 | Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead
Publication Date: May 1, 2011Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie She's Dead .A little magic can go a long way -- to really screwing up a girl's life! .Mara is having the worst month of her life. At least, that's what her cards tell her and they've never been wrong. She's evicted from her apartment, loses her job and is banned from Beverly Hills. So when the tarot cards predict her imminent demise, she uses a little magic to make her world right. .Suddenly, an aunt she's never met dies, leaving Mara as her sole heir. But when Mara moves into her inherited home, she discovers Aunt T...
 |  | Ghost Cats: Human Encounters with Feline Spirits
Publication Date: March 1, 2007A mezmerizing collection of strange and unexplainable encounters between human and feline. ...
|  | Dead Men's Boots
Publication Date: August 1, 2010You might think that helping a friend's widow to stop a lawyer from stealing her husband's corpse would be the strangest thing on your To Do list. But life is rarely that simple for Felix Castor.A brutal murder in King's Cross bears all the hallmarks of a long-dead American serial killer, and it takes more good sense than Castor possesses not to get involved. He's also fighting a legal battle over the body - if not the soul - of his possessed friend, Rafi, and can't shake the feeling that his three problems might be related. With the help of the succubus Julie...
|  | 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. ...
|  | The Haunted Looking Glass (New York Review Books Classics)
Release Date: February 28, 2001 ...
|  | 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...
|  | TERROR TALES OF EAST ANGLIA
Publication Date: September 15, 2012East Anglia - a drear, flat land of fens and broads, lone gibbets and isolated cottages, where demon dogs howl in the night, witches and warlocks lurk at every crossroads, and corpse-candles burn in the marshland . . . This frightening new anthology, the third in a series seeking to spread horror all over the British Isles, contains chilling tales by Alison Littlewood, Reggie Oliver, Simon Bestwick, Roger Johnson, Steve Duffy and many more. ...
|  | Ghost Stories of Pennsylvania
Publication Date: September 18, 2002The rich history of Pennsylvania includes ample folklore about the paranormal. Join author Dan Asfar as he recounts the Keystone State's more intriguing ghost stories. The menu of this bizarre banquet ranges from the ghosts of Gettysburg to the mysterious fountain of Philadelphia's Baleroy Mansion, in which a young boy's skull-like reflection foreshadowed his sudden death a month later. ...
|  | The Greatcoat
Release Date: March 5, 2012A terrifyingly atmospheric ghost story by the Orange-prize-winning Helen Dunmore. In the summer of 1954, newly wed Isabel Carey arrives in a Yorkshire town with her husband Philip. As a GP he spends much of his time working, while Isabel tries hard to adjust to the realities of married life. Life is not easy: she feels out-of-place and constantly judged by the people around her, so she spends much of her time alone. One cold winter night, Isabel finds an old RAF greatcoat in the back of a cupboard that she uses to help keep warm. Once wrapped in the coat ...
|
Data Source by Amazon.com |
留言列表
