 | Campfire Ghost Stories
Publication Date: June 1, 2002This entertaining collection of great campfire ghost stories, whether read alone or aloud, is sure to raise the hair on the back of your neck:· the spirit of a young girl killed in a car accident returns to the lonely stretch of road that claimed her life· six glowing orbs of light-the ghostly remains of doomed travelers-warns a group of campers to leave their wilderness campsite or face certain death· a young girl who grows up with a ghostly double finally discovers the secret behind her extra-ordinary doppleganger. ...
 |  | The Vampire Lestat (Vampire Chronicles, Book II)
Release Date: September 12, 1986| Series: Vampire Chronicles (Book 2) Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles, is mesmerizing, passionate, and thrilling. ...
|  | The White Devil: A Novel
Release Date: May 10, 2011 Set in a four-hundred-year-old boys' boarding school in London, a chilling gothic thriller by the author of the critically acclaimed A Good and Happy Child . . . A fierce and jealous ghost . . . A young man's fight for his life . . . The Harrow School is home to privileged adolescents known as much for their distinctive dress and traditions as for their arrogance and schoolboy cruelty. Seventeen-year-old American Andrew Taylor is enrolled in the esteemed British institution by his father, who hopes that the school's discipline will put some distance between h...
|  | The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: June 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious explorationof the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled withechoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as "themost hopelessly evil story we have ever read," The Turnof the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostlytales and certainly the most eerily equivocal.This newedition includes three rarely reprinted ghost storiesfrom the 1890s, "Sir Edmund Orme," "Owen Wingrave," and"The Friends of the Friends," as well as relevant extracts from James's notebooks and journals.About the...
|  | Dying to Live
Release Date: September 28, 2010A lone survivor in a zombie-infested world, Jonah Caine wandered for months, struggling to understand the apocalypse in which he lives.Unable to find a moral or sane reason for the horror that surrounds him, he is overwhelmed by violence and insignificance. Then Jonah comes across a group of survivors living in a museum-turned-compound. They are led by Jack, an ever-practical and efficient military man; and Milton, a mysterious prophet who holds a strange power over the dead. Both share Jonah’s anguish over the brutality of their world as well as his ho...
|  | Casting the Runes and Other Ghost Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: March 15, 2009| Series: Oxford World's Classics This selection of twenty-one short stories by M.R. James--a first-class writer of supernatural fiction--represents his best work, including "Count Magnus," "The Rose Garden," "The Uncommon Prayer-book," "Rats," "The Malice of Inanimate Objects," and "A Vignette," as well as the title story.About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text p...
|  | Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories (The Complete Ghost Stories of M. R. James, Vol. 1)
Release Date: October 4, 2005The only annotated edition of M. R. James’s writings currently available, Count Magnus and Other Ghost Stories contains the entire first two volumes of James’s ghost stories, Ghost Stories of an Antiquary and More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary. These volumes are both the culmination of the nineteenth-century ghost story tradition and the inspiration for much of the best twentieth-century work in this genre. Included in this collection are such landmark tales as “Count Magnus,” set in the wilds of Sweden; “Number 13,” a distinct...
|  | Naoko: A Novel
Release Date: August 1, 2004Winner of the Japan Mystery Writers Award, Naoko is a black comedy of hidden mindsand lives. Navigating the interstices between the real and the unreal with perfectplot twists, this page-turner is also a critique of gender relations by a male Japanesewriter, one of their best-sellng. An everyman, Heisuke works hard at a factoryjob to provide for his wife, Naoko, and young daughter, Monami. He takes pleasurefrom the small things, like breakfast with both of them after a night shift. Hisplacid life is rocked when, looking up from his microwave dinner one evening, ...
|  | The Ghost and the Dead Man's Library (Haunted Bookshop Mystery)
Release Date: September 5, 2006| Series: Haunted Bookshop Mystery Bookshop owner Penelope Thornton-McClure has just received an extremely rare collection of Edgar Allan Poe’s complete works. Rumor has it a secret code, trapped within the books’ leather-bound pages, leads to buried treasure. Well, it looks like they got the buried part right, because as Pen sells off the valuable volumes, everyone who buys…dies. Once these books go missing from their owners’ cold hands, Pen will need resident ghost and hard-boiled PI Jack Shepard to help crack the case. The police are ...
|  | The Devil You Know (Felix Castor)
Publication Date: June 1, 2008| Series: Felix Castor Felix Castor is a freelance exorcist, and London is his stamping ground.It may seem like a good ghostbuster can charge what he likes and enjoy a hell of a lifestyle--but there's a risk: Sooner or later he's going to take on a spirit that's too strong for him.While trying to back out of this ill-conceived career, Castor accepts a seemingly simple ghost-hunting case at a museum in the shadowy heart of London--just to pay the bills, you understand.But what should have been a perfectly straightforward exorcism is rapidly turning into the Who C...
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