 | Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits
Publication Date: March 1, 2007A mezmerizing collection of strange and unexplainable encounters between human and feline. ...
 |  | The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories
Publication Date: May 7, 1987With their evocative settings amid mists and shadows, in ruinous houses, on lonely roads and wild moorlands, in abandoned churches and over-grown gardens, ghost stories have long exercised a universal fascination. Here at last is an anthology of some of the very best English ghost stories which combines a serious literary purpose with the plain intention of arousing a pleasurable fear at the doings of the dead.This selection of forty-two stories, written between 1829 and 1968,is the first to present the full range and vitality of the ghost fiction tradition by de...
|  | The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
Publication Date: July 25, 2002| Series: Penguin Modern Classics H P Lovecraft is credited with reinventing the horror genre in the twentieth century. In this volume, Lovecraft's preeminent interpreter, S T Joshi, presents a selection of the master's fiction. These stories reveal the development of Lovecraft's mesmerizing narrative style and establish him as a canonical - and visionary - American writer. ...
|  | Woman in Black
Publication Date: September 29, 2011First published in 1983, The Woman in Black is Susan Hill's best-loved novel, and the basis for the UK's second longest ever running stage play, and a major film starring Daniel Radcliffe.Arthur Kipps, a young lawyer, travels to a remote village to put the affairs of a recently deceased client, Alice Drablow in order. As he works alone in her isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover disturbing secrets - and his unease grows when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed in black. The locals are strangely unwilling to talk about the unsettling occurrence, and K...
|  | GOSICK Volume 1
Release Date: April 8, 2008| Series: Gosick (Book 1) The year is 1924, the place, Sauville, a small European country neatly tucked beside the Alps...Kazuya Kujo has been studying abroad at the prestigious Saint Marguerite Academy, where urban legends and horror stories are all the rage. Most Kazuya ignores--but the story of the Queen Berry, a mysterious ghost ship, really gets to him. Of course, his brainy friend Victorique is much more intrigued by true stories, and she uses her unrivaled logic to solve mysteries even the town's famous detective can't. Ironically, it's Victorique's inquisit...
|  | Baltimore: The Plague Ships TP (Baltimore (Quality Paperback))
Publication Date: January 3, 2012| Series: Baltimore (Quality Paperback) (Book 1) After a devastating plague ends World War I, Europe is suddenly flooded with vampires. Lord Henry Baltimore, a soldier determined to wipe out the monsters, fights his way through bloody battlefields, ruined plague ships, exploding zeppelins, and submarine graveyards, on the hunt for the creature who''s become his obsession. ...
|  | Little Star
Publication Date: November 1, 2011One autumn day in 1992, former pop singer Lennart Cederstrom finds something unexpected in the forest: a baby girl in a plastic bag, partially buried. He gives her the kiss of life, and her first cry astounds him; it is a clear, pure musical note. He takes her to his wife and persuades her that they should keep this remarkable child. But the baby becomes a strange girl, made more unusual by their decision to hide her in their basement to keep her from the prying eyes of government departments. When she reaches puberty, a terrifying scene sees her kill both h...
|  | Beyond Here Lies Nothing: The Concrete Grove Trilogy
Release Date: August 28, 2012| Series: The Concrete Grove Trilogy (Book 3) Ben arrives in the Concrete Grove to research a book about the Northumbrian Poltergeist, an infamous paranormal incident from the early 1970s. A set of twins were haunted by a spirit they nicknamed Captain Clickety, and the media of the time were split between derision and hysteria.As Ben teases out the supressed details of the story, he finds himself drawn to an emotionally damaged woman whose young daughter went missing years ago during a period of similar child abductions.Then the scarecrows appear, their heads...
|  | The Haunted Doll's House and Other Ghost Stories (The Complete Ghost Stories of M.R. James, Vol. 2)
Release Date: September 26, 2006Stories by a visionary master of supernatural fictionThe second volume of the only annotated edition of M. R. James's complete writings currently available, this book brings together tales from James's final two volumes, A Thin Ghost and Others and A Warning to the Curious. I n these stories, James continues his transformation of the ghost story from its nineteenth-century heritage. ...
|  | Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1)
Publication Date: January 22, 2005| Series: Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book 1 (Book 1) SOMEONE NEW IS PLAYING GOD The Frankenstein story updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz.Created centuries ago by a madman, possessed of seemingly supernatural powers and a dogged drive for justice, the mysterious Deucalion arrives in New Orleans as the next generation of Dr Frankenstein's monsters are about to be unleashed by their deranged maker, now known as Victor Helios.Deucalion's path will cross with that of tough police detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, ...
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