Sweet Vindication
When enough is enough, you do what you have to do. Grief and desperation are a lethal combination, one that forced me to do the unthinkable. It was too much to take in, my devastating losses were many and my grip on reality was feeble at best. With the sudden appearance of a cantankerous crow, I contemplated the plausibility of the impossible, wondering if what I had done and what I had been through had pushed me too far over the edge.
Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time & Other Strange Stories
In the late-nineteenth century Rosa Mulholland (1841-1921) achieved great popularity and acclaim for her many novels, written for both an adult audience and younger readers. Several of these novels chronicled the lives of the poor, often incorporating rural Irish settings and folklore. Earlier in her career, Mulholland became one of the select band of authors employed by Charles Dickens to write stories for his popular magazine All the Year Round, together with Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and Amelia B. Edwards. Mulholland's best supernatural and weird short stories have been gathered together in the present collection, edited and introduced by Richard Dalby, to celebrate this gifted late Victorian "Mistress of the Macabre".
Number Ninety & Other Ghost Stories
The bestselling Irish author B. M. Croker enjoyed a highly successful literary career from 1880 until her death forty years later. Her novels were witty and fast moving, set mostly in India and her native Ireland. Titles such as Proper Pride (1882) and Diana Barrington (1888) found popularity for their mix of romantic drama and Anglo-Indian military life. And, like many late-Victorian authors, Croker also wrote ghost stories for magazines and Christmas annuals. From the colonial nightmares such as "The Dak Bungalow at Dakor" and "The North Verandah" to the more familiar streets of haunted London in "Number Ninety", this collection showcases fifteen of B. M. Croker's most effective supernatural tales.
The Death Spancel and Others
Katharine Tynan is not a name immediately associated with the supernatural. However, like many other writers of the early twentieth century, she made numerous forays into literature of the ghostly and macabre, and throughout her career produced verse and prose that conveys a remarkable variety of eerie themes, moods, and narrative forms.From her early, elegiac stories, inspired by legends from the West of Ireland, to pulpier efforts featuring grave-robbers and ravenous rats, Tynan displays an eye for weird detail, compelling atmosphere, and a talent for rendering a broad palette of uncanny effects.The Death Spancel and Others is the first collection to showcase Tynan's tales of supernatural events, prophecies, curses, apparitions, and a pervasive sense of the ghastly.
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"
Bending to Earth
Irish women have long produced literature of the gothic, uncanny, and supernatural. Bending to Earth draws together twelve such tales. While none of the authors herein were considered primarily writers of fantastical fiction during their lifetimes, they each wandered at some point in their careers into more speculative realms - some only briefly, others for lengthier stays.Names such as Charlotte Riddell and Rosa Mulholland will already be familiar to aficionados of the eerie, while Katharine Tynan and Clotilde Graves are sure to gain new admirers. From a ghost story in the Swiss Alps to a premonition of death in the West of Ireland to strange rites in a South Pacific jungle, Bending to Earth showcases a diverse range of imaginative writing which spans the better part of a century.
Strange Tales from Japan
Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories! Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. The captivating tales in this volume include: The Vengeance of Oiwa -- The terrifying spirit of a woman murdered by her husband who seeks retribution from beyond the graveThe Curse of Okiku -- A servant girl is murdered by her master and curses his family, with gruesome resultsThe Snow Woman -- A man is saved by a mysterious woman who swears him to secrecyTales of the Kappa -- Strange human-like sprites with green, scaly skin who live in water and are known to pull children and animals to their deathsAnd many, many more!In his introduction, renowned translator William Scott Wilson explains the role these stories play in local Japanese culture and folklore, and their importance to understanding the Japanese psyche. Readers will learn which particular region, city, mountain or temple the stories originate from -- in case you're brave enough to visit these haunts yourself!
ملوك الظلام
عن الأمير الصغير الذي وقع في الظلام،وورث العرش بعد وفاة والده وهروب أخيه التوءم.
Like My Mother Before Me
"You're not crazy... But nothing is okay."Spoiled and self-centered daddy's girl Aliz矇 Salvas spends her time texting with friends, cutting class to get high, and playing volleyball.When Aliz矇 witnesses a horrifying sight of a skeletal woman vanishing from her father's study, she's certain she's losing her mind. She quickly goes into denial, but her avoidance only makes things worse. Now, plagued by horrible visions and other unwelcome specters, Aliz矇 finds her world spiraling out of control-effecting the lives of the people closest to her.Pursued by a personal demon, she must overcome her selfish habits and embrace the truth about her family's past, and herself, or suffer the same fate as her mother.CONTENT WARNING: This book contains light violence, attempted rape, physical abuse, mentions of child abuse, adult language, reference to suicide, gaslighting, and recreational use of drugs/alcohol.
Forever with a Ghost (Book 3)
It is a new dawn for Jia and Jai's love story.After struggling for months, they are finally starting a new phase together, a phase where Jia is not just in a relationship with Ghost- Jai, but with all his personalities. But, will it be that easy?In this final installment of the Ghost trilogy, find out how they face one hurdle after another and struggle to keep their relationship alive.Will they succeed? Or will a new threat pave its way into their lives?Read the story to know if Jia gets her forever with a Ghost...
The Curse of Ezekiel
The Curse of Ezekiel"Trauma always attaches itself to trauma." In the dark and dusty garret of Oak Cottage Zoe Fowler first encounters the soft, haunting voice of, Hannah, calling for her lost love. And so, by way of Zoe's traumatised psyche, the forgotten story of Hannah and her family begins to unfold. This includes her deaf-mute brother, her bullying father, and the tyrannical figure Ezekiel Pomfrey, the punishing puritanical priest of St Catherine's Church, way back in the seventeen-hundreds, and of course the enigmatic, Adam. All of which are locked into the distant memory of time by an ancient biblical curse. Linked by an old wooden rocking chair, the trauma of Hannah's tragic life and the mystery of Adam attaches itself to Zoe's own sad, trauma. Only the understanding character of Dotty Vinke, with her mischievous smile and startling blue eyes, comes to the aid of a troubled Zoe. With her hypnotic influence, Dotty allows Zoe to delve back into the past to uncover long locked away memories, both hers and Hannah's, all ready and waiting to be freed.The Curse of Ezekiel is a spellbinding tale of grief, Phantoms, and religious obsession with a built-in ambiguity designed to keep the reader's attention. The story cleverly maneuvers itself between the unsettling outer limits of the supernatural and the spiritualistic, until at last the waiting is over.
Suffer the Children
Praise for Suffer the Children by Dominic Selwood 'Mysterious, intelligent and wonderfully creepy (*****)' The Reader's Hollow 'Selwood has mastered this style and the tale leaves you with chills long after you've finished reading (*****)' Shari Sakurai 'Ultimately, Selwood has written what can only be described as a perfect short story' Horror Palace - Featured Review A SHORT GHOST STORYLondon, 1897. An elderly bibliophile receives a letter from the recently retired head of the Bodleian Library in Oxford. But the tale it relates of a book buying journey to Cracow soon turns into a hellish nightmare. A homage to M R James, the undisputed master of the Victorian antiquarian ghost story . Please note: this is a short story like the original M R James short stories. It is about 4,000 words long, in a 32-page small format book (7" x 4.3").
Ghosts
Ghosts contains R.B. Russell's debut publications, Putting the Pieces in Place and Bloody Baudelaire. Enigmatic and enticing, they combine a respect for the great tradition of supernatural fiction, with a chilling contemporary European resonance. With original and compelling narratives, Russell's stories offer the reader insights into the more hidden, often puzzling, impulses of human nature, with all its uncertainty and intrigue. There are few conventional shocks or horrors on display, but you are likely to come away with the feeling that there has been a subtle and unsettling shift in your understanding of the way things are. This book is a disquieting journey through twilight regions of love, loss, memory, and ghosts.
This is it!
A dialogue between death and evil about a man's fate, whose influence over the world was a paramount one, and whose songs were on mankind under external influences playing with this like zombies; but, above all, these dark entities reveal the true nature of life beyond misconceptions and dogmas.
A Secret Set In Stone
Howard stood for a while in the doorway, as all the pieces of the jigsaw began to fall neatly into place. "I have no choice." He mumbled to himself. "There is only one way to get the treasure back."
The Blue Feathered Robin
In Oneida, Kansas, a little bird sits alone on a farm where no other birds will go. Whether it be the dark rats or the ominous voices in the corn, the little bird is often left in solitude to contemplate her own existence.Frustrated that God seems to have forsaken her, and haunted by the spiritual and living beings around her; she seeks to understand why God has left her behind, and if her existence has meaning.A story of love and hope; the Blue Feathered Robin serves as a reminder that hope can be found in the bleakest of places. Even in the barren branches of a lonely, Kansas tree.
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.Large PrintBook 28 in the paranormal cozy mystery series, Haunting Danielle
This Is Where I Leave You
Ever woken up and thought about what might have been, or what still could? Cady Stokes is 29, and suddenly thrust into a new life, one she never expected, but was the old life really good for her? Georgina Elliott is steadfastly single, career minded to the end, till she meets Ben on a work assignment. Richard is dealing with a major life change too; can he make amends for his past? Once some life lines are crossed, they cannot be undone...and would you want to if you could? This is Rachel Dove's debut self published novel, dealing with life, love, loss and all the moments inbetween. Previously published as Crossing Life Lines in 2013.'Amazing from the first page. I really didn't want to put it down... Amazingly well written and full of humour... Brilliant... Worth far more than five stars... Fantastic book from the first word.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Had my heart brimming with love for the characters... Simply brilliant... The emotions overflowed and the book made me extremely happy.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Absolutely lovely... I think I'm in love with Sam myself... Wonderful characters, lovely chemistry, read this in one sitting.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'I enjoyed this book so much! Rachel's humour is spot on.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
Halloween in Hannibal
Hannibal, Missouri. Pulsing with history.And a 150-year-old unsolved disappearance. Kimberly Wantland and her paranormal investigation team travel to Hannibal, Missouri for their Halloween episode to investigate The Old Catholic Church. Owner Jillian Olson is sure she knows who haunts the building and why he's antagonizing her. But Kimberly hears whispers of far more than the reported ghostly phenomenon. A dark figure implores her to help. But help who? An empty grave and a disturbing experience inside a cave further confound the case. And as she struggles to piece together the mystery, Kimberly's psychic abilities fail her. Her psychic senses out of control, Kimberly sees only two possible causes-Sterling's presence...or a dangerous force unlike any she's faced before. Kimberly fears this investigation may just be all trick and no treat. A spooky Halloween must-read to add to your treat bucket!
The Bug Diary
While experimenting with substances in the university library, Kymer is confronted by a ghost from KU's past: Carrie Watson, the librarian who is the library's namesake. Carrie gives Kymer the insect field journal of Flora Ellen Richardson, the first woman to graduate from KU. When Kymer reviews the bug diary, she realizes there's a bee in Flora's journal that's never before been identified by science. A wild ride ensues changing the world of entomology, and her personal world, forever. The freshman year away at college can be a challenge-studying, partying, making friends, finding a hookup-but when Freshman Kymer Charvat indulges in recreational drugs with her new friends, an on-campus ghost hands her a mystery to solve. An entomology major entering her first year of college at a far-away mid-western school, Kymer is ready to disengage from her superficial, social-climbing mother. However, this also means leaving her boyfriend behind in Maryland. Soon, she becomes fast friends with her new dorm roommate, Siren, a bold and bosomed young woman with a complicated background, and her classmate, Mattie, an exuberant, gay Black man whose family owns a local restaurant and embraces Kymer and Siren like their own. Together, the trio experience college life at its fullest, which includes some harmless drinking and drug experimentation. Kymer finds herself in need of spending money and manages to land her first real job in the university's natural history museum gift shop. One afternoon, the three friends get high and take a bus to the museum for fun. That's when a second campus ghost, naturalist and professor Lewis Lynsey Dyche, approaches Kymer to give her another hint to help her identify the mystery bee in Flora's bug diary. Soon, classifying the mystery bee is Kymer's main drive. The Bug Diary takes the reader on a wild review of history and bugs, and a laugh-out-loud exploration of campus life! New Adult & College Fantasy.
Freshly Ghost
Being dead was unlike anything Chance Phillips had expected. For one thing, he's forced to change his name. For another, he discovers he can move through time.When Chance learns a friend, an alive friend, is in danger will he and his Ghost friend Jeremy be able to save her in time?
The Mistletoe Bride of Minster Lovell
Twelfth Night has come to Minster Lovell Hall. Francis Lovell and his wife Nan Fitz Hugh have arranged a fabulous celebration to entertain their friends, Richard Plantagenet and Anne Neville, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester. The feast is served in splendour, the Mummers arrive to perform the traditional play with much jollity and hi-jinks, and the Lord of Misrule is crowned. But when a strange, mysterious storyteller arrives calling himself Jack Rhymer, the evening takes on a darker tone...as he tells the haunting tale of the Mistletoe Bride, a maiden who vanished at the old hall upon her wedding night. A dangerous game is then begun, urged on by the Lord of Misrule. Will history repeat itself at Minster Lovell Hall?A short novelette set at the time of the Wars of the Roses, featuring Francis Lovell and Richard of Gloucester, later Richard III. approximately 14,000 words.
12 Days Of Christmas 2016
Last year saw the launch of Burdizzo Books 12days anthology. It began with twelve stories based on each day of the twelve days of Christmas. These are those stories in a collected separate volume. Each year we plan to rewrite these with different authors.
Viking Lake
Imagine slipping back into time. It's 1972 and Professor William Bates takes a sabattical to clear his head and his heart. The story he's hoping to write is sidetracked for something much more sinnister by the ghosts and demons that haunt this area of Iowa. The love he's hoped for is just acoss the lake, but twenty-seven years in the past. Babies are heard crying in the night at the house by the lake. Odd things and unexplainable tales follow the Professor through this novella and the love that follows him is even more bizarre.
The Alfred Book of Ghastly Tales
An infamously haunted dormitory known as the Brick. An obscure town with an even foggier past. A foreboding castle that lurks on a hill. Here lies Alfred, a town creeping with mystery and intrigue: step in and enjoy our ghostly collection of 23 stories-oh, and don't forget to check over your shoulder.
The Haunting
The abandoned house in the woods is exactly what real estate agent Katie Rogers has been looking for. Thrilled with her find, she moves in with her sister and young niece and nephew-blissfully unaware of its gruesome history of bloodshed and murder-Soon bizarre dreams begin . . . nightmares in which Katie is a small child again, running in terror. Then come horrifying visions of a woman wielding a gleaming butcher knife...Of course, Katie doesn't believe that any of it is real. Until her niece and nephew disappear. Now only Katie can put an end to a savage evil that is slowly awakening . . . to unleash a fresh cycle of slaughter and death in which the innocent will die again and again!
Flashes of Fear The Complete Series
The perfect book to enjoy on Halloween or a dark and stormy night! This is a truly terrifying collection of tiny stories! Flashes of Fear: The Complete Series! That's right! All 48 original flash fiction stories now available in one book! Clowns and ChainsawsThe Replacement BrotherWhat Do Kids LoveNever again And all the other scary stories! From ghosts and demons, monsters and mad killers, cannibals and clowns, there's something for every kind of horror lover. These stories are all super short. Some are two thousand words. Some are only three sentences long. But all pack a punch! So turn on the lights, grab a blanket, a warm drink, and get ready to enjoy some spooky stories!This complete series edition also includes some fun extras, you won't find anywhere else! Like: A list of Lennie Grace's favorite horror stories! Her recommended reading! And a special sneak peek at Lennie Grace's upcoming novel "Songs For The Music Man."
The Ghosts of Gehen Hill
The Ghosts of Gehen Hill"Coincidence rules our lives, fate being the journey, destiny our goal." At least that's what Barry Hoffer would tell you. Hoffer, his daughter Issy and the enigmatic Maggie Stride are the main characters of this intriguing murder mystery, whose lives are repeatedly dogged by a series of puzzling coincidences. The story begins in the year 1885, the victim being Police Constable Jack Pawley. Fast forward to the present day and the primary coincidence is that Barry Hoffer's car, without plausible explanation, breaks down at exactly the same spot that Jack Pawley was brutally murdered. 'You must be connected in some way, ' Maggie Stride says to architect Hoffer, suggesting that it is his destiny to discover exactly how his family might be connected to a tragedy which happened, getting on for a hundred and forty years ago. There is of course a twist in the tale? Poacher, Gideon Moggs is arrested for the murder of P.C Pawley and duly hanged three months later, protesting his innocence to the end. The regular manifestation of ghosts from the past, plus circumstantial evidence, also suggests that perhaps Moggs might not have been P.C. Pawley's murderer. The story continues even though Hoffer and his daughter's attempts to identify the true killer are thwarted, until Maggie Stride is, at last, prepared to give up her own, long-held secret.
Caine House
Two amateur psychics. A reckless ghost hunter. Caine House has awakened, ready or not.Emmie thinks the worst is over. Sarah hopes Emmie is right. But the apparitions of Hanging House haven't deterred Finn from intensifying his hunt. He knows they're real. And he wants more.When a famous haunted house in a nearby town is put up for rent, Finn doesn't hesitate to move in. How can he resist? It's a ghost hunter's paradise. With an arsenal of equipment, a healthy dose of skepticism, the bravado of knowing he's "been through this before", and a secret wound of his own, he's ready to face the unseen head-on. What could go wrong?But Caine House has its own agenda, and as Finn gets ensnared by its clever apparitions and violent mysteries, he realizes too late that he's bitten off more than he can chew. And now only two people can help him.Emmie and Sarah rush to the rescue, but soon face a nightmare of their own. Caine House is somehow connected to the death of Emmie's parents, and Sarah needs to come to terms with her gift of empathy before it destroys her.The three friends gather their courage and skills to confront the insidious phantom, but their foe is hellbent on maximum mayhem.Caine House is the second novel in a new Paranormal Mystery series that delivers an unsolved murder, ghostly mysteries, and a twist of horror.Fans of Wendy Wang, Darcy Coates, Abe Moss, Cheryl Bradshaw, or Heather Graham will love this exciting new supernatural suspense book.
Intersections
Intersections is a collection of ghost stories that remind us of our past or our misdeeds. These stories have a wide range of characters and plotlines, but they all share a common thread of revisiting past events and showing the effects that the character's actions had later in life - some for the good, some for the bad.
Ghosts and Pink Candles
Birthdays should be happy. Mine was until a magical ring caused me to see many, many ghosts. It was a present from my mom. She'd found the ring that her mom had asked to pass down to me tucked away in a closet. The stone was a match to my pink pendant. Dare I hope it was magical, too? Turns out it was, because when I tried it on, I saw them-them being about ten ghosts floating around in my aunt's restaurant. Oh, my. Naturally, I couldn't wait to find out what was going on. It wasn't that I hadn't seen ghosts before, just not so many at one time. Note: I took off the ring right away. Even I was a little scared. Eventually my Nana appeared to ask me if I could find a missing friend of hers. Sure, no problem. It's what I did, being an amateur sleuth, and all. Armed with her name, I set out to pick the brains of the gossip queens, but what I found out made seeing ghosts a piece of cake. Thankfully my wonderful boyfriend and my talking pick iguana familiar will help me figure it out. Stop on by the Tiki Hut Grill to get the latest update on this very bizarre case.
The Romero Strain
In New York City, a survivor group led by paramedic J.D. Nichols continues their quest at locating and rescuing the children abducted by Edward Stone, the self-proclaimed king of New York. Stone is a convicted sadistic sexual predator and serial murderer, and he and his group are hell-bent on butchering altruist J. D. and laying claim to the Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory, where J.D. and his group have set up a refuge.Nevertheless, killing Stone and rescuing the children isn't the only problem the armory leader has. Armory resources are running low. There are other hostile survivors to contend with, and J.D. is being trailed by a terrifying half-mute with a missing finger. However, the greatest threat to the armory group's survival may be J.D. himself, who is slowly mutating into a transmute. Can J.D. maintain his humanity long enough to save the children and relocate his survivor group to Upstate New York, or will his mutation overtake him, causing him to fail? And exactly why is the half-mute with the missing finger pursuing J.D.?
Goofy Ghost Tales
No haunting haints or scary specters here, neither rattling chains nor creaking floors to send chills up the spine. It's all fun and games, plus a goodly dose of mischief, when it comes to the departed in these goofy ghost tales. The spirits in these spoofs don't even behave like ghosts, and their capers occasionally play on an historical tidbit. So, chuck the amulet and shelve the garlic. It's time for some different ghost stories like the ones found in these thirteen delightful tales.
Claire Desai and The Legend of The Ghost Pirates
Claire Desai, Leroy McCray, and Phillip Mack are a group of underdogs who are thrown into a whirlpool of events when they decide to sneak out, resulting in them accidentally releasing murderous Ghost Pirates. Now it is up to them to take a rigorous journey through the Trial Lands to the Heart of Peafwyce to send them back where they came from. Complete with a few challenges and triumphs along the way, like below freezing conditions, berry eating Velness's, and...anchovy pizza?
The Haunted Wilson Manor
It's a story of a man and his family who move into a house only to realise that they weren't the only people to live there. The story and the history of the house unfold as it proceeds, but with a twist of a locked room in that house. Will the family survive? What is behind the locked room? Is it a happy ending?
The Book of Indian Ghosts (Hb)
Every community, tribe, and sub-community in India has its own ghosts. For centuries, the spirit world has captured the imagination of Indians. Some are believed to live near waterbodies and sneak up on passers-by; others roam around fields on summer afternoons, seduce lost men, and, in some cases, protect you from evil. From the north Indian chudails, who are said to prowl neighbourhoods in search of their victims, and the mechho bhoots from West Bengal that love fish, to the fearsome ghosts from Tamil Nadu called muni pei-the Indian ghost family is enormous, with no official headcount. Who are these shadowy creatures that haunt dense forests? What are the mysteries hidden beneath the surface of deep, calm waters? And how are we to understand these restless spirits who have permeated our memories, psyches, imaginations, and literatures? Riksundar Banerjee, an authority on Indian ghosts, investigates stories of creatures from the spirit world from all over India, in an effort to unravel the truth behind the legends, beliefs, superstitions, and experiences all of us are aware of. The result is The Book of Indian Ghosts-an authoritative, deeply researched, and spooky account of the otherworldly beings that haunt India and Indians. The Book of Indian Ghosts is the first of its kind to present a deeply researched account of the supernatural entities that have captured the Indian imagination. Spooky as well as informative, the collection features lesser-known legends, myths and folklore about spirits and ghosts from remote parts of the country. Riksundar Banerjee is an authority on Indian ghosts. He has investigated stories of the spirit world from across the country.
Ouija
Complice la frenesia estiva di una piccola contea californiana, un ristretto gruppo di amici, decide di continuare i festeggiamenti per la conclusione dell'anno scolastico e del conseguimento del diploma sino a notte fonda. Approfittando dell'assenza dei genitori in vacanza, uno degli amici mette a disposizione la propria casa per riunire il piccolo gruppo con l'intento di prolungare l'occasione della calda nottata offrendo loro un party a base di alcolici. Ma questo non basta e allo scopo di rendere l'occasione pi羅 eccitante, qualcuno propone una seduta spiritica. Da qualche parte sbuca una tavola Ouija, un oggetto misterioso capace, secondo la tradizione, di evocare i defunti. Ci簷 che questi ragazzi ignari e sprovveduti non sanno 癡 che i morti non tarderanno a rispondere.
Tangled Memories
After losing his wife, Dr. Alexander Dominican is determined his infant daughter will not grow up motherless as he did. Offering sensible, kind kindergarten teacher Mary Adams a marriage of convenience seems like the perfect solution. The widow's husband left her with a mountain of debt. For Alex, paying it off is a small price to pay for his daughter's happiness. Until his sensible new wife begins to lose her mind. On the day of their marriage, Mary starts having frightening hallucinations of medieval England-visions that feel more like the memories of woman who lived centuries before. More terrifying, someone-or some thing-is stalking the new mistress of Marchbrook Manor. Could it be one of the sinister servants? Or Alex himself? Alex is reawakening hidden desires and longings in Mary, but until she can untangle the web of nightmares and secrets, she can trust no one. Not even Alex. Alex has no idea he's unleashing a destiny that's taken him seven hundred years to fulfill.If Alex and Mary are to salvage their future, they must first unravel centuries of...Tangled Memories.
Wadhurst Ghost Stories
Please note: this is a work of fiction, NOT a compendium of local folklore.Could there really be a gargantuan snake, sleeping the sleep of the ages, somewhere beneath a hillock, just outside Wadhurst? And are there other, equally strange, beings 'living' (if we can really use that term) beneath the same earth? Was there once a spectacular magical 'obelisk' sited in a local field? And, while we're on the subject, who, or what, is 'The Oilman'? Where did Dr Jenkinson's mysterious machine come from? Who was Simon Francis Geffers? Did such a person ever really exist? And how can anyone possibly explain that 'forty-foot wide spectre with teeth' we still keep hearing about?These questions - and others of a similar nature - are not entirely answered in this collection of seven long-ish ghost stories, covering more than a century in the village's history.
Immortelle
When Elinor's daughter, Rowena, is found poisoned and dead in an animal trough, Elinor is sure the local parish priest is to blame. A ceramic artist by trade and influenced by her late grandmother's interest in supernatural magic, Elinor crafts an immortelle for Rowena's grave and attempts to capture the girl's spirit in the clay model of a starling. Soon she is inundated with requests for immortelles and the more immersed in the craft she becomes, the greater her powers grow. As the dead share their secrets with grieving Elinor, she learns the sordid truth of what happened to her beloved daughter and plots a revenge so hideous, it must be kept a secret forever.
Finches
Every family has a ghost story.This gorgeous and lyrical debut by A.M. Muffaz shares a family's story about their ghosts in an abandoned house in a Malaysian village. Grandmother Jah is determined to return to her estranged husband's house years after a brutal murder. Her children and her granddaughter work together to clear out the remnants of the former residents. But, they're still there, lingering in the dead garden and musty, old rooms. Grandmother Jah will not surrender her home to the man that did so much harm in life. Her son, his boyfriend, her daughter, and granddaughter, all must join her in the effort to cleanse the old family home.
The Tail Gunner
Seventeen-year-old Sylvie Stevens is the young tail gunner's only hope. He will never rest, never move on, unless she helps him complete his final mission. The two meet as Bish's spirit rises from the ashes of a burning photograph, demanding that Sylvie is his conduit. Terrified yet intrigued, Sylvie learns to use her till-then-unknown abilities to tap Bish's memories to see, and help heal, the deeper agony of his wartime past. There, intertwined with the horrors of war is also haunting hope. As the two journey through time and place using objects from Bish's wartime treasures as memory transmitters, Sylvie discovers a deeper connection to Bish, one that unravels everything she ever thought she knew and held dear in her family. Her mission grows to include her ailing grandmother and the need to reconnect Grams with a love long lost. An adventure that spans the globe from Seattle to Italy, and time from the 21st century to the 1940s, THE TAIL GUNNER reveals the both the joy and pain of life, love, and death that comes too soon. Infused with both humor and heartache, this story is for anyone who believes in the extraordinary power of love.
Spirits of Jerome
Jerome, Arizona: a place enshrouded with its past, alive with its legends, at peace with its ghosts, reverent of its place in history and hopeful about its dreams of the future all at the same time.And you, reader, who has found a spark of the imagination that brought you to Cleopatra hill, hold a book of stories, linked to the supernatural elements of 'the largest ghost town in America'. A book as fascinated by place as it is by theme. The stories use the ghostly setting to explore the casualties of art and the search for inspiration; the angst of coming to terms with ones past and dealing with ones ghosts; the illusive nature of happiness and the puzzle of its attainability; the eternal transformations of love; and the immorality and mystical nature of music.
Ghosts from the Past
When her life falls apart, Lara Rochester runs from her problems. She goes all the way to Cape Breton, where she's found a job cataloging books in the private library of a place called Schilling Manor. Arriving at the mansion, she finds that things weren't exactly as described. The place is run down. Phones don't necessarily work. Everything creeks and groans. She even sees ghosts. Worse, her coworkers all seem to have secrets. For some reason, one of them seems to think she knows their secret. Lara needs to work quickly to put the pieces together before she ends up a ghost too.
The Bug Diary
While experimenting with substances in the university library, Kymer is confronted by a ghost from KU's past: Carrie Watson, the librarian who is the library's namesake. Carrie gives Kymer the insect field journal of Flora Ellen Richardson, the first woman to graduate from KU. When Kymer reviews the bug diary, she realizes there's a bee in Flora's journal that's never before been identified by science. A wild ride ensues changing the world of entomology, and her personal world, forever. The freshman year away at college can be a challenge-studying, partying, making friends, finding a hookup-but when Freshman Kymer Charvat indulges in recreational drugs with her new friends, an on-campus ghost hands her a mystery to solve. An entomology major entering her first year of college at a far-away mid-western school, Kymer is ready to disengage from her superficial, social-climbing mother. However, this also means leaving her boyfriend behind in Maryland. Soon, she becomes fast friends with her new dorm roommate, Siren, a bold and bosomed young woman with a complicated background, and her classmate, Mattie, an exuberant, gay Black man whose family owns a local restaurant and embraces Kymer and Siren like their own. Together, the trio experience college life at its fullest, which includes some harmless drinking and drug experimentation. Kymer finds herself in need of spending money and manages to land her first real job in the university's natural history museum gift shop. One afternoon, the three friends get high and take a bus to the museum for fun. That's when a second campus ghost, naturalist and professor Lewis Lynsey Dyche, approaches Kymer to give her another hint to help her identify the mystery bee in Flora's bug diary. Soon, classifying the mystery bee is Kymer's main drive. The Bug Diary takes the reader on a wild review of history and bugs, and a laugh-out-loud exploration of campus life! New Adult & College Fantasy.
A Paranormal Intrigue
An anatomically perfect human jaw fashioned of a diamond-hard quartz crystal is uncovered at an Ohio burial mound and sold on the underground antiquities market. Shortly after, three pothunters are found dead. A mysterious new drug suspected of South American origin surfaces in Buffalo, NY. Its unprecedented psychotropic effects include the momentary activation of ESP. Blind, speechless, emaciated street people start appearing in many parts of the world. An urban legend-cycle forms around them and the name of a murderous old cult, "the Whistlers," attaches to them. An archaeological team at a Mayan site reports finding a bizarre artifact and vanishes. A New York schoolteacher's book of upstate legends and folklore foreshadows these developments and more. These are the threads - plus his affair with a maddening woman - that draw narrator Ward Courier into the international adventure of occultism, terror, Native American tradition, and onrushing prophecy that is Mason Winfield's anticipated new novel THE WHISTLERS: A Paranormal Intrigue. By the time the picture of THE WHISTLERS clears, we are ready to believe in a sinister conspiracy that could predate Atlantis and even hail from another world.
The Invitation
If you received an invite to a manor to meet unknown students for a week as a break from studying, would you go?Ri is excited to getting away from the bustle of university life. Take a break from the city and just relax. Her first impression of Lodham Manor is isolation and despair. Her break was far from relaxing...Years later, an interesting email arrives in Billie's inbox she is both intrigued and frightened. Her anxiety prevents her from staying at her university longer than a day so she has become accustomed to commuting back and forth. However, she decides to risk it and accept the invitation. After a few months of waiting, planning and packing the day has finally arrived when she is to depart on a trip that was meant to change her life for the better. It changed it for the worse. Alone and afraid at the derelict and foreboding Lodham Manor, Billie descends into near madness as troubling happenings begin to occur. Happenings that would stay with her, long after she had left. A dark and isolating tale that pits the strength of an overwhelmed student against forces she never used to believe in.
Blood and Water
Ellie Black; an ordinary librarian, in a plain old town, living a mundane life - until a trip to the local corner store opens her up to a world she can't possibly imagine. Removed from all she knows, Ellie tries to navigate this new world, to emerge safely from the other side, back to what she knows. She soon finds out, however, that sometimes going back is not an option.Especially when you're not sure you want to.
