 | Kwaidan: Ghost Stories and Strange Tales of Old Japan (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
Publication Date: July 28, 2006| Series: Dover Books on Literature & Drama During the latter half of the 19th century, American journalist Lafcadio Hearn became our nation's great interpreter of all things Japanese. His superb translation of 20 supernatural tales teems with undead samurais, man-eating goblins, and other terrifying demons. These classic ghost stories inspired the Oscar®-nominated 1964 film of the same name. 22 illustrations. ...
 |  | Ghost Stories (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
Release Date: September 2, 2008| Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets A new anthology of classic ghost stories—the second volume in the beautiful and collectible Pocket Classics format.The chilling classic stories gathered here offer a remarkable variety of approaches to the theme of haunting. Revenge comes from beyond the grave in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Body-Snatcher,” while visions of the dead come between the living in Henry James’s “The Friends of the Friends.” P. G. Wodehouse gives us a farcical take on the haunted house in ...
|  | Funland
Publication Date: October 26, 1990The resort of Boleta Bay is not the carefree place it used to be. A series of unexplained disappearances, and holiday-makers threatened by an army of leering bums, casts a shadow over summer pleasures. But now Boleda Bay is fighting back and their campaign leads them to the abandoned Funhouse. ...
|  | Dreadful Tales
Publication Date: June 7, 2001Richard Laymon is the undisputed master of the macabre, and nowhere is his talent to terrify shown to better effect than in his short stories.DREADFUL TALES contains all of his short fiction not previously published in the UK and forms a delicious cornucopia of homicidal maniacs, vampires and lust-crazed teenagers - not to mention the drinkers in a low-life dive who attempt to salvage a diamond ring from the mouth of a severed head in a fish tank - with grisly results. ...
|  | The Sleeping and the Dead: A Mystery (Jackie Lyons)
Release Date: July 3, 2012| Series: Jackie Lyons A new mystery series starring a Memphis crime scene photographer with ghostly assistanceJackie Lyons is a former vice detective with the Memphis Police Department who is trying to put her life back together: her husband has sent divorce papers, she's broke, and needs a place to live. But a failed marriage, unemployment, and most recently a fire in her apartment aren’t her only problems: she also sees ghosts.Since Jackie left the force, she’s been making ends meet by photographing crime scenes for her old friends on the force, and f...
|  | The Seance
Publication Date: October 12, 2009Wraxford Hall, a decaying mansion in the English countryside, has a sinister reputation. Once, a family disappeared there. And now Constance Langton has inherited this dark place as well as the mysteries surrounding it. Having grown up in a house marked by the death of her sister, Constance is no stranger to mystery, secrets, and the dark magic around us. Her father was distant. Her mother was in perpetual morning for her lost child. In a desperate atempt to coax her mother back to health, Constance took her to a seance hoping she would&...
|  | 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...
|  | Haunted
Publication Date: May 4, 2007Three nights of terror at the house called Edbrook - three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying and maleficent games. These are the three nights in which he will face the blood-chilling enigma of his own past - the three nights before Edbrook's dreadful secret will be revealed...And the true nightmare will begin! Remember with fear. "Disturbing atmosphere and constant unpleasant shocks." - "Daily Mail". ...
|  | Ghost of a Smile (A Ghost Finders Novel)
Release Date: August 30, 2011| Series: A Ghost Finders Novel The Ghost Finders answer a distress call from the private researchcenter of one of the biggest drug companies in the world, where a teamof police enforcement agents have vanished. They have no idea whatthey're facing-except a deadline that threatens to remove the entirebuilding from existence if they fail to get to the bottom of themystery. ...
|  | Mrs. God: A Novel
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