 | Brujerias: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)
Publication Date: June 15, 2007| Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest “He got as close as he could to observe the spectacle; his eyes could hardly believe what he saw. Circled around the huge bonfire were many witches dancing and making all kinds of gestures amidst laughs, screams, and bursts of laughter as they sang all together.”Recounted in Spanish and in English translation, these tales of sorcerers, fiendish witches, La Llorona, the vanishing hitchhiker, ghostly apparitions, and balls of fire will fascinate and spook readers of all ages and backgrounds....
 |  | A Christmas Carol - The original manuscript - with original illustrations
Publication Date: January 24, 2012Charles Dickens wrote "A Christmas Carol" in six weeks at the end of 1843, during a particularly intense time of creativity. He was having financial difficulties and was determined to have the manuscript ready for publication for the Christmas market. This book contains a clear copy Dickens' one and only manuscript, written by his hand, with his revisions and corrections evident on every page. The revisions show how Dickens made the verbs become more active, the number of words became fewer, achieving greater immediacy and vividness. This manuscript was hand...
|  | Ghost Stories of Oregon
Publication Date: August 1, 2002Explore the fascinating and often inexplicable tales of strange ghostly events in this Pacific Ocean state:- At the Oregon Vortex in Gold Hill, gravity and light are distorted in one of the world's most bizarre paranormal anomalies - A phantom stagecoach is seen rolling up to the site of the Galesville Hotel in Douglas County, a structure that burned to the ground in 1931- A lighthouse keeper at the breathtaking Tillamook Lighthouse is reported to have watched in dismay as a phantom schooner foundered on the rocks--then vanished. From coastal Cannon Beach and ...
|  | Pheoebe and the Ghost of Chagall
Publication Date: October 26, 2012Phoebe is an artist making very little money designing wine labels for a winery in Sonoma. Her house is in foreclosure, she's divorced, turning forty, and beleaguered on every front. Enter Marc Chagall s ghost, visible only to her, who appears to help her retrieve one of his own paintings that Phoebe s father found during the liberation of France. Meant for Phoebe and her mother, the painting never made it into their hands. In this debut comic novel, Phoebe and Chagall hunt down the painting in the South of France with help from a cast of characters includin...
|  | Battle for Christendom
Release Date: September 4, 2008At the dawn of the fifteenth century, Islam invaded Europe from the East and it seemed that Christendom itself was under threat. In an attempt to save the Christian world, the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund called a conference at Constance, beside the Rhine.The council attracted the greatest minds in the western world, as well as innumerable princes, lawyers, and prostitutes. In The Battle for Christendom, eminent historian Frank Welsh delves into this important incident and shows that it is in fact one of the central moments in European history. Schism had ravag...
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|  | True Irish Ghost Stories: Haunted Houses, Banshees, Poltergeists, and Other Supernatural Phenomena (Celtic, Irish)
Publication Date: July 26, 2005| Series: Celtic, Irish Classified by geographical area, these simple yet compelling narratives provide amazing descriptions of poltergeists and banshees, spirit-filled houses, deathbed scenes pervaded by specters, legendary and ancestral phantoms, uncanny forewarnings of death, and other unearthly experiences. A comprehensive collection of authentic ghost tales: disarming, convincing, and illuminating. ...
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|  | Tales of the Wonder Club: All three volumes of this classic of the strange and macabre in a special two volume edition-Volume 2
Publication Date: August 22, 2012The second of two volumes containing the complete Tales of the Wonder Club Tales of the Wonder Club was originally published as three volumes between 1899-1900 and all three books are present in this special Leonaur two volume set. These tales are unusual for late 19th century works; most of the stories are gothic with elements of the supernatural, weird, bizarre, horror or fantasy and some commentators have likened them to the work of J. Sheridan Le Fanu. An acknowledged 'grandfather of the supernatural,' Le Fanu's work was typical of the early to mid-ninete...
|  | The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Bessie Kyffin-Taylor-From Out of the Silence-Three Novelettes 'Outside the House,' 'Room Number Ten' ... Four Short Stories of the Strange and Unusual
Publication Date: August 23, 2012A rare and highly regarded collection of the ghostly and strange The author of this collection of tales of the supernatural, Lady Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, undertook few forays into the realms of the fiction of the ghostly and other worldly and the result is this book of seven short stories, From out of the Silence. Originally published in an undated edition, but believed to have been released around 1920, the collection appeared just two years before the author's death. Kyffin-Taylor's style is judged by some to be reminiscent of the acclaimed writer of supernat...
|  | Tales of the Wonder Club: All three volumes of this classic of the strange and macabre in a special two volume edition-Volume 1
Publication Date: August 22, 2012The first of two volumes containing the complete Tales of the Wonder Club Tales of the Wonder Club was originally published as three volumes between 1899-1900 and all three books are present in this special Leonaur two volume set. These tales are unusual for late 19th century works; most of the stories are gothic with elements of the supernatural, weird, bizarre, horror or fantasy and some commentators have likened them to the work of J. Sheridan Le Fanu. An acknowledged 'grandfather of the supernatural,' Le Fanu's work was typical of the early to mid-ninetee...
|  | Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement (Call of Cthulhu Mythos fiction)
Publication Date: February 14, 2000Delta Green: The Rules of Engagement is the first Delta Green novel, following the release of the short story collection Delta Green: Alien Intelligence. Delta Green weaves the comic terrors of the Cthulhu Mythos seamlessly with the paranoia and shadowy forces of conspiracy theory, updating the stories of jazz era horror writer H. P. Lovecraft to the modern day. ...
|  | The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan le Fanu: Volume 1-Including Two Novels, 'The Haunted Baronet' and 'The Evil Guest,' One ... Ten Short Stories of the Ghostly and Gothic
Publication Date: April 29, 2010The first volume of an eight book collection from 'the grandfather of the ghost story'Whilst many highly regarded writers have created collections of strange and supernatural fiction and several other authors are now primarily known for their literary efforts within this genre, the author of this large collection surely stands alone. Not only is his body of supernatural and gothic fiction extremely substantial, he wrote ghost and horror fiction if not exclusively then certainly as the subject matter of the overwhelming majority of his considerable literary out...
|  | A Fine and Private Place
Publication Date: August 2002This classic, mesmerizing tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living and the dead, and the eternal power of love.Michael Morgan was not ready to die, but his funeral was carried out just the same. Trapped in the dark limbo between life and death as a ghost, he searches for an escape. Instead, he discovers the beautiful Laura...and a love stronger than the boundaries of the grave and the spirit world.Praise for Peter S. Beagle:"Wit, charm, and a sense of individuality." --New York Times Book Review"It's a fully r...
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|  | Horror The Men Behind The Mask
Release Date: April 7, 2011Step Behind the mask and find out who is behind them,Jason Voorhees,Michael Myers,Freddy Krueger,Leatherface, You have seen these franchises,Nightmare On Elm Street,Texas Chainsaw Massacre,Halloween,Friday The 13th. Now go behind the mask and learn more about your favorite killers In full color. I donate 50% of my profits to help kids in need from all sales of this book. I donate to Make A Wish Foundation. ...
|  | The Gateway
Publication Date: September 4, 2012Through the supernatural gifts of five orphaned sisters, a gateway to the gods has emerged from a clearing in the deep forests of the Middle Lands and, with it, a priestess clan of holy terror and unmatchable progress.The Gateway tells the interconnecting stories of two of their descendants, Seers caught in a struggle for meaning, change, and survival amid unceasing clashes of ambition, prejudice, and animal desire.When Moishays' mother conceals the signs of his gift from The Clan on the day of his birth, he becomes the first male seer in over three centuri...
|  | City of Masks
Publication Date: June 2003When Lila Beauforte sees ghostly apparitions in her ancestral home in old New Orleans, Cree Black is called on to help. Cree, a Harvard-educated parapsychologist, is a "ghost buster" but one who must also struggle to keep her own ghosts at bay. ...
|  | The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of J. Sheridan le Fanu: Volume 3-Including One Novel 'The House by the Churchyard,' and One Short Story, 'Dickon the Devil,' of the Ghostly and Gothic
Publication Date: April 29, 2010The third volume of an eight book collection from 'the grandfather of the ghost story'Whilst many highly regarded writers have created collections of strange and supernatural fiction and several other authors are now primarily known for their literary efforts within this genre, the author of this large collection surely stands alone. Not only is his body of supernatural and gothic fiction extremely substantial, he wrote ghost and horror fiction if not exclusively then certainly as the subject matter of the overwhelming majority of his considerable literary out...
|  | Haunted Christmas: Yuletide Ghosts and Other Spooky Holiday Happenings
Publication Date: October 14, 2009| Series: Haunted Here is a gathering of thirty tales of ghosts, hauntings, and other paranormal happenings purported to have taken place on or around Christmas, or that are otherwise related to this holiday. ...
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