 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead
Release Date: August 3, 2010Mark Twain once said “The rumors of my death were greatly exaggerat—BRAINS!!!!!”Pulled from the grip of Mark Twain’s rotting zombie hands, is Tom Sawyer like you’ve never seen him before, in a swashbuckling, treasure-seeking adventure, spiked with blood, gore, and zombie madness. In this expanded and illustrated edition of Mark Twain’s beloved tale of boyhood adventures, Tom’s usual mishaps are filled with the macabre and take place in a world overrun by a zombie virus that turns people into something folks call...
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|  | Bitter Secrets
Publication Date: April 11, 2012Captivated by a 40-year-old mystery, hometown reporter Molly Martindale embarks on a quest for truth that plunges her into an icy nightmare of fear and uncertainty. A wheelchair-bound Viet Nam vet, cold and eerie faces from the past, a savvy old black man and a yellowed diary are her companions on a journey that threatens to wake sleeping ghosts from her own secret past. Bitter Secrets is an intensely human story set in a small Florida town. Intriguing secrets push the reader along as the heroine makes a heart wrenching search for clues to a lost family. Pictu...
|  | Classic American Ghost Stories
Publication Date: December 15, 2005| Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up Young or old, playful or terrifying, clad in the brocades of the 16th century or the jeans of today, the phantoms of these tales vary as much as the places they haunt. Whatever their demeanor, wherever they are, however their actions are explained or dismissed, these ghosts have a common power: anyone reading this anthology will see that they still haunt us today. Editor Deborah Downer brings together stories from newspapers, journals, and magazines, none of which were written as fictitious. An index references ...
|  | Unmarked Graves
Publication Date: October 2, 2008When investigative telejournalist Nick Pearson is sent to Darworth in Hertfordshire, he finds a community divided. A steady influx of foreign immigrants has led to racial tension and open hostility and violence. The African newcomers are particularly targeted, regular victims of vandalism and even fire-bombing. The Africans seem unwilling to fight back, until the arrival of a mysterious, powerful man who many of them know - and fear. Nick begins to wonder if there might be some kind of connection between this newcomer and the desecration of a local cemetery -...
|  | A Soul to Steal
Publication Date: December 10, 2011Amazon #1 Bestselling Ghost Story A Top 5 Bestseller in Horror A Top 20 Bestseller in Thriller and Suspense Featured on USA Today! "I am happy to cheer Mr. Blackwell on as he draws us into his supernatural thriller, The Sanheim Chronicles." --Mark Metcalf, Actor (The Master, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)"Blackwell has woven a Celtic myth, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and a serial killer's rampage into a great novel...When everything came together and all the pieces finally fell into to place I was com...
|  | Lilly's Magic: Book Two of Osteen Three
Publication Date: September 6, 2011After Lilly has a visit from her mother, who died several years ago, she is told of hardships that will come her way. Steve, her soon to be ex husband, tries to ruin her relationship with her daughters, and break down her emotional and mental strength.She leans on her sisters for strength and support. She finds trust and companionship in a very unusual place, her daughters' dog, Max. As she and her sisters' powers strengthen, she has to also learn to gain control of it, before she hurts someone. This is Lillianna's story...Deanna Miller is a native of St Au...
|  | Ghost Stories of British Columbia (The Ghost Stories Series)
Publication Date: May 1, 1996| ISBN-10: 0888821913 | ISBN-13: 978-0888821911It has been called Canada's most haunted province.While such a claim is impossible to prove, British Columbia does abound with tales of the supernatural. Ghost Stories of British Columbia is a comprehensive collection of these tales, drawing from the province's history, its archives, and its people.There are ghosts from the distant past, and ghosts from the present day. Legends that are familiar to many, and accounts that, to date, have only been heard by a few. Shady apparitions from the coastline, the interior,...
|  | The Ghost Toucher
Publication Date: August 27, 2010"Haven't you ever picked up your keys for no reason and realized you had nowhere to go?" Israel asked. "Or picked up a pen and didn't have anything to write?" "No," Kelly said. "Sure you have. Everybody has. It's like having déjà vu about déjà vu." "What?" "You know-you remember remembering you've done a thing before, but you only remember remembering it when you're remembering it?" "So when I'm not remembering it, I forget it?" "You got it." "No. No, I don't." In a world where ghosts are an accepted reality, Stout Roost, reality star and ...
|  | The Summer Witch
Publication Date: August 2000When Carys is married off to an ageing widower by her greedy father, she invents an imaginery lover in the unlikely guise of her husband's scarecrow. When an encounter with Wayfarers gives Carys the chance to turn her fantasy into reality, it proves a temptation too much. ...
|  | Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Publication Date: January 1, 2012The Stephen King Amusement Park - an unnerving experience, with rides every which way to hell ...and a few to glory.A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns ...and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is here with a powerful collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume.The long reach of Stephen King's imagination will take you on a roller coaster to places you've never been before. You will l...
|  | The Seventh Sister
Publication Date: March 28, 2012Being a little psychic doesn't prepare Rowan for the grief that comes with losing her best friend Lizzie in an accident just as they are poised to room together at college. Like anyone else, Rowan grapples with her loss.But moving through her grief proves to be impossible when Lizzie's ghost returns, forcing Rowan to reckon with a dead friend that really isn't gone.Driven by a family shattered by hidden abuse and crime, and a killer that is determined to keep his secret, Lizzie won't release her grip on Rowan until the truth about her death comes out... and ju...
|  | Vale of Tears: A Novel from Haiti
Publication Date: January 1, 2005Fiction. Caribbean Studies. Translated from the French by Dolores A. Schaefer. VALE OF TEARS is a stark, meditative, and vivid exploration of Coralie Santeuil's life through a series of flashbacks she has on New Year's eve as she makes fourteen stops while walking from one end of the busy city of Port-au-Prince to the other in a last quest to save her life and retain her dignity. Although the novel is set in the period around the Second World War, it is in many ways a book about contemporary Haiti. We pause to wonder what happens to the privileged when their ...
|  | Other Worlds
Release Date: February 2, 2000Those present include Harry Houdini, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, psychoanalyst Nandor Fodor, and a writer who rivals them all with her sleuthing talent. These masters of mystery are about to put their minds to a pair of ghoulish stories--of families beset by poltergeistly pranks and bewitched by inexplicable horrors. Gripping puzzles, yes, but the terror of these tales is all too vicious and all too real."In the hollows of Tennessee, a family is threatened by a dire spirit whose warnings of despair and death come frighteningly true....In a small Connecticut town, a ...
|  | Ghost Retrieval and Cappuccino: The Afterlife Series
Publication Date: July 23, 2010It has been a year since Penny Lane was murdered, and, even though she is no stranger to chaos, sometimes she is so afraid she wants to bolt the door and avoid people. In Ghost Retrieval and Cappuccino, her afterlife journey continues as old fears resurface, bringing with them an entity that appears to feed off of them.After Penny moves with her dog Rufus to a new home in the medieval era, she begins an assignment as a counselor for a newly commissioned ghost retrieval team. When Penny is teamed up with Avery, the handsome and secretive leader, and Eric, a beat...
|  | To Love A London Ghost
Publication Date: October 7, 2011Walk on the wild side of Victorian London with the ghost and the ghost hunter. When Queen Victoria orders Sexton Dukenfield, premiere phantom hunter, to track down England's missing ghost he stumbles into Ceridwen, a phantom warrior woman of an ancient Celtic tribe. Not only does he find her intriguing as a piece of the puzzle of the missing spirits, but he's also haunted by her sultry sensuality. Though they both burn with desire, it's difficult to quench their fiery passion since Ceridwen is so translucent. Every time Sexton touches her, his ...
|  | Shades: Eight Tales of Terror
Publication Date: February 8, 2012Here there be ghosts... Within these pages lurks a cast of phantoms who have returned from the grave with a vengeance. You will find no friendly ghosts here, just eight deathly horrors with their own personal bones to pick with the living. These are the ghosts of our nightmares. Whether driven by madness, vengeance, pain, bloody evil, or primordial rage...they are all specters that are as dangerous as they are frightening. So get comfortable, get that night light ready, and find out who survives and who doesn't in this anthology of the baleful dead. Stories ...
|  | Uncanny
Publication Date: November 4, 1999The Uncanny is the story of Richard Storm, a producer of horror movies. He comes to England searching for the real counterpart of the ghosts that have made him rich. At a party he reads aloud the classic British ghost story which inspired his Hollywood career, and suddenly, uncannily, starts a chain of actions that literally brings to life his first horror movie. Harper Albright is a hunter, a rider of the tide of the Uncanny, whose credo is simply, "Believe nothing". Once young and beautiful, she has devoted her life to seeking out and destroying the evil I...
|  | TORMENTA
Publication Date: December 14, 2010"In this spine-tingling adventure Able Dawes will find that you don't have to be a hurricane to turn things around!"Able Dawes is the last member of his family's bloodline. He holds the key to breaking a centuries-old curse that binds his ancestors, Galveston Texas, and the ghosts of 8000 lost souls. However, Able is just a kid, addicted to heroin and flying solo on the most important night of his life. He isn't even aware of his dark legacy. He's never heard of Donovan Dawes, the man who invited evil to Galveston Island, and nurtured its presence. Able has...
|  | Witch Hunt
Publication Date: October 11, 2012A chilling, haunting ghost story that delves into the dark past of the 16th century Essex witch trials. Sadie Asquith has been fascinated by the dark past of Essex's witch hunts for as long as she can remember. And for good reason: between 1560 and 1680, over 500 women were tried for witchcraft in the county of Essex. But as she researches a book on the subject, Sadie experiences strange, ghostly visions. She hears noises at night, a sobbing sound that follows her, and black moths appear from nowhere. It's as if, by digging up the truth about the witch hunts...
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