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.
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.
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 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
Fortune Haunter (Large Print)
Everly Dupree wants to get on with her new start, but life and death keep getting in the way.When local fortune hunter, Delly Harper, falls off a cliff, everyone in Mooselick River considers his death a tragic accident. Everly Dupree knows better. Dead but not departed, Delly left Everly's father in charge of his estate consisting of a ramshackle house and several acres of property where his uncle may or may not have buried several jars of gold nuggets.Determined to do right by his friend, Everly's father launches a quest for the lost gold while Everly goes looking for Delly's killer.Soon, another body turns up, and sure the two deaths are related, Everly goes looking for evidence to support her theory.Can Everly help her father find Delly Harper's lost treasure before a killer finds out she's on his trail?If you like gutsy heroines who are not afraid of taking on a new start, you'll love this cozy, paranormal series.
Ghost Haste
New year, same old problems.It's a brand-new year, but the ghosts of Everly Dupree's past continue to rear their ugly heads. When her ex-husband goes missing, his new girlfriend comes knocking on Everly's door, and his attorney turns up dead, she has to decide whether any of them deserve her help.They don't, but with the FBI still looking in her direction, Everly decides she doesn't have a choice.The deeper she gets into this latest ghostly mystery, the more Everly realizes none of the people in her former life were what they seemed.Worse, one of them wants her dead.
Ghost Haste (Large Print)
New year, same old problems.It's a brand-new year, but the ghosts of Everly Dupree's past continue to rear their ugly heads. When her ex-husband goes missing, his new girlfriend comes knocking on Everly's door, and his attorney turns up dead, she has to decide whether any of them deserve her help.They don't, but with the FBI still looking in her direction, Everly decides she doesn't have a choice.The deeper she gets into this latest ghostly mystery, the more Everly realizes none of the people in her former life were what they seemed.Worse, one of them wants her dead.If you like gutsy heroines who are not afraid of taking on a new start, you'll love this cozy, paranormal series.
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.Always an over-the-top spectacle, this year's competition is fiercer than ever. Everly's eccentric neighbor, Viola Montayne, has even transformed her yard into a glowing-if slightly eerie-shrine to her murdered son!Then tenacious journalist Amber Hale knocks on Everly's door demanding an interview, and all thoughts of holiday cheer vanish. Turns out, Everly's philandering ex-husband did more than just break her heart-he embezzled a fortune from his family's company and left her to take the fall.With the rumor mill in overdrive and her best friend, sharp-tongued lawyer Patrea, threatening to sue half the town, Everly's stocking is already stuffed full.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, for someone, the lighting contest is about more than just dazzling decorations.Then Amber 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.Even in death, Amber Hale is as relentless as ever, determined to solve her own murder. But the last person she interviewed before dying was Everly's scheming ex-husband, Paul-tying her to the case whether she likes it or not.The more Everly 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."A puzzling and twisty paranormal mystery packed with clairvoyance, crime, and just the right amount of humor-perfect for cozy mystery lovers!""With an amateur sleuth, a ghostly whodunit, and an unforgettable four-legged friend, this witty and eerie supernatural suspense is a must-read for pet lovers and paranormal mystery fans alike!"
Christmas Presence (Large Print)
Everly Dupree helps the dead find peace whether she wants to or not.This Christmas, all Everly Dupree wanted was a little peace and quiet, some time with family, and a glass of eggnog. What she didn't need was the ghost of the scandal in her past to rear its ugly head.When reporter Amber Hale shows up on Everly's doorstep asking for an interview, she learns there were worse things her ex-husband could do besides cheating on her-like embezzling money from his family's company and framing Everly for the theft.Things couldn't be worse, right?Wrong. Before Everly can get her breath back, she and her friends stumble over Amber Hale's dead body, and now she has to deal with the ghost in her present.Before she'll have any hope for a peaceful future, Everly Dupree will need to put all her ghosts to rest.If you like gutsy heroines who are not afraid of taking on a new start, you'll love this cozy, paranormal series.
Fortune Haunter
Everly Dupree wants to get on with her new start, but life and death keep getting in the way.When local fortune hunter, Delly Harper, falls off a cliff, everyone in Mooselick River considers his death a tragic accident. Everly Dupree knows better. Dead but not departed, Delly left Everly's father in charge of his estate consisting of a ramshackle house and several acres of property where his uncle may or may not have buried several jars of gold nuggets.Determined to do right by his friend, Everly's father launches a quest for the lost gold while Everly goes looking for Delly's killer.Soon, another body turns up, and sure the two deaths are related, Everly goes looking for evidence to support her theory.Can Everly help her father find Delly Harper's lost treasure before a killer finds out she's on his trail?
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 ...
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
Bargain Haunter (Large Print)
Just another day in Mooselick River.When her marriage ended, Everly Dupree landed on her feet with only a few minor stumbles. She moved back home, bought a great house, got involved in town events, and found a job...maybe not the best job in the world, but it covered the bills, and that was enough.A few short weeks later, Everly is beginning to realize things in Mooselick River aren't what they used to be. A new road system has bypassed the town, funneling most of the tourist traffic toward the up-and-coming resort to the north. Without tourism revenue to keep it afloat, Mooselick River might just become Everly's next ghost.Martha Tipton has plenty of ideas for bringing the town back to its heyday, but she needs someone with the skills to make her plans a reality. Enter Everly Dupree, whose history of event planning makes her the perfect candidate.Amid planning a town-wide yard sale, Everly finds her boss, Spencer Charles, crushed to death by a mountain of recycled paper. The next thing she knows, Everly has inherited a chocolate lab named Molly and has landed right in the middle of another ghostly mystery.If you like plucky heroines, lovable characters, and ghost mysteries set in Maine, you'll love this cozy, paranormal series. This is a full-length psychic cozy mystery novel.
Ghost Walk
Maaya is a teenager who can see ghosts, and she and her three friends get by on the poor streets of Sark by sealing away troublesome spirits under the direction of a deceptive, malicious wealthy man. Accompanying them is a ghost named Saber, Maaya's long-time friend. Maaya doesn't concern herself with world affairs, focusing only on staying alive in a superstitious town that ignores her at best and wants her dead at worst - but after an entire street of people goes missing without a trace and whispers of war begin to reach her ears, Maaya decides it's time to investigate. Maaya soon finds herself in over her head as she confronts a wave of faceless ghosts that terrify even the dead. Driven on by rumors of a mysterious weapon that can make entire cities vanish in an instant, she and Saber start their journey across the world to find out how to stop it. She begins to find new friends, powerful allies, and even love, all while being pursued by new and more dangerous enemies. The closer she gets, however, the more she realizes that the ghosts she's after may not just be mindlessly killing innocents - and that they may be chasing her instead.
Japanese Ghost in America
Jimmy, an introspective and world-traveled social studies teacher, lives a quiet life working in a Minnesota high school. Having lived in Japan for several decades-a country that he considers his second home-he is caught off-guard by the ancient and unfinished legacy that has followed him back across the Pacific.As the sun sets, Jimmy begins to see strange events in his home: a disembodied hand in the moonlight, then the full apparition of a Japanese woman in traditional kimono. Despite being separated by the boundaries of time and space, life and death, Jimmy and the mysterious woman discover a karmic connection. Together, they search for the root of her eternal restlessness in the hopes of attaining her redemption. Jimmy must unravel her past to discover how their destinies are intertwined, and how they might heal one another.
Japanese Ghost in America
Jimmy, an introspective and world-traveled social studies teacher, lives a quiet life working in a Minnesota high school. Having lived in Japan for several decades-a country that he considers his second home-he is caught off-guard by the ancient and unfinished legacy that has followed him back across the Pacific.As the sun sets, Jimmy begins to see strange events in his home: a disembodied hand in the moonlight, then the full apparition of a Japanese woman in traditional kimono. Despite being separated by the boundaries of time and space, life and death, Jimmy and the mysterious woman discover a karmic connection. Together, they search for the root of her eternal restlessness in the hopes of attaining her redemption. Jimmy must unravel her past to discover how their destinies are intertwined, and how they might heal one another.
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 Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Lettice Galbraith
Strange stories by a little known Victorian writerLettice Galbraith not only wrote works on supernatural themes, she was apparently something of a mystery in her own right. She appeared on the literary scene with little pedigree in 1893, published two or three stories in quick succession, and then disappeared from public view. Whilst she was probably British, based on the paucity of information about her, no one can be certain that she wrote under her own name. Six of her ghost stories were gathered together in one small volume, New Ghost Stories, which appears in its entirety here with one additional story. Most experts in the field agree that this author made a fine contribution to the fiction of the supernatural in the style of the late Victorian era, and that her only fault was that she decided not to produce more offerings for her satisfied readership. In this Leonaur edition readers will discover 'The Blue Room', 'The Trainer's Ghost', 'The Seance Room', 'The Ghost's Revenge' and others.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Collected Ghost Stories - A Collection of 22 M R James Stories
Collected Ghost Stories by M R James is a collection of twenty-two ghost stories, plus a fascinating essay on the writing of ghost stories. Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar and Provost of King's College, Cambridge. His stories are classics of their genre, understated, beautifully paced and almost never explicit. Their idyllic rural backgrounds and amiable hero make the chilling terror of otherworldly intrusions all the more horrific. The collection is comprised of the following twenty-two stories: The Uncommon Prayer-Book; A Neighbour's Landmark; Rats; The Experiment; The Malice Of Inanimate Objects; A Vignette; Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book; The Stalls Of Barchester Cathedral; An Episode Of Cathedral History; The Story Of A Disappearance And An Appearance; The Haunted Dolls' House; Lost Hearts; Mr. Humphreys And His Inheritance; Martin's Close; The Diary Of Mr. Poynter; The Rose-Garden; Casting The Runes; A School Story; The Tractate Middoth; Two Doctors; A View From A Hill; The Residence At Whitminster; Appendix: M. R. James On Ghost Stories Note: This is not to be confused with the Book ""The Collected Ghost Stories of M R James"" which was published in 1931.
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Lettice Galbraith
Strange stories by a little known Victorian writerLettice Galbraith not only wrote works on supernatural themes, she was apparently something of a mystery in her own right. She appeared on the literary scene with little pedigree in 1893, published two or three stories in quick succession, and then disappeared from public view. Whilst she was probably British, based on the paucity of information about her, no one can be certain that she wrote under her own name. Six of her ghost stories were gathered together in one small volume, New Ghost Stories, which appears in its entirety here with one additional story. Most experts in the field agree that this author made a fine contribution to the fiction of the supernatural in the style of the late Victorian era, and that her only fault was that she decided not to produce more offerings for her satisfied readership. In this Leonaur edition readers will discover 'The Blue Room', 'The Trainer's Ghost', 'The Seance Room', 'The Ghost's Revenge' and others.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Good, Evil, Supernatural
Then she looked at me and gave me a crooked and mysterious smile. Her face expressions were not of her. It was strange, cold and scary. Doesn't know why I felt a wave of fear running down my spine. I controlled myself and asked to her, 'What happened? Su? (I used to call her Su, short form of Sunita).' She smiled in a way like she was making fun of me. Then she said in a friendly but stone hard, ice cold way, 'You won't be able to save her. I will kill your SU drop by drop like this only.' *** It was Tuesday night. I was practicing meditation by sitting in Padmasana posture. Suddenly I heard anklet's sound around me, like some female came and was walking around me. Without getting scared I kept practicing meditation in the same posture. But after some time anklet's sound came closer to me as if she had stepped on my meditation carpet. Means she had come too near to me. Yet I kept meditating. Then only doesn't know from where a gust of breeze entered the room despite closed door and windows and began to hug me. The touch of the breeze was very ecstatic and it was giving me very deep pleasure. I found myself unable to keep the breeze away from me. *** He stepped on the road. As he reached the middle of the road, he became hundreds of feet tall. He was moving towards the field in his front. That field ended to some localities. Just in three steps he crossed the long field, entered some locality and got out of my eyes. *** A collection of 10 real stories...
The Infant Spirits
When a poltergeist takes root in a hospital, can a determined ghost chaser undo a devilish 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!
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.
Pilfering the Pink Pearls
How far would you go not to age? Would you commit murder? Well, someone decided to. Welcome to Witch's Cove, where the strangest of cases occur. Murder often abounds, but so does time travel, shifters, and evil warlocks. When the elegant Alexandria Coronado asks for my help in finding her pink pearl necklace that was stolen from the Magic Wand Hotel, I had no idea it would involve murder, scuba diving, and a massive empire. Because our sheriff suspects magic is involved, he is willing to join forces with the Pink Iguana sleuths. That's where I come in. Hi, I'm Glinda Goodall, and I'm a witch who, together with my fianc矇, runs our sleuth business. At first, I thought this was going to be another run-of-the-mill theft case, but when Alexandria goes scuba diving and is lost at sea, it turns into a lot more. Finding that she is a super wealthy heiress of a vitamin empire, makes our suspect list grow even more. If you want to be kept up-to-date on where we are in solving this case, stop by our office, or just look upward to find a black wing-tipped seagull. Where he is, you might find Iggy, my talking pink iguana, who is always in the know.
The 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!
The Soulless
Dan stone's life fell apart after his wife filed for divorce. Unable to live with the memories she left behind, he finds himself in a mysterious old mansion for a quiet getaway, and a chance to get his overdue novel done before his agent drops him. But the Vandison mansion has a dark history, and the more Dan learns the deeper he slips from reality unable to see what is real or a dream. Is the mansion trying to kill him or is his mind set to destroy him?
A Home in the Bitterroot
Bill Amley is an awkward man leading a lonely life. In late December of 2019, just before the Coronavirus changes the world around him, the fifty-six-year-old realizes his life is empty and decides to throw his fate to the wind. Bill leaves his job, sells most of what he owns, buys an SUV and heads out west to points unknown. Having resolved to change the way he lives, Bill picks up a hitch-hiker, a young Native American woman named Sky who is seeking to escape her own set of life's challenges. As they head west, Sky and Bill form an unusual and powerful friendship. Their trip ends in Missoula, Montana where Sky becomes a waitress and Bill buys a small farm surrounded by the beauty of the Bitterroot Mountains. There, the pandemic threatens their lives while Bill is introduced to the spirits and histories of others who once lived in that farmhouse and on the lands that surround it.A Home in the Bitterroot explores the rich history of immigrants to the Bitterroot Valley and of the Salish People whose historical home was the Bitterroot. Bill and Sky's stories, the pandemic, social intolerance and ghosts of the past combine to make A Home in the Bitterroot a satisfying, compelling and truthful American tale.
Releasing Magnolias along the Mystical Railway
While visiting William Faulkner's Rowan Oak, an author encounters restless souls who task him with sharing their stories to advance them toward the light. After boarding a dilapidated train at Meridian's Royal Land, the young writer travels along the mystical railway and release the imprisoned magnolias through a collection of Mississippi ghost tales based in Waynesboro, Oxford, Meridian, Hattiesburg, Palmers Crossing, Lamar County, Wiggins, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Laurel, Hot Coffee, Natchez, Yazoo City, Clarksdale, Rolling Fork, Cleveland, Indianola, Jackson, and Parchman. He aims to transcend the wandering spirits to their celestial eternity by the time the supernatural locomotive arrives in the abandoned, ghost town of Rodney.
Shuttered Secrets
He doesn't want her to focus on the past.It's been six months since Riley Thomas, reluctant medium extraordinaire, has had a ghost haunting her apartment, and she prefers it that way. Life is less complicated when the dead aren't trying to get her attention. Her best friend is getting married and wants to DIY her way through wedding prep-Riley's got no time for ghosts.One of Jade's wedding must-haves is vintage film cameras her guests can use to help document the big day. The months-long hunt for relics leads to a thrift shop jackpot, and Riley adds the cameras to the growing pile of wedding supplies in her apartment. That night, Riley gets a midnight wake-up call from a ghostly Black woman in a yellow dress.Even after the haunted cameras are removed from the apartment, the ghost woman keeps popping up, both in Riley's dreams and in the corner of her eye. Tracking down the previous owner of the cameras proves difficult, and as Riley digs deeper, she uncovers a link between the cameras and two murdered women-one white, one Black, yet neither one is Riley's mystery woman.Though the identity of the ghost proves to be as elusive as her predator, Riley is determined to uncover the truth of what happened to these women. But now someone knows she's looking ... and he's hell-bent on making sure he finds her first.
David's Ghost
Following a year of therapy, 15 year-old Megan vowed never to speak to anotherghost. When she moved from Boston to Phoenix, her new friend Izzy asked her to helpinvestigate the 1975 murder of David, her irritating house ghost.Megan internally struggles to keep her promise, only to have it backfire.Determined to get rid of David for good, they found themselves in the middle of illegaland terrifying situations.
In The Dead Of Night
Anthologies of classic ghost stories - especially such spine-tingling tales as 'The Mezzotint' by M.R. James, 'The Upper Berth' by F. Marion Crawford, and 'The Dead Valley' by Ralph Adams Cram - have abounded since the late 19th century, proliferating as the 20th advanced and copyrights expired, and multiplying a thousand-fold with the advent of the Internet, when first anyone with a scanner could resurrect them out of a book and post them on a web site; then still ever-increasing as people copied the text from their screens and re-posted it on other sites. So common has this become that today anyone with Web access can read these stories free. So why should anyone want to pay for this anthology? Aside from stubbornly clinging (despite all apparent contrary evidence) to the belief that a few decent people still think a living author deserves to be paid for their work - even if, in this case, that work is merely compiling, copy-editing and formatting the work of authors long dead - one reason, I hope, is that my readers might be interested in what I read as a youth and what I think makes a great and scary ghost tale.Regarding Internet incarnations of these stories, the quality, format, and integrity vary. Scanning devices make mistakes; and many people who've scanned and republished these stories online seem to have picked whatever book, magazine or anthology was convenient for the purpose and in many cases have only published much later reprints with text omissions, abridgments and typos, while often making more typos.I have tried to present the stories here as closely as I could to their original, first-published incarnations -- as I as a kid read most of them -- rather than simply copy them from later reprints, recent anthologies, or Internet sites.While I can't resurrect the atmosphere in which I first read these stories, either while perusing them in the dank and dark of a creepy old junk shop, or alone in my room in the dead of night in a spooky old Victorian house, nor conjure up the graveyard smell of dusty, decomposing books, still I hope you'll discover shivers and frights in these thirteen classic ghost stories.Jess Mowry - 2017
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.
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.
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.
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...
The Ultimate Seven Sisters Collection
The Ultimate Seven Sisters Collection!All Six Ghost Novels in One!When historian Carrie Jo Jardine accepted her dream job as the chief historian at Seven Sisters in Mobile, Alabama, she had no idea what she would encounter. The moldering old plantation housed more than a few boxes of antebellum artifacts and forgotten oil paintings. Secrets lived there""and they demanded to be set free.When young, wealthy Ashland Stuart offered Carrie Jo the job, he had no idea that she had a secret of her own. Carrie Jo dreams about the past. An unexpected accident takes Carrie Jo back in time as a witness to life at the plantation over 150 years ago. An impassioned plea from Ashland puts Carrie Jo in a precarious position as the two work together to find a missing heiress, the young and beautiful Calpurnia Cottonwood.A collection of journals and a series of dreams give Carrie Jo all the clues she needs to find the missing girl, but both a present-day danger and one from the past try to stop her. Will Carrie Jo solve the mystery of the house or will she pay the ultimate price?SEVEN SISTERS (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 Seven Sisters#2 Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters#3 Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters#4 The Stars That Fell#5 The Stars We Walked Upon#6 The Sun Rises Over Seven Sisters#7 Beyond Seven SistersBonus Christmas at Seven SistersBonus The Ghost on the SwingThe Ultimate Seven Sisters Collection (Books 1-6) IDLEWOOD (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 The Ghosts of Idlewood#2 Dreams of Idlewood#3 The Whispering Saint#4 The Haunted ChildThe Hauntings of Idlewood RETURN TO SEVEN SISTERS (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 The Roses of Mobile#2 All the Summer Roses#3 Blooms Torn Asunder#4 A Garden of Thorns#5 Wreath of RosesReturn to Seven Sisters Collection THE GRACEFIELD HAUNTINGS (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 Haunted Gracefield#2 The Three Graces#3 Grace Before DyingThe Gracefield Hauntings Collection MARIETTA (featuring Carrie Jo)#1 The Bones of Marietta#2 Footsteps of Angels THE BEAUMONT SAGA: A SEVEN SISTERS PREQUEL#1 Olivia#2 Louis#3 ChristineThe Beaumont Saga
Girl in the Woods
Something sinister lurks in the woods. When it finds its way into their home, Stephanie and Will call on Suncoast Paranormal to save them. Now Adam and Cheryl must hurry to help a friend whose life is being threatened by an unknown entity. Stephanie thought she was buying the American dream when she purchased a beautiful home with her fianc矇, Will. But before they could unpack their boxes, they knew the land around their new house held a dark secret. By the time Cheryl and Adam arrive on the scene the haunting has already escalated. The ghost takes hold of Stephanie, and she vanishes into the woods. They frantically search for her, hoping she's still alive. If she is will she even be the same Stephanie they know when they find her? Will Adam and Cheryl be able to banish the terrifying ghosts from the home? What secrets linger in the shadows of the trees? Will Stephanie and Will survive knowing the truth? Girl in the Woods is the fourth book in the Suncoast Paranormal Series.
Both Sides of the Veil
In "Staunton's Dinner," Vane Staunton returns after an absence of many years and hosts a dinner for his former friends. But they are horrified to find that he is terribly changed and now appears to possess awful powers, including the power to kill a man with only a thought! In the curiously homoerotic "A Knight of the Road," set in 17th century England, a handsome but cold-blooded stranger shows up in a lonely village and just might be the Devil himself! The darkly comical "The Disappearance of Mrs. Macrecham" recounts the strange adventures of Hereward Waller, who finds himself in an awkward predicament when he believes he has turned his landlady into a cat. And in "The Ring," Pugh and Tress from Marsh's earlier collection Curios reprise their roles as they seek to solve the mystery of an apparently cursed 16th century ring. The twelve stories in this volume showcase Marsh's diverse talents and include tales of ghosts, crime, and the occult. As always, the tales are told with Marsh's characteristic blend of horror, mystery, and humour. This edition includes the unabridged text of Marsh's story collection, taken from the exceedingly rare first edition published by Methuen in 1901. Also featured is a reproduction of the original cover.
The Ghost Writer
'Let me tell you a story about the time when my whole life changed...'Peter Banner is an author with a string of moderately successful novels to his name, but is struggling with his family life and with writing after the pain of divorce.Looking for both inspiration and a new place to live, he jumps at the chance to rent a remote rural cottage: a cottage that until recently belonged to Ed Steele, a famous horror author from the eighties.His hope is for the same kind of inspiration that launched Ed Steele's career, but he soon discovers that all is not as it seems at Lake View Cottage; there is a growing presence within its walls that threatens to consume all who stay there.With his neighbour Maddy at his side, can Peter Banner uncover the truth, or will he become another victim of whatever darkness lurks within this sleepy village?
Two Shadows
What if a ghost followed you home? Would you know what to do or how to get rid of it? Would you welcome it or find a way to expel it from your life? And could you be sure this demonic presence was truly 'ghosted', gone from your life, or perhaps lingering nearby for continued terrorizing? Samantha, a middle-aged professional woman, has the unfortunate luck to experience this dilemma in Two Shadows, a chilling fictional retelling of an actual haunting. And in unraveling the apparition's shadowy mystery, Sam uncovers her shadow-self lurking just below her own pristine surface.
Fine Spirits Served Here
Do you believe in ghosts?Will works at rumored-to-be haunted Antoine's Restaurant in the French Quarter of New Orleans. When a new server Elle starts there, Will swears he has met her before. When Will finally figures out how he knows Elle, his world turns upside down as he discovers a deep connection to her that spans generations.Mary Walsh brings this prismatic fictional tale of romance, local legends, and history of The Crescent City together as both the backdrop to the story and a quaint character in and of itself.Cover photo taken by the author's brother, Patrick Walsh, and used with permission from Antoine's Restaurant.
Wish You Weren’t Here
The Rook family run a little business: ghost hunting. And things have picked up recently. Something's wrong. It's been getting noticeably worse since, ooh, 2016?Bad spirits are abroad, and right now they're particularly around Coldbay Island, which isn't even abroad, it's only 20 miles from Skegness. The Rooks' 'quick call out' to the island picks loose a thread that begins to unravel the whole place, and the world beyond.Is this the apocalypse? This might be the apocalypse. Who knew it would kick off in an off-season seaside resort off the Lincolnshire coast? I'll tell you who knew - Linda. She's been feeling increasingly uneasy about the whole of the East Midlands since the 90s.
Morgan Library Ghost Stories
The patron saint - if that's the right word; perhaps guiding spirit? - behind these witty and literate ghost stories is M.R. James (1862-1936). He is primarily known as The Pierpont Morgan Library and at similar august homes of learning as a redoubtable scholar and bibliographer. To many more devotees around the world, though, he is generally acclaimed as the author of some of the most economical, clearly focused, concise, and elegant ghost stories every written. Only the English language serves this genre so well, and James's English craft is at the top of anyone's short list of favorites. "Monty" James enjoyed a long and happy professional relationship with the Morgan Library. He did so, in a sense, only in spirit: he never crossed the Atlantic, and he feared that he would not survive crossing New York's streets. His name was much in evidence when the 150th anniversary of Pierpont Morgan's birth was celebrated several years ago. His work on medieval manuscripts was the focal point of an exhibition held in 1987, and that exhibition gave birth to a strange offspring - a contest for ghost stories connected in some way with the Morgan Library and written in a Jamesian style. This book contains the seven winning stories. Will they make you pleasantly uneasy late at night? Will they make your scalp prickle disturbingly? You'll just have to read them to find out, won't you?
