aftermath, she has a family again. Her son, John, is healthy and the image of his father, Jack; Maggie is asleep in her pram; and she's sure a third will soon join her brood. Then her idyll is shattered by a ferocious animal attack, and she realises that the old tales hold a devastating truth.Something - someone - stalks these moors; someone long dead, someone with a grudge against her family. Jennet. Ma will not let her take any more Ramsgills.***Present Day - Yorkshire is in the grip of a heatwave, and Thruscross Reservoir has dried up to reveal the remains of the drowned village of Thores-Cross beneath.Playing in the mud which coats the valley floor, four-year-old Clare Wainwright finds an old inkpot, and can't wait to show it to her best friend, Louise. But when Louise's mother, Emma, sees it, her reaction is shocking, and both families are plunged into their worst nightmares.Emma knows what the inkpot portends: Jennet has woken.Now she wants the children.-----A dual-timeline historical novel, Jennet moves between 1930s Yorkshire and the present day, following the residents of Thores-Cross, a remote moorland village, in their fight for survival against a vengeful spirit. Jennet will not stop until she has what she wants - life for her children. Jennet is perfect for fans of Nicola Cornick, Barbara Erskine, Susanna Kearsley and Pamela Hartshorne.
Jennet
Beware these moors when Jennet walks..."I love your books!" - Rowan Coleman aka Bella Ellis, author of The Girl at the Window and The Vanished Bride------1936 - Ma Ramsgill is happy. After the losses of the Great War and its aftermath, she has a family again. Her son, John, is healthy and the image of his father, Jack; Maggie is asleep in her pram; and she's sure a third will soon join her brood. Then her idyll is shattered by a ferocious animal attack, and she realises that the old tales hold a devastating truth.Something - someone - stalks these moors; someone long dead, someone with a grudge against her family. Jennet. Ma will not let her take any more Ramsgills.***Present Day - Yorkshire is in the grip of a heatwave, and Thruscross Reservoir has dried up to reveal the remains of the drowned village of Thores-Cross beneath.Playing in the mud which coats the valley floor, four-year-old Clare Wainwright finds an old inkpot, and can't wait to show it to her best friend, Louise. But when Louise's mother, Emma, sees it, her reaction is shocking, and both families are plunged into their worst nightmares.Emma knows what the inkpot portends: Jennet has woken.Now she wants the children.-----A dual-timeline historical novel, Jennet moves between 1930s Yorkshire and the present day, following the residents of Thores-Cross, a remote moorland village, in their fight for survival against a vengeful spirit. Jennet will not stop until she has what she wants - life for her children. Jennet is perfect for fans of Nicola Cornick, Barbara Erskine, Susanna Kearsley and Pamela Hartshorne.
The Ghastling
A contemporary horror magazine based on the Victorian penny dreadful, publishing short stories of horror, ghosts, folk horror, the macabre and the uncanny. The magazine is illustrated throughout and boasts a truly unique vintage design and typography, making it a very attractive addition to any horror-lover's bookshelf.
In The Shadows Of The Pines
The long shadows of the deep pine forests throughout North Carolina cast obscure menace to those who tread in their darkened outlines. If they knew what was hidden within the darkness, they would know to walk lightly, for North Carolina is truly a haunted land.The tales of life and death intertwine with the book In The Shadows Of The Pines. The thirteen mysterious stories within are legends that rarely have been told. Read about how madness and mistakes entomb a man alive. Discover how the ghost of a girl was so tormented after her death that she destroyed a college building. Does the ghost of a popular radio DJ still haunt the airwaves of the state? And just what is that strange river monster that crawls up onto a bridge late at night? All these tales and more are told throughout In The Shadow Of The Pines.So lock the doors and shut the windows. It might help keep the ghosts out long enough to read a spooky story, or thirteen. Considering just how haunted North Carolina is, they probably will still find a way in. Even ghosts like a good ghost story.
Accidental Murderer in Apt 34
Some mistakes haunt the guilty, While others seek revenge.Roger leaves the house filled with the memories of his father's abuse to follow his sister, Kara, to the big city. He's fleeing the trauma of his childhood, though his debilitating anxiety disorder stays with him. Kara finds a psychiatrist to help with that, a kind man named Mark Stephenson. Then Roger finds an affordable place in apartment 34 at Sunnycrest Apartments and a girlfriend, Lisa. Life is finally looking up.That is until Roger realizes the girl across the hall, Alice, has a father very similar to his own. Brian's screams mixed with Alice's are too much for Roger to handle. He feels like he has to save the girl from her father's violence, but his own fear and trauma interfere, and Alice dies.As he tries to move on, to get past the biggest mistake of his life, Alice has other ideas.Now Roger must do for himself what he couldn't for Alice. Make it out of Sunnycrest alive.
Murmurs in the Dark
Book View Caf矇 presents thirteen (of course) brand new (mostly) tales of ghosts, hauntings, and things that might or might not go bump in the night-tales that will inspire an involuntary glance over the shoulder, an unexpected shiver, or an uneasy chuckle. Open this book at your own risk-of a spooky good read. Stories by Alma Alexander - Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff - Chaz Brenchley - Marie Brennan - Brenda W. Clough - Marissa Doyle - Katharine Eliska Kimbriel - Shannon Page - Paul Piper - Steven Popkes - Dave Smeds - Jennifer Stevenson - Jill Zeller
Isla Rising
It is 1833, and fiery Edinburgh widow Isla is dying. Ready to meet her maker and eager to reunite with the love of her life, she is not afraid of passing, but Isla's death is only the beginning of a series of otherworldly adventures that she must undertake on her quest to find her husband. As a spirit, Isla must deal with grave-robbers, ancient mysteries and earth bound ghosts in order to protect her granddaughter and locate her love. Culminating in the glowing bonfires of a lawless and blistering Samain, when the bold dead walk among the living, Isla Rising ranges from the arcane to the humorous, as the wild widow stalks through the shadowy depths of Edinburgh's homes and cemeteries, pubs and plots.
G is for Ghosts
A teenage girl's classmates begin disappearing only to haunt her dreams, ships full of ghostly passengers in need of release test those who are tasked to give them peace, psychopomps whose job is guiding the spirits of the dead to the other side meet in a support group, and more fill these pages.Featuring work by Pete Aldin, Andrew Bourelle, Stephanie A. Cain, Beth Cato, M.L.D. Curelas, Sara Cleto and Brittany Warman, Amanda C. Davis, Roddy Fosburg, Joseph Halden, Lynn Hardaker, L.S. Johnson, Michael M. Jones, Jeanne Kramer-Smyth, Samantha Kymmell-Harvey, C.S. MacCath, Jonathan C. Parrish, Alexandra Seidel, Samantha L. Strong, Michael B. Tager, Rachel M. Thompson, Laura VanArendonk Baugh, Sarah Van Goethem, Xan van Rooyen, Lilah Wild, Suzanne J. Willis and BD Wilson.These twenty-six ghost stories, each with a unique perspective and style, explore hauntings and specters in ways both new and familiar.
Enduring Possessions and Casualties of War
After being listed as MIA ten years previously, the remains of an American soldier are returned home from Vietnam, but after burial the remains rise to seek revenge upon those in his home town who were responsible for his pregnant girlfriend's tragic death, and for the torments he suffered due to his spiritual beliefs. As he had just purchased a new, high performance sports car before his deployment, it became one of his most cherished possessions, second to his beloved girlfriend, Holly. And so, driven by the madness of love, and the magic of the Druids, he takes his dilapidated car, which returns to its former state of showroom condition, and begins his ghostly rampage of death and destruction.
The Demon Shadow
The 16-year-old girl disappeared after school on an October afternoon. The police have exhausted all leads. It's been weeks, but her mother, Barbara, will not stop searching for Melissa.Her husband, Mark, has given up...and started drinking. Her younger daughter Rachel feels neglected. The police think she is a nuisance. Her job is in jeopardy.But even more mysterious things begin happening around Barbara. The shadows that have no source...a dark form glimpsed beneath Melissa's bed...the ravens that have congregated on the lawn.Desperate, Barbara turns to the mysterious Sterling, a man the police scorn as a psychic, a fraud, and maybe worse.Can Sterling help Barbara find her daughter before it is too late? And what is the mysterious Bishops' Curse that has haunted Barbara's family for centuries?The Demon Shadow is the first in a series of haunting thrillers that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
Christmas on Palm Court
Elaina Nelson has helped her sisters banish evil spirits, but that's the last thing on her mind the night of her engagement party. When she suddenly becomes ill, something tells Elaina it's time to roll up her sleeves and fight for her life. Unfortunately, she may have to face this battle alone. Will she learn how to harness her abilities, saving Christmas for everyone, including the last person she ever expected to help?
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Some Captives Identify With Their Captors. Others Fight Back... Hard.After the loss of her fianc矇 and the harrowing experience of having her world turned inside out, Shelly's life seems to be back on track when she finds her one true love. But in a cruel twist of fate, she is ripped away from her loving home and thrust into a world of unspeakable cruelty - an antiquated mental hospital. When her new love puts himself in the firing line in an unsuccessful attempt to free her from the asylum, all seems lost. Her life at stake, Shelly has two choices before her: conform and survive or rebel and suffer. With the ghosts of the past closing in, and only a handful of allies it seems she has no means of fighting back. Can she delve into the depths of her soul to find the strength and power to conquer her foes? Or will she be lost to darkness forever? This third and final instalment of the Second Sight series is a stunning conclusion to a captivating tale and will keep you enthralled until the very last word.
The Children of Manor House
Mikey and his friends thought they had successfully freed the ghosts of the children in the garden, but they were mistaken. Now faced with a new mystery, Mikey and his friends must enter a haunted mansion, uncover its secrets, and finally bring the killer to justice once and for all in this final book of the Children series. Can Mikey trust a ghost to solve a mystery one last time?
The Turn of the Screw
A new edition of a Gothic novella which has inspired many horror and psychological thrillers since its publication. This new edition of The Turn of the Screw offers students the definitive text and extensive appendices. An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that something dark is menacing her young charges. But are supernatural forces at work, or is the danger something altogether more earthly? Henry James's masterpiece, and widely considered to be the greatest ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw remains the apogee of suspenseful, haunting writing in the English language.
Shaman of Souls
"The well-developed characters ease readers into [the] mystery... with details revealed only gradually, and genuinely shocking turns. " - Kirkus ReviewsYoung Xeile is dying, and in his final act he sets out on a mission to find the one who killed his mother. But the mission is complicated when clues lead him to Trifectus, a city that's just been locked down due to two brutal killings. Xeile quickly discovers that to complete his task he must help the peacekeeping Guardians of Trifectus solve the double murder. To even have a chance of cracking the case, Xeile will have to commune with spirits to find the killer, an act considered almost impossible by most of the living and punishable by death to the rest. Yet as he speaks to those spirits of the past, he uncovers a dark future. The murders of both the townsfolk and his mother are just the beginning, heralding the return of sinister magic and death for the entirety of the continent. Will Xeile be able to find the answers he seeks? Or will death take him before he can fulfill his dying wish?
H. P. Lovecraft Collection
H.P. Lovecraft Collection includes four of the most popular and enduring works by the master of the macabre: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and The Shunned House.
The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories, Volume Five
It's the most wonderful time of the year - time for more rare ghostly tales of Yuletide terror from Victorian England!For this fifth Valancourt volume of Christmas ghost stories, editor Christopher Philippo has dug deeper than ever before, delving into the archives of Victorian-era newspapers and magazines from throughout the British Isles to find twenty-one rare texts for the Christmas season - seventeen stories and four poems - most of them never before reprinted.Featured here are gems by once-popular but now-forgotten 19th-century masters of the supernatural like Amelia Edwards, Barry Pain, and Florence Marryat, alongside contributions by totally obscure authors like James Skipp Borlase, a writer of penny dreadfuls who specialized in lurid Christmas horror stories, and Harry Grattan, who made history by writing the first ghost story recorded by Edison for the phonograph. Also included are an introduction and bonus materials, such as 19th-century news articles and advertisements related to Christmas ghosts."I endeavoured to call out; I could not utter a sound. As I gasped and panted, there stole into my nostrils a deadly, terrible, overpowering stench . . . It was the dread odour of decomposing mortality . . . I felt that I must break the spell, or die." - John Pitman, "Ejected by a Ghost""It was a coach made of dead men's bones . . . Behind the awful vehicle stood two fleshless skeletons in place of footmen, the driver was a horned and tailed fiend, and the six coal--black steeds that he drove had eyes of fire, and snorted flame from their nostrils as they tore madly along." - James Skipp Borlase, "The Wicked Lady Howard"
Little Book of Ghosts and Monsters in the Hocking Hills
The Little Book of Monsters and Ghosts at Hocking Hills State Park and surrounding areas. 12 favorite classics passed on. Ever wonder, while you're walking the trails in the Hocking Hills, why you feel like you're being watched? Maybe you saw some huge, bare footprints along the trail near Cedar Falls and suspect it isn't human. Have you heard a baying hound at Old Man's Cave? It might be a ghost from its past. This book might be small, but it has some of the best, well-kept secrets of Bigfoot and ghosts found in the Hocking Hills. Try not to let it scare you away! Jannette Quackenbush has authored over 30 books including Ghostly Guides: *Haunted Hocking Hills*Ghosts of Moonville 1-2*Haunted Ohio Hiking Trails With Ghost Stories*Haunted Hikes of the Appalachian Hills and Hollers 1 & 2 *Haunted Hocking: A Ghost Hunter's Guide to the Hocking Hills*Ohio Ghost Hunters Guides 1-9*West Virginia Ghost Stories Legends and Haunts 1-3*Pennsylvania Ghost Stories*Ghost Stories and Folk Tales of New Orleans *Little Book of Gettysburg Ghosts and many more!*Monsters, Cryptids, and Mysterious Wild Beasts Hiking Guides: *Hocking Hills Hiking Trails*Ohio Hiking Trails: The Adventurer's Guide to Ohio's Best Hiking Trails to Explore. Some little-known. A few much traveled. All unique.
H. P. Lovecraft Collection
H.P. Lovecraft Collection includes four of the most popular and enduring works by the master of the macabre: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Dunwich Horror and The Shunned House.
Now You Can Lay Me Down to Sleep... If I Shall Die before I Wake!
This story is a fiction horror tale about a young boy who becomes cursed and kills when the bedtime prayer is heard. "Now lay me down to sleep... I pray the Lord my soul to keep... If I shall die before I wake... I pray the Lord my soul to take."The loving Ford family falls in the center of Charlie's horror and find themselves fighting for their lives with the help of a detective by the name of Albert.Please give your imagination a treat by enjoying this fun-filled horror tale. Now You Can Lay Me Down to Sleep...If I Shall Die!
