 | V for Vendetta: Library Edition
Publication Date: April 2006| Series: Library Edition Imagine a Britain stripped of democracy: a world of the not-too-distant future, in which freedom was not lost, but surrendered willingly to a totalitarian regime that rose to power by exploiting people's worst fears and most damning weaknesses. This is the setting for the parable of Evey, a young woman who is saved from death by a masked vigilante calling himself only V. Beguiling and dangerous, V ignites the fuse of revolution when he detonates two London landmarks and seizes the government-controlled airwaves, urging his fellow citizens...
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|  | Asian Supernatural
Publication Date: August 1, 2010The supernatural traditions of Asia, Hawaii, and the Pacific have flourished independently for thousands of years, but have remained largely unrecognized against mainstream conventions. The recent popularity of Asian horror cinema in the West, however, has led to a renewed interest in Eastern ghostlore, and it is in this resurgence that Asian Supernatural, Including Hawaii and the Pacific, aims to pacify the curious reader. Meant to bridge the gap between East and West, the book provides a listing of ghosts, demons, and witches from virtually every single Asia...
|  | Fever
Publication Date: October 1, 2011A deadly strain of flu has mysteriously mutated, causing the deaths of millions throughout Ireland and beyond. But the infected don't stay dead for long, rising up to become flesh-eating monsters.In a quarantined lab just outside Belfast, lab worker Ellis and security guard Abe fight their way through corridors of the living dead, determined to expose a gruesome truth.Aging conspiracy theorist Tom wracks his brain to figure out what went wrong.Meanwhile, a young child and her two unlikely wards find themselves in the middle of a cat and mouse game involving t...
|  | Twilight Stories
Publication Date: November 5, 2009A collection of short ghost stories by Victorian writer Rhoda Broughton.Includes: 'The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth', 'The Man with the Nose', 'Behold, it was a Dream!', 'Poor Pretty Bobby', and 'Under the Cloak'. Broughton uses the tales to comment on taboo subjects such as female sexuality and women's attitudes to money, as well as developing her interest in psychology and otherness, whilst consolidating her reputation as a sensational writer who never failed to tell a gripping tale. ...
|  | Captivity
Publication Date: April 5, 2011This masterful historical novel by Deborah Noyes, the lauded author of Angel & Apostle, The Ghosts of Kerfol, and Encyclopedia of the End (starred PW) is two stories: The first centers upon the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly (but artfully) gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists. Their followers included the famous and the rich, and their effect on American ...
|  | Firefly Rain
Publication Date: April 6, 2010When Jacob left home for a new life, he pretty much forgot all about Maryfield, North Carolina. But Maryfield never forgot him. Or forgave him. After a failed business venture in Boston, Jacob Logan comes back to the small Southern town of his childhood and takes up residence in the isolated house he grew up in. Here, the air is still. The nights are black. And his parents are buried close by. It should feel like home—but something is terribly wrong. Jacob loses all his belongings in a highway accident. His car is stolen from his driveway, yet he never h...
|  | Women and Ghosts
Release Date: March 7, 1995Nine ghost stories whose central characters are women. They include one who, about to marry, is haunted by the depressed spirit of her fiance's first wife; a secretary on a diet who begins to see fat people everywhere; and a woman whose dead fiance appears to her whenever she kisses another man. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition....
|  | El traje del muerto / Heart-Shaped Box (Narrativa (Punto de Lectura)) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: December 20, 2008| Series: Narrativa (Punto de Lectura) Aging, self-absorbed, death-metal rock star Judas Coyne was a collector of the bizarre, the uncanny, and the grotesque. When his personal assistant told him there was a ghost for sale on the Internet, Jude knew he had to have it for his private collection. His new acquisition-delivered to his doorstep in a black heart-shaped box-is the restless soul of a man who has vowed to chase him to the edge of sanity. Description in Spanish:Una estrella de rock excentrica, una novia gotica y sensual, un secretario enamorado de su...
|  | A Family Possessed (2nd Ed.)
Publication Date: November 2000First edition sold out after an internet interview with the publisher. This Second Edition of the scary ghost story, based on reported events, has found an enthusiastic audience .Set in America's farmland, a family's life is disrupted when shadowy figures and frightening events haunt their home. This popular ghost story is also in audio book. ...
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