Ghost Witch P.I.
ANIMALS UP, $50,000. HUMANS DOWN, ONE VERY SPECIAL LIFE. Humans tend to think they rule the world, when in fact, they require constant supervision and observation from the Animal Kingdom and Spirit world. Take tonight, for example, fifty-thousand dollars raised for charity and one very special life lost. Now Spirit-Ghost Lily Collins and Healing-Witch Anna Krone must race through the small rural town of Moon Lake, Indiana to catch a killer before sunup or risk the financial and professional ruin of their granddaughters. Buy this book, curl up with your favorite beverage and furry friend, and help Lily solve this short fun Paranormal Cozy Mystery.
The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories
Step into the shadows of the unknown with ""The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories,"" a masterful collection of eerie short stories by the renowned Algernon Blackwood. This captivating anthology, long out of print, has been meticulously restored by Alpha Editions for today's readers and future generations, making it not just a reprint, but a true collector's item and cultural treasure. Delve into the haunting narratives that have defined English ghost literature, where the line between reality and the supernatural blurs. Blackwood's chilling ghost tales transport you to a world where the paranormal lurks just beyond the veil of the ordinary. Each story is a testament to his genius in crafting psychological suspense and vintage horror stories that resonate with both casual readers and classic literature collectors alike. From the spine-tingling encounters in ""The Empty House"" to the unsettling atmospheres of his other supernatural tales, Blackwood's work embodies the essence of classic horror fiction. His unique ability to evoke fear through atmosphere and suggestion sets him apart in the realm of literary horror, making this collection a must-read for fans of ghost stories and paranormal fiction. This edition not only revives Blackwood's legacy but also invites a new generation to experience the thrill of his haunting narratives. Whether you're seeking a chilling read for a dark night or a profound exploration of the human psyche, this book promises to deliver both excitement and introspection. Join the ranks of those who appreciate the art of storytelling and the allure of the supernatural. ""The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories"" is more than just a book; it's an invitation to explore the depths of fear and wonder that lie within us all. Don't miss your chance to own this exquisite piece of literary history-grab your copy today and let the haunting begin!
Haunted Ends
The crew of the hit cable paranormal investigations television show "Haunted Ends" teams up to investigate the legendary and mysterious Galaxy Disco. While shooting the show at the disco, their investigation takes a turn for the worse when the crew is transported back in time to the late 1970s. The stars of the show, along with their ghostly co-host Sam, must solve the mystery of the Galaxy Disco by discovering who sabotaged the disco's electrical systems that caused the deaths of over twenty people.Only once the mystery is solved can the crew return to their own time.
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.
What Lies Beyond the Hollow Grove
Trouble always had a way of finding Seamus Van Leer. Growing up in the rough and tough village of Bradford made his struggle for the straight and narrow path impossible. At the age of twenty-one, his life plunged deeper into sorrow when his parents died in a car accident. With nowhere else to go, Seamus moved to the slum of Bradford--Wiley G. Estates. He felt that living amongst the garbage of Bradford was a fitting, self inflicted punishment for his role in his parents' death, along with the Elnors'.Seamus was faced with more hardship once he discovered his factory--Rising Sun Rubber--was closing its doors, permanently. After receiving the news, Seamus drowned his sorrows at his favorite bar, the Hollow Grove. Seamus thought that he had found love when he rescued Elizabeth Krantz from her attacker, but, as time passed, he questioned her intentions toward him.As the visits between Seamus and Elizabeth grew far and few, he visited the Hollow Grove more often. Each time he returned to the bar, he noticed strange and unusual events transpiring in and around the place. However, the strangest thing he encountered at the place was the enigmatic Roland Hiser.
Man with the Black Feather
The Man With the Black Feather (1909) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. Originally a journalist, Leroux turned to fiction after reading the works of Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, The Phantom of the Opera, has become legendary through several adaptations for film, theater, and television, including Andrew Lloyd Webber's celebrated 1886 Broadway musical of the same name. Walking into his office one morning, a journalist discovers a stranger waiting there for him. Holding an ornate wooden box, he reveals himself to be the executor of M. Th矇ophraste Longuet, a deceased manufacturer and a former acquaintance of the journalist. Suspicious at first, the journalist accepts the box, opening it to reveal the voluminous memoirs of Longuet. Within their pages, presumably unread by anyone else, Longuet describes his discovery of documents revealing that he is, in fact, the reincarnation of infamous French highwayman Louis Dominique Cartouche, a vigilante figure who haunted the roads of 18th century France in order to steal from the rich and give their wealth to the poor. Skeptical, the journalist reads the memoirs, which lead him to the legendary "Treasure of Cartouche," virtually ensuring the accuracy of Longuet's claims. Assured of their worth to the public, the journalist convinces his editors to release their discovery to the world. The Man With the Black Feather, which is also known by the title The Double Life, is a mystery novel by Gaston Leroux, one of the leading French detective writers of his generation. Like much of Leroux's work, the novel is partly based on historical events-Cartouche was an actual figure whose campaign of thievery and charity came to an abrupt end with his brutal public execution in 1721. This edition of Gaston Leroux's The Man With the Black Feather is a classic of French literature reimagined for modern readers. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.
Bittersharp
An illicit affair and a mysterious death in 1927 Virginia echo through the decades in Bittersharp, a dual-timeline ghost story about love, betrayal, murder, and the quest for redemption.In 1927, Eve Boland travels to Virginia to visit her cousin Luke and falls under the spell of his wife: beautiful, brash, gin-drinking Corrine. At first enamored of her, Eve starts to suspect there are hidden sides to Corrine, and dark secrets lurking in her marriage to Luke. As Eve becomes enmeshed in Luke and Corrine's life at Hollister House, she inadvertently sets off a chain of events that lead to a death and a terrible secret she must keep for the rest of her life.In 2018, Rachel Shepherd finds her father dead in the haunted mansion of local ghost story lore that he and his young wife, Lily, had been renovating into a bed and breakfast. Something is wrong at Hollister House. Rachel has dreams of a dark-haired man, which turn into nightmares. After she sees the frightening apparition of a woman who has haunted her memory for years, Rachel becomes convinced that exposing the truth about what happened in 1927 holds the key to freeing Hollister House of its past. She enlists the help of Isaiah, her first love from a decade ago, and together they discover a mysterious mosaic mural, an album of disturbing photos, and Eve Boland's diary.Rachel begins to suspect that Lily and Isaiah know more than they're saying about Dad's suicide. Can Rachel trust Isaiah? The last pages are missing from Eve's diary. What secrets are they hiding, and who took them? Is Lily right when she insists Rachel is imagining things? After all, Rachel has had problems before.As the secrets of the summer of 1927 are revealed, Rachel learns that the worst horror of all may be living with the ghosts of the past.
Last Stop
He told her Sight was a gift. He lied. All Josephine wanted was to explore the world through the lens of her camera. Just days after landing her dream job, her world is turned upside down when she finds a locket left behind on her train stop. Little did she know, the locket came with a special gift. A phantom named Edward needs her help. He explains to her she was born with the gift of Sight, the ability to see spirits left behind on earth. Sight, however, isn't all it's cracked up to be. Josephine becomes responsible for ushering those lost spirits to the other side. If not, there will be great consequences. Josephine struggles with her new job and fights back against the powers that try to force her hand. When spirits follow you everywhere you go, and demons are trying to use you as a ploy to ruin the world, there isn't much time left for following your dreams. Last Stop is a stand-alone novella by USA Today Best Selling Author, Jessica Cage. Download your copy today to find out if Josephine gives in to the other side!
Sharp Pieces of Glass
His city is burning. Every night it becomes an inferno outside Gregory Thome's apartment window: protests that turn violent, destructive, scorching. Gregory desperately wants to escape the simmering heat and finds himself fleeing to an historic hotel by the ocean for a weekend of quiet and solitude. The tranquility proves so captivating in meeting his ordinary desires that Gregory extends his stay for an entire week, even though he can barely afford it. Only quite slowly does the reader develop a sense that Gregory might have an ulterior motive for staying there, that a darker secret lies beneath his subconscious. There are strange occurrences in his room, including those sharp pieces of glass mysteriously scattered in there which become a mocking riddle for Gregory. Sharp Pieces of Glass is a powerfully grim novel that builds to a fiery ending that questions the entire nature of Gregory's troubled existence.
Ghost at the Prom
At the high school prom, sixteen-year-old psychic medium Nick Michelson notices a frightening ghost who seems to be haunting a boy from another school. The spirit threatens Nick and warns Nick not to come near him or the boy again.Nick does a little investigating and discovers that the boy, whose name is Tyler, lost his boyfriend in a drowning accident a year ago. Now Tyler is overcome by grief and apparently is also being haunted by his dead boyfriend.Nick decides to try to help the two of them and, in the process, uncovers several secrets surrounding the ghost's untimely demise.Meanwhile, the Shadow Demon has come to Gallowspine Mountains and has made itself known to Nick. The question is, why?
The Reliquary
Acceptance into the most exclusive ghost hunting team in operation doesn't come easy. And the calamity of Six's first case with Hellebrand Survey left its mark. One of her new challenges? Untangling the fate of haunted unfortunates who didn't reach help in time. Weeks after reporting his haunting, Bryan stands accused of a brutal attack on his young fianc矇e. Unresponsive in a hospital bed, Lydia is powerless to defend the man she loves. When Hellebrand Survey is hired to investigate, they run afoul of local police with zero patience for supernatural explanations. Officers turn a blind eye to signs of a haunting, and grow increasingly ill-disposed toward hunting-prodigy Rowan Hellebrand and his illustrious team. Undaunted, and at great personal risk, Survey searches for a culprit who unlocks doors in the night, steals through hallways, and leaves its harrowed victims in... grave circumstances. If you like shows like Paranormal State, Kindred Spirits, and manga like Ghost Hunt, this is the series for you! Get it now!
The Dead Set
Photography is Sixtine Soto's life. It's the ray of sunshine that guides her through lean times, unforgiving part time jobs, and the hardships of being 'the poor kid' in her high school.Her specialty? Photos of abandoned places. There's something uplifting in the crumbling beauty of locations once-frequented by the living! Her online r矇sum矇 is full of pictures with that special 'something' that wows viewers and takes their breath away -- ghosts. And even though she can't see them in her work, infamous ghost hunter, Rowan Hellebrand, can.Invited into the shadowy world of one of the best-funded, most covert ghost hunting teams in operation, and tested by a hunting prodigy, Six soon finds the business of hunting ghosts is more cut-throat than the plethora of popular television shows -- whose cameras Rowan avoids -- would lead viewers to believe.Then a frantic phone-call puts Sixtine on her first case as Hellebrand Survey's one-and-only spirit photographer. Can she make the cut?Or will the ghost draw first blood?
The Hauntings of Thistlebrae Farm
The Hauntings of Thistlebrae Farm A Race with TimeThe house is cursed and people will die!Meet the McGregor Family; Dad, Mum, Nicholas, Katie, Chris and Michelle.They are all looking forward to moving into their new farm house and exploring the new property, and discovering all its secrets. The house has more than a few secrets including the family ghosts.One by one the ghosts make themselves known and the secrets come out. The family is cursed and people will die.It becomes a race against time to solve the mystery and break the curse.Will the children solve the mystery of the house or will the curse claim even more lives?
Strange Connection
Have you ever felt like you have been somewhere before, like that feeling of D矇j? Vu? Olivia has had that experience and she is here to tell you what it was like. From losing her parents to discover she was related to one of the wives of King HenryVIII, Olivia finds herself in a thrilling adventure through her past and future. After her parents died, Olivia moves to her father's aunt's house and that's where it all begins. A trip to the attic reveals some family secrets never shared before. A strange dream with a lady who's a complete stranger to Olivia until that moment.After a visit to the Tower of London, Olivia starts digging on her past and her family's, finding out she is the great great great great great granddaughter of Lady Anne Boleyn, wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I.Join Olivia and her friends on this historical journey and maybe you too will find you are related to someone who is part of your country's history.
Dead Case in Deadwood
"Nothing good ever happens at the butt-crack of dawn. No doubt, the headless corpse on the autopsy table in front of me would agree."-Violet Parker Real estate agent, Violet "Spooky" Parker stumbles upon a body-part theft ring at the local funeral parlor and suspects her caustic coworker has a hand in it-or maybe a foot. Can Violet discover what's in the crates the crooks are sneaking out of the mortuary in the dark of night? Or will she end up in one of them herself ... in pieces?
Better Off Dead in Deadwood
One dead body. One century-old haunted opera house. One zombie musical. One pissed-off detective. Will Violet "Spooky" Parker keep her tail out of trouble or will she end up as one of Deadwood's walking dead?
Rattling the Heat in Deadwood
A scrappy, hot-blooded woman can only take so much!Violet Parker is on fire ... or rather under fire yet again.New evidence has fanned the embers of a cold murder case, and her alibi is smoldering at the corners. While battling a dogged detective determined to pin the murder on her, Violet scrambles to find the real killer.Will she escape "the heat" with singed tail feathers? Or will Violet go down in flames?
Nearly Departed in Deadwood
"The first time I came to Deadwood, I got shot in the ass."--Violet Parker Little girls are vanishing from Deadwood, South Dakota, and Violet Parker's daughter could be next. She's desperate to find the monster behind the abductions. But if she's not careful, Violet just might end up as one of Deadwood's dearly departed.
Peculiar Shadows
We all have ghosts. Here you will find five stories of untraditional hauntings. You will find childhood memories devoured by a plant. A field loomed over by expectation, regret, and meaning. And you will find that both the living and the dead are haunted -- by possibility, inevitability, and the hopeless pressures of a job well done. We all have our ghosts. Which ones are yours?
Roadside Ghosts
Ghost stories. Everyone knows one. Everyone can tell you one. Ghost stories haunt and linger and tantalize. Come on along with Steve Vernon - ghost story collector, writer, and teller - as he brings you eight of the creepiest yarns imaginable, stories that will creep up on you and teach you the fine old art of the booga-booga. Eight stories - including Steve's haunting salute to the road gang, "The Forever Long Road of Olan Walker". Walk down this road, if you'd like to. Or better yet - run! WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT STEVE VERNON"If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub, and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon." - Bookgasm"Steve Vernon is something of an anomaly in the world of horror literature. He's one of the freshest new voices in the genre although his career has spanned twenty years. Writing with a rare swagger and confidence, Steve Vernon can lead his readers through an entire gamut of emotions from outright fear and repulsion to pity and laughter." - Cemetery Dance"Armed with a bizarre sense of humor, a huge amount of originality, a flair for taking risks and a strong grasp of characterization - Steve's got the chops for sure." - Dark Discoveries"Steve Vernon was born to write. He's the real deal and we're lucky to have him." - Richard ChizmarMy Mom thinks I'm pretty cool, too.
A Ghost Named Flossie
Seth is a nice young man that stays out of trouble. He is a college student, and he also works during the day to make extra money. He is a good person, and gets along with everyone. Halloween is coming up. This is Seth's favorite time of the year, only this Halloween will be one that Seth will never forget. Seth is about to get a visit from a ghost. This ghost will take Seth through a journey that he will not be able to escape from, and one that he will ever forget. Although he does not know, but Seth's life is about to change forever. So sit back and relax, and find out how Seth's new friend takes him for a scary ride.
Oracle V - Travels Through Other Dimensions
Sarah(Egyptian Oracle) leads the expedition to connect parts of Ea, the architect of humanity. A trace of Ea hiding from his own race is found in hell, ruled by Seth and Saturn. Caring Ea must put up a fight against his evil version. If he loses, he himself becomes bad ...Jasmin, the future incarnation of Sarah, meets Tao, the martial artist, who teaches her martial arts and how to be conscious in multiple places at the same time during her astral travels, as well as how to deal with the everyday challenges of living in The Netherlands as a foreigner.Another trace of Ea is found in China, where a dragon guards the key to the desired knowledge...
Les Mad Drummers
Apr癡s des vacances d'矇t矇 bien m矇rit矇es, les Mad Drummers, groupe de musique compos矇 de copains percussionnistes, reprennent du service...Claire, ?lise, Basile, Robert, Thibaud et C矇lestin jonglent entre les cours au coll癡ge, ceux au conservatoire, les r矇p矇titions et les concerts... auxquels s'ajoutent de nouvelles enqu礙tes, sem矇es de myst癡res, qu'ils adorent r矇soudre !Cette ann矇e encore, pour mener ? bien leurs 矇tranges aventures, les Mad Drummers vont pouvoir compter sur le soutien de grands compositeurs.Mais attention ! Tout cela les conduira ? un redoutable face-?-face. Seront-ils pr礙ts pour cette rencontre ? Arriveront-ils ? 礙tre plus rus矇s que leur ennemi ?Les palpitantes aventures des Mad Drummers sont suivies d'un cahier documentaire permettant d'en apprendre davantage sur les personnages historiques rencontr矇s. ? partir de 10 ans
We Know Now Snowmen Exist
A psychological thriller play for an all-female cast, based upon the real events of the Dyatlov Pass Incident in Russia.
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories
Expanded and with great new stories, this is the biggest and best anthology of ghostly hauntings ever. Over 40 tales of visitation by the undead - from vengeful and violent spirits, set on causing harm to innocent people tucked up in their homes, to rarer and more kindly ghosts, returning from the grave to reach out across the other side. Yet others entertain desires of a more sinister bent, including the erotic. This new edition includes a selection of favourite haunted house tales chosen by famous screen stars Boris Karloff, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Plus a top ranking list of contributors that includes Stephen King, Bram Stoker, Ruth Rendell, and James Herbert - all brought together by an anthologist who himself lives in a haunted house. closet, in Stephen King's 'The Boogeyman'; An Irish castle holds something truly horrifying in wait, in 'The Whistling Room' by William Hope Hodgson; The lecherous old ghost of a Georgian country house eyes up his latest tenant, in Norah Lofts' 'Mr Edward'; An ancient mansion on a shelf of rock previously occupied by a doomed castle, in 'In Letters of Fire' by Gaston Le Roux; The hunter is hunted in James Herbert's tale of nineteenth-century country mansion, 'The Ghost Hunter'; Psychic phenomena and poltergeists, avenging spirits and phantom lovers - curl up and read on, but never imagine you are safe from a visit...
Possessions
Based on real events, Possessions is a paranormal page turner.Fate delivered the ideal home, in the best neighborhood, at the perfect price! But shortly after moving day, Julie and Marc discovered they'd made a grave mistake.Broken objects and slamming doors were just the beginning of their terror... Controlled by an ancient evil, they are faced with a horrible choice: endure, or escape with nothing. If you liked Poltergiest, or Sixth Sense, this edge-of-your-seat paranormal thriller is for you. Based on a true story, this supernatural horror might make you want to sleep with the lights on
Silent Spirit
Silent Spirit is the twisted tale of a teen, Kachina Hunt who moves to her father's home town, makes new friends and finds that the ideal senior year isn't what she thought it would be. In a horrific turn of events she will be the victim of a vengeful prank that only she can resolve. In becoming one with her Native American heritage, she must use the spirit within her to right wrongs and come back to those she loves.
Ghost Touch
A gateway between the living and the dead. Can a young ghost whisperer send them on without joining their ranks? Growing up on a farm taught Tamara the meaning of hard work. But mucking out stalls takes a back seat when a portal opens in her barn each night spilling hordes of ghosts across her pastures. Determined to help the desperate beings crossover, she falters when she discovers she can touch them. Each contact strengthens them but drains her. Frustrated that she has only managed to help one child move on, she struggles to replicate her happy accident. But discouragement turns to terror when the spirits take advantage of her ghost touch and greedily drain her life force. Will Tamara be able to help the others cross or will they drag her into their void forever?
Go To Sleep... I Dare You!
Your child will experience fear, tension, and chills reading this collection of 6 ghostly stories. Is your child hard to scare? Does he or she think that ghost stories are not to be taken seriously? When they get immersed in a dark, silent, and gloomy atmosphere and feel in their bones the terror experienced by the characters in these stories, they will change their minds: they will not want to be bad anymore.Through these six scary stories, your child will learn how dangerous dark roads can be at night, not challenge supernatural forces, NEVER venture into abandoned houses, and never make fun of the dead. There are no gigantic monsters or plain creatures here: the terror in these stories is realistic, precise, and blunt.Children are terrified by the supernatural beings they can imagine, but they are filled with a deeper fear when they encounter shapeless entities. The darkness and the unknown will inspire in your child's dread and make them reflect on the meaning and value of life and those around us.Some children relish the sensation of a little dose of fear. Whether it is a ghost story shared around the campfire or told with a flashlight while snug in their beds. Go to Sleep... I Dare You is the perfect anthology for the child who loves a spooky tale.All six stories in this book hold a lesson for young readers to take to heart once they are finished. Like never going down a dark road alone, never venture into abandoned buildings, and many more. Parents and kids alike will get goosebumps while reading Go to Sleep... I Dare You!Enter a world of doom and gloom and find out just how afraid you are of the dark now that you've experienced All the Ghost Stories.Go on and grab your copy today -- what are you afraid of?
St Andrews Ghost Stories
This is the first transcribed standalone copy since 1978, complete with many additions.Also included is Linskill's nonfiction booklet: 'The Strange Story of St Andrews Haunted Tower' reprinted for the first time since 1938.There are introductions, a few photos, and many footnotes covering aspects of Linskill's text through analysis, cross-referencing and elaboration of the same. Capturing the imagination of generations, William Linskill's classic 'St Andrews Ghost Stories' was first published in 1911, and remained in print through thirteen editions up to 1978. Richard originally republished Linskill's work as the last section of his book 'Ghosts of St Andrews' in 2013. This current edition has been published as an anniversary edition 110 years after the original, partly to stave off the cheap automated poor quality ocr/scanned copies having been churned out in recent years with jumbled words or missing text that do Linskill, St Andrews and new generations to Linskill's work a grave injustice.Later editions had paragraphs and text omitted or changed. Richard has correlated and reinstated these changes. Following extensive research, he also explains the reality behind these stories and gives an insight into William Linskill, with new material and updates since his publishing in 2013.The Strange Story of St Andrews Haunted Tower' is a nonfiction article written by William Linskill for the Citizen in 1925, turned into a booklet in 1938, and republished here for the first time. It comprises his commentary and excerpts of firsthand accounts for various openings of the Haunted Tower up to 1888. Linskill wrote it as a taster or synopsis for the complex mysteries surrounding the White Lady and her ghost. The full firsthand accounts themselves will be found in Richard's 2015, 'A St Andrews Mystery', with 266 pages of nonfiction devoted to the same.
Pretty/Ugly
"Pretty/Ugly, the story of two damaged people living in a dystopian nightmare, is an exquisitely written horror novel. But, is it really fiction? In these times, it seems chillingly possible for an Instagram star and a politician wrapped in a fa癟ade of is own to be facing a relentless pandemic that may well lead to the end of the world. Reminiscent of "The Happening" by M. Night Shyamalan, Pretty/Ugly is a deliciously frightening, absorbing tale that seems all too real." - Wendy Webb (The Haunting of Brynn Wilder)"More than a simply a fine horror fantasy, this is a highly polished psychodrama exploring early trauma, identity, life's exigencies, and fates - all woven together in a stunningly creative tapestry of a unique novel. Jennifer Anne Gordon is on the ascent as a literary figure of stature! " Grady Harp, Top Shelf Magazine.Pretty/Ugly is a lyrical, hallucinogenic train ride through the end of the world. It's the story of two people falling in and out of loneliness as the end draws near. Each moment is more beautiful and terrifying than the last. Pretty/Ugly is the combination of Contagion and Lost in Translation I didn't know I needed. It's Lost in Contagion" - Allison Martine (Author of the Bourbon Books)Pretty/UglyInteritus: noun. ruin; violent/untimely death, extinction; destruction, dissolutionOmelia fills the empty place in her heart with Instagram clicks, likes, and subscribes, hiding the scars of grief under a mask of makeup, cloaked in an online personality. She yearns to be someone new: a girl in a magazine, a character in a book, a beauty queen. Anything not to feel, to be numb, but the sharp pain accompanying the red spot on her face cannot be ignored. Nor can the black, spindly tarantula-like vines that creep up the side of her face and the fever she spikes, forcing her to confront the fact that the person she has become may not be who she is at all.Dubbed 'the New JFK, ' Sam is the heir apparent to a powerful but emotionally distant political family, living the life he neither dreamed nor wanted. He sleepwalks through his days filled with self-loathing, rage, boredom, and an ache under his heart that reminds him that he is not complete. He is roused from slumber when a political scandal erupts that coincides with the end of the world. Too many Adderall and Old-Fashioneds leave Sam wondering, is he crazy or haunted?When lives are emotionally ended in childhood, it takes an apocalypse to see the ephemeral beauty of living again.
The Third Leonaur Book of Great Ghost and Horror Stories
More exceptional tales to thrill and chill ghost story enthusiastsAnthologies of short fiction, irrespective of their theme, are perennially popular and have many devotees. It follows that collections of ghost and horror stories have a receptive audience, combining, as they do, two compatible genres in one intriguing package. The success of an anthology is dependent, to a large extent, on its underlying concept. For The Third Leonaur Book of Ghost and Horror Stories, Eunice Hetherington has selected not only excellent tales that will chill the blood, but authors who may not be over familiar to aficionados. Many of the authors included here did not write sufficient stories to fill a volume dedicated only to their work. Here are little-known tales from the 'golden age' of strange and weird fiction by Horacio Quiroga, William Gilbert, Vincent James O'Sullivan, Hume Nesbit and several others.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Not Just Any Old Ghost Story
Tommy has come home from the city to visit his Dad for one last time. He is determined to get to the bottom of all of the secrets that his Dad has kept for hidden behind a smokescreen of storytelling and charm. It turns out that some secrets are best left untold. NOT JUST ANY OLD GHOST STORY is a quiet little story about coming home and ghosts that you can never escape and a love that never dies. It is a story that will take you to the very heart of storytelling itself. "If Harlan Ellison, Richard Matheson and Robert Bloch had a three-way sex romp in a hot tub and then a team of scientists came in and filtered out the water and mixed the leftover DNA into a test tube, the resulting genetic experiment would most likely grow up into Steve Vernon." - BOOKGASM "Steve Vernon was born to write. He's the real deal and we are lucky to have him." - Richard Chizmar, CEMETERY DANCE "This genre needs new blood and Steve Vernon is quite a transfusion." - Edward Lee, author of THE GOON and HEADER
The Third Leonaur Book of Great Ghost and Horror Stories
More exceptional tales to thrill and chill ghost story enthusiastsAnthologies of short fiction, irrespective of their theme, are perennially popular and have many devotees. It follows that collections of ghost and horror stories have a receptive audience, combining, as they do, two compatible genres in one intriguing package. The success of an anthology is dependent, to a large extent, on its underlying concept. For The Third Leonaur Book of Ghost and Horror Stories, Eunice Hetherington has selected not only excellent tales that will chill the blood, but authors who may not be over familiar to aficionados. Many of the authors included here did not write sufficient stories to fill a volume dedicated only to their work. Here are little-known tales from the 'golden age' of strange and weird fiction by Horacio Quiroga, William Gilbert, Vincent James O'Sullivan, Hume Nesbit and several others.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Southern Tales of Haunters and the HauntedHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) remains renowned as an author for her novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) which took as its theme the harsh lives of African-American slaves in the southern states of America during the pre-Civil War period. The publication of that book exposed the unpalatable and monstrous injustice of slavery to an international readership which had no personal experience of it. She will always be remembered as a tireless campaigner whose work galvanised anti-slavery movements in the northern states and as a committed feminist and advocate for women's rights. In addition to her most famous book she wrote thirty others on a variety of subjects as well as the short stories collected here. Although Harriet Beecher Stowe's excursions into the fiction of the ghostly and peculiar were comparatively few in number, they are charmingly set within the world of the rural south of America in the mid-19th century and are populated by a cast of unforgettable period characters. All of those tales are gathered together in this special Leonaur edition.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Southern Tales of Haunters and the HauntedHarriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) remains renowned as an author for her novel, 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' (1852) which took as its theme the harsh lives of African-American slaves in the southern states of America during the pre-Civil War period. The publication of that book exposed the unpalatable and monstrous injustice of slavery to an international readership which had no personal experience of it. She will always be remembered as a tireless campaigner whose work galvanised anti-slavery movements in the northern states and as a committed feminist and advocate for women's rights. In addition to her most famous book she wrote thirty others on a variety of subjects as well as the short stories collected here. Although Harriet Beecher Stowe's excursions into the fiction of the ghostly and peculiar were comparatively few in number, they are charmingly set within the world of the rural south of America in the mid-19th century and are populated by a cast of unforgettable period characters. All of those tales are gathered together in this special Leonaur edition.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of James Platt
The complete supernatural fiction of a Victorian scholarThe second half of the nineteenth century was a golden age for supernatural fiction and such is the proliferation of ghost stories written in that period that it seems as if everyone who could write tried their hand at the genre. Among academics, the master of the literary ghost story. M. R. James is a notable example as are his friend E. G. Swain and several others. James Platt (1861-1910) was a scholar of British history specialising in the Anglo-Saxon period and was also a contributor to the original Oxford English Dictionary. Platt penned just one small collection of ghostly stories which was published in 1894. Despite his slender output his tales of the otherworldly are still held in high regard among critics and aficionados of supernatural fiction.The stories in this collection, originally published as, 'Tales of the Supernatural' are 'The Seven Sigils', 'The Hand of Glory', 'The Rabbi Lion', 'The Evil Eye', 'The Witches' Sabbath' and 'The Devil's Debt'.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of James Platt
The complete supernatural fiction of a Victorian scholarThe second half of the nineteenth century was a golden age for supernatural fiction and such is the proliferation of ghost stories written in that period that it seems as if everyone who could write tried their hand at the genre. Among academics, the master of the literary ghost story. M. R. James is a notable example as are his friend E. G. Swain and several others. James Platt (1861-1910) was a scholar of British history specialising in the Anglo-Saxon period and was also a contributor to the original Oxford English Dictionary. Platt penned just one small collection of ghostly stories which was published in 1894. Despite his slender output his tales of the otherworldly are still held in high regard among critics and aficionados of supernatural fiction.The stories in this collection, originally published as, 'Tales of the Supernatural' are 'The Seven Sigils', 'The Hand of Glory', 'The Rabbi Lion', 'The Evil Eye', 'The Witches' Sabbath' and 'The Devil's Debt'.Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.
Bump In The Night
Magdalene was a healthy happy five year old child, with one exception, she was tormented by strange voices and eerie noises while she lay in bed at night. As Magdalene was growing up, her life turned into a nightmare. Everything seemed to change overnight. When she was a young teenager Magdalene learned to cope with the unspeakable things that happened to her as a child. She became best friends with two sisters, Katelyn and Leann Tallmen, whose mother was fascinated with ghosts and held s矇ances. After her divorce, Magdalene moved back home with her two sons. The same unexplained noises that she heard when she was a child had now escalated, and were affecting her two sons. It wouldn't be long before she would learn what the cause of those mysterious noises are.
Most Haunted Crime Scenes In The World
For some it is the sight of death and carnage that draws a person to crime scenes. And others prefer to visit famous crime scenes from the past. The morbid curiosity of the human race is a force that is so strong that even scientists cannot explain it. But what causes the dead to return to the scene of their demise? Some believe that they are searching for something while others claim that these spirits do not know that they are dead. No matter what causes the dead to return to their crime scenes it is a known fact that most crime scenes today have some kind of residual hauntings. We will look at some of the more famous crime scenes and explore the reports of hauntings and unexplainable events that each one holds.
Mr. Mayflower
Need some help moving? Call Rodney Yates and this will be the last move you ever make. Rodney is a mystery and vanished one night back in 1955. Last seen at the truck stop at a poker game gone bad. He and his truck went missing until he appeared again in the same truck full of patina on the outside and full of powerful things inside that the locals just had to have. The payment was never asked or a price agreed upon. Three young boys start an adventure after tracking Rodney and his haunted truck with one of the boys dying on the E.R. table. Years later and these boys come together as men and face an even scarier threat as Mr. Mayflower comes to collect!
Shadows of Solstice
It began with a fire.It would end with a battle.Kicked out of multiple schools, Mina Andresen's future depends upon graduating from tiny Havestad Lutheran College on Minnesota's north shore. While not her ideal situation, her classes interest her, her roommate is pleasant, and life holds promise.Then the local church burns down the weekend before finals, on the Festival of St. Lucia.Suddenly, the nights get darker, shadows move eerily, and Mina imagines she sees monsters. When people start dying, Mina must confront the fact that she's not just imaging thingsIn order to save her fellow students, the local townsfolk, and possibly even the world, Mina must step up and accept a responsibility larger than anything she ever imagined. Even harder, she must believe in herself.
Second Christmas Book of Ghosts
All money earned from this ebook by the publisher and authors will go to Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland.Collected are 17 tales of terror, from writers, old and new.Find out what lies inside the trinket box.Will O'Hare and Callaghan uncover the secret of the Great Australian Vampyre, or will the secret devour them?Find out how some can be haunted by the living themselves.A book full of sentient rubbish, time travel, murder, ghouls, murderers, funerals and...oh yes, lots of ghosts.Featuring tales by Duncan Lunan, Neil Williamson, Jo Thomas, Ian Hunter, M.J. Steel Collins, Marco Piva, Jon Arnold, Kevin Biggs, Michael S. Collins, Dan Barratt, Thomas Jordan, Paul Gill, Jenny Shirt, Ana Prundaru, Jim Steel, Vaughan Stanger and Gavin Inglis."There they were. Footsteps coming up behind him. Light footstep. Children perhaps, but why would children be out on a night like this? Laughing children. Glanced around in every angle. No tell tale shadows. Just the sound. Of threatening feet. Chasing feet. Running footsteps. He was in no doubt though. Children. Many children. Running. Running after him! Light and fast. Gaining on him. His heart pounded. He tasted fear. Knots in the stomach. A cold sweat. Breathing issues. He turned and ran. He wasn't sure what he was running from. He ran as fast as he could. As if, his life depended on it. From every angle, he heard the footsteps chasing after him.Henry ran. Between streets he'd know well in better light and weather. Didn't know where he was. Still he could hear the footsteps. Directly behind him. In front of him. All around. "
A Psychic Surveys Prequel
What do you do when a whole town is haunted?In 1899, in the North Yorkshire market town of Thorpe Morton, a tragedy occurred; 59 people died at the market hall whilst celebrating Christmas Eve, many of them children. One hundred years on and the spirits of the deceased are restless still, 'haunting' the community, refusing to let them forget. In 1999, psychic investigators Theo Lawson and Ness Patterson are called in to help, sensing immediately on arrival how weighed down the town is. Quickly they discover there's no safe haven. The past taints everything.Hurtling towards the anniversary as well as a new millennium, their aim is to move the spirits on, to cleanse the atmosphere so everyone - the living and the dead - can start again. But the spirits prove resistant and soon Theo and Ness are caught up in battle, fighting against something that knows their deepest fears and can twist them in the most dangerous of ways.They'll need all their courage to succeed and the help of a little girl too - a spirit who didn't die at the hall, who shouldn't even be there...
This Haunted World Book Three
From Shani Struthers, the bestselling author of The Venetian and The Eleventh Floor, comes the third in the This Haunted World series: Highgate. With sometimes harrowing scenes, this is her darkest novel yet and not for the faint-hearted!Highgate, perhaps the most famous cemetery in the world, is renowned for its Victorian Gothic splendour, famous residents, its vampire and, of course, ghosts...Lucy Klein, 42, is not only obsessed with Highgate, she works there too, organising tours for those with an interest in some of the finest Victorian funerary architecture in existence. Single, and on the shy side, she is nonetheless content with her life, or so she thinks. When she meets the enigmatic Zak Harborne, she realises what she's been missing and quickly falls in love. Suddenly, it is the business of living that interests her.1972, and Emma Matthews, a 19-year-old history student, also feels as though she's on the outside. After visiting a derelict Highgate with a group of friends, she starts to feel a connection, a sense of meaning to her life, in amongst the tombstones, the crosses and the angels. Returning to Highgate over and over, she discovers both a paradise and a garden decidedly more savage. Grace Derby is just 11 when she encounters the gentleman, tall and with a tall hat, a long black coat and a cape about his shoulders. It is the 1850s and street urchins such as her are not accustomed to kindness from those belonging to the upper echelons. Proffering money for food, for her and her family, he asks nothing in return. Curious about the man with the kind blue eyes, she follows him one day... all the way to Highgate.For some, it seems, all roads lead to Highgate...
