 | The Ghost Stories of Muriel Spark
Publication Date: October 2003Eight spooky stories from the mistress of the unexpected."I aim to startle as well as please," Muriel Spark has said, and in these eight marvelous ghost stories she manages to do both to the highest degree. As with all matters in the hands of Dame Muriel her spooks are entirely original. A ghost in her pantheon can be plaintive or a bit vengeful, or perhaps may not even be aware of being a ghost at all. One in fact is the ghost of a man who isn't even dead yet. Another takes the bus home from work, believing she is still alive, though she is haunted by an odious...
 |  | Famous Last Words
Publication Date: August 20, 2001Famous Last Words is part-thriller, part-horror story; it is also a meditation on history and the human soul. In the final days of the Second World War, Hugh Selwyn Mauberley scrawls his desperate account on the walls and ceilings of his ice-cold prison high in the Austrian Alps. Officers of the liberating army discover his frozen, disfigured corpse and his astonishing testament - the sordid truth that he alone possessed. Fascinated but horrified, they learn of a dazzling array of characters caught up in a scandal and political corruption. ...
|  | Lair
Publication Date: September 1, 2012"Not for the nervous." —Daily MirrorThe mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the Lair. The dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could not satisfy—but the white slug-like thing that ruled them knew. Its two heads weaved to and fro, and a stickiness drooled from its mouth, as it remembered the taste of human flesh. ...
|  | House of Horror Best of 2010
Publication Date: January 16, 2011All the best work from House of Horror magazine 2010 ...
|  | The Haunting of Cambria
Release Date: November 4, 2008“Lily died the day we signed the escrow papers,” Theo Parker writes of his bride and the bed-and-breakfast they’d just bought in the picturesque coastal town of Cambria. He was driving the day they crashed into an oncoming car, killing Lily instantly. Theo soon learns he can no more bring his beautiful new wife back than he can kill the guilt that’s eating his soul – or the thing that’s haunting his new home.Making the best of his recuperation from the car accident, Theo and his property manager, the dowdy and troubled E...
|  | GHOST SQUALL
Publication Date: March 1, 2011GHOST SQUALL is a modern ghost story, a tale of the Jersey Shore. Two lives intersect and explode into violence in the small town of Ardmore, New Jersey, just inland from the Atlantic Coast in historic Monmouth County. Abandoned by her parents when she was a child, longtime Ardmore resident Sarah Applegate was raised by her eccentric grandmother, Molly Cracken, a stern and solemn disciplinarian. Three years after Molly's death, Sarah sells her grandmother's house to newcomer Bill Crowley who has accepted a position on the faculty of nearby Culver University. Cr...
|  | Spooky Southwest: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore
Publication Date: September 1, 2004| Series: Spooky A collection of 30 folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous Southwestern ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. ...
|  | Mammoth Book of Best New Horror
Publication Date: October 12, 2006| Series: Mammoth This title presents the year's finest tales of terror. Here is the latest edition of the world's premier annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. It features some of the very best short stories and novellas by today's masters of the macabre - including Peter Atkins, Cliver Barker, Glen Hirschberg, Joe Hill and Caitlin R. Kiernan. "The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror" also features the most comprehensive yearly overview of horror around the world, lists of useful contact addresses and a fascinating necrology. It is the one book th...
|  | A City of Ghosts: Stories
Publication Date: August 27, 2010No one knows for sure why Nashville has so many ghosts. Maybe it's because the place has been inhabited for 13,000 years. Maybe it's the lingering memories of the Civil War. Or maybe it's just because this is where the Devil keeps a summer home. Whatever the reason, this is the place where the living and the dead linger too long in each others' company. Babies long since dead still cry in church parking lots only to be comforted by current parishioners.A friendly neighbor continues to cook breakfast years after his body is under ground. And something, not ani...
|  | 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...
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