 | Sumner Island Publication Date: June 1, 2010First-year history professor Mitchell Lambert has written a biography of Maria Boudreau, a famous young heiress who died more than eighty years ago. The book has sparked renewed interest in Maria, and now people are seeing her ghost on Sumner Island off the coast of Maine where she was brutally murdered in 1924. As interest in the ghost story grows, a séance is planned at the island's grand hotel to be conducted by world-renowned ghost hunter Horace Leeds and his medium Phyllis Church. Mitch, who has been hopelessly infatuated with Maria since he first bega...
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 |  | Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16: Vol. 16 (Mammoth Books) Publication Date: October 13, 2005| Series: Mammoth Books The latest edition of the world's foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Here are some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's finest exponents of horror fiction - including Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman, China Mieville, Paul McAuley, Glen Hirshberg, Ramsey Campbell and Tanith Lee. The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 16 also contains the most comprehensive overview of horror around the world during the year, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book that is require...
 |  | Phantom Encounters: Chillingly True Ghost Stories Publication Date: February 27, 2011Quick, short stories, about 1 to 2 minutes each. Great for telling around the campfire, or on Halloween night! Content is mild but chillingly true. Suitable for youth to adult. High-quality trade paperback. Easy to read 14 pt type. ...
 |  | Drowning Pool Publication Date: September 1, 2011After her world is shaken by a series of unexplained events, young widow Sarah Grey soon comes to realise that she is the victim of a terrifying haunting by her 19th century namesake ...A classic ghost story with a modern twist by a talented new writer in the genre. Relocated to a coastal town, widowed teacher Sarah Grey is slowly rebuilding her life, along with her young son Alfie. But after an inadvertent seance one drunken night, her world is shaken when she starts to experience frightening visions. She tries to explain them as But Alfie sees them too an...
 |  | Otherwise Publication Date: December 21, 2011Reluctantly, Delilah Gray has returned to her childhood home--a ramshackle cottage where her compulsive, hoarding grandmother, Meema, raised her. Meema's ghostly manifestations refuse to let Delilah clean the filthy house, or to stay there peacefully. And that's just the beginning of Delilah's problems. Lonely, angry, and hiding a painful secret, she tries to find a place for herself in a town that she once discovered was "in-between"--a portal to the worlds of the supernatural. Upon her arrival, Delilah unwittingly gets caught in the m...
 |  | Edgar Allan Poe Collected Stories and Poems (Collector's Library Editions) Publication Date: September 2006| Series: Collector's Library Editions (Jacket Status: Jacketed)Edgar Allan Poe’s gift for the macabre–his genius in finding the strangeness lurking at the heart of things–was so extraordinary that he exerted a major influence on Baudelaire and French symbolism, on Freudian analysis, and also on the detective novel and the Hollywood movie. His psychologically profound stories of encounters with the marvelous, the uncanny, and the dreadful represent–in contrast to the optimism of writers like Emerson and Whitman–the other, dar...
 |  | Season of the Witch Publication Date: November 1, 1999In the early 1800s, the Bell family of Robertson County, Tennessee, was preyed upon by a strange creature that also terrorized the community, tortured the Bells' youngest daughter, and eventually took the life of the family patriarch, John Bell. Taylor delves into the mysterious happenings surrounding this famous case, exploring the many myths and misconceptions regarding the Bell Witch. ...
 |  | Ghost Stories and Legends of Prince Edward Island Publication Date: May 1, 1996| Series: Ghost Stories Swathed in mist, surrounded by the secretive sea, wind wailing like the lost souls of sailors around its shores, Prince Edward Island is the ideal setting for the strange and incredible, even the supernatural. Islanders have handed down, from one generation to the next, legends and ghost stories: tales of phantom ships, Indian curses, buried pirate treasure, sea serpents, and ghostly apparitions.In this book, Julie Watson has collected a wealth of "true tales"; many were told to her by those who experienced them, or knew someone who did. O...
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