Sue Young returns home from work to discover that her one-year-old daughter has been kidnapped and is forced to follow the kidnapper's bizarre instructions on a twisted route through a series of small Massachusetts towns in order to r...

I gasped . . . or tried to. My mouth opened, but I couldn't draw breath. . . . His lips, pearly wet, parted and he blew into my mouth. My lungs expanded beneath his weight. When I exhaled he sucked in my breath and his weight turned f...

Dan Asfar has collected many of the stories that has grown up around this great and tragic was. for some of the restless spirits the war is not over yet.

One might not expect a woman of Edith Wharton's literary stature to be a believer of ghost stories, much less be frightened by them, but as she admits in her postscript to this spine-tingling collection, '...till I was twenty-seven or...

Gathering together deliciously chilling tales from the three highly acclaimed volumes of Virago ghost stories, this collection features stories by A. S. Byatt, Angela Carter, Charlotte Brontë, Antonia Fraser, Penelope Lively, Ruth ...

A chilling, classically-inspired ghost story from Susan Hill, our reigning mistress of spine-tingling fiction.  For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has journeyed all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero, the great pio...

Barry Laverty, M.B., is looking forward to his first Christmas in the cozy village of Ballybucklebo, at least until he learns that his sweetheart, Patricia, might not be coming home for the holidays. That unhappy prospect dampens his ...

Working together in a San Francisco ghost-hunting firm, businessman Scott, reluctant psychic Anjali, and telekinetic cowboy Coulter find their efforts challenged by a complicated love triangle and a ruthless parapsychologist intent on...

The reputation of the Old South tends toward the spectacular. Edrick Thay narrates the unexplained-and inevitably tragic-tales that make the Old South on of America's most storied regions. Dicover centers of paranormal lore, such as S...

From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door h...

Ghost stories are found all over the state of Minnesota. Read about the spirit of a dead young mother still tending to her infant son on the third floor of the historic Warden's House in Stillwater; the ill-tempered ghost of a gangste...

A lonely stretch of highway in the dead of night. You're tired after hours on the road. Suddenly you see someone ahead of you in the headlights and slam on the brakes--but no one's there. The hallucination of a weary driver? Perhaps n...

With the first edition of Chicago Haunts, author Ursula Bielski captured 160 years of Chicago's haunted history in the first volume ever devoted to this intriguing subject. Combining lively storytelling with in-depth historical resear...

Ursula Bielski continues her collection of ghastly ghosts in this third volume of Chicago Haunts.

It's 1983. Molly Martindale, a young and somewhat insecure community newspaper reporter with her own "bitter secret", cannot turn loose of a 40-year-old mystery she discovers in her small south Central Florida town. She acci...

Felix Castor has reluctantly returned to exorcism after a successful case convinces him that he really can do some good with his abilities---"good," of course, being a relative term when dealing with the undead. His friend R...

The Herr Graf was a familiar sight to the residents of the Rhineland village of Grauhugel. After all he'd been walking the halls of the local castle at night and occasionally nodding to the servants ever since he drowned some 86 years...

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The foggy streets of Victorian London are thick with thieves. But when Eddie 'Dipper' Hopkins steals Georg Archer's wallet, he has no idea that he is entering a bizarre, dark world. In a heart-stopping race against time, he has only o...

The criminal underworld meets the spiritual otherworld in this thrilling debut collaboration between the inspiration for television's The Ghost Whisperer and an award-winning writer/director. Anza O'Malley is in most ways a typical si...

Get ready for a spine-tingling, chill-a-minute book, brought to you by Lecy McKenzie Pritchett, author of A Ghostly Cry. Ghost Stories My Mother Told Me, are eight hauntingly scary stories, that are sure to thrill even the most arden...

Daring and impulsive, Laney McCall lived for the moment. And now she was dead. Her battered body had washed ashore in mist-enshrouded waters below desolate Crybaby Bridge. An accident, they said. After three months of plag...

Chicago. A town with a past. A people haunted by its history in more ways than one. A 'windy city' with tales to tell... Critics called Ursula Bielski's Chicago Haunts: Ghostlore of the Windy City a 'must-read,' 'a masterpiece of the ...

"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 c...

Culled from the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories, this collection of ghoulish tales includes stories by Stephen King, Brian Lumley, Garry Kilworth, Ramsey Camell, Tony Richards, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Washington Irving, Ambrose Bierce,...

In plenty of time for the holidays, 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. By a lo...

Ben/b arrives in the Concrete Grove/b to research a book about the Northumbrian Poltergeist/b, an infamous paranormal incident from the early 1970s. A set of twins were haunted by a spirit they nicknamed Captain Clickety, and the medi...

Set in New York City and New Jersey on the cusp of the financial crisis, Ghosts of Bergen County is a literary mystery with supernatural elements. Gil Ferko is a private-equity lieutenant who commutes to Manhattan from the New Jersey ...

Do places where violent deaths occur somehow absorb the horror, only to conjure up images that haunt the living for generations to come? Many people believe that this can indeed happen; above all, in the context of that manmade phenom...

From the bestselling author of the Charlie Parker mysteries—"the finest crime series currently in existence" (The Independent)—comes a new anthology of chilling short fiction.A decade after Nocturnes first terrified and ...